Chapter 1152 – Luo Qi
The leader of the soldiers received orders, and with all the manpower, centered on the side hall, and searched in the surrounding area.
And the general returned to the palace through the transmission array of the remote hall and reported the news to the person at the top of the main hall.
“Your Highness, those people did not do their job well and allowed Xu Chuniang to escape, I have already sent people to search for her whereabouts.”
Upon hearing this news, the Third Highness sitting at the upper head of the palace was not the least bit surprised.
On the contrary, with those guards alone, he would only be surprised if they really brought someone here.
“Fleeing is fine, the commotion she made wasn’t small, right, how many people did she kill?”
The general truthfully said, “Only one person was killed.”
“One person?”
Third Highness Luo Qi glanced at him with some surprise, “She didn’t make a scene when you had people invite her?”
“According to the leader’s report, she was cooperative at first, and then when she arrived outside the side hall, she suddenly snapped and killed the guard leading the way. By the time the people who stayed behind in the side hall realized something was wrong, it was already a quarter of an hour later.”
Luo Qi played with the string of beads in her hand and said carelessly.
“I originally intended to borrow the hands of those guards to test her bottom, with a few teams of guards, it would have been impossible to keep her.”
“This ……”
The general dawned on him, with a face of shame, “My subordinate is incompetent, and messed things up.”
“No matter, she was able to kill the guards leading the way and quietly vanish without alerting the others, enough to see that her strength is not bad.”
Luo Qi gently stroked the beads on the string, “Let those people withdraw, there is no need to search for her whereabouts, do what you need to do.”
“…… Yes.”
The general was a bit puzzled, your highness obviously cared a bit about this woman, why didn’t you pursue her anymore.
However, His Highness acted, not he can randomly speculate, he only need to do as he was told.
After the general retired, Luo Qi was the only one left in the hall.
He leaned on the back of his chair, his expression uncertain as he surveyed the string of beads in his hand.
On this string of beads, there were only five beads, each bead was only the size of a pellet, perhaps due to the owner’s frequent coiling, the surface of the beads looked very smooth.
Only a new string into the beads, the surface is slightly rough.
Unfortunately, there should have been six beads here originally.
Luo Qi regretfully put the bead string back on her hand, closed her eyes and sat in meditation, continuing to recuperate from her injuries.
It wouldn’t be too late for him to add a few top quality bone beads to his beloved string of beads when he had recovered from his injuries.
As for the fleeing Xu Chuniang, he didn’t need him to do anything, there would naturally be someone to seek her misfortune.
Although the Four Heavens were vast, the entire Northern Realm was dominated by the Greedy Wolf, and with Mure Sand dead and Mure Yun still alive, there were still quite a few people willing to give her face.
Twilight Cloud couldn’t find a handle on him, and once he learned of Xu Chuniang’s return to the Devil Realm from beyond the domain, nine times out of ten he would be sick and desperate and set his sights on her.
When Mureyun returned from the Extraterrestrial Lands, there would be a good show to watch.
The corner of Luo Qi’s mouth curled up into a playful smile, believing that it wouldn’t be long before he would be able to have a new bone bead.
While Luo Qi was calculating all this, Xu Chuniang had already moved away from the cross-border teleportation array and arrived at Crown Mountain City, which was 100,000 miles away.
She didn’t know much about the Four Heavens, but fortunately, the vines had devoured the guard’s divine soul and obtained all of his memories, which allowed her to not be blindsided. In the guard’s memories, Crown Mountain City was a very huge city, and the cultivators who came and went in the city were mostly at the Heavenly Demon Realm, and there were even three Demon King level powerhouses who were stationed in the city all year round.
Xu Chuniang looked at the towering city in front of her, and her gaze was cast towards Crown Mountain City through the city guard formation.
With the City Protector Formation obscuring it, the scene inside could not be seen truly, only the rolling houses, spacious streets, and the hidden figures on the streets could be seen.
Two rows of guards stood at the city gates, collecting fees from the cultivators entering the city.
Xu Chuniang observed and realized that these guards would not check the identity of the people entering the city, and only needed to pay some magic crystals to enter the city.
She withdrew her gaze and took a step towards the city gates, and after paying the entry fee of one thousand magic crystals, she smoothly walked into Crown Mountain City.
With one thousand magic crystals, one could only stay in the city for a maximum of three days, and beyond that time, one would be rejected by the city guard formation and forcefully teleported out of the city.
If one wanted to stay in the city longer, one would have to pay more magic crystals.
Xu Chuniang didn’t lack magic crystals, and her purpose for coming to Crown Mountain City was clear: to purchase or exchange for a fourth-order Soul Nurturing Sacred Item.
After entering the city, she first searched for a few stores, explicitly stating that she wanted to purchase soul nourishing items.
As a result, the soul nourishing items that could be taken out for trade in these several stores were all of the Heavenly Demon grade, and nothing better was available.
Even because Xu Chuniang’s cultivation wasn’t high, there were two stores that only informed her which types of demonic materials were in stock in the store, refusing to even show her the actual objects.
“Customer, it’s not that the small store is looking down on you, it’s really that this wick flower is too precious, selling for as much as 320,000 magic crystals, and we only have this one plant in the store.
The shopkeeper has explained that this item shall not be easily shown to others, unless it is sincerely wanted, only then can we give you a look.”
Xu Chuniang was disappointed, this Lantern Wick Flower was already a top grade amongst the Heavenly Demon grade treasures, but it still fell short of her requirements.
It seemed that these small stores, couldn’t come up with anything better.
“There’s no harm in it, I’m just asking about this wick flower, and I don’t intend to purchase it just yet.”
Xu Chuniang got up and walked out of the store, slightly hesitant in her heart.
In ordinary stores, there were only one or two pieces of fourth-ranked holy relics that were used to calm the store and hold up the facade.
These fourth-order holy relics were mostly forging materials used to create weapons, and most of them were not of high quality.
I’m afraid that higher level Soul Nurturing Sacred Artifacts are only found in various merchant houses.
When Xu Chuniang was in Profound City, she had dealt with various merchant houses and was clear about their trading rules.
The rarer the magical material, the more sought-after it was, and the way high-end magical materials were traded was often in the form of barter.
Moreover, the merchant houses preferred to trade with forces or cultivators that had cooperated for a long time and knew each other well.
She was new to Crown Mountain City and her cultivation was only at the Earth Demon Realm, even if she had the Yin Sinking Bead in her hand, it would not be easy for her to trade for the Soul Nourishing Sacred Item from the hands of these merchant houses.
Xu Chuniang’s mind flashed through these years, but she still held on to the idea of taking her chances and went to the largest few merchant houses in the city.
As expected, upon hearing her request to exchange for the Soul Nurturing Sacred Item, the major merchant houses rejected her.
“I’m sorry, the quantity of these rare magical materials is too rare, we don’t sell or trade them to the public, you’d better go elsewhere and ask again.”
Xu Chuniang was a bit helpless, but she knew that these people were just following the rules, unless her cultivation broke through to the Demon King level, only then would she be qualified to have the merchant houses make an exception for her.
After leaving the merchant bank, she planned to go to the auction house to ask about the situation and see if there was any news of the Soul Nurturing Sacred Item in the auction house.
If the last path didn’t work out again, she would have to settle for the second best option of acquiring some Heavenly Demon Realm Soul Nourishing Objects to stabilize her divine soul before looking for another method.