Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 332 - 281: Fall into the Trap, Young Man_1

Chapter 332: Chapter 281: Fall into the Trap, Young Man_1

A moment later, Li Xuan walked out of the Merit Calculation Tower with a heavy heart, and outside, Qiu Qianqiu wore a face of helplessness.

"So, they took away one hundred and twenty of your merits again?"

"They offered both ’Taoheng Xuanji’ and ’Guixuan Elixir’. What could I do? But I’m not stupid. I consulted Vice Master Zhang and Uncle Jiang in advance by flying talisman, and these two things are indeed useful."

After Li Xuan finished speaking, he sneered coldly: "However, apart from these, I only exchanged for three things, a vial of blood of the Azure Phoenix, an ’Iron Red Armor’ for the Divine Blood Azure Phoenix, and a ’Liudao Shenxuan Elixir’ for strengthening my Primordial Spirit. Although I can’t exchange for a supreme magical implement this time, I still have eighty-two merits. I haven’t exchanged for anything else, so they can’t take my merits this time."

He estimated that, even without solving any big cases, he should be able to gather enough merits for a supreme magical implement in half a year.

Now his escaping skills are quite high, ’Fumo Vajra’ is his primary offensive weapon, and the ’Divine Blood Azure Phoenix’ has recovered and can be used in combat.

Li Xuan isn’t particularly concerned about the common demons from The Third Door.

"Really?"

The look on Qiu Qianqiu’s face was strange, neither agreeing nor denying. He then took the lead and headed towards the Artifact Refining Pavilion in the east: "You come with me. I’ll show you the custom-made armor."

Li Xuan asked in astonishment, "That quick? Isn’t it supposed to take a month or two to make a high-grade magical instrument?"

The ’Xuanhan Ruyi’ in his hand was able to be quickly made because of its high-quality materials.

"Of course not, but it doesn’t need to take one or two months either. The main material for the armor, ’Godlike Demon Steel’, has been prepared in advance. Zhuque Hall always keeps a supply ready, so the armour body is almost completed."

Qiu Qianqiu explained with a strange look on his face: "But since it’s custom-made, it has to be adjusted according to your situation."

He led Li Xuan to the top floor of the Artifact Refining Pavilion and Li Xuan saw a dark piece of armor floating in the middle.

But that’s how all steel armor looks before it’s finished.

Li Xuan took a look and said satisfyingly, "It’s not bad. Is this armor specifically for Thunder Style?"

Li Xuan thought to himself that this was just as well. If the armor could ward against both ice and thunder effectively, it would impair its effectiveness.

Of course, the most important thing about armor is its defensive capabilities.

’Godlike Demon Steel’ is an alloy unique to Liudao Division. It is primarily composed of steel and fused with a variety of unusual metals, even demonic spirits, and has a great defensive capability.

The defensive ability of this piece of armor is expected to be more than three times that of the ’Kuiniu luminous armor’.

The difference between the two is that one is hard armor and the other is soft armor. The difference in their defensive ability is naturally immense.

The combination of these two will be very powerful. Li Xuan estimated that even the mightiest demons from The Fourth Gate would struggle to penetrate his defense within three strikes.

"There are three scripture cases on its back."

Qiu Qianqiu pointed at the back of the armor: "These were designed specifically for you. You can store the master copy of ’The Song of Integrity’, ’Lime Chant’, and even your folding fan in them. In the future, you don’t need to unfold them, and you can directly use their abilities through the armor."

Li Xuan’s eyebrows were raised instantly, thinking that this is what custom-made truly means.

He was already very satisfied with the armor, but then Qiu Qianqiu clapped his hands. Immediately someone pushed out a crystal bottle filled with white dust.

"This is powdered bone made from the remains of a ’Kuiniu’ that died seven thousand four hundred years ago. Our instrument maker can fuse it into the armor, I don’t know if you’re interested, Li Xuan?"

Li Xuan thought, of course, this is a good thing.

The Kuiniu is a divine creature. Emperor Huang made drums from its skin, and resonated it with the bones of thunder beasts that echoed five hundred miles away, asserting his power over all.

This is commensurate with his ’Shen Kui Lei Yin’, and it also resonates with Great Rectitude. The Kuiniu also holds the Power of Thunder and masters Thunder Style.

But then he noticed Qiu Qianqiu looking at him weirdly.

Li Xuan couldn’t help but feel a bit heavy: "Uncle Qiu, you’re not going to tell me that this requires merits to exchange, are you?"

"What do you think? Although it’s a ’Kuiniu’ from seven thousand four hundred years ago, its efficacy has greatly diminished, but it’s still the bone of a heavenly-level divine beast. Its original exchange price was fifteen merits and now it’s at a thirty percent discount, it can also participate in further reductions."

Qiu Qianqiu immediately gestured and unrolled a scroll in front of Li Xuan: "Now, look at this."

"It’s ’The Song of Integrity’?" Li Xuan flipped it open and found that it was another scroll of "The Song of Integrity".

But then his eyes slightly narrowed. The Hao Qi permeating from this scroll was grand, pure, and sublime. Although it was not comparable to Zhonglie Duke Wen’s master copy and lacked the death-defying temperament Zhonglie Duke Wen had before his execution, in terms of the level of righteousness, it was enough to be on par with the master copy.

"After hearing about the Battle of Nanjing, Shaobao Yu wrote this piece overnight. He intended to gift it to you, having depleted quite a bit of his lifeblood energy for it. Originally, it should have been delivered by the imperial envoy, but we requested for it pre-emptively after learning about this."

