Chapter 117 - 112: The Emperor is Furious!

Chapter 117: Chapter 112: The Emperor is Furious!

Zhao Country Capital City.

The mansion of Zuo Qiantang, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, was located on White Tiger Street. From the outside, the estate did not appear large. It was even less lavish than the homes of some fifth- or sixth-grade officials in the royal court.

Inside the mansion, however, the atmosphere was entirely different.

"Yuan, just go and beg Father to let Rong’er out," a beautiful woman tearfully pleaded with a middle-aged man. "He has already been locked in that room for half a month. During this time, I’ve heard him smashing things every single day, crying and begging me to let him out.

"He is still young, after all. Half a month of confinement is enough. How can he be locked up like this indefinitely? It truly breaks my heart."

They were the son and daughter-in-law of the current First-Grade Minister of the Ministry of Justice. The man was named Zuo Zongyuan, and the woman was his legal wife.

Hearing his wife’s tearful complaints, Zuo Zongyuan’s face darkened.

"You still have the nerve to plead for him? If you hadn’t spoiled him rotten on a daily basis, would he have provoked Father’s wrath to such an extent this time? When I forbade him from taking that Demon Path demoness of the White Lotus Path as his master to practice some Demon Skill, you spoke up for him! You said wanting to practice martial arts was a good ambition. And if all it required was women—fine, let it be. But aren’t there enough maids in this mansion for him to fool around with?

"Yet he just had to set his sights on other people’s daughters in the Capital City!

"This time, he was finally cornered in his courtyard. If someone from the Ministry of Justice hadn’t received the news early and rushed over to suppress that Daoist from Dao Yi Mountain, how could this matter have been settled so easily?

"Father said locking him up for half a year is already showing him mercy..."

The woman looked as though she was about to weep. "How can you be so heartless? He is still just a child..."

BOOM!

Just then, a thunderous explosion echoed from outside the mansion. Immediately after, a furious shout rang out from the courtyard, "Who dares to trespass into the Minister’s Mansion?!"

The couple’s expressions shifted slightly. "It’s Mr. Zhang."

They instantly recognized the voice as that of Zhang Wendong, the resident martial arts master they had hired to guard the estate. Mr. Zhang was an elite guard the Zuo Mansion had secured with a heavy sum of gold. He had an extraordinary background, and his martial arts skills were exceptionally high. Even in the entire Capital City, he was considered a rare master.

The two hurriedly walked out. To their surprise, they found that the sounds of fighting were coming from near the courtyard of their son, Zuo Rong.

"Who on earth could it be...?"

Meanwhile, in the courtyard of the Zuo Mansion.

Zhang Wendong stood with his hands behind his back. He stared with a dark expression at the woman who had fought her way in alone. She was tall and slender, with a beautiful face.

RUSTLE.

As he spoke, the domestic servants and guards of the Zuo Mansion moved in unison, completely surrounding the intruder.

But the woman’s expression remained unchanged. She merely glanced around until her gaze locked onto a small, two-story red building a hundred feet away. Without uttering a word, she sprinted straight toward it. Such a distinctive building in this mansion was bound to house one of the most important figures in the estate.

"Oh no, she’s heading for the young master’s room! Don’t let her near the red building!"

The intruder was none other than Yuu Miaolian.

As she charged forward, hearing the panicked shouts of the Zuo Mansion’s servants brought a chilling gleam and a hint of pleasant surprise to her eyes. "So, the little beast who caused Liting to be locked up in the Celestial Prison lives in this building!" she thought.

WHOOSH!

Having absorbed the power of a First-Grade Great Innate expert, the physical force behind Yuu Miaolian’s single lunging step was terrifying. The air was instantly compressed and shoved to both sides. The Zuo Mansion’s guards and servants who had surrounded her were sent flying in all directions in the blink of an eye!

Watching her movements closely, Zhang Wendong’s expression changed drastically. "Grandmaster!"

He hadn’t expected this woman to possess a cultivation level equal to his own. He immediately shouted, "Step back, everyone! You can’t stop her!"

