"Laura, I'll take the pocket watch. I need it to find traces of Senior Noding."

Chloe looked at Laura.

Laura waved her hand and said:

"If what you say is true, Noding is already dead, a traitor; what's the point of finding him?"

Chloe shook her head and said:

"Let me find him first. Only then can the mystery be solved."

Laura was silent for a long while, finally smiled self-mockingly and said:

"Fine, do as you please."

She lit a lady's cigarette again.

The smoke hid her dim eyes.

"Then, lend me a strand of your hair."

A spark of electricity flashed across Chloe's fingertips.

A strand of Laura's hair fell down.

He picked up the hair and turned to head for Amber Hall.

He needed to find someone who could track traces.

…

Location: Amber Hall

"Ah, do you want me to help you?" Teresa frowned at Chloe, lowered her voice and said: "You're not planning anything bad, are you?"

Chloe shook his head and said:

"Something serious, but I need your scent detection ability."

Teresa's expression became more nuanced.

Scent detection seemed ordinary, but in reality, it was a very useful ability.

If this ability wasn't something associated with Night-blooming Jasmine, but was classified under a thief's skills, who knows how many would silently die in a thief's intelligence war.

"You tell me first what you want me to do?"

Chloe placed the pocket watch in front of Teresa and said:

"There are three 'scents' entwined on it. Can you smell them?"

"Huh? The scent of a soul, a life token made from soul fire?"

"Yes."

"One of the scents is already fading; someone has died."

"Yes, that's Senior Morton."

"Ah?"

"But since you can smell it, you should be able to distinguish the difference between the remaining two, right?"

Chloe placed the strand of hair he took from Laura in front of Teresa.

Laura glanced at it and said:

"The scent remaining on this hair is the same as one of the scents on the pocket watch. You just saw its owner?"

"As expected of Night-blooming Jasmine, easily detecting so much information, so…" Chloe said with cold eyes, "You can remember the last scent, right?"

"Yes, to me, it's as easy as eating and drinking water."

"Alright then, dear Young Lady Teresa, please help me."

"Ugh, Chloe, can you not do that? It's making me feel physically nauseous."

"So, will you help or not?"

"…I'll help."

The two didn't say much.

This kind of thing was a small matter for Teresa.

Especially since Chloe knew her secret.

She didn't even need to know the specifics of the matter.

As long as she confirmed it wasn't illegal or criminal, it would be fine.

This voodoo was quite upright.

Chloe first took Teresa to a remote corner of the outer city.

There.

She saw a wasteland.

"Can you smell the last scent?"

"Yes."

"How long ago was this?"

"About two months ago."

"That's right."

Chloe took her to the place where he was held by the Crimson Church two months ago.

Later, he was rescued by a mentor from the Ethereal Emblem.

In other words.

There were traces left by Noding here.

"Is this the trace you're looking for?"

"Yes."

"You should be grateful you found me."

"Why is that?"

"The opposition's methods are very sophisticated, the site's traces are cleaned very well. If it were just the scent, they barely left anything."

"As expected."

Would the Void Erosion Sect leave a scent that could be tracked? That would underestimate the quality of these Evil God Followers too much.

Their organization, surviving under the besiegement of various forces, had something to it.

"Very clever methods, simply from the scent, it's impossible to find traces, but…" Teresa's face showed a confident smile, "What I can 'smell,' isn't the real scent."

Indeed.

Although Teresa always talked about "smelling the scent," it was merely a metaphor.

What she smelled was not a real-world scent, more like sensing the residual "information."

Changes in others' emotions.

Traces left after others' activities.

Others' soul power.

…

These have nothing to do with scent.

But Teresa could smell them.

This was Night-blooming Jasmine, a top-tier intelligence gathering talent.

The Void Erosion Sect's methods were sophisticated, but once Chloe confirmed the identity of someone here and had that person's residual item, he could use Teresa to follow the trail.

"There are earlier scents, as well as later scents. Which one do you want to find?"

"Let's start with the earlier scent. I want to see what he did in this city."

"Alright, I'll trace back his walking route."

Teresa closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, they were filled with azure light.

She intensified the use of Night Jasmine.

"Follow me."

Chloe nodded.

Teresa led her, tracking along Noding's earlier scent, all the way finding traces.

Noding seemed to spend most of his time wandering around the city before.

But as earlier scents were found, his actions gradually became more regular.

Soon.

The two arrived at the school history museum.

Teresa pointed to a place and said:

"He stayed here for a long time, the time should be night."

Chloe looked up in the direction where Noding had stayed.

