Qian Mountain.
Divine Communion Temple.
Qizhenzi paced back and forth, his brow furrowed.
For seven or eight days in a row,
the pawns and hidden hands he had planted throughout Meishan Prefecture had all been rooted out. Some had been beaten to death on the spot, while others had been escorted into Dai County and vanished.
If this continued, he would not need to wait for the Jade Dragon Fruit to ripen before becoming "blind in both eyes" and "deaf in both ears," unable to obtain any intelligence from the outside world.
Like a blind man with his eyes open, how was he supposed to deal with the coming offensive?!
A few days earlier, Qizhenzi had set up a restriction in the courtyard where the Jade Dragon Fruit Tree grew, cutting off all attempts at investigation in order to throw Chen Jichuan, Miaofa, and Hongyuan into disarray.
What was more,
that night, he had first tried to win over Chen Jichuan and Hongyuan. When that failed, he had ambushed them, yet deliberately left Daoist Miaofa untouched, harboring the intention of sowing discord among them.
The latter appeared not to have worked.
But that restriction could still block investigations for a short time.
Yet he had never expected Chen Jichuan's countermeasures to come so swiftly and so fiercely—
The Five Ghost Yin Soldiers patrolled every county within Meishan, especially the outskirts of Qian Mountain.
Ban Zhua, Ban Ya, Jin Shenggu, Sun Sihai, and other Level Seven experts were all at their command. Even the martial artists of Precious Fungus Grove and more than a thousand elite soldiers from Meishan Prefecture's three camps were available for deployment.
Once they discovered an expert connected to Divine Communion Temple, the Heaven-and-Earth Net would immediately monitor them and report their location at any moment. Then