Heartless Phoenix Queen - C209

“Cough, cough.” Murong Xiu coughed again. “I didn’t expect it to be you.” A strange expression appeared on his face. “It’s just that I feel terrible to let you see me in such a miserable state.” He looked passionately at Ziyuan. “How… I hope you always, always, always see me as the handsome one! “Haha …”

“Stop talking, it hurts the mind.” Zi Yuan did not want to continue nagging him like this. She had already come up with a plan. Since she could come to Murong Xiu’s side so easily, she might as well use this opportunity to bring him out.

“Tang Ao, take a look. Can you break that fine iron chain?” She calmly began to divide the work.

“Hehe …” You’re always so calm, so charming… ” Mu Rong Xiu extended his bloodied hand towards her.

“Stop talking, don’t you understand?” Zi Yuan dodged his hand and said, “We’re going to save you now. Please cooperate.”

“My shoulder blade is locked. I can’t operate it.” Mu Rong Xiu said helplessly.

“I know.” Violet Garden rolled her eyes, then instructed Ellie who was standing by the side in a daze, “Go to the other side and keep watch. The place we came from was not the direction they came from, so pay attention to what’s happening over there.”

Ellie nodded and ran over.

“We’ve just finished dealing with the guards here. I’m not sure about their transfer arrangements, so we don’t have much time …”

“They changed into a different group in eight hours and have just changed into an ordinary person. That’s why we still have another eight hours.”

“An hour and a half later, the sky is already bright. Do you want to go out by dawn?” Zi Yuan replied snappily while he continued to study how to remove the iron lock.

“Ellie, is it true that the old lock is going to break?” Zi Yuan suddenly thought of this question and asked.

“I don’t know, I was just making it up!” Ellie answered casually.

“…” Zi Yuan felt that he was really going to lose to her. How could he make up such a ridiculous story?

“No nonsense!” There’s really wear and tear here! ” Tang Ao said in surprise. He then took out a huge steel pincer from his bosom and placed it on the mechanism he was placed on to receive the pincer. He then began to circulate the power of his precious technique, channeling it into one of the pincers.

With a bang, a steel rope was cut off. Murong Xiu asked in surprise, “You’ve already reached the pinnacle of the sixth layer?”

Tang Ao, who was sweating profusely, nodded his head and prepared to cut the other steel rope. At this moment, Mu Rong Xiu suddenly spoke in a low voice about the contents of the seventh layer of the Heavenly Arts.

Tang Ao listened attentively, and suddenly let out a furious roar. After cutting the iron chain, he discovered that he had reached the seventh level of his precious scripture.

Ellie immediately ran towards them. “There’s too much commotion here. The guards are coming down. Let’s go.”

Tang Ao, who had just used a lot of strength, was too weak to support Mu Rong Xiu. The Violet Garden had no choice but to carry Mu Rong Xiu and ask Ellie to hold up a chain. The four of them carried another chain and hastily retreated to the secret chamber.

When Tang Ao broke through to the seventh layer, he let out an angry roar, luring all the guards down. The four of them embarrassedly pushed their way to the secret room beneath the Treasure Vault, while Murong Xiu calmly touched the mechanism on the wall.

Tang Ao looked at Mu Rong Xiu with a bit of admiration and adoration. Mu Rong Xiu said proudly, “This is my territory after all.”

“Yeah, be happy about it. Being bitten by your own dog and locked in your own territory.” Zi Yuan mocked him.

Tang Ao couldn’t help but defend Murong Xiu, “Your Highness, I didn’t think that the king would …” “So ungrateful …”

“There’s nothing to argue about right now. The most important thing right now is to get out.” Ellie really wanted to go out. She didn’t want to give up her life here. She wanted to stay in this secret chamber and die.

“Don’t worry, there’s a path outside to the other side of the river in this secret room.” Murong Xiu remained calm and collected.

At first, Zi Yuan was still considering how to get to the Treasure Vault, fight the guards, and lead Murong Xiu out. However, when he heard this, his eyes lit up. “Why didn’t you say so earlier?”

Murong Xiu could hear the rebuke in that voice. It had a certain quality to it, and made him very happy. He smiled and gestured for Zi Yuan to help him walk to a wall.

After rummaging around for a while, a circular tunnel that was just large enough for a person appeared with a clanging sound.

The Violet Garden suddenly thought of something. Just as everyone was about to enter the passageway, she asked, “Does the steward of your manor know of this passageway?”

Murong Xiu’s eyes dimmed for a moment before he shook his head.

“Do you know or not?” Ellie was desperate.

“This passage wasn’t originally created when I was built. I added it later on.” Exhausted, Murong Xiu began to show signs of exhaustion.

Thus, Ellie led the way, followed by Murong Xiu, Zi Yuan, and finally Tang Ao.

The four of them walked along the narrow corridor, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, Ellie who was walking in front could not take it anymore, “Why haven’t we reached the end yet!?” “Murong Xiu, you’re not lying!”

