“Young Sir Xu,” the big boss said respectfully, “we’re honored by your presence. If you’re displeased with any aspect of our service, please don’t hesitate to notify me. If you have the time, do you mind coming with me, young sir? A Senior member of our sect asked me to bring you in for an audience.”1

With that, she looked expectantly at Xu Qing.0

Surprise was visible in the eyes of everyone present. They all knew about Xu Qing’s background, which was why they had ‘toasted’ him, but not done anything too outrageous. Nor had they done anything openly humiliating. After all, there was no need to do anything like that just because of Ling Yao.0

However, their intelligence reports didn’t mention anything about Xu Qing having connections to the Red Dust Emotional Suppression Pavilion. That was especially noteworthy considering that though it was one of the human superpower sects, it was actually backed by one of the gods of the Firemoon Darkheaven people. As for how deep the sect was connected to that god, it was hard to say. Regardless, even the emperor himself had no choice but to tacitly approve of the sect.0

Therefore, the fact that this...0