Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 723 - 598

Chapter 723: 598

After bringing back the Black Deer King, Li Xuan naturally started treating Xue Bai.

Because the Deer King was alive and the essence blood could be extracted at any time, Li Xuan and Jiang Yunqi didn’t resort to very drastic methods. They gradually helped Xue Bai assimilate into the Void Yi.

In this way, the Deer King would surely consume more of its vitality and blood, but it would also have enough time to preserve its body, enabling a continuous supply of blood.

Li Xuan used a flying seal to report the matter to the palace. The reply was to keep the deer in his mansion to prevent it from escaping.

The Jingtai Emperor knew that using this auspicious creature right away was just the icing on the cake. Only using it at key moments could maximize its effectiveness.

In addition, the Jingtai Emperor would send trustworthy people every month to extract deer blood for use by the Jingtai Emperor and Crown Prince Yu Jianji.

Naturally, the Jingtai Emperor didn’t take this essence blood from the black deer for nothing. Li Xuan could go to the Yuyao Bureau to get some good medicines to replenish the vitality of the Black Deer King.

Li Xuan held the power and swept a large pile of medicines from the Yuyao Bureau.

The Jin Dynasty’s royal family was poor yet rich. They were poor because they didn’t have much income in silver each year, but the food harvested from the imperial manors around the country and various miscellaneous materials were massive.

Many things that could not be used were "scrapped" by the Neishi for various reasons.

The characters of the Great Ancestor and Emperor Taizong were extremely domineering. They wanted to hold everything in their hands, but in the end, they couldn’t grasp anything.

The same was true for the imperial medicine department. The royal family had sixty top-ranking medicine fields in the world, accounting for nearly half of the total. But these medicines could not be used up by the royal family, and in the end, due to being ’old’ and ’not well preserved’, many of them were lost.

So when Li Xuan got the chance, he swept a large batch of medicinal materials without hesitation.

If calculated according to the market value, it was worth at least over a million teals.

The Imperial Physicians were also happy. They cooperated with Li Xuan to provide the Black Deer King with an "elixir formula" to replenish his blood, and reaped quite a few benefits.

Only the eunuch who was the leader of the Yuyao Bureau had an iron-like complexion. If these medicinal materials were not used, at least five to six hundred thousand silver coins would fall into their pockets.

Li Xuan reaped the benefits and conscientiously replenished the body of the Black Deer King.

However, this heavenly level Demon King, famous as ’Lu Chen’, couldn’t get happy at all while drinking 100-year-old Fuling soup.

What made him unhappy was not only the fact that he had become a ’deer-shaped spirit pill’, but also what Li Xuan was doing.

The Black Deer King stared at Li Xuan with an annoyed look. "Can you not castrate all my divine skills? Leave me one or two! For instance, this Shengyuan Technique of Five Qi can also help me replenish my vital energy. You need my blood, don’t you? The more vital energy in my blood, the better the effect, right?"

Upon hearing that, Li Xuan couldn’t help but laugh. "Leave it to make it easier for you to escape? This divine skill cannot be suppressed by the Zhenyuan Nail."

The effect of the ’Zhenyuan Nail’ on a heavenly level was already very limited.

In fact, Li Xuan wasn’t very worried that the Black Deer King would escape. He had just got this experimental object, the Black Deer King, and wanted to test out the ’castration’ of the Rule of Extreme Heaven.

He found that ’castration’ was not omnipotent. It could only work on things that were in the ’process of happening’.

For example, the various divine skills of the Black Deer King, Li Xuan could ’castrate’ them during the process of using these divine skills or he could castrate the thoughts of the Black Deer King using these divine skills.

Undoubtedly, the latter method was smarter and consumed much less mana. But Li Xuan had to accurately judge when the enemy would use his divine skills.

Then there were writings, words, carvings, paintings etc., which could be ’suspended halfway’.

So, the Rule of Extreme Heaven of this ’Gelong Knife’ was not exactly castration, but more like a combination of various concepts.

If one had to use a word to describe it, ’sever’ or ’rupture’ might be more appropriate.

Li Xuan was becoming more and more satisfied with this ’Gelong Knife’.

The only pity was that his Zhenyuan and mana were insufficient. Without enough Zhenyuan stored in the Four Images Refining Primordial Furnace, the ’Gelong Knife’ had become a decoration.

The Black Deer King didn’t know about Li Xuan’s thoughts. He gasped for breath, then his eyes rolled. "How about this, I can make a vow of heart and mind, promising not to run away, and can serve you for ten to eight years, and provide as much essence blood as I can, as long as it doesn’t damage my fundamental vitality.

You just need to restore my divine skills, and let me go when the time comes. To be honest, I’m actually very grateful for your life-saving grace, Marquis Guanjun. If it weren’t for you, I would most likely have been skinned and bone-picked by those Fusou people, and the outcome would have been worse.

We, the Demon Tribe, are clear about our grudges and kindness. Since Marquis Guanjun saved me, I should repay you by serving you."

Li Xuan thought this fellow was quite eloquent, which almost softened his heart.

"A heart and mind vow? I’m not saying that I won’t consider it, but ten to eight years definitely can’t do, since it’s a life-saving grace, naturally you should devote your body to me!"

As Li Xuan said this, he then curiously asked, "Speaking of those Fusou people, Brother Lu, how did they catch you? That Fusou heavenly level’s speed of drawing his sword was very fast, but his escape speed should not be faster than yours. I think even if you can’t beat him, you should be able to escape."

In addition, he followed Lei all the way and didn’t find any signs of battle, nor were there any in the Tongwen Pavilion.

