"Is she stronger than me?" Xiu Wanxue finally uttered a solemn question.
"Yes, she is." Nian Shuang looked at her complicatedly.
Xiu Wanxue asked for some more information and came to an assumption.
That person's name was Xia. Xia's power on this mainland was unknown to everyone. Nevertheless, through their investigations, Nian Shuang and Shao Yao found out something.
Ten years ago, she made some connections with the other small families that were not loyal to the queen and provided them with the resources to practice Qi behind the royal clan's back.
But those families were marked by that person as slaves. This meant that Xia didn't mean to be friends with the queen and planned a rebellion.
The other possibility was to suppress the power of the royal clan here and make the royal clan serve under her.