Back on the shore at Gusu, Lin Lang spotted a secret mark of the Sun Moon Holy Cult on a small boat.
He made a hand signal. The man sitting idly aboard immediately returned to the cabin. Before long, someone wearing a bamboo hat emerged and boarded Lin Lang's boat.
"Master." Jiang Xiaoyu removed his hat. "Hua Wuque took some men to escort the contents of the Repaying the Giving Water Pavilion back to Blackwood Cliff. Did we arrive too late?"
Lin Lang pointed at some chests aboard. "Not too late. Take some men and send these back to Blackwood Cliff too. Be careful on the road, and keep a low profile."
Their arrival was actually perfectly timed. He could dump the blame straight onto the Twelve Linked Docks without having to pick another lucky sect in Great Song.
Jiang Xiaoyu nodded. "Understood. We'll escort them under the Sun Moon Escort Agency's name. Everyone will just assume they're some trading firm's goods. It'll be fast and secure."
"When we reached Carefree Estate at Swallow Dock, you probably hadn't been gone long, Master. We didn't kill Swallow Dock's sole survivor either. She can prove that the Twelve Linked Docks did all this."
"Oh, besides the Repaying the Giving Water Pavilion, we found some valuables in Carefree Estate's storerooms. You'll never guess, Master-they even had imperial dragon robes!"
Lin Lang curled his lip. "Nothing but a daydream. Did you find the Canhe Finger and Star-Shifting Change?"
Jiang Xiaoyu shook his head. "No, but we found a decent internal cultivation method and a sword art. They were probably what Murong Fu practiced."
He had wanted to find Star-Shifting Change too. It would certainly have been a great help to Hua Wuque.
Unfortunately, they had searched all of Carefree Estate without finding it.
"Master,