Chapter 35: Clue

The great hall was now in ruins, its former luxury reduced to a pile of wreckage.

Yu Jin, the four great eunuchs, and Gong Lishan were all suffering deeply from their wounds; the other guards and eunuchs were also badly injured, while the rest were in complete chaos.

The old man in the gray robe glanced around, but ultimately did not pursue the armored soldier, unsure if the man had accomplices.

Given the current state of the Glorious Light Pavilion, if he left and the enemy struck again, almost no one here could stand against them.

However, what no one noticed was that as the armored soldier departed, Li Musheng also quietly vanished from the great hall.

After escaping the Glorious Light Pavilion, the young armored soldier moved quickly through a series of secluded alleys.

He condensed true qi at his wound to stop the bleeding from his severed arm, while constantly remaining vigilant and watching the situation behind him.

Seeing that the old man in the gray robe had not followed, the young armored soldier clearly breathed a sigh of relief.

He quickly vaulted into a courtyard and began stripping off his clothes, preparing to change into the laundry drying in the yard to disguise himself.

However, the noise in the courtyard caught the attention of the homeowner, and a woman rushed out of her room to investigate.

Upon suddenly seeing the one-armed armored soldier stealing clothes, she was immediately startled.

The young armored soldier's eyes turned fierce, and he immediately prepared to punch the woman to death and silence her.

However, just as he raised his hand, a young figure suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"It's you!"

The young armored soldier's pupils instantly contracted, clearly recognizing the newcomer.

"You said you were fleeing for your life, so why did you distract yourself changing clothes?"

Li Musheng shook his head, seemingly dissatisfied with the young armored soldier's actions.

The young armored soldier suddenly stepped back a pace, eyeing Li Musheng before him warily, and said:

"Who exactly are you? When did you start following me?"

Hearing this, Li Musheng's gaze shifted; he rubbed his chin and asked:

"If I say we are actually on the same side, and that I followed you to save you, do you believe it or not?"

Hearing this, the armored soldier narrowed his eyes, but the next moment he suddenly threw a punch directly, sneering:

"I'd believe you only if I were a ghost!"

"Alas!"

A sigh of considerable regret sounded beside the young armored soldier's ear.

Then, he watched as the woman, originally stunned in the courtyard, vanished from his sight in the blink of an eye, while the surrounding scenery rushed away at high speed.

Once he reacted, he suddenly realized he was being dragged by the collar by Li Musheng, running at an unimaginable speed.

The young armored soldier was instantly horrified and immediately tried to resist, but only then did he belatedly discover that he could not move a single inch.

Not long after, Li Musheng set the young armored soldier down in an empty alley.

"Who exactly are you?"

The young armored soldier opened and closed his mouth in shock and suspicion, discovering that he could actually speak.

Li Musheng tossed him casually onto the ground, thought for a moment, and then asked directly:

"Do you have the key to open the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury?"

The reason he had followed this fellow was naturally because he valued the man's identity as a remnant of the Great Qi.

After all, if there were anyone most familiar with the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury, it would certainly be the Great Qi Dynasty's own people.

Such remnants of the Great Qi, who obsessively dream of restoring their nation, might just be hiding a few keys to open the secret treasury.

"So you are after that thing."

The young armored soldier stared at Li Musheng for a while, then became bold and unafraid, saying:

"Unseal my acupoints first, and then I will decide whether to tell you."

Hearing this, Li Musheng frowned, nodded, and said:

"You don't have it, right? Then I might as well throw you back to the Glorious Light Pavilion."

Saying this, he reached out to grab the other's collar.

Seeing this, the young armored soldier hurriedly said:

"Wait, if you hand me over, you will never get the key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury."

Li Musheng shook his head and said:

"My time is limited; I will give you only one chance. Speak, or forget it."

Hearing this, the young armored soldier fell silent.

However, the next moment, Li Musheng directly lifted him and ran toward the Glorious Light Pavilion, sneering:

"Time is up; you have missed one chance to live."

The young armored soldier was clearly stunned, but he did not speak, thinking only that Li Musheng was bluffing.

But when he saw the Glorious Light Pavilion getting closer and closer, he finally began to panic and spoke:

"I do not have the key!"

Seeing Li Musheng unmoved, and at this moment they were only one street away from the Glorious Light Pavilion, he became obviously more desperate.

However, very quickly, the young armored soldier suddenly fell silent again.

He realized that in the current situation, the more he spoke, the less value he would have, and the closer he would be to death.

"Your mouth is quite stubborn."

Li Musheng moved his figure, carrying the young armored soldier to the roof of the five-story Glorious Light Pavilion.

At this moment, it could be seen that more Tianjin Guards were arriving from a distance, and it was estimated that they would soon guard the entire Glorious Light Pavilion as tightly as an iron bucket.

But for Li Musheng, even the tightest guard could not stop him; he could come and go freely, as if entering a place with no one present.

"As expected, I'm not very good at interrogating people."

Li Musheng shook his head, carried the young armored soldier into his own Room 17, and casually tossed him under the bed.

And in the next instant, before the young armored soldier's shocked gaze, the entire man vanished from the room, leaving only the door slowly closing on its own.

What terrifying speed was this?

The young armored soldier tried to open his mouth, but found he could not speak again.

Inside the main hall of the Aurora Pavilion, chaos still reigned; some young people and several eunuch guards were providing simple aid to the injured.

Yu Jin, Gong Lishan, and a few other experts were all concentrating on circulating their Qi to heal their wounds and restore their injuries.

Li Yuanling searched everywhere for Li Musheng's traces but found nothing.

At first, she only thought Li Musheng had panicked and scattered, hiding elsewhere within the Aurora Pavilion, but after failing to find him for so long, she began to feel anxious.

However, in the instant she turned around, Li Musheng appeared silently before her eyes once more.

"Brother Li, are you alright? Where did you go just now?"

Li Yuanling hurriedly examined his condition, and upon discovering he was fine, she clearly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It was too chaotic just now; I just walked around to clear my mind."

Li Musheng waved his hand, looking somewhat distracted.

There was likely a clue to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury on that armored soldier's person; he could not possibly hand him over to the Tianjin Guard.

Therefore, this matter could only be entrusted to Cang Cang Yin Yue; after all, that Miss hailed from the Intelligence Bureau, and even the hardest mouth could be pried open by her.

"However, I cannot rely on her forever; when I have time, I will study a Wu Gong similar to the 'Life and Death Talisman,' and everything will be resolved effortlessly."

Li Musheng thought to himself, glanced across the main hall once, and then looked at Li Yuanling before him:

"Miss Li, there are too many eyes and ears here; let us step aside to speak."

(End of this chapter)