"Nangong Wan, you are the sharpest one here. Go with me to Yellow Sand City and look into a few matters for me."
Ling Xuanxiao said.
No matter what, Nangong Wan was still the eldest daughter of the Nangong family.
Now that she was being ordered about at someone else's beck and call, Nangong Wan had found it somewhat hard to adapt at first.
But by now, she had grown used to yielding beneath his tyrannical pressure.
After all, no matter how one put it, he had saved her.
If not for Ling Xuanxiao, she would have been killed back then.
Now that he had planted a Gu Worm in her, he had not made any excessively outrageous demands of her either.
She had heard that beautiful female cultivators who fell into villains' hands usually ended up unable to live, yet unable to die.
"Understood. But what exactly am I to investigate?" Nangong Wan asked.
"Look into Huang Chengan, the sect master of the Yellow Sand Sect."
"Yes."
By now, Nangong Wan had come to understand Ling Xuanxiao a little better.
His goal seemed to be to provoke a war between the Snake People Tribe and Yellow Sand City.
"..."
Within Yellow Sand City.
When Xiao Qing woke up again, she found herself in an unfamiliar room.
She sprang up like a carp leaping from the water and warily surveyed her surroundings.
Xiao Qing carefully pushed open the door and discovered an extraordinarily beautiful woman reclining on a lounge chair outside, flipping through account books and muttering to herself.
"Why is there so much less money? Did someone steal my money?"
Xiao Qing froze, unable to stop herself from sizing the woman up.
What a beautiful woman.
Xiao Qing only remembered that the most beautiful woman she had ever seen