Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 139 - 135: The Stupid One is You (Three More Please Subscribe for Monthly Tickets)_1

Chapter 139: Chapter 135: The Stupid One is You (Three More Please Subscribe for Monthly Tickets)_1

When Li Xuan returned to the front yard of the Marquis Manor, the prisoner’s cart locking up the Demoness Zidie had already been pushed out of the manor gate. On both sides of the cart were Jiang Hanyun and a group of brightly clothed knights on horses, taking extreme precautions.

Li Xuan also rode a healthy Dragon Colt and blended in, following behind the prison cart. Jiang Hanyun glanced at him with a bit of surprise: "Why did you come too? Your part in today’s arrest of the Demoness Zidie and cracking of the spell cultivator’s murder case won’t be neglected. You still have five days left of sick leave granted by the overseer; this time, he was unusually generous."

Li Xuan shook his head: "I want to go to the Zhuque Hall and collect the rewards they have granted."

Li Xuan was frightened by the chill that had risen in his chest just now, deciding to exchange some elixirs from the Liudao Division as soon as possible to prolong his life.

"I see." Jiang Hanyun nodded: "That’s also good, you can raise your cultivation level as soon as you get these things. I heard that the superiors’ rewards for you this time are considerable, only the Liudao Renyuan Elixir there are as many as three, and two Five Thunder God Pills, which were requested to be added in by our vice lord Qiu. They can also enhance cultivation and grow Thunder Style.

Also, didn’t your knife break? The superiors also decided to assign to you a weapon of medium-grade magical implement, its rarity is not less than your gloves. In addition, you have made great merits this time, I think you can collect at least twenty great merits, which can be exchanged for some good things."

Actually, Li Xuan had already heard all these from Qiu Qianqiu. But after hearing it again, he was still greatly encouraged: "That’s exactly what I think."

Since recovering from the injury, he had been looking forward to taking these things home and then trading his musket.

Five spirit pills, equivalent to the Liudao Renyuan Pill, could boost his cultivation level to the peak of the third house level. If he concentrated further for a while, he could attempt to break through the second gate ’Dan Gate’ and reach the Fourth-Floor Territory within one or two months.

Reaching this state, one could be considered as the backbone force of the Liudao Division.

But at this time, Zidie in front gave a sneer: "Are you two trying to make me laugh? A few human-origin pills are worth such joy? Li Xuan, if you let me go today, I can give you ten Diyuan Elixirs from Liudao Division alone. I have five or six top-grade magical implements on hand, and I can give you half, choose whatever you like."

Jiang Hanyun immediately glared: "Xia Nanyan! You better behave, all the stuff you stole are stolen goods. Speak up where you’ve hidden them, so you can avoid severe punishment in the future."

"No way!" The Demoness Zidie snorted: "With my charges, I’m doomed anyway, why should I confess? As for the ’severe punishment’ you mentioned, you can try and see what those tortures can do to me. I can return the loot, but you have to catch me with your own abilities, make me convinced!"

Jiang Hanyun couldn’t help but click her tongue; she didn’t have high hopes for torture to be effective on the Demoness Zidie.

The Liudao Division is not the Ministry of Punishments and the inner Jishi Bureau of The Court, the punishments used still have a bottom line, and many means won’t be used.

Then she looked at the woman inside the prison cart with strange eyes: "I actually quite admire you. Knowing that you would be caught by us in the Liudao Division, you dare to stand up, showing that you are a person of character. But it’s a pity that you’re a bit stupid. Looking at your adoptive father’s state, he would certainly not let us wrong you, the truth will come out sooner or later."

"You’re the stupid one! Your whole family is stupid."

The Demoness Zidie turned her head and showed Jiang Hanyun the back of her head: "The reason why I surrendered myself is not entirely for my grandmother’s matter, but for other plans. Hmph, you silly woman, how can you understand my wisdom?"

After hearing this, Jiang Hanyun was suddenly full of black lines on her forehead. The hand holding the reins tightened slightly, feeling an urge to beat up someone.

And at this time, nobody was paying attention to the roof on their left. A purple butterfly was fluttering its wings in a place out of sight, fanning up sparks.

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Li Xuan still underestimated the importance of Demoness Zidie to Liudao Division. Not long after they left the Marquis Manor, another four Fumo Xiaowei and eight Fumo Duyu from Zhuque Hall arrived to join the escort of the prisoner’s cart.

It was reportedly that two Fumo Zhonglangjiang of the 4th-rank official status followed in secret, their positions unknown.

However, these people didn’t come with the intention to prevent the Demoness Zidie from escaping, but because the ’Shendu Department’ had received a last-minute tip, the nobles and wealthy families in the city were not the only ones who were mobilizing masters to come this way, their intentions were unknown.

These were all victims of Zidie and the Liudao Division couldn’t ignore them, fearing that this demoness would be killed or abducted by someone.

Li Xuan couldn’t help but stroke his chin: "Why do I feel like we’ve caught a hot potato? We all became her bodyguards."

"Isn’t it?"

Peng Fulai laughed: "My guess is that those interested in the Demoness Zidie are not only those who have been visited by her. This woman is now a moving treasury. Her wealth perhaps outstrips my father by far. Over the past year, she has made her move at least thirty-seven times. She stole so many rare and exotic treasures, many of which couldn’t be sold."

