That troublesome little girl, the Grandmaster, might genuinely have had no idea what all sorts of trouble her two foolish disciples, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, were getting into. Of course, she might have known and simply decided it wasn't important enough to bother with.
After all, unlike Xu Ziling, who had originally intended to head east but suddenly turned north toward Luoyang, only to be caught in a trap by the people of Cihang Jingzhai and taken away, Annie had been heading north from the very beginning. She hadn't planned on going back to Yuhang or Jiangnan at all.
See?
Right now, she was wandering around near Chang'an City, hundreds or even a thousand li away from Luoyang. She probably wouldn't be going to Luoyang or Jiangnan anytime soon.
Chang'an had originally been the Sui Dynasty's Daxing City. But after the Tang Dynasty, founded by the Li clan, took it over, they renamed it Chang'an, meaning "lasting peace and stability."
It lay on the Guanzhong Plain, with the Qinling Mountains to the south and natural barriers such as Mount Yao, Mount Liang, Mount Huanglong, and Mount Cu'e to the north. The Jing, Wei, Ba, Yi, and Lao rivers, among others, flowed through the region. It had long been renowned as "a city embraced by eight rivers," blessed with exceptional advantages of both terrain and timing.
According to the records, after Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, founded the Sui Dynasty, he initially established his capital in the old Chang'an City from the Han Dynasty. But after years of war, the city had become badly run-down and cramped, and the large number of corpses had severely contaminated its water supply. So, after surveying the area and considering the matter carefully, Yang Jian decided to build a new city near the