Chapter 37: Chase

Li Musheng blew out the palace lantern burning in the room, casually lifted the young armored soldier from under the bed, and vanished from the room in the blink of an eye.

Tonight the moonlight was extremely bright; Li Musheng, carrying a person, moved with such speed under the clear moonlight that not even a shadow was revealed.

Following the thread of true qi in his hand, he searched toward a certain place in Shangyang City.

The Great Li capital city covers a vast area, with a total of seventy-two wards, divided longitudinally and transversely by four long streets: Qing Long, Zhu Que, Xuan Wu, and Bai Hu.

The area of every ward in Shangyang City is as large as Shun'an City in Wanzhou.

Moreover, the streets and alleys here are wider, the houses are densely packed and well-arranged, far surpassing Shun'an City, from which one can see the grandeur and prosperity of this capital city before them.

Without spending much time, Li Musheng arrived at Lanshan Ward, two wards away.

Carrying the young armored soldier in his hand, he silently dropped into a courtyard, glanced at the thread of true qi in his hand.

Confirming that Cang Cang Yin Yue was in the room inside the courtyard, but the other party had obviously not yet discovered Li Musheng's arrival.

"Such a delicate small courtyard, Miss Cang is quite wealthy after all."

Li Musheng glanced around the courtyard and couldn't help but speak out with a sigh.

In this place in Shangyang City where land is worth its weight in gold, buying such a small courtyard as the one before them must have cost a fortune.

And at this moment, hearing Li Musheng's voice, the person inside the courtyard room finally reacted.

The window that had been brightly lit instantly went dark, and a dark shadow silently flew out from the darkness, appearing behind Li Musheng in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, a slender blade reflected a snow-white gleam under the moonlight, quietly resting on Li Musheng's shoulder.

Li Musheng turned around, extended one finger to push away the blade on his shoulder, and looked at the other party:

"We are old acquaintances after all, Miss Cang, there is no need to greet me like this."

Cang Cang Yin Yue slightly narrowed her eyes, the blade in her hand retracted into her sleeve like a living snake and disappeared, while a look of suspicion appeared on her face:

"How did you find this place?"

"Naturally, I have my methods."

Li Musheng smiled, but did not explain further; instead, he threw the young armored soldier in his hand in front of the other party and said:

"Please, Miss Cang, interrogate this fellow well and see if you can extract any clues regarding the Emperor Tianqi Secret Treasury."

Earlier today in the main hall of the Aurora Pavilion, Li Musheng had actually discovered that the armored soldier before him possessed Northern Shen Qiming Qi, but at that time he had not made a sound, intending to find an opportunity to search for the key to the Emperor Tianqi Secret Treasury from the other party.

However, what he did not expect was that this fellow failed to hide it and was actually discovered by the Six Gates.

Fortunately, in the end, the other party still fell into his hands.

At this moment, Cang Cang Yin Yue stared at the young armored soldier on the ground for a glance, then suddenly exclaimed in alarm:

"Could this be the remnant of Great Qi who escaped from the Aurora Pavilion during the day?"

Regarding the matter of the Aurora Pavilion, although the Tianjin Guard and the Six Gates had timely sealed off the news, it naturally could not be hidden from Cang Cang Yin Yue; after all, she was not only a captain of the Six Gates but also a secret agent of the Secret Intelligence Bureau.

"That is correct, it is him." Li Musheng nodded.

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue suddenly looked up at him, couldn't help but take a deep breath, and said:

"I heard people in the Six Gates say that this person not only cultivates Northern Shen Qiming Qi, but his all one's martial arts cultivation is even comparable to a Wudaoda Sect grandmaster; today Ji Feiyun and Gong Lishan joined forces but were both severely injured by him."

"If not for the intervention of experts from the palace at the critical moment, both Ji Feiyun and the other almost lost their lives on the spot; how exactly did you capture him?"

Facing Cang Cang Yin Yue's question, Li Musheng shrugged.

However, he did not conceal it; he briefly recounted the events that happened in the Aurora Pavilion and the process of his capture of the young armored soldier, saying:

"That is how it happened; I feel that interrogating people is something Miss Cang you are more skilled at, so that is why I brought him over."

Cang Cang Yin Yue's eyes flickered uncertainly; originally she thought Li Musheng had hidden his strength before, and his true martial arts cultivation was probably at the Innate Grandmaster realm.

But the current situation was that the other party had single-handedly captured an expert comparable to a Wudaoda Sect grandmaster.

She knew very well that even though the armored soldier before them had lost an arm and was seriously injured, he was by no means someone an ordinary grandmaster could easily handle.

He was at least an expert of the Banbuda Sect.

As Cang Cang Yin Yue guessed in her heart, a feeling of extreme curiosity about the opportunity Li Musheng had obtained suddenly arose.

A Banbuda Sect expert under twenty years old could be called the top martial arts genius in the entire Jianghu; such people are all as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

As far as she knew, the fake Imperial Prince currently imprisoned in the celestial prison was a martial arts expert of the Banbuda Sect.

What she did not expect was that the one before her was likely also one.

It must be known that the teacher of that fake Imperial Prince was the Master of the Secret Intelligence Bureau, an existence whose martial arts reached the divine; then what would be the opportunity of Li Musheng before them?

"Miss Cang, shouldn't we get to work?"

Seeing the other party suddenly stand silent, Li Musheng hurriedly spoke out to remind her.

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue exhaled lightly, suppressed the thoughts in her heart, and looked deeply at Li Musheng.

Then, she lifted the immobilized young armored soldier before her and walked toward the room inside the courtyard.

Although Li Musheng's words about creating his own Wu Gong were completely nonsense, the other party's martial arts strength was indeed truly shocking to her.

Clearly, she had misjudged again!

"Give me half an hour; whatever you want to know, I will ask out for you word for word."

As Cang Cang Yin Yue's voice fell, a sound of a door closing came from the courtyard.

Seeing this, Li Musheng said "Thank you," then glanced around, leaped up, and arrived on the roof of the courtyard.

Tonight the sky was clear and the air fresh; there was not a single wisp of cloud in the sky, the deep blue horizon had the bright moon hanging high, and the snow-white moonlight poured over the entire capital city; the moonlight at this moment was truly very good.

With nothing for Li Musheng to do next, he simply sat on the roof ridge, looking up to admire the moon, feeling quite comfortable for a while.

"I hope we will have some success tonight; otherwise, who knows how long it will take to find the six keys?"

Li Musheng showed hope on his face.

And just at this moment, three figures suddenly flew up from a distant alley.

One person fled ahead, two pursued behind; all were using true qi to practice lightness skills, constantly leaping on alley walls, rooftops, and tree branches.

And the direction the three were moving was exactly toward Li Musheng's location.

Seeing this, Li Musheng slightly furrowed his brow; his rare elegant mood for admiring the moon had been interrupted, and he was clearly somewhat displeased.

However, thinking it was better to have one less matter to deal with, he couldn't be bothered to pay it any attention.

Soon, the three of them had arrived not far away.

The one in front was a masked man, and the ones chasing behind were a woman in red and an old man.

Just then, the masked man noticed Li Musheng on the rooftop, and his gaze suddenly shifted.

He pulled out something wrapped in a cloth strip from his bosom and threw it directly at Li Musheng, shouting at the same time:

"Little brother, this treasure is yours!"

(End of this chapter)