Imperial Treasure

But this topic really shouldn’t be dragged on, no need to kill brain cells.

"Looks like we can wrap it up, but I heard... someone got left out."

"Who?"

"Mr. Tao. He’s gone, and one Spirit Coffin has gone missing too."

The rest of the Spirit Coffins were divvied up between the Imperial Guards and the Noble Clans. This coffin was very different from the others, because they’d all been activated—huge value in the follow-up. Any single one of them was priceless, yet one of them vanished.

Plus one of the main culprits, Mr. Tao, is gone.

Hard not to make people’s imagination run wild.

"That Mr. Tao is really something. There’s an underwater passage in the river, he must’ve known beforehand, and used the current to escape..."

"I get the feeling he’s the only one who got out without a scratch."

The few of them kept chatting in detail, and the more they talked the more they felt Mr. Tao was anything but simple, and very mysterious. Too bad Jiang Chenyu had already left, so they could no longer ask for more information.

Speaking of Jiang Chenyu, Su Zimu kept feeling like there was some blackout in his own mind, but he just couldn’t recall...

"Let’s not get involved in domestic matters. Anyway, if the sky falls the Imperial Guards and the Central Prison will hold it up. Besides, this batch led by Yue Beiqing seems to have performed really well and is about to get promoted again. Oh right, that Chu Muzhe is already at ministry level. Jie Jie, compared to the others, that guy surnamed Bai is nothing..."

Just as everyone was talking, Sui Yi suddenly put down her book.

"We have a guest. I’m stepping out for a bit."

A guest?

Gong Jiu instantly clawed at the window glass, staring at the flash of light that vanished in an instant...

"Looks like she’s going really far... makes no sense, normal guests don’t pick somewhere this far... which girl or guy is it this time?"

There were very few people who could make Sui Yi just blink away like that on the spot, and even notify her from long distance...

All things considered, right now it seemed there was only that one.

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Land in the Capital City costs a fortune by the square foot, but it still has suburbs. For someone at Void-breaking Level, getting out to the suburbs is only a matter of moments.

When Sui Yi arrived at the lakeshore in this Pine Leaf Forest, there was no one there. She only saw a small boat, bobbing and drifting by the lakeside. Sui Yi paused for a beat, then appeared at the bow, picking up a jug of wine from it.

There was a red stopper, with a slip of paper stuck on top.

She took it off to read.

"This jar has no poison."

Just those six words.

She smiled, and the more she smiled the more it turned into a sigh. She folded the paper neatly and put it away, pulled out the stopper, and gulped down a big mouthful.

The wine was good, clearly a fine vintage scrounged from some alleyway hutong. In this modern age it counted as very rare. For Ye Zui, who’d taken root in Nation M, it clearly didn’t fit—unless... she had already become Chu Yezui.

Just not completely, so she avoided her.

Maybe she simply refused to meet again.

That life was carved too deep into the bone. Two lifetimes of memories merging—hard for anyone to accept. Is she Chu Yezui, the pearl of the Chu Family, or Ye Zui, Vice Sect Leader of The Gate? Still up for debate. But in the end...

Sui Yi sat at the bow of the boat, drinking one mouthful after another...

Until someone tracked her down.

"Finding you sure isn’t easy. Even satellite positioning is useless. Luckily, I got lucky and just caught your trail."

Bai Yu landed openly on the lake’s surface, walking over the water. Smelling the aroma of the wine, his nose twitched, his gaze a bit tempting.

Sui Yi chuckled lightly: "It was sent to me by a very special person. I can’t bear to let you drink it."

Truly frank in her stinginess.

"Then I’ll just remember that Sect Master owes me a drink."

Mm, shameless in a very straightforward way.

Sui Yi couldn’t help but laugh. "You came looking for me about something?"

"It’s my idiot disciple. Took on a favor to help someone, and ended up letting them dig up someone else’s ancestral grave. She hasn’t eaten or drunk for days, busy over there dealing with it... I came to ask the one whose ancestral grave got dug up... want to come over and take a look together?"

Sui Yi thought for a bit. "I have a friend who’s still in a coma. It was the danger period a few days ago, I couldn’t get away."

"How long till you can?"

"Now."

"..."

Sui Yi made a call. With Li Luo and Golden Crow there, plus the Cherry Snow Forest incident not yet fully past, right now the safest place in the Capital City was probably Zhiyuan Mansion.

They left as soon as they said they would. No need for cars or planes—two Void-breaking Level people just flew over directly. It cost them quite a bit of energy, but it was fast.

By dusk, Xiao Yu saw her own teacher and Sui Yi. Her slightly tired expression eased a little, and she came forward to apologize.

Sui Yi hadn’t blamed her to begin with. She glanced around. The whole place was desolate, but the corpses had already been dealt with, and even a public cemetery had already been built—clearly done by the authorities.

"Years ago, an old man in this village said there was a Curse. I didn’t really believe it back then. Now... it looks more like fate."

She sounded like she was talking to herself, but it made Bai Yu’s brows lift: "Yet you don’t intend to let the evil ones who caused this ’fate’ go, do you?"

Sui Yi drew her gaze back, letting it fall on that Heavenly Pit. "Mm."

Her answer was very simple, and then Xiao Yu and Bai Yu saw her leap straight into that Heavenly Pit.

There were quite a few officials nearby conducting surveys, very cautious, because the miasma down below was terrifying. They were only willing to go down in special suits, and didn’t dare approach the bottom. They never expected...

A whole group of people panicked, but Bai Yu just waved a hand. "Mind your own business. Don’t worry about her."

Sui Yi was revisiting an old place. Her head was full of memories, yet as she recalled them, it didn’t feel the same anymore. Back then she was just Sui Yi, with no ties to the High Priest. Now, she had at least recovered half the High Priest. Things she couldn’t understand before were transparent now. But most of the items had already been taken away—for example... that piece of Jade Bi.

Sui Yi stood for a while where the Jade Bi used to sit, then went back up shortly after.

There wasn’t much to see anyway. Sui Yi knew exactly whose hands had done this. The officials had used all these days and could dig out some shady traces too. But with everything dug out and no obvious evidence, all they could do was swallow a dumb loss. In the end it still depended on the attitude of the one truly wronged.

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