Wang Shanchang, proprietor of the Ping'an Mule and Horse Shop-that was his public identity. In private, he was also an informant for an underground cultivation organization in the Southeast. The Underground Faction had many people like him, on the very outermost fringes, responsible for errands and odd jobs. Every year, he received a meager payment. The greatest benefit was that if anything happened, someone would come to help him deal with it.
He had not entered the Dao and was still a lowly Bridge Linking cultivator. He himself knew that cultivation would probably remain beyond his reach in this lifetime. All his hard work was merely to support the younger generations and see whether the old Wang Family could produce a real cultivator.
With his strength, major affairs never fell to him, only trivial matters as insignificant as chicken feathers and garlic skins. Even those were uncommon in Year-End City, because Shangyu Kingdom, governed by the Tianxin Pavilion, was a small country with honest customs and prosperous lives, with little involvement in the Mainland Xiuzhen World.
Just a few days earlier, his handler, who had not contacted him in a long time, had given him a portrait of a fairy. The woman in it was as beautiful as a heavenly immortal, her figure graceful and alluring. The instructions from above said that someone was looking for this woman, and any clues were to be reported immediately, with generous rewards to follow.
It was just a portrait, supposedly of a female cultivator from elsewhere, to see whether there was any trace of her in Year-End City. The instructions from above were vague; they probably did not expect her whereabouts to turn up in Year-End City either. After all, neither Hou Niao nor Bai Qingqian had any past connection to this city.