Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 167 - 159: Unexpected MM_1

Chapter 167: Chapter 159: Unexpected MM_1

Li Xuan felt as if he had just woken from a hazy dream, only to find himself sitting in a pavilion.

He glanced around at the surroundings, a sense of familiarity welling up within him.

This seemed to be the Town East Hou Mansion? But why was he here?

Li Xuan thought carefully and then remembered that he had come to the Town East Hou Mansion for a banquet with his mother to celebrate the Old Lady’s birthday.

Because he felt tired, he had taken a short rest in this pavilion.

As for why he, a vigorous Wu cultivator, would feel tired? There was no such thought in Li Xuan’s mind.

Li Xuan looked at the sky and sun’s position again, realizing it was still morning. He probably hadn’t slept long here as the midday banquet at the Town East Hou Mansion most likely hadn’t started yet.

Right, his mother had asked him to go to Cuiwei Garden in the west wing to meet someone. How did he fall asleep halfway?

When Li Xuan thought of this, he quickened his pace, hurriedly heading in the direction of Cuiwei Garden. At this moment, he heard a ’boom’ explosion from the south. Then, the entire south wing of the Town East Hou Mansion erupted like water in boiling oil, creating a clamor.

Li Xuan and Jiang Hanyun were both startled, looking towards the direction of the sound, and then they heard a roar.

"People, the treasury has been robbed, the treasury has been robbed!"

"It’s the Demoness Zidie, she’s at the treasury’s entrance, stop her!"

"She’s at the east wall, she’s broken the wall with a large bundle!"

"Zidie?"

When Li Xuan was slightly surprised, he looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the south of the mansion was shrouded in flames, smoke billowing, and figures were shouting and fighting everywhere.

Li Xuan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, feeling that the shouting voice was familiar, as if he had heard it before.

Without much thought, he instinctively headed toward the fire. As a Fumo Youjiao, he still retained some professionalism. Even if he’s not a match, and he might not be much help, he’d still do what needed to be done.

Only halfway there, he saw Peng Fulai rushing over and pulling him into a side alley.

"Quick, let’s go get money, this time Demoness Zidie is extravagant, she moved the entire Town East Hou Mansion treasury. There’s a total of one million teals of gold, and many jewels that she couldn’t carry, all scattered outside."

Li Xuan thought to himself, the Town East Hou family is so rich? Isn’t this wealth equal to a nation? I guess the silver in the national treasury isn’t as much as what they have.

Also, one million teals is over 60,000 jin. Demoness Zidie sure is strong, how could she carry such heavy gold out of the Town East Hou Mansion’s treasury by herself?

Li Xuan wondered about this in his mind, but felt nothing amiss.

When he arrived at the back garden with Peng Fulai, it was indeed strewn with gold and jewels. Many people were picking them up, their faces filled with frenzy.

No one paid much attention to the gold, but there were many pearls as thick as one’s pinkie and all kinds of jade scattered across the ground. To vie for the more valuable ones, some people even started fighting fiercely.

Peng Fulai joined the fray without hesitation, while Li Xuan frowned, standing still as he watched.

"This piece of jade is worth at least three thousand teals of patterned silver, enough for us to spend half a month on the Qinhuai River. It’s said that the Demoness Zidie supported half of the brothels and casinos in Jinling City, indeed not without reason."

Peng Fulai looked at Li Xuan strangely, "Why aren’t you grabbing any? There’s safety in numbers, Town East Hou Mansion can’t manage all these."

Li Xuan shook his head, pulling his gaze away from the garden full of gold and jewelry, and laid it on Peng Fulai, "Put it back, a gentleman loves money in the right way, there’s no need for us to grab this hot money."

As Li Xuan, he was not a saint who didn’t care about money at all, but he’d have to be an idiot to dirty his hands with this.

This was different from Shopkeeper Han’s private wealth. Firstly, that was confirmed ill-gotten money, and secondly, there were no risks involved.

Huh? Who’s Shopkeeper Han? Never mind, forget about it.

Anyway, the pearls and jewels in front of him were tempting, but their origin was unknown. What if that was the Town East Hou family’s hard-earned wealth? As law enforcers from Liudao Division, we shouldn’t fail to maintain law and order in public and even participate in looting; what would this look like?

And this will sooner or later invite trouble. Even if luck is good and no one pursues it, it will still be difficult to rest easy after taking it.

Li Xuan thought to himself that he wasn’t incapable of making money. Even though he was a forensic doctor in his previous life, he was familiar with processes like salt drying, sugar making, bone china burning, and glass making.

As long as he wanted to, within a few years, he could become the richest man in this world.

The reason he didn’t do so, because he knew in this world, military strength and power matter more.

Like Peng Fulai’s father who made so much money from salt trade every year, but had to give ninety percent to Liudao Division and various dignitaries, and what was left for their family was actually not much.

"Right!"

Peng Fulai threw out the few pieces of jade in his arms as instructed, then pointed in the direction of the east: "Look, what’s that?"

Li Xuan looked sideways and noticed a streak of blue light falling from the sky. It was an oddly shaped longsword, hovering over the water of the artificial lake in the distance.

"What is that?"

"It seems to be the Shenxiang Sword, a magical instrument left by Immortal Master Shenxiang, the top divine weapon in this world! Holding it in your hand, you can have the same cultivation level as the ninth house level."

"Not only that, but it is said that it contains the lineage and location of Immortal Master Shenxiang’s cave dwelling. Such a divine object, actually kept in the mansion of the town’s eastern marquis?"

