At the Tiger Chasing branch of the Hundred Artifacts Tower, Dongfang Yingcai received the package. As she sampled the Sweet Cakes Yang Yuanhong had sent, she pondered and calculated in her mind.
The appearance of this letter revealed many things, yet they all ultimately converged on one central question.
Were Chen Shitou and Yang Hu truly the same person?
If they were not the same person, then it meant Chen Shitou had also been saved by Yang Hu in the Divine Weapon Secret Realm.
Yang Hu himself was a martial cultivator of outstanding talent and formidable strength. Perhaps he had taken a liking to Chen Shitou's physique and talent, spared him, and brought him back to his own sect.
If they were the same person, then from the moment he appeared as Chen Shitou, he had deliberately been drawing close to her—or rather, deliberately seeking contact with the Dongfang Family behind her.
Dongfang Yingcai herself leaned more toward the second possibility, because Yang Hu and Chen Shitou's builds looked as though they had been carved from the same mold.
Taking into account how he later said he intended to travel through the Central Region and asked her for a token of the Dongfang Family, it could be concluded that he came from the Northwest.
As a local cultivator, he clearly possessed the bearing of a heavenly talent, yet his name was unknown throughout the Northwest. That alone was extremely strange.
After all, there were currently only three heavenly talents in the entire Northwest. Whether in realm or combat strength, this man appeared no weaker than any of them. If he came from some great power, he certainly would not have remained so obscure.
Moreover, he had multiple layers of identity disguises. Such brilliant concealment methods could even deceive the investigation