Early the next morning, Chu Luohen knocked on Su Jiu's door.
"I'm going to look around the village for clues. Are you coming?"
Su Jiu slowly opened her eyes, opened the door, and stepped outside.
She held an index finger to her lips, signaling for silence, then gestured for him to speak outside.
Lan Xiaoxi's Cultivation Level was only at the Qi Refining stage, after all, and she still needed rest like an ordinary person. She had gone to bed so late last night that she was surely still asleep.
Chu Luohen glanced at Lan Xiaoxi's tightly shut door, his gaze indifferent.
"You certainly are considerate of others."
Su Jiu paused, then smiled faintly. "I learned a lot from her yesterday, but when I think about how I approached her with an ulterior motive, I feel a little troubled. She's a very innocent girl."
Chu Luohen did not pursue the subject. Instead, he said, "Yesterday, I scanned the village with my divine sense. Apart from the Chieftain's Household, there were no high-level cultivators anywhere else."
"You want to take a look at the Chieftain's Household, Martial Uncle?"
Chu Luohen nodded, then took out two masks and handed one to Su Jiu.
A flicker passed through Su Jiu's eyes.
"Chu Mojin gave these to me. A few days after you returned from Gong Hao's place, the Enforcement Hall acquired a diagram concerning masks. It seemed to have come from the Medicine Gate."
At that, Su Jiu understood.
During her conversation with Xia Jue before leaving, he had mentioned the masks. It turned out that Ning Fan had sent someone to follow that Medicine Gate disciple.
After returning, that Medicine Gate disciple had presented the mask to his superiors. They discovered that although the Human-Skin Mask looked ordinary, it had been infused