Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 116 - 113: The First Sign of Shuraba (Fifth update, seeking subscriptions and monthly tickets)_1

Chapter 116: Chapter 113: The First Sign of Shuraba (Fifth update, seeking subscriptions and monthly tickets)_1

"Xiaowei Jiang."

When he saw the silver-armored girl by his side, Li Yan was a bit surprised. This was because the tomb of Han dynasty at Dasheng Pass was on the edge of a crisis.

Logically, she should be heading there to provide reinforcements, instead of appearing in this Chenghuang Temple.

"Did the Xiaowei also come for her younger brother?"

"Exactly, I came here for Li Xuan!" Jiang Hanyun, wielding her waist sword, bowed slightly to Li Yan, "My junior said he was summoned by Chenghuang and had to come to this Chenghuang Temple. I was a bit worried, so I came over to check out."

After she finished speaking, she turned and looked at Li Yan with some confusion, "Could it be that you also came here to find your brother? So, he really did come here before?"

Previously, she suspected that Li Xuan might have been lying, but now after seeing the Princely Heir Chengyi Li Yan, she couldn’t help but become worried that Li Xuan might have been telling the truth.

—Just seeing the dangerous situation at Chenghuang Temple before, she knew this place was perilous.

Jiang Hanyun suspected that it might be caused by a heavenly level power fighting in this place or somewhere nearby, which had distorted the rules of reality.

If Li Xuan, with his trivial cultivation, got involved in the turmoil here, would anything good come out of it?

"Whether he came to Chenghuang Temple or not, I am not sure. But the last place my father sensed him is at Jilong Mountain. But I have already asked over at Jiming Temple; they haven’t seen my foolish brother."

Seeing the worried expression of Jiang Hanyun, a trace of unusual light flashed in Li Yan’s eyes.

He thought this woman seemed to care too much about his younger brother? Was it just because Li Xuan was her subordinate?

But after all, Li Yan was much more worried about his younger brother’s safety than these matters, so he didn’t delve further into it. Rather, he immediately turned his gaze to a temple keeper standing in front of the Chenghuang image.

"Respected Taoist priest, do you have any knowledge about the whereabouts of my younger brother?"

The priest looked at the two of them and then bowed, "Your younger brother Li Xuan was indeed summoned by Master Chenghuang and arrived at the Chenghuang Temple around the fourth moment of the Hour of You. Right now, he was summoned by Master Chenghuang to handle a major matter and would need some time before he can return."

After hearing these words, Jiang Hanyun immediately felt ashamed.

She thought she shouldn’t have doubted Li Xuan. Although he was infamous for his dissipated habits, since meeting her, he had been honest, trustworthy, determined, and resolute.

After Li Yan had calmed his mind, he continued to ask, "So, is my foolish brother safe now?"

Listening to this, the priest couldn’t help but cough awkwardly, "Well, how should I put it?"

His words made the two of them very anxious. Jiang Hanyun, who was ready to leave, had stopped in her tracks.

"I’m not clear about the details," the priest answered with a bitter laugh before they could ask. "I only know that General Tingtian is accompanying your younger brother back in a hurry. The two of you can wait here a bit longer to know exactly what happened."

He continued, "Why don’t the two of you wait in the side hall? I have ordered the young priest to prepare tea and snacks for you."

"No need!"

Li Yan thought how he could possibly have the mood to drink tea at this time?

Feeling somewhat restless, he paced up and down the temple for half a moment before he could finally calm down. Then Li Yan noticed numerous cracks appearing all over the body of the golden image of the Panguan Wu Idol, which stood solemnly next to the right hand of Chenghuang.

It looked as if it would collapse with a gust of wind.

Li Yan found it strange, but from the corner of his eyes, he saw a young girl, covered in blood, stumbling into the Chenghuang Temple.

"Yunrou?" Jiang Hanyun was taken aback, she looked at her cousin in surprise and great distress, "How did you get injured like this?"

She noticed a heart-stopping wound passing through Xue Yunrou’s right rib and back, from which blood was still oozing out.

Xue Yunrou pushed aside Jiang Hanyun’s helping hand with a wave, then staggered and knelt in front of the Chenghuang image.

"I, Xue Yunrou, plead to Master Chenghuang and Prince Mingling!"

Xue Yunrou knelt down and pressed her hands onto the prayer mat, leaving two blood handprints, then she heavily kowtowed, "Please, Master Chenghuang, save him! Please, Master Chenghuang, save him! Li Xuan covered for me and fell into the enemy’s hands, his life is even in danger. I beg Master to help Li Xuan escape from the demons’ lair! As long as Li Xuan returns safely to the mortal world, I am willing to serve you for the rest of my life, to be a servile and a maid, to be an ox and a horse. I will have no complaints!"

Hearing this, Jiang Hanyun couldn’t help but hesitate. Was this Li Xuan that Xue Yunrou spoke of the same subordinate of hers?

Immediately, she felt a knot in her stomach. According to Yunrou, was Li Xuan in danger? Why was this different from what the temple keeper said?

Li Yan’s heart also jumped, and he began to worry again.

Fortunately, the temple keeper immediately replied with some helplessness. "Miss Xue, there is no need for this, Master Chenghuang has previously given an oracle, asking me to welcome you all here and wait for General Tingtian to return. From this, it can be inferred that Mr. Li should not have any serious problems, otherwise he wouldn’t have put it this way. As for words like servitude, Miss Xue, please do not mention them again. You all were in danger because you were carrying out Master’s orders, we should be grateful instead of making you a slave. That’s not reasonable."

