Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 399 - 326: The Empress Dowager’s Brilliant Plan for Peace - 1

Chapter 399: Chapter 326: The Empress Dowager’s Brilliant Plan for Peace - 1

After settling in Earl Jingan’s mansion, Li Xuan spent the entire night studying his two immortal treasures.

By dawn, the golden strands that had wrapped around his arm had stretched out to twenty-one, causing Li Xuan to hunger again in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, his mansion was now equipped with a kitchen and ample food. Li Xuan filled his stomach only after eating two roasted Dragon Alligators, three pigs, and two cows.

His first task in the early morning was to borrow fifty thousand patterned silver from Luo Yan and let Li Sihai go to the dark street at the glaze factory in the outer city to help him buy an unlimited amount of Jiuyou Oil - the more the better. He was fed up with hunger.

However, after reaching this stage, the extension speed of the silk threads began to slow down, and the feeling of hunger no longer appeared.

At this point, Li Xuan had roughly figured out part of the function of the two armors, ’Taotie’ and ’Wuqu Pojun.’

’Taotie’ can swallow any external forces to protect its master from harm. Its effectiveness, however, is subject to the cultivation of its master.

’Wuqu Pojun’ can spur the soul and Martial Intents of Great General Lan Yu and Fu Youde, and the blood and souls of several generals and seven thousand soldiers contained within it to harm the enemies. Like Taotie, the stronger the cultivation of their master, the more power can be drawn from the Immortal Artifact to harm the enemies. Thus, Yu Yanjun was defeated by Yu Hongchang.

But this is merely their basic function. Moreover, ’Taotie’ can swallow human souls to repair the damage to these two immortal treasures to any extent.

Aside from this, they currently have another function. ’Taotie’ is responsible for swallowing the souls of the powerful and storing them in ’Wuqu Pojun.’ This transforms the purest Martial Intents of these powerful beings into one’s own! It even provides the Master of Immortal Treasure to study the essence of their martial intents.

The minimum standard for this Martial Intent is the ’Po’ level in the ’Yun, Shi, Yi, Po, Soul, God’ levels.

Li Xuan does not yet know how many powerful soul corpses ’Wuqu Pojun’ can hold, but he estimates that it can store four in its current state.

However, in the future, as the two immortal treasures continue to recover, they should be able to store even more.

Certainly, using these two immortal treasures with Li Xuan’s current cultivation level will come at a cost. His hidden danger is the counterattack of the soul of the treasure.

However, likely due to his extraordinarily pure HaoYi, or perhaps because the two immortal treasures are still in a damaged state, Taotie’s previous counterattack did not cause much of a stir.

After understanding the functions of these immortal treasures, Li Xuan further tested Zhang Zhaoyuan’s ’Chenshan Sword of Zhengyi’, Xiahou Ying’s ’Bamboo Intent & Spirit Sword’, and Li Zhetian’s ’Void Blade’ at the martial arts ground in the backyard of Earl Jingan’s mansion.

He succeeded in using the first two, but it cost him fifty percent of his Zhenyuan. However, Li Xuan failed to wield Li Zhetian’s ’Void Blade’ and almost injured his essence channels in the process.

This was because his memory did not include the gradual part of the three people’s Martial Law, nor the ordinary methods. ’Wuqu Pojun’ only retained their most essence’s, most potent extreme moves and Martial Intent. Each needed a vast amount of Zhenyuan and a powerful soul to stimulate.

But Li Xuan’s current cultivation level was several ranks below Li Zhetian.

However, this result still made Li Xuan overjoyed.

He thought that although he couldn’t use Li Zhetian’s ’soul-level’ Yi of the sword, his future was bright.

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While Li Xuan was studying his immortal treasures, Zhang Yue was emerging refreshed from his room in Earl Huichang’s mansion. Immediately, his gaze hardened as he spotted a group of fully armored guards near the flower bed not far from the door.

Zhang Yue tentatively took a few steps out, noting that these guards merely glanced at him before returning their gaze. It seemed just as the young girl named Gong Xiaowu had said, no one in the imperial uncle’s mansion was stopping him.

Next, Zhang Yue saw Peng Fulai also leave another room with a glowing face.

They exchanged a glance, then simultaneously raised their eyebrows.

"Old Peng you——"

Zhang Yue was going to ask ’Old Peng, how was your night? Did you also have a beauty by your side?’ but then he thought of the guards from the imperial uncle’s mansion nearby.

So, through his gaze, he offered an implication. Since childhood, Peng Fulai has been his good friend, they greatly understood one another. Peng Fulai understood his gaze and responded by dancing with his bushy eyebrows.

"That’s right, a beautiful woman! Slightly better than the girls from Qinhuai River, last night was truly enjoyable. However, I’ve inquired, this is Earl Huichang’s mansion, the residence of Empress Sun’s brother."

Zhang Yue wouldn’t have been able to decipher the words ’Earl Huichang’ and ’Empress Sun’ from Peng Fulai’s eyebrows dance. Still, the tacit understanding they had developed from childhood allowed him to perceive the warning implied by Peng Fulai.

This place might not be their enemy’s, but it’s clear that it has some hostile intentions towards them.

So, Zhang Yue glared, "Understood! We’ll leave quietly later."

