292: A woman posing as a concubine was caught.

"As expected of True Person Feiyu! Truly a fine scheme; we simply didn't account for the variable that is Xiao Changfeng!"

With Xiao Changfeng stepping in personally, Li Xuanxuan assumed it must have been the doing of Shen Yunshu. Only she had enough Face to command such a thing.

To be able to make a Golden Core True Person whose time was running out waste their last few years on such a matter, she must have paid a considerable price!

"Fellow Daoist Li! Would you like us to help you take out Xiao Changfeng?"

Just then, a crisp and pleasant female voice drifted in from outside the Flying Boat.

Li Xuanxuan extended his Divine Sense. The people outside were the four Golden Core True Persons who had previously intercepted Yue Li. Two of them had intense Demonic Qi, and beneath their robes, it was vaguely apparent that they did not resemble normal human forms.

"Aren't you all afraid of that madman, Xiao Changfeng?" Li Xuanxuan escaped the Flying Boat and arrived opposite the four, asking via voice transmission.

"Afraid of what?" one man in black robes sneered. "He's just at the Early Golden Core Stage at best. If we were scared of that, why would I even bother coming here to fight?!"

That's right! Li Xuanxuan's eyes lit up. The people of his Heavenly Sword Sect might fear the madman Xiao Changfeng, but these Golden Core True Persons from the Beast Taming Sect certainly did not!

The Beast Taming Sect had come from ten thousand miles away to fight. Once the war fully erupted, Golden Core True Persons would also have to risk their lives, and there were always some ruthless individuals among them!

"What conditions do you want?"

"Hehehe~"

The woman in the white dress laughed, her voice crisp and pleasant. "We don't want much; just give us fifty times the remuneration of last time, and we guarantee Xiao Changfeng won't live past three days!"

Li Xuanxuan's mouth twitched. He cupped his hands and said, "Please return, everyone. I will not be seeing you out!"

Fifty times the previous remuneration! It was absurd that these people could even say such a thing.

The price paid to hire them for the previous interception of Yue Li had already been extremely high, totaling ten million Spirit Stones, along with quite a few precious war supplies.

He couldn't even produce such things himself; it had been applied for through True Person Heng Yuan.

Fifty times! Feiyu City might not even earn that many Spirit Stones in a hundred years. What was the point of killing Xiao Changfeng?

"Don't be like that! We can negotiate. How about thirty times?"

"Xiao Changfeng's strength is comparable to the Mid Golden Core Stage, and he is nearing the end of his lifespan, making him extremely dangerous. If that won't work, give us twenty times—two hundred million Spirit Stones. We can't go any lower!"

"Everyone, it is not that I do not want to kill Xiao Changfeng, but I truly cannot afford such high compensation."

"Farewell!"

Without further haggling, Li Xuanxuan returned directly to the Flying Boat and hid.

Xiao Changfeng had at most ten years left to live. Once the time was up, he would die on his own. Spend hundreds of millions of Spirit Stones to kill him? Was he bored and full of nothing to do?

"Hmph!"

"I told you this guy wasn't stupid, but you insisted on coming to ask."

"There was no harm in trying! Besides, we only made a trip; we didn't lose anything."

"Let's go!"

The four of them, feeling dispirited, flew off into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Inside the sword shadow flowing light flying boat.

Since he couldn't target the Qing Feng Tower in Feiyu City for the time being, Li Xuanxuan suddenly remembered the matter he had previously tasked Wan Wei with: arranging the assassination of Liu Xuan.

Since Wan Wei was currently on the Flying Boat, he immediately summoned him via voice transmission and asked:

"How is that stunning female cultivator secret agent you were supposed to arrange into the Liu Family doing? Still haven't found an opportunity?"

"This..."

Wan Wei looked embarrassed and replied, "I did indeed select several stunning female cultivators to enter the Liu Family, but they all... defected!"

"Defected?!"

Seeing Wan Wei's expression, Li Xuanxuan had assumed they had been exposed and killed by Liu Xuan, which would be normal. But what was this about defecting?

To be arranged as secret agents, each of them had been meticulously cultivated, bound by various interests, brainwashed, and even controlled with poisons and blackmail. How could they defect so easily?!

"They truly did defect!"