However, Xue Yunrou took the words of the temple keeper merely as comforting words.

How could Li Xuan possibly emerge unscathed from such perilous circumstances? Unless the Duchenghuang acted immediately after she left.

She came here, not so much in hope of making a plea, but rather to vent her emotions.

On the other hand, Li Yan felt even more despond. The anxiety in his heart was becoming unbearable.

But shortly after, he looked at Xue Yunrou and then Jiang Hanyun with perplexity.

He wondered what his foolish younger brother had been up to lately. How did he get entangled with the two most renowned beauties of Jinling City?

One was so worried about Li Xuan that she even ignored the critically endangered Dasheng Pass; the other spoke in front of the statue of the city god, expressing her willingness to serve Li Xuan as a slave and work hard like an ox or a horse.

Something was off—

Did his shitty little brother smell like a rose to these two women?

Jiang Hanyun looked pale and worried. But she had another person to worry about at the scene. She took several steps forward to inspect Xue Yunrou’s injuries. "These are knife injuries caused by a magical instrument, the blade energy is still lingering in your body, causing continuous bleeding. Even the best healing elixir is useless. What the hell happened to you all? Who did this to you?"

Xue Yunrou, however, shook her head. Her eyes were still dazed and she seemed unconcerned about her own injuries.

Jiang Hanyun frowned, "I don’t know what you’ve been through in the Nether Realm, but with injuries like yours, if you don’t treat them, you won’t live to see Li Xuan’s return."

Upon hearing this, Xue Yunrou paused for a while in contemplation. Then, she sat cross-legged on a mat without saying a word. After swallowing an elixir, she began to meditate and heal.

She could treat her internal injuries, but she had been too eager to get on the road and had not tended to them.

Until this moment, after listening to Jiang Hanyun’s words, Xue Yunrou finally paid some attention to her own condition.

Curious as Jiang Hanyun was about what these two had been through, she had no choice but to tame her thoughts for the moment and focus on helping Xue Yunrou eliminate the residual blade energy in her body.

Just two moments later, the horrific wound on Xue Yunrou’s right rib finally closed.

At that moment, Tingtian Ao walked in from the side door of the Duchenghuang’s hall, carrying Li Xuan.

The latter was still unconscious. Covered in blood, his face devoid of color, he looked even more pitiful than Xue Yunrou.

Jiang Hanyun’s heart clenched at the sight. Instinctively, she rushed forward, but Xue Yunrou had already dashed over and taken Li Xuan in her arms.

That made Jiang Hanyun stop abruptly in shock.

"Li Xuan, Li Xuan? Are you okay? How are you doing?——"

Xue Yunrou’s small hands were moving over Li Xuan’s body. Perhaps stimulated by this, Li Xuan gradually woke up. He looked at the anxious Xue Yunrou and moaned weakly, "Why are you crying? I’m not dead yet. Are your wounds okay? I’m quite worried."

At this point, he noticed Jiang Hanyun behind him. Li Xuan couldn’t help but feel stunned. The expression of this Xiaowei seemed quite complicated, huh?

Based on his past experiences, she seemed to have the urge to give him a good beating.

"I’m fine," Xue Yunrou burst into laughter through her tears, but soon she turned and glared at Tingtian Ao angrily, "How did he get so badly hurt?"

She noticed that Li Xuan had hundreds of injuries from ruptures and his body was covered in blood. His bones were almost shattered.

If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn’t have survived. Even for martial artists, there was a significant risk of paralysis.

"How could he be okay in such a situation?"

Facing Xue Yunrou’s question, Tingtian Ao couldn’t help but roll his eyes. "After you left, Li Xuan stirred up Zhonglie Duke Wen’s ’The Song of Integrity’ with his heart and determination. Not only did he save our Panguan Wen, but he also fought the Chenghuang Yuanzhou of Dasheng Pass and those numerous evil spirits and demons for almost a quarter of an hour until the reinforcements summoned by our master arrived."

It couldn’t mention the matter of the blood-eyed girl, but about the Song of Integrity, there was no need to hide it. It couldn’t help but praise sincerely, "You don’t know how proud and heroic he is. Yuan Zhou tried to crush him with the power of Qixia Mountain, but Li Xuan insisted on resisting until the end without kneeling. His injuries are the result of that."

Before Tingtian Ao finished speaking, he noticed that Li Xuan had fainted again. In his heart, though, he gave himself a mental thumbs-up, thinking that once Li Xuan woke up, he would have to prepare a few more servings of Sanweiju’s bone soup.

— I was helping him get ahead! For naive girls like them, they were most susceptible to heroic acts like Li Xuan’s.

Upon hearing Tingtian Ao’s words, Xue Yunrou was taken aback. When she lowered her head to look at Li Xuan again, her eyes filled with more guilt, compassion, respect, and some peculiar gleam.

Jiang Hanyun continued to stare blankly at Xue Yunrou’s back.

Somehow, looking at the two of them huddled together, she felt inexplicably heartbroken, even a little disappointed – as if her favorite toy as a child had been snatched away by her cousin.

Li Yan wondered if the person Tingtian Ao was talking about was really his younger brother. Was it fake?

He looked left and right, then stroked his chin, inexplicably reminded of the time when Qiu Qianqiu visited their house.

At this moment, with the exception of Tingtian Ao, no one knew that there was a blood-flecked figure hovering above them, watching the people below with her unsettling blood-red eyes.