Lady Broken Sword's Miscalculation, Seeking Li Xian's Help

Lin Aoshang had promised faithfully, and that very day she reported the Flower Cage criminals and the Crimson List villains to the Sky Patrol Bureau. The court's funding process was complicated, and skimming and embezzlement were all too common.

Lin Aoshang credited the merit to herself. The reward money came second; what mattered was having the achievement recorded. She was in high spirits, having finally resolved a matter weighing on her mind. Ever since inheriting the title of "Mystic Marquis," she had not accomplished a thing. Rushing around everywhere had been utterly pointless. With merit to her name, she could hold her head high.

She also took three thousand four hundred taels from the Lin Family and handed them over to Li Xian without hesitation. That settled the matter between them.

Li Xian took out a hundred taels to reward the brothers. He packed the remaining three thousand into a chest, to be sent back to One Accord Manor in a few days.

After dealing with all the clutter of affairs,

at the Martial Commandant Hall, in the Inner Court, Li Xian dismissed everyone and sorted through what he had obtained. One identity token and a Lower Vehicle martial art.

"The identity token may come in handy someday. I'll hide it away for now. As for the Heavenly Thunder Finger... its quality seems extremely high, and its completion is far beyond the Jade Luo Palm."

"Even among Lower Vehicle martial arts, there are differences. This martial art... is just right for me. I already have the Jade Luo Palm and the Waning Sun Blood-Draining Sword as Entry Vehicle martial arts. I created the Jade Luo Palm on the spot, while the Waning Sun Blood-Draining Sword is incomplete, and it's a sword technique meant to be practiced in tandem."

"This Heavenly