The next day, on the way to Flying Dragon Mount, Ye Qing moved closer to Hong Jianglong and asked in a low voice, “How did it go, Lord Hong?”0

After he went back to the Pacification Bureau, the first thing he did was to tell Hong Jianglong everything that happened and his suspicion that someone was trying to kill him.0

Of course, he didn’t reveal the fact that he aided Longing, Hua Mei and Jue Yan. He only described how he barely managed to escape the Corpse Ship after a harrowing experience. It might not be the whole truth, but it was the truth.0

He wasn’t afraid of beating the grass and startling the snake. In fact, he wanted to startle the snake.0

The enemy had already tried to kill him once, but he had no idea who they were. Not only that, they were as dangerous as they were well hidden. He knew this because not even the Annon Sutra could tell him who that fake Ah Fu really was. 0

On his own, his chances of unmasking the mastermind was less than zero. Moreover, his silence could easily be mistaken as weakness and submission. He somehow survived the first assassination attempt, but what about the second, third, and fourth?1

No, staying silent would be a mistake. What he needed to do now was to make a show of...0