"Beyond here, only the last few courtyards remain. If we still find no trace of them, we'll have to stop," Yan Man said flatly, looking at Qu Liang beside him.
Their group had searched Fourth City for nearly a month without finding any trace of the three.
Meanwhile, Hua Gao remained carefully concealed near the way out of the city, watching it like a hawk.
But as the days passed, they had no choice but to suspect that the three might have headed to the next city long ago.
After some consideration, Hua Gao had decided to conduct one final search.
For this last attempt, they paid an exorbitant price to approach the person in Fourth City's City Lord's Manor who managed the Cultivation Courtyards, asking whether anyone had remained here for nearly a month.
The person from the City Lord's Manor initially ignored them, but the cultivation resources inside their storage artifact made his eyes widen. Going against his conscience, he secretly divulged information about several courtyards to these natives.
With money, you could make even ghosts turn the millstone. That held true anywhere, all the more so when faced with treasures one had never had a chance to encounter.
"I'll knock. Xie Chunyi, conceal your identity as a talisman master and carefully check whether there's any talisman aura inside without exposing yourself," Qu Liang told the young man beside him.
Xie Chunyi was a talisman master who had only recently arrived in Fourth City on Hua Gao's orders.
Hua Gao's thinking was that, since one of the three was a talisman master, they would surely make talismans. Following the aura of talismans was another way to track them down.
Knock! Knock!
"Who is it? What do you want?"
Lin Jing, her appearance altered, opened the courtyard gate and