Chapter 372: Reading

Palace, Huagai Hall.

Li Miao threw a Zheng Qi and a Zheng Zheng Anqi to the ground, walked into the door, and scanned left and right.

Although he had been quite happy cursing Zheng Zheng Anqi, saying he didn't care for the Xuanlan inheritance he left behind... but since Zheng Zheng Anqi was already dead, who could he blame?

If Zheng Zheng Anqi jumped up now and stared at Li Miao, Li Miao would absolutely have no hesitation; after a sneer of disdain, he would turn and leave, never losing face in front of him.

But since the person was dead, why bother with a dead person?

So Li Miao still came.

He stood and watched for a long while, but Li Miao raised his eyebrows.

With his eyesight, he could see any secret room or hidden compartment in this room at a glance. But he was in a bind right now—because it wasn't that there were no hidden compartments, but that there were too many.

At a glance, Li Miao saw seven or eight mechanisms and more than a dozen hidden compartments; as for places to hide things like crevices and cracks, they were countless.

Li Miao shook his head.

"Also, it's the Imperial Palace, it's the main hall... if you don't hide some edicts or secret letters, it's like it wasn't built at all."

"And he didn't say where he hid it, so I have to find them one by one; he truly didn't die unjustly."

After saying that, he didn't walk around, but raised his hand to grab at the void, triggering a mechanism to reveal a hidden compartment, from which he grabbed a stack of letters.

Opening them to look, Li Miao laughed immediately.

"Whoa, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, they all took money... just right for the old man to worry about having no reason to kill, handing them over is just right."

Li Miao looked at the dense hidden compartments in the room, becoming increasingly interested, raising his hand to grab several times, grabbing the things in several hidden compartments into his hands, flipping through them one after another.

"Interesting, interesting."

"The performance of hundreds of heads is considered to be there; even if I can't find the Xuanlan inheritance, this trip won't be in vain."

Low laughter echoed in the empty hall.

In the distance, dense footsteps were rushing toward this side.

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Zheng Yi slashed out with a sword, leaving a wound a foot long and an inch deep on the black-clad man's back.

The black-clad man, however, seemed unable to feel the pain, just fleeing forward, neither dodging nor parrying, not even turning his head to block Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi frowned.

The opponent was a Heaven-Man expert, this was beyond doubt; although he only had the realm of the first path, his inheritance was quite high-level, and his light-body technique was even more outstanding, making it difficult for her to behead him for a moment.

However, in another stick of incense's time, she would kill him anyway.

But the strange thing was... this person didn't look like he was fleeing for his life at all.

In a proper flight for life, just running is the lowest strategy; one should at least try to circle, block, or at the very least try to get out of the pursuer's sight... but this person was walking in a straight line, and all the way up, never leaving Zheng Yi's sight.

It was as if... he wanted to deliberately lure her away.

Zheng Yi paused, stopping abruptly.

Without a hint of hesitation, she turned and rushed toward the palace.

As she changed direction, the black-clad man actually stopped abruptly, then rushed toward her, shaking both hands to throw out two soft whips, rolling toward Zheng Yi's legs.

"Sure enough! He wanted to lure me!"

"Is he trying to lure me into a trap, or lure me away to make a move on others?"

Between thoughts racing, Zheng Yi pointed her toe, actually stopping the momentum of her forward rush, and darted backward!

Her sword tip pointed left and right, and the incoming soft whip was stripped of its force, hanging limply. The long sword was suddenly retracted, turned in her hand, and the tip thrust out from under her armpit, straight toward the black-clad man's face!

The black-clad man's gaze didn't waver in the slightest; he shook his hands, and the soft whip raised its head again, rolling toward Zheng Yi's arm.

Soft whip vs. long sword, which is more lethal, even a three-year-old child knows clearly. The black-clad man, however, was in a posture of trading his life for an injury, not caring at all about the sword tip thrusting toward his face, only driving the whip to roll toward Zheng Yi!

Zheng Yi's expression sank, and she retracted her sword to point down the soft whip.