"It’s a life-extending Immortal Master at the heavenly level, it is said that the Taoist treasure ’Chunyang’ is in his hands. This divine work, after it is practiced, can add twenty years to one’s life."

At this moment around the lake, excluding the women, almost all the men who possess cultivation have red eyes. Several who believe in their strong martial power have already started walking on the water surface, rushing towards the azure-green sword artifact.

Li Xuan glanced at that thing and instantly felt some desire. If he had this thing in his hand, he could reach the ninth house level of cultivation, could that help him fight Yinsha?

This sudden rush of greed swelled to the extreme in an instant, occupying Li Xuan’s whole consciousness and his eyes also gradually turned red.

But merely in a fleeting moment, Li Xuan returned to sobriety. As several blood-colored streamers extended from behind him and clung to his forehead, he felt a chill in his chest and then inexplicably noticed that everything around him seemed false, which didn’t muster any interest in him.

Also in his mind, it appeared as if something extremely cold was receding.

Li Xuan couldn’t immediately understand the reason and just shook his head. He then flew toward the origin of the flying sword. His duty is to capture Demoness Zidie. Although he isn’t her match, he was sure he could lend Sima Tianyuan and the others a hand.

But as he moved his feet, Li Xuan felt that things were becoming more and more illusory.

It was like the feeling he had in the Underground, it was even worse than in the Underground. Li Xuan wondered, could he be dreaming?

The scenes in those dreams were just like this, many places were blurred.

At this moment, he felt the ground collapsing, following which he ’thumped’ and fell inside.

Then his surroundings transformed drastically. Li Xuan found himself in a hall. Surrounding him were groups of beauties, all scantily clad. They were dancing seductively in front of him. Occasionally, they would approach him, waving their sleeves and lifting their legs, tempting him.

Li Xuan did not have the slightest ripple in his heart. These dancing women in front of him were beautiful, but he could not stir himself.

If this was more than ten days ago when his blood was surging, he would definitely be incredibly excited.

But the problem was that all of his blood and energy were drained in the battle in the Underground. Although he had recently consumed two Human-Origin pills, Leng Yurou’s upgraded version of Motian Dalunzhuan was very effective, leaving almost no medicinal effects.

Just today he was severely injured and still weak. The medicinal effects of the Golden Abalone Soup had not fully dissipated - this soup is different from the Human-Origin Pill. After consumption, it needs to slowly take effect gradually - it’s still early for that.

As for the dancing women in front of him, they were certainly beautiful, but they were of a low quality. Also, the faces of these beauties looked fake, each one seemed to have had plastic surgery. They looked like they were made from the same mold.

And the parts of their bodies that they attempted to cover looked blurred, he couldn’t see them clearly.

This was definitely not on par with the high-quality MP4 files from the country of Dongying that he treasured in his previous life’s hard drive. He felt no interest in these women.

Li Xuan thought his erotic dream was of poor quality. Why didn’t it change to Jiang Hanyun and Xue Yunrou’s faces? If that was the case, he would indeed be interested.

As soon as this thought crossed Li Xuan’s mind, he saw the women in front of him disappear into a wisp of smoke. And then, a body that made his blood surge suddenly pressed against his own.

"Brother Xuan!"

Following this voice, there was a sweet scent. A pair of arms like lotus tendrils tightly wrapped around his waist.

While Li Xuan was swayed, his face also changed, his eyes full of astonishment: "Yue Qianqian?"

The person holding him from behind turned out to be a young girl he was extremely familiar with.

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"He has already passed the Greed Test!"

"So fast."

"That’s less than a moment, right?"

Outside of Wenxin House, there was a wave of commotion. Most people watched incredulously as a talisman array formed under Li Xuan’s feet. The silhouette of this Fumo Youjiao of the Liudao Division disappeared right before their eyes.

This person should have been transported to the second floor of Wenxin House by the array. Because at this moment, the second floor also started to light up.

"I recall that in the past ten years, fewer than seven people have made it to the second floor, right? And each one of them took at least two hours."

"So what? The Lust Test is harder to pass. Our previous circle brothers all fell at this hurdle. It includes Luo also. You all have not seen Luo’s condition when he walked out of the building. If he didn’t have some assets, that would ​​be a lifelong humiliation."

"Speaking of that, the brother who died also slit his throat after coming down from this test."

Behind the crowd, Xue Yunrou’s face looked slightly unusual. Li Xuan’s entrance into the second level in such a short period of time didn’t relieve Xue Yunrou much, instead, she clutched a handkerchief tightly in her sleeve.

"Yunrou, are you scared?"

Jiang Hanyun noticed Xue Yunrou’s rigid body. She glanced at Xue Yunrou sideways, "Are you afraid that Li Xuan will be lost to lust?"

"Ha! Ha! How could it be?" Xue Yunrou laughed forcefully to conceal her nervousness: "Brother Li is an unblemished gentleman. Tingtian said that he has principles both in actions and words, and he would never fall into lust. Extremely unlikely. So, aren’t you worried, aren’t you afraid, sister?"

But the problem was that the Heart Asking Bell had already lost control, and Xuan had just changed his ways two months ago. What if Xuan couldn’t hold it together?

"I’m afraid!" Jiang Hanyun smiled bitterly: "That guy, for his other desires like wealth and power, I’m not worried. I’m just afraid that he won’t be able to pass this Lust Test."