"Strange. Didn't they say Rongmeng City was jointly governed by the Xiao Household, Crimson Blood Manor, and Wen Family?"
"Why does it feel as though there's hardly any activity from the Wen Family or Crimson Blood Manor?"
After entering Rongmeng City,
Wang Qingyang began wandering around.
She dared not make her intentions too obvious, lest she attract attention. After all, she had come for nothing other than to learn about the Xiao Household Head.
Rongmeng City was not particularly large, however. Aside from the districts inhabited by mortals, it covered only a little over thirty li in total.
At a cultivator's pace, excluding the places she was not allowed to enter, she finished looking around without taking much time.
But she also discovered some irregularities here.
For instance, for some reason, most of the Wen Family's and Crimson Blood Manor's shops in the city had closed.
There were also very few rogue cultivators in the city, leaving it somewhat desolate.
And although formations surrounded the Wen Family's and Crimson Blood Manor's compounds, their gates were shut tight, and hardly a single cultivator could be seen.
Only the Xiao Household seemed to be carrying on as usual.
Something's strange!
She keenly sensed that something seemed wrong here.
She did not casually question others. After all, here in Rongmeng City, anyone might belong to the Xiao Household.
After circling the place where rogue cultivators hawked and traded their wares a few times, she finally asked a rogue cultivator selling first-tier talismans about the Wen Family and Crimson Blood Manor.
"Oh, I heard a treasure land left behind by a sect was discovered outside a while ago. Both groups went over not long ago. Some people from the Xiao Household went too, but they have more people and greater influence, so they left