Chapter 211 - 209: The Underground Secret Chamber of the Annex

Chapter 211: Chapter 209: The Underground Secret Chamber of the Annex

After Shen Yue had been captured by the men in black and returned, he had noticed something.

He discovered several faint, almost imperceptible auras lingering around them. At first, he thought they belonged to people who might pose a danger to Shen Yue.

But after several days of observation, he realized they held no hostility and were, in fact, protecting her from a discreet distance.

Not long ago, while investigating Bai Chaosi, he had personally witnessed her summon a dark-robed youth from the shadows with a mere snap of her fingers.

’And yet, even though she clearly has her own people, she doesn’t hesitate to use mine...’

The trust she placed in him filled him with both satisfaction and delight.

Just then, a confused Wu Huo asked:

"Great Emperor Master, Miss Shen Yue, what did you mean just now?"

"Are you saying that person didn’t escape at all today?"

Shen Yue thought for a moment, then looked at Huang Ziyue.

"Your Barrier wasn’t broken, so that person couldn’t have gotten out. Where do you think they would have gone?"

When she saw the severed tail on the ground earlier, she had naturally assumed the person had sacrificed their tail to escape.

But if they didn’t escape, that must mean they were still in the main hall.

However, that brought up the most crucial point. Even if the person was skilled enough to hide in the hall and blend into the crowd in an instant...

...how could they have remained hidden after being so grievously injured and losing their tail?

It was precisely because that aura was completely absent from the hall at the time that she believed the attacker had fled.

’Thinking about it now, if they didn’t escape, but they also weren’t in the hall... where did they go?’

Huang Ziyue’s eyes darkened slightly.

"Nowhere."

Wu Huo was growing more and more confused.

"Nowhere? Then... where is the person?"

It was as if something suddenly clicked in Shen Yue’s mind, and she cut to the heart of the matter.

"A person can’t just vanish into thin air. Unless... that person never existed in the first place!"

Huang Ziyue looked at her.

"Exactly."

Wu Huo was even more baffled.

"Huh? Never existed?"

He looked back and forth between the two of them.

"Great Emperor Master, Miss Shen Yue, what are you talking about? Your subordinate doesn’t understand at all."

Shen Yue pondered for a moment before coming to a bold conclusion.

She looked at Huang Ziyue.

"We were wrong from the beginning. We thought the tail was a trick to sever and survive."

"But what if... what if the invisible person wasn’t a person at all, but was just the severed tail?"

Hearing this, Wu Huo’s eyes went wide.

"How is that possible? How could someone’s true form be a tail? There isn’t a single Beast Clan in the entire Beast World like that!"

He spoke with utter disbelief.

"Miss Shen Yue, what on earth is going on?"

Even Shen Yue herself wasn’t sure what was going on.

It was true that no Beast Clan’s true form was a tail.

’This is just too bizarre!’

But when the severed tail had appeared, there hadn’t been any excess spiritual power aura in the hall.

That could only mean one thing: the person had already dissipated, already died.

But since the only thing that dissolved into a pool of blood before their eyes was the tail, that had to mean the tail *was* the invisible person.

But how could a person with such powerful spiritual power have a tail as their true form?

Huang Ziyue had arrived at the same conclusion as Shen Yue.

And he was just as puzzled by the same point.

He said:

"If we want to know what happened, we need to go to the main hall first and look for clues in that pool of blood."

Shen Yue agreed.

"Right. Let’s hope it’s not too late!"

As they spoke, they prepared to leave for the main hall.

But just then...

A current of air stirred in the room, and a dark figure flashed into view, landing by the window.

Wu Huo was startled.

"Who’s there!"

He was about to strike with his spiritual power.

But the intruder dropped to one knee before Shen Yue, bowing their head respectfully.

"Greetings, Master."

That one word, "Master," made Wu Huo’s eyes go wide, and he immediately withdrew his spiritual power.

Huang Ziyue, on the other hand, was not surprised at all. He simply sized up the person kneeling on the floor.

’Their aura concealment is superb. If they hadn’t revealed themselves and let a sliver of their aura show, an ordinary person would never have noticed them.’

He knew this was one of Shen Yue’s people.

This was the first time he had seen one of Shen Yue’s subordinates up close, but in just that brief moment, he could tell they were rigorously trained.

’Whether in close combat or spiritual power, they must be a top-tier expert.’

In that instant, his admiration for Shen Yue reached a new height. ’How on earth did she find and train such capable and formidable subordinates?’

For Shen Yue to allow her subordinate to appear before Huang Ziyue, she obviously trusted him one hundred percent.

So, she looked at the person kneeling on the ground and asked directly:

"What’s the situation?"

The dark-robed person, with only their eyes visible, replied immediately:

"Just as you predicted, Master. After you left, the Hu Tu couple moved the two children’s bodies!"

Shen Yue’s eyes narrowed.

When she left the Hu Tu couple’s courtyard earlier, she had ordered someone to watch them from the shadows.

’I knew this wasn’t so simple.’

Hu Tu’s behavior during the attack today had been far too abnormal.

Especially after his two children were killed in one blow—at the scene, he hadn’t seemed nearly as frantic or pained as one would expect.

She asked:

"Where did they move them?"

The dark-robed person replied, "To a secret underground chamber in a side courtyard of the City Lord Mansion."

Hearing this, Shen Yue looked at Huang Ziyue.

"Looks like we need to make a trip to the secret underground chamber first!"

The City Lord Mansion was vast; it would take several hours just to walk from one side to the other.

It was easy to imagine that Hu Tu was a man who enjoyed his comforts and valued power.

It was just that his simple and honest appearance concealed his ambition.

Meanwhile, in the secret underground chamber, the two children lay lifeless.

Lady Houtu was slumped over her children’s bodies, still crying softly.

But even amidst the sorrow and grief in her sobs, there was a profound sense of powerlessness.

Just then, as if she had finally accepted the reality of it all, Lady Houtu wiped away a tear and murmured:

"Qi’er, Le’er, it is your female mother who has failed you!"

"Don’t blame your female mother... Your female mother had no other choice..."

Watching this scene from the shadows, Shen Yue and Huang Ziyue frowned.

It seemed there was a deeper meaning to Lady Houtu’s words.

Just then, a servant’s voice came from outside the secret chamber:

"My Lady, the City Lord says it is time. He asks that you return to your room!"

Hearing this, Lady Houtu, who had been slumped over the children, slowly stood up and walked out of the chamber.

Only when the entire room fell silent and everyone had gone...

...did Shen Yue and Huang Ziyue emerge from the shadows and stand before the two children.

Shen Yue looked at Le’er. He was the child who had approached her table first today. Just that morning, he had been a vibrant life, and now he was lying here, cold.

No matter what, she refused to believe that two children who both possessed spiritual power could have been killed in a single blow.

With this in mind, she quickly raised her hand. A silver needle was already poised between her fingers as she began to examine Le’er’s body.

When she went to the Hu Tu couple’s room earlier that evening, she had wanted to examine the children’s bodies but never got the chance.

Now was the perfect time.

Huang Ziyue stood beside her, then walked over to the other child and began to inspect him closely as well.

Shen Yue carefully examined Le’er’s body, opening his small hands and using the silver needle to test for poison.

But after checking, she found nothing out of the ordinary.

She then moved to Qi’er and used the same methods to check his pupils, fingertips, and joints, but still found nothing abnormal.

"What is going on? The children’s bodies are in such perfect condition, it’s as if they’re still alive!"

Their muscles and tendons hadn’t even stiffened.

It was as if they had no breath and no heartbeat, yet their bodies were still alive—two living corpses.