"Return Whence You Came? True Transmission Hall? Elder Yan... They were enemies of Return Whence You Came?"
It was as though a bolt of lightning had struck Li Yan's mind. In an instant, he seemed to understand the identities of those two.
From the very beginning, the two cultivators had said that "things had changed in recent years," and now they had mentioned "Return Whence You Came."
Looking at their attire, Li Yan recalled the group of black-clad masked men he had encountered on that snowy, windswept night in the Cangxuan Realm. Those people had worn tight black clothing, but they too had all worn Grey Masks.
"The young shopkeeper in Sea Containment City... he had also been hired by a cloaked, masked man, then used to cover the escape of the hidden agent in Jin Zhiyuan's shop. Could this be where that mysterious force was based?"
These thoughts flashed through Li Yan's mind, and he could almost completely confirm that they were correct. A tempestuous sea surged within him.
Over the past few years, Li Yan had also indirectly inquired about news of Return Whence You Came. It was not because he cared about the final outcome of their hunt for the traitors.
Rather, he had wanted to know their movements, so he could gauge how safe he was and alter his plans for departure at any time.
The news Li Yan had received was that something major had indeed happened at Return Whence You Came's main headquarters. Many people from the True Transmission Hall had apparently been arrested, including the elder in charge.
For a merchant firm like Gather Fortune Abundantly, its upper echelons would certainly pay close attention to such news, and some information would naturally leak out.
But that was all Li Yan knew. As for