Since Xiangxing Tower was open for business, customers naturally came and went. The banquet hall beside the tower was often rented out as a place for the city's wealthy merchants and officials to drink and make merry.
"You said Xuanmiao Sect has sent someone extremely powerful? A man named Wei He?" Shangguan Tong had an androgynous, handsome face, a tall and upright figure, and well-developed chest muscles. Her aura was sharp as a blade drawn from its sheath.
Without knowing the truth, no one would have recognized that she was actually a woman disguised as a man.
She had controlled White Jade Crown for over a century. She had never married, concealing her identity solely to prove that she was no worse than any man, no worse than anyone else!
"Yes, Crown Master. Just as you suspected, it is that Wei He whom we encountered in Feiye City years ago." Behind her, on the upper floor, a woman in a white dress with a sword on her back replied gravely.
"Myriad Poison Sect?" Shangguan Tong murmured softly.
Back then, White Jade Crown had suffered a hidden loss in Feiye City. After learning of it, she had dispatched experts to investigate, only to discover that Myriad Poison Sect had already withdrawn from Yunzhou and gone to distant Taizhou.
At that time, White Jade Crown was expanding its sphere of influence and could not spare the resources, so she had paid them no further heed.
She had intended to take revenge once matters were settled.
Yet she had never expected the situation across the land to change so abruptly. In the blink of an eye, Guangci Cult had swallowed up most of Yunzhou like a whale devouring the sea.
With Yunzhou's territory lost, White Jade Crown was naturally no exception.
Furthermore, because