The Black Deer King’s face turned iron blue as he says, "He alone, of course, couldn’t catch me, but with the addition of the Mongolian Shaman Abas and the former Heavenly Master Zhang Guanlan, how could I resist?"

Originally even if he had encountered these three people, he would not have been helpless. But his strongest divine skill ’Dingshen Technique of Five Qi’ had just been castrated.

"This debt - this king will claim it back sooner or later. The humiliation of these past few days - this king will repay tenfold!"

He hadn’t suffered little in those days when he had fallen into the hands of the Fusou delegation.

Unlike Li Xuan, who had done nothing excessive to him other than castration and blood extractions.

"Abas? Zhang Guanlan?" Li Xuan couldn’t help but narrow his eyes slightly. "Where did you meet them? At the Chengde Qianhu Office?"

The Chengde Qianhu Office was where Lei, the Six-Tailed Spirit Fox, had chased him furthest.

He didn’t expect these two, Great Jin Dynasty’s mortal enemies, to be mixed up with a heavenly level swordmaster from Fusou.

These two enemies of the Great Jin Dynasty, were they planning to create more trouble again?

Li Xuan was starting to regret. If he had known this earlier, he would have taken on some risks today to directly execute Kamo Ittosai.

"It was Chengde, 600 miles northeast of the Capital City. At the time I only wanted to escape as far as possible, I didn’t look closely, ending up right in front of them."

The Black Deer King fell into contemplation as he spoke up to here: "Speaking of which, I sensed a strong aura of death and malicious energy there."

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Li Xuan subsequently went to the Liudao Division to visit Si Zhengliang, the former Jiancha Yushi of Huguang Branch.

To prevent Huangfu Xuanji from taking risks and killing people to silence them, Li Xuan didn’t send him to the Xiuyiwei, but locked him in the black water prison of the Beijing Demon Tower, inviting Lei Yun to oversee the guard and interrogations.

Initially, the flooding in the south was related to Bashe Changze and two other ancient wicked demons, so this case fell within the jurisdiction of the Liudao Division.

But at this point, Li Xuan’s influence in the Liudao Division had grown beyond the ’Shenyi Government’.

Now he was like an octopus, extending his arms in every direction.

Lei Yun was actually transferred to the Capital City managed by Li Xuan’s second mind.

Li Xuan knew that if his ’Shenyi Government’ wanted to operate smoothly throughout the Jin Dynasty, they needed to have their own people in various Demon Towers, and their official positions could not be too low.

Lei Yun might have felt awkward staying in Zhuque Hall, so he gladly accepted the offer and moved to the Capital City without hesitation.

By the time Li Xuan met Si Zhengliang again, he was bruised and blood-soaked, there was not a single spot of intact flesh across his entire body.

What surprised Li Xuan was that Lei Yun had already obtained Si Zhengliang’s confession.

After reading the confession, Li Xuan’s eyes lit up.

"Old Lei, your skills have grown significantly in these few months."

What he was referring to was Lei Yun’s ability in ’interrogation’. Originally, Lei Yun had no experience in this, but now, Lei Yun, the great Xiaowei, had given him an unexpected surprise.

In the case of people like Huangfu Xuanji, simple allegations were useless.

A Huangfu Xuanji could always counteraccuse, saying that Li Xuan was fabricating crimes, forcing confessions through torture or harboring a private grudge and intending to slander.

Earlier, Huangfu Xuanji was able to beat the case exactly like this.

They needed to gather concrete evidence to establish Huangfu Xuanji’s crime conclusively.

But now, Si Zhengliang had confessed to a few things. Although it was not enough to prove Huangfu Xuanji’s involvement in the floods in the south, it was enough to send him to prison once again.

In fact, he could also pull down with him several of Huangfu Xuanji’s friends—

Upon hearing this, Lei Yun snickered, expressing his disdain: "This is not due to my questioning skills; this man was just too worthless. His ’Wenxin’ is broken, his Hao Qi is completely drained, I didn’t even need to use any special methods, he just spilled everything, as malleable as mud."

Li Xuan leafed through the testimonies once more, this time looking closely at the details.

"Is this all he knows? Does he have anything else to spill?"

"He says it’s all he knows." Lei Yun fell into contemplation, "I will keep on pressuring him, use every method necessary, but don’t hold high hopes."

Li Xuan nodded slightly: "Give it a try! If he really knows nothing else, throw him into the Ant Jail. Keep his Yuan Qi alive using ginseng, don’t let him die a swift death."

As it was, this man was responsible for causing at least 120,000 people to die in the flood at the beginning of the year.

The seemingly dying Si Zhengliang’s pupils shrank; he knew what an ’Ant Jail’ was, he also knew that if he was thrown in there, he would have to endure a torture tenfold more painful than death by a thousand cuts.

"Marquis of Guanjun, spare me!" Si Zhengliang looked panicked, "Marquis of Guanjun, I have committed crimes that should cost me my life, I should pay with my life. Now I only seek a swift death, I beseech you, Marquis of Guanjun, to show mercy!"

He found Li Xuan and Lei Yun looking at him expressionlessly, their eyes filled with ridicule.

Si Zhengliang’s heart fluttered even more, but then he had a flash of insight. "Marquis of Guanjun, there is one more thing I know, it is related to the current political situation. Marquis, do you remember when you first arrived in the Capital, the former Crown Prince, also known as Prince Yi, was almost poisoned to death?

I hold some clues about this case. The killer is someone you would never have imagined. I only ask now to use this matter to plead for a swift death from the Marquis!"