Chapter 1574 - 1469: The Truth
"There’s no one on the bed... He Xi is gone!"
Everyone on the scene froze.
"Where did he go?" Huang Cuicui asked instinctively, her eyes still red.
"Could he have met with misfortune?" Luo Yong’s words came out, and everyone’s expressions turned extremely grim.
"I know! He must have been killed by the Refining Dragon Child!" Ma Ji’s face looked incredibly bad: "All the servants at the City Lord’s Mansion might have been killed by the Refining Dragon Child too!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone’s faces turned extremely grim.
Just then, in the eerie creaking sound, despite there being no wind, the room door closed unexpectedly!
"Who’s there!" The commotion sounded, and everyone in the room was startled and turned their heads.
"Get the door open first!"
Lei Xiuzhu gave an order, holding the Luminous Pearl in her left hand, while her right hand, filled with Spiritual Qi, slammed towards the wooden door.
Strangely, this palm, powerful enough to break iron and stone, fell on that door without causing any movement.
Lei Xiuzhu’s face changed dramatically, "Something’s odd!"
She clearly felt her immense Spiritual Qi seemed to vanish into thin air! Disappeared!
"What is going on here!"
The other three, upon seeing this, also had drastic changes in their expressions, constantly applying Spiritual Techniques in various colors to the door, but they caused no movement.
"What’s going on with this door!" The three grew more terrified, their hearts sinking.
"Sister? What should we do?"
At a loss, all three looked at Lei Xiuzhu.
Lei Xiuzhu’s face was extremely grim: "This is a trap array! We’ve been surrounded by an array!"
"What? An array? Who set the array!" Huang Cuicui cried out with tears.
Luo Yong and Ma Ji both shook with anger and fear.
Lei Xiuzhu glanced around, cold sweat dripping from her pale face, and said coldly: "If I’m not mistaken, it’s that scoundrel Refining Dragon Child!"
As soon as the words were out.
Clap, clap, clap!
Applause sounded from the front.
The four were startled, stared forward, and discovered that the front wall of the hall suddenly cracked open, and two figures walked through it.
Upon seeing those two, Lei Xiuzhu and the others’ expressions changed dramatically.
"He Xi! The manager!"
Indeed, the two figures emerging in front of them were the supposedly missing City Lord He Xi!
Beside him was the diligent manager from the mansion!
City Lord He Xi and the manager stopped clapping.
The former revealed a sinister smile: "Miss, daughter of Sect Leader Lei, truly brave and exceptional, can deduce that the one who set up the trap is me..."
It was evidently mocking, but Lei Xiuzhu did not show any anger, her expression turning into one of shock: "You’re Refining Dragon Child!"
"Correct." He Xi smiled slightly, brushing his hand over his face, revealing that the wrinkled face was actually a human skin mask.
His actual face was very fair, with narrowed eyes filled with cruelty.
At that moment, Lei Xiuzhu and the others finally understood, the City Lord He Xi was actually Refining Dragon Child in disguise!
"What have you done to the real City Lord He Xi!" Huang Cuicui shouted with false bravado.
"Heh, that old man was killed by me three days ago."
Refining Dragon Child said casually, his face flashing with venom: "As for your Huashan Sect, you’ve been slow to send people here to die, making me wait so long..."
Then, the manager beside Refining Dragon Child laughed sinisterly: "Master, but the ones who came this time are big fish... Our wait was not in vain..."
"Indeed."
Refining Dragon Child laughed coldly, "Daughter of Lei Dingtian, if I humiliate her and subjugate her as a servant, how would the elders view me in the Inner Sect? By then, my call for Sect Leader will surely be high!"
"Young Master Long, masterful!" The manager chuckled, flattering him.
"Niu San, your credit won’t be neglected then!" Refining Dragon Child patted the manager’s shoulder, both laughing slyly.
Hearing the two laugh, Lei Xiuzhu’s face became extremely grim.
As it turned out, the City Lord He Xi died three days ago.
As it turned out, Refining Dragon Child was deliberately making trouble in Kang City to attract the Inner Sect to send people over.
As it turned out, Refining Dragon Child had been fully prepared, just waiting for them to fall into the trap.
"You bastard! You dared kill the City Lord! I’ll cut off your head!"
The more Lei Xiuzhu thought, the angrier she became. She glared at the Refining Dragon Child with reddened eyes.
"Heh... No wonder you’re Lei Dingtian’s daughter, that fierceness truly commands respect." Refining Dragon Child said sinisterly: "But you think with your brain you can kill me? Go practice for a few more years first!"
He seemed to be confidently arrogant, standing there defiantly.
On the other hand, Ma Ji’s face changed: "I was wondering why the City Lord He Xi was acting so strangely! Extravagant, and so arrogant and indulgent... Turns out you were fake all along!"
"At least you have some brains." Refining Dragon Child laughed contemptuously: "I forgot to tell you, there is also something suspicious about the banquet. I put knockout drugs in every dish..."
"You’re despicable!" Huang Cuicui cursed with a red face: "Shameless creature! Truly disgusting!"
"It’s a shame..." Refining Dragon Child seemed oblivious, shaking his head: "It’s a shame you didn’t consume the knockout drugs, otherwise, I could have come straight to your rooms and finished the job. What a shame, truly!"
The manager named Niu San laughed: "Master, don’t feel regret, with our Spirit Lock Array now in effect, this group is mere trash, easy to handle!"
With those words, Lei Xiuzhu’s expression changed slightly, "Spirit Lock Array! The one that can lock Spiritual Qi?"
"Little girl has awareness." Niu San stared at Lei Xiuzhu’s chest, laughing lewdly: "In this Spirit Lock Array, no Spiritual Qi can flow, and Spiritual Qi will deplete more rapidly. Do you feel your strength fading?"
With those words, Lei Xiuzhu, Huang Cuicui and the others’ faces changed drastically.
As Niu San said, they suddenly realized that much of their Spiritual Qi had already disappeared, leaving very little.
More terrifyingly, that small amount of Spiritual Qi was still vanishing.
It was foreseeable that before long, their body’s Spiritual Qi would be exhausted.
So, what could they do without Spiritual Qi?
No one dared to continue thinking!
"In this array, Spiritual Qi is useless." Refining Dragon Child felt assured of victory, his face amused: "Without Spiritual Qi, you are like cattle and sheep at my mercy, how should I toy with you then?"
Niu San licked his lips, his eyes glinting with a vicious light, "Kill all the males, and keep the females to serve the master, how about it?"
"Indeed." Refining Dragon Child laughed lewdly, "That Lei Xiuzhu, being of noble birth, naturally I’ll keep her to enjoy slowly. That little girl, I’ll reward to you Niu San..."