After leaving the Directorate of Celestial Observation, Xie Jinhuan began preparing to investigate Wei Yin.
After Wei Wuyi entered the capital to serve as Deputy Director, Wei Yin, as his successor, also took up the post of Junior Director at the Directorate of Celestial Observation.
Shen Jinyu's attempt to assassinate Xie Jinhuan constituted a major criminal case under the Directorate of Celestial Observation's jurisdiction. Since Wei Wuyi was also the Martial Dao Sect Master, only he could be responsible for settling the matter. The assignment therefore fell to Wei Yin, who had already left for Huzhou yesterday with a large contingent of elite personnel.
Xie Jinhuan wanted to go to Huzhou to find Wei Yin. Under normal circumstances, he could simply sneak over and give him a beating. But his name was too resounding now. If he suddenly disappeared for a day or two, every fiend and heretic throughout Great Qian would suffer an immediate stress response and inevitably investigate what he had gone off to do.
To avoid beating the grass and startling the snake, Xie Jinhuan simply made his itinerary public, heading to Huzhou under the pretext of settling accounts with Blood Rain Tower. After all, that was perfectly legitimate.
His rough plan for achieving his objective was to make a show of investigating Blood Rain Tower after arriving, then disguise himself at night,
and sneak off to beat Wei Yin up.
If Wei Yin proved to be a half-demon, there would be nothing more to discuss. He would immediately return to the capital and find a way to eliminate Wei Wuyi.
If there was nothing wrong with Wei Yin, however, he would have to hit him and run, then return under his main identity to save the day and dump the chamber pot over Blood Rain Tower's