As a result, Qing Qiu City had become a melting pot, filled with spies from every clan.
Xuan Nü had no idea how dangerous the situation was. Using her identity as someone from Qing Qiu, she recruited guards from Qing Qiu to maintain order in the city, hoping to seize the chance to become its lord.
Xuan Nü thought that as long as she did a good job, people would look at her differently in the future, even though she was born to a concubine. That was why she had come to Qing Qiu City.
What Xuan Nü hadn't expected was that, since she wasn't of Qing Qiu's main bloodline, the wandering cultivators she recruited from Qing Qiu were all relatively weak. They simply couldn't keep the city stable.
Of course, this outcome was all because Li Yuan had deliberately stirred up trouble.
Li Jing's goal was to get the weapons he had seen in the hands of the Great Xia Alliance. He had to create chaos, drive out the wandering cultivators, and force the Great Xia Alliance to deploy those mysterious weapons.
Although Qing Qiu City hadn't sent out its city guards, the use of magic was forbidden within its walls. As a result, many of Li Yuan's men had been trapped inside the city, much to Xuan Nü's delight.
But that was exactly what Li Yuan wanted. He sent his men to retaliate, killing several wandering cultivators on patrol before escaping the city.
Xuan Nü was feeling pleased with herself when she heard that someone had killed the cultivators. She immediately led her people in pursuit.
She figured they were near Qing Qiu, with no other major powers around, so she should be safe.
What she hadn't expected was that Li Yuan didn't care whether he provoked Qing