Even though there were usually a lot of guards assigned to such important individuals, the most trusted personal aides were usually set in stone. It was usually just a small group of people who worked together.

Those people were carefully selected. Cultivation was actually secondary; the most important thing was for them to have a clear background and for them to be devoted and reliable. But of course, those who were chosen in the end wouldn’t have low cultivation levels.

After interrogating that nefarious cultivator in the capital’s outskirts, Zu An had learned that there was a guard who had run all the way from Cloudcenter Commandery to the capital to ask for help, but he was intercepted and killed along the way. Even though he had gotten some information about that guard, unfortunately, that evil cultivator had only refined the other party’s fractured soul, and so they didn’t know that guard’s complete identity.

But if his suspicions weren’t wrong, that guard had to be one of Cloudcenter Commandery’s personal guards. Regular guards wouldn’t have access to a secret on that level, nor would they have enough loyalty to devote their life to asking for help.

“The guards’ names?” Gong Pan was stunned. He was clearly curious as to Zu An’s objective, but he still nodded and said, “I’ll write them down for you.”

He fetched some paper and a pen. Then he explained as he wrote, “After something happened to the duke, these...