Old Man Liu Cheng had not originally planned to come to the Great Li Capital City to wade into these muddy waters. It was not only the Great Li imperial court watching every move of him, the Sect Master of True Realm Sect; over at the Tongye Continent High Sect, were there not also some thoughts stirring within the Patriarch Hall now? But Gao Mian had sent a flying sword message to Qingxia Island. Besides asking him to accompany him on a trip to the capital, it listed a whole heap of trivial demands: the lodging had to be quiet amid the bustle, several jars of Evergreen Palace immortal brew had to be prepared, and it had to offer Mirror Flower Water Moon views of various immortal residences and cultivation grounds... Old Man Liu Cheng had no choice but to set aside his affairs and hastily depart for the capital. He contacted an old mountain friend whom he had not spoken with for many years. Through convoluted connections in the capital, the man helped him purchase a residence near the Flower God Temple. He claimed it was the market price, and Old Man Liu Cheng did not care. The face of an Immortal Realm Sect Master was worth something, after all. On Treasure Bottle Continent, he might have been slightly lacking compared with those above, but he had more than enough compared with those below.
After arriving at the residence yesterday, Gao Mian had been fairly satisfied and merely said, "It will do."
The residence was old, but all the blue bricks on the ground had been fired from mud dredged out of Book Scroll Lake, a trend that had only risen in the capital over the past decade. Without some official connections, this deal would never have gone through.