Zhao Yidong's people had all been captured by them. Getting the method to open the formation from him posed no difficulty at all.
If even what they obtained proved false, Li Yan would only be delighted rather than angered. Zhao Yidong's value would rise severalfold at once, but that possibility was clearly extremely small.
At the same time, they had obtained the code words Zhao Yidong used to send messages. Since he needed to relay messages to shops in four different market towns, and to better confuse others, they used a set of code words composed of various raw materials.
Even if outsiders saw them, they would only think someone was asking a shop whether it had certain raw materials. The jade slips recorded names of spirit plants, demon beast bones, pelts, and the like.
If such a jade slip fell into anyone's hands, unless they knew the agreement behind those code words, it would be completely useless. They would only treat it as an ordinary jade slip.
Thus, Li Yan and the others would next follow that set of code words, inscribe a jade slip, and send it to the market-town shop in the second sequence.
Meanwhile, Jin Shijiu and the others who had already departed would pay special attention to the matter, using this opportunity to see whether they could hook a big fish.
"Then I must thank you, Young Master Li!"
Upon hearing this, Su Hong's beautiful eyes grew even brighter. Though the clues remained limited for now, the progress of the past few days had already been immense.
The depression that had weighed on Su Hong's heart for so many years was beginning to dissipate bit by bit, and her mood was growing increasingly better...
Before dawn, Li Yan and Su Hong brought their people back