Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 681 - 560: Healing Yu Hongchang’s Wounds_1

Chapter 681: Chapter 560: Healing Yu Hongchang’s Wounds_1

About two days later, within the Wenhua Palace, the passionate rainstorm-like intimate encounter here has finally come to an end.

At this moment, Yu Hongshang was closely hugging Li Xuan’s waist, her head resting on his lower abdomen.

Occasionally, her gaze fell upon an area that was hard to look at directly, and she involuntarily chuckled, "It’s truly vigorous, managing to persist until now."

Li Xuan was lying on his back on the stone steps, entering what the people of future generations would call a ’sage-like’ state.

He allowed his mind to wander, his expression full of satisfaction, yet his face had gone slightly pale.

He thought to himself, with such a beautiful woman provoking him so, naturally ’it’ would be vigorous. But the problem was that he himself could hardly bear anymore.

Li Xuan had originally thought that due to his successful cultivation, his body was strong and his Yuan Qi plentiful.

So when it came to lovemaking, whether it was for a day and night, or even ten days and nights, it should not pose a problem.

However, he had forgotten that when cultivators engaged in such activities, the exhaustion was ten times greater.

Li Xuan’s body indeed did not feel tired, but his Yuan Qi was being depleted.

There’s an old saying about how a single drop of this equated ten drops of blood. Li Xuan had never paid attention to it before, but now he found it to be extremely reasonable.

The key thing was that his Dantian, in producing this thing, was actually consuming his ten blood drops as a Wu cultivator of The Third Door!

And his opponent happened to be a heavenly level cultivator, who possessed the Extreme Yin and Yang Power, and was especially good at squeezing.

As soon as that power of Yin-yang twists and turns, the juice would burst out, and Li Xuan simply couldn’t hold back.

Li Xuan deeply realized that mortals would never be able to overcome a true heavenly level person in this regard.

All of this was Yunrou’s fault, this ’heavenly level’ whom had relied on an external force, had created an illusion for him.

Seeing that Yu Hongshang was still in high spirits and seemingly planning to continue the onslaught, Li Xuan decided to say something to divert her attention: "The spring night is short and the day rises quickly. From now on, the king will not hold his court early. Shang, don’t you think that we’re delaying handling state affairs this way?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Hongshang laughed, "Don’t worry, I’ve already sent a letter to Grand Secretary Chen and the Sili Bureau beforehand. Unless there’s something important, the cabinet and the Sili Bureau can handle it.

"For the disaster relief within the Capital City, I’ve entrusted Minister of Rites Hu Ying to handle it. He’s an old minister from the Xuan Emperor’s reign, known for his integrity and loyalty, he definitely won’t disappoint me or the people of the Capital City."

Hu Ying was already Minister of Rites during Xuan Emperor’s reign, he had served six dynasties beginning from the Taizu Era, and was also one of the five ministers whom the Xuan Emperor entrusted his kingdom before his death. Respected and revered in the Daru circle, he was recognized for his virtues.

Back then, his greatest obstacle was actually not Gao Gu or Shang Hong in the Cabinet, but Hu Ying, when Emperor Jingtai attempted to change the Crown Prince.

However, he was an upright and loyal gentleman who did not form factions, and his few pieces of advice to Jingtai Emperor were all given in private, out of respect for the emperor’s dignity.

When he learned about the immorality of the Crown Prince, Hu Ying did not appear to stop the Emperor again.

Such a loyal and upright minister was undoubtedly respectable and trustworthy.

Yu Hongshang looked up at Li Xuan, "In any case, they knew that I had been schemed against and needed time to heal. They won’t say anything for the next three or five days."

Li Xuan thought to himself, another three to five days? He thought he barely had three to five days left. He still decided to distract her, "By the way, Shang, how about you leave the matter of ’Red Line Connection’ and the Demon Master to me?"

As expected, Yu Hongshang’s attention was diverted. She nodded slightly, "Of course I’ll leave it to you, Xuan. I won’t have time for these matters later. However, what’s your plan? Do you want me to issue an edict to let the Xiuyiwei and Neijian Chang assist you?"

