Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 160 - 155: Stepped into the Asura Fire Pit with a single foot_1

Chapter 160: Chapter 155: Stepped into the Asura Fire Pit with a single foot_1

"By the way, take this --"

After thanking Jiang Hanyun, Su Zhaojun casually took out something and threw it to Li Xuan.

"What’s this?" Holding it in his hand, Li Xuan found it to be a porcelain bottle with a label on it: "Four-turns Dahuan Elixir?"

A light gleamed in his pupils: "Is this for me?"

This pill originated from the ancestral court of Zen Sect, its grade and efficacy lies between the Human-Origin Pill and the Diyuan Elixir.

Li Xuan’s spirits, previously dampened due to his significantly reduced lifespan, immediately brightened like spring.

That’s because this pill’s greatest function is to aid in breaking through boundaries, saving him two to three months’ worth of Zhenyuan refine.

And as long as he breaks through the fourth house level, it’s not a dream for his lifespan to increase by three to five months.

"My father spent a lot of money and asked me to buy it in the capital. Since this matter was not confirmed, I did not tell you. By a lucky coincidence, I bought it two days before I left the capital."

Su Zhaojun waved her hand: "Your father is always worrying about your weak cultivation. He says you have unique talents and have already accumulated enough in terms of mental state cultivation. The only thing you lack is the accumulation of long-term efforts. Also with Leng Yurou helping you refine your energy and body, he asked me to purchase this breakthrough elixir to help you ascend to the next level. But in my opinion, what you lack is not just Zhenyuan, but also hard practice.

I took a look from afar before, your basic skills are quite poor. If you were just a bit more flexible when controlling thunder, you wouldn’t have let that man block your road. I heard you only practice twelve rounds of cut palm a day? How is that enough? Twenty rounds would be about right."

Twenty rounds? Isn’t that asking for his life?

Li Xuan started sweating profusely, but under Su Zhaojun’s glaring eyes, he couldn’t find the words to respond. He felt his scalp tingling as if being watched by a tiger.

Su Zhaojun seemed to have urgent matters and left hurriedly after giving the Four-turns Dahuan Elixir to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan watched her figure disappear into the distance, only then did he loosen up and heaved a long sigh of relief.

At this point, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue also emerged from the dense forest with their heads peeking out.

"Why were you hiding?" Jiang Hanyun asked with a puzzled expression: "Why are you sneaking around, avoiding people?"

"Because we don’t dare face her." Zhang Yue answered with an embarrassed yet polite smile: "You see, she always thought we were responsible for leading Qianzhi astray."

Peng Fulai’s face trembled slightly, thinking that this was indeed a teammate who deserved to be abandoned.

Sure enough, after Jiang Hanyun gave an ’oh’, her gaze towards the two of them became sharp.

She thought that Su Zhaojun’s point of view should be correct. Li Xuan was inherently good. Tingtian Ao also mentioned that Li Xuan had never done anything guilty in his life. So what could have made him spend time in brothels during that period?

These two fellows, they deserved to be hacked alive!

Feeling the situation getting out of hand, Peng Fulai quickly diverted the conversation: "Qianzhi, I just checked the boxes in the temple. 90% of the things stolen from the palace are inside of them. I think this case can be solved now. The reward from Princess Changle is practically yours."

Li Xuan also cheered up, but then he turned his gaze to Shopkeeper Han’s corpse. He took a tuft of locust tree pollen from Peng Fulai and strode over.

Luo Yan was also on this side of the temple wall, looking thoughtfully into the depths of the temple. Seeing Li Xuan walking over, he said with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile: "Your acting skills are really good."

"Acting?" Li Xuan blinked, a little confused. What was this man talking about?

Luo Yan wanted to speak, but then held back. In the end, he slightly shook his head: "Never mind, forget what I said. Are you planning to conduct a summoning spell? I’ve checked. Shopkeeper Han was targeted by a really ruthless person who deliberately shattered his Shenpo."

"I still have to try!"

Li Xuan didn’t really hold out much hope. These people made the souls fly away and scatter when they killed someone, which was a basic method.

But he still spread out the locust tree pollen in his hand and then started casting the spell. As expected, what he attracted were only pieces of souls.

However, in the next moment, as Li Xuan’s mind moved, hundreds of blood threads scattered in all directions, capturing each of the spirits, piercing, and extracting them.

Li Xuan didn’t hold much hope, because the sight of Shopkeeper Han’s death was still fresh in his mind. The memories of Han before his death wouldn’t be much help to him.

If he hadn’t just gotten a Four-turns Dahuan Elixir from Su Zhaojun, he absolutely would not waste his lifespan to use the ability of the red-clothed ghost.

But unexpectedly, it seemed that Shopkeeper Han had foreseen his fate when Su Zhaojun took control of the situation. Han, before his death, had been constantly recalling his past experiences and was filled with intense resentment.

What Han thought of most were his wife and children, fearing they would be implicated.

Then it was the banknotes, gold, and a large quantity of gemstones and jade, rare treasures that were hard to come by on the market, all buried in a cave.

Shopkeeper Han, who had worked at Xuanyi House for twelve years, had accumulated a fortune of no less than 200,000 teal behind his master’s back. However, he didn’t dare to keep these things at home and always kept them buried in a cave not far from his home.

This was why was Shopkeeper Han was filled with resentment - this was something Li Xuan could feel very strongly from his memories.

Then there was a dark cabin filled with a large number of weapons and a mountain of armors.

What Shopkeeper Han was worried about was these weapons and armors. If the ship was discovered, no one in his family would escape.

Li Xuan thought to himself, if only he knew beforehand, would he have chosen differently? His eyes were full of joy as he finished the Summoning Spell, only to be troubled again soon after.

