"No need for formalities. Have you ever wondered why I am here?"
Yin San's voice was as warm and amiable as his smile, and utterly clean.
Gu Qing said, "During Green Mountain's Western Sea Campaign, the Western Sea Sword Sect's Mountain Gate Formation was suddenly broken, while you sat drinking tea on Shaoming Island... thinking back now, you must have seized Heaven Near Person's divine soul."
Yin San looked at him appreciatively and said, "No wonder that fellow groomed you to be the next sect master. Very good indeed. How is the matter I asked you to handle?"
Gu Qing said, "The letters were sent a few days ago. There shouldn't be any problems."
According to Tong Yan's plan, the Imperial Court, Fruitful Accomplishment Temple, Water-Moon Convent, and One-Thatch Studio would join A Piao in pressuring Fang Jingtian at the Green Mountain Assembly.
The first thing Yin San had asked Gu Qing to do was resolve this problem.
Gu Qing said, "I can influence Chaoge City and persuade those three sects in His Majesty's name, but I cannot influence Divine End Peak."
Whether he was the Imperial Tutor or the regent, he was still merely an ordinary disciple on Divine End Peak. Zhao Layue would naturally not listen to him.
"You should know that Zhao Layue was badly wounded in the Snowfield and nearly died."
Thinking of the young girl who had pursued him from Fruitful Accomplishment Temple to the cliff back then, Yin San gave a sigh of obscure meaning.
Gu Qing fell silent for a while, then asked, "What other instructions do you have, Martial Uncle?"
At the restaurant a few days earlier, Yin San's condition had been that he help with three things. One was now done, leaving two.
Yin San took a slip of paper from