To wait for a reply, Fang Qianyuan temporarily abandoned his plan to leave and stayed in the city instead.
The Earth Baleful Gate did not disappoint him. Just three days later, news arrived.
The thousand pieces of spirit jade Fang Qianyuan had paid had turned into a few thin sheets of paper. Everything he wanted to know, from Ye Tianming's escape from Cang Mountain Academy to his recent changes, had been recorded there in writing.
Calling their reach all-encompassing hardly did it justice. The manpower and resources expended were beyond what an ordinary person could imagine. At least, Fang Qianyuan could not understand how they had managed it.
But concern left him no time to dig into the details. He began reading impatiently.
A long while later, Fang Qianyuan let out a long breath. "Why put yourself through this?"
That was Fang Qianyuan's heartfelt response.
According to the Earth Baleful Gate's investigation, Ye Tianming's cultivation had soared after he fled. Over several months, he had traveled through Fish Valley, Chiyang, Zhou Mountain, and several other places, ambushing and killing powerful opponents wherever he went, tempering himself while accumulating resources for cultivation.
Fang Qianyuan had breathed that sigh of relief because he suddenly discovered that everyone Ye Tianming had killed was either a Greenwood expert who had brought death upon himself or someone from the Unorthodox Path. He had not extinguished the conscience and morality of a righteous-path disciple or crossed his own bottom line.
In Fang Qianyuan's impression, Ye Tianming seemed an exceptionally proud and self-disciplined man. Even if such a person took a wrong turn, he would still preserve his inner principles rather than casually cross his limits and do whatever he pleased.
One could even say that he disdained becoming a Greenwood expert like Xu Pingshan-a highway robber!