Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 485 - 385: The Tactics of a Scumbag_1

Chapter 485: Chapter 385: The Tactics of a Scumbag_1

It was during the dinner at the Jiang family’s clinic that Li Xuan learned that Jiang Hanyun had been transferred to the Divine Thunderbolt Department of the main hall, serving as the deputy to the General Commander Mu Qiangwei of Qinglei Department.

Li Xuan was both delighted and worried. He was happy that Jiang Hanyun had arrived in the Capital City and they could meet every day; but the coming of Jiang Hanyun posed a substantial challenge to his time management techniques.

Li Xuan wasn’t worried about Jiang Hanyun being bullied by others. Although the deputy Venerable, the head of the Divine Thunderbolt Department, had a grudge against him, all his ways of dealing with him were fair and aboveboard.

Mu Qiangwei, the General Commander of the Qinglei Department, had strong competitiveness, yet she was a liberal-minded and heroic woman.

The strange thing for Li Xuan was why Jiang Hanyun, who had only been the commander of the Huoque Department for less than half a year, was transferred to Beijing.

Hearing his doubts, Mrs. Jiang sneered and pointed out Jiang Hanyun’s shortcomings: "What else could it be? She messed up several cases. Without you, her brain wouldn’t be capable of achieving anything.

With the aid of her Spirit Fox, normal cases were of course easy to deal with. But slightly more complex ones could fry her brain. Manager Long knew her capabilities, so he sent her to the Shenlei Mansion."

She also made a ’little’ effort in it, but it wouldn’t be appropriate to mention it to outsiders.

Jiang Hanyun turned red and denied immediately: "Mother, what nonsense are you talking about! The case-solving rate of the Huoque Department under my charge is very good and has always been in the forefront."

"It’s thanks to your capable subordinates."

Mrs. Jiang was too lazy to expose her any further, so she held Li Xuan’s hand and instructed: "As for my daughter, I wouldn’t say she’s stupid. When she was little, she only needed to be taught once whatever spell or martial law she was learning, and never required a second time.

But in terms of solving cases, her mind actually doesn’t work well. Now that you’re again working together, you should take care of her more often."

Li Xuan willingly patted his chest, promising swiftly. Considering the relationship he currently had with Jiang Hanyun, he naturally regarded himself as the prospective son-in-law of the Jiang family and naturally needed to show off in front of his mother-in-law and father-in-law.

After that, Li Xuan didn’t stay at the Jiang family clinic, because Li Dalu had sent a message that Luo Yan and Yue Qianqian had finally finished dealing with the cases at hand and returned to Earl Jingan’s mansion.

Li Xuan hurried home to keep up appearances, but the weary-faced Luo Yan ignored him. She glanced at Li Xuan’s leg and then walked towards the backyard as if he was nothing more but thin air. An annoyed Yue Qianqian also pouted and left after Luo Yan.

At that moment, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue, both battered and bruised, finally arrived. Zhang Yue came up to him and said sarcastically, "You had it coming. I told you, wouldn’t it be better to just break your leg?

At least there’s no need to make them upset and then beg for forgiveness afterwards, making effort to coax them back. We could also be spared of a beating."

He was beaten up at the Shangqing Palace by the Paozi River because of the incident with the wet fireworks. As a result, both of them were surrounded and severely beaten.

Fortunately for him, as he was cultivating the Henglian Golden Body, it didn’t hurt that much. Poor old Peng was much worse off, screaming the entire time.

Peng Fulai, with his eyes swelling up like a pair of panda’s, looked confused and incredulous: "This is illogical! Illogical! Our plan was supposed to be flawless, how did it fail? How did it fail?"

"Shut up, both of you." Li Xuan glanced at them helplessly, then asked, "Did you bring what I asked you to bring?"

"Yes, they’re all outside!" Zhang Yue pointed outside: "There are 320 boxes of fireworks that haven’t been soaked in the water, all of them right there. We spent a lot on this, together with the 760 boxes that got wet, it cost all in all 130,000 taels of patterned silver, filling more than seventy carts.

We blame Peng for the rotten idea of stealing the bottom of the pot. As a result, a clue was left behind, and they got caught. If we didn’t buy all the fireworks that didn’t get wet this time, we would probably offend a lot of people."

"Enough! I told you I’ll cover this expense."

Li Xuan generously waved it off, but inside, he was worried. The money that he had extorted from Mr. Sun was not going to last. When would he finally achieve financial independence?

"Everyone, go and move these fireworks into the yard. Peng, you know how to set them off, don’t you? Did you invite the master over?"

In the backyard of the Jingan Earl’s Mansion, Luo Yan was burying herself in a blanket, her nose tingling and eyes welling up with tears.

After today’s Demon Market incident, there was a moment when she wanted to leave without saying goodbyes and wander the world.

Yet when she thought of Li Xuan placing himself in peril instead of her due to her carelessness, and his painstaking plan for her father’s case, Luo Yan couldn’t bear to do it and felt reluctant to leave him.

Luo Yan thought she was uncoordinated and free spirited. But when she really wanted to leave, she found herself attached to the feeling of being by Li Xuan’s side and liked this kind of life.

Invisible chains had already tightly bound her to Li Xuan.

But was she too easy to be coaxed, letting him do as he pleases, so that Li Xuan took her for granted?

Just as Luo Yan was about to lose control of her tears, she suddenly perked up and looked out of the window, only to see multicolored lights flickering in the night sky.

Luo Yan was a little puzzled and got up to go to the window. Then she saw countless splendid fireworks soaring into the sky from the front yard.

Staring at the multicolored sky that was lit up as if it was daylight, Luo Yan was startled, then she lowered her head to look towards the front yard and saw that Li Xuan was waving at her with a smile.