"Fortunately, she ended up in our hands." Zhang Yue sighed: "Otherwise, who knows what chaos the city would be in."

Li Xuan, however, frowned, whether it was because his spirit sense was inherently strong, or because his sense of perception was extraordinary. He could already feel more than fifty pairs of eyes on both sides of the street looking at them.

-- All were from martial artists with ample qi and blood, making Li Xuan feel a chill down his spine, ending in goosebumps all over his body.

Fortunately, nothing happened all the way back to Zhuque Hall. The reputation of the Liudao Division was enough to deter all the experts, ensuring the peaceful delivery of Demoness Zidie’s prison carriage to Zhuque Hall.

Li Xuan watched as the demoness was pushed into the ’Zhenyao Tower’, then headed over to the Merit Calculation Tower in the same backyard.

This was the third time Li Xuan had been here since his transmigration. Aside from the capture of Xue Wuya, where the reward was set by Fumo Zongguan personally, the remaining cases had all been reported by Li Xuan himself over here.

However, this time, the host of the Merit Calculation Tower greeted him personally and was very amiable.

"A total of 18 big merits, 8,000 taels of patterned silver, a mid-grade magic level waist-knife, 3 Liudao Renyuan Elixirs, 2 Five Thunder God Pills, 20 days access to seventh level of the book collection building, unlimited access to the sixth level and below. Also, you can choose to practice three superior cultivation techniques or martial laws, or choose to be enlightened by the Zongguan once."

"Enlightenment?" Li Xuan asked curiously, he had never heard of this before.

The host of the Merit Calculation Tower chuckled, "As the name suggests, the Buddhist tradition of consecration can help you understand the mysteries of the universe and the martial laws within Zongguan’s vision. It greatly damages the Zongguan, unless he sees potential successors, he won’t bother. Only a few individuals, like Xiaowei Jiang and Xiaowei Lei, get this treatment in Zhuque Hall."

Li Xuan thought, of course, he would choose consecration! And he wanted it today!

Superior martial laws and skills were useless to him. His practice of ’Hunyuan Celestial Scripture’ and the ice-thunder martial technique were enough.

Li Xuan had already entered the cultivation road later than the others. If he gets distracted too much on his journey, it would only slow down his cultivation speed.

The Zongguan’s ’consecration’ could directly elevate his martial cultivation and enhance his combat capability.

"I will notify Zongguan, and arrange a time for you."

The host of the Merit Calculation Tower nodded lightly, "Then for today, although Demoness Zidie voluntarily surrendered, it still counts as two big merits. In addition, you solved the murder case at Hou mansion and found the remnants of Maitreya Teaching, which temporarily counts as three big merits. If there are developments in the case in future, depending on the degree of harm the case has caused, your merit will increase. Do you have any objections, Li Xuan?"

"No, the way the Tower calculates merits is very fair," Li Xuan replied.

Li Xuan cupped his hands in thanks, then his eyes twinkled, "Oh yes, wasn’t it said that the evil spirits in the ’Evil Suppressing Gourd’ will also count towards merit on the day of Zhongyuan Festival? I slaughtered quite a few that night."

As he spoke, he placed a gourd in front of the host of the Merit Calculation Tower

The latter looked at Li Xuan suspiciously, "Was it slaughtered in the Underground?"

"That’s right!" Li Xuan cupped his hands, and kindly reminded, "There’s probably a lot inside, shouldn’t we change locations? Open it inside the Zhenyao Tower?"

The host of the Merit Calculation Tower shook his head and directly opened the gourd. A stream of black gas rose and surged into the sky, eventually spreading to form a gigantic mushroom cloud.

The host of the Merit Calculation Tower was taken aback and quickly began to cast magical spells to restrict the dispersing black cloud.

Fortunately, due to the issue with Demoness Zidie, at least six Fumo Xiaoweis had gathered in Zhuque Hall and quickly arrived to lend their assistance.

Once the situation was under control, the host of the Merit Calculation Tower looked at Li Xuan in dismay.

"There are no less than thirteen evil spirits and demon souls in here that are at least at the seventh house level, did you do this all by yourself?"

"I was able to do it with the help of the Song of Righteousness," Li Xuan chuckled sheepishly, "But this should still count, right?"

He felt that he was at a disadvantage. Because the capacity of the Evil Suppressing Gourd was limited and many of the evil spirits and demon souls that he had dispelled couldn’t be stored inside.

However, the host of the Merit Calculation Tower looked at him blankly, not knowing what to do.

According to the rules of the Liudao Division, single-handedly slaying an evil spirit or demon from the sixth house level counts as two medium merits. If they are from the seventh house level, it counts as two big merits. For those from the eighth house level, in addition to two big merits, they also award three extra human-root elixirs and some other cultivation elixirs.

However, when he just briefly checked the contents of the gourd, there were over a hundred of the sixth-level evil spirits alone.

If he calculates meticulously, it would amount to at least sixty big merits, plus at least twenty-four human-root elixirs of the sixth path.

Fortunately, Fumo Zongguan’s voice rang out in his ears not long after, "Calculate the merit as one third for using the aid of external forces, and elixirs can be waived."

The host of the Merit Calculation Tower immediately breathed a sigh of relief. They could handle even more merits, as long as they could offset them. But it would be really difficult to prepare the human-root elixirs of the sixth path.