Chapter 67: Chapter 67: People Don’t Understand Themselves_1
Chapter 67: Chapter 67: People Don’t Understand Themselves_1
When Li Xuan walked out of the Treasure Tower, he already had on the ‘Red-Thunder Gloves’.
Even though Li Xuan had many complaints about it before the exchange, once he put it on, he was nearly let slip the phrase ‘fantastic’.
The glove was a perfect fit for his skin, comfortable beyond words. Once worn, he did not feel any sense of foreignness, as if the glove was a part of his body and inseparable. It could even change color according to the wearer’s mood, not necessarily having to maintain its current ostentatious gold hue.
Li Xuan tested it by slashing at it with his waist saber, but there wasn’t even a scratch, not even a white mark.
It is necessary to ntion that the waist saber Li Xuan used was not the standard version of the Liudao Division but a sharp sword he found from ho. It is incredibly sharp and durable, the lethality of which can be compared to a low-level magical instrunt.
Even this blade couldn’t cause any damage to the ‘Red-Thunder Gloves’.
He then tried to use the ‘Dongxuan Jingshenzhi’. In an instant, a bright flash of lightning sparked from his hands, with the electrical energy exceeding more than five tis his normal output.
Of course, this was because Li Xuan just started practicing Thunder Style. The thunderforce he had accumulated was not enough and still taking shape.
The key was that the ‘Red-Thunder Gloves’ could carry thunder sparks, which could suppress the Yinsha of the female ghost to so extent.
However, as Li Xuan, happily leaving, noticed out of the corner of his eyes, a familiar figure. That was Jiang Hanyun, who stood in front of the ‘Zhenyao Tower’, which was specifically used to suppress demons and monsters, her eyebrows furrowed.
She wasn’t showing the excitent or exuberance of soone who had just cracked a significant case. Instead, she was deep in thought, seemingly worried about sothing.
Despite his hesitation, Li Xuan still walked over. “Commander!”
“Li Xuan?” Jiang Hanyun ca back to her senses. She looked at Li Xuan in surprise. “Why are you still here? Didn’t you hear? We’re free from duty for the next three days in Mingyou City.”
The Fumo Zongguan had made this decision, giving everyone in Mingyou City three days off. After all, of late, they had been the hardest working group in the Liudao Division.
“I ca here to change my magical instrunt.” Li Xuan waved the golden gloves on his hand in front of Jiang Hanyun. “I see you’ve been standing here for a while, anything on your mind?”
“What could possibly be on my mind?” Jiang Hanyun let out a laugh, then shifted her eyes back to the entrance of the Zhenyao Tower. “I just have a weird feeling about that evil corpse, and it’s making a little uneasy.”
“Is sothing wrong?” Now it was Li Xuan’s turn to be perplexed. He asked curiously, “What’s wrong with it? Surely, it can’t be a fake?”
Jiang Hanyun looked slightly tense: “It’s indeed an Undead King, but Lei told its sll is slightly different from the one we encountered before.”
After hearing this, Li Xuan’s first reaction was disbelief. Did that four-tailed spirit fox make a mistake? Could there be another Undead King in Nanjing City?
However, he imdiately realized that the spirit fox couldn’t lie, its authority in terms of sll is not sothing he could challenge.
As an investigator, it is best to view everything with skepticism and not let go of any possibilities.
Moreover, the red ghost appeared after his encounter with Xue Wuya, and judging from the ghost’s reaction on Jiangjun Mountain, this case clearly had sothing to do with her. But Xue Wuya’s and the evil corpse’s arrests did not seem to resolve the residual obsession of the ghost.
In fact, Li Xuan has always wanted to see Xue Wuya and the Evil Corpse in person, but he lost his chance when they were sealed within the Demon Tower.
“Has Commander reported this to the Fumo Zongguan?” Li Xuan instinctively beca alert realizing that for him, this case was not yet over.
Yue Qianqian had said that to solve the problem of being attacked by Yinsha, resolving this Shouyuan Spirit’s obsession was the most effective thod.
“As I’ve said before, without any proof, the Fumo Zongguan only promised to thoroughly interrogate Xue Wuya and others regarding this matter. I suggested lifting the Martial Law in the city in a few more days, but the Fumo Zongguan wasn’t convinced.”
Jiang Hanyun knitted her brows, “I’m thinking, perhaps Lei might have made a mistake.”
