Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 128 - 125: Dark-Bellied Girl (Requesting for Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions!)

Chapter 128: Chapter 125: Dark-Bellied Girl (Requesting for Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions!)

Outside the waterside pavilion, Xue Yunrou’s little maid hurried to keep up with her mistress’s fast pace.

"Miss, is that ’Sword Rain’ Hua Shenxiao really strong?"

"Very strong, very powerful," Xue Yunrou pondered, "Half a year ago he had a fight with cousin. It was a draw. His talent and ability are not beneath my cousin’s."

She guessed that it was already too late to go there now. She could only hope that Xuan would act according to circumstances and not really confront Hua Shenxiao.

As far as she knew, the one surnamed Hua was not only a little domineering but also a bit blunt. Sometimes he was unreasonable.

If Xuan was just beaten, it would be fine. But if he was turned into a tree by Hua Shenxiao, the image would be very unseemly.

After all, trees and plants need nutrients to grow, so clothes and the like would mostly be decomposed. What’s more annoying were the roots of those vines and plants — they would invade everywhere without exception.

She had seen a young nobleman in Beijing being treated like this by Hua Shenxiao. The terrible state was simply unspeakable. It was said that he was inhuman afterward.

"So, what should we do? Should I go and inform cousin? I just saw her at the pavilion."

As the little maid spoke, she looked back and then she saw Xi Xuer not far behind.

This young girl, who was just slapped twice by Xue Yunrou, exchanged a resentful and angry glance with her, then turned away her gaze and walked hurriedly towards the West Courtyard, as if something was attracting her.

The little maid frowned, "And this Xi Xuer, she’s in the same group with Zhang Jin. From her look, it seems she is very dissatisfied."

"I know."

Xue Yunrou’s face was livid, her eyes were fiery, and she clenched her small fist in her sleeve, "They are courting death. Later, I’ll make them pay, huh?"

At this moment, she had already reached the side of the artificial lake in the West Courtyard. The sight before her left her stunned.

There was a row of bizarre ’trees’ planted by the lake — of course, they were not real trees. Upon closer inspection, one would find that the tree trunks were actually people tied to the ground by numerous woody vines in a spread-eagle position. Most of these people had swollen noses and bruised faces.

There were also several dozen servants from Duke Zhengdong’s mansion trying to untie them. But it was in vain. Those vine trees could twitch, lashing at anyone who tried to approach like a whip. Whenever these vine trees twitched, the over twenty pampered young masters who had turned into trees would wail in agony.

— This was a tug on one hair rather than on the whole body, and they were being pulled somewhere.

Xue Yunrou only took one glance, then took her eyes off them, because their situation was extremely unseemly. It was alright that they were all battered and bruised. The key was that they were completely naked. The leaves growing out of them did not completely cover them.

However, she had already confirmed that Li Xuan was not among them. Xue Yunrou was confused, not understanding what was going on.

Xi Xuer was also stunned, her eyes blank. She thought Zhang Jin and the others had promised to take revenge for her, so why was she tied up here instead?

Following her, all the young girls who came to watch the spectacle were also dumbfounded.

Several elegantly dressed women arrived, and then they started crying, "Damn it! Who is this beast that dared to treat my son like this?"

"This is murder! Find him, find whoever did this, I’m going to cut him into a thousand pieces!"

"Hurry up and save him, what are you doing standing there? Don’t move him, quickly find a spell cultivator! A skilled one."

Xue Yunrou was a powerful spell cultivator, but she didn’t feel like caring. After looking around and confirming that there was indeed no trace of Li Xuan, she turned around and left. Meanwhile, she formed a gesture with her right hand, releasing waves of spiritual light from her body, allowing her to sense the spiritual energy in Duke Zhengdong’s entire mansion.

This was because neither Li Xuan nor Hua Shenxiao, the two main culprits were present, making Xue Yunrou worried that Li Xuan may still be in danger.

Xue Yunrou quickly found something. When she walked over a stone bridge to the east of the man-made lake, she saw Hua Shenxiao standing on a flying sword, hovering about fifteen feet high, looking down with furrowed eyebrows.

"Brother Hua." Xue Yunrou’s heart moved, and a friendly smile appeared on her face, "Brother, what are you looking for?"

Although the two of them were from different sects, Quanzhen and Tianshi (Zhengyi), the Court now regarded Tianshi Sect more highly in Taoism and was pressured by Buddhism, so the two sects were quite close.

Moreover, the two of them had lived in Beijing for a time and were familiar with each other, usually referring to each other as brother and sister.

Hua Shenxiao looked down at her, his frown deepening. He didn’t want to pay attention, but Xue Yunrou had already floated up to his side.

"I just came from Cuiwei Garden and saw a lot of trees. Brother Hua, couldn’t you resist again? Didn’t your master punish you heavily for this? This time you planted twenty-three trees, aren’t you afraid that your master will break your legs?"

