"Of course." Lu Wan nodded without hesitation.
"The Alliance Association requires a Path Opening Realm cultivator to lead the investigation to ensure the investigators are strong enough."
"You just killed Yu Liang in public, so you naturally qualify to accept the mission."
"Besides, you're now the Palace Heir of the Supreme Clarity Palace."
"Even if the Alliance Association insists on its original requirement, we can invite a Path Opening Realm elder from the palace to accompany us."
"That won't do," Ye Li said with a frown.
"Calling in outside help just to go on a mission? Isn't that ridiculous?"
"..."
Lu Wan fell silent for a moment, then nodded earnestly.
"You make a fair point, Palace Heir."
Though she had no idea what was wrong with exercising his authority so freely.
But she was now Ye Li's maid, so she ought to support his decisions.
Unless they became truly outrageous.
"The Golden Virtue Institute..."
Ye Li picked up a few more jade slips.
The Golden Virtue Institute itself might not be worth much.
But the successive disappearances of the cultivators investigating it were enough to show that the matter was not as simple as the records suggested.
He did not believe an organization that had survived for over a hundred thousand years would dare wantonly kill members of the Alliance Association.
So, with a little luck, this investigation might lead him to a few more valuable targets.
"Accept the mission in my name."
Ye Li then instructed her.
"Besides that..."
"You can ask a few disciples you're on good terms with to come along and help."
He was the Palace Heir of the Supreme Clarity Palace now, after all.
And Qingyuan True Cultivator had been helping him ever since their first meeting.
Since he had decided to head to Southern