Chapter 258 - 243: How My Lord Aches for the Flower; How I Ache for My Lord
Xie Lian tucked the pearl away and gazed over. Several heavenly officials also emerged from the crude, giant hut, "What's going on with General Nan Feng?"
But then they heard Feng Xin call out, "LOOK WHO I'VE CAPTURED!"
He crashed out of the woods and came dashing up, a black clad individual in his hand, and the heavenly officials were all shocked, "LING WEN!"
The one gripped in Feng Xin's hand was indeed Ling Wen. Feng Xin turned to Xie Lian, "Just as you suspected, Ling Wen went to steal the Brocade Immortal!"
After removing the cursed shackles, Xie Lian's spiritual powers explosively increased to the point where he was practically Jun Wu's equal, so that Brocade Immortal naturally couldn't do anything to him. Ling Wen was turned into a daruma doll by Hua Cheng, and went missing during the great battle. Once time was up, the spell on her person would release automatically, so she couldn't be found anywhere. However, Xie Lian figured she would most likely come to steal the Brocade Immortal, so he took off those robes and asked the Ghost City to let word spread. Sure enough, Ling Wen took the bait.
Even as a fugitive, when Ling Wen was arrested and taken to the conference hall, she still didn't appear panicked. The moment Pei Ming came in he pressed down on her shoulders, and sat her down in front of a table, admonishing in a dark voice, "We've finally found you! Ling Wen, you have to pay for your sins!"
"..."
Dozens of heavenly officials also came surrounding her, each of them with eyes of wolves and tigers, their expressions thirsty and starving, practically savage. Only then did Ling Wen felt a bit of trepidation, "...What are you all planning."
THUMP! A stack of reports and scrolls close to the height of a full grown man were thrown before her, so heavy the table and chairs all shook. Pei Ming PA! And slapped down on the scrolls, "These. Take care of them."
"..."
Ling Wen seemed to have sighed a breath of relief, then felt inexplicably baffled. Yet unexpectedly, before her breath had fully exhaled, there was another round of "THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!"