Wan Wei explained, "When the first batch of women was sent into the Red Pine Sect, everything was normal at first, but after they entered the West Courtyard for a few days, they lost contact."

"At first, I also thought they had been exposed and killed, until I sent a few more people in. Someone reported seeing the previous batch of women, and one of them was already... already pregnant!"

"When I ordered them to investigate the situation in detail, the subsequent secret agents also lost contact..."

Wan Wei looked puzzled. "I worried that the Liu Family would trace them back to me, so I have already cut off contact with those women."

Li Xuanxuan's expression was grim after hearing this. Everything was going wrong. It was one thing to be unable to do anything about Xiao Changfeng, but he couldn't even deal with one of his minor grand-Disciples!

"Keep watching!"

He waved his hand to signal Wan Wei to leave; he needed some peace and quiet.

"Yes!"

Wan Wei acknowledged the order, bowed, and slowly backed out of the room.

West Courtyard.

The moon hung above the willow branches.

Yue Li was shocked by the absurd things Liu Xuan had said. It was so absurd that she couldn't accept it even if it killed her!

She was a dignified False Core True Person, a trusted Disciple of True Person Feiyu—one of the four great Sword-Wielders of the Heavenly Sword Sect—and a noble Sword Cultivator. How could she do such a thing?

"Sigh! Forget it. Since we are already Dao Companions, we should be tolerant of each other."

"I wasn't the one who initiated it; he was the one who insisted on demanding it from me..."

"Actually, it's no big deal! The love between a man and a woman, the merging of Yin and Yang, it is in accordance with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!"

"For Junior Brother, for my Golden Core Dao, I will endure it!"

The West Courtyard had gained a Yue Li, but it did not affect Liu Xuan's life. Days remained as dull and boring as ever...

The cargo transport between Feiyu City and the border battlefield was resolved, and everything returned to stable development. Every day, Liu Xuan only needed to lie back and relax.

The various businesses of the Red Pine Sect were growing stronger every day. His offspring were growing stronger daily, and his Concubines were constantly bearing new children. With Yue Li from the Heavenly Sword Sect and An Yunxi from the Beast Taming Sect, the overall strength of the Liu Clan was increasing at an exaggerated rate.

True Person Feiyu, Shen Yunshu, had already received news that Xiao Changfeng had stepped forward to resolve the cargo transport issue.

Liu Xuan had originally thought that Yue Li would tell Shen Yunshu everything about him, so he had prepared an explanation in advance, intending to use the excuse of Awakening a Yao Beast Bloodline to explain it away.

But to Liu Xuan's surprise, Yue Li had not told Shen Yunshu the secrets about him; instead, she had helped him explain the reason for Xiao Changfeng's intervention.

A woman's mind is the hardest to guess!

Fortunately, he could barely keep a False Core True Person in check now, and his hidden strength was enough to suppress even Shen Yunshu, so he didn't need to worry about what exactly she was thinking.

Three months later.

Liu Xuan had just finished presiding over the refining of a Tier 2 Yuan Magnetic Flying Boat in the Artifact Refining Hall when Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang came to report:

"Husband, the Merchant Alliance has caught a woman impersonating one of your Concubines. According to the people below, this woman has impersonated one several times in Longma County. If it weren't for Mou Xiaoqing returning to her maiden home, she probably wouldn't have been exposed yet."

"Oh? Why are you telling me about such a trivial matter..."

Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang exchanged a glance and smiled. "Little Sister Xiaoqing saw that the woman was beautiful, so she caught her and brought her back, saying that Husband should punish her personally."

"..."

Liu Xuan laughed. He hadn't expected Mou Xiaoqing to be so sensible! "Let's go. I'd like to see just how beautiful she is."

If it were just an ordinary beauty, Mou Xiaoqing certainly wouldn't have gone to such trouble to bring her back. Liu Xuan felt a little bit of anticipation.

Following Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang to Mou Xiaoqing's courtyard, Liu Xuan was stunned upon seeing the person!

This woman was not an impostor; she truly was his Concubine. It was just that her facial features had changed somewhat, and she had used a sophisticated disguise, making it impossible for ordinary people to recognize her!

She was none other than Lin Yuanshuang, one of the women Ancestor Qingyun had bestowed upon him in marriage!