While his avatar handled affairs in the Inner Layer, Zhang Yu's true body sat in the main hall, reviewing the investigation reports submitted from various regions.
The attack on the Heavenly Works Bureau's master craftsman had originally been highly secretive, yet in barely three days it had become the talk of the land, known throughout every prefecture. While the Heaven-Training Dao Canon did spread news quickly, someone had chiefly been pushing matters from the shadows.
He had already sent people to question those who had first spread the rumors. The information these cultivators possessed had mostly originated from hearsay elsewhere or from minor pamphlets.
What deserved notice was that some cultivators with shallow cultivation did not even know how they had learned of it. They had clearly been subjected to some form of suggestion.
Someone was deliberately spreading this news.
These cultivators came from different origins and were scattered across the various Upper Continents. Perhaps the person behind this intended to muddy the waters, but to accomplish such a thing across multiple Upper Continents at once, without using the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, likely required someone with superior magical power.
He believed the person acting could not possibly have overlooked this. Yet they had still done it, which showed just how determined they were to obstruct matters in Eastern Court Prefecture.
He could now be certain that this person was in the Upper Layer, and was one of the Profound Venerables. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to stir up this matter throughout all thirteen prefectures in so short a time.
Moreover, this person had certainly never participated in Profound Court affairs before. Otherwise, they would have known that the Profound Court would never easily compromise over such a matter.
Usually, transmitting power from the Upper Layer into the Inner Layer