Great Li Martial God

At those words, the gaunt eunuch and the black-robed eunuch both narrowed their eyes slightly.

They naturally understood that anyone who had cleared the Mystic Mechanism Palace’s levels would not be a person to take lightly. But the fact that Li Musheng was completely unaffected by the two of them and their Taixuan Great Yin True Qi still gave them a quiet internal jolt.

Their guards rose immediately. This person looked extraordinarily young, but his martial cultivation was clearly no facade and could not be disregarded.

”His Majesty has countless affairs of state to attend to. He has no time to come here for something so minor.”

The gaunt eunuch’s face was aged and pallid, his narrowed gaze fixed on Li Musheng.

The black-robed eunuch slowly shook his head, his fingers curled into an orchid hand gesture as he pointed sharply at Li Musheng, ”Someone like you? You have not earned the right to see His Majesty.”

And even as those words were spoken, both eunuchs had already locked onto Li Musheng completely with their martial aura.

The heavenly space around Li Musheng seemed to become like a deep frozen abyss, threads of piercing cold radiance beginning to form, and even the stone bricks beneath his feet were crystallized to powder by the dark frost in an instant.

The entire courtyard’s temperature plummeted again, and even Zhao Muning, standing beside Li Musheng with her own true qi protecting her body, felt a bone-cutting chill that made frost quietly form along her brows and hair.

And this was with the two eunuchs deliberately holding back to protect her, having recognized her as a princess. From that alone one could understand how terrifying the suppressive martial aura that the two eunuchs were directing at Li Musheng, the actual target, must have been.Zhao Muning’s fine face was going pale with the extreme cold, and she instinctively glanced sideways at Li Musheng. She found him returning the glance with a sideways look of his own.

Their eyes met, and Li Musheng raised an eyebrow with an air of feigned innocence, ”Miss, why are these two eunuchs not freezing you?”

At those words, Zhao Muning’s expression went momentarily blank.

But she quickly realized that at this very moment Li Musheng seemed completely composed, and still had the leisure to banter with her.

Which meant Li Musheng was showing no signs of being affected by what the two eunuchs were doing.

At the same time, the gaunt eunuch and the black-robed eunuch had of course also noticed this, and both were frowning, their icy gazes locked hard on Li Musheng as though trying to see through him.

At that, Li Musheng withdrew his gaze from Zhao Muning and looked up at the two eunuchs suspended in the air above the courtyard, shaking his head, ”Honestly, that Great Xuan emperor of yours has a real character problem. I seized that many consorts and he still will not show his face. Genuinely disappointing.”

At those words, the gaunt eunuch and the black-robed eunuch exchanged a glance.

They had actually not known that Li Musheng’s group had gone so far as to seize consorts from the inner palace before they arrived. They had only discovered it upon coming here.

If the Crown Prince had known this beforehand, he would likely have flown into a rage and very possibly would not have told them to spare anyone’s life.

”Show some respect. His Majesty is not for the likes of an upstart child to talk about.”

The gaunt eunuch gave an angry shout, and rolling icy energy condensed into an enormous palm print the size of a millstone, slamming down directly toward Li Musheng below.

The Crown Prince had told them to spare the person, but teaching this sharp-tongued and arrogant young man a lesson was not going to cause any problems.

And besides, given what they knew of the emperor’s temperament, these people were almost certainly all going to die regardless. Even if the Crown Prince had any intention of keeping them, it was unlikely to change their fate.

Even so, Li Musheng appeared entirely unmoved by the eunuch’s action.

He wanted the Great Xuan emperor. These eunuch small-fry, while not without some martial cultivation, were simply not worth more than a passing glance.

What was actually occupying Li Musheng’s thoughts at that moment was the fact that he had seized so many of the emperor’s consorts and the man still had not reacted at all, showing no sign of appearing. This approach was apparently not working.

He was now thinking about whether he needed to come up with a different method to draw the Great Xuan emperor out.

But at that very moment, something occurred to Li Musheng, and his gaze settled on the two eunuchs again.

At the same moment, the enormous palm print the gaunt eunuch had launched came crashing through the frozen, solidified space around it, on the verge of driving into Li Musheng’s body.

But in the next instant, the palm print, laden with extreme icy energy, dissolved without a sound, as though it had never existed.

The entire courtyard suddenly went quiet, and every eye turned toward Li Musheng.