Looking around Li Xuan, she noticed that the front yard was filled with various boxes. She thought that this guy probably bought all the fireworks from the ’Fire Tree Silver Flower Nightless Sky’ display.

She tried hard to control her expression, but as the fireworks bloomed and Li Xuan clasped his hands together in a pleading gesture, a small smile involuntarily curled up at the corner of Luo Yan’s lips.

The fireworks that Li Xuan bought brightened up the night until near the Hour of Zi, lifting Luo Yan’s mood for the rest of the night.

However, later that night as she settled down to cultivate in her room, she suddenly sensed something. Immediately focusing her spiritual energy on her sight, she looked outside her room. Li Xuan was leading his Jade Qilin out of the front door stealthily, then sped off like a lightning flash towards the Rensheng Palace of Dongyue.

Unable to suppress a sneer, Luo Yan muttered something derogatory under her breath.

She knew that before the Taoist temple adjacent to Earl Jingan’s mansion was fully repaired, Xue Yunrou was living outside Chaoyang Gate, near the Rensheng Palace of Dongyue.

But oddly enough, even though Luo Yan knew that Li Xuan was going to appease Xue Yunrou, or even do something shameless, she did not feel as annoyed as before.

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On the first day of the month, when Li Xuan came out of Dongyue Rensheng Palace, he was energetic and completely unlike his previous desolate appearance.

However, as he was preparing to carry on his efforts at appeasing Yu Hongchang, he was summoned to the main hall of the Liudao Division by a golden sword talisman.

Upon stepping into the Shenlei Mansion, he found that the Divine Venerable Zhu Mingyue of the Liudao Division, the Venerable of Zhuque Hall - True Lord Lingyou and the deputy Venerable were all present. The three of them surrounded a map, all looking serious.

Besides them, only Luo Yan, Jiang Hanyun and Yue Qianqian were present. The commanders of the other five departments of the Shenlei Mansion were nowhere to be seen.

Li Xuan didn’t find this strange, since he knew that all five departments of the Shenlei Mansion had important duties to carry out. Most of their members did not even have the privilege to celebrate the New Year’s Eve.

As soon as Li Xuan entered, Zhu Mingyue went straight to the point: "A quarter of an hour ago, the Bai Leidu Division sent a distress signal to the main hall! All 240 people from their division are trapped in the Mausoleum of the Great Liao Emperor, with over twenty casualties."

"The Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor?"

Li Xuan was puzzled. "Why would they go there?"

He was roughly aware of the situation. The Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor was on the territory of the Datan, located at the borders of the Datan and Nuergan Divisions.

The distance between there and Beijing was quite far, approximately the distance between Nanjing and Beijing.

The Deputy Venerable’s face was pale. "They were chasing Sikong Xin, the ninth person on the black list, but upon entering the mausoleum, it changed and the whole unit got trapped in a dangerous situation."

His mood appeared to be extremely terrible, and his voice was unusually cold.

Luo Yan furrowed her brows: "I’ve heard about the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor. It’s a well-known dangerous place, its gloomy soil spreads for about 500 li around it. Moreover, it’s the Datan’s territory. How could the Bai Leidu Division just walk into it?"

"They have only entered twenty li into the outer area, which is frequently accessed by our Liudao Division’s people without any danger," said Zhu Mingyue, then asked Li Xuan: "Do you know any details about the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor?"

Li Xuan shook his head in confusion. He was familiar with the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor in another world, but he wasn’t very clear about the one in this world.

However, Yue Qianqian, the human encyclopedia, was standing next to him. Her voice soft, she said: "It is a place in this world with the greatest accumulation of evil spirits and sins. The founder of the Liao, Abaoji, died suddenly during a campaign against Bohai State. In order to secure the ascension of the second prince, Yelv Deguang, who was campaigning outside, the Empress of the Liao, Shulv Ping, forced hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as supporters of the Crown Prince, to be buried with the deceased emperor.

Later, in order to assuage the anger and resentment in the country, Empress Shulv Ping cut off one of her own arms and buried it with Liao’s coffin. From then on, the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor became a widely known dangerous place.

Later when the Jurchens rose to power, they razed the tomb of the Liao Emperor, and beheaded the noble relatives of the Khitan royal family, as well as the 170,000 members of the Pishi Army of the Liao in front of the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor.

Since then, within a radius of five hundred li around the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor, there has been no sign of human life. Sheepherders from the Datan who strayed close have never come back. However, many evil cultivators who refine corpses and cultivate sins often enter the place."

"That’s roughly it."

Zhu Mingyue nodded slightly. "After consulting with the Deputy Venerable, we’ve decided that he and I will go with the four of you for the rescue mission. We are responsible for dealing with several entities within the mausoleum, while you are responsible for the rescue. We can enter from this point, get the people out, and that will be enough."

He pointed at a spot on the map, his voice serious, "Having to go to the bitter-cold area of Datan on the first day of the new year is somewhat inhuman. However, within the main hall, the reliable combat forces we can count on now are the four of you."

The night before, he had witnessed the power of Yue Qianqian and Luo Yan. Both of them were unharmed in the Nirvana Divine Flame of the Lord Huang.

Even Li Xuan surprised him with his outstanding performance in escape techniques and defense capabilities. As for Jiang Hanyun, there was no need to say more.

These four working together could be a formidable force, strong enough to fight against two half heavenly level entities.

The mission required a small yet powerful team. Anyone else would be a burden.

Li Xuan then concentrated on the map of the Mausoleum of the Liao Emperor on the table: "When do we set off?"

"Right now. I have borrowed the Red Thunder Chariot from the Dragon King," said Zhu Mingyue, his eyes serious. "Saving lives is like putting out a fire. We cannot delay any longer."