Li Xuan scoffed coldly, "This is not a case to be cracked, why would I need the Xiuyiwei and Neijian Chang to cooperate?"

He had plenty of ways to make all those involved pay the price.

Whether it was Liang Heng or Prince Xiang, or even the Empress Dowager - none of them would escape.

However, his expression changed slightly afterwards, "That’s also a possibility. I have to think of a way to find the whereabouts of the Demon Master. Now that he has lost two of his three incarnations, it’s the best time to get rid of him."

Yu Hongshang gave a faint smile, thinking that it was indeed her Xuan. However, her expression then became serious again, "Xuan, let’s talk about our matters, at this point—"

At this moment, the tightly closed door made a few ’clang’ sounds, someone was knocking heavily from outside.

At the same time, the voice of the Duzhi Bureau’s head eunuch, Wang Chuanhua, came from outside the hall.

"Your Highness! There’s a severe drought in Shanxi, several counties there haven’t seen rain for two months, there’s a possibility of no harvest this year. The cabinet officials suggest using the military grain reserve stored there, but they dare not make the decision. Please, Your Highness, if convenient, discuss the disaster relief matters with them as soon as possible."

Yu Hongshang frowned slightly, she felt reluctant in her heart, but stood up without hesitation, draping herself in her bright red palace outfit over her smooth and jade-like exquisite body.

"Send them to the Wenhua Palace quickly! Also, send me all the memorials from all the civil and military officials in Shanxi for the past two months."

She knew that disaster relief was as urgent as firefighting, for every moment she delayed now, countless people may die of hunger in Shanxi.

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Li Xuan stealthily left through the Xihua Gate, he kept a low profile all the way through, not daring to alert any of the palace guards.

In the end, he used the power of ’Void’ from Saintess White Lotus to teleport directly outside the palace city about 100 yards away.

After all, it involved Yu Hongchang’s reputation and Li Xuan didn’t dare to leave any trace of evidence.

Since the Tang and Jin dynasties, in any era, people have always valued a woman’s chastity and her reputation. The Confucianists of the Jin Dynasty paid particular importance to their reputation.

And this world was, after all, being governed by the Confucianists.

If Yu Hongchang’s reputation were tarnished, she would lose the legitimacy and foundation to supervise state affairs on behalf of the Emperor.

When Li Xuan managed to sneak back to the Marquis of Guanjun’s residence, he saw Luo Yan standing there with her arms crossed, her gaze cold as ice, as sharp as a blade looking at him.

Even if Li Xuan were to guess, he knew what Luo Yan was thinking.

Others did not know where Li Xuan had gone, but Luo Yan knew clearly.

——This guy had gone to the palace and stayed in the Wenhua Palace with Princess Changle for almost two days. What exactly was he doing? Was he doing this and that with Princess Changle?

Li Xuan though looked calm, slightly puzzled, "Yan, why are you here? Have you finished your duties at Liudao Division?"

After all, they had just undergone the upheaval of the White Lotus rebellion, and it was now noon, the busiest time for the Liudao Division.

His second mind was so busy that he didn’t even have a moment to rest.

"I happened to be nearby handling a case, and came back to see if you had returned."

Luo Yan let out a cold snort, her gaze sharp as she looked up and down at Li Xuan, "How was it? Were these two days comfortable for you? While everyone else was working their feet off, your Jade Qilin was in the infirmary still unconscious. And you, rolling in the red blankets in the palace, enjoying all the tenderness."

"What nonsense are you talking?" Li Xuan immediately straightened his face and saidrightly, "Where did you get the idea of me rolling in red blankets and enjoying all the tenderness from? I went to the palace to heal Her Highness. Princess was badly injured during her suppression of the Jiuding Wulong Hunyuan Great Array due to the sneak attack from the Demon Master."

It was not that he deliberately wanted to conceal it from Luo Yan, but this matter was of great importance, and it was best if it only rotted in his and Yu Hongchang’s bellies.

