Zhao Qian caught me and my wife making our intimate feelings clear, and she looked somewhat flustered. I couldn't bring myself to blame her. After all, this was still something of a public place, and she had hurried over because something was wrong. It had been unintentional, so I downplayed it and said, "It's fine. You said someone from Yuezhou has arrived?"
Zhao Qian stared blankly at my wife's older sister before saying to me, "Oh... yes. An envoy delegation from Yuezhou has arrived, saying they have something to discuss with you. This seven-man team consists entirely of famous cultivators with high cultivation levels. They're led by a late-stage tenth-grade immortal, with two early-stage tenth-grade immortals and four ninth-grade immortalization-realm cultivators. They looked like they were willing to negotiate, so after pestering them persistently, I came over to tell you. [Free novel reading]"
"Mm. Who's leading them? Bring him to me." I wanted to see what the Yuezhou cultivators were up to. They had mentioned earlier that an envoy would come looking for me, but I hadn't expected it to be now.
Zhao Qian nodded, then saluted my wife before whooshing away. My wife looked at me and smiled ambiguously. "Do you really have no feelings for that girl?"
"I'm only interested in you." I smiled. My wife clearly didn't believe me, but she said nothing more and vanished.
Soon, a Daoist with an otherworldly bearing walked in from outside with several cultivators of varying ages. That otherworldly Daoist was someone I had met several times before—Heavenly Yang True Person. Behind him was his nephew, Huang Lichen. As for the remaining five, this was my first time meeting them.
"Hahaha... Emperor Xia, I trust you've been well! It's been a year since we parted in Wan Prefecture. Time truly flies