Li Musheng simply stood where he was, raised a hand, and reached out, and the gaunt eunuch and the black-robed eunuch who had been hovering above the courtyard immediately changed expression sharply.

Both felt an intangible force bind them in place. They poured their strength into circulating the Taixuan Great Yin Divine Art, trying to draw on the vast true qi within their bodies and the true qi of heaven and earth around them.

But both eunuchs discovered with horror that the true qi in their meridians and cores had gone completely stagnant, like a dead pool of water, while the surrounding true qi of heaven and earth also refused to move, impossible to command in the slightest.

What frightened them even more was that the moment Li Musheng raised his hand, both of them began dropping toward the courtyard below against their will, drawn by some force with absolutely no ability to resist.

”You...”

The gaunt eunuch and the black-robed eunuch both showed expressions of panicked disbelief, as though they had seen a ghost.

With their level of martial cultivation, even facing the handful of Martial Saints in the entire martial world, they would not have been unnerved. Within all of Great Xuan’s martial world they could move freely without any equal.

Yet this young man before them had used a single move. A single move to take both of them down.

And throughout it, they had not even had time to react, let alone mount any resistance.

It was only at this point that the two eunuchs truly began to understand the scale of the gap between their martial cultivation and this young man’s.

Before coming, they had only known Li Musheng had forced his way through the Mystic Mechanism Palace, which made him clearly no weakling.

But they had never imagined his martial cultivation was this terrifyingly deep.

...

”You two old eunuchs have some considerable martial cultivation. I expect your standing within this palace is not low.”

Li Musheng took hold of the drawn gaunt eunuch and black-robed eunuch and casually dropped them on the stone steps of the courtyard.

Both eunuchs tried to circulate their true qi, only to find that not only had they been drawn and subdued, but their acupoints had all been sealed at some unknown point as well.

Except for their throat acupoints, which remained open, everything else was beyond them.

”Who exactly... are you?”

The black-robed eunuch gave a sharp, shrill demand, and the two eunuchs fixed their eyes hard on Li Musheng.

At that moment both of them were straining their minds trying to recall when the Great Xuan martial world had produced someone this terrifying.

Li Musheng said nothing, and with a casual wave of his hand, the icy aura enveloping the courtyard quietly dissolved, and the bodies of the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts including the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, which had been frozen by the Taixuan Great Yin True Qi, all came back to normal in an instant.

In that moment everyone was surprised and delighted, quickly circulating their true qi to confirm they were unharmed, then each in turn expressing their thanks to Li Musheng.

The Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House and the white-haired Daoist woman both showed unusual expressions, watching Li Musheng in hidden disbelief.

The martial cultivation Li Musheng had just demonstrated seemed to be even more powerful than what he had shown when subduing the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, and this left both of them deeply shocked and even more unable to see through him.

Of course, the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts felt the same. The difference was that at this moment they were more excited than anything else.

Because the stronger Li Musheng was, the greater their chance of escaping the Great Xuan imperial palace, and for people in their situation, that was unambiguously welcome news.

”Tell me where the Great Xuan emperor is.”

At that, Li Musheng suddenly spoke and looked at the two eunuchs on the ground.

These two elderly eunuchs had considerable martial cultivation and were probably among the top figures within this imperial palace. And so Li Musheng thought they might have a close enough relationship with the Great Xuan emperor to know where the man was.

But faced with Li Musheng’s question, the two eunuchs only stared at him and showed absolutely no inclination to answer.

At the sight, the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit moved before Li Musheng could even consider using the Life and Death Talisman, appearing at Li Musheng’s side in an instant with his hair hanging loose, and said respectfully, ”Young hero need not personally handle this kind of questioning work. Please leave these two eunuchs to me. I guarantee in no more time than it takes to brew a pot of tea, I will have them talking.”

At those words, Li Musheng gave the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, who was enthusiastically offering his services, a sidelong look, and did not refuse.

He simply waved a hand and left the two eunuchs on the ground to be dealt with.

Whether these two old ones knew where the Great Xuan emperor was remained unknown. What he needed to do right now was think of more ways to draw the emperor out.

With that thought, Li Musheng’s gaze shifted to Zhao Muning.

He then suddenly leaned close to her ear and asked quietly, ”Miss, what is your relationship to the Great Xuan emperor? Are you truly certain you have no idea where he is hiding?”

