Great Li Martial God

The Black Moon Yin Elder was in good spirits. He brought the Daoist woman he had found to the first level of the Mystic Mechanism Palace at the earliest opportunity.

By that time, Li Musheng and the others had already come up from underground.

The moment Li Musheng saw the Daoist woman beside the Black Moon Yin Elder, his eyebrow immediately went up.

She resembled the portrait the blue-robed Daoist had drawn to about eight or nine parts. If appearance alone were the measure, this Daoist woman was almost certainly Daoist Qingyu.

”Who sent you to rescue me?”

The white-haired Daoist woman looked at Li Musheng and the others with calm eyes, then spoke slowly.

The Black Moon Yin Elder immediately came to Li Musheng’s side, pointing at the Daoist woman and claiming credit, ”Young hero, this old man spared no effort in searching all nine levels, and has finally delivered the person you sought.”

At those words, Li Musheng said nothing, only continuing to look the white-haired Daoist woman over.

When the Daoist woman saw how deferentially the Black Moon Yin Elder addressed Li Musheng, she seemed to understand that Li Musheng was the true source of this rescue, and showed a look of evident surprise as she studied the remarkably young-looking person before her.

”Are you Daoist Qingyu of the Azure Cloud Temple?”Li Musheng suddenly asked.

The white-haired Daoist woman kept her expression level and gave a nod, cupping her hands in a Daoist greeting, ”That is this poor Daoist. The young lord has impressive means indeed, to have had someone fight through all nine levels of the Mystic Mechanism Palace to bring this poor Daoist out.”

”This kindness is not forgotten. Once we are out of the Great Xuan imperial palace, the Azure Cloud Temple will repay you properly.”

Li Musheng said nothing, only turned to look at the white-robed young woman who had been brought out behind him, ”I found her just now in the ninth underground level. She said she was Daoist Qingyu.”

At those words, the white-haired Daoist woman’s brow furrowed, and she fixed her gaze on the white-robed woman, starting to speak.

But Li Musheng raised a hand to stop her, narrowing his eyes, ”Now is not the time to sort out who is genuine and who is not. We have more important things to do, and the priority right now is to get out of the Mystic Mechanism Palace first.”

With that, Li Musheng swept a look over the martial world experts who had followed the Black Moon Yin Elder out, said nothing further, and sent a single palm into the first-level door, blasting it open. He then led Zhao Muning and the others to go and seize the Great Xuan emperor’s consorts.

The white-haired Daoist woman thought for a brief moment, asked nothing further, and silently fell into step behind.

Seeing this, the Black Moon Yin Elder, though he had no idea what Li Musheng was planning, immediately fell in behind Li Musheng as well.

After his experience fighting through the guardians of the eight upper levels, he understood clearly that if he wanted to break free from the Great Xuan imperial palace’s control, Li Musheng was likely his only chance in this lifetime. He absolutely had to hold onto it.

The remaining experts from the eight upper levels, left behind, all exchanged glances with each other.

They had of course watched everything the Black Moon Yin Elder and the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit and the others had done, and found it difficult to believe that these people had cast the Great Xuan imperial palace’s authority completely aside, disregarding the strange poison constraining them and simply following Li Musheng out of the Mystic Mechanism Palace like that.

This struck the assembled experts as nearly beyond belief, and they could not help but think that those people had gone absolutely mad, that what they were doing was no different from seeking their own deaths.

”That old fellow with such astonishing body-hardening arts has actually followed that young man out of the Mystic Mechanism Palace. Could there be... something behind this that we do not know?”

The large man from the second level looked at the retreating figures of the Black Moon Yin Elder and the others, his expression shifting through several phases.

The other martial world experts at those words all shook their heads, ”The Great Xuan imperial palace’s power runs far deeper than we imagine. Besides, with the strange poison in our bodies, any chance of escape is already extremely remote.”

”Just wait. Sooner or later they will be brought back here.”

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Before long, Li Musheng had led the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit and the others out of the Mystic Mechanism Palace, and then simply grabbed a few eunuchs wandering the palace grounds and quickly had the locations of the various consorts’ chambers out of them.

After that, the group moved without delay, dealing with several palace experts who had been lying in wait along the way, and arrived at the inner residential halls where the consorts lived.

”Young hero, do you prefer them younger, or the kind who are in their thirties or forties but still full of charm?”

Among the martial world experts who had already committed to following Li Musheng all the way, one of them suddenly asked before they moved in.

It was obviously an attempt to curry favor by learning this terrifyingly powerful young man’s preferences.

At those words, Li Musheng’s eyelid gave a small twitch.

His purpose in seizing these consorts had nothing to do with any other intent. It was purely about the Great Xuan emperor.

He had a feeling that both the white-robed woman and the white-haired Daoist woman were likely not the blue-robed Daoist’s Elder Sister.

Capturing the Great Xuan emperor directly was probably the only way to find the true Daoist Qingyu.

Even so, these old martial world figures, who evidently considered themselves worldly and experienced, seemed to have somewhat misread his intentions.

They appeared to assume that beyond finding someone, Li Musheng must also have some deep personal vendetta against the Great Xuan emperor.

Otherwise, why would Li Musheng agree to seizing the emperor’s consorts and making him a cuckold?

After all, for a ruler who governed an entire nation, that would be an absolutely unspeakable humiliation.