The difference was that the Prince's Manor Secret Agents rode toward Prince Gao's Manor beside the Imperial City to deliver a confidential report on the battle at the Azure Elixir Sect, while Granny Qian and her party, utterly unaware that disaster was upon them, headed straight for the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce Headquarters in the bustling heart of the Capital City.
Even now, they were dreaming of their new positions within Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce, and even plotting their next move against the Azure Elixir Sect and Lin Fan-to avenge being forced to flee for their lives today!
Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce had been rooted in the Capital City for a hundred years, and its headquarters had deep reserves. The Chief Manager presided over it, and it had connections in the Capital City to lean on. It was far from the Azure Elixir Sect, so the sect most likely would not come to the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce Headquarters.
Although the Azure Elixir Ancestor was dead, the Commerce Guild's headquarters still stood. Once they found another towering tree to shelter beneath, all their problems would be solved.
Their calculations were not entirely wrong. The Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce Headquarters in the Capital City was far from the Azure Elixir Sect. The sect indeed had no intention of going to the Capital City to take it over.
Although they had both the nominal right and the justification to seize it, in matters like these, what was justified on paper and what could actually be done were not quite the same thing.
The Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce Headquarters had been rooted in the Capital City for a hundred years, with a tangled web of connections. The Capital City itself was a place where countless factions' roots and branches intertwined. Taking over the