"Senior Brother, was this really all right?"
"There was nothing wrong with it."
Inside the bedroom, a man and a woman lay beneath a small quilt, chatting under the covers.
"Had you never read that storybook novel?"
"What storybook?" the girl asked shyly.
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"The Water Margin popular in Great Xia. There were two characters in it that I thought suited the two of us perfectly."
"Who?"
"Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing. My surname happened to be Ximen, and yours was Pan. Perhaps the two of us even had some ancestral connection."
"You're awful~ But what if the sect found out about us? The sect didn't allow men and women to get overly intimate in private unless they filed a report."
The man raised his hand. "I swear, if I weren't afraid your husband, my Senior Brother, would beat me to death, I would definitely go report it to the sect."
"Knock, knock, knock!!"
Just then, hurried knocking sounded at the door.
"Wh-who is it?" the woman asked timidly. "What could it be at such a late hour?"
"Shu Mountain Law Enforcement Hall. Open the door! We're inspecting your Dao hearts."
"..."
Li Xuanxiao looked at the small booklet in his hand.
The trivial matters had already been handled.
What came next were the major matters.
The booklet listed the various powers of the Central Continent.
Among the Central Continent's top powers, Shu Mountain alone stood in a league of its own.
It suppressed everything. All the powers of the Central Continent combined were still no match for Shu Mountain.
Eighty percent of the Central Continent's Body Integration Realm great powers were in Shu Mountain.
A sect with even one Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivator could already be considered a first-rate power.
If it also had one or two