Zu An was initially confused by what he’d heard. His first reaction was that this old man was trying to start something out of nothing.

I’ve never even been to the capital city before, let alone stolen something that belonged to the emperor!

However, his eyes suddenly widened as he remembered the conversation between Wei Dan and Old Mi. Old Mi apparently led a group of men in search of the ‘Phoenix Nirvana Sutra’, but he grew greedy, and killed the others. In the end, he made it seem that the whole group of them had been wiped out, and then he went into hiding.

Unfortunately, there were no absolute secrets in this world. The palace had still caught wind of it, and sent Wei Dan to investigate.

However, Wei Dan was already dead, and he never learned that Zu An possessed the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra before his death. Did he somehow manage to contact the imperial palace before he died?

Or was it because of something else?

He couldn’t be sure either. Lost...