After entering Qidao Mountain this time, Cui Jiuyang became even more cautious in everything he did.
After all, his true cultivation had already been exposed to several of Divine Path Heaven's Protectors back at Dafushan Mountain.
Given Incense Master Shen's loyalty, he must have reported the matter in detail to the sect's senior leadership long ago.
Cui Jiuyang simply did not yet know whether that unfathomable sect leader would investigate him thoroughly because of it.
In their earlier correspondence, the Holy Maiden had expressed concern that the leader of the Divine Path Heaven Sect seemed to possess a strange ability to know everything within Qidao Mountain.
If that sect leader took an interest in Cui Jiuyang and then thoroughly investigated everything he had done during his stay on Qidao Mountain...
Then the sect leader might well discover that the Holy Maiden's Immortal Voice had no effect on Cui Jiuyang, and might even pick up traces of his inquiries all over the mountain.
For that reason, Cui Jiuyang had arranged for all the Cave Lords he had brought out of Dafushan Mountain to live near Li Sanyuan's little courtyard.
With so many pairs of eyes secretly watching Li Sanyuan, he no longer needed to investigate personally all the time, reducing the risk of exposing his identity.
Yet two full days passed without any word from the Holy Maiden. The little messenger bird did not appear.
Instead, a message came back through the divine soul of Rasputin, far away in Baise.
He said that after Dafushan Mountain's destruction, the Tusi had lost an important ally and suffered a severe blow to their strength.
Strangely, however, the atmosphere among the Tusi was not as gloomy as expected.
The important figures among them seemed confident, with some hidden trump card, and had already resolved