Agreed, this is not a novel that is great for SS. When you get 2 chapters of "Hey this is some historical stuff, and a geographical lay out, and stuff that makes your eyes glaze over, now fork over money for it" you start getting .. .. *eye twitch* .. yeah.
What will happen to the relationship between ouyang shou and xunlong? Yah yah. He wants to avoid betrayal and cracks in the alliance, but his making the situation worse. He might as well tell xunlong straight to the point rarther than giving him puzzles.
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