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To avoid raising suspicions, he refrained from casually going out to gather information in the latter half of the month, only managing to obtain some news through small talk with others at most.
Fortunately, with his Grandmaster Realm cultivation, as long as he asked, people generally showed him face. Before long, he had learned quite a bit through these exchanges.
During this period, he constantly took Wan Xiaolou to the Golden Wind and Drizzle Building, and the master-apprentice duo started to gain a small reputation in Wanyang County.
Of course, the main reason was his status as a master with Grandmaster Realm cultivation; after all, such a level was considered the pinnacle in a county like this.
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New Yu Era 1322, early July.
At the small courtyard of the Wan Family in the east of the city.
