Judging by his personal experiences, Jiu Zhi had to be the unluckiest, most goddamn ill-fated mole in the entire Migration Land in nearly a century.
He was a secret agent personally dispatched by the master of the Divine Court's Fulong Pavilion. Before Heavenly Radiance Temple had even chosen Heavenly Illumination City as its main camp, he had already infiltrated Divine Monk Manor. For all these years, he had endured, kept a low profile, and proceeded with extreme caution. At last, just when his moment to prove useful arrived, a trivial incident completely exposed his identity, forcing him to withdraw.
With his cover blown, Jiu Zhi faced endless pursuit from Divine Monk Manor after his emergency evacuation. He nearly died several times during his escape and dragged down many Fulong Pavilion cultivators who met him along the way and willingly took blows meant for him.
Finally, under the protection of many loyal and capable men, he managed to escape into Heavenly Capital's territory. His injuries forced him to stop temporarily in North Wind Town, but he never expected its garrison commander, Wang Anquan... to defect.
He arrived late the previous night, practically at death's door, and Wang Anquan defected early the very next morning, without even giving him a chance to deliver a single line. He had spent nearly a month escaping from Heavenly Illumination City in the west to Heavenly Capital in the north. He thought he had come home, only to discover he had walked straight into the fucking net.
Still, judging by Divine Monk Manor's insistence on chasing Jiu Zhi across half the Migration Land, he must have obtained some earth-shattering intelligence before withdrawing-extremely important, top-level Chaos intelligence that even many of Heavenly Radiance Temple's Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and arhats knew nothing about. That was why Divine Monk Manor