"So Mr. Pei is asking me to speak frankly?" Lu Heguang tentatively asked after hearing Pei Yan's stance.
"Naturally."
Upon receiving a definite answer, a fleeting look of disappointment crossed Lu Heguang's face, then he shook his head with a helpless bitter smile and said, "Mr. Pei, if you want me to report truthfully, it might disappoint you! Under the current high-profile investigation of Immortal Palace spies, all major sects are terrified of making mistakes that would give them away. Each sect is cautious, if not outright going into seclusion, forbidding any disciples from moving about or meeting outsiders. Even the White Deer Institute, which usually accepts various cultivators from the Daoist Plane, has unprecedentedly closed the Outer Courtyard under the guise of organizing sect archives and disciplining the Inner Courtyard Disciples. No non-sect Disciples are allowed entry in the short term, and we haven't found any suspicious flaws during this period of surveillance."
