Chapter 3508: Early Escape

After some consideration, Ye Liuyun also felt it was time to leave. So he went back and began dealing with those martial cultivators he had implanted with slave seals, one by one.

He used the slave seal to control these people, erasing their memory of being implanted with the slave seal by him, and also erasing his memory of impersonating the Marquis of Tianyu, making them believe that during this period, the Marquis of Tianyu had been managing this place.

Those strong martial cultivator guards were all taken into the Space World by him, leaving only some ordinary-strength guards in the mansion.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun immediately had someone contact Marquis Zhenwu, saying he had found news related to Ye Liuyun. Marquis Zhenwu didn't think much and rushed over right away.

Ye Liuyun had him brought to the study for a private talk. Marquis Zhenwu didn't hesitate either, leaving all his guards outside the study. He never expected the Marquis of Tianyu would attack him.

But as soon as the study door closed, Ye Liuyun immediately launched a spiritual soul attack on Marquis Zhenwu as well; the two maids serving tea were Lei Ming and Long Nv.

Long Nv used the golden sword in her sea of consciousness to cooperate with Ye Liuyun's spiritual soul attack, while Lei Ming prepared to use black light to exterminate Marquis Zhenwu's primary soul; if he had too strong a treasure in his sea of consciousness, Lei Ming would act.

In the end, Lei Ming didn't need to act; Long Nv's eighth-grade void-rank soul sword in her sea of consciousness blocked the treasure in Marquis Zhenwu's sea of consciousness, and Ye Liuyun smoothly pulled Marquis Zhenwu's soul into his own sea of consciousness, sending it to the Soul Refining Cauldron for refinement.

Just like with the Marquis of Tianyu, he left only the weakest fragment of his soul.

Then Ye Liuyun put on Marquis Zhenwu's storage ring, transformed into Marquis Zhenwu's appearance, and released the Marquis of Tianyu, letting him stay here to deal with the merchant association.

Ye Liuyun was impersonating Marquis Zhenwu to leave the Marquis of Tianyu's mansion early, so that if the matter were exposed, he wouldn't be trapped here.

Lei Ming and Long Nv were taken into the Space World by him. They were merely two maids; their disappearance would not arouse suspicion from the outside guards.

After making arrangements, Ye Liuyun impersonated Marquis Zhenwu and returned to his own mansion, while on the way he began to search Marquis Zhenwu's soul to learn about his situation.

This Marquis Zhenwu was also one of the marquises who had been pursuing Ye Liuyun; Ye Liuyun naturally wouldn't let him go, so on the way back he had already used a slave seal to control him, helping to plan how to plunder his own resources.

The day after Ye Liuyun left, the merchant association's administrator brought an elder from the headquarters, carrying a treasure, and rushed over.

That elder was also quite courteous, and even explained to the Marquis of Tianyu how to use that treasure.

Sure enough, it was a mirror that could trace the scene's conditions, and moreover could trace back ten days, with a very strong time-reversal function.

Under Ye Liuyun's slave seal control, the Marquis of Tianyu pretended to listen, then even admired the treasure, and taking advantage of their inattention, he shattered it with a single palm.

Although the treasure's rank was not low, its rank lay in its function—after all, it was just a mirror, easily destroyed by Ye Liuyun.

"Marquis, what do you mean by this?"

The administrator and the elder were also startled, not expecting the Marquis of Tianyu, who had been chatting pleasantly, to suddenly pull this stunt.

"Hmph! What are you doing? You're pretending to be confused while knowing full well, acting as if my mansion belongs to your merchant association, thinking you can come and investigate as you please—is it because I've given you too much face that you've become so arrogant?"

"Marquis, we're doing this with your permission," the merchant association's administrator said, bewildered, not understanding why the Marquis of Tianyu suddenly changed expression.

"Cut the nonsense; from now on, no one from your merchant association is allowed to set foot in my mansion," the Marquis of Tianyu said, his expression changing.

"Marquis, the matter originated in your mansion, and now you've destroyed our treasure without giving us an explanation; our merchant association will not let this rest!"

The elder who had come along, from the merchant association's headquarters, seeing the Marquis of Tianyu's attitude, also turned hostile at that moment.

"What if we don't let this rest? Seize them!" the Marquis of Tianyu ordered, and the guards inside the mansion immediately rushed into the council hall, attacking the two of them.

Marquis of Tianyu

also joined the attack.

The administrator was still a bit dazed and dared not act, but the elder from the headquarters was impolite, and his cultivation level was one tier higher than the Marquis of Tianyu's; he immediately struck with a palm toward the Marquis of Tianyu.

He also thought the Marquis of Tianyu likely had at least one or two defensive treasures, and even without them, his palm would at most wound him, not kill him.

Unexpectedly, the Marquis of Tianyu didn't use his True Essence Body Shield at all; he was struck solidly by that palm, his tendons snapped and bones broke, and he died on the spot.

This was all because Ye Liuyun, using the slave seal, controlled the Marquis of Tianyu and prevented him from defending himself.

The merchant association would surely bring greater pressure through stronger forces, possibly even having the Heavenly King of the Western Region intervene. Now that the Marquis of Tianyu is dead, there is completely no one left to contradict the story.

Even if the Chéngyuán Shānghuì still had such a treasure, it could only reveal that the Marquis of Tianyu had taken in that thief cat, but still couldn't uncover the truth.

Now, the mansion's guards could not let these two go; they all moved to kill them. Although the two were strong, they dared not linger here for fear of being trapped by the mansion's experts, so they had to fight their way out with all their strength.

Once those two left, the fact that they had killed the Marquis of Tianyu became even more solid.

Thus, Heavenly King Chen Haisheng also immediately received the report and personally led people to conduct an investigation and mediation.

The merchant association's side also immediately reported to headquarters, requesting that high-level officials go to mediate.

Both sides were busy handling the Marquis of Tianyu's affair. After the Marquis of Tianyu died, Ye Liuyun was completely safe; even if someone suspected, no one could find him.

After Chen Haisheng arrived, he also examined the Marquis of Tianyu's corpse, confirming it was indeed him without doubt. But he found that the Marquis of Tianyu's storage ring contained only a few transmission talismans, with no other resources, and the mansion's treasure vault was empty as well.

The experts inside the mansion had also disappeared. According to the guards, the marquis had transferred them away in advance. It all seemed as if it had been premeditated.

Upon closer inspection of the Marquis of Tianyu's recent actions, it became even more apparent that he had been controlled by someone. But who controlled him, they could not trace.

The merchant association's leads on tracing resources also broke off, and they were waiting for Chen Haisheng's investigation results. After some consideration, Chen Haisheng also chose not to make a fuss.

The Marquis of Tianyu had long harbored ideas of usurping power and seizing the throne; he himself knew this, and death was better.

If he were to release the news that the Marquis of Tianyu might have been controlled by someone, this matter would never end, and he would have to continue investigating who controlled the Marquis of Tianyu.

But if the Marquis of Tianyu just died like this, the matter would be much simpler. The merchant association's people killed the Marquis of Tianyu; he could suppress the incident and even sell the merchant association a favor. He could also arrange his own confidants to take over the Marquis of Tianyu's position—why not?

So he immediately contacted the merchant association to confirm that it was the merchant association's elder who killed the Marquis of Tianyu. Recently, garbled text has been severe, giving us more motivation to update faster; please tap your little hand to exit reading mode. Thank you.