Chapter 716: Chapter 716: National Demon Sprite (7)
“One hundred million!”
Just as Li Yan and Li Xiaoyu thought the item would end up in their hands, the auctioneer’s excited voice exploded in the air.
One hundred million!
Li Xiaoyu looked down at the noisy crowd below, her tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and she sneered, “Go check who is in room number six.”
Having the money to buy is one thing, but having the life to take it is another.
“…Yes.”
–
Li Xiaoyu stepped out of the private room, and at the other end, a woman who bore so resemblance to her approached slowly with her entourage.
Though they looked similar, their temperants were entirely different.
The Second Miss of the Li Family seed more like a delicate lady from a respectable family, exuding elegance and gentleness at every turn.
She held her hands in front of her, the arc of her steps almost consistent.
“Sister,” the Second Miss of the Li Family called out with a smile, then asked with feigned concern, “You don’t look well, Sister. Are you feeling unwell?”
Li Xiaoyu glared at her.
She knew well that she was injured, and yet to ask such a question—wasn’t it just rubbing salt into her wounds?
Considering the current situation, Li Xiaoyu avoided direct conflict and twisted her waist to leave.
“Sister, you should take care of your health.”
The voice of the Second Miss of the Li Family drifted from a distance.
Li Xiaoyu clenched her fists and walked faster.
–
With a foul expression, Li Xiaoyu returned to her residence. Seeing this, the servants dared not even breathe heavily and lowered their heads, pretending to be invisible.
“Bitch!”
Li Xiaoyu threw things around in a frenzy.
When Li Yan arrived, what he saw was a complete ss.
He approached cautiously, “Miss.”
Li Xiaoyu turned around, “What about the item?”
Li Yan fell silent, “The auction house was not a place to make a move, I sent people to watch outside, but nobody has co out of that room.”
“So you didn’t get the item?”
“…”
Li Xiaoyu, fuming, pain shooting through her chest, gritted her teeth and asked, “Did anyone find out who it was?”
Li Yan continued to shake his head.
No one knew who had spent one hundred million to buy that inner core.
“Useless! Useless useless!! Cough cough cough…”
“Miss, get the doctor, call the doctor!!”
–
Not only did Li Xiaoyu want to investigate Chuzheng’s identity, but others also wanted to find out who she was; however, none had seen Chuzheng.
At this ti, while everyone’s attention was on Chuzheng, she had already returned to the lady boss with Yu Su.
The lady boss hadn’t expected Chuzheng to bring back a Hundred-Year Inner Pill.
Yu Su, enthusiastically relaying the details of the auction house event to her, left the lady boss in astonishnt and shock.
Yu Su was practically floating on air.
Demon sprites certainly don’t make empty boasts.
Having seen much of the world, the lady boss quickly collected her thoughts.
“Li Xiaoyu is a mber of the Demon Hunter Alliance, and the Alliance is about to elect its next Vice Chairman; Li Xiaoyu is a candidate. Li Xiaoyu is quite skilled; many demons have died at her hands, but she is not favored by the Li Family. If she wants to be elected as the Chairman, she will probably have to exert considerable effort.”
The lady boss shared the latest news and then said, “I’ll organize the rest of the information and have Yu Su send it to you.”
A deal worth a hundred million, damn, it’s a bit staggering.
The lady boss watched Chuzheng leave, then placed a hand on Yu Su’s shoulder.
“Bo… Boss, what are you doing?” Yu Su looked wary, “I really don’t have any money!!”
“My legs are weak, help sit down.”
“…”
The lady boss pinched Yu Su’s face, “Your debt is written off.”
This was a Hundred-Year Inner Pill, after all; even if she resold it, she could make a fortune.
What was Yu Su’s little debt compared to that?
“Really?” Yu Su’s eyes brightened, and he rubbed his hands together, “Then Boss… could I perhaps borrow so more…?”
“Scram!”
Bang!
Yu Su and the three minions were thrown out of the shop, the door almost slamming on their faces.
“No need to be so fierce if you won’t lend, serves you right for not being able to find a partner!”
The two minions pretended not to see their boss’s disheveled state.
“Boss, what do we do now?”
“Steal phones to play gas?”
“Pathetic!”
Yu Su cursed.
Minion Group Two Demons: “…”
“What we did wasn’t stealing, it was borrowing!” Yu Su corrected.
Minion Group Two Demons: “…”
Is there a difference?
–
Chuzheng returned to the siheyuan, washed up, and went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Chuzheng was awakened by strange noises.
The sound was rustling… like a mouse.
Annoyed by the noise, Chuzheng turned over and covered her ears to continue sleeping.
But the sound beca clearer and clearer, as if it were right by the wall…
A mouse scratching the wall?
Chuzheng opened her eyes and glared at the wall.
Had mice beco spirits in the middle of the night?!
Rustle rustle…
Chuzheng covered her ears with both hands.
I didn’t hear anything.
Rustle rustle…
Why must my hearing be so good!
Chuzheng sat up, grabbed sothing from the bedside, and scraped it against the wall a couple of tis.
Think you can be louder than , huh! Co on!
The rustling sound suddenly stopped.
It was quiet.
Chuzheng stared at the wall for a while, put down the object, and went back to sleep.
But after five minutes.
Rustle rustle…
The sound was even louder than before.
If it was one mouse earlier, now there were ten.
“Dammit!”
Chuzheng cursed and kicked the wall.
Are you sick?!
Chuzheng rolled out of bed, went to the door and halfway through turned back—grabbing her pillow, she switched rooms.
–
When Chuzheng woke up, it was already bright daylight. She went out into the yard to wash up and then circled around to the back to see which demon sprite had disturbed her sleep last night.
There was a large tree at the back, with its luxuriant branches almost covering the front half of the roof.
Chuzheng took a look at the tree and walked to the wall of the room where she had slept. There were drag marks on the ground, covering the area and stretching toward the tree.
Chuzheng stood by the wall for a mont, then followed the marks to the big tree and touched it.
It was just an ordinary ancient tree with no Monster Qi.
Chuzheng’s gaze shifted and she spotted a door on the back wall, locked with a rusty chain.
The chain was rusted and looked like it hadn’t been touched for a long ti.
And those dragging marks disappeared right at the doorstep.
The chain was locked from this side, proving that inside was also part of this property.
Chuzheng took out her phone and called the landlord.
“That? Oh, it’s a small shrine used to worship ancestral tablets in the past. But since my grandfather’s generation, it’s been locked up. I’ve never been inside either. I heard from my grandfather that nothing much is in there; our ancestors’ tablets were moved during the war and never brought back, so the place has been vacant. If you need to renovate, feel free to do so.”
A shrine?
Chuzheng climbed onto sothing nearby to glimpse inside.
The interior was quite spacious and ca with its own small courtyard overgrown with wild grass.
From the door, she could vaguely make out a cobblestone path leading to a house not far away.
Just like a typical shrine that one would commonly see, looking like it had so years on it…
Logically, after so many years of neglect, the building should have collapsed or been in ruins.
But that one…
Looked no different from those in the front that were well-maintained.
Chuzheng withdrew her gaze and quickly returned to the front.
I’ll move tomorrow!
No!
Right now!
This place is a bit odd.
She didn’t want any trouble.
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