「The 25th year of the Yuanding Era. Summer, the sixth day of the fifth month.」
Zuo Xuan received official documents from the various prefectures and counties of the Southern Four Roads stating that all of the Xiao Shan Lord's Golden Body Divine Statues had been forged. She immediately dispatched a team of covert agents from the Daoist Scripture Hall to each prefecture and county to verify them.
A month later, on the afternoon of the nineteenth day of the sixth month, she received a secret report from Huping County Town—the town furthest from Jinhuai Prefecture City—confirming that the work in all locations had been completed as required.
As soon as she had verified all the documents, Zuo Xuan rushed to the Six Heart Sect.
She arrived at the Six Heart Sect in the late morning. She was an astute woman; despite knowing she would likely only get an answer at dusk, she had rushed over at the crack of dawn.
Zhao Yu'er received her, but as before, she was stopped beside the small path.
