Chapter 220 - 208: Ghost Enters the Mirror; Nowhere to Hide
Even after having fumbled and stumbled onto the main avenue of the Heavenly Capital, Xie Lian was still covering half of his face with his hand, wobbly and unsteady the entire way. While none of the junior heavenly officials rushing about on the street dared approach him to ask about it, nonetheless they all stared at him strangely, and Xie Lian quickly dropped his hand, straightening his back, and rubbed his mouth unnaturally, muttering, "My lips kind of hurt, don't know what's going on, haha..."
The looks the junior officials gave him became even stranger.
Just what did you have to do for your lips to hurt?
It really did kind of hurt actually. Earlier when he jumped up to crush the kiss, he used too much force, and Hua Cheng most likely felt the crash, but after Xie Lian had pressed close he could feel very obviously that Hua Cheng seemed to have smiled. He didn't dare to think more on the subject and hurried onwards with his head down, and the other heavenly officials didn't stop him either, all rushing down their own ways.
Perhaps it was because the reopening of Mount TongLu had become too hectic an affair, and the air of the entire Heavenly Court was solemn and uneasy. Within the Great Martial Hall, there were already many heavenly officials gathered. While the resentful spirits of Mount TongLu were sent in all directions, the majority were sent to the most populous royal capital. Xie Lian and Hua Cheng had toiled until now because they chose the heaviest and roughest task; everyone else only faced about a few hundred of those creatures and had long since finished them off. Pei Ming, Feng Xin, and the others had already come up, returned to the Heavenly Capital, their faces tired with fatigue. However, when Xie Lian crossed into the hall and looked up to greet people, the first one he saw was Lang Qian Qiu who he hadn't seen in a long time.
Lang Qian Qiu's face was dark, and when he saw Xie Lian he was also taken aback, then he twisted his head around.
The crowd were all deep in their thoughts and unspeaking. Jun Wu sat on the top on the throne, and when he saw Xie Lian had come, he rose a little, ready to speak, but Lang Qian Qiu stepped forward first, "My Lord, I heard you've already caught the Green Ghost Qi Rong."
Jun Wu looked at him, "That's correct. However, the Green Ghost Qi Rong, the female ghost Xuan Ji as well as others were not captured by my own hand. They were all consigned by Yin Yu of Ghost City."
Only then did Xie Lian notice that Yin Yu was present too. It couldn't be helped, Yin Yu really had no sense of presence. Speaking of, this was the first time Yin Yu had entered the Great Martial Hall. Other than the highest ranking of heavenly officials, no other subjects could step foot within this hall without Jun Wu's permission. In the past when Yin Yu was a heavenly official, he didn't have the right to enter since his rank was too low. Yet now that he had "Willingly fallen" to the Ghost City, he could finally enter formally, truly a complicated feeling.
Lang Qian Qiu cut right into the subject, "Qi Rong is the enemy who destroyed my clan, pray my lord leave him at my disposal."
Jun Wu glanced at Xie Lian and hummed for a moment, "It's not that handing him over to you would be a problem, however, I ask you, what comes after you have dealt with the Green Ghost Qi Rong? What will you do?"