Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?-Chapter 72 - Dont Hit the Face_1
Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Don’t Hit the Face_1
Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Don’t Hit the Face_1
When the two arrived at the underground dark river, Li Xuan took a quick look around and knew that he couldn’t find any clues with his current abilities.
The clean-up team from ‘Huoya City’ had done an incredibly thorough job. The area was as clean as if it had been washed, and other than some signs of fighting, there was nothing else.
Still, Li Xuan meticulously searched every corner, performing the Summoning Spell at every interval.
Jiang Hanyun’s Four-Tailed Spirit Fox was also sniffing around, but after a little while, the small fox returned to its owner’s arms, wagging its tail.
Jiang Hanyun looked at Li Xuan with a somewhat disappointed expression: “Little Lei didn’t pick up any useful scent. Li Xuan, did you find anything?”
At this moment, Li Xuan was caught up in someone else’s perspective.
His Summoning Spell had failed, but the red string of the red-clothed female ghost exploded as he wished, reaching into the soul fragments he had gathered.
Then, another piece of unfamiliar memory formed in Li Xuan’s mind.
It was an abstract and strange memory – Li Xuan couldn’t see anything, but he could sense the flowing water around him, the cave walls, the fishes in the water, and the shape of various objects.
If he had to describe it, the term ‘radar’ might be the most fitting. Li Xuan felt as if he was using radar to collect information about his surroundings.
Of course, this wasn’t the focus. The main thing was that in this memory, Li Xuan ‘saw’ two skirt-clad women strolling in from the right side of the river, one of them pointed towards Li Xuan’s direction from afar, and the owner of the memory was obliterated in a wave of extreme pain, becoming fragmented spirits.
Surprisingly, three demon slayers from Huoya City were holding a compass nearby, exploring along the river, but they seemed to ignore their existence completely.
Li Xuan guessed this was a case of ‘silencing the witnesses’? No, more accurately, ‘silencing the souls’. The owner of this memory must have been in soul form at that time.
Moreover, the bodies of these two women were likely not physical bodies, but soul bodies. Because he had just seen the two women effortlessly pass through stone layers – even someone who has mastered the Earth Escape Skill to the greatest extent would find it difficult to do this with their physical body.
To be able to achieve the Nascent Soul state, one would have to be at the ninth house level, or perhaps they had even cultivated the ‘mind of Yang’.
This was a clue, but Li Xuan could not tell Jiang Hanyun directly since he couldn’t explain what he had seen.
And sadly, Li Xuan couldn’t see their faces clearly. When he tried hard to perceive them, he could only ‘see’ a vague scene, and couldn’t ‘see’ the clothing and accessories of these two women clearly.
Fortunately, besides that, he found something. Li Xuan followed the red thread stretched out by the female ghost behind him and took a few steps to his left, then knelt down and uncovered the soil below using his knife sheath.
“Is there something under here?” Jiang Hanyun stepped forward and stood next to Li Xuan: “How did you find it?”
She had actually scanned this area earlier and didn’t find anything unusual. However, her subordinate always managed to astonish her by finding critical clues that others had overlooked.
“There are traces that the soil had been disturbed here, possibly overlooked by people from Huoya City.”
— Actually, there was no sign at all, that’s precisely why Li Xuan started digging without waiting for approval, simply because he couldn’t explain.
“Really?”
Jiang Hanyun seemed half convinced, yet she started assisting him without question.
When they dug about five feet deep, Jiang Hanyun’s eyes lit up slightly. Her Spirit Fox also reacted, softly whistling beside her ear.
“You move back!”
She shouted, and Li Xuan moved away immediately. She then pressed her hands down, and sucked a large clump of soil up from the ground.
Right now, the attention of both of them was caught by a green package in the exposed soil.
Li Xuan couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, thinking that there really was something! When he was experiencing the memory of the deceased, he found that the last thing this person paid attention to before death was this direction.
The key was that the red-clothed female ghost directly stretched out a red thread, landing it above this clump of soil. To ensure that he would not miss it, she made the thread especially thick.
