By now, he had searched every part of the military camp except the central area occupied by the Directorate of Astronomy.
At last, another night fell.
As usual, Cui Jiuyang first called several times to the old man inside the goose-neck vase. After waiting a while and finding that the old snake demon still showed no response, he lingered no longer and left the cave.
Tonight's target was particularly important-the Directorate of Astronomy.
After all, the Directorate of Astronomy was one of the parties ultimately responsible for carrying out this plan to fabricate a dragon.
Leaving them until last was enough to show how seriously Cui Jiuyang took them.
Although his earlier probing had suggested that their cultivation was not exceptionally high, Cui Jiuyang had always been cautious and dared not be careless in the slightest.
The imperial court had centuries of heritage behind it. Its deep reserves could not be underestimated, and a little caution never hurt.
Thus, not only did he cast the Invisibility Technique, but he also suppressed his presence to the utmost and applied several auxiliary spells for lightness and concealment before carefully sneaking toward the outskirts of the Directorate of Astronomy's area.
Some of the unaffiliated cultivators bought off by the Queue Army lived around its perimeter.
These cultivators were different from those outside the cave. They were well-informed figures in the jianghu. Their cultivation might not have been high, but they had broad connections and deft social skills.
Xingliang, the unaffiliated Daoist whom Chen Yun had identified as the intermediary between Xuansheng and the Queue Army, lived in this area.
They all understood that although Zhang He, commander of the Queue Army, ostensibly paid their wages, the patrons they truly needed to flatter and rely on were the people of the Directorate of Astronomy