After a moment, he sighed.

Directly ahead in that direction was an assassin class photograph.

Originally, he didn't know which class it was from, but he saw Senior Morton in the class photo.

But Noding was not in that photograph.

Because Noding had already [defected] by then.

"Let's keep going."

The two continued on following the earlier traces.

After a moment.

Chloe and Teresa noticed something was wrong.

Both were stunned in place.

Teresa turned her head to Chloe and said:

"Who are you asking me to find, exactly?"

"Noding, don't know if you've heard of him."

"Dancer Noding?"

"Dancer Noding."

"But why would he come to Amber Hall?"

"How would I know? Amber Hall wasn't even under my ownership back then."

"Tsk."

Teresa began to feel some regret.

She was aware Noding had betrayed the Ethereal Emblem and joined the Void Erosion Sect.

She wasn't afraid though.

But at this stage, there's no need to clash with the Void Erosion Sect.

Being young is like that.

Easily confronted by old challenges.

"I didn't expect that while searching, we actually found him in Amber Hall."

Chloe was both exasperated and amused.

He also didn't know what Noding was doing at Amber Hall.

He patted Teresa's shoulder and said:

"Come on, let's go in and see where he's been active."

Shortly after they entered, passing by the bar, Teresa suddenly shot a fierce look at him.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"You... Can't you find a small room to fight in? This is a public place!"

Chloe was taken aback, instinctively following Teresa's gaze.

Then he saw the place she was staring at was where he had made Lilith bleed before.

After a moment.

Chloe turned his head and said:

"What are you talking about, I don't know!"

"Show some courage, man!"

Teresa was annoyed.

Dare to act but not admit it, dog man.

Seeing this, Chloe quickly coughed and said:

"Let's look first, otherwise, the Void Erosion Sect issues might entangle us."

"..."

Nicer to change the topic, dog man.

Finally feeling awkward in such a moment, huh?

Soon, they stopped at a place where bricks had been pried away from the floor.

Beneath the bricks was a glowing Protective Magic Array, still operational.

Teresa pointed at the floor tiles and said:

"Below here, there should be a hidden room, the scent stops right here."

"I know, I pried off these tiles. Below is a secret room, once made by the third prince of the Mad Lion Association, though later abandoned."

But Noding's skills are quite amazing.

As a rule, treasure rooms protected by a Protective Magic Array are hard to enter.

Guess who the Protective Magic Arrays were originally protecting against?

Isn't it Shadow Stab?

But Noding still found a flaw in the array and entered the secret vault.

"Do you have the key? If not, we can't get in," Teresa looked at him and said.

"The key is on its way; it'll be here in a few days."

"Then today we'll just — what the heck, what are you doing?"

Teresa was about to leave, only to see Chloe stomp on the Protective Magic Array.

The array flickered with light and then immediately shut down on the spot.

— That stomp of his forcibly disrupted the Protection.

"You..." Teresa was both amused and exasperated, "This is way too reckless."

"This is faster, Teresa, give me your hand."

"Huh?"

"What are you thinking? It's not about flirting, how else will I Shadow Jump if you don't come over?"

"???"

"What's up?"

"I remember you're on the Path of Omniscience, not Shadow Stab?"

"Who told you those not on the Shadow Stab path can't use Shadow Jump?"

Darn.

Not a brother.

Extraordinary Power can only be released through the path!

Oh, it's wrong.

Teresa quickly realized:

"You have a shadow-related talent?"

"Enough, stop asking, I'm going to jump now."

After all, Chloe had spent many years as a Wanderer in historical echoes, mastering shadow skills beyond the ordinary.

Even without the bolster of the Shadow Stab path, using Sister Fufu and the children's talents as his drive, he could still pull off many Shadow Stab maneuvers.

In fact, if he didn't need to bring Teresa inside, he wouldn't even have to smash through the Protective Magic Array.

With a slight shiver.

They jumped through the shadows and entered the secret vault of Amber Hall.

Instantly, the two were captivated by the things in the vault.

"Is that... a flag?"

Teresa stared deeply at a flag placed in the center of the vault:

"What is this, with such terrifying power amassed to it?"

But she didn't notice Chloe gazing at that flag, falling into a long silence.

Because…

The flagpole of that flag was the remaining part of the Tribulation Halberd.

When Chloe had gotten the Tribulation Halberd, the weapon that had once aided him in defeating the Fear Demon God was already broken in two.

All that remained was the halberd's head.

But the shaft had disappeared.

Now, it lay silently in the secret vault of Amber Hall, reappearing before his eyes.

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