Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 418 - 340 Only to be Kept _1

Chapter 418: Chapter 340 Only to be Kept _1

Just as Li Xuan was on his way to the market, Fumo Zhonglangjiang Lei Zhen was standing at the entrance of an alley on the north side of the Capital City, his expression icy cold.

In front of him, deep in the alley, was a rapidly moving, dense, black fog.

From within the black fog, there came the sound of what seemed like galloping hooves, not only fast like a drumbeat, but each sound was like a thunderclap, stirring up the spirits of heaven and earth, causing people’s eardrums to burst and the ground to shake slightly.

At the same time, there came a few urgent and panicked shouts from the distance.

"Stop him, don’t let him escape."

"This way leads to Yushi Alley, who’s over there?"

"It’s Zhonglangjiang Lei, who cultivated the Sinking Mountains Technique, he should be able to stop him."

"Not necessarily! Zhonglangjiang Ji and the two Xiaowei were just knocked off by that beast."

At this point, a well-proportioned supernatural beast emerged from the black fog. It resembled a Dragon Colt with a sleek body covered in glossy, metallic black scales. Atop its head was a red horn, looking like a crown, like a ruby, making its whole body unique, elegant, vibrant, and noble.

The supernatural beast was stepping on a substantial amount of lightning, moving swiftly like a shadow, creating a mirage in everyone’s view.

"Get back!"

Lei Zhen’s eyes were wide open with rage, a waterfall of sword light crashing down, the Shi of the sword’s was as heavy as the mountain, containing the weight of thousands of mountains, as if it was a star crashing down from the sky, with a vast and profound momentum.

However, the supernatural beast did not dodge or avoid, but directly collided into him. Its red horn hit against Lei Zhen’s sword Shi.

At this moment, at least a hundred houses nearby collapsed, raising a cloud of dust into the sky.

Lei Zhen’s figure was as if it had been directly hit by a hundred elephants, as he was thrown dozens of feet away like a meteorite.

After landing, he collapsed a few more houses and carved a trench twenty feet long into the ground before he could finally stop himself.

By the time Lei Zhen stopped his body, the black supernatural beast had swiftly passed through the entrance of the alley. His sword Shi only managed to slow it down slightly.

Lei Zhen spat out a mouthful of blood, then took to the air, looking towards the north. However, from here to the northern city wall, the supernatural beast was nowhere to be seen.

At this time, a woman dressed as Fumo Zhonglangjiang was approaching from the sky. Her appearance was equally disheveled, with numerous parts of her Liudao Fumo Armor damaged, and a trace of blood also visible at the corner of her mouth.

- She was Ji Yongchun, Lei Zhen’s colleague from the DiLi Main Hall of Fumo Zhonglangjiang.

"That seems to be a pure-blooded Demon Qilin?" After stopping, she looked in the direction where the black Qilin disappeared with incredulity.

"Its cultivation level should be at the peak of the 12th house level, half a step at the Heavenly level. How did such a powerful member of the demon tribe manage to enter Beijing?"

"I don’t know~" Lei Zhen sheathed his sword, his face ashen, "All I know is that we are in big trouble. If this Demon Qilin can’t be eliminated as soon as possible, or chased out of Beijing, God knows what catastrophe it might bring."

A Qilin is an auspicious beast, its appearance is a symbol of prosperity and peace, but a Demon Qilin is a harbinger of disaster.

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Li Xuan didn’t learn about the Demon Qilin breaking into the Capital City until he left the execution ground of the market.

At this time, the whole Capital City was under curfew, with large groups of Xiuyiwei and the soldiers of the Five Cities Infantry Commander appearing on the streets of the Capital City. With one outpost every ten steps and one checkpoint every hundred, you could say that it was heavily guarded at every corner.

Li Xuan didn’t think much of it, as he had experienced more in Nanjing City, he was just amazed at the laxness of the ’supervisor of the nine gates’ people.

The position of Nine Gates commander didn’t exist at this time, but there was a ’commander of the nine gates’ who was responsible for the defense matters of all the city gates in and outside the Capital City.

Afterward, he didn’t think much about the Demon Qilin, because he was about to go insane from hunger after coming out from the execution ground.

The batch of criminals who were executed from the Ministry of Punishments was indeed much stronger than those from Liudao Division. Among them, fourteen people were at the Third Gate level and two were at the Fourth Gate level - and they were all battle-hardened generals with extremely high ability.

This had caused his arms to extend to more than forty golden silk threads, which were intertwined to form the silhouette of an arm armor.

But the price Li Xuan paid was extreme hunger. He swallowed all the fifty-plus bottles of Jiuyou Oil he had left and didn’t even half fill his hunger.

Fortunately, Luo Yan had left the main hall of the Liudao Division and was waiting for him here. She then took out another 120 bottles, only then filling Li Xuan’s hunger.

"Remember, you owe me thirteen hundred taels of patterned silver."

As Luo Yan reminded Li Xuan, she looked at his hands with a peculiar expression, "Looking at these two immortal artifacts of yours, you haven’t even recovered a sixth of its full power yet. How much essence and blood, and how many bottles of Jiuyou Oil would it take to feed them? A thousand? Or twelve hundred?"

Li Xuan then sighed and shamelessly said, "Even three thousand bottles would do. Yan, lend me a few more tens of thousands of taels later, I need to buy some more Jiuyou Oil to keep."

He was prepared to become a ’long-term debtor’.

