"Are you saying she disappeared for a while, so completely that even Tang San couldn't find her?"
Hearing Oscar say this, Ning Fengzhi immediately felt he had grasped the key to the matter.
He knew this disciple of his fairly well.
He had brains, and enough to get by, but not much more than that.
Qian Renxue excelled at handling government affairs and maneuvering among the various factions.
She couldn't have come up with such schemes and methods.
Simply put, Qian Renxue wasn't clever enough to devise something like this. Scheming of this kind wasn't her strength, either.
That was why he hadn't made Qian Renxue his first choice at the beginning.
But she had disappeared for a while.
That was bound to make people wonder.
Perhaps something had happened while Qian Renxue was missing, or she had encountered someone.
Someone capable must have been advising her from behind the scenes.
"Was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect part of your calculations, too?"
Ning Fengzhi looked toward the sect, which was gradually growing more prosperous in the distance. A shadowy glint appeared in his eyes.
Only now did Ning Fengzhi realize that the letter hadn't merely been meant to make him shelter these old Spirit Hall associates, nor merely to drive a wedge between them and the Heaven Dou Empire. There had been a deeper plan behind it.
That was to make the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while protecting these people, sever its ties with Tang San's faction once and for all.
Even with his daughter and son-in-law there, once he did this, he was bound to lose the complete trust of the people in Tang San's faction.
And he himself would no longer readily get involved in what came next.
The reason was simple. The former Seven Treasure