At those words, Zhao Muning turned to look at Li Musheng, who was very close to her, and felt the warmth of his breath near her cheek.

In that instant, she involuntarily stepped sharply back.

”I... genuinely do not know where the emperor is.”

Zhao Muning spoke quickly, and gave Li Musheng an unusual look, her expression clearly somewhat off.

At the sight, Li Musheng rubbed his chin, thinking privately that his attempt at a more charming approach had not produced much of an effect.

From the two eunuchs’ reactions earlier, he could make a reasonable guess at Zhao Muning’s identity.

But as for whether Zhao Muning would know where the Great Xuan emperor was, that really did not seem very likely.

At that very moment, the smooth-talking plump old man seemed to read Li Musheng’s thoughts, quickly trotted over, and said quietly, ”Young hero, the fact that we managed to draw out these two highly capable eunuchs means seizing the consorts was not entirely without effect.”

As he said this, the plump old man narrowed his eyes with an unpleasant expression, ”This old man thinks the reason we have not drawn out the Great Xuan emperor is probably that the consorts were not important enough. If we could seize someone of higher standing, I absolutely believe the emperor would not be able to stay indifferent.”

At those words, Li Musheng’s expression shifted, and he agreed the plump old man had a point.

”Who do you think we should be seizing?”

Li Musheng humbly sought his input, but the words had barely left his mouth when several figures appeared on a palace rooftop not far away, their silhouettes rushing swiftly toward the courtyard where the group was gathered.

Sensing the auras of these newcomers without any attempt at concealment, all the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts immediately looked up.

But their expressions showed no great tension, because from the auras of those approaching, they were far inferior to the two eunuchs currently being worked over by the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit on the courtyard floor.

”Rabble like this we can handle. Please wait a moment, young hero.”

One of the Great Xuan martial world experts spoke up, and immediately moved to intercept them.

Since they wanted Li Musheng to lead them out of the Great Xuan imperial palace, they naturally could not stand around doing nothing.

For trash like this, there was no need to trouble Li Musheng. Whatever they could handle themselves, they should.

Several Great Xuan martial world experts immediately launched from the ground, becoming blurs as they shot toward the approaching figures.

But barely halfway there, they struck an invisible force, and in the next instant every single one of them was simultaneously sent flying backward.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

In the blink of an eye, several martial world experts came plummeting from the sky and crashed into the courtyard, shattering all the stone bricks beneath them.

The terrifying remaining force even drove the lower halves of their bodies into the ground.

Cough, cough, cough.

Several of the Great Xuan martial world experts suddenly spat up mouthfuls of blood, and then each of them, stuck from the waist down in the ground, looked up at the sky with expressions of startled terror.

The person who had struck was clearly not among that group of small fry. There was a genuinely powerful expert among the newcomers.

They had not even caught a glimpse of the person before being struck down in a single blow, with no ability to resist whatsoever, each of them seriously injured.

In an instant, every one of them looked reflexively toward Li Musheng standing in the courtyard.

The expert of that caliber was clearly beyond anything they could handle, so their only hope was Li Musheng.

But Li Musheng’s face showed no emotion. His eyes were simply narrowed slightly as he observed the group making their way toward them.

Before long, a crowd of eunuch experts arrived together and landed on the courtyard walls and rooftops all around, surrounding everyone inside completely.

Li Musheng swept the area with a glance at these eunuchs, and naturally did not find the Great Xuan emperor.

His gaze then shifted toward the open gates of the courtyard.

Every person in the courtyard caught Li Musheng’s movement and shifted their eyes to follow his line of sight.

In the pale glow of the palace lanterns, three figures were walking slowly in through the courtyard gates.

At the front was Zhao Kuang, dressed in his plain imperial yellow robes. Behind him followed the white-faced, white-haired eunuch and the purple-robed Daoist.

Li Musheng bypassed the eunuch and the Daoist entirely, his gaze settling on Zhao Kuang, and then he turned to ask those around him, ”Is that the Great Xuan emperor? He looks younger than I expected.”

At those words, the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, who had already stopped questioning the two eunuchs, looked at Zhao Kuang and immediately shook his head, lowering his voice, ”Young hero, that is not the old emperor. That is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace.”

”The Crown Prince?”

Li Musheng immediately furrowed his brow, and a clear look of disappointment crossed his face.

But in the next instant, his thoughts shifted, and he recalled what the plump old man had just said.