Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 212 - 191: A Cover-Up Makes It More Conspicuous?_1

Chapter 212: Chapter 191: A Cover-Up Makes It More Conspicuous?_1

It took Li Xuan a whole breath to snap back to reality. Abruptly, he withdrew his hand from in front of Luo Yan.

"Listen to me, things are absolutely not what you imagine! Absolutely not!"

A hint of cunning flashed in the depths of Luo Yan’s eyes. It seemed like he only realized something was amiss at that moment, hastily backing away and covering his chest with his hand. Then, with a blush and earnestly, he said to Jiang Hanyun, "Xuan, no, Youjiao Li is right. Things are not as you imagine. We are innocent. We haven’t done anything."

Li Xuan also emphatically nodded, "Yes, that’s it! I suspect he is the real Demoness Zidie and was checking to see if he has a meat bun."

But then he felt something was off. Luo Yan, you should just explain normally, why are you blushing now? Could it be that this guy is really a glass?

Jiang Hanyun was suspicious, thinking that the Demoness Zidie is currently locked up in the Zhenyao Tower. She has been verified by Vice lord Qiu and the administrator.

How could this Luo Yan be Zidie?

"Youjiao Li didn’t do anything to me, don’t misunderstand—"

Luo Yan’s face, like a white jade lamb, was flushed red. He turned his head and carefully looked at Li Xuan, "He really suspected that I was Zidie. He was checking my body."

The puzzled look in Jiang Hanyun’s eyes deepened. She glanced at Luo Yan’s handsome, fair face, then at Li Xuan’s sincere expression. A frown formed on her forehead.

This sounded like it was a cover-up. Was he trying to protect Li Xuan?

And just when Xue Yunrou and Jiang Hanyun were steadily growing more suspicious, their eyes sharp as if ready to peel away at them, Luo Yan laughed a little, seemingly uneasy, "Anyways, that’s what happened. I have something to attend to, so I will be leaving. You can continue chatting."

After saying that, he turned around and left as if he was running away.

Li Xuan was somewhat frustrated. Every sentence Luo Yan spoke was alright, but paired with his expressions and tone, it quietly hinted that there were problems between the two of them.

At that moment, he caught Luo Yan throwing back a glance at him from the corner of his eyes. Luo Yan smirked at him, clearly enjoying his plight.

Li Xuan understood that he was probably revenged upon. He could only helplessly raise his hand and swear to Jiang Hanyun, "I don’t know how to explain it to you. It’s just not what you think. I merely wanted to verify his true identity. There’s no other meaning."

"There’s no need for you to explain, Li," Xue Yunrou said, taking her scrutinizing gaze off of Luo Yan and smiling gently at him. "You are a gentleman, approved by both Tingtian Ao and the Heart Asking Bell. Of course, I believe you."

Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. That’s right, he still had these two shields. He instantly recovered: "It seems I was wrong. Luo Youjiao probably isn’t Zidie. By the way, Yunrou, have your wounds healed yet?"

"Not only are her wounds healed, but her level of cultivation has also improved significantly."

Jiang Hanyun looked at Xue Yunrou from the corner of her eyes, "She has achieved a saint-grade primordial spirit. As long as there are no future issues in nurturing it, this girl has infinite potential."

"Oh? That’s definitely good news."

Li Xuan roughly understood that the primordial spirit of a spell cultivator is like the ’golden body’ of a third door Wu cultivator. It has the same six levels of quality: lower, middle, upper, extreme, saint, and divine. Each level determines a spell cultivator’s combat capability.

—Even if they’re both third door, there’s a difference in combat ability between a lower-grade and a middle-grade primordial spirit.

Meanwhile, saint-grade primordial spirits are extremely rare among the mages of this era. Typically, having a high-grade primordial spirit meant a hope of achieving the heavenly level.

Speaking of which, Li Xuan’s current cultivation phase seemed promising, perhaps due to his strong primordial spirit, or the vast accumulation of Power of Thunder and Cold Power, as his cultivation was extraordinarily robust and of a very high quality.

Li Xuan once used Inward View and found that there were many naturally formed runes inside and outside his elixir—something that has never happened in the history of the golden body for Martial Law.

If he continues down this path, Li Xuan estimates that his golden body will at least reach the extreme level. It even has hopes of reaching a level that no martial artist in this world has achieved in thousands of years.

"Cousin, you’re joking, my primordial spirit is only comparable to your golden body. But you have also cultivated the ’Kunpeng Body’ in addition to your golden body. I don’t know when I’ll be able to catch up."

At this time, Xue Yunrou was indeed calm and without much joy. She surreptitiously glanced at Luo Yan’s retreating figure, her eyes showing caution and seriousness.

She thought that Li Xuan naturally didn’t have the goodness of Longyang, but this Luo Yan, he was even more beautiful than a lady—

Li Xuan felt the atmosphere was a little awkward. He wanted to say something, but didn’t know what to say.

Luckily at this time, two figures flew over from the upstream of the Yangtze River and gradually landed on the ship. It was Sima Tianyuan and Lei Yun. As soon as the former set foot on the deck, he directly asked, "Where is Master Shenhui?"

Li Xuan was startled before remembering that this was the religious name of that mage from the Maitreya Teaching. He claimed himself as Master Shenhui and was revered by the followers of the Maitreya Teaching as Revered Master Shenhui.

