"What guarantees?" Lothur asked.
"Well, aside from the most important part, the advance payment, we expect you to avoid talking about how you obtained the information we will eventually hand over to you."
Cultivators, in general, knew there was an investigative service in the Cultivation House. But that was not the only organization that did similar work in this province and city.
And since some investigations could lead to considerable trouble, it was in the interest of this institution to rid itself of any connection with such matters.
To investigate certain groups or people, this institution used members of other powers, in a way, internal agents. But these individuals could be exposed if the authorship of investigations was passed on to the Cultivation House.
So, to prevent troublesome people from going after the investigators from this group, every client had to keep the secret of how they got their information.
