Watching someone from the shadows without revealing oneself means staying as far away as possible. Lan Jiwan couldn't observe Ye Liangcheng every moment, so she didn't discover his secret room construction.

Ye Liangcheng's daily life seemed ordinary; he hired a few security guards, kept dogs to watch the gate, grew vegetables, raised chickens in the park, and often cooked dishes himself.

Unfortunately, the abandoned park's layout was quite complex, and most of the time, she didn't know what Ye Liangcheng was up to.

Tonight she finally discovered that Ye Liangcheng had contact with suspicious individuals, specifically that "Elder Huo Qing." She couldn't hear what they talked about on the rooftop of the central building.

When the two entered the Martial Arts Hall, she finally heard their conversation.

Ye Liangcheng hasn't been staying in the office recently; she's infiltrated the park several times while he was away and has discovered various surveillance setups by Ye Liangcheng.

He Kao initially discovered the surveillance and found ways to avoid Ye Liangcheng's detection during infiltration, which Lan Jiwan could also do.

The huge Martial Arts Hall, filled with various items, offered opportunities to discreetly install a bugging device in inconspicuous places, which made it difficult for Ye Liangcheng to find it even with Divine Sense.

With noise reduction and amplification equipment, Lan Jiwan could hear He Kao and Ye Liangcheng's conversations through her headphones outside the park. Some terms were unfamiliar, but she could infer based on limited clues.

Ye Liangcheng referred to that person as Huo Qing, who was teaching him the Artifact Identification Skill. Lan Jiwan had learned this Applied Techniques method but didn't know its exact name; it's just a way to use Divine Sense.

Lan Jiwan hadn't interacted much with Ye Liangcheng, nor carried out missions with him; she only knew he was a base guard under Bitter Tea with Superior Secret Technique Cultivation.

Ye Liangcheng hadn't mastered some Secret Techniques, and Huo Qing continued teaching him. It seemed Huo Qing might be another Bitter Tea or his successor.

Bitter Tea has never revealed his true face; his identity remains enigmatic.

Lan Jiwan has long suspected that there exists a hidden crime organization mastering superhuman cultivation techniques, leveraging them for various illegal gains.

They are mysterious, deeply hidden, never revealing their identities, cultivating crime syndicates to serve them. Bitter Tea is a member of this organization, and Ye Liangcheng and others are his cultivated syndicate...

The subsequent conversation between Huo Qing and Ye Liangcheng seemed to confirm Lan Jiwan's suspicions.

The mysterious crime organization was called Magic Sect, and Huo Qing and Bitter Tea were likely members. As for Huo Qing claiming to "supervise Magic Sect disciples' actions, punish wrongdoers," Lan Jiwan didn't believe it.

Lan Jiwan guessed that Huo Qing's role was akin to a "cleaner" within the Magic Sect, responsible for eliminating members who violated the Sect's rules.

Bitter Tea might have already been eliminated by Huo Qing.

Magic Sect's internal discipline must be very strict and cold; Bitter Tea might have exposed his identity or secretly broken the Sect's rules, thus being eliminated.

Why did she think this, and how did she know the term cleaner?

It was a term Bitter Tea personally told her; she was a cleaner cultivated by Bitter Tea, responsible for eliminating syndicate members using Secret Techniques for wrongdoing.

This sounded righteous; anyway, Bitter Tea said so. For a while, Lan Jiwan also believed she was executing a just mission.

But later she discovered that the source of evil was Bitter Tea himself, and she was just a blade in Bitter Tea's hands, used to remove syndicate members he no longer wished to keep.

The syndicate members working for Bitter Tea weren't innocent; every single one of them deserved to die!

Lan Jiwan's deductions, though not entirely factual, weren't entirely unreasonable either based on the limited information she had. She discovered and deduced this much, which was quite impressive...

More than half a year ago, Bitter Tea instructed her to hide and then disappeared without further messages. Her intuition suggested Bitter Tea met his demise, sparking a faint hope of escaping control.

But she knew Bitter Tea was backed by a powerful, mysterious crime organization. Even if Bitter Tea met his end, other syndicate members knew about her presence and had once seen her masked.

Among them, who still holds her identity information, did Bitter Tea leave her data? Like Feng Zilong, she quietly returned to the former secret base.

Currently, she hasn't truly escaped.

Ye Liangcheng left a letter in the underground Dao Field; she discovered and read it but didn't reveal herself to contact Ye Liangcheng. To her, the letter was a trap but also held hope.

Ye Liangcheng's goal was to identify Bitter Tea's former subordinates and trace their identities and past actions, so the letter didn't reveal much information.

The letter mentioned Bitter Tea met an accident early in the year, and now Elder Huo Qing arrived to continue guiding everyone on refining Secret Techniques. Those who see the letter were urged to contact Base Manager Ye Liangcheng, report their identity and past missions.

From the letter, Lan Jiwan made several judgments: first, Bitter Tea was already dead; second, the mysterious organization sent another called Huo Qing to take over the base; third, Huo Qing ordered Ye Liangcheng to regroup former syndicate members.

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