Imposter

At the royal palace, Imperial Study.

Emperor Jiawen looked at the booklet in his hands and increasingly knitted his brows tighter as he read it.

Piak!

He finally threw the item aside. "Chu Ning, I told you to do your best to investigate Heptagon Alley, but you only found out about these useless things?"

Chu Ning—who was standing respectfully—immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I've already used all the connections and methods that I could, but I could only find out so much up till now. Even though there are more than hundreds of skeletons at Heptagon Alley, we can't find any other information other than the fact that they were all cultivators."

"Anything that could reveal their identity had been specifically taken care of, and we can't find anything. Even… Except for the corpse that was hung, all the other skeletons didn't have any clothing at all."

The person who did all of this was clearly very meticulous.