In the wilderness camp, Fang Qianyuan stood silently atop a weathered boulder. Several disciplinary officers who looked like Warriors approached from behind and, after being questioned by the guards, came straight to the foot of the rock.
They were all disciplinary officers from the Interrogation Hall. Dropping to one knee, they saluted Fang Qianyuan's back. "Greetings, Grand Commander!"
A cold wind blew in from the southwest, stirring the black cloak behind Fang Qianyuan as his cool voice rang out. "Mm. Any progress?"
The leader in charge of the interrogation-the Warrior who had used a Soul-Devouring Monster to suck several surviving Ancient Cultivators to death-said, "Reporting to Venerable Fang, they have confessed their origins. Here are the interrogation records. Please review them."
Fang Qianyuan did not answer, but Zuoqiutang understood his intent and stepped forward. "Just give them to me."
With his head slightly bowed, the leader handed the records to Zuoqiutang, who immediately leaped up and delivered them to Fang Qianyuan's side.
At that moment, Fang Qianyuan faced the setting sun, gazing at the evening sky, which its light had painted with blood-red clouds. A barely perceptible gleam surfaced in his eyes, flickering like stars.
A Cosmic Serpent as thick as an arm and roughly a zhang long hovered beside him, coiling like a cloud dragon.
He did not take the records, however, and instead waved a hand.
"Those people all came from the Eight Qiyun Families of Central Province, ten thousand years ago?"
The leader froze for a moment. "You already knew, Venerable Fang?"
He did not know that, by using the Eye of the Future, a Time Dao divine ability, Fang Qianyuan had "seen" the future in which he took the records and learned the information within.
By refusing to accept those records, he had already used his