Chapter 818: A Great Show! (Revised Chapter)
In the dead of night, the moon is dark and the wind is high!
Li Chen, sitting cross-legged in the room, suddenly opened his eyes, staring straight ahead.
"There's movement!"
Lian Hongshang, beside him, was startled upon hearing Li Chen's words and hurriedly ran over to ask, "Chen, what's wrong?"
"Zhuge Mingyue went out, let's follow and see!"
As Li Chen and Lian Hongshang stepped out of the room, they saw eight women in white carrying a white feathered sedan chair. On the left was a burly man, on the right was a delicate woman.
"Chen, where do you think they're going?"
Lian Hongshang blinked her watery eyes and asked puzzled.
Li Chen stood in place, gazing in the direction Zhuge Mingyue and the others disappeared to. Then he searched in his mind for the rough map of Tianyuan City engraved on the Jade Token.
The map was simple and crude but outlined the general layout, especially marking the restricted areas of various sects and aristocratic families clearly.
Comparing the two, it was not hard to see that Zhuge Mingyue was heading to the Southern Suburb Restricted Area.
"Let's go, follow and take a look, maybe there will be a good show to watch tonight!"
Saying this, Li Chen and Lian Hongshang silently followed.
They trailed for about half an hour and reached the Southern Suburb Restricted Area.
Here were uniform pavilions, magnificently imposing, with green pine and bamboo, murmuring springs, and misty clouds — truly a Human Fairyland.
If the area in the north where Loose Cultivators gathered was a rundown city village, this area was a villa district where top-tier wealthy elites lived.
However, Li Chen ignored all these fairylands, what caught his attention was a pair of big red lanterns hanging at the gate of a particular courtyard.
The glowing red light illuminated two dragon-and-snake-like characters: Zhuge!
Evidently, this was the residence of the Zhuge family, also Zhuge Mingyue's destination.
"Zhuge Mingyue, Zhuge family, is this simply a coincidence, or is there an unseen secret?"
Li Chen mumbled to himself, secretly pondering.
This courtyard was allocated to the Zhuge family after the founding of the True Immortal Alliance.
On usual days, whenever Zhuge family members had business in Tianyuan City, they would stay in this courtyard.
Zhuge Yong was a direct descendant of the Zhuge family, thus naturally he was no exception.
Besides, he had a lustful nature. It was heard that a beautiful girl named Butterfly was fostered in this courtyard, and he couldn't wait to flirt, eager to get the beauty swiftly.
That night, Butterfly was in a plain white dress, with a pale yellow silk ribbon tied round her waist, fluttering in the wind.
She stood under a willow tree, gazing at the sparkling lake surface, her beautiful face filled with melancholic lilacs, wistful and wandering, evoking sympathy.
Originally lascivious, Zhuge Yong became so infatuated upon seeing such a peerless beauty that drool streamed down his mouth.
Butterfly heard the sound behind, instantly becoming terrified and uneasy, looking at Zhuge Yong.
"You, you, who are you?"
Zhuge Yong wiped the drool off his mouth vigorously, and quickly gestured, saying: "Miss, don't be afraid, I am Zhuge Yong, not a bad person!"
Butterfly feigned unease and asked, "Are you Young Master Zhuge?"
Zhuge Yong was overjoyed when Butterfly recognized him, nodding repeatedly and responding: "Yes, yes, yes, I am a direct descendant of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Yong!"
"Had I known sooner there was a beauty hidden here, I would have come earlier!"
"I, a servant Butterfly, greet Young Master Zhuge!"
Butterfly slightly calmed her mind and bowed gracefully to Zhuge Yong.
"Miss Butterfly, no need for formalities. Please rise, please rise!"
"Miss Butterfly, do you know that from the first sight of you, I fell deeply in love. As long as you obediently follow me, I assure you I'll treat you well!"
After hearing Zhuge Yong's words, Butterfly intentionally shyly replied: "Young Master, don't tease me, the servant!"
Zhuge Yong, seeing that Butterfly didn't believe his words, raised two fingers, and earnestly said: "Butterfly, every word I say is true, I'm not joking. If you don't believe it, I can swear to the heavens!"
Butterfly suddenly came forward, grabbed Zhuge Yong's raised hand prepared to swear, and shyly said: "Young Master, what are you doing? You are noble, while I am humble, not worthy of you!"
Upon hearing Butterfly's words, Zhuge Yong was thrilled.
"Miss Butterfly, between people, there is no saying of worthy or not worthy. Our encounter here is heaven's bestowed fate. Rest assured, as long as you follow me, I will certainly not abandon you, and treat you doubly well!"
With eyes smiling, Butterfly asked: "Young Master, you just said you would treat me well. What do you plan to treat the servant well with?"
Zhuge Yong, already itching with desire, said repeatedly: "Whatever you want, I'll give you, is that okay?"
Butterfly blinked her beautiful eyes, asking: "Is it true that whatever I want, you'll give it to me?"
Zhuge Yong, a bit impatiently, said: "Of course, I Zhuge Yong always keep my word, never renege!"
Butterfly smiled charmingly, mesmerizing Zhuge Yong to the point of losing his Divine Soul.
Then she leaned close to Zhuge Yong's ear, gently blowing a breath of warm air, and leisurely said: "Young Master, I want your life, will you give that too?"
"Give, of course I'll give..."
Zhuge Yong, already bewitched, nodded to whatever Butterfly said.
Suddenly, he felt a heart-wrenching pain in his abdomen, his facial expression froze instantly, pupils dilated, turning extremely ferocious.
He forcefully shoved Butterfly, looked at his abdomen Dan Tian Field pierced by a shiny dagger.
Zhuge Yong pressed his bleeding wound with one hand, pointed at Butterfly with the other, and shouted hysterically: "Damn, you tramp, you actually want to kill me!"