“You’re going to open the gates for your fellow Strangers lurking outside the county? Are you serious?”0

Ye Qing shook his head. “The gates of Anyang are imbued with powerful restrictions courtesy of the Heaven’s Eye, and I should not need to tell you how deadly it is. Forget opening the gates, you can’t even get close without feeling like you’re about to suffocate, so how… unless…”1

Ye Qing abruptly slowed down when he was nearing the end of the sentence. It was because one possibility had occurred to him.0

“I knew you would figure it out! It is as you imagined!” Faceless said with an obsequious smile. “It’s true that we Strangers cannot open the gates, but you humans can!”1

“I thought so,” Ye Qing rubbed his chin and mumbled seemingly to himself, “To open the gate and lower the gate restrictions, you need a gate token. And a gate token is something only the gate captain possesses… Tang Yi’an is one of yours?”3

“You’re incredible, warrior! You’ve guessed it in one try!” Faceless buttered up Ye Qing again, though it wasn’t all flattery. The fact that Ye Qing had managed to deduce so many things accurately and in such a short time was proof that his mind operated on a different level compared to most people.3

Ye Qing asked another question while rubbing the spot between his eyebrows, “I’m curious. Why would Tang Yi’an make such a deal with you? Not only is he digging his own grave, he’ll even implicate...0