Chapter 193 - 192: The Nation’s Capital Deep Water, One Room

Jianghai Management Bureau.

Jiang Yini stood by her office window cradling her mobile phone that had just ended the call, staring blankly into the distance where a glimmer of blue light had vanished moment ago.

Li Jing.

Fifth Boundary?

Frankly, she found it hard to believe.

The key point was, Li Jing was only twenty-two years old!

Behind Jiang Yini, Wang Chong held a tablet and checked for a while and then murmured.

"Director, I’ve confirmed that Liu Sisi’s location is indeed moving at high speed. She has now left Jianghai and arrived at the boundary of Huai City. Judging by her direction, she should be heading to Central City."

"Central City?"

Jiang Yini turned around in confusion.

Liu Sisi had come in today to request half a month’s leave, but she didn’t specify what she would be doing.

In the phone call just now, Chen Jing didn’t mention where Li Jing was going either.

Bewildered by Wang Chong’s words, Jiang Yini felt a sense of astonishment.

What are Li Jing and Liu Sisi going to do in Central City?

Are they heading towards the Liu family?

Jiang Yini’s eyebrows furrowed as she pondered.

Picking a fight with the Liu family didn’t seem like something Li Jing, who wasn’t that unreasonable, would do.

He concealed his cultivation level to keep others unaware, and suddenly revealing it seemed to signify he was trying to give a stern warning.

It looked like the Liu family in Central City already had been visited by someone.

Damn it!

She had clearly had someone keeping tabs on the movements of the Liu family, so how come she received no news in this regard?

Jiang Yini rubbed her forehead.

After all this time, Li Jing still seemed to be closer to Chen Jing.

Li Jing was at the Fifth Boundary cultivation level, and she was not aware.

The Liu family from Central City had sent someone, and he was taking Liu Sisi to Central City to face the Liu family, and she was also unaware.

Tomorrow was the centennial birthday of the Head of the Liu family; this she did know.

But it was of no value to the situation at hand.

She was completely left in the dark, while Chen Jing, that old fox, knew everything.

This was not good.

Not good at all!

Especially now that it had been confirmed that Li Jing was not in the final stage of the Fourth Boundary as she had believed but had broken through the Fifth one.

A Fifth Boundary cultivator at twenty-two years of age...

Jiang Yini took a deep breath, then said.

"I need to return to my family home. I’ll leave the Bureau to you for a while."

Wang Chong furrowed his brows.

"You’re sure you want to go back?"

"Just visiting, not like I am going away."

After that, Jiang Yini said lightly.

"I’ve been away for years; it’s time to go back and look around, and take the opportunity to show support for Li Jing."

"Show support?"

Wang possessed a strange expression.

The relation between Li Jing, Liu Sisi, and Liu family at Central City was unknown to Wang.

However, from Jiang Yini saying that she wants to go back and show support for Li Jing, he roughly guessed that this visit to Central City was related to the Seven Great Families.

From a friend’s perspective, Wang Chong disapproved of Jiang Yini’s return.

As a Fifth Boundary cultivator native to Jianghai, he knew very little about the circumstances of the Seven Great Families in Central City.

But he completely understood Jiang Yini’s situation.

If it weren’t for the distant geographical location of the Jiang family and the fact that not just any member of the Jiang family could pull the strings within the system, Jiang Yini would have been forced to return long ago.

This time upon return, the Jiang family would inevitably try to keep her in Central City.

However, from the perspective of the Jianghai Management Bureau, Yini’s visit was necessary.

She is the director, and Li Jing is a strategic consultant.

As a subordinate’s matter, could the director not appear?

Not to mention the confirmation of Li Jing being at the Fifth Boundary was of great significance to the Jianghai Management Bureau, and one could not risk him getting into trouble in a dangerous place such as Central City.

In terms of high-end combat resources, it was not only the Patrol System that was lacking but also the more populous Management Bureau System.

Nationally distributed, they were entirely insufficient.

There were often situations of various management bureaus scrambling for "idle" high-end combat power.

But in comparison to the Patrol System,

the Management Bureau has a larger system, with lower requirements and thresholds, and it is relatively rich in personnel.

Power size?

The Management Bureau doesn’t concern itself with such fluff.

As a public institution, the Management Bureau focuses more on its ability to handle crises in its jurisdiction.

The addition of a Fifth Boundary cultivator provides more certainty in handling potential crises.

Take the previous case with the Small Secret Realm 107, for example.

If it wasn’t for Li Jing’s adequate combat power, Jiang Yini and Wang Chong would have had to ask for outside help to initiate the clearance operation.

Not to mention owing a favor, asking for help takes time.

With the situation in Secret Realm 107, every minute delay increased the possibility of a mishap, along with the likely outcome of heavy casualties.

Putting it bluntly, when Jiang Yini recruited Li Jing from the very beginning, it wasn’t for her own benefit, but as Director of Jianghai Management Bureau, she considered the bureau’s needs.

