When a woman pursues a man, there's only a thin veil between them.
Jade City no longer belonged to the Yu family. It had become the property of the Si Gu Alliance, giving it the distinct feeling of a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest. Yu Qiushuang didn't mind. After all, Four Directions Gate had been built on the Qiao family's land, too. It seemed they all had a reputation for living off women.
After returning, Wang Yue arranged to expand Jade City and set up checkpoints at all the main roads leading up the mountain. With the treasures from Xiling and Di Jiabao, there was no shortage of money to hire craftsmen.
At the same time, Wang Yue began expanding the Spiritual Mountain Sect on a grand scale, recruiting many disciples by making use of his reputation.
The Spiritual Mountain Sect was no longer the little sect it used to be, with only a handful of disciples.
Perhaps because Fang Duobing had officially joined the Si Gu Alliance, the second manor lord of Heavenly Secrets Villa, He Xiaofeng, brought a group of people skilled in mechanisms to Jade City to help design its mechanical defenses. She claimed she was there to help her nephew, but she kept finding excuses to visit Li Xiangyi.
Wang Yue was very interested in mechanical engineering, so he joined the people from Heavenly Secrets Hall to watch. He discovered that the ancient craftsmen had remarkably nimble minds. Some of the mechanisms they designed left even him, a modern man, amazed. He had read many books and studied mechanical design to some extent, yet he still found some truly ingenious ideas in their work.
One day, while he was watching the people from Heavenly Secrets Hall design the gate for a new watchtower, he happened to