Following the coordinates, Su Ze arrived at Inheritance Point #4, located on this continent. He went inside to look around, but it was no different from Inheritance Point #3, which he had entered before. He didn’t find anything.
The location of Inheritance Point #4 was also quite hidden. Considering the holder of the fourth puzzle piece was likely someone from the surrounding area, Su Ze made the inheritance point the center of his search and began investigating the surrounding settlements one by one.
At each settlement he visited, Su Ze would randomly grab an Evolved One, hypnotize them with his Charming Fox Tail, and then ask a few questions.
He mainly asked if any Evolved Ones had suddenly risen to prominence in the vicinity over the past ten-odd years.
Having passed the external inheritance trial and been aided by the treasures within the Inheritance Treasure Vault, the holder of the fourth puzzle piece would definitely not be a nobody.
Even if they were mediocre before, they were bound to stop being mediocre after obtaining the treasures from the Inheritance Treasure Vault.
Therefore, all Su Ze had to do was ask about anyone in the area who had suddenly risen to prominence to narrow down the scope of his search.
Once he identified a suspicious target, he would pay them a visit and directly hypnotize them for questioning...
In this way, Su Ze visited more than ten human settlements in the surrounding area and questioned seven or eight suspicious targets, but none were the puzzle piece holder he was looking for.
「Several days passed in the blink of an eye...」
Su Ze returned to the Lin Hua Continent every day to receive updates.
On this particular day, he returned to find a message from Chen Suifeng: Deng Sui had returned to Lin Hua Country!
Su Ze had no choice but to let Pulamon go; otherwise, he feared the leader of the Filth Earth Organization would soon start pressuring him.
After Pulamon left, Su Ze called Chen Suifeng.
Deng Sui’s return meant the Alien Party was about to make a move on the Beast King Sponge, so he had to pay close attention to when they would act.
"There should still be some time. I heard they’ve requested aid from the Snowfield Continent and the Flame Emperor Continent. Legendary-rank experts from both continents will be rushing over. They won’t make a move until everyone is gathered, at the very least," said Chen Suifeng.
Su Ze breathed a sigh of relief, though he still planned to return to the Lin Hua Continent every day to get progress updates from Chen Suifeng.
In the following days, Su Ze continued to travel to the Western Continent to search for the fourth puzzle piece, but he returned to the Lin Hua Continent every evening.
After seven or eight straight days, Su Ze had visited nearly a hundred settlements and hypnotized dozens of experts and geniuses, but he still had nothing to show for his efforts.
Many of the geniuses had experienced their own fortuitous encounters, but in Su Ze’s eyes, these were completely unremarkable.
On this day, he finally arrived at Dawn Shelter, one of the two major shelters on this continent.
Inside Dawn Shelter, he hypnotized several geniuses. Though he still came up empty-handed, he did unexpectedly obtain a piece of information.
Dawn Shelter had once been home to a Legendary-rank expert!
That Legendary-rank expert, named Uur Hogan, was the leader of Dawn Shelter and the number one expert on the Western Continent.
The people of Dawn Shelter had all once believed that Uur Hogan would one day unite all the settlements on the Western Continent and establish the fourth major human settlement on Blue Star.
But Uur Hogan had mysteriously disappeared three years ago, and there has been no news of him to this day.
Su Ze took this news very seriously. A Legendary-rank expert couldn’t just disappear without a reason, as there weren’t many things on Blue Star that could pose a threat to a Legendary-rank Evolved One.
’His disappearance probably wasn’t because he ran into some danger. It was his own choice.’
This reminded him of Lin Hua’s Legend...
’Three years ago... The timing also lines up.’
Su Ze suspected that this Legendary-rank expert, Uur Hogan, had likely accepted an external inheritance and left Blue Star, just like Lin Hua’s Legend.
However, the puzzle piece couldn’t be taken away, so it must have been left on Blue Star.
And since Su Ze had been to Inheritance Point #4 and hadn’t found the puzzle piece, it meant Uur Hogan must have made some arrangement for the fourth puzzle piece.
He had likely left the puzzle piece to his descendants, just as Lin Hua’s Legend had.
The Hogan Family was the foremost family in Dawn Shelter. Su Ze located them effortlessly, casually hypnotized an old butler, and inquired about the information he needed.
Not long after Uur Hogan’s disappearance, his most beloved grandson, Baliss Hogan, also left the family and vanished without a trace.
Su Ze’s intuition told him the puzzle piece he needed was very likely on Baliss Hogan.
He managed to learn some information about Baliss. When he disappeared three years ago, Baliss was already an Overlord-rank expert. It was precisely because of his outstanding talent that he was especially doted on by Uur Hogan.
Unfortunately, Su Ze searched all over Dawn Shelter but couldn’t find Baliss Hogan. He even hypnotized Baliss’s father, but he didn’t know where his son had gone either.
Baliss had been missing for three years and had never returned home. The last time he contacted his family was a year ago, when he had someone deliver a message to say he was safe and sound.
’There are two possibilities,’ Su Ze thought. ’One is that Baliss left this area to search for the other three puzzle pieces.’
’The second is that Baliss was worried someone would come after him for the puzzle piece, so he went into hiding in advance.’
’Otherwise, he wouldn’t have disappeared for three whole years.’
The person who brought the message was a traveling merchant, and there was no way to contact them either.
The trail went cold there, so Su Ze had no choice but to stop his investigation.
He did have an idea, but he didn’t know if it would work.
’Baliss Hogan probably doesn’t know that all four Inheritance Treasure Vaults have been opened. Three years ago, one was still sealed, so he must think one puzzle piece has yet to surface.’
’If he hasn’t gone far and is still in the vicinity of Dawn Shelter, I might be able to lure him out by using a puzzle piece as bait.’
’For example, I could hold a grand auction, promote it heavily, and slip a puzzle piece in among the items up for bid...’
However, before Su Ze could put this plan into action, the Alien Party finally decided to make their move against the Beast King Sponge!
Upon receiving the news, Su Ze could only temporarily put aside his search for the fourth puzzle piece. He picked up Mr. Ya and prepared to head to the Central Sea in advance to lie in wait.