The two collided, and the black-clad man raised a palm to strike Zheng Yi's back of the head; while still in mid-air, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backward.

Zheng Yi retracted the left palm she had struck from under her armpit, turned around, and killed toward the black-clad man with a sword!

"Waiting for you to stop me! Idiot!"

A series of explosions in mid-air, the long sword bloomed into a sword flower, clashing with the two soft whips intertwined like pythons, sparking a string of fire!

Zheng Yi killed her way to the black-clad man, pierced through his lungs with a sword, and then cruelly slid to the right in the flesh, severing the black-clad man's scapula.

With one arm abolished, the black-clad man still didn't make a sound, his left-hand soft whip rolling toward Zheng Yi's ankle.

"Sure enough, there's something strange!"

Zheng Yi stepped forward to drill under the black-clad man's arm, dodged the soft whip, and turned her palm to strike his elbow.

Bone fragments pierced through his clothes.

Zheng Yi didn't stop, slashing several times to sever the black-clad man's tendons, then slapped him across the face!

Slap!

The black kerchief flew up, revealing a pale, beardless, thin, and cold face.

Zheng Yi looked at his appearance and slashed several times at his lower body with her sword.

Shredded cloth flew.

"Argh!"

But the black-clad man, who hadn't wavered in the slightest even after having his four limbs severed and chest pierced by Zheng Yi, suddenly let out an angry roar, veins bulging, and his whole body suddenly sprang up, colliding with the sword tip.

"Sure enough."

Zheng Yi let out a cold laugh, pressing him back to the ground with her palm,

"You eggless thing, know you're anxious now?"

"Speak, what did you want to do by luring me here? If you don't, I'll carve the words 'dead eunuch' on your face, let the Embroidered Uniform Guard find out your household registration, strip you naked, and hang you at your own door!"

"Ginseng soup to hang your life, True Qi to heal your injuries, you're still a Heaven-Man expert, I imagine you can live for seven or eight years; those who die violently cannot be reincarnated, let alone a eunuch with an incomplete body, don't think about loyalty and filial piety, picking a comfortable way to die is the right thing to do!"

"Choose, either you finish speaking and I give you a quick death, or I hang you at your door and let you die slowly!"

The black-clad eunuch gritted his teeth and said nothing.

"Good! Loyal enough!"

"Satisfying you!"

Zheng Yi's long sword pointed out, drawing several times on his face.

Looking again, the flesh was torn open, and the word "Dead" was clearly on it.

The sword tip flicked, one horizontal and one slant, and the word "Eunuch" was half-written.

"Don't!"

The black-clad eunuch let out an angry roar, then wilted like an eggplant hit by frost, saying in a low voice.

"Don't, don't... I'll speak..."

Once the opening was made and the heart barrier broken, there was no more obstruction. The black-clad eunuch said a few words in a low voice, then closed his eyes and waited for death.

Zheng Yi frowned and thought for a moment, shocked.

Piercing the black-clad eunuch to death with a sword, she turned to look at the palace.

"Regional Commander..."

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Outside Huagai Hall.

Footsteps, the sound of armor rubbing, the sound of clothes fluttering.

Long arrows collided in the quivers, warhorses stepped uneasily on the ground, and the black-cloud-like military formation slowly approached Huagai Hall, surrounding it.

Several figures, entirely dark black, masked, revealing only pale corners of eyes and cold, indifferent eyes, slowly approached Huagai Hall.

At this very moment.

Creak—

The hall door was pushed open from the inside, and Li Miao walked out slowly.

Scanning left and right, he let out a sneer.

"Do you have any public morality at all?"

He shook his left hand, the pages of the book fluttering and making a sound.

"Didn't you see I was reading?"

"If you want to die, wait until I finish reading before you come."

After saying that, he actually turned around and walked back into the hall, closing the hall door with a bang.

Several black-clad eunuchs looked at each other.

Finally, one of them waved his hand fiercely.

"Kill!"

Sabers and swords like a forest killed toward Huagai Hall.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 373 =====