Many children, many blessings; a stunningly beautiful wife is given to you right from the start.

Chu Mengyao got straight to the point.

Feng Niang raised her head, her bloodshot eyes fixed on Chu Mengyao.

"You come to see me eight times a day! None of my subordinates are as punctual as you!"

Fengniang threw the secret letter in her hand to the ground.

"You've practically worn the threshold of my Zhenwu Division flat!"

Chu Mengyao placed her hands on the table and leaned forward.

"Tell me, do you have any leads?"

"No! No! No!"

Feng Niang raised her voice, causing dust to fall from the roof.

"I've told you eight hundred times! That woman came from heaven! Don't you understand heaven?!"

"You want me to send my spies, the highest-ranking of whom are only at the Foundation Establishment stage, to the heavens to find them for you?"

Chu Mengyao also panicked and grabbed Feng Niang's collar.

"Your Zhenwu Division is known as the Great Qian Heavenly Net! Now the Emperor of Great Qian is lost! And you're telling me you can't find him!"

"Don't try to pressure me with these things!"

Feng Niang grabbed Chu Mengyao's wrist with her other hand and forcefully pried it open.

"If you're so capable, why don't you go and make a hole in the sky? What are you doing, trying to act tough with me here!"

"you!"

Chu Mengyao's chest heaved violently.

"Stop arguing..."

Just as the two were about to clash, a weak voice came from the side.

Bai Zhi put down her vermilion pen and reached out to stop the two.

But nobody paid any attention to her.

"The inefficiency of the intelligence network is your dereliction of duty!" Chu Mengyao retorted, pointing to the scraps of paper on the ground.

"You know nothing!" Feng Niang grabbed a pile of secret letters from the table and threw them at Chu Mengyao's face.

"We're looking for a needle in a haystack! Do you think intelligence just falls from the sky? Tens of thousands of secret letters arrive here every day, and I have to read them one by one! I'm afraid of missing a single word!"

"So what did you figure out?" Chu Mengyao sneered. "Did you figure out where my husband is?"

"You! You you you you you you..."

Fengniang was so choked up that her pretty face turned red, and she could barely speak.

"Sisters... please stop arguing..."

Bai Zhi stepped forward to stop them again, but was ignored by the two.

"Duel! Let's go outside and duel!"

Enraged, Feng Niang grabbed Chu Mengyao by the collar and dragged her outside.

"A duel it is! Who's afraid of who!"

Chu Mengyao did not back down and grabbed Feng Niang's clothes in return.

The two refused to give in to each other and began to pull and tug at each other as they tried to walk out the door.

Just then.

"Snapped!"

An inkstone was suddenly smashed to the ground.

Ink splattered everywhere, staining Chu Mengyao's white dress black and also splashing onto Feng Niang's red dress.

The room fell into a deathly silence.

Chu Mengyao and Feng Niang turned their heads at the same time to look at Bai Zhi.

Bai Zhi's frail body trembled violently as she gripped the edge of the table tightly with both hands.

"Have you two finished arguing?!"

Bai Zhi's voice was hoarse, with a clear sob in it.

"You two fighting amongst yourselves, do you think you'll bring your husband back?!"

"It pains our loved ones and pleases our enemies!"

Bai Zhi pointed to the mess on the ground.

"We are now the eyes and ears of the Great Qian! If we fall into chaos first, the Great Qian will be completely blind! Who will look for him then?"

Chu Mengyao was stunned.

Fengniang bit her lip.

"Do you think I'm not anxious? I wish I could rip my own heart out to see where he is!"

Bai Zhi slumped into a chair, covering her face with her hands.

"If my husband were here... if he saw us like this... how disappointed he would be..."

Husband.

These two words struck Chu Mengyao and Feng Niang hard in their hearts.

The two men slowly lowered their hands, which were gripping each other's collars.

Chu Mengyao took two steps back and leaned against the bookshelf. She tilted her head back and closed her eyes.

