Verification

Inside a teahouse near the grocery store.

Fang Yu sat upright in the teahouse, holding a small notebook in his hand, recording the information that his hangers-on had gathered from various places.

Once this person was deployed, the amount of information collected increased significantly.

So-and-so seems to have seen one of them before!

A woman buying groceries confidently claimed to have seen one of them.

A waiter at a tea shop said he had seen one of them come in for tea.

In just three days, Fang Yu had recorded more than forty pieces of gossip in his notebook.

Some of these messages were obviously fake at first glance, while others were so detailed and convincing that Fang Yu thought the person who provided the information might actually have seen it.

After writing down another message, Fang Yu put down his notebook, picked up his teacup, took a sip, and looked at the general store diagonally opposite.

Three days had passed, and he was now certain that there was truly no one secretly watching over the grocery store.

He didn't know why the Sun Household family had left, but who cared? He just needed to get his hands on the gold first.

Setting down his teacup, Fang Yu stood up and said, "Daqing, let's go verify the information!"

"Ugh! Do I need to verify this?"

As Zhou Daqing spoke, he picked up his teacup and drank it all in one gulp. Then he picked up the teapot and gulped down several more mouthfuls. As soon as he put it down, the other hangers-on snatched it away and drank the whole pot of tea clean, not wasting a single drop.

"Of course we need to verify it. Otherwise, submitting it like that would be suicide!"

As they spoke, the group arrived at the front of the general store. Fang Yu's Divine Thought began to fluctuate, and the Mirror-Breaking Pearl spun rapidly. As the Primordial Qi within dissipated, his Divine Thought completely enveloped the box containing gold inside the store and then pulled it into the Mirror-Breaking Pearl.

Retrieving objects from a distance is an incredibly simple matter when cultivating immortality, but now, with just this one move, Primordial Qi he had accumulated over the past few days was completely depleted.

While scanning with Divine Thought consumes little energy, collecting items is a different story and requires some Law Power power. Since he currently has no Law Power, he can only use the Primordial Qi within the Mirror-Breaking Pearl to perform this function.

However, after receiving ten thousand taels of gold, he would basically no longer have to worry about money. That much money was enough for him to buy a lot of Demon Beast meat.

Soon, following a clue provided by a hanger-on, Fang Yu arrived at a house, knocked on the door, and an old man poked his head out.

Who are you?

Whoosh!

Fang Yu unfolded a portrait, approached the old man, and asked, "Old man, have you seen this Hui Barbarian before?"

The old man looked at the portrait, then nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, yes, yes, I've seen him before, this is the person! I saw him a couple of days ago!"

"Look closely, it really is this person!" Fang Yu brought the portrait closer to confirm.

"That's right, that's right, there's no mistake, it's this person in the painting!" the old man said with certainty.

"Thank you for your trouble, old man!" Fang Yu put away the portrait and turned to walk towards the location of the next information provider.

At the same time, he opened his notebook and put an X next to the old man's message.

Zhou Daqing glanced at it and asked in confusion, "Didn't the old man say he saw it? Why did he cross it out?"

Fang Yu put away his notebook and said, "The picture I gave him just now was of another Hui Kingdom. That old man couldn't tell the Hui Kingdom Hui Kingdom apart at all; they all looked the same to him."

"Ah!" Zhou Daqing was taken aback, then gave a thumbs up and said, "Master Fang, you really have a knack for this."

"Hehe!" Fang Yu chuckled, "Learn from me!"

*****

Night falls.

The Sun Residence, study.

"Father, the gold in the grocery store has been stolen!"

"Hmm, where is Xiao Ming?"

Sun Hu said in a deep voice, "He also took the silver notes. He said he will definitely investigate our family's affair with the Hui Kingdom and clear our name!"

"Hehe!" Sun Ren chuckled. "Then let them investigate. It'll put some pressure on Gu Shan and his group, and we can take the opportunity to push the price down a bit more."

"Father is wise!" Sun Hu praised, then added with some worry, "These past few days, word has spread throughout the streets that the Embroidered Robe Bureau is offering a high reward for information leading to the arrest of Gu Shan and his associates. Their portraits are plastered everywhere. I'm afraid that Gu Shan and the others will really be discovered. What should we do then?"

"Hmm, who's on the street right now? Xu Ning?" Sun Ren asked.

"Xu Ning has been killed!" Sun Hu replied. "Now his gang of sycophants are gathering information and spreading his portrait. The leader is a rogue named Xu Fang, who should have already joined the Embroidered Robe Bureau."

Sun Ren thought for a moment and said, "These city foxes and rats are indeed very good at finding people. If we let them investigate like this, they might actually find Gu Shan and the others."

"In that case, immediately send someone to contact Xu Fang and make him understand one thing: the people from the Embroidered Robe Bureau will only stay here for a year or two at most, but our Sun Household will stay here for life."

Sun Hu immediately replied, "I will handle this personally and make Xu Fang one of ours."

"Yes!" Sun Ren nodded and said, "Remember this, never underestimate anyone, especially these city foxes and rats. Although they can't accomplish anything great, they can often ruin things. Many Master, even Grandmaster, who roamed the world for their entire lives, ended up falling into the hands of these people."

"Your son will remember!" Sun Hu said respectfully.

*****

For several days in a row, Fang Yu was checking each message.

Meanwhile, they kept an eye on the general store and found that there was absolutely no movement; it seemed that the Sun Household didn't care at all about losing 10,000 taels of gold.

This Fang Yu momentarily bewildered as to what was going on, but since the Sun Household showed no reaction, he was relieved.

That day, after his morning exercise, Fang Yu met with Zhou Daqing and the others as usual. They sorted out the information they had collected and then began to check it one by one.

Soon, he arrived at an alley, looking at the address of the informant recorded in his notebook as he searched for the other party's home.

He had just passed a house when he raised an eyebrow slightly. His Divine Thought detected several people sitting quietly in the neighboring courtyard, one of whom was the same person he had sensed in the Sun Household's carriage earlier.

He subconsciously glanced at the small notebook in his hand.

'I never expected that these bastards would actually get a real eyewitness.'

Fang Yu cursed inwardly, but continued his steady gait towards the witness's house. After a while, he arrived at the door and knocked.

They used the same old trick: using a portrait of another person for identification.

Then, since the person couldn't distinguish between the Hui Barbarian, Fang Yu simply crossed out the message and continued towards the source of the next message.