Dingnan Army

Song Xianfu's discovery caught Wu Wanshan off guard. After hearing him out, Wu Wanshan snapped, "Why didn't you say so sooner?"

Song Xianfu looked aggrieved. "Master, the pavilion master is already deeply dissatisfied with you. If you'd known, you would certainly have clashed with him again. He is the pavilion master, after all. I was afraid something would happen.

"More importantly, these are only my suspicions. I have no solid evidence. If I guessed wrong and you rushed to confront the pavilion master, we'd be the ones in the wrong."

Wu Wanshan fell silent. That was exactly what he might have done.

Chen Yuan suddenly said, "Getting evidence is simple enough. The Dingnan Army sent people to the Divine Mechanism Pavilion to commission mechanical weapons, and the quantity can't be small.

"Your pavilion may have turned them down openly, but if Tie Tianhong really accepted the order, the Dingnan Army's people must still be nearby.

"If we find them, they're bound to have evidence. Then you can confront Tie Tianhong. Pavilion master or not, he can't turn black into white, can he?"

Wu Wanshan nodded at once. "If there's evidence, then even as pavilion master, my senior brother will owe everyone an explanation."

A trace of guilt crossed Wu Wanshan's face. "Mr. Bei wrote to ask me to forge a weapon for you, Young Master Chen. I never expected to drag you into the mess inside our pavilion."

Chen Yuan smiled. "There's no need to be polite, Deputy Pavilion Master Wu. You're a friend of Mr. Bei, which makes you a friend of the Radiance Cult. This is nothing."

Chen Yuan was not stepping in solely to help Wu Wanshan so that he would forge his weapon.

If Tie Tianhong really was secretly making mechanical weapons for the Dingnan Army,