After a moment of silence, Wang Chong said.

"I understand. Director, go early and come back early. I’ll take care of Jianghai."

...

The territory of Hua Country is vast.

It roughly takes three hours to travel by supersonic passenger airline from Jianghai to Central City.

Sword Controlling at the Fifth Boundary.

Using Spirit weapon class as a standard, they usually can reach near three times the speed of sound under normal circumstances.

From Jianghai to Central City, it takes about an hour.

With the support of the Great Perfection’s Sky Sword Jue, Li Jing’s speed of Sword Controlling is much faster than the average Fifth Boundary cultivator.

Now with the Flying Sword Blue Edge reaching the Spirit weapon class five and awakening its Wind Attribute, Li Jing’s Escaping Light easily reached five times the speed of sound when fully deployed.

From the start of the journey in Jianghai to arriving at Central City, it took him less than half an hour.

Just past half-past six, he and Liu Sisi entered the boundary of Central City.

The moment they entered Central City, Li Jing, with his sharp Primordial Spirit, sensed that dozens of powerful godly intentions came across the skies, locked onto him and then disappeared.

Central City really was indeed Central City.

Half an hour ago when they left North City, he had encountered a similar situation.

At that time, he could clearly capture less than ten divine thoughts.

Upon arrival at Central City, he was greeted by dozens of divine thoughts.

These were just initial explorations using divine thoughts that he sensed.

Moreover, if he was not mistaken, the divine thoughts he sensed would all belong to the guardians of the Patrol System, Management Bureau, and other official institutions.

Guarding Central City was their duty.

Hence, these divine thoughts departed after a straightforward initial exploration.

The Patrol Network and Management Bureau Network used military satellite to monitor the airspace of whole Hua Country.

With his Patrol Bureau credentials, Li Jing’s identity could easily be confirmed.

However, he arrived too quickly, and the local monitoring system could not respond on time.

The Patrol System had confirmation, but it would still take some time to feed it into other security systems.

Confirmed that a Fifth Boundary patrolman had come, the city defenders naturally retreated.

It had to be said, Central City had "deep water".

The defenders responsible within the system alone amounted to dozens of persons.

Among them, there were some whose cultivation level was too high to be fathomed or sensed by Li Jing.

After all, he was only at Fifth Boundary.

He could not detect the exploration of a Sixth Boundary cultivator.

Upon entering the Central City limits, Li Jing slowed down his sword’s speed to the level of the Third Boundary and decreased its altitude.

Pussyfooting around?

No, not to that extent.

He had legal Sword Controlling rights; how he flew was his liberty and his privilege as an active patroller.

The reason for the slowdown was primarily due to his unfamiliarity with Central City.

As he navigated at a slower pace above Central City on his flying sword, Li Jing turned to Liu Sisi, who had her eyes closed beside him.

"Sisi, we are here."

"Huh? So soon?"

Liu Sisi opened her eyes in surprise.

As she looked down, she saw the bustling city night view of the Central City. She was struck dumb.

She left the Liu family when she turned eighteen, worked her way through college in Jianghai, and nine years had passed in the blink of an eye.

Returning to this land after a long hiatus of nine years, everything was both familiar and strange to her.

Cities like Jianghai and Central City are always in high-speed development.

There are minor changes every three years and major changes every five years.

In the span of nine years, the changes in Central City had overturned heaven and earth.

The general layout remained, but the overall appearance had changed into something Liu Sisi no longer recognized.

Seeing Liu Sisi gaze intently at the city scenery below, Li Jing decided to further slow down the Escaping Light.

This was his first visit to Central City.

Under the dim night sky, Central City was magnificent and mystical.

Why not enjoy the night view from the sky? It’s quite romantic, isn’t it?

Legal Sword Controlling, it allows such capricious behavior.

Seeing how considerate he was as he continued to slow down his sword flying speed and took her sightseeing, Liu Sisi glanced at him and pointed towards the east side of Central City.

"The Liu family is over there."

Li Jing turned his head upon hearing that.

Following Liu Sisi’s direction, he saw a mid-sized residential area with distinctive architecture in the far east.

Under the tranquil night sky, the residential area, with its architecture cut from a completely different cloth from its surroundings, was eye-catchingly prominent.

After a long glance, Li Jing furrowed his brows.

At first glance, it appeared to be a residential area.

But looking from the sky at a distance.

Was this a residential area?

It was completely a gigantic courtyard house on the scale of a mid-sized residential area!

He turned his gaze back and asked to confirm.

"Is that entire place all theirs?"

"Yes."

Liu Sisi nodded and said,

"There are over eight thousand members in the Liu family. This layout is considered small. Many unrelated families do not qualify to live in the main house, and the main house does not have room for them. They all reside in the areas surrounding the main house. Among the Seven Great Families, the other six families occupy no less land than the Liu family, and only the Jiang family, who has fewer family members, occupies a slightly smaller area than the Liu family."

Hearing such descriptions, Li Jing fell silent.

