It was already the third watch of the night. Hu Yan had long since left, and Zhang Erguo was asleep, but Jiang Che lay in bed, turning over everything he had learned that day again and again.
The suppression of the Demon Sword and the battle at Little Hidden Temple-there was almost certainly more to the whole affair than met the eye.
If the supposed warning really had been a setup, then he had to look at how things stood once it was over.
What had the setup accomplished? The True Demon had been executed, the ruins of Little Hidden Temple had been swept clean, and Steward Wei had taken the Demon Sword into the county town. Soon, he would fire up a furnace and refine it into his own magic sword.
If the outcome was the objective... a bold thought occurred to Jiang Che:
Could the mastermind behind all this have wanted to deliver the sword into town?
But why?
Jiang Che could not work it out.
He still knew far too little.
To investigate whoever had laid this trap, he would have to keep pulling on a single thread.
The family of Wang Baojun, the man who had brought the warning, was one thread worth pursuing further. The others on his team could also be investigated. Whom they had met before, anything unusual they had encountered-all of that could be looked into.
At that thought, Jiang Che could not help sighing.
If he could secure the full support of the Azure Mystic Outer Gate, many things would be easy to handle.
But right now, even counting Zhang Erguo and Hu Yan, there were only three of them investigating. They simply did not have enough people.
Besides, starting tomorrow, their break would end and they would resume their daily