After Qiu Qianqiu had finished speaking, he gestured towards a bearded man standing next to him: "This man is a descendant of the famous mid-antiquity craftsman, Ouyezi. He is proficient in a secret technique that can directly transfer the text from this scroll into armor. Of course, this necessitates additional merit and materials, requiring twelve major merits, albeit with a thirty percent discount."

Li Xuan could only look at Qiu Qianqiu in disbelief: "Uncle Qiu, are you colluding with them to swindle me?"

"If I didn’t take up this role, someone else would. At the very least, if I do it, I can select genuinely beneficial items for you."

Qiu Qianqiu grinned before addressing Li Xuan seriously: "Just let it go, the higher-ups refuse to give you a second supreme-grade magical instrument no matter what. Besides, the discount they’re providing this time is indeed quite good. As for the armor, once it’s refined, it won’t be any less efficient than an authentic high-grade magical instrument.

In short, listen to your Uncle Qiu and you won’t go wrong. Later, I’ll accompany you to pick out some other objects. Do you want to exchange the Huaiyi Blade you’re holding? We can recycle it for five major merits, and if you add ten more, you can acquire the ’Bixue Leique Sword’ from the ninth-generation Venerable of Zhuque Hall."

Although this might further strengthen Li Xuan’s ’Hao Qi’, making him more ’Righteous’ in the future. But Qiu Qianqiu’s thoughts aligned with Li Xuan’s; since he had already walked this far on this path, he might as well walk it to the extreme.

Meanwhile, on Qiu Qianqiu’s opposite, Li Xuan’s mood was currently too complicated to put into words.

He was already regretting, why did he come to Liudao Division today? If he had arrived a few days later, he would at least be able to enjoy himself for a period of time.

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As the evening approached, a dispirited Li Xuan, slinging his newly acquired ’Bixue Leique Sword’, exited the back courtyard of Zhuque Hall. Behind him were people including Qiu Qianqiu, the Chief of Jigong Tower, and the master of Artifact Refining Pavilion, all smiling patronizingly as if to say ’goodbye and good riddance’.

Outside, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue were waiting, the latter sizing up Li Xuan before frowning and saying, "It seems like the ’Hao Qi’ within you, Qianzhi, has increased quite a bit? You swapped your magical instruments? And for three high-grade ones? Are you stupid, Qianzhi? Is it not more appealing to gather for a high-grade magical instrument?"

With a blank expression, Li Xuan glanced at Peng Fulai and sighed, "You wouldn’t understand!"

Despite the irritation of having his one hundred and twenty major merits unceremoniously partitioned by the Liudao Division, Li Xuan was still quite pleased after exchanging for new magical instruments.

The high-grade magical instruments he had acquired this time included three in total: the ’Bixue Leique Sword’ was one, and the other two were an armguard called ’Taixiao Thunder Arm’ and an amulet called ’Shenli Xuanming’.

Due to the ’Shenyi’ effect, his primary method of attack at the moment was still Thunder Style. As for Ice Style, he only needed to maintain the low temperature of those ’Shenyi’ silk threads.

Thus, out of the three magical instruments, two belonged to Thunder Style, and one to Ice Style. These could not only enhance his proficiency with thunder and ice methods, but also remarkably boost Li Xuan’s strength, compensating for his deficient cultivation.

Qiu Qianqiu was indeed correct. If someone had to deceive Li Xuan, it was best for it to be him since he could at least provide a targeted enhancement.

Peng Fulai chuckled, "I can sort of guess, this Liudao Division is sure being shady."

Soon after, he asked Li Xuan, "What do you plan on doing?"

In response, Li Xuan counter-questioned: "Do you guys have a nighttime outfit? If not, we need to go together and get one now."

Thus, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue once again exchanged glances, thinking who would have that kind of thing?

Two hours later, the three of them, dressed in black and faces covered, were stealthily perched on the wall of a civilian residence next to the Jiang mansion.

"Fuck!" Peng Fulai’s mood now was no different than if he had been screwed over by a dog: "So you called us over to scout the area and provide cover for you?"

He initially thought that Li Xuan had something important for them to assist with, but as it turned out, they were here to commit theft.

He thought about the beauty who he had planned to meet in his rented courtyard today—wouldn’t it be much more appealing to be having a chat in bed with her right now?

Zhang Yue was also speechless, grumbling under his breath, "I need to practice the ’Xingtian Golden Body’ tonight, even take a medicinal bath! Especially recently, I’ve added another Buddhist technique, the ’Vajra Invulnerability’."

Peng Fulai couldn’t help but shoot Zhang Yue a glance. He had seen the process of the latter practicing the ’Xingtian Golden Body’, where a dozen muscular men continuously lashed him with iron bars.

But instead of feeling the pain, this guy seemed to be quite cheerful.

"Stop talking!" Li Xuan said in a hushed voice while continuing to observe the area, "Worse comes to worst, when my holiday is over, I’ll give you guys a day off."

Only then did Peng Fulai remember that Li Xuan was now their actual superior. As a Fumo Xiaowei, he was in charge of a metropolis, and although the Fumo Zongguan and Vice Zongguan were above him, they usually didn’t interfere with the specific affairs below.

His demeanor then became more amiable, "Actually, you should have asked Luo Yan. I have a feeling he’s the expert in this area."

Even though he doesn’t know that Luo Yan is Purple Butterfly, he somehow had such a feeling.

Upon hearing this, Li Xuan couldn’t help but feel helpless. How would he not know that Purple Butterfly was the true expert in this area?

But he had just sacrificed his dignity to appease Purple Butterfly, and now he wished to rely on her power to secretly meet another girl. Perhaps, this was just not quite right—