Then, by accident, they clashed with the officials of West Qian.
Then, also "by accident," a Riddler went missing in that clash.
And as luck would have it, the Riddlers who came back reported that while chasing that evil cultivation, they uncovered a huge conspiracy.
Some evil cultivators were preparing to carry out a massive Blood Sacrifice in West Qian, and the most crucial intel was in the hands of that missing Riddler.
If the Daqian officials hadn't shielded the evil cultivators, they would have already gotten the information smoothly.
Evil cultivation and Blood Sacrifice and all that were already a super sensitive topic lately, and now a Riddler had gone missing on top of that—how could they swallow this?
Jia Shisi flew into a rage on the spot and wanted to go chop people, but was stopped by Jia Shiwu—he didn't even know who to chop. Was he supposed to just go straight and chop Daqian's West Qian officials?
Wouldn't that basically mean starting a war.