The moment his words fell, Zhang Wendong’s body shot toward Yuu Miaolian like an arrow released from a bowstring. The Grandmaster cultivation, infused throughout his entire body, roared outward, making his wide brocade robes billow fiercely. Thrusting out a palm, he struck at Yuu Miaolian from an angle!

At the same time, due to the massive commotion, Zuo Zongyuan and his wife arrived at the scene. When they glanced back, they saw an elderly man in a white robe with a square, stern face slowly walking over, his hands clasped behind his back.

"Father, why have you come out as well? Please go back quickly. A mysterious woman has forced her way into the mansion, and Mr. Zhang is subduing her. We shouldn’t get too close lest we get caught in the crossfire." Zuo Zongyuan looked tense seeing the old man step forward. "Quickly, let me help you back."

This white-robed elder was none other than the First-Grade Official of Zhao Country, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Zuo Qiantang.

The old man’s expression was grim. With his hands behind his back, he completely ignored his son’s advice. "You are forty years old. Making such a fuss over a minor disturbance—what kind of decorum is this?"

He stood in the corridor with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing a hundred feet away at Yuu Miaolian, whose palm had already clashed with Zhang Wendong’s. He merely frowned. "Who exactly is this woman? Why has she come to run wild in the Zuo Mansion? Do none of you know?"

Zuo Zongyuan looked at Yuu Miaolian’s silhouette in confusion. "I have never seen this person before. Could it be..."

His wife beside him, however, spoke up anxiously, "Yuan, Father, haven’t you looked closely? That woman is clearly heading straight for Rong’er’s room..."

At this reminder, the expression of the white-robed old Minister shifted. "Heading for Rong’er? So she is someone from Dao Yi Mountain?"

Almost at the exact same moment, Zhang Wendong met Yuu Miaolian’s palm strike. Feeling the force behind it, his expression changed. "Great Purple Sun Palm Power! You are a disciple of Chen Canxuan from Dao Yi Mountain?!"

It really was Dao Yi Mountain.

Not far away, the old Minister’s face darkened. He shot a glare at his son. "It really is trouble brought by Rong’er. After this matter is resolved, if you still fail to discipline him properly, I will cripple you as well, and you can both get out of this mansion."

Hearing such a harsh reprimand, Zuo Zongyuan turned pale. "Yes."

The old Minister raised his eyes toward Zhang Wendong and ordered, "Mr. Zhang, do not drag this out. Capture her quickly."

Hearing the old man’s voice, Zhang Wendong’s expression trembled. "My Lord, step back immediately! This woman’s power far exceeds my expectations..."

Zuo Qiantang was slightly taken aback. "What did you say?"

Unexpectedly, Yuu Miaolian had already noticed the white-robed old man in the distance. Her eyes flickered. "You are the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Zuo Qiantang?!"

A thought flashed through her mind, and she quickly made a choice between the red building and the old man. Her figure blurred as she lunged directly at Zuo Qiantang.

"My Lord, look out!" Zhang Wendong bellowed. "Demoness, cease your insolence!"

Even though he had forcibly taken one of Yuu Miaolian’s strikes imbued with Great Purple Sun Palm Power just moments ago and was shocked by her profound strength, seeing his employer in imminent danger meant he could no longer hold back.

"If you want to wreak havoc in the Zuo Mansion, you must get past me, Zhang Wendong, first!"

With a burst of qi beneath his feet that kicked up a ring of dust, his figure swiftly closed in to strike at Yuu Miaolian from behind.

However, having spotted the main target of her trip, Yuu Miaolian had completely cast aside all reservations.

Her speed toward Zuo Qiantang did not decrease in the slightest. At the same time, the Qi Stealing Technique began circulating silently from her stomach. Although her back was left seemingly undefended, a deadly trap had already been set...

THUD!

Seeing Yuu Miaolian’s back wide open, Zhang Wendong struck out with his palm. Just as a look of triumph was about to surface on his face, his expression twisted into utter horror. He felt his entire body’s power acting like a punctured balloon, reversing its flow directly through his palm into the woman facing away from him...

His palm felt as if it were glued to Yuu Miaolian’s back.

