Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 846 - 846 806

846: 806 846: 806 Lu Chuan and Dongfang Cheng sat in the courtyard, the two conversing over tea and reminiscing, thoroughly enjoying themselves.

Before long, Li Xunying walked in.

He quickly approached Lu Chuan, “Big brother, I’ve already brought the people over, and I’ve had them start to prepare for resuming work.”

“What should we do next?”

After pondering for a moment, Lu Chuan said, “Let’s have some people observe at the gate, if they see any suspicious groups leaving the city, we’ll follow them.”

Li Xunying nodded fervently, “I’ll instruct someone to do it right now.”

As Lu Chuan continued to ponder, he suddenly raised his hand, stopping Li Xunying, “Let’s just leave the city ourselves, and wait for that group of people on the way.”

“Otherwise, I always feel uneasy.”

Lu Chuan set down his teacup and stood up.

Dongfang Cheng also hurriedly got to his feet, looking at Lu Chuan, “How about I go with you?”

“You can’t help much if you go.”

“I want to see if that bunch of people really are the City Lord’s men, if they are, I’ll immediately go back and notify Dongfang Residence, and I won’t interfere with your next move at all, you can strike at the City Lord whenever you like!”

Hearing this, Lu Chuan smiled at Dongfang Cheng, “With your words, I feel even more confident, let’s go, we’ll leave the city together.”

“By the way, I know a secret passage that can let us leave Forest City without going through the gate.”

Dongfang Cheng whispered cautiously to Lu Chuan.

Upon hearing this, Lu Chuan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, “Is that so?

Then lead the way quickly!”

Then, the servants prepared three steeds, leading them to the front gate.

Lu Chuan, Li Xunying, and Dongfang Cheng, all three together, prepared to depart from Lu Manor.

After leaving Lu Manor, Lu Chuan and Li Xunying followed Dongfang Cheng to the edge of the city, where they came upon a decrepit wooden house.

“This wooden house used to be one of our properties, it was a recruitment spot back then.

At the time, our Dongfang Residence was the largest Spiritual Medicine cultivating family in Forest City.

The Spiritual Medicines produced on the dozen or so mountain peaks outside belonged to our picking, but as Spiritual Energy became increasingly scarce, this industry gradually declined.”

“Now, it has been abandoned.

We once dug an underground passage here for delivering goods, which avoided having to enter through the city gate—entering through the gate was too conspicuous.”

“At that time, our business was thriving, and we were afraid of jealousy from others, which is why we especially dug a tunnel.”

“Anyway, by going through this passage, we can reach the outside of the city.”

As he explained, he dismounted, tied his horse to the side, and then walked into the abandoned wooden house with Lu Chuan and the others.

Upon entering, they smelled a musty, moldy odor.

“It has been neglected for years and is now in ruins.

However, the upside is that no one pays attention to this place.”

“Come on, let’s go down here, and we’ll enter the tunnel, silently leaving Forest City.”

Dongfang Cheng approached a plank of wood, cleared the dust and fallen leaves from it, and lifted the rotting plank.

Subsequently, a tunnel appeared before Lu Chuan.

The three of them entered one by one, proceeding through the pitch-black tunnel.

Lu Chuan raised his left hand, and a sphere of Divine Fire of the Sun appeared in his palm.

In the light of the fire, they swiftly made their way through the tunnel.

After about fifteen minutes or so, they finally arrived at the end of the tunnel.

Ascending a set of stairs to the surface, the trio emerged in the wilds.

Finally outside, Lu Chuan surveyed his surroundings—a barren wilderness with no sign of habitation.

“Now that we’ve come out, but we didn’t prepare horses, how are we going to ride away from here?”

Li Xunying asked curiously.

“Should I go back again?”

Lu Chuan shook his head, “There’s no need.

If we just walk towards the road ahead and lie in ambush nearby, we can intercept that troop when they leave the city!”

After saying this, Lu Chuan led the two of them to the roadside to begin their ambush.

Whether they would encounter anyone was uncertain, but at present, Lu Chuan firmly believed that he had not been exposed and that the City Lord definitely did not know he had discovered who the murderer was, so it was highly likely that he would continue to send people out of the city to carry on attacking the Lu Manor’s mining vein.

Lu Chuan waited by the roadside for a while, hiding in the bushes as much as possible to conceal his figure.

Suddenly, Lu Chuan saw a troop of horse riders approaching from a distance.

This troop was clearly different from other passersby, consisting of more than a dozen people, all riding fast horses, hurrying along as if there was some urgent matter.

“The target has arrived, get ready to make your move,” he said.

After he spoke, Lu Chuan drew the Soul Terminating Sword from his back.

If all these dozen or so people had the strength of the Martial Emperor Realm, he would have to give his all to cope with them.

Otherwise, he might very well be overwhelmed and fall into a disadvantageous position.

Just as the cavalry was about to ride past, Lu Chuan suddenly rushed out and stood in the middle of the road.

And Li Xunying, with daggers held tightly in both hands—one with an overhand grip and the other with an underhand—was ready to act at any moment.

At that moment, the troop abruptly reined in their horses, stopping all at once.

Then the leader turned towards Lu Chuan and shouted loudly, “Who dares to block our way?

Do you have a death wish?”

The faces of everyone present were covered with masks, making it impossible to see their appearances.

Lu Chuan held the Soul Terminating Sword firmly, his gaze fixed on them as he said coldly, “Don’t you recognize me?

My name is Lu Chuan.”

Upon hearing the name Lu Chuan, the leader was visibly shocked, leaning back in surprise and staring at Lu Chuan.

“You…

You are Lu Chuan?

Why do you block our path?”

He asked in response.

Lu Chuan couldn’t help but laugh, “You have no idea why I’m stopping you?”

“There won’t be a third time if it has happened twice.

You are addicted to this, aren’t you?”

The team captain immediately retorted, “We don’t know what you’re talking about.

‘Twice but not a third’ has nothing to do with us.”

Behind him, the rest began whispering among themselves, all surprised by the situation.

“Are you from the City Lord’s men?”

“So what if I am?

What do you intend to do?”

“Since you’re from the City Lord’s, why travel with your faces masked?

Clearly, you’re up to no good.

I’m well aware of what you’re planning to do next.

Do you think I don’t know?”

“You know exactly what we’re about to do?

Stop joking.

We’re just out hunting, nothing else.

You’re overthinking this.”

Lu Chuan sneered and continued to question, “Where are you hunting?

Surely you’re not going to our Lu Manor’s mining vein to hunt?”

As soon as these words were spoken, the captain immediately scolded, “Lu Chuan, don’t throw your dirty water on us because something happened in your manor.

Falsely accusing us without evidence, aren’t you afraid of offending the City Lord?”

He berated harshly, obviously reacting violently to Lu Chuan’s words.