Chapter 176

Only then did he react, a little slow on the uptake.

Could the Sui Emperor's death be related to the Qinglong Society?!

They exchanged a glance.

The more the five of them thought about it, the more likely it seemed!

It was just that, deterred by the overwhelming intimidation Ximen Wudi brought to bear,

they hadn't dared speak up to verify whether it was true or false.

He nodded and answered in a low voice,

"Yes! I obey the Great Dragon Head's order!"

Having said that,

Li Gong and the others hurriedly shouldered the corpses of Han Gongdu and his two companions.

They bowed respectfully, then withdrew in haste.

The last to leave was Lord Chuan Ying.

Unaware of what had occurred,

he suddenly stopped, turned back, and asked with a smile,

"Great Dragon Head, you're letting us go so readily — aren't you afraid that once we're down from Qinglong Peak, we'll be like the Ghost Valley Master, hiding from the world and never coming out again?"

"You're welcome to try."

Ximen Wudi smiled faintly.

His face was full of an inscrutable expression.

The Ghost Valley Master hid from the world only because the Qinglong Society never went looking for him.

Otherwise,

no one could vanish from under the Qinglong Society's investigation!

Unless they were dead!!

There was no second possibility!

Lord Chuan Ying gave an awkward chuckle, a flicker of embarrassment crossing his weathered face.

After that, he said nothing more.

He strode quickly out.

With his departure,

the great hall fell into utter silence.

But that silence lasted only a few minutes

before a figure burst in from outside.

The newcomer was none other than

Li Taibai himself!

Though at this moment, his face was beaming with spring-like radiance.

The corner of his mouth held a faint, elusive smile.

He strutted in with a swagger that disowned all his kin.

He looked to be in an exceptionally good mood.

Seeing this,

Ximen Wudi's curiosity was immediately piqued.

He was just about to ask,

but before the words could leave his mouth, he caught sight of the chaotic lipstick prints all over Li Taibai's weathered face.

Judging by their thickness and size,

he couldn't help but think of the two sisters, Qing Guo and Qingcheng.

It seemed only they could have managed such a feat.

At this thought,

Ximen Wudi shuddered all over.

He could no longer maintain his usual composure and elegance.

He stared at him, slack-jawed, his face full of bewildered disbelief.

"You... you this is...."

"That's right! Exactly what you're thinking!"

Li Taibai flipped the hair across his brow and struck a dashing pose.

Not only was there no shame or unwillingness on his face,

it was instead brimming with self-satisfaction.

The gleam that flashed in his eyes from time to time

seemed to silently proclaim that he had, as it were, opened the door to a whole new world!

"Ahem... you don't mean... you actually submitted to them?"

Ximen Wudi coughed dryly twice, the corner of his eye twitching madly.

He looked every inch the picture of a man deeply shaken, yet utterly baffled!

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"Hehe... you just don't get it, do you?"

"At first, I didn't either."

"To avoid them, I even made a special trip down the mountain."

"Guess what happened?"

"I happened to run into an old geezer, already over eighty, still working the flower beds with effortless skill!"

"Then I couldn't contain my curiosity, so I went up and asked him for some pointers."

Li Taibai gave a sly little grin.

While explaining, he couldn't resist dragging it out a bit.

Ximen Wudi watched, utterly speechless.

He shot him an annoyed sideways glance.

The latter awkwardly rubbed his nose and went on.

"Seems my sincerity moved the old man."

"He took me away from the flower beds and patiently started telling me things."

"He said, the more unremarkable someone looks, the more of a dark horse they are!"

"Just keep the mindset of 'ugly or not, I'll take them all,' and you'll be unstoppable working the flower beds!"

"I thought it over carefully—hey, there's real truth to it!"

"After all, once the lights are off, they're all the same!"

"So I came back and tried to chat up and get to know the two sisters."

"Believe it or not, one of them is big and burly, the other skinny as a rack of ribs."

"But once we got talking, they were absolutely soulmates!!"

"So in the end, after a bit of half-pushing, half-consenting, I just....."

As he got to this part.

Li Taibai raised his brows and shot a you-know-what look.

He looked utterly sleazy!

After speaking, he licked his lips with some lingering longing and sighed in admiration.

"Truly, the real experts are among the common folk!"

"Don't even ask—the sheer pleasure of it all really cannot be shared with outsiders!!"

As he spoke.

His face took on an unfathomably profound expression, the kind that can only be sensed, never spoken.

Even between the lines.

There was also a faint trace of pride and self-satisfaction.