After issuing an order to investigate the matter, Zhang Yu cultivated and refined elixirs in the Guardian of Rectitude Palace.
He had judged that there would be results within five or six days. Yet after only three days, a report was delivered to his desk by a divine attendant.
After reading it, he saw that, according to Xu Chengtong's account, matters had gone fairly smoothly.
After obtaining from He Li the whereabouts of Chi Gao, Lu Gui's son, they had quickly found the man.
But they soon discovered that, despite being Lu Gui's descendant, Chi Gao was merely an ordinary man who had little contact with cultivators in his daily life.
As for Lu Gui meeting him once before departing, he had not actually entrusted him with anything. Since he was heading to the Outer Layer to wage war, he had simply come to see him in his capacity as his biological father.
However, because Chi Gao had been fostered in another household since childhood, he had only met Lu Gui a few times. Their bond as father and son had always been thin, so they had exchanged only a few words in the end, let alone any special instructions.
The trail might have ended there, but as the questioning continued, they made an unexpected discovery.
Chi Gao still possessed a great many documents left behind by his grandfather Lu Chao in his early years. After examining them, Xu Chengtong discovered that they involved a secret matter. Not daring to decide on his own, he compiled the documents into a volume and submitted them all.
Zhang Yu read through the documents presented to him and found that all of them vaguely pointed toward a certain region.
Yet from the surviving records in the documents, as well as the many questioning