Chapter 607: Kosodate-yurei

Li Miao stepped out of the room, and what met him was the sunlight reflected by armor, scabbards, and silk as smooth as water.

He frowned with dissatisfaction.

Immediately, someone shouted.

"Put away weapons, cover the armor!"

The sound of weapons being sheathed rang out in a chorus, and in just a few breaths, there was no more blinding sunlight being reflected. Only then did Li Miao squint his eyes and scan the area.

Gleaming armor and vigorous warhorses were laid out along the street, guarding a sedan chair in the middle, which was set up extremely luxuriously.

Surrounding the sedan chair stood a dozen swordsmen in silence, dressed as ordinary warriors, but from the crimson swords without guards at their waists, one could tell—they were the swordsmen who had originally hidden in the Shinto sect and were loyal to the previous Emperor.

At the very front of the procession, a middle-aged man with a *chonmage* hairstyle and dressed in soap-colored magnificent robes was also secretly sizing up Li Miao.

"Is this Li Miao?"

"A Heavenly Demon just like that person."

"His physique and temperament are exceptionally outstanding, but his complexion is pale, his blood and energy are floating, and his breathing has a wheezing sound... Is it an injury that even the Heaven-Man Realm cannot suppress? Can this man... really contend with the Shinto sect?"

Suspicious in his heart, his face was extremely respectful. He stepped forward, bowed, and performed the most standard Central Plains official greeting.

"I am Sai Seimei, greetings to Lord Li!"

"Hmm, let's go."

Without returning the greeting, Li Miao was too lazy to even do the superficial work, nodded indifferently, and walked toward the palace.

"Ah... cough."

Sai Seimei coughed, took small steps to catch up with Li Miao, and said in a low voice.

"Lord Li, please enter the sedan chair."

Li Miao glanced at it.

"Is Nana-ko inside?"

"... Yes, Your Highness is in the sedan chair."

"Let my two subordinates go in."

"This..."

Sai Seimei looked at Sanhao Liangtai with difficulty. If Li Miao went in to protect her personally, that would be fine, but letting an Eastern man of appropriate age go in didn't sound very good.

Even if it was a request made by Li Miao, he wanted to try to refuse... Although he now had to rely on Li Miao to set things right, he still wanted to strive for some initiative and did not want to unconditionally compromise with Li Miao, or rather, the Great Shuo court.

So he put on a difficult, respectful expression, but his mouth was tightly closed, not saying a word.

Li Miao smiled and glanced at him.

"What, is it very difficult to handle?"

"Lord Li..."

"Then should I leave?"

After speaking, he actually made a gesture of turning away.

Sai Seimei was stunned.

Thinking of Li Miao's life story, he was shocked.

This man... is probably the most willful person in the world today!

He really might just walk away on a whim!

Having figured this out, he could only smile apologetically at Li Miao, waved his hand backward, and let Lu Wushuang and Sanhao Liangtai into the sedan chair.

The two lifted the sedan curtain and entered. Lu Wushuang's expression was somewhat conflicted and relieved, while Sanhao Liangtai was full of joy and expectation. Before he could see clearly, he shouted.

"Nana-ko! Are you okay!"

The words fell, but there was no response.

In the deepest part of the sedan chair, the young girl dressed in the Emperor's imperial robes sat motionless. Her thin face was so pale that it was almost translucent, as if she were porcelain, both beautiful and fragile. A pair of apricot eyes looked ahead without focus.

Without a doubt, it was Nana-ko.

But the expressions of the two suddenly turned gloomy.

They saw that under Nana-ko's fair skin, there were blue-black blood vessels winding and spreading like tentacles and tree roots, so clearly visible that even their pulsation was plain to see. ===== CHAPTER 608 =====