"Heal? But you two were locked in Wenhua Palace for more than just three to five hours, it was two days, a whole two days!"

Luo Yan sneered, and held up two fingers, shaking them in front of Li Xuan, "Two days, what kind of injury requires such a long treatment? You, Li Xuan, are not some famous doctor, must it be you to do it? In two days, you two could have done all sorts of things."

Li Xuan finally felt a little guilty and thought, these two days, it does seem to be a little too long, right?

He sighed, "This is an ancient curse, it’s quite troublesome and normal medical treatment can’t resolve it. Yan, look at me, my face has become pale, my Yuan Qi has depleted to this state."

Li Xuan deliberately pointed to his face, "Look at my legs and feet, now they are all weak, like stepping on cotton, I can hardly stand."

Seeing this, Luo Yan hesitated a bit, thinking had she really misunderstood him? He did look like his Yuan Qi was seriously depleted.

She was still somewhat doubtful, but just as she was about to say something, a clear voice came from outside the gate, "Li Dalu, has your young master recovered from his injury? Has he come out of seclusion?"

Li Xuan recognized the voice as his uncle, left Qiandu Yushi, Wei Zhen.

These two days as he was healing Yu Hongchang, his main body could not show up, so he had to make the excuse that he had suffered serious damage in the fight with White Lotus and needed to retreat to recuperate. He had deliberately called Li Dalu back to guard the gate and deal with the visitors along with his father, Li Sihai.

Li Xuan immediately walked to the door, smiling broadly, "Uncle Wei, I’m fine."

Wei Zhen was stunned for a moment, he carefully looked at Li Xuan from head to toe and finally let out a sigh of relief, "It’s good that you’re fine, it’s good. But why has your face become so pale? Was it caused by the White Lotus uprising, and affected your foundation?"

Li Xuan subconsciously touched his face and thought that he had indeed become like this from healing Yu Hongchang.

However, that Demon Master might have been colluding with White Lotus, so blaming it on White Lotus didn’t seem too wrong either.

"Don’t worry, I have only lost a little Yuan Qi, I can replenish it by taking some elixirs."

Li Xuan then curiously asked, "Uncle Wei, do you have any important matters that you need to come to my residence for? Li Dalu told me that you have been here three times in the past two days."

This was what Li Dalu had told his second mind.

Wei Zhen immediately laughed, "It’s just that my colleagues from the Imperial Censor’s Office and the Jishizhong of the Six Departments entrusted me to ask about your condition, they are very concerned about you. Your injury is now the number one priority of the Confucian school. Do you know that almost all the Confucianists in the capital are now worried about you?"

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, "Really? Is it that exaggerated? "

"Not at all exaggerated."

Wei Zhen shook his head, ’tsk tsk’ with admiration, "You don’t know how much reputation you have in Confucianism, especially in your ’The Original Tao’ there is a line that says: Yao passed this down to Shun, Shun passed this down to Yu, Yu passed this down to Tang, Tang passed this down to Wen Wu and Duke Zhou, Wen Wu and Duke Zhou passed this down to Confucius, and Confucius passed this down to Mengke."

This line has deeply resonated with the Confucian scholars of this era. Many believe that based solely on this line that establishes the lineage of the Confucian school, the Confucian school of this era should be led by you, Li Xuan. They believe that you, Li Xuan, are the venerable ancestor of the Confucian school of this era."

The Minister of Rites, Hu YIng personally praised ’Confucius and Mencius are no more, the great road has failed, heresies are rampant for more than a thousand years, and then we got the text of ’The Original Tao’ to refute them’;

Minister of War, the Elder Shang Hong, also publicly praised you in front of people, ’his discussion about benevolence and righteousness is very beautiful. It targets Buddha and Laozi, which is like debunking the confusion of four eras, which is a great achievement when compared to refuting Yang and Mo.’

By the way, two days ago, when Tiandi Altar broke, Elder Shang Hong’s cultivation reached the heavenly level, becoming the third heavenly Confucianist of today’s world. His words hold great weight."