The Divine Court's Silver Platform Bureau oversaw the realm's memorials, petitions, and official documents. Throughout the Migration Land, every submission that officials of every rank in every prefecture and province addressed to the Lord of the Divine Court had to pass through the Silver Platform Bureau first. Only after its officials verified them were they forwarded into the palace.
The Silver Platform Bureau had one chief official: the Edict-Bearing Envoy, a full third-rank official. The Divine Court had granted him special permission to build a private residence in the Heavenly Capital, named the Edict-Bearing Envoy’s Residence.
Little Bad King quietly followed Melon to the vicinity of the Edict-Bearing Envoy’s Residence and watched him knock on its gates with over a dozen followers in tow. While listening to music at the brothel last night, Little Bad King had also found an excuse to leave alone and secretly scout around the Watchtower Compound.
Thus, he could more or less guess what Melon intended. When Melon had first chased out of the Watchtower Compound, he had immediately ordered his fellow disciples to split into two groups with their spirit beasts and pursue the fugitives. That meant Zhang Fuzi and Golden Cicada had fled separately after snatching Guo An, leaving traces of their auras on both the eastern and western sides of the long street.
Melon had personally led men to kill Golden Cicada on Peach Garden Ancient Street. After returning to this area, however, he had not continued pursuing in the direction the spirit beasts indicated. Instead, he had come to the gates of the Edict-Bearing Envoy’s Residence. In other words, he believed the Tracking Beast’s judgment was wrong. The fugitive fleeing outward was probably another expendable decoy, while the real big fish was hiding inside the residence.
Little Bad King had to