Shirong was now looking through a building that had been recently abandoned. It was evident that whoever used the building before, left in a hurry.

This was the place where the Shadow Dagger Pavilion was residing before. Or rather one of their branches. The organization had multiple branches all over the kingdom including a few neighboring kingdoms as well.

Shirong looked at the destroyed and burned documents and furrowed his brows.

"Even while leveling they managed to destroy most of the things. What's left now is not worth much either and I doubt we would be able to find anything." Shirong muttered to himself.

Lin Wu was also looking around and unlike Shirong the system was able to sense the spatial fluctuation traces.

"System, can you approximate the location of the bandits from this?" Lin Wu questioned.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: The system may be able to narrow down the range of teleportation to an area of about one hundred kilometers.

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Seeing the system's answer Lin WU knew that it wasn't accurate but it was still a lot more than the previous thousand kilometers.

"Alright system, do what you do just said." Lin Wu replied.

~Ding~

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INITIATING SPATIAL ANALYSIS: Please wait patiently.

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After hearing this notification, silence descended in the empty hall.

'Now to wait till this part is done…' Lin Wu thought to himself as he returned his focus to Shirong.

Now that Lin Wu was in the capital city, he was far enough that the teleportation formation of the Taiji Celestials tomb would not work. The maximum range of the formation was till the Deer Wood city,

This was a safety net for Lin Wu and he kept it for emergencies when he is far away from Shirong or if he wanted to hide in a desolate place. But now this safety net was unable to work and the distance would make it impossible for Lin Wu to teleport.

"I need to get a power source for the Tomb soon…' Lin Wu thought to himself.

"Did you find anything?" A voice suddenly asked.

"Nothing of importance. Most of the things here have either been taken away or destroyed so that the members of the Shadow Dagger Pavilion stay safe." Shirong replied to the advisers that had decided to accompany him.

"These pests…" The adviser cursed.

~Sigh~

"I'll take my leave for now. You all can take over from here." Shirong said before leaving the building.

There was a cordon set to prevent the people from getting near the building. But as always, they were very interested in what was happening there, can they all gathered around the perimeter of the cordon.

"LOOK A NASCENT SOUL REALM CULTIVATOR!" Someone shouted as they saw Shirong took flight.

Since he was not using a spirit tool, it was obvious that he was in the Nascent Soul realm. This shocked the people, as there were only a few Nascent Soul realm cultivators in the capital and all of them were part of the Royal court.

Seeing one appear here meant that whatever happened here was very important. This would now become a well known matter that the people would talk about for quite a while. But Shirong did not care about it and it was up to the advisers to take care of it from here on.

His main goals had been fulfilled much faster than he had thought. In less than a day, he had met the merchant and taken the supplies, sent the letter, met the king, taken care of Du Yang and mess up his siblings' plans and finally investigate the Shadow Dagger pavilion.

Albeit the last goal was not successfully done as they had managed to run away. Shirong had not expected that Du Yang truly did have some links with Shadow Dagger Pavilion. This meant that either intentionally or unintentionally, his siblings had thrown in their lots together.

It was now evening and Shirong was meditating at one of the courtyards that had been given to him. The king was very generous, seeing as how Shirong had possibly stopped the complete destruction of the capital.

A spatial rift that uncontrollably grew was a terrifying thing. Even if common cultivators did not know much about it, the king definitely did. Usually, they did not grow like the one they saw today or the one that happened at the Deer wood city.

Most of them were unable to sustain themselves for long and would stop automatically. But the one that Du Yang had created was different. They didn't know if he knew this would happen or not, but it was unexpected.

If one was able to make spatial rifts like this using teleportation talismans, things would get difficult for a lot of them. Even Shirong didn't know of this method. He could understand it happen due to a spatial storage ring as it was a mini world in itself, but a teleportation talisman did not work the same way.

Shirong pondered on it but was unable to figure out how it happened.

~Sigh~

"I should just restore my spirit Qi for now…" Shirong muttered to himself.

Normally the king should have organized a celebratory banquet tonight, but due to the events that occurred, he had no option but to postpone them. Shirong didn't mind it either, as it gave him time to rest.

After Shirong was deep in cultivation, Lin Wu took this as his cue to leave. Leaving behind a disguise, he left the spatial storage ring and finally came out.

"Ah~ fresh air…" Lin Wu said to himself. "Now then… let's get to work shall we."

He looked around the city from the top of the courtyard and spoke, "system, scan the capital city."

~Ding~

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SCANNER ACTIVATED: Area selected, please wait a moment.

SCAN COMPLETED: Map updated

DATA BANKS: Updated

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"Oh? The data banks got updated just from a map scan? Seems like there are a lot of interesting things here. Better get to it then, who knows how many days I'll be here." Lin Wu said to himself before opening the map.