Although he had paid off the owner's debts, he had nowhere to go for the time being.
So Li Ping'an stayed.
Strangely, Zhang Song had not left either. Li Ping'an asked him if he wasn't going to return the sword.
Zhang Song said unhurriedly, "It's not time yet."
In the days that followed, Li Ping'an occasionally went to the Myriad Affairs Pavilion to take on odd jobs and earn Spirit Stones.
Although the pay was low, the danger was virtually nonexistent.
Messages from the other Rune Fragment holders occasionally came through his Rune Fragment, but most of the time, they were just chatting.
While chatting, they fished for information from one another.
They analyzed each other's identities from stray words and snippets, hoping to gather all the other Rune Fragments as soon as possible.
Five people, eight hundred schemes.
That day, Li Ping'an accepted another commission.
[Find the lost dog]
The dog's owner was a cultivator.
Since its owner cultivated, the dog had acquired a little spirituality.
Later, it accidentally ate its owner's spirit pill and developed intelligence.
The cultivator thought that raising a spirit pet would be rather interesting.
So he began teaching it how to conduct itself as a "dog," tirelessly teaching it to cultivate and study...
Who could have known that one day, the dog would leave a letter and run away from home?
"You have to help me find it."
The cultivator clung to Li Ping'an.
"I'd give everything I have for it!"
Li Ping'an said helplessly, "Because you don't have anything."
This Rogue Cultivator was truly poor. Li Ping'an strongly suspected that the dog had despised its owner's poverty.
And so it had run away from home.
But since he had accepted the job, he ought to do his utmost.
Li Ping'an wrote the