The little Lei lying on her shoulder imdiately started to grumble as if protesting against Jiang Hanyun’s doubts.
Li Xuan was deep in thought, “It’s brought up a question I had earlier. Yesterday, little Lei tracked the murderer to the Qinhuai River, but he lost him amidst so many people who slled the sa. I want to know, when he says ‘people who sll the sa’, does he an the girls from the brothels?”
“Perhaps he does? He did ntion they were human females.”
Jiang Hanyun replied uncertainly, her eyes lighting up as she rembered sothing, “I almost forgot, we’ve still got a clue in this case. The criminals of the Xue Wuya case and the Jiangjun Mountain Blood Sacrifice case have not been completely arrested.”
After pondering, Li Xuan spoke up in a consultative tone, “In addition, I’d like to go and inspect the underground Dark River, perhaps I can find other clues.”
“The underground Dark River?” Jiang Hanyun hesitated, “Let’s wait a couple of days. Several evil cultivator’s spirits fled the scene and our people are still hunting and exterminating them. Your cultivation level is too low, it’s risky for you to go in.”
Li Xuan imdiately gave up the idea; these evil spell cultivators were quite terrifying even without their bodies. With his weak cultivation, the danger of having his body seized by them was a possibility he didn’t want to consider.
However, the fact that Jiang Hanyun was willing to continue investigating this case was good news for him.
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While Li Xuan and Jiang Hanyun were discussing, not too far away, in the Treasure Tower, the Librarian who had guided Li Xuan in selecting magical instrunts had already reached the seventh floor and was looking at the center of the floor puzzledly.
He was looking at a transparent crystal box that held a suspended flying sword. The crystal box, not only engraved (etched) with all kinds of exotic runes, but also covered on the outside with various bright yellow talismans.
What astonished the Librarian was the sword itself.
It had changed in color compared to before, the terrifying killing intent capable of taking tens of thousands of lives in an instant had disappeared almost entirely for so reason.
“You actually gave him the ‘Red-Thunder Glove’?”
At this mont, a figure suddenly appeared behind the old Librarian. This was a man with broad shoulders and back, one who had the presence of a bear or a tiger. After he appeared, he too stared at the crystal box with astonishnt.
“Strange? How did the sword beco like this?”
“That’s exactly what I’m wondering. In less than an hour, it doesn’t seem much different from a common flying sword.”
The old Librarian raised his eyebrows, a look of puzzlent twinkling in his eyes, “Is Qiu Qianqiu’s Juemie Palm really so overwhelming? Did it manage to dissipate, in one strike, the murderous aura that Xue Wuya nurtured for tens of years?”
The man with the bear or tiger-like presence pondered for a bit and then dismissively shook his head, “After all, he’s the one who has shown the most promise to reach the heavenly level in our Liudao Division in recent years. It’s not surprising that he possesses such overwhelming palm strength.”
He then changed the subject, “The ‘Red-Thunder Glove’ is an object imbued with Martial Intent. Before Lu Liangyuan died, his Martial Intent evolved and integrated into this magical artifact. It was placed in our Treasure Tower to aid the younger generation, in hopes that soone suitable from our Zhuque Hall would inherit Lu Liangyuan’s Overbearing Martial Intent. You just gave away this valuable object? Do you know that there are several excellent young people in the Zhuque Hall right now——”
“This is because of the destiny they shared.” The Librarian interrupted him before he could finish, “Master, as you know, due to the characteristics of the ‘Red-Thunder Glove’, only the fearless, the brave, and those with great loyalty can see it, let alone the sixth house level. If they don’t possess such qualities, they wouldn’t even be able to see the ‘Red-Thunder Glove’. Since Li Xuan could see it, that ans it’s his destiny.”
“Of course I know.” The man had a complicated expression on his face as he looked outside, “But I also know that Li Xuan is an heir of Earl Chengyi. He’s a reckless, extravagant, and frivolous young man. Is he capable of inheriting Liangyuan’s divine Yi of Martial Law?”
The old Librarian laughed, looking back at the man, “Master, we must never judge a book by its cover. Even you and I can’t say we truly understand ourselves. Only when we are at death’s door, can our true nature be revealed. All I can say is, it was indeed destined for them to et. It’s fortunate for our Liudao Division that this magical instrunt now has a master.”
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