Half an hour later.
Shadow Void's voice suddenly rang out in Song Wen's sea of consciousness.
"Master, Ke Feng has left his residence and gone to Wen Hua's."
"Didn't you say Wen Hua wasn't home? Why would Ke Feng go to his residence?" Song Wen asked in confusion.
Shadow Void did not answer immediately. After a brief pause, he spoke.
"There are restrictions in Wen Hua's residence strong enough to interfere with my spiritual sense. Once Ke Feng entered one of the rooms, I could no longer sense him."
"Then your earlier judgment that Wen Hua wasn't home was clearly mistaken. Di Cang is very likely in Wen Hua's residence as well."
Song Wen knitted his brows tightly. After pondering for a moment, he muttered to himself.
"The three of them accepted my deal, yet they don't have enough Netherworld Sand on hand. By rights, they should be speeding up extraction as soon as possible, either capturing more mining slaves or enslaving a group of cultivators to work the mine. Why gather at Wen Hua's residence instead? Could it be... they're plotting something? Are they planning to eliminate their customer and pocket three hundred thousand superior spirit stones for nothing?"
He carefully recalled his interactions with the three and felt he should not have given anything away.
If he had given nothing away, then in their eyes, he was "Guan Liang."
Although the three would not believe him lightly, as long as there was even a sliver of possibility, they would not act against him.
After all, killing the sole disciple of an Integrated Body Realm Cultivator from the Jade Spirit Palace was no different from inviting trouble. They could still earn a hefty sum by honestly completing the deal; there was no need to grow branches outside the trunk.