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What Li Xuan didn’t know was that, at that moment, inside a secret room located who knows where in Nanjing City, two women of different ages were meeting, speaking about Master Shenhui.

"Master Shenhui was captured by the Liudao Division? Why is this news only coming now?"

This was a woman in her thirties, with a pair of impressively narrow phoenix eyes, wearing a tall hat, exuding an aura of opulence.

Worry filled her brow and eyes: "This man is always alert, well aware of when to advance and retreat, and his mana is passable. How could he fall into the hands of the Liudao Division?"

On the other side of the secret room, sat a woman whose face was veiled, her voice like the tinkling of silver bells, "They say it was bad luck. He ran into Qiu Qianqiu. He never thought that Qiu Qianqiu would not take the water route, but will take the road to Zhenjiang through Jurong. The witnesses at that time were either killed by Qiu Qianqiu or captured, having to fend for their lives and not being able to spread the news."

The woman with the phoenix eyes couldn’t help but ’hmm’ coldly, "He’s also a waste! We gave him so many resources and powered along with Lin Ziyang. This promising situation was utterly ruined by them."

"Indeed, these two are incompetent. The efforts we have put in for many years and the millions of Silver Coins invested are all wasted."

The veiled young woman nodded slightly: "I am now a little worried that without Lin Ziyang’s army supporting us from the outside, it could lead to countless variables."

The woman with the phoenix eyes fell into deep thoughts then shook her head: "It does have an influence, but if our final step is successfully completed, the problems should be negligible. However, we can’t delay anymore. I predict that after the Zhenjiang incident, Jingtai Emperor and that one with the last name Yu will no longer tolerate disturbances in south Zhili. It’s all but certain that Li Chengji will return to his official position, and several powerful military ministers will likely be assigned to south Zhili."

"So, do we only have a month? I will start making arrangements."

After the veiled young woman finished speaking, she sighed, "It was such an excellent situation. How did it get to this point? The whole of Jiangnan was almost within our reach."

The face of the woman with the phoenix eyes went from pale to white, "The defeat of the Zhenjiang army and Yuan Zhou’s death were both my mistakes, I underestimated that spoiled brat from Earl Chengyi’s family. If we had taken your advice, he would be dead by now."

She then shook her head, trying to boost her spirits: "Fortunately, things on your end are going smoothly. As long as we get our hands on that item, we can turn things around no matter how tough the situation is. It’s just that the issue now is we are lacking a few dependable people. I wonder if we could seek help from Li Zhetian again?"

"We cannot reach out to him. He is arrogant and does things his own way. The thing he dislikes the most is being used by others."

The young woman with her face veiled gently shook her head then glanced forward, "You don’t need to worry about this, I’ve already made the arrangements. We should seize the opportunity and win in a single go; if we don’t succeed, we die."

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After six hours, the ship that Li Xuan and the others were on finally arrived in Nanjing. Before the ship docked, Li Chengji, who received the news, has already taken flight to the ship.

His face was initially filled with worry and sadness, but after personally examining Li Yan and Su Zhaojun’s injuries, his expression calmed down.

"Thankfully, their injuries are not grave, just need to have an expert from the medical division treat them. Qiu Qianqiu is very generous, has given them the Taiyi Shengyuan Pill which he has been saving for ten years, it’s worth having him as a brother."

Li Xuan thought to himself, Uncle Qiu was doing that to save face, right? You’re really patting yourself on the back.

Then, he noticed few bloody marks on the face of Li Chengji and asked curiously, "Old man, what happened to your face? Were you scratched by a cat—"

He realized that he might have been wrong every time he got to this part. What kind of cat could be so powerful to scratch the face of a martial artist at the tenth level, with half-heavenly level combat power?

It was Luo Yan’s action that made his social skills deteriorate.

Li Chengji coughed awkwardly, "It was not a cat. The grape trellis at home fell over. Why bother paying attention to this? Let’s go, we have to take them to Jiang’s health center first."

As they were carrying Li Yan and Su Zhaojun off the ship, Jiang Hanyun, who was preparing to escort Master Shenhui to the Liudao Division with Lei Yun, was looking thoughtfully at Li Xuan’s back.

"Cousin—" Xue Yunrou was about to bid farewell to Jiang Hanyun, but she found Jiang’s gaze odd: "What’s wrong? Your gaze seems strange when you look at Li Xuan."

Jiang Hanyun hesitated for a moment, and then said with a wry smile, "I was thinking, could Li Xuan be interested in men?"

"Big brother Li is interested in men?" Xue Yunrou couldn’t help but laugh, "How is this possible? I remember, a few days ago, you said that in his past life, he was lustful."

"Right!" Jiang Hanyun scratched her face embarrassingly, "I was wondering, maybe the reason Li Xuan could withstand the interrogation of the Heart Asking Bell was that he is not interested in women anymore? But this thought seems ridiculous."

She didn’t take her words seriously, but Xue Yunrou, who stood beside, was completely stunned.

At this time, in a room on the third floor of the ship, Luo Yan was removing a specially made rubber pad from her chest.

When her chest suddenly regained its prominence, Luo Yan couldn’t help but take a long breath.

These bloody lumps were really annoying, the biggest hindrance and flaw in her illusion technique. Although it could be remedied by wearing a rubber pad, every time she wore it, she would feel suffocated.

Luo Yan then glanced out the window with a sense of pride.

That guy’s perception was superb. But this time, no matter how cunning you are, you’re going to swallow the humble pie – created by me.