Great Li Martial God

At those words, Li Musheng raised an eyebrow, ”And so? What is your point, Miss?”

”My point is that I might be able to help you find a way to rescue the person.”

A look of sincere earnestness appeared on Zhao Muning’s refined face as she looked at Li Musheng, ”You have absolutely no need to risk yourself by forcing your way through the Mystic Mechanism Palace. As you said just now, it is a place you go into and do not come out of.”

”If you fall into it and end up imprisoned, you will only have wasted all that extraordinary martial talent of yours for nothing.”

Li Musheng rubbed his chin and murmured, ”So the Miss wants to recruit me?”

Zhao Muning did not deny it, and with complete seriousness said, ”Who would not want to recruit someone of your martial talent?”

”If you accept my suggestion, I will do everything in my power to help you rescue the person. And if I cannot manage it, you can always come back and try forcing your way through the Mystic Mechanism Palace afterward.”

At those words, Li Musheng shook his head, ”No need. I am not someone the Miss can recruit.”

As he said this, Li Musheng looked toward the open gates of the Mystic Mechanism Palace in the distance, then took hold of Zhao Muning and disappeared from the rooftop.

From what Zhao Muning had said, she was clearly someone of considerable standing and background. But as far as Li Musheng was concerned, there was a faster solution available, and there was no need to spend time on her.Whatever happened, whether or not he could get the blue-robed Daoist’s Elder Sister out, tonight needed to produce a result.

In the blink of an eye, Li Musheng had brought Zhao Muning before the base of the nine-story tower.

The first-level door that had been opened for the Hidden Intelligence Bureau Director was still standing open, as though waiting for Li Musheng’s arrival.

”Come on. Let us go in and see what this is all about.”

Li Musheng released Zhao Muning, letting her move freely, and indicated she should follow him into the Mystic Mechanism Palace.

Zhao Muning’s expression at that moment was not particularly pleasant. Though she was a Great Xuan princess, the Mystic Mechanism Palace was as much a forbidden place to her.

Everyone in the palace, whether eunuchs, palace maids, consorts, princes, or princesses, was forbidden from coming within a step of the Mystic Mechanism Palace.

She also knew well that since its construction, the Mystic Mechanism Palace had swallowed an untold number of martial world experts, and even for the most formidable of them it amounted to a dragon’s pool and a tiger’s lair.

But in the current situation, Zhao Muning had no choice but to follow Li Musheng inside.

If they ultimately ended up imprisoned, Zhao Muning could identify herself as a princess and would probably be released. But Li Musheng would without question be held inside.

To be honest, Zhao Muning had genuinely come to feel a deep appreciation for Li Musheng’s talent, especially given the emergence of the Great Li Eighth Prince. Gaining someone of this caliber would be absolutely invaluable to Great Xuan.

But unfortunately the person before her was far too proud, and no amount of kind persuasion was going to change his mind.

With this in mind, the plainly dressed Zhao Muning let out a quiet sigh, said nothing further, and followed behind Li Musheng as he walked toward the open gates of the Mystic Mechanism Palace.

Very quickly the two stepped inside one after the other, and the door behind them swung shut with a heavy boom.

At that very moment, a raspy voice suddenly rang through the dim and yellowish main hall, ”Tsk, tsk. Another one with no fear of death trying to storm the Mystic Mechanism Palace. Let this old man have a look and see what kind of hero has come calling this time.”

As the voice fell, a black-robed elder with a face like dead wood and a full head of white hair appeared without a sound in the main hall of the first level.

He was small and wiry, standing bent and stooped in the light of a burning oil lamp, like some unsettling carved idol of a ghost or demon.

The black-robed elder looked over Li Musheng and Zhao Muning quietly, and seeing that both of them were young people who had barely grown up, his cloudy eyes narrowed, ”The Great Xuan imperial palace is really going downhill. Letting little kittens like this into the Mystic Mechanism Palace, are there really no proper martial world experts left out there?”

At those words, Zhao Muning furrowed her brow slightly.

She could feel the black-robed elder’s deeply hostile gaze, and it made her skin crawl. She instinctively took a step backward.

Li Musheng, on the other hand, was completely composed. He swept a casual glance over the empty hall, then looked toward the black-robed elder and asked, ”Old fellow, do you know which level of this Mystic Mechanism Palace they keep people on?”

At those words, the small and wiry black-robed elder’s eyes went briefly blank, then his gaze fixed on Li Musheng and the corner of his mouth slowly spread into a grin, ”You are quite an interesting little kitten, not bad at all. In all these years, you are the first young person who has dared to speak to this old man like that. Youth truly is formidable.”

Though the black-robed elder’s face had taken on a smile, every word from his lips carried a deeply chilling intent, and the temperature of the entire hall seemed to drop a few degrees.

At that moment, Zhao Muning looked at the stooped black-robed elder and felt the aura leaking from him, and as something seemed to occur to her, suddenly said, ”Could this senior be the renowned Black Moon Yin Elder, who over a decade ago shocked the martial world with his Yin Moon Divine Art and single-handedly fought three Heaven-Human experts simultaneously, killing all three?”

At those words, the black-robed elder’s gaze shifted, his peripheral vision falling on Zhao Muning, ”I had not thought that after so many years, there were still young ones in the martial world who knew of this old man’s deeds.”

As he said this, the black-robed elder gave a slight nod, ”You are far more sensible than this little kitten. When this old man gets around to dealing with you, I will try to be gentle...”

But his words were barely out of his mouth when Li Musheng’s voice sounded from directly beside him, ”Old fellow, I asked you a question. What is all this muttering about?”

In an instant, the face of the black-robed elder, as dry and expressionless as dead wood, went completely still. He suddenly realized that Li Musheng was nowhere in his field of vision.

The next instant, the black-robed elder’s entire body erupted with freezing yin energy and he struck without hesitation, driving a powerful palm toward his own side.

But he had barely completed the motion when he felt the vast yin energy he had unleashed suddenly recede like an ebbing tide.

His own acupoints were sealed in an instant, and he found he could not move in the slightest.

And he had not even turned his head yet. He had not even glimpsed Li Musheng’s figure beside him.

”You...”

The arrogance and mockery that had been in the black-robed elder’s eyes when he looked at the two of them vanished entirely, replaced by a chill of fear that ran down his back.

As he saw it, these two were so young that even if they were strong enough to dare force their way into the Mystic Mechanism Palace, how strong could they really be?

He had been confident he could handle both of them effortlessly, suppress and imprison them.

But what he had not anticipated was that the one he had called a little kitten moved with such staggering speed. He had not even registered it before the person was already at his side.

And the person had casually suppressed all the martial true qi within his body and sealed his acupoints without him being able to resist in the slightest.

It was clearly not his own carelessness or a decline in his strength. The young person before him who had barely grown up possessed martial cultivation that genuinely surpassed his own.