At the edge of Shu Land, Celestial Cloud City was just a microcosm.
The secret sect envoy from Nanwu Sword Sect, relying on good relationships with various forces, was searching everywhere for the exiled disciples of the Puppet Palace, and upon encounter... kill them!
However, none of this mattered to Song Yan anymore.
He had completely disappeared into the Jianghu, with no one able to know his true identity and power.
After more than half a year, Hua Linglong began dispatching disciples to search for traces of cultivators around because she "admired cultivators' flying swords after witnessing them," hoping to establish some "trading" channels with them.
At the same time, the Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower started proactively gathering information about external matters such as the major tides of the Three Kingdoms.
And all this was what Song Yan needed.
Hua Linglong was indeed doing this for Song Yan.