"A private residence with its own courtyard."
Li Xian pushed open the door and entered, surveying his surroundings.
The grounds were enormous.
The Front Courtyard, Middle Courtyard, Inner Courtyard, Rear Courtyard, Opera Pavilion, Chess Room, Tea Room, Qin Room, Music Banquet Pavilion, Ink Fragrance Studio, Worthy Gathering Hall, Covered Corridor, streams, rockeries, lotus ponds, groves of flowering trees...
At the very center was a Fortune-Gathering Pool covering nearly ten mu, with a small island of one square mu in its middle, complete with a pavilion and waterside terrace.
"This isn't a courtyard. It's a landscaped estate."
Now Li Xian understood why Xiang Yangsheng had told him to hire some servant disciples.
He made a circuit of the grounds but did not go to the main residence in the Inner Courtyard.
Instead, he settled into the main residence in the Middle Courtyard, not far from the cultivation chamber, leaving two-thirds of the entire estate unused.
"Even hanging up a 'seclusion' sign won't stop someone with a search warrant from forcing their way in. Looks like I do need servant disciples. At least someone can call out a warning when people enter."
Li Xian set down the weapons bundled into packages large and small, one after another.
There were a dozen or so in all.
"I'll need someone to sell these weapons, too. Even at half price secondhand, they should bring in tens of thousands of merit points, greatly easing my burning need for points."
But none of that was the main thing.
The main thing was...
Li Xian picked up Chen Jianghai's treasured sword.
He poured true qi into it.
With the sword as a medium, he seemed to catch hold once more of that omnipresent resonance between himself and the world outside.
"After developing a Xiantian body and constantly circulating