Chapter 505: Whereabouts

"I was wondering why I couldn't find the whereabouts of Cult Leader Ji for two years; it turns out she went to Japan."

Li Miao said, narrowing his eyes.

Ji Tianrui had tossed things twice, and both times she almost tossed the entire Great Ming, along with Li Miao, to waste. Laziness aside, no matter how carefree Li Miao was, he wouldn't just wait for her to use her methods again.

For these two years, he threw the huge mess to his subordinates and disappeared into the Jianghu; although it was somewhat due to his personality and laziness, the root cause was actually that he was tracking Ji Tianrui's whereabouts.

Regarding Ji Tianrui's whereabouts, Li Miao actually had a guess long ago.

She cooperated with Zheng Anqi Sheng to steal information about He Shang Zhangren, so she probably also knew about Xu Fu, so her whereabouts were likely related to Japan.

Li Miao's appearance in the southeast coastal area was not an accident.

His meeting with Wu Mingxiao was also not an accident.

It was just that, before confirming Ji Tianrui's whereabouts, it wasn't easy for him to leave the Great Ming directly and head to Japan. A round trip would take at least half a year; if Ji Tianrui hadn't left, it would be equivalent to handing the Great Ming over to her.

But now, it was different.

"What is Cult Leader Ji doing in Japan?"

Li Miao asked with a smile.

Lan Qinyu hesitated for a moment and didn't open his mouth for a while.

Li Miao didn't talk nonsense either; without any movement, the internal organs that were strangely fixed in place in Lan Qinyu's open abdomen began to twitch inexplicably—as if an invisible giant claw was gripping his internal organs and squeezing them.

This kind of pain, I'm afraid no one else in the world had experienced it.

It wasn't until a cup of tea later that Lan Qinyu suddenly relaxed, lowered his head, and sweat poured down like rain.

Then he heard Li Miao say leisurely.

"Did I not say that you don't have the right to hesitate?"

"What to say and how to say it, is it up to you to deliberate?"

Lan Qinyu was suddenly alerted and said tremblingly.

"No, my lord... I was just, thinking..."

"I escaped back to the Central Plains when that demoness had just arrived in Japan and hadn't yet settled down, so I don't know much about what she is planning over there..."

"Plus, she somewhat noticed my intentions at the time, so she didn't entrust me with any truly important tasks, so I only know a little."

Lan Qinyu deliberated for a moment and slowly spat out three words.

"Shinto Sect."

"Before I left, the task that demoness gave me was to replace a palace priest in the Ise Grand Shrine of the Japanese Shinto Sect, and I took the opportunity to escape at that time... so her plan should be related to the Shinto Sect of Japan."

"As for more... I don't know either..."

After saying that, Lan Qinyu lowered his head.

He felt he had already told everything he knew, and now he only hoped Li Miao would give him a quick death.

Li Miao didn't speak for a while, just sitting there supporting his face and thinking.

Shinto Sect.

The indigenous religion of Japan, whose philosophy was somewhat similar to Shamanism, believing that all things have spirits, but also having main gods, subordinate gods, and its own creation myths, but overall, compared to the Ming Sect, it could be considered a relatively normal religion.

And it wasn't mainstream in Japan; at least as far as Li Miao knew, it had been beaten up by Buddhism, which had been transmitted from the Central Plains, in recent years. He didn't know what Ji Tianrui was planning with such a Japanese indigenous religion.

But, this was enough.

Knowing where Ji Tianrui was and knowing specifically what she was planning, at least the goal was clear.

"Is that Japanese big guy one of Ji Tianrui's people?"

Li Miao stood up and asked one last question.

Lan Qinyu shook his head and then nodded.

"No, my lord, if he were the demoness's person, he would only kill me. But today he came to the door because of witchcraft, so he is likely related to the demoness... As for the rest, I don't know."

Li Miao nodded.

"I see."

He brushed his sleeves and was about to walk out.

A wail from Lan Qinyu came from behind.