After leaving, Lu Yiping and the others arrived at the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild.
As one of the major merchant guilds on the Divine Martial Continent, the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild was decorated with extraordinary splendor.
The hall was enormous, spanning a full thousand square meters. People flowed in and out, and there were many conducting transactions and trade.
After Lu Yiping and the others arrived, a disciple of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild came over to receive them. When he asked Lu Yiping what he wished to buy or sell, Lu Yiping said, "Where is your manager? I want your guild to help me look into some information."
Then, he took out a Spirit Stone and gave it to the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild disciple as a reward. Seeing the Divine Qi swirling within the Spirit Stone in his hand, the disciple was greatly startled. "A Divine-grade Spirit Stone!"
Everyone in the hall turned to look.
Divine-grade Spirit Stones were exceedingly rare. Even in transactions between super merchant guilds on the Hengyuan Plane, High-grade Spirit Stones and Top-grade Spirit Stones were generally used.
Thus, when everyone saw Lu Yiping casually reward the guild disciple with a Divine-grade Spirit Stone, they were all astonished.
After recovering for a moment, the guild disciple said excitedly, "Young Master, please follow me!" He then led Lu Yiping and the others to the inner hall specially designated for gathering information.
Very soon, a guild manager came to receive Lu Yiping and politely asked what information he wished to investigate.
Lu Yiping said, "More than forty thousand years ago, Sword God Yang Dong received a message through a talisman letter from a mysterious person and then entered the Battlefield of the Gods. I want to know who sent that talisman message."
If they could discover who that mysterious person was, they might be able to find out who had set up the Nine Absolute Death God Array.
Upon hearing this, the guild manager's expression turned troubled.
The matter had happened far too long ago, over forty thousand years in the past. It would be extremely difficult to investigate and would require too much manpower.
"Young Master, our guild cannot accept this task." He shook his head.
At that moment, Lu Yiping took out a longsword and said, "As long as you help me find out, this sword will be your reward."
"A divine artifact!" The guild manager stared at the longsword, his gaze blazing as even his breathing changed.
At the same time, he was shocked inwardly. He had never expected this young man to use a divine artifact merely to inquire about information!
"Young Master, please wait a moment. I will report this to my superiors," the guild manager said. He went out for a while.
A short while later, the guild manager returned, accompanied by a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was Sun Yuxuan, president of the Beidou branch of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild.
When Sun Yuxuan received the manager's report, he too was greatly startled.
After entering, he looked uncertainly at Lu Yiping and the four people behind him, Zhang Jin among them.
Having served as president of the Beidou branch of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild for many years, this was the first time he had encountered someone offering a divine artifact as a reward for information.
Even some True God Realm experts might not possess a divine artifact, which showed just how precious such artifacts were.
As the president of the Beidou branch of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild, he likewise did not possess a divine artifact.
"I am Sun Yuxuan, president of the Beidou branch of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild. May I ask how to address you, Young Master?" Sun Yuxuan asked politely.
"Lu Yiping." Lu Yiping did not conceal it.
Lu Yiping?
Could he be from the Lu Family?
As thoughts raced through Sun Yuxuan's mind, he smiled. "So it is Young Master Lu." His gaze fell upon the longsword on the table.
This longsword looked vaguely familiar to him, yet he could not recall where he had seen it before.
He said to Lu Yiping, "Young Master Lu, Sword God Yang Dong's disappearance back then has become an unsolved mystery. Many experts investigated the matter at the time, but they found nothing."
"Now that so many years have passed, investigating it again will be even more difficult!"
"I will need to report this matter to the higher-ups."
Lu Yiping nodded.
Thus, Sun Yuxuan immediately took out a talisman letter and contacted the headquarters of the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild.
Not long afterward, he received a reply from headquarters. After pondering briefly, Sun Yuxuan said to Lu Yiping, "Our chief president has said that we can accept the task, but we will only investigate for one year."
"Furthermore, you must first pay us a deposit."
Lu Yiping said, "Fine." Then he gave the other party the deposit.
Lu Yiping had nothing else to do. After leaving behind a method of contact, he departed the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild with Zhang Jin and the others.
Sun Yuxuan watched Lu Yiping's departing back, uncertainty still filling his eyes.
"President, could that young man be from the Lu Family?" the manager from earlier asked uncertainly.
Sun Yuxuan shook his head. "Probably not."
After leaving the Heavenly Machine Merchant Guild, Lu Yiping wandered around for a while longer before returning to the residence with the Dragon Horn Golden Ox.
Night fell.
Within a luxurious residence somewhere in the Beidou Imperial Capital.
Yun Haitian, dressed in silver and strikingly handsome, sat in the seat of honor within the main hall, while Yun Xingyun, Yun Cheng, and the other experts sat on either side.
Yun Haitian glanced at everyone, his expression grave. "I had someone investigate that Lu Yiping today."
Seeing Yun Haitian's grave expression, the Yun Family experts' hearts skipped a beat. Could Lu Yiping truly be a disciple of the Lu Family?!
Yun Haitian said, "He should be Su Xiu's nephew!"
The Yun Family experts froze, then their expressions changed drastically.
Yun Xingyun's voice trembled slightly. "Su Xiu of the Yellow Springs Demonic Sect?!"
Yellow Springs Demonic Sect ancestor Su Xiu cultivated the Yellow Springs Demonic Art. The sects he had slaughtered back then numbered not a hundred, but at least several dozen! The God Realm experts who had died at his hands alone numbered in the hundreds.
This Lu Yiping was actually the nephew of that terrifying great devil?!
"Young Master, is the information reliable?" Yun Xingyun stammered.
Yun Haitian nodded. "It should be true. During yesterday's fight in the imperial capital, it was the guards by his side who acted and killed seventy-seven people, including White Bone Sect Grand Elder Wang Qishan!"
"After his men killed Wang Qishan and the other seventy-seven, General Chen Yuan originally intended to arrest him and hold him accountable, but he took out a token."
"That token belonged to Su Xiu of the Yellow Springs Demonic Sect!" Yun Haitian continued. "Moreover, the residence where he is currently staying also belongs to Su Xiu of the Yellow Springs Demonic Sect."
"The four guards by his side should be God Realm experts!"
(There will be another update tonight.)
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