Li Xuan couldn’t help but burst into laughter, "Nonsense! Do you think that’s possible?"
Yet at that mont another smaller dragon head nudged up beside them, "I had no idea my brother-in-law was also in the Capital City, my apologies! After Ao and my sister have seen your Majesty, we’ll certainly co and visit, have a drink together, brother."
Li Xuan suddenly felt Luo Yan’s gaze, piercingly sharp, as if it could chop him into thousands of pieces.
Li Xuan looked helplessly at the receding dragon figure, thinking if this dragon knew that spouting nonsense could get people killed.
anwhile, about ten miles away, in Taiye Pool, the Demon Qilin, mouth filled with bubbles and mind dizzy, surfaced from the water.
When it finally regained consciousness, it furrowed its brows in anger, fangs bared, fury almost visible in the flas erupting in its eyes. An endless rage flowed through its chest —— Li Xuan!
But in the next mont, she heard a voice radiating urgency echo in her sea of consciousness, "Junior sister, are you not going to escape quickly? This ti, at least three heavenly level beings are converging. If you don’t leave now, it will be too late!"
With no alternative, the Demon Qilin transford its body into a cloud of black fog and swiftly fled northward.
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According to the information provided by the owner of the Tianwang Pavilion, the two places where anomalies occurred were both empty houses - one in the north of the city near Shicha Sea, and the other was near Paozi River in the south of the city. Due to the beautiful scenery, these locations were often selected for villas by the court nobles. They also frequently remained vacant, becoming a gathering place for the monster species.
Li Xuan and his companions went to inspect the empty house near Shicha Sea first and found a large number of Dream Silkworms gathered there. However, the Demon Qilin was long gone, and the gathered ’Dream Silkworms’ were rapidly dispersing.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t an entirely fruitless effort. Luo Yan perford a large-scale Illusion Technique, leaving a foreshadowing in all Dream Silkworms gathered there.
Any creature using the power of these ’Dream Silkworms’ to hide in the dream realm in the future would be detected by Luo Yan. If they are careless, they might even be taken advantage of by her Illusion Technique unwittingly.
After performing the illusion, a drained Luo Yan walked out. Li Xuan laughed sheepishly as he followed her from behind, "Nanyan, Yan, I told you it’s a misunderstanding. I was dragged off and licked all night, where can I go to justify myself? You don’t know what it’s like to be licked, it’s indescribable——"
Luo Yan visualised the scene for a mont, almost burst into laughter, but she resisted and continued with a cold voice, "Anyway, you’re very tough and fickle that’s nothing surprising, but now you’ve even begun to like dragons."
She was very familiar with this scoundrel’s temperant and simply by listening to Li Xuan’s words to Ao Shuying, she knew he had ideas about her.
Li Xuan was about to respond when he suddenly frowned, sensing once again the sa sense of crisis as the one he had an hour ago.
He turned his head imdiately, focusing on a certain direction in the south.
At this ti in the tower opposite Li Xuan, a battered Demon Qilin, forming red lightning on its horn, its body flickering in and out of existence.
"Junior sister, this ti you have to observe carefully! Make sure before you act," advised the young man wielding the sword, wiping off the blood dripping from his nose. "Not only should you pay attention to what is around him, but also look up to the sky, and it’d be best not to neglect what’s underground either."
"I know! "The Demon Qilin’s voice was hard and determined, blood streaming from its facial features: "Third ti’s the charm! It won’t happen a third ti."
"Junior sister," said the sword-wielding young man after a thoughtful pause, "how about keeping a ’Shifting Talisman’ in your mouth? This way, if anything happens, it will be convenient to escape."
The small Shifting Talisman is a Taoist talisman, which allows people to traverse the void and switch places.
"Get lost!"
The Demon Qilin glared at the young man, flas of rage burning in its eyes, "I’ve said, third ti’s the charm! It will work this ti."
Its body had already turned into red lightning striking out from the tower.
Far away, Li Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly. He saw a streak of red light hurtling towards him. Its montum was like a teor, but ten tis faster, and it grew bigger and bigger in his sight.
But at this mont, he spotted a chariot flying sideways across the sky — he managed to recognize it as the Imperial Red Thunder Chariot carrying two people. It careened across the sky after what seed like an impact, swaying for a mont before it slowed down significantly.
Li Xuan managed to get a clear view of the two figures in the chariot. To his surprise, he saw that the one sitting on it was the Minister of War, Shaobao Yu Jie; the other one was the Dudu Tongzhi of the Xiuyiwei, Zuo Daoxing.
Just as Li Xuan was trying to figure out what was happening, the palace area let out a third violent roar.
"Again?" Luo Yan turned her head toward the palace, "Oh, the disgrace! I bet that Demon Qilin hates the emperor to the core. I wonder how they managed to brew such an enmity."
Li Xuan was in full agreent. He rubbed his forehead in exasperation, "I don’t feel like investigating any further, we don’t need to go and hunt it down. We can just wait by the palace wall for it to smash into us."
At this point, back in the tower, the sword-wielding young man abruptly spat out a mouthful of congealed blood. They had been on alert within a three-mile radius, paying attention to the sky and underground, but they had completely neglected what could happen mid-way. Who could have predicted that the Red Thunder Chariot would suddenly burst out from the side like a ghost?
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