Inside the attic.
Jia Huan continued questioning the beautiful woman:
"Other than this time, has the musician surnamed Gu ever asked your Guangling Sect for help?"
The beautiful woman confessed honestly:
"Four times in the past three years. Three involved buying demonic cultivation arts, and the other involved gathering herbs for practicing them."
"Our Guangling Sect isn't powerful, but we've traded in timber for qin bodies for decades and have excellent connections in the Jianghu. That was why Master Gu entrusted us with these tasks."
After a brief pause, she recounted everything:
"Before Master Gu, there was a female qin player named Jiu Li, also from Heaven on Earth at the Jiaofang Office. She asked us to purchase demonic cultivation arts three times. The last time I saw her, she told me herself that she had left the Divine Capital."
Twin Whips recorded this in the Book of Impermanence.
Jiu Li, the female qin player!!
Jia Huan asked next:
"What does this Gu look like?"
The beautiful woman answered almost without thinking:
"Around forty, handsome and graceful, with a red mole between his brows and two white locks hanging at his temples. Every time we met, he wore an Ink-Wash Robe."
Jia Huan stared at her for a while before saying gravely:
"Find an excuse for your sect elders at once, then return to the Capital with me!"
"You know perfectly well what you should and shouldn't say!"
"Iron Palm, accompany Sect Master Qin!"
"Yes!" Iron Palm turned to the beautiful woman and said with a smile:
"This way, please."
The beautiful woman gave a bitter smile. How could she dare resist? A Pacification Commissioner of the Embroidered Uniform Guard needed no official court document. One word from him, and the Guangling Sect would be destroyed in an instant.
She