Chapter 409 A recipe for trouble IX

　　That night, after attending to the prince's needs and ensuring he was resting comfortably, Li Yanfang quietly made her way to the rear of the camp.　　She arrived at an abandoned courtyard enclosed by a muddy wall and retrieved a pre-hidden signal flare, igniting it. Within ten minutes, three figures arrived.　　Two men and a woman—the men were Xi Ming and Dong Guang, who were hiding in the Wen family; the woman was Xue Yao, ostensibly a dance instructor but secretly a sword immortal on par with Fan Lv, of the Liuyin Sect.　　Their unexpected encounter was a case of "hitting it off" immediately. Xue Yao needed a new identity, while Xi Ming and Dong Guang required allies.　　As for Li Yanfang herself, she was far from virtuous. Originally from a brothel in Tianshun County that Wei Lei had discovered, she was brought into the Wen family due to her beauty. Wen Liang adopted her as his stepdaughter and sent her to the prince's palace as a spy.　　While she struggled with other skills, she excelled in the art of dual cultivation. Using this technique, she pleased both the elders and the prince Nie Lin,