Chapter 221: The City Master
Taking advantage of that brief opening, the hemp-robed elderly man and the little girl finally broke free of the two pursuers' locked aura.
In the end it took them less than half an incense stick's time to slip out of Hundred Refinements City before the gates had fully closed.
After leaving the city, however, with the Tin Mountain Blade Sect's group no longer available to cover their movements, and having not yet worked out how to infiltrate Falling God Peak, the two decided to take temporary shelter on a small hill just outside Hundred Refinements City.
Their reasons for this were twofold. One was to think through and adjust their revenge plan going forward. The other was that they were curious and wanted to observe from the shadows what Li Musheng, who had remained in the city, was up to.
"If he used the opening we created by drawing those two experts away and slipped out of the Hundred Fragrance Pavilion immediately, he should have had a chance to leave."
The little girl in pink looked down from the hill at Hundred Refinements City, still blazing with lights in the darkness of the night.
The hemp-robed elderly man was quiet in thought, then slowly shook his head, saying, "He comes from the Great Li court, and his standing is not low. He would not have come without backup, and besides, he did not seem to have any intention of fleeing. I simply cannot tell what his purpose is, or what the Great Li court's purpose might be."
Hearing this, the little girl in pink furrowed her delicate brows and looked at the hemp-robed elderly man beside her with a puzzled, uncertain expression, saying, "Could the Great Li court be planning to take Hundred Refinements City tonight and use it as a base to attack Hundred Refinements Peak from there?"
"Unlikely. The whole way here, apart from his group, we have not seen any sign or movement of any other Great Li court people. Hundred Refinements Peak clearly does not fall within the Great Li court's primary attack objectives."