As for the silver, he thought, it was easy to sort out. All he had to do was look for it when he had the time. He knew the specific location, and the characteristics of the cave were quite obvious.

As for the ship’s cabin — in the memory of Shopkeeper Han, he only saw a few scenes from inside the cabin.

Although Li Xuan remembered the details of the cabin’s dimensions, as well as some peculiar paint marks on the wall, particularly the word ’Wang Ji’ written on the left wall. The question was, how should he state or investigate these clues?

Li Xuan then turned his gaze to Yue Qianqian, who was meditating with her eyes closed.

He pondered, he could only ask for her help. Yue Qianqian was the only person in the Liudao Division who knew about his Guardian Spirit. Therefore, she would accept any request he made. Even though this was somewhat unkind of him since she was still injured —

Next, everyone started to get busy again. Mainly, they worked together with the Yayi from Yangzhou Government who had just arrived to inventory the goods, sign their name on the register; and to sketch portraits of the dead bodies present, in order to identify them later.

In addition, they also had to examine the corpses to determine the causes of death.

There’s not much to say about this, all of the assassinated Wu cultivators, had been killed by a wind style Wu secret named ’Aofeng Six Secrets’.

However, this wind style Wu secret was quite common within Jin Dynasty. More than ten Wu cultivators have gained fame by practicing this ’Aofeng Six Secrets’ up to the third door.

With the passing of time, Li Xuan noticed that Jiang Hanyun would occasionally glance at him, and she was doing so more and more frequently.

Li Xuan was slightly touched, was she concerned about his health? Then, the Sound Conch in his sleeves suddenly started to vibrate on its own. As it floated in the air, Mrs. Jiang’s voice came from it.

"Hello? Nephew Li Xuan, can you hear me? I asked my daughter to invite you to our house for a feast today, did she mention it to you?"

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized. All of Jiang Hanyun’s odd behavior from yesterday until now finally made sense.

When he looked at Jiang Hanyun again, he saw that her face was as red as blood, and her head was steaming.

Mrs. Jiang was still speaking on the other end of the Sound Conch: "Recently, Hanyun has been worrying about you. She said you have not been feeling well after the serious injury and training. Coincidentally, her father caught three 250-year-old Golden Abalones. She wanted to invite you over for some Golden Abalone Soup to nourish your body.

If you’re free now, could you come over as soon as possible? In a little over an hour, the Golden Abalone Soup will be ready. If you’re late, the medicinal properties of the soup will greatly diminish."

Jiang Hanyun, under Li Xuan’s gaze, was utterly embarrassed. She thought to herself, ’I didn’t, I never said something like this! And I wasn’t worrying!’

Meanwhile, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue were looking at Li Xuan with both admiration and a bit of envy.

’Could it be that he really managed to win over the Blood Hand Butcher?’ they thought. ’And three 250-year-old Golden Abalones — how envious! They’ve never tasted what Golden Abalone is like.’

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While Li Xuan was exchanging glances with Jiang Hanyun, Xue Yunrou, several miles away at the foot of Qixia Mountain, was holding a letter, her face pale. She suddenly jumped off the carriage and said, "Your Highness, I won’t be going to Baohua Mountain. Please feel free to continue."

Princess Changle in the carriage was stunned, staring at Xue Yunrou in confusion, "But we agreed, Yunrou. You said you’d take me to see the scenery along the river side. Are you just leaving me behind now?"

Xue Yunrou’s face turned red, her expression clumsy as she avoided Princess Changle’s gaze, "Your Highness, you also made plans with two other ladies today. Anyhow, I have an emergency at home, so I can’t accompany Your Highness."

"An emergency? What emergency?"

Suspicion filled Princess Changle’s eyes as she studied Xue Yunrou from head to toe, her gaze suddenly shifting, "Could it be about that Li Xuan?"

She collapsed into laughter, "Is that man really that great? Can’t you even leave him for a day, Yunrou? I can’t believe you’re this kind of person."

"Look at what you’re implying, Your Highness." Xue Yunrou scratched her face, "When have I ever broken a promise to Your Highness? I really have something important today. How about I come back tomorrow? Actually, there’s nothing special to see in Baohua Mountain. It’s not even the season to view the maple leaves. You’ve seen what Qixia Mountain looks like yesterday."

She sincerely wanted to accompany her good friend to appreciate the scenery of south Zhili. However, there was a fire in her backyard, and she had to go back and put it out.

Although her aunt usually seemed carefree and rarely took things seriously, her prompt actions this time were both surprising and nerve-racking. If she hadn’t sent someone to supervise, it would’ve been a disaster.

Xue Yunrou thought that if she let things slide today, her aunt might directly turn the raw rice into cooked rice.

She couldn’t afford that consequence.

"Alright! If you don’t want to go, don’t belittle the scenery of Baohua Mountain and Qixia Temple. The mountains are clear and the waters are beautiful, I think it’s very nice."

Princess Changle was both amused and annoyed, "I have never seen someone like you, Yunrou who abandons friends for love. Go, go, go, leave! You don’t need to come back tomorrow. I will remember your broken promise this time."

"Alright." Xue Yunrou quickly got off the carriage and saluted Princess Changle, "I will apologize for this another time!"

Actually, she preferred not to come. Xue Yunrou thought that she would be better off using this time to charm Earl Chengyi’s wife and win over Li Xuan’s mother.

This was something she wanted to do two days ago but kept delaying due to her consideration for her friend. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be bothered by her aunt’s ’Golden Abalone Feast’ for Li Xuan today.

Princess Changle stared at Xue Yunrou before letting out a long sigh.

She could see that her friend’s mind had already flown to Jinling City and that insisting any further would be futile —