Thanks to having an excellent source of information, Edrick had co prepared.
He had brought the necessary equipnt to dig up the treasure that was hidden upon the peak of this ancestral mountain.
Surprisingly, it was not hidden that deeply, but it was secured inside a durable vault. Thankfully, Xiao had been kind enough to bring the key for Anoteros to claim, and the noble scion did not hesitate to make use of it.
There was no blinding light or fireworks. The vault simply opened by itself once the key turned in the lock… Edrick had expected so arrays, or for the vault to have been refined into a special protective tool, but it seed that to hide the treasure of the clan, the Chen had decided to use a completely mundane thod.
The only thing that might be special was the material used to create the safe itself, but beyond that... It seed that they had hoped that using such a basic tactic would pay off by leaving nothing that a cultivator could sense.
By avoiding arrays and refinent, they had essentially made the safe and its contents undetectable by the ans typically used by cultivators. Essentially, they had hidden their greatest achievent in plain sight.
‘Weapon Encyclopedia, huh?’ it was quite the mundane-sounding na for what was supposedly a superior manual, but it described the technique just fine.
This manual contained a way to cultivate one's proficiency in wielding all weapons, making it as though you had dedicated years to cultivating several techniques geared toward a single weapon. It was the wet dream of any weapon cultivator.
However, beyond that, it was also an extrely high-quality all-cultivation technique. It allowed the practitioner to develop body, mind, soul, et cetera.
It truly was amongst the pinnacle.
This technique can only be cultivated by Xiao Chen. To be used by others, it will require modifications or the acquisition of the necessary traits to be considered worthy
‘Mmh, that was to be expected. It can’t be that easy… No matter, it’s ti to go ho and get to work…’
Edrick still needed to grind Xiao’s script into dust–To ensure that the scenario would be unable to go on... And he just so happened to have ideas as to how to do this.
In the end, the black-bandaged corpse he had ordered to be made from the remains of the Chen elder had not been needed too greatly, so Anoteros took it ho intact alongside his three new pets…
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Xiao awoke suddenly, hitting his head against the tal pole he was tightly chained to. The bindings had been done expertly. Even with his physical might, there was no way for him to leverage any strength. He was effectively paralysed without any hope of breaking free.
He quickly noticed that he wasn’t wearing any clothes. The room he found himself in was only dimly lit, but it definitely felt like he was underground, maybe so sort of basent. Apart from this, there wasn’t much to say about the chambers he was stuck in.
The crimson-eyed protagonist could see Ai, naked and bound in the sa manner as him–Right in front of his eyes. She seed conscious, but her eyes were empty. She was just staring at the ground absentmindedly.
“Ai… Are you alright? Did this bastard do anything to you?”
She barely even reacted, simply gazing up at him. Her eyes wet, holding what looked like reproach.
“Xiao… How long?”
“How… How long what?”
“How long have you been having sex with that catfolk whore behind my back?”
The protagonist felt like his throat sealed itself for a few monts.
‘M-Master Chengzhe…? So assistance, perhaps?’
It was only once he heard the erald ghost sigh that Xiao realised that the erald pendant was still around his neck for so reason.
‘Does Edrick know about Master Chengzhe? Why would he leave the pendant on ? There isn’t any reason to let keep that specific item unless he knows sothing about it…’
“Xiao, that is a grave that you yourself dug, and frankly, it is quite a deep one. I am afraid that no amount of advice can help you” the green spectre stroked his beard, looking quite despondent himself. This was only natural. Xiao being captured ant that he, too, was held hostage.
“You told that I would be the only one, and I trusted you! If you had changed your mind, you could have just told about it… It isn’t so uncommon for a man to have multiple won in his life... But you kept it from ! Was I not enough? Was she that much better than at making you climax?”
“Ai… I was just an idiot who didn’t dare to speak up after telling you that you were the only one! And… You are the only one that I truly love! That catfolk… She is nothing, I don’t love her in the least! She just- She just hypnotised with her body!”
That hastily crafted excuse did not seem to convince Ai, and Xiao did not get the ti to try again as light poured into the room.
Edrick's large fra appeared in the doorway, and soon, several lanterns were lit inside the chambers.
“Talking about Bedi, are we?”
“How do you-”
“Is it not obvious, Buddy? I arranged for her to be the girl who would take care of you back in Paradiso. A certain voice in my head told that you were likely to be very interested in a so-called ‘catgirl’. That guess was very correct, as I noticed”
Anoteros crouched down to et Xiao at eye level.
“Also, she isn’t a prostitute of Paradiso. She’s a genuine inner disciple of Red Mansion. As you can guess, getting her assistance was not a problem for . I am a young master of the clan that sponsors and gives them their reputation, add to that attractive rewards…”
Edrick chuckled.
“She did a pretty good job, didn’t she? Following you around in plain sight”
Xiao was speechless. Had he really been fooled by such a simple trick? How did he never even co to his mind that Bedi might be after sothing else? Had she been using dual cultivation techniques from Red Mansion on him since the very beginning?
“Well, it doesn’t matter anymore. You are done for, Mister Protagonist”
“Whether you want it or not… Whether you like it or not… You are going to submit to ”
“I would rather die!”
Anoteros grinned, suddenly grabbing the Chen scion by the throat.
“I’ll make you beg, and it won’t be for death. You can trust on that”
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