[Qiuyue's expression was strange as she watched the rain seem to truly avoid falling on Xie Guan.]
[She was also a senior maid of one of the Nine Great Surnames, so she had naturally heard of the Primordial Spirit and martial arts. This was not particularly strange.]
[For sensible servants or guards, the manor would also reward them with cultivation methods.]
[But what qualifications did an illegitimate son have to learn such profound, superior martial arts and Primordial Spirit cultivation methods?]
[At the lakeshore, Qiuyue led the servants aboard the first boat. You boarded another small skiff alone. Two straw-hatted travelers in fitted black clothes stood silently behind you. Their bodies were straight as pines; merely boarding the boat made it sink half a foot, showing how solidly their muscles and bones had been tempered.]
[With a slight sense, you understood at once. Both were in the Martial Upper Three Realms, Snow Mountain. Even in Bianjing City, where hidden dragons and crouching tigers abounded, they deserved to be called experts. Throughout the Thirteen Provinces Circuit, they could dominate a region.]
[It seemed that after the matter with Xie Renfeng last time, the several madams of the Xie Clan had long prepared for the fact that you possessed martial arts.]
[The hat-wearing men also looked surprised. Though they too could make the rain steam away around them, they inevitably had to mobilize their Blood Qi Realm. They could not be as effortless and unrestrained as you.]
[Xie Guan was not as simple as he appeared!]
[They crossed the lake!]
[Once inside the Grand View Garden, there were three directions. One led to Grand Vista Courtyard, another to Ascending Spring Tower, and the last went deeper inside to Crane Pine Hall, the residence of Old Madam Xie.]
[The group headed inward.]
[Qiuyue