"They deserved it!" Hua Shenxiao was angry, "Even if I get punished by my master, I won’t regret it. Those bastards, they actually tried to hold me back, wanting to do such a thing. I, I, I——"

This man was clearly enraged, his chest heaved violently, and he was too furious to speak coherently.

Xue Yunrou was even more puzzled, thinking, what on earth is going on? However, this Hua, with his calamity-causing face, has indeed caused quite a lot of trouble in the Capital City. It wasn’t until he invented his method of growing trees that he was able to stop many people’s covetous thoughts.

She was curious in her heart, but her face remained impassive: "I see, but, big brother, why don’t you leave? These people are of significant background, and judging by their demeanors, I am afraid they will not let you off so easily."

Hua Shenxiao just sneered, "Leave? A bunch of mundane people, what can they do to me? If I don’t deal with that Li Xuan this time, there will always be a thorn in my heart!"

Xue Yunrou blinked her eyes, puzzled, and asked, "Li Xuan? Isn’t he the second son of Earl Chengyi? Why has he offended you?"

"That guy, he just froze me." Hua Shenxiao snorted, slightly twisted in his countenance, "And he even said that he’s perfectly set me up, achieving the fantastic. I would like to see who sets up who in the end."

Xue Yunrou’s eyes turned, and she finally guessed what was going on. She almost burst out laughing, thinking that Li Xuan is truly impressive.

"But with your cultivation, big brother Hua, how could you be frozen by him? As far as I know, isn’t that guy just at the third house level?"

"I was caught off guard, and I underestimated him." Hua Shenxiao’s face turned slightly red, "Somehow, that fellow got the extremely pure Great Rectitude. I was unprepared and got directly stunned. In addition, his cold power technique is formidable, not just immensely cold, but its penetrative power is also strong, and it could freeze my Zhenyuan organs——"

Xue Yunrou thought the same, it is indeed hard to visualize that a Wu cultivator at the third house level could possess such overwhelming cold power without seeing Li Xuan’s performance.

Li Xuan, although he had been delayed for several years before. As long as he dedicates himself to cultivation for a few years, he will surely skyrocket.

All these so-called geniuses nowadays, they are only fit to tie his shoe laces.

"So, this person is indeed utterly wicked. However, big brother Hua, I think you should let go of your concerns about Li Xuan and head to the Capital City as soon as possible."

"Go to the Capital City?"

Hua Shenxiao looked at Xue Yunrou puzzledly, with slight wariness in his eyes. In his opinion, this Miss Xue was perfect in every way, but she was a bit dark in her heart and slightly scheming.

Is this woman speaking for that Li Xuan? But these two people, they seem to have no reason to mix together.

"Big brother, don’t you know?" Xue Yunrou was quite surprised, "Your junior sister, Zhao Xixue, she’s been missing for almost four months now. People have said that they can neither find her alive nor her corpse. I’m even more curious about how you can still hang around in Jinling leisurely. Is this Li Xuan more important to you than your junior sister? "

"Xixue is missing?"

The color drained from Hua Shenxiao’s face, and he didn’t spare Li Xuan a second thought. He immediately flew up on his sword like a shooting star, heading north quickly.

Watching his figure disappearing into the horizon, Xue Yunrou shook her head and gently landed back on the ground, wondering where her Li Xuan was at this moment.

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After leaving the flower garden, Li Xuan scuttled off to the main hall of the Marquis of East Town and hid in a neglected corner to rest and recuperate.

The Marquis of East Town was not only a descendant of the founding nobles but also a powerful military general with real authority, and among his guests today, there were many highly skilled experts from the ninth house level.

Even if Hua Shenxiao came chasing after him, he would definitely not dare to act here, this place was not his playground.

However, what was strange was that Li Xuan did not see Hua Shenxiao’s figure all the way till the banquet at noon started.

He secretly felt a chill, thinking that this guy seemed to have some cunning, waiting for them to go out. However, Li Xuan had already prepared a countermeasure. He had just met Jiang Hanyun, who was looking for the demoness Zidie in the main hall, so he decisively asked for his supervisor’s help. The latter had already promised him that he would not allow Hua Shenxiao to mess around, provided that he could hold on for a few breaths.

So, when the banquet began, Li Xuan was very calm as he walked into the lounge on the left.

What annoyed Li Xuan a bit was that Peng Fulai and the others hid further away, sitting at a table two seats away. Even Yue Qianqian, who was disguised as a man, preferred to sit with Peng Fulai and the two scoundrels Zhang Yue, rather than coming within three steps of him.

The two people to the left of Li Xuan at the table he was sitting at were shooting fire at him with their eyes. The two people to the right had cold eyes filled with icy intent. The two people across from him were snickering at him continuously.

"What are you looking at? I think you all need to get your eyes checked."

Li Xuan said rudely, slapping the table with a ’pah’, and then a layer of ice froze the entire table.

He thought, it’s a large group of aristocratic young masters that I worry about, even if I beat them, it would cause a lot of trouble, but I don’t care about you six minor officials.

You are now alone and surrounded by me!