Chapter 510

"Someone dares to break into the Black Prison, and not to save people, but just to kill?"

On this day.

Li Rui was chatting with the Minister of Justice and received this news.

He only felt it was incredibly strange.

The Black Prison was the place where the Yu Kingdom imprisoned major criminals.

Among them were either high-ranking court officials who had committed major crimes—ordinary Third-Ranks were not qualified, and at the very least they had to be Second-Rank, and there was even a First-Rank imprisoned there—besides officials, there were also powerful people who had committed crimes, and their cultivation realms were at least Heavenly Phenomenon.

So one could imagine the strictness of the guard.

Not only was it watched by a group of experts in the capital, but it was also a large array itself, which even a First-Rank could not easily break.

For years, it had always been calm, and he never expected that someone would dare to break into that dragon's den and tiger's lair, causing such a stir.

And what was even stranger was.

That person sneaked into the Black Prison not to save people, but actually to kill.

To kill someone who was already practically equivalent to dead.

Li Rui looked at the Minister of Justice, Yan, who looked somewhat pedantic and mean, but was actually quite generous.

"Was that person captured?"

He asked curiously.

Minister Yan shook his head: "It was done by a talisman cultivator; Official Li also knows that these immortal cultivators have bizarre means, and this talisman cultivator is even harder to guard against."

Li Rui: "Indeed."

This was like a city wall.

It could only block most people, but how could it block ants and insects?

Those talisman cultivators were even harder to guard against than ants.

Of course.

To be able to sneak into the Black Prison, the person's cultivation must definitely not be low.

Li Rui couldn't help but be curious: "Minister Yan, who did that person want to kill?"

Minister Yan laughed: "The Black Prison is not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice; I only heard some rumors, but speaking of which, Official Li should be familiar with that person; it is the Palace Master of the Purple Gold Palace, which has already been destroyed."

"Si Feng!"

Li Rui raised an eyebrow.

The person being assassinated was actually Si Feng.

Speaking of which, his connection with Si Feng was indeed deep; he was the first person to witness Si Feng's descent to the lower realm, and later, when the Purple Gold Palace was destroyed, Gu Gu Changsheng joined forces with the Great True Person Qing Ding of the Qingwei Sect to suppress Si Feng in the Black Prison.

Over the years, the North Pole Immortal Sect, which shared the same lineage as the Purple Gold Palace, had been secretly trying to rescue him.

He never expected that someone would attempt an assassination now.

Si Feng's luck was truly something else.

Li Rui shook his head with a smile.

"By the way, Minister Yan, regarding my disciple's matter, I will have to trouble you to look after him a little."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Minister Yan agreed readily.

Today, Li Rui came to the Yan Mansion, of course, not just for idle chat.

But for Liu Tong.

To be precise, for the Spring Breeze Hall.

For the Spring Breeze Hall to do business in the capital, besides needing to handle the Capital Prefecture Governor well, this Ministry of Justice was the top priority.

Compared to the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice was not as powerful, and even compared to the Ministry of Works, it had its own pros and cons.

But for those in business.

The Ministry of Justice was the biggest government office.

If those masters of the Ministry of Justice casually fabricated a crime, then let alone making money, one might end up in a miserable state of family ruin.

The Spring Breeze Hall's business could grow large.

Naturally, it could not be without Li Rui's protection.

The so-called protection was not about backing them up when problems arose; that was the lowest strategy and not a long-term plan.

He preferred to moisten things silently.

While drinking tea, he would settle the matter.

As the Taiping Order, apart from a very few people, the rest had to give him some face.

With him as a backer.

The Spring Breeze Hall's business naturally couldn't be bad.

At his current status, he knew much more than before; for example, the proprietor behind the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce was Duke Duke Dingyuan, and the proprietor behind the Jufu Pavilion was the Grand Secretary Ma of the Cabinet.

All were top-tier big figures in the court.

Li Rui raising a Spring Breeze Hall was not excessive in the slightest.

After coming out of the Yan Mansion.

Li Rui did not return to his residence in Jishuitan, but went straight out of the city.

After being a few miles away from the city gate.

Only then did he summon a small boat.

It was just that the current small boat had changed its appearance greatly compared to the previous one.

Who said immortal cultivators wouldn't enjoy themselves?

