After steadying his mind and deciphering the transmitted cipher, Ban Lan discovered that it was not asking him to carry out any specific task. Rather, it wanted him to find some jade talismans that granted entry into the Heaven-Training Dao Canon and hand them over to the informants outside. The more, the better.
Seeing this, he let out a small sigh of relief.
If that was all, then even if he openly went to ask for them, no one would suspect him. He could casually find an excuse to brush it aside. For some reason, Celestial Xia was not particularly strict in this regard at present.
Yet after thinking it over, he decided to ignore it.
He had hidden himself in Fu Prefecture precisely to cut off contact with the outside world. He did not wish to become entangled with Upper Firmament Heaven. If he accepted such an easy task, follow-up matters would come flooding in without end. That was not what he wanted to see.
Moreover, he felt that the cipher used this time was truly simple, crude, and casual. There was no unique signal specifically intended for him, which meant this was not an assignment given to him alone. It was likely a broad order directed at all informants. That meant he had no need to be nervous.
Ever since hiding here, he had in truth been uneasy all along, fearing that Upper Firmament Heaven's leaders would fail to find him and, in a fit of rage, brand him a traitor before revealing his identity to Celestial Xia.
But now that he had received a cipher, he instead felt reassured. This showed that Upper Firmament Heaven had not yet regarded him as a rebel.
Once these thoughts had passed through his mind, his long-standing worry was gone, but