"Duke Ye certainly stirred things up in Northern Liang this time. They say he killed one man and returned unscathed despite Xiang Hanshi and Zhongsun Jin joining forces against him..."
"I heard rumors that the Sky-Pacifying Sect Master showed up too..."
"The Sky-Pacifying Sect Master has always been unrivaled in chivalry. Although she opposes the Imperial Court, brothers who fight within their walls still stand together against outsiders. As the overlord of our Southern Dynasty, there's nothing strange about her joining Duke Ye against the Northern Liang barbarians..."
With entering and leaving the city inconvenient during wartime, the martial artists who had been passing through Jingjie City were all stranded in town. With nothing to do at night, they chatted about martial-world affairs in entertainment houses and taverns.
Dressed in a white dress, Xue Baijin strolled through deserted alleys, listening to idle chatter from every walk of life, trying to glean clues about the last three Dragon-Mingling Diagrams.
There were only nine Dragon-Mingling Diagrams altogether, and only six survived. They were supreme treasures hundreds or thousands of times rarer than Snow Lake Flowers. Ordinary martial artists knew little about them, so naturally they were not constantly being discussed.
But the Last Three Maps were known to have been lost. Neither the historical archives of the Northern and Southern Dynasties nor the libraries of the major sects contained any relevant records. It was as though every trace throughout the world had been erased along with the three maps when they disappeared. Neither the emperors of North and South nor the martial-world titans of successive generations had ever found a single clue.
Ye Jingtang had deduced the Last Three Maps himself. If anything went wrong, he would certainly die. Having promised to help search, Xue Baijin naturally had to take it