This flying magic treasure bought from Situ Chi Lian was not only much more spacious than before, but the key was that there was a cabin one zhang in diameter on the boat, with complete furniture, which was essentially a small, flyable grotto-dwelling.

The small boat instantly flew to a height of a thousand zhang.

Li Rui sat cross-legged in the cabin, closing his eyes to meditate.

'Strange, I didn't reveal any flaws; did he open a Heavenly Eye?'

In a corner of the jungle.

In a cave.

Wu De was very puzzled.

What he held in his hand was the public notice copy of the Yu Kingdom's imperial court, and the largest space in this copy was about something called the World Martial Arts Ranking.

It was already strange that this World Martial Arts Ranking could rank the world's martial artists and immortal cultivators.

But what surprised him even more was.

He appeared very few times, but the ranking actually detailed his cultivation technique and origin extremely clearly.

How could he not be surprised?

'Could it be that I, the Daoist, have been targeted?'

Just as Wu De was pondering.

Suddenly, a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave.

Wu De first blinked his eyes.

Then his hair stood on end immediately.

One must know that he had always been a cautious person, so the cave dwelling looked ordinary, but in reality, it had long been set up with various arrays by him.

Yet this person who appeared in the cave could actually pass through his arrays silently.

How could he not be shocked?

"Bitter!"

Wu De cried out in his heart, not even daring to investigate the person's situation, and directly operated his secret technique, intending to escape this place first.

But his thought had just risen.

A cyan light screen enveloped him.

Wu De's eyes widened.

"Cyan Profound Dao Rhyme!"

"Purple Mansion Realm!"

For a time, his mood fell to the bottom.

He saw that the person was clearly displaying the might of the Great Dao, a means that only Purple Mansion Realm cultivators could possess.

A Purple Mansion Realm cultivator was not someone he could deal with.

But the next instant.

A fawning smile appeared on Wu De's face: "Senior Zhu, why have you come too?"

Li Rui looked at Wu De, who was changing his face, and walked into the cave with his hands behind his back, smiling:

"Fellow Daoist Wu, I didn't expect us to meet again."

Wu De shook his head repeatedly: "Senior, just call me Little Wu."

Li Rui was speechless.

There truly weren't many such sensible wonderful people.

He looked at Wu De, but the next sentence made the smile on Wu De's face stiffen: "They all say Fellow Daoist Dilongzi has a seven-aperture exquisite heart; it seems it is truly so."

Having his origin revealed, Wu De was somewhat embarrassed:

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, even if I say it, you won't believe it; actually, I didn't mean to lie to you."

The smile on Li Rui's face remained.

According to the definition of his previous life, he and Wu De were netizens.

Now it could be considered their first offline meeting.

Wu De clearly regarded him as an immortal cultivator who had descended to the lower realm together.

As for Dilongzi...

There were quite a few cultivators from the Shenxuan Palace among those who descended to the lower realm.

With his relationship with the Qingwei Sect.

It was not difficult to obtain some information about the Shenxuan Palace.

There was no disciple named Wu De in the Shenxuan Palace, but in the Luoxia Prefecture where the Shenxuan Sect was located, there was a "grave robber" similar to Wu De, but he only had a Daoist name, Dilongzi.

As for his reputation...

The disciples of the Shenxuan Palace were all hated by everyone, wishing they could skin this Dilongzi, who called himself the Multi-Treasure Daoist, alive.

It was said that this fat Daoist had pitted quite a few people from the Shenxuan Sect in the Dao Lord's ruins.

Wu De was shocked.

In fact, he had always been secretly investigating the background of this Fellow Daoist Zhu before him, but he never expected that he still knew nothing about the other party's situation, while his own situation had been understood by the other party seven or eight times over.

Having his identity revealed by Li Rui, Wu De revealed a fawning smile again:

"Senior, I, Wu De, swear to the heavens; Wu De is my real name."

"I was born with prosperous fortune and am most liked by my elders; the elders also often like to give me some small things, and it wouldn't be good for me not to accept them, right?"

Li Rui's mouth twitched.

What a "good relationship with elders."

It was just that the elders in Wu De's mouth had long since passed away, and those "small things" were the immortal treasures left behind by the Dao Lords.

Wu De looked at Li Rui.

Knowing that if he didn't bleed a little today, it would be impossible to leave safely.

He gritted his teeth:

"Senior, I suspect that a terrifying great tomb is hidden in this small grotto-heaven."

(End of chapter)