At that moment, Peng Fulai remembered to counter-question, his eyebrows raised three times and sank seven times: "What about you last night? How was it? You surely had a beauty by your side."

Zhang Yue immediately burst into laughter, intending to respond with a ’being enchanted’ look in his eyes, but at that moment, a bashful blush appeared on his face.

Upon seeing this, Peng Fulai couldn’t help but feel a twinge in his heart, realizing that this was clearly the look of someone who had fallen in deep.

He couldn’t help but wonder what kind of beauty it was that could make the farewell-rounded Zhang Yue look like this.

Just at this moment, they heard a booming laugh, "The two of you! The two of you! Sun has been neglectful, neglectful."

The figure was a middle-aged man dressed in the uniform of a second-rank General Commander, striding like a dragon from an adjacent courtyard door.

When this man got in front of them, he looked Zhang Yue up and down, then smiled and bowed, "This must be the renowned Earl Jingan, Li Xuan! Surely a fine talent."

Zhang Yue frowned slightly, wanting to say that he wasn’t Li Xuan, that the man was mistaken. But before he could speak, he was pulled by Peng Fulai. He turned his head and saw the anxiety in Peng Fu’s eyes, then immediately understood, "May I ask your name? And why did you bring us here?"

"This is the mansion of Earl Huichang, and I am Sun Jizong, by the grace of God, Earl Huichang, second-rank General Commander of the Court. As for why I brought you two here, it was all a misunderstanding, all caused by my subordinates misunderstanding my orders."

"They’ve been acting recklessly in the Capital City along with my younger brother, becoming accustomed to impunity. I ordered them to invite Earl Jingan here by any means, but the result-"

Sun Jizong sighed with a helpless look, then asked with concern, "I don’t know how were you last night? Were you pleased with my servant Xiaowu?"

"Pleased! Definitely, pleased." Zhang Yue’s face turned red. He remembered last night’s satisfaction.

However, he was not Li Xuan. At this point, he dared not tangle with this middle-aged man. Zhang Yue bowed slightly, "So it is Earl Huichang being courteous! However, both of us would have to go to Liudao Division to report and couldn’t stay any longer. Could you possibly discuss whatever matter you have later?"

He then glanced vigilantly at the full yard of guards.

But Sun Jizong generously waved his sleeve with a beaming smile, "I understand! It’s indeed getting late. I will immediately send men to accompany you two out of the mansion. This mistake was my doing, causing you two to get surprised. Next time, I will apologize and invite you both, please do not refuse and give me a chance to apologize."

He pointed to the guest room not far away, "Xiaowu, they all miss you both."

Thinking of the girl in the room, Zhang Yue’s mind went blank. Nonetheless, he repressed his emotions immediately and left Earl Huichang’s mansion hurriedly with Peng Fulai.

The two men did not say a word until they went out. Zhang Yue then asked, "Why didn’t you let me explain just now?"

Peng Fulai looked back at Earl Huichang’s mansion with cold eyes, "Explain what? That Earl Huichang clearly has bad intentions toward Qianzhi. We better keep low."

He then turned around and walked towards the alley outside, "Let’s go, we need to find Qianzhi and discuss this matter."

Zhang Yue rubbed his head and closely followed Peng Fulai.

What the two did not know was that at this time, Princess Changning - Yu Yunhuang, dressed in imperial yellow Feiyu Suit, was entering Earl Huichang’s mansion. She exchanged courtesies with Sun Jizong who was waiting at the door, then asked, "Cousin, how is the matter entrusted to you by the Empress going?"

"It’s done!" Sun Jizong stroked his beard and smiled complacently, "Xiaowu, as expected of the Demon Sect’s Succubus, very impressive. From the looks of Li Xuan, I can tell he is heavily smitten."

"That’s great!" The spark in Yu Yunhuang’s eyes grew brighter, "Please reveal this news to Yu Hongchang and Xue Yunrou immediately."

"I will send someone to do it now, but - " Sun Jizong seemed uncertain, "Will this work?"

"Would a woman like my cousin, who is always proud and arrogant, or Xue Yunrou who is not at all inferior, ever like a man who can’t control his lower half?"

Yu Yunhuang sneered and placed her hands behind her back, "Additionally, Xiaowu’s charm spell requires three continuous uses to stabilize. You need to invite Li Xuan to the mansion within three days."

However, upon seeing Sun Jizong’s hesitation and embarrassment, Yu Yunhuang frowned, "What? Is there something troubling to you, my uncle?"

Sun Jizong nodded, looking somewhat worried. "My little girl is coming back from visiting relatives back home tomorrow. I have had people inquire about Li Xuan, and they say that he too practices a kind of magic that could charm women. A woman would be completely smitten after one look at him and become pregnant after the second. I worry-"

He worried about his precious daughter, who he raised for sixteen years, being stolen away by such a man.

Hearing this, Yu Yunhuang couldn’t help but laugh, "That’s impossible! How come I don’t feel anything?"

The people around them glanced at her, wondering whether she was a woman or not?

"If you are really worried, let your daughter go out to play on the day or hide her in the backyard so he won’t see her. "

Sun Jizong considered the suggestion and nodded lightly: "That might work! Please tell the empress that I will handle this matter properly."