Li Xuan guessed that there might be something very important to the deceased hidden here, and as expected, he was right.
Jiang Hanyun reached out and took the package in her hand. She exclaimed excitedly, “There really is something here. It was definitely the right decision to call you over.”
Upon hearing this, Li Xuan felt somewhat smug, even though all the merit should be given to the Guardian Spirit behind him.
After Jiang Hanyun praised him, she opened the package. On top were several Cultivation Techniques and Visualization Charts, along with a few elixir bottles. After taking a look at each one, she set her gaze on the iron box at the bottom.
She opened the box lid enthusiastically, but a deep disappointment appeared in her eyes: “Just this thing?”
It was a silver hairpin without any special features. The patterns, workmanship, and craftsmanship were all very ordinary.
Only at the root of the bun, a ‘Lu’ character was engraved, which might serve as a clue.
But something in Li Xuan’s eyes froze: “I think I’ve seen this before? And more than once.”
He had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, seeming to come from the original owner of this body.
“You’ve seen it?” Jiang Hanyun quickly asked in a pressing tone: “Where did you see it?”
“Let me think.” Li Xuan was trying hard to recall the memories of the original body. After at least four minutes, his eyes lit up: “It was in the Jiaofang Division in Nanjing!”
He looked joyfully at Jiang Hanyun: “The Jiaofang Division gives each girl a set of silver hair ornaments when they are getting ready. There are always three styles—”
But somehow, Li Xuan found that Jiang Hanyun’s face had darkened a bit.
“The hair ornaments from the Jiaofang Division… you’ve seen more than once?”
Jiang Hanyun smiled weakly, but her jade hands were making ‘crick-crack’ sounds: “Oh my, I didn’t expect Li Xuan to be such a playboy.”
“It’s debauched!” Li Xuan was drenched in cold sweat: “But now I have washed my heart and reformed, I have turned over a new leaf. That’s all in the past—”
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Half an hour later, Li Xuan, with an additional dark circle under his eye, appeared at the Dongshui Pass, the starting point of the Inner Qinhuai River, with Jiang Hanyun.
While applying homemade ice packs to his eye, he complained unhappily: “Doesn’t this count as meddling by Honored Xiaowei? Isn’t it unauthorized punishment? Yes, my former lifestyle might be a bit reckless but that’s my private life… It didn’t interfere with official duties, so what does it matter to Honored Xiaowei?”
Although he was taking the fall for his previous self, Li Xuan still felt wronged and dissatisfied. No one would enjoy going out in public with panda eyes.
Jiang Hanyun used some method; her strength wasn’t that great but she had even penetrated his Kuiniu luminous armor’s defenses.
“Also, hitting people… don’t hit the face. Even if you hit the face, you can use techniques that won’t leave a mark—”
Halfway through his sentence, Li Xuan realized something was amiss. Wasn’t he encouraging her to beat him up?
Jiang Hanyun’s response was to wave her small fist directly: “If you keep babbling, watch out, I’ll beat you again!”
At this moment, Jiang Hanyun’s cheeks were a little red. Li Xuan was indeed right; this matter was not of concern to her. Under her command, there were many who enjoyed brothels. Occasionally, Jiang Hanyun would grumble and show contempt, but she never cared too much.
However, upon hearing Li Xuan’s words today, she felt uncomfortable, and the anger in her heart surged up. She didn’t know why.
Could it be because of what Li Xuan said to her that night at Duke Xuguo’s house? But she knew very clearly that Li Xuan was just putting on a show.
Li Xuan reluctantly surrendered under the threat of violence: “I just want to know, do you have any leads here?”
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“I don’t have a lead, but there is a slow way. You just have to follow.”
After Jiang Hanyun gave Li Xuan a sideways glance, she walked along the street on the bank of the inner Qinhuai River in the direction of the West Pass.
Her so-called slow method was to have her Four-Tailed Spirit Fox sniff around each brothel.
A tense feeling gripped Li Xuan, was this female devil planning to take him around the brothels?