The Seven Great Families were truly wealthy.

The land in Central City is even more valuable than in Jianghai.

Just looking at the land occupied by the Liu family, that entire courtyard house was worth several billion at the very least.

And that was just their real estate.

He looked in the direction of the Liu family’s main house and asked.

"Do you want to go over to the Liu family to have a look?"

"No need."

Liu Sisi shook her head and said,

"There’s nothing much to see, let’s talk about it at tomorrow’s birthday banquet. You probably brought me here early for other reasons, let’s go to the hotel first."

"Alright."

Li Jing agreed and asked,

"Which hotel did you book?"

"Ge Ling in the center of Central City."

Liu Sisi said as she took out her phone to open the location.

Seeing this, Li Jing looked at the phone and found that the Ge Ling Hotel was in the west, in the opposite direction from the Liu family’s place.

He glanced at Liu Sisi and then turned his head, controlling his sword towards the Ge Ling Hotel.

...

A little while later, the two arrived at the Ge Ling Hotel.

The Ge Ling Hotel was five-star rated.

It was quite luxurious to ordinary people.

However, to Li Jing and Liu Sisi, it was nothing.

Staying here for half a month would only cost about a hundred thousand at most.

Standing on the ground, Li Jing glanced at the roughly twenty-story hotel building but didn’t pay much attention to it.

When they arrived at the hotel’s front desk, Liu Sisi took out her ID card.

"Hello, I booked a room online."

A pretty girl at the front desk greeted her with a professional smile.

"Hello, please wait a moment, I’ll confirm your reservation."

As she said this, the front desk girl took the ID card and checked some information on the computer, then handed back the ID card along with a room card.

"Miss Liu, you have booked the VIP suite on the top floor of the hotel, Room 218, for a fifteen-day stay. This is your room card, please keep it safe."

"Thank you."

Liu Sisi smiled, took the room card and the ID card, and turned back to Li Jing.

"Let’s go, let’s go up."

Li Jing nodded and as they walked towards the elevator, he glanced at the room card in her hand.

"Sisi, you only booked one room?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Sisi paused for a moment and glanced at him, saying,

"I need to meditate, you can sleep on the bed, I can sit on the sofa."

"Ah, this..."

Li Jing was taken aback and said,

"The remaining elixirs you have should only be enough for about ten days, right?"

"Just because there’s not enough elixirs, doesn’t mean I can’t practice, right?"

Liu Sisi retorted with a grunt and then hesitated a bit, saying,

"Furthermore, we’ve been together for almost two months, sleeping together shouldn’t be a problem. If you’re scared, then ignore what I’ve said."

Li Jing was dumbfounded.

Scared?

What could he, a forthright man, possibly be afraid of?

As he was responding, Liu Sisi began to mutter softly.

"We’re just sleeping, it’s not like I’m letting you do other things..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Jing shook his head.

"Alright, you sleep on the bed, I’ll sleep on the sofa."

Hearing this compromise, Liu Sisi looked at him, remained silent, hugged her arms tighter, and waited for the elevator to arrive.

...

After taking the elevator upstairs and finding Suite 218, they entered the room.

Upon entering, Li Jing used his Primordial Spirit to sense the entire room, making sure everything was fine, then looked at Liu Sisi.

"You stay in the hotel first and order something to eat, I’ll go out."

Upon saying so, he continued,

"I’ll leave Linglong here with you."

"Linglong?"

Liu Sisi was taken aback.

Before she could ask further, Linglong, who looked like a three-year-old girl, appeared graciously next to Li Jing.

Upon seeing Linglong, a girl who exuded sternness from head to toe, Liu Sisi was stunned and asked in disbelief,

"She...is the spirit of the Linglong Tower?"

"Yes."

Li Jing smiled and explained,

"Linglong is not quite like ordinary weapon spirits. Her appearance is a transformation from the Linglong Tower, not just a simple form of consciousness. In any case, with her protecting you, you can relax."

Before he had even finished speaking, Linglong spoke up in her baby voice.

"Mistress, don’t worry, with me around, no one can bully you."

Looking at Linglong’s childlike appearance but elder-like demeanor, Liu Sisi found it amusing.

She bent down to pick up the cute Linglong, and pinched her tender little face. Liu Sisi’s eyes sparkled as she looked at Li Jing.

"You go do your things, I’ll chat with Linglong and wait for you."

"..."

Li Jing.

His original intention was to leave Linglong behind to protect Liu Sisi and to help her feel at ease to practice.

However, right now she seemed to have found a new plaything...

And from the sounds of it, she didn’t seem to have plans to practice.

Watching as Liu Sisi took Linglong towards the sofa, Li Jing smiled and left the room.

In any case...

As long as she’s happy.

Although Liu Sisi hadn’t shown any clear signs of anxiety since coming to Central City, it was not difficult to tell from her choice of hotel and booking only one room that she was just putting on a brave front and did not want to show her fragile side.