Great Li Martial God

Hearing the elder say this, Li Musheng immediately flicked a finger, and the locks and chains confining the white-robed woman's cell collapsed in an instant, crumbling to iron dust that rained softly to the floor.

But at the sight of her destroyed cell, the white-robed woman who had been freed simply continued to sit exactly as she was, her eyes empty as she looked blankly at Li Musheng and the others.

Seeing this, Li Musheng furrowed his brow slightly. It was evident that this woman, who might be the blue-robed Daoist's Elder Sister, had been given something that had cost her her clear awareness.

Li Musheng raised a hand and reached through the air, drawing the white-robed woman from within the cell to stand before him.

He then extended a hand to examine her condition.

He found that her meridians were entirely damaged, her martial cultivation gone without a trace, leaving her weaker than an ordinary person, like a patient in poor health.

As for the strange poison the Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House had mentioned, Li Musheng did not find it within the white-robed woman at all.

At the same time, the white-robed woman showed no reaction whatsoever to Li Musheng's sudden examination of her. Her expression remained completely blank and her eyes vacant, as though she were nothing more than a puppet to be manipulated at will.

"Have you... found the person you were looking for?"

From what Li Musheng had said earlier, she understood naturally that the person Li Musheng had come to rescue was Daoist Qingyu of the Azure Cloud Temple.

And the name of Daoist Qingyu was of course known to her. The woman was a senior martial world figure of long renown, and at first glance had nothing to do with the young white-robed woman before them.

But the martial world was not short of extraordinary individuals, and there were legends of techniques capable of reversing aging. And since Li Musheng seemed to believe this might be the person he was looking for, Zhao Muning, though surprised, was not completely unconvinced.

At that, hearing Zhao Muning's question, Li Musheng rubbed his chin and said, "She looks like she could be the person. But I am not entirely certain. And there is something about her current state that strikes me as not quite right."

As he said this, Li Musheng raised his hand and reached out again, and in an instant all four of the remaining iron cells on the ninth underground level shattered simultaneously. Along with the Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House, the four imprisoned figures were all drawn through the air to Li Musheng's side.

Li Musheng then examined all four of them in turn.

What he found was that unlike the white-robed woman, the other four all had a toxin remaining in their meridians and elixir fields, clinging to them like a bone-deep parasite.

The poison had penetrated so deeply into their flesh and blood that even a Kill-Saint level expert could not pull it out without an antidote.

This made it clear that the poisons the Great Xuan imperial palace had used on these people were genuinely extraordinary.

But there was one problem: why had the white-robed woman not been poisoned?

The Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House had said they had all been given the poison by the Great Xuan imperial palace eunuchs.

By any logic, the white-robed woman should not have been spared. And her current state also looked like the result of poisoning, identical to the state of three of the other four, whose expressions were blank and who seemed to have lost autonomous awareness.

With that thought, Li Musheng looked again at the Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House and asked, "Are you certain she was given the same poison as the rest of you?"

At those words, the Grand Manager did not hesitate, and gave a labored nod, "I am quite certain... we were all given... the same toxin..."

Li Musheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gaze swept over the other three with a thoughtful expression.

It was clear that all five people imprisoned in these cells were of considerable importance, whether the white-robed woman who might be Daoist Qingyu, or the Grand Manager of the Treasure Assembly Trading House. Both of them confirmed this.

As for the identities of the other three, they were unknown, and even the gathered martial world experts including Zhao Muning did not recognize any of them.

At that, Zhao Muning looked at Li Musheng and seemed to sense something was off, asking, "Is there a problem?"

As she asked, she also offered a quiet suggestion, "If you have already found the person you came for, I would advise leaving as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the Great Xuan imperial palace experts recover themselves, things could become... complicated."

Originally Zhao Muning had intended to say something more alarming, but thinking of Li Musheng's terrifying martial cultivation and his movement technique without equal under heaven, she honestly had to admit: as long as he wanted to leave, was there anything in this Great Xuan imperial palace that could actually stop him? And so she had ultimately changed what she was going to say.

Li Musheng, faced with Zhao Muning's suggestion, paid it no particular mind.

He had come to the Great Xuan imperial palace tonight to rescue someone. Leaving with a person whose identity he could not confirm would be irresponsible.

Furthermore, if he rescued the wrong person, not only would this whole trip have been wasted, but he would have stirred the nest and put the Great Xuan palace on guard, making any future attempt far more complicated.

"This matter seems to be more involved than I expected. I need to confirm things further."

Li Musheng glanced at Zhao Muning and told her not to worry, and that he would certainly bring her out of the Great Xuan imperial palace intact.

Then in the next instant, Li Musheng raised his hand and reached out again. The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, who had been swept into the dark corner and disappeared from sight, came flying to Li Musheng's side in an instant.

Li Musheng unsealed the acupoint at the man's throat, though he kept the loose hair hanging over the face just as it was, concealing that unpleasant appearance.

"Who exactly are you?"

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's first words upon having his acupoint released were to ask in disbelief about Li Musheng's identity.

He knew his own martial cultivation better than anyone. At his peak, the combined forces of three major sects had been unable to do anything against him.

And over the years he had spent in the Mystic Mechanism Palace cultivating day and night, his cultivation had grown further still.

And yet he had been subdued without any warning by Li Musheng, his acupoints sealed, without the slightest ability to resist throughout.

What that meant, he understood more clearly than anyone else present.

This young person he had not even thought worth his consideration possessed martial cultivation that absolutely exceeded a Martial Saint's level.

Because something no one else here knew was that he had once come to blows with the Great Xuan martial world's Martial Saint known as the Heavenly Foot. Though he had been completely unable to match the Martial Saint, the Heavenly Foot had also not been able to subdue him in a single move, and that had been when his cultivation was weaker than it was now.

Which meant Li Musheng's cultivation was at a level that left him even more fathomless.

And more to the point, Li Musheng with this level of cultivation was so extraordinarily young, which only deepened his suspicion about the man's identity.

At that, Li Musheng offered no reply, and simply pointed at the white-robed woman and asked, "Is she Daoist Qingyu of the Azure Cloud Temple?"

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit looked at the white-robed woman for a moment, but equally gave no reply, fixing his gaze hard on Li Musheng and saying, "Tell me who you are first, and then I will answer the question you want answered."

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