Chu Xisheng did not immediately head to Iron Province to investigate.
He still had to seize every moment to cultivate and raise his Primordial Chaos Art as quickly as possible. At the same time, he had to follow the war in Yan Province, ready to lend a hand at any moment.
The early stages of the Yan Province campaign required an uphill assault onto the plateau along mountain roads. The march would be difficult, with numerous dangerous passes and strategic choke points to overcome along the way, so his Yazi Saber would be indispensable.
Besides, the Heaven-Gazing Hou was a matter of enormous consequence. Once the corpse poison spread, hundreds of millions of human civilians might perish.
This was not his responsibility alone.
Iron Province also bordered Youzhou and lay within the Formless Divine Sect's sphere of influence.
The Formless Divine Sect could not shirk its responsibility in this matter.
After discussing it with several of the Formless Divine Sect's grand elders, Chu Xisheng decided to have the External Affairs Court issue several handsomely rewarded missions, hiring more than a dozen powerful True Inheritance disciples to investigate.
In addition, the Formless Divine Sect would order its disciples in Iron Province to watch for anything unusual locally and report it at once.
The Formless Divine Sect had hundreds of thousands of inner and outer disciples, as well as nearly seven million registered disciples. At least a tenth were spread throughout Iron Province, enough to form a net so tightly woven that not even the slightest rustle could escape their eyes and ears.
Just three days later, on the fifteenth day of the eleventh month in the thirty-sixth year of Jianyuan, five hundred thousand soldiers of the Sky Wolf Army, together with three hundred thirty thousand auxiliaries and civilian laborers from the