Clear River Crossing

When news that Song Yuanshan had fled reached the Four Symbols Sect, the sect immediately issued a mission to help the Demon Suppressing Guard capture members of the Song Family.

The fleeing Song Family would most likely pass through one of three places: Coiling Snake Ridge, White Ridge Pass, or Clear River Ferry.

After the mission was issued, many disciples took assignments at Coiling Snake Ridge and White Ridge Pass, received their orders, and set out.

Then Ye An received another mysterious letter. Its handwriting matched that of the anonymous letter sent during the conflict between the Lin and Song Families.

It read: "Song Yuanshan will take Clear River Crossing. A protector will probably meet him there..."

Ye An weighed the information carefully. The last letter had been more or less accurate, but who was sending them?

He didn't think he had connections like that.

Ye An tucked the letter into his robe and decided to go to Clear River Crossing.

Of the three choices, he would have picked Clear River Ferry even without the letter.

As long as he didn't run into an old monster at Gathering Essence, Ye An was confident he could get away.

Meanwhile, in Cangwu Prefectural City.

After word of the Song Family's troubles spread, far more soldiers patrolled the streets, and the authorities imposed a nighttime curfew.

Many members of the Song Family were thrown into dungeons and interrogated one by one.

The sweep was so extensive that it even exposed quite a few martial artists who had concealed their identities and retired into the city.

At the Liu family estate.

Cuiwei hurried into the rear courtyard and said in a low voice, "Miss, while I was cleaning the courtyard, I found someone collapsed beneath the osmanthus tree. She's wounded, and it looks like