Murong Xiu smiled dryly. His thin, bloodless lips looked even paler under the light of the Violet Garden’s fire piston.

“If we go directly to the other side, we will also be caught escaping …” “I’ve dug this emergency passage all the way to the outskirts of Beijing. Let’s continue …”

Ellie curled her lips helplessly.

Mu Rong Xiu was truly worthy of being called a schemer. He had to consider everything thoroughly even in the underground passage. He really didn’t know how he had ended up in the hands of the young master. Could it be that this guy was really loyal to the young lord? Zi Yuan was filled with suspicion, but now wasn’t the best time to ask, so she kept silent and stored up her strength. She pushed Murong Xiu half to the ground as she sent him off.

The tunnel finally opened up. Ellie was the first to reach the end. “Murong Xiu, even if you’re not a schemer, you can still be a builder. What a great construction! And climbing stairs as well.”

Mu Rong Xiu was a bit agitated, but he started coughing again. This time, he coughed up quite a bit of blood, before fainting. Upon seeing his idol unconscious, Tang Ao’s mind was thrown into disarray, and his eyes turned red.

“Ellie, you go up and take a look.” Zi Yuan was always calm in the face of danger and gave the right command.

Ellie wanted to retort, but seeing the situation, she could only go up and see if it was safe.

It was just that after Ellie had been up for a long time, she hadn’t come to notify them whether it was safe or not. A layer of frost covered Zi Yuan’s eyes. She placed Murong Xiu to the side and told Tang Ao to watch over him as she climbed up the stairs.

It was noon now, and the sun was dazzling. Ziyuan narrowed his eyes and arched his back, looking around cautiously like a female leopard that was always on guard.

When her eyes adjusted to the sunlight, she saw that there was no one around, and Ellie was nowhere to be seen.

Helpless, she stuck her head into Tang Ao and called him to carry Murong Xiu. Slowly climbing up, she put the disguise back and carefully made a new disguise. At this moment, she heard the sound of horse hooves in her ears.

“How is it? Am I good, right?” Ellie proudly patted the horse, “I just became a bandit and robbed a passing caravan. Those people are too useless, I just scared them and they ran away.”

Violet Garden saw the words “Dragon and Tiger Escort Office” written on the carriage. This Ellie had actually snatched a escort car. This was a pretty good choice!

Together with Tang Ao, they carried the unconscious Murong Xiu into the carriage. Zi Yuan expressed that she didn’t want to return to the city, so she directly went to the closest Northern Reaches communication station in the Western Kingdom. Tang Ao, on the other hand, said that there were Liu Soul’s contact points nearby that wanted to send Murong Xiu to their own people. Ellie replied carelessly, “Are you sure none of your young masters are here? No matter what, it’s better for the demons from Northern Yue to be a bit cleaner. ”

Tang Ao had no way to refute these words, so he could only follow Zi Yuan to the North Yue station.

Finally, they reached their destination without a hitch. After resting for a while, the tenacious Murong Xiu woke up with a start. His eyes were red, making him look extremely terrifying. Zi Yuan touched his forehead and found that it was extremely hot.

This way, he wouldn’t be able to delay his journey. By the time the secret guard had brought the news of Violet Garden’s rescue to the capital, the Violet Garden had also brought Murong Xiu and Tang Ao back to the capital. Ellie got out of the car midway and left first, saying she had other tasks to attend to.

As a result, when the successful Night Blue Team returned, Murong Xiu had already been resting in the North Yue Palace for over ten days.

Helian did jump a little when he saw that Mu Rong Xiu didn’t look like he was in human form. After countless of rounds had passed between the two of them, the Regent Xi Li had been tormented by his allegiance to his young master to such an extent that only he himself knew the pain in his heart.

It hurt to think about the fine iron that had locked his shoulder blades through his bones.

When Ye Blueblue Bandits triumphantly returned to the palace to meet with Helian Xuanyin, Helian Lie had asked him to wait outside the door. He was curious about the palace maids guarding outside the door. The court lady looked at him, wanting to say something, but stopped. Ye Blueheaven pressed on again and again. He finally told Murong Xiu that the one who was inside was the monarch, who was asking the imperial court to treat his injuries!

When he heard these words, Ye Lanqing’s heart skipped a beat, ‘Why is Helian no longer divided into the two of us?’ He had the impulse to push open the door and enter, but was stopped by the court lady.

“General, please take a moment!” The court was afraid that the king would lose his life.

At this moment, the door opened. The person who came out was the Violet Garden. Upon seeing Night Blue Cang, they were slightly surprised. “Why are you here?”

Ye Bluelight was also startled. The people from the palace reacted rather quickly and immediately knelt down to greet him. “Greetings to the Empress.”

Zi Yuan waved her hand to avoid their etiquette and asked why Ye Cang appeared here.

“This subject has gone to the border to exterminate the bandits. I was about to report it to the king, but was told to wait here.”

Zi Yuan nodded and said, “Mhm, how is everything going with you and Zi Ling?”