Peace Order
Chapter 489 - 18: Turbulence Across the World, Starts with This Body_2

Chapter 489: Chapter 18: Turbulence Across the World, Starts with This Body_2

Nangong Wumeng didn’t understand.

The silver-haired girl on the other side seemed to have adjusted her expression.

She looked up, gazing at Nangong Wumeng.

Her exquisitely non-mortal face, adorned with a brilliant, warm smile and eyes like the stars, startled even the most beautiful woman in the Martial World with its beauty -- a beauty and a smile that could sway the heart of every young man in the Martial World.

Then she heard a series of footsteps.

The boy who had run off, now sprinted back.

Li Guanyi immediately extended his hand, tucking Shaking Light under his arm in a swift motion and, turning, he strode out; the silver-haired girl swayed unsteadily, her face expressionless once more, just gazing at Nangong Wumeng over there.

Nangong Wumeng understood the silver-haired girl’s reaction.

Because she had just shown her face, was the silver-haired girl retaliating in kind?

For a woman, beauty was indeed a weapon.

Still, Nangong Wumeng couldn’t help but chuckle softly, thinking about how the aloof girl had knelt there, reaching out to adjust her own expression, "She truly is like a chilly, mischievous Li Nu’er."

"No wonder she had no reaction to me."

"Seeing such beauties every day, one ought to behave like this."

She smiled at the guard outside and snapped her fingers, her Inner Qi transforming into Yin and Yang Qi, flowing and changing. The two martial artists outside, whom Li Guanyi had knocked unconscious, were directly turned into a pool of blood, dead beyond any hope of revival.

Nangong Wumeng propped her chin with her hand, mused, "It wasn’t easy to infiltrate this place."

"Yuwen Hua thought I was coerced. Little one, acting this way makes it very difficult for your sister, doesn’t it?"

"Could it be that the silver-haired youngster figured out my tactics?"

"Impossible, right?"

Nangong Wumeng slightly furrowed her brows.

Li Guanyi, carrying Shaking Light, moved swiftly through the area, gritting his teeth, said:

"Why did you suddenly run away?"

Shaking Light blinked, her voice cold and serene, devoid of emotional fluctuation, calmly said:

"I went to see if that girl might be an undercover agent for Yuwen Hua."

Li Guanyi believed her, skeptically asked, "Is that so?"

Shaking Light replied: "No."

"Yet, the number one beauty of the Martial World, and you didn’t think to play the hero and save the beauty? Isn’t she attractive?"

Li Guanyi answered: "Of course, she is attractive."

The young hero laughed heartily: "But, in my eyes, no beauty now can surpass Xue Zhaoji!"

"He is in such peril because of my plot, how could I have the heart to look at another beauty."

The silver-haired girl nodded: "That sounds like something you would say."

The boy chuckled, then soared into the air and rushed into the dungeon. There were over a dozen guards inside. With the help of Shaking Light’s strength, Li Guanyi easily bypassed them, but the moment he broke into the dungeon, his face momentarily turned rather unpleasant.

There were many pits in the deeper levels of the dungeon.

Within them were piles of corpses.

Littered with white bones, many of which belonged to children not fully grown, the bodies showed traces of dissipating Primordial Qi. Li Guanyi’s expression turned grim: "Signs of training... the Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect, the City Lord is involved with the Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect."

As Li Guanyi went through the information in his mind, it became clearer.

Why the people near Zhenbei City were encountering alchemists from the Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect.

Why the elder who used boys and girls to refine Blood Elixir Pills was an official in a nearby town of Zhenbei City.

Why there was a branch of the Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect nearby.

The relationship between Lady Hua Rui and the City Lord.

And the original provider of the Elixir Pills to Lady Hua Rui.

Why Lady Hua Rui was able to establish an enterprise like the Flowing Wind Returning Snow Pavilion in Zhenbei City and firmly established its footing.

Lady Hua Rui, backed by the City Lord.

Li Guanyi exhaled deeply, continued searching, and finally, in the deepest part of Zhenbei City Lord Mansion’s dungeon, found Xue Zhaoji, the astute elder whom he had met for the first time, now looking extremely disheveled, with thick chains binding his wrists and ankles.

The other end of the chains was embedded into a massive Dragon-locking Pillar.

Xue Zhaoji’s body bore many torture marks. At the door stood two astute and capable martial artists. Li Guanyi exhaled deeply, put down Shaking Light, his body flickered, and suddenly appeared before the two men, both of whom changed expressions drastically, one drawing a sword, the other grasping a device that could signal for help.

But within moments, both martial artists were knocked unconscious by Li Guanyi.

The noise here wasn’t loud; Li Guanyi tossed the two martial artists elsewhere, then used the chains to unlock the dungeon. Xue Zhaoji said, "Mr. Yuwen, you came again? Hahaha, no matter what you say, I won’t tell you anything."

"I truly have nothing that I can hand over."

But then Xue Zhaoji heard a familiar calm voice:

"Master Xue, it’s me."

Xue Zhaoji was momentarily stunned, then suddenly looked up, disbelief in his eyes as he saw Li Guanyi, said:

"Tower Master, you, why are you here?!"

After being tortured for three full days, the young Tower Master himself appeared here.

Xue Zhaoji almost thought he was dreaming.

With a matter-of-fact smile on his face, the young man said:

"Naturally, I came to rescue you!"

Xue Zhaoji, moved, then urgently lowered his voice, said: "You, Tower Master, how can I let you risk yourself?!"

"This place isn’t safe, please leave quickly."

"You’re here because of my plot; naturally, it’s my duty to take you back."

The young man softly replied:

"If you don’t abandon me, I won’t abandon you!"