Shen Wan forced down the unease in her heart and began reporting to Yu Ci on the results of the integration over the past few days, as well as the expenditures and gains incurred during the process.
She was eloquent and organized, giving proper weight to detail and brevity. Before long, she had laid out the situation with crystal clarity.
Yu Ci, however, kept his eyes closed throughout, making it impossible to tell whether he was listening seriously.
Even after she finished, Yu Ci remained silent with his eyes shut. Shen Wan began to wonder whether Yu Ci was dissatisfied with her somehow. Though the hierarchy between them had now been made clear, he had never treated her with such "neglect" before.
Another full quarter of an hour passed before Yu Ci finally spoke. "Can you reach Hanxu City in half a month?"
Shen Wan knew the geography of the north like the back of her hand and immediately replied, "That would put us right near there."
Yu Ci said, "In half a month, someone will come outside Hanxu City to hand over some treasures. Go receive them. The rest is nothing much, but among them will be a jade slip concerning the whereabouts of the Shangqing remnant lineage, along with two Dragon-Guiding Plates. They concern spirit veins, so inspect them carefully."
"Dragon-Guiding Plates?"
Shen Wan was startled. They truly did require careful inspection.
Dragon-Guiding Plates were specially used to draw forth earth qi and spirit veins. Their value was in no way inferior to a superior magic artifact refined to the full eighteen heavens. Of course, most of that value lay in the spirit veins themselves.
Though the spirit veins that could be drawn using Dragon-Guiding Plates would not exceed third grade, no sect ever complained of having too