He silently arrived in a cave abode, his eyes closed the entire time.

Deep within the cave, a presence beyond the Ninth Tier pervaded. Emperor Qian sat cross-legged, eyes closed, suspended mid-air, his back to the outside.

A robed figure, eyes closed, appeared here, and insights emerged all over his body, transforming into ineffable mystique, concentrating in this space.

These mystical insights were continually assimilated by Emperor Qian, incorporated for his own use, and then reformed into various keys of different shapes, surrounding him.

In the mist, a giant door, seemingly real yet illusory, flickered before Emperor Qian.

The various keys continuously merged into the gigantic door, making it appear increasingly solid.

Once all the keys vanished, Emperor Qian opened his eyes.

"The stone of another mountain can polish jade. Borrowing the hand of a true Tenth Tier indeed provides clearer direction.

Using Dao as sound, heaven aids in completion. Indeed, there's no one more suitable to assist than that person.

He doesn't suspect, does he?"

"Whether he suspects or not, it hardly matters. Each just takes what they need. He merely manifests the sound of Dao, it couldn't be fake. After all, faking something undetectable is even harder." The robed person smiled softly and replied.

"No worries, it's just the stone of another mountain, not my own Dao. I merely clear away distractions and errors.

Suppress the Faceless Man organization, let you wander the void for many years, that one couldn't wait any longer after all.

Now they don't even trust intelligence from those Faceless Men much.

Whatever information he wants, let him reveal his own Dao to exchange for it.

In a few hundred years, when Dadui returns, everything will settle down."

Emperor Qian's expression was calm. Long ago, he knew there was some guy in the void using the Tenth Tier as bait to entice those Ninth Tier strong traveling the void.

He had prepared for this early on. The robed figure had been wandering the void yet never encountered the legendary temptation.

Until a few years ago, the robed figure finally encountered it.

What Emperor Qian knew had always exceeded what others imagined.

After Shi's name appeared, he even completely confirmed the identity of that one in the void.

Suppressing the White Water Egg organization was like going with the flow.

Now, with just a few tests, he established the matter of trading intelligence to reveal Daoist charm.

The Divine King knowing about the Southern Sea was, of course, Emperor Qian using it as a bargaining chip, leaking it out.

Obviously, Emperor Qian knew this also benefited him greatly and was good for everyone in the world.

Therefore, before making a trade, he had a controlled pawn stir the grass to startle the snake...

When the Divine King knew the intelligence and instructed the half-defunct Faceless Man organization to do something, unsurprisingly, they couldn't do anything.

The Southern Sea research continued, in fact affecting nothing.

Yet Emperor Qian got a free charge from the Divine King's Zhan Dao, using it as the stone of another mountain to sharpen his cultivation.

The effect was excellent. Emperor Qian planned to continue the free charge.

If not for the thought that one certainly wouldn't fully trust the information he gave, he might even draw some power and manpower to utterly crush that half-defunct Faceless Man organization.

Take it slow first. Wait for the right opportunity to act. Ideally, have information channels solely here.

In the future, if he wants to continue to use the other's hand to hone himself, it will be much easier.

Selling information doesn't matter. He only needs to block what the other party wants to do based on the information each time before selling it, controlling it within a certain range, which isn't considered selling intelligence, only a free charge.

As Emperor Qian chatted with the robed person, a light spot appeared, which Emperor Qian took, frowning slightly.

"This Qing Ziyu somehow got hold of stock materials.

In a few years, you go and tell that person this news.

Wait until the Southern Sea finds a substitute, then find a way to destroy that Grotto Heaven.

This time, make them pay a hundredfold." The robed person agreed with a smile, silently withdrawing, and slowly disappearing.

...

The Big Island had been sealed off, only entrance allowed. Anyway, the resources inside sufficed for those extravagant guys to wreak havoc for decades.

Shadow Department and Jinyi Wei, together with the White Water Egg and Yu Ziqing, pursued those stirring up trouble yet found nothing.

Even now, they hadn't figured out who tampered with that junior scholar spy's Divine Soul.

Under strict vigilance, no further incidents were found within the Big Island Cave Heaven.

Yu Ziqing and New Five also hadn't found any other intelligence channels for the Divine King.

He thought things rather complicated. Actually, the reality was quite simple and blunt.

The Divine King was in the void, standing on the Void Cliff, a place long existing, where each generation of Wig White Water Egg sought successors.

Now that the Divine King appeared personally, such activities enticing cultivators didn't cease.

Even if no one was sought for training, idleness being wasteful, killing a strong void traveler further weakened all of humanity.

The intelligence was that someone went directly into the void, flew for a long time, then sensed temptation, and exchanged information.

Yu Ziqing couldn't have imagined, things were indeed this simple and blunt, actually because Emperor Qian wanted a free charge from the Divine King, leveraging Divine King's strength to hone himself.

At first glance, it seemed like he was a traitor, but actually, before selling information, he preemptively blocked the path, making the intel useless.

No matter how imaginative Yu Ziqing was, he couldn't have guessed these out of thin air.

He couldn't have anticipated this linking back to the secluded Emperor Qian.

He just felt that back then, the junior spy affair was peculiar, altering data was useless, afterward, he merely prepared out of caution.

Now, Yu Ziqing just used the time when the Divine King had New Five do tasks, roughly calculating that it had been about a year from resolving the material-induced research crisis in the Big Island Cave Heaven to the Divine King knowing about it.