Ten or so days passed in a flash. During his stay at the City Lord's Mansion in Ethereal City, Han Shuo recruited enough shop assistants and pharmacists, and the premises Baum had prepared for Celestial Pivot Pharmacy were fully renovated. With that, Han Shuo left the City Lord's Mansion and moved into the Celestial Pivot Pharmacy Branch in Ethereal City.
After the conversation his Demon Head had overheard last time, Han Shuo was certain that Baum had ulterior motives toward him and was by no means wholeheartedly helping him. This indirectly proved McKinley's suspicions correct. Baum was a deeply calculating man and certainly would not be easy to deal with.
Afterward, the Demon Head never left Baum's side, but it discovered nothing unusual. Baum spent those ten or so days cultivating inside the City Lord's Mansion, meeting no one and doing nothing suspicious.
Several Demon Heads roamed the City Lord's Mansion for a few days. Han Shuo wanted to find McKinley's divine body for him, but there was nowhere inside the mansion where anything was hidden. The Demon Heads searched every corner without finding anything amiss, so this matter would require a longer-term approach.
Since Baum had sent that Divine Guard to the Golden Stone Shop to investigate, Han Shuo secretly sent a Demon Head over as a precaution. After observing the shop, he discovered that its assistants seemed to have received instructions from Myles and were all keeping their mouths shut. The Divine Guards of Ethereal City learned nothing useful about what had happened between him and Myles in the shop last time.
Han Shuo increasingly felt that, among the little fellows, Golden Armored Corpse had the greatest talent for management. So far, he had yet to meet anyone who cultivated metal energy, and rapid progress seemed difficult for