Yan Xiu still had not realized Qi Xuansu’s true identity or intent. “The Xuan Jade isn’t with me. It must have fallen into Qi Xuansu’s hands.”0

Truth be told, Qi Xuansu was also curious. What did the Qingping Society want with the Xuan Jade? Could it have been meant for him? But this was just a passing thought.0

The Qingping Society had been collecting Xuan Jades long before his existence, back when Qi Xuansu was a nobody and Madam Qi was not yet one of the six Privy Council members. It was unbelievable that the mighty Qingping Society would serve him alone because he was not Yao Pei, the third Earthly Preceptor’s descendant.0

So Qi Xuansu speculated that the Qingping Society might also possess a Longevity Stone Heart, one left behind by the third-generation Earthly Preceptor. Madam Qi’s Longevity Stone Heart had come from the Lingshan Paradise and belonged solely to her, not to the Yao family or the Qingping Society.0

After all, aside from being the Yao Family’s seventh daughter and Qingping Society’s Lady Qi, Madam Qi was also the Mogul Yao of the Seven Treasure Pavilion. Technically, that was her most formal and prestigious title. The upper echelons of the Daoist Order might not know who Lady Qi was,...0