Chaotic World Book
Chapter 315 - 308 Old Woman, You Will Get Your Retribution

Chapter 315: Chapter 308 Old Woman, You Will Get Your Retribution

Chichi Xia had come to Kunlun, but unlike before, she wasn’t escorted by Elder You and a bunch of elite subordinates.

However, to say that the Four Symbols Sect had no one to receive her here would mean that San Niang wasn’t telling the truth.

Well, it could also be that she handled too few affairs and didn’t know how much Vermilion Bird had struggled.

It’s tough for an organization to be free of traitors; the Four Symbols Sect had once had traitors who fled to Kunlun. With numerous responsibilities, Vermilion Bird found it difficult to come here in person to waste years looking for someone, so he sent his top general Liu Tuzhang to lay the groundwork in Kunlun and gather some related information.

Even Tang Wanzhuang had sent people to infiltrate this place, creating an entire play to craft a villainous persona. Being from the Demon Sect, the Four Symbols Sect did not need to pretend—half their members were wanted criminals anyway, so it made perfect sense to send a clever one to scout ahead in Kunlun.

As a powerful Ninth Layer of Mystical Gate cultivator, Liu Tuzhang was also shrewd and had established a foundation here.

A city always needs various necessities of life, and trade and production are carried on by people. Backed by the sect’s resources, Liu Tuzhang rallied a group of subordinates, specialized in selling fabrics from outside, opened a fabric shop, controlled the business to neither attract envy nor fall short of sustaining his people; indeed, they were living quite a comfortable life.

Even now, his subordinates had no idea that Boss Liu was from the Four Symbols Sect.

But correspondingly, such a model could only be said to settle roots here, relatively familiar with the city situation, and able to accommodate members of the sect when they visit. To gather intelligence, they could only clandestinely investigate a few critical matters, unable to form an intelligence network like Ying Wu.

That was sufficient, though slower.

Liu Tuzhang had spent several years investigating here before he finally figured out that the traitor had opened a brothel on the eastern side of the city and recently reported back to Vermilion Bird.

This was the bait that drew Chichi Xia to come from the west.

From the beginning, her mission was to kill that madam, but she couldn’t get close, and after acting for five or six days, she succeeded today.

The traitor had actually let down his guard too—who would have thought, after so many years, the sect was still intent on killing him?

Chichi Xia knew that this whole street of brothels should have a common underground boss, but Liu Tuzhang had also failed to find out who exactly it was. Who the fuck could have anticipated that the real boss would personally be an Oiran entertaining clients in one of them, and just happen to be the one she picked!

Such identity concealment was absolutely astonishing...

What had initially seemed a straightforward assassination task had suddenly become many times harder, and at first, Chichi Xia hadn’t even realized it.

It wasn’t until the third day of contact that she realized this Oiran might be stronger than her, but undeterred, she acted oblivious and followed the original plan.

After all, she was also hiding her identity; the other side thought she was just a descendant of an aristocratic family seeking revenge on Yang Qianyuan; everyone’s assumptions had errors, so chances were still great.

Indeed, the battle was a success.

But all the calculations couldn’t predict that the opponent would be a poison spider, an expert in using poison.

Chichi Xia had been very cautious not to eat or drink anything, which made common poison techniques ineffective. However, pretending to be a man visiting an Oiran, you’d inevitably need some physical contact, wouldn’t you? Otherwise, the pretext for contact wouldn’t even start. Who could anticipate that this woman’s skin was laced with slowly acting, undetectable toxins that infiltrated the body through touch?

The evil nature of this place truly made no sense—playing an Oiran, greasing her body with slow-acting poison, it was as if she sought amusement in killing everyone who visited her.

This unreasonable insanity finally caught Chichi Xia off guard. During their battle, the pink smoke, although dispersed by her True Qi, had slightly contaminated her, serving as a trigger for activating the hidden poison in her body.

Chichi Xia stealthily moved through the alleyways, reaching the back door of Liu’s Fabric Shop. Just as she leaped over the courtyard wall, she stumbled and nearly fell to the ground.

A familiar burly chest suddenly collided with her.

Chichi Xia smiled faintly, no longer moving, comfortably leaning on him.

Zhao Changhe whispered, "Did you...get poisoned? I didn’t see you injured or poisoned just now, when did it happen?"

