Su Xinghe did not return to Prefecture Front Street.
With his tail trailing behind him, he took turn after turn into a secluded alley. He casually pushed open a courtyard gate and slipped inside.
He had visited this courtyard a few days earlier. It was one of several rental properties the Brokerage Guild had shown them. No one was inside, but it was fully furnished.
Through his spiritual perception, he sensed the Sixth-Rank True Force Realm martial warrior secretly watching outside for quite some time. When nothing stirred within, the man went next door to make inquiries.
Upon hearing that the property belonged to the Brokerage Guild and that they seemed to have brought someone to view it a few days earlier, he hurried away.
Su Xinghe watched from the shadows, then followed him.
The man did not return to the western district. Instead, he headed straight out through the southern city gate. Once outside, he broke into a full sprint.
Sure enough, his destination was the military camp ten li away.
There were too many people on the roads during the day to strike.
Su Xinghe turned back and returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau's main hall.
He found Kong Yuan and asked about the military camp south of the city.
It turned out that this camp housed Qingzhou's garrison. Besides twenty thousand armored soldiers, it contained quite a few martial warriors. Its highest-ranking officer was a Core Embrace Grandmaster named Chu Shibai.
His own combat strength was nothing special.
But he had returned from the Outer Battlefield, so he probably had powerful backing.
As the clues came together one by one, the truth behind them slowly surfaced. The Peaceful Heaven Sect had already stretched its hand this way, and Chu Shibai was probably its advance pawn.
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