In a mere instant, Yuu Miaolian appeared before the horrified, disbelieving faces of Zuo Qiantang and the other two, seemingly carrying a human-shaped bundle on her back. Reaching out, she grabbed the white-robed elder by his collar. "Come with me."

Seeing his father seized so directly by Yuu Miaolian, Zuo Zongyuan’s face fell drastically. Glaring at Zhang Wendong behind her, he roared, "Zhang Wendong, what are you doing?! Why didn’t you kill her with that palm strike?!"

But then, he watched as Zhang Wendong’s hand fell powerlessly from Yuu Miaolian’s back. The master’s salt-and-pepper hair had turned completely white in an instant, and deep wrinkles etched across his face as he screamed in terror, "My power!!"

In the brief two or three breaths of contact, he had lost seventy to eighty percent of his total cultivation power. His body simply went limp as he collapsed helplessly to the ground.

The white-robed old man held in Yuu Miaolian’s grasp stared at Zhang Wendong, who had lost all combat ability at his feet. The old man’s eyelids twitched violently. "How can this be?!"

The master he had retained was someone even the four Divine Hunters of the Ministry of Justice couldn’t defeat combined! Among the Grandmasters in the Capital City, he could easily rank in the top five, and yet...

But the old man instantly regained his composure. Looking at Yuu Miaolian holding his collar, he said, "You had best think very clearly about what you are doing right now. This is the Capital City. I, Zuo Qiantang, am the First-Grade Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the royal court. I advise you to let me go now and leave. There is still time..."

Yuu Miaolian simply replied, "Leave? That’s a given. However, I still need to find you a companion first."

With that, clutching Zuo Qiantang’s body, she leaped gracefully into the air, flying straight toward the red building.

The next moment, a young man’s furious shout rang out from inside the red building, immediately followed by a blood-curdling scream...

Then, the people of the Zuo Mansion could only watch with trembling limbs as Yuu Miaolian, carrying a person in each hand, leaped into the air and flew out of the estate.

"Rong’er!"

The beautiful woman saw with absolute clarity that the young man clutched in Yuu Miaolian’s other hand was her son, Zuo Rong. Her vision instantly went black, and she fainted dead away on the spot.

Zuo Zongyuan also felt the world spinning around him.

From the moment Yuu Miaolian broke in to when she abducted the two people, less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea had passed. She had entered as if walking through an empty room, casually kidnapping the current First-Grade Minister...

"Quickly! Report to the Ministry of Justice, the Six Gates, and the Imperial City Department..." Zuo Zongyuan bellowed frantically within the mansion.

After all, this was the Capital City. The one taken away was a First-Grade Minister of Zhao Country. Such a massive disturbance sparked an enormous earthquake that rapidly rippled outward.

An hour later.

The entire Zhao Country Capital was thrown into an uproar.

Within the Six Gates.

The God Catcher Wan Qingtao’s expression changed drastically. "Someone from Dao Yi Mountain dares to commit such lawless acts? Does she not know that this is the Imperial City, the Capital?!"

Standing among the other Divine Hunters, Divine Hunter Gan Tianshui stared blankly. "Miss Yuu..."

She hadn’t expected Yuu Miaolian to be this insane just to save Zhang Liting.

Immediately after, she heard the God Catcher’s orders. "Blockade the Capital City quickly! Close the city gates! You have two hours to locate Lord Zuo, who was taken by that Yuu Miaolian..."

In an instant, the masters of the Six Gates poured out like a swarm of fish.

At this moment, it wasn’t just the experts of the Six Gates mobilizing throughout the Capital City. From the Zhao Country Imperial City Department... over a thousand iron-clad soldiers charged directly into the streets.

The news that a First-Grade Minister of the court had been kidnapped was delivered straight to the dragon desk of Emperor Zhao Yi inside the Zhao Country Imperial Palace. He stood up tall, speaking in a heavy voice.

"This is outrageous! A mere Dao Yi Disciple dares to abduct my trusted minister right at the foot of my Imperial City? Issue my decree: search the entire city. You must rescue the Minister of the Ministry of Justice completely unscathed..."

If the man died, the dignity of his Zhao Country would be utterly destroyed forever!