My mind was filled with Lin Mo's unserious smiling face.

The man who always joked around in front of her, yet could give her a sense of security in crucial moments.

"I'm sorry," Chu Mengyao said softly. "I lost my composure."

Fengniang turned around, her back to the two of them, her shoulders twitching.

She raised her hand and wiped her face haphazardly.

"You're anxious, and so am I."

Fengniang turned around, her eyes red-rimmed.

"I've deployed all 100,000 spies from the Zhenwu Division. I've even called back those on leave. They're working twelve hours a day without a break. But... we really can't find them..."

Chu Mengyao stepped forward and grasped Feng Niang's wrist.

"I was too impatient. With 300,000 troops wandering around aimlessly, I was under too much pressure. Every day, soldiers would ask me where the emperor was, and I simply didn't know how to answer."

Feng Niang grasped Chu Mengyao's hand in return.

"I know. Eldest sister is in charge of the inner palace, second sister is in charge of the accounts, and the Ministry of Works is working themselves to the bone. Everyone is suffering. This family depends on us to hold it together."

Bai Zhi wiped away her tears and walked out from behind the desk.

Three hands clasped tightly together.

"We must not panic."

"We have to keep this going."

……

Royal Training Ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Xia Man'er swung the two black iron hammers in her hands and smashed them wildly at Xia Ruoling.

These two hammers weigh a total of 1,600 pounds, but in her hands they felt as light as two glow sticks.

The hammer whistled, tearing the air apart and producing a piercing explosion.

Xia Ruoling touched the ground with her toes, her body sliding backward like a feather.

boom!

The sledgehammer smashed onto the bluestone slab.

The ground instantly caved in, creating a large crater half a meter deep, and rubble flew everywhere like bullets.

"Why are you hiding!" Xia Man'er shouted angrily, stomping her feet as she held the hammer.

Xia Ruoling held the pure white "Mingxin" sword, tilting her head.

"You hit me with such a big hammer, and I didn't dodge? Were you just going to stand there and let you smash me into a cookie?"

"If you're so capable, then face me head-on! What kind of hero are you, always dodging and weaving!"

Xia Man'er slammed the two large hammers together, making a loud clanging sound.

The sound was deafening.

Xia Ruoling slung the sword over her shoulder.

"I'm a girl, not some kind of hero. Besides, cultivating immortality is about being graceful and elegant. Your fighting style is too crude and not at all like a fairy."

"Fairy my foot! Your husband's gone, and you still have the nerve to act like a fairy!"

Xia Man'er got anxious, picked up her hammer, and charged forward again.

Her mind was now filled with images of Lin Mo being dragged away.

She wanted to save people.

But she didn't even know where the enemy was.

This pent-up anger was driving her crazy, so she had no choice but to drag Xia Ruoling to the training ground to vent it.

The giant hammer swept across with an aura of destruction.

"Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique! Eighty!" Xia Man'er's arms bulged with veins.

This slogan was taught by Lin Mo.

Lin Mo had mentioned that shouting this slogan would double the hammering power, and even asked her if she wanted to learn it.

Xia Man'er believed it and practiced it every day.

Xia Ruoling remained calm and flicked her wrist.

Mingxin Sword twirled in a flourish.

"Lightning Five-Hit Combo!"

Xia Ruoling flipped her wrist.

This was also taught by Lin Mo, who mentioned that this move was specifically designed to counter people who "lack martial ethics".

The sword tip precisely strikes the hammer's surface, using the force of the blow to counter the force.

Xia Ruoling leaped into the air, did a somersault in mid-air, and landed steadily.

"What's the use of your brute strength if you can't hit anyone?" Xia Ruoling patted her skirt.

"Shut up! You're such a pretty-boy fool!" Xia Man'er swung her fist at him again.

"So what if I'm a fangirl! I openly admire my husband's face, and not only that, I even touched his abs! Aren't you jealous?!"