Faced with an elder's rebuke, how could either side of the dispute dare resist? Naturally, they reported the exact location and what had happened.
One side spoke with righteous indignation, while the other was vague and evasive.
The disciples of Forgetting Passion Valley were the latter, because they could not reveal the truth or disclose the details.
Fortunately, these ten elders were clearly only going through the motions, with no intention of getting involved. Once they had asked, they let it pass, showing no interest whatsoever in investigating which account was true.
And just like that, the matter ended, without any attempt at intervention.
After eavesdropping from the slanting cave in the hillside where he and Lao Changhai had hidden, Wu Jinliang quietly withdrew. He first found Lao Changhai and asked where Shi Chun and the others currently were, then hurried off to report once he had the location.
Shi Chun now had ample manpower, and his arrangements were already in place, allowing him to deploy people freely. Whenever they reached a new location or were about to head to the next, he would send Chu Jingtang and the others in turns to make a special trip and inform this side.
It seemed troublesome, but it was necessary to maintain their efficiency.
Forgetting Passion Valley was highly efficient as well. They had already stockpiled several leads on divine fires. With the divine fire Shi Chun had lent them as bait, they immediately cleared each site in turn and prepared fallback sites.
As a result, Shi Chun and the others were highly efficient too.
With the leads on divine fires occasionally sent back by the undercover agents in the Four Cauldron Sect, those periodically exposed by luring the tiger away from its mountain on the Thousand Rocks Sect's side, and the