With a single command from the prince of Tianlong County,
the entire Tianlong County instantly went into martial law, the city gates were sealed, prohibiting anyone from entering or exiting.
On the streets, the Tianlong Army was deployed in full force, a total of three thousand men, conducting a thorough manhunt throughout the city.
The soldiers were organized into units of fifty, each team with ten cultivators among them.
They went door to door, holding portraits to investigate.
Once they spotted any trace of Xu Ping'an, they would immediately set off a signal flare to alert everyone.
However, Xu Ping'an seemed as if he had vanished into thin air, for no matter how the cultivator soldiers searched, they found not a single trace of him.
...
Meanwhile, as the entire city was searching for Xu Ping'an,
in the backyard of the Tianlong County Prince's Mansion, a young servant-looking boy was sweeping the courtyard with a broom.