Chichi Xia was about to respond when footsteps sounded in the courtyard, and Liu Tuzhang led his men to surround Zhao Changhe, swords drawn tensely, "Who are you? Let him go!"

Chichi Xia said, "Stand down."

Liu Tuzhang: "¿"

Xia Chichi endured the strange sensation inside her body, and with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, she looked up at Zhao Changhe’s restored face, "Not bad, Boss Zhao, mixing in the Worldly Society over these years, you’ve learned to visit the brothels, haven’t you?"

Zhao Changhe watched Liu Tuzhang leave, confused, and said with a stern face, "Same goes for you."

Xia Chichi laughed, "I’m here on business."

"So am I," said Zhao Changhe.

"What business are you here for?" Xia Chichi cooed, "What kind of thing are you blowing... is it something like this?"

Zhao Changhe was astounded, "You were actually listening to the noise from next door at that time?"

Xia Chichi laughed, "Someone entered the room next to mine, did nothing, just asked the lady to play the lute, without uttering a single word. Boss Zhao, you really thought your senior brother was a fool, not finding it strange at all?"

Zhao Changhe sincerely said, "You truly are amazing, Chichi."

It wasn’t just about alertness and sharpness but more importantly, it showed that even if Xia Chichi hadn’t achieved a Secret Realm Breakthrough, she must have been very close, just a step away, otherwise, her hearing wouldn’t be so incredibly sharp.

He was advancing fast in his training, and Chichi, with the full force of the Sect’s resources behind her, had not fallen behind, even surpassing himself.

No wonder she hadn’t much trouble escaping from the hands of those ranked on the Human List... Speaking of which, Poison Spider probably hadn’t achieved a Secret Realm Breakthrough either. The ranking of fifty-eight must have been boosted by the Poison Skill; his raw cultivation wasn’t much stronger than those at the bottom of the list, way inferior to that of Hu Lie.

"It was just that at that time, I didn’t realize you were the one next door," Xia Chichi said, her eyes growing mistier, and her tone turning whispery, "Do you know how thrilled I was when I saw you flash past the alley during my headache-induced breakout... Is this destiny, allowing us from different parts of the world to reunite again, and just in time during my crisis?"

Although it was San Niang who had directed him here, indeed, it seemed like fate that everyone had come to the same place for some reason. Even more fateful was arriving at this brothel upon his debut and catching sight of Chichi, now more splendid than ever.

Zhao Changhe, too, couldn’t help but be moved, whispering, "Yes, this is our fate."

"Then..." Xia Chichi’s eyes grew even more bewitching, her cheeks unknowingly flushed, leaning into his embrace, her body started to twist gently, "Would you like to blow...?"

Zhao Changhe: 😡

Xia Chichi giggled, "Ethics... I’m still in men’s clothing, yet you get especially excited at times like this."

Is it really because of this that I’m particularly excited?

Zhao Changhe suddenly realized, "The poison you’ve been affected by is an aphrodisiac!"

"Yes," Xia Chichi said nonchalantly, "It might have been a bit troublesome... The poison laid by Poison Spider, it’s going to be hard to find an antidote anytime soon, but heaven sent a humanoid antidote right to me, hee hee."

She tiptoed up and kissed him directly, "Such a great excuse, even the Venerable would forgive if he knew, thank you, Poison Spider, hee hee."

Zhao Changhe kissed back unreservedly, thinking to himself: Poison Spider, thank you.

As the two kissed passionately, Xia Chichi murmured, "Carry me into the room, the one to your right."

Zhao Changhe swiftly carried her princess-style, kicked open the door to the right, and almost leaped onto the bed as if flying.

With a "bang", they hit something that seemed like a wall, the trapped couple slowly slid down against the Qi Wall.

Looking up dizzily, Vermilion Bird, with a mask and arms crossed, was sitting on the edge of the bed, his voice undisturbed, "What a clever plan you had."

The aphrodisiac in Xia Chichi almost evaporated from fright, "V-ve-ve-vernerable, why are you here too?"

"What, you think I’m interrupting your good excuse?"

Xia Chichi: "...I, I am really poisoned."

Vermilion Bird slowly produced a bottle from his sleeve, "That trashy Poison Spider’s drug, thinking it could affect our Holy Sect?"

Xia Chichi’s whole body slumped.

Zhao Changhe cried out in anguish, "Old woman, destroying heavenly fate, you will have your retribution!"