Early morning, at the Danyang Marquis Household.
The faint drone of cicadas drifted in from outside the window, and sunlight spilled through the doors and windows onto the gleaming "Upright Gentleman" plaque.
In the bathroom behind the main hall, Xie Jinhuan leaned against the edge of the bathing pool, studying an official document.
A long white dress hung on the clothes rack. Linghu Qingmo sat before him with his arms folded, his eyes somewhat embarrassed and indignant, but he still tilted his head to read along.
After leaving Ye Sheng's former residence yesterday, Xie Jinhuan had returned with Sister Ye, only just arriving in Luojing. Sister Guo and the others had traveled quickly and were already home last night.
Ye Sheng had left word yesterday that there was a little trouble in Capital City to deal with. Xie Jinhuan had originally planned to bathe and tidy himself up before reporting back to the Directorate of Celestial Observation.
But his little secretary Momo was very considerate. He had submitted Xie Jinhuan's Duty Report first thing that morning and brought the official document back for him while he was at it.
Only after reading through it did Xie Jinhuan discover that the "little trouble" Ye Sheng had mentioned really was rather troublesome!
The document's contents were roughly as follows:
On the day of the incident in Danyang, Monk Wuxin and Senior Qixia had maintained a strict defense. The Corpse Ancestor Mausoleum had suffered no impact, and its sealing formation remained completely intact.
But according to Monk Wuxin's conjecture, Mao Chunniang had used an unidentified witchcraft curse at the end. Judging by the situation at Phoenix Harbor, what she had cast should have been the "Spirit-Imprinting Soul-Returning Curse."
Only an ancestor-level old devil could cast this curse. The Directorate of Celestial Observation could