Theoretically, he should prepare seventy thousand taels of silver to fill his stomach. But who knew what kind of pit would appear as the immortal treasure was restored in the end?

Considering his current income, including the annual dividends from the Earl Chengyi’s industries, he would only have thirty thousand taels of silver at most each year.

Apart from mooching off others, he couldn’t think of another method to fill this bottomless pit.

But the decision to spend that money still brought value—

Li Xuan looked at the pair of arm guards that were still unable to form on his hand, thinking that Yu Yanjun hadn’t even manifested one-tenth of their power. The destruction of their previous battle at the hands of Yu Hongchang was quite frustrating.

The power of these things relied on ’devouring people’. Both the method of refining these two arm guards and their use were close to demonic artifacts.

"But now I’m worried that you won’t be able to pay me back."

Even though Luo Yan said this, she generously took out a fifty thousand tael silver note for Li Xuan: "If that’s not enough, you can find me again."

Previously, she had robbed more than seventy unscrupulous tycoons and amassed a large amount of ill-gotten wealth. In total, she had several million taels in silver bars, and her gold filled an entire stone room, so she didn’t feel any pinch at all.

Previously, Luo Yan was scattering silver throughout south Zhili, but she found that the people she wanted to help weren’t benefited at all. It eventually led to rising prices and made it more difficult for people to survive.

After getting to know Li Xuan, she understood the principle of ’inflation’. The more silver circulating in the market, the more expensive the commodities would become.

So, there were no suitable places to use this money.

"By the way, the Qinglong Hall finally showed mercy today and handed over several cases to us."

As she was talking, she handed a stack of scrolls to Li Xuan: "I have instructed several Six Paths Bureau Colonels lead their teams to manage the cases."

Li Xuan took the scrolls and glanced at them, letting out a cold snort.

These were all minor cases, and they all shared one feature—they were troublesome and tough.

However, considering the current state of the Shenyi Department, having some cases to practice their hands and to warm up wasn’t a bad idea.

"I presume this must have something to do with the Demon Qilin. Has Qinglong Hall run out of manpower? I heard that it is a half-heavenly level Demon Qilin, but what exactly happened? How did it get in?"

The ’Jiugong Shenmen Array’ in Beijing was no less powerful than the Bamen Jinshui Array in Nanjing City.

Further, there were a collection of heavenly levels here. Due to the national policy of Emperor Tai of Jin Dynasty regarding ’The Emperor Guarding the National Gate’, nearly all heavenly levels in the Jin Dynasty were gathered in Beijing City.

Theoretically, a half-heavenly level big demon like this shouldn’t be able to get in.

"The question you asked is what the people of Qinglong Hall would also like to know. It is said that this Demon Qilin suddenly appeared in a location near the palace in the south of the city."

Luo Yan wrinkled her brows in confusion: "It was as if it was looking for something, and then it was discovered by the people from Qinglong Hall. After that, it fled north, injuring six Xiaowei and two Zhonglangjiang from Qinglong Hall along the way. It also collapsed more than a thousand civilian houses.

The Venerable of Qinglong Hall was also alerted. He planned to act personally, but before he could arrive, the Demon Qilin had fled and disappeared without a trace. In short, the entire Beijing is currently on high alert, and the headquarters has summoned all four divisions of Shenlei Mansion back."

Li Xuan knew about the Shenlei Mansion, which was named the Liudao Shenlei Mansion in full. It was built to mimic the ’Lei Department’ of the legendary Heavenly Court and was the directly subordinate force of the Liudao Division Headquarters. There were five divisions in total, each of which were controlled by a Fumo Zhonglangjiang. Each division had around a hundred members, all of which were elite Wu cultivators above the fourth house level.

They were not responsible for managing cases, they specialized in dealing with the wanted criminals on the blacklist and big evil demons in the world.

And a half-heavenly level Black Qilin was something that the Liudao Division should treat with utmost caution, no matter what.

Li Xuan felt that this whole incident was quite strange, but he didn’t give it much thought. After he returned to Earl Jingan’s mansion, he locked himself in his room for the night. Throughout the evening, cracking sounds echoed from his body while thunders and lightning coiled around him, causing his entire body to shine like jade.

—This was the transformation of his Wu Dao cultivation entering the sixth house level.

Previously, under the pressure of Duke Yansheng, although Li Xuan’s Hao Qi had condensed into the Wenxin, entering the third door, his plan for Wu Dao cultivation was still at the fifth house level.

Li Xuan felt that he could go further in the future with his Wu Dao, so he considered himself a Wu cultivator. However, awkwardly, his progress in Wu Dao was far less than his progress in Hao Qi.

It was not until today that Li Xuan had just crossed the threshold of the sixth house level, there was still a long way to go to condense the Golden Body of Wu Dao.

According to his original progress, it would have taken at least another month to take this step. But after killing more than four hundred extremely evil cultivators today, a pure Yuan Qi feedback flowed into his body. The effect was not inferior to the top spirit pill, which greatly shortened the time he needed to accumulate Zhenyuan.

This was also why Li Xuan believed the money was well spent. He had yet to master the full abilities of the two immortal treasures. He didn’t know what kind of surprises they would bring him in the future.

However, on the following day, Li Xuan, who was heading to the Liudao Division headquarters for his Mao shift, was summoned to the Shenlei Mansion early in the morning to wait for a meeting with the deputy Venerable.