The Empress’s Gigolo

Chapter 920: Bitterness

Black mud cream for external injuries and intermittent cream for bone fractures. These are two great medicines that one must bring regardless of whether they are traveling or out killing people. Which expert hadn’t faced counterattacks before? Moments like those were when these medicines shone.

Ren Baqian sat down, took off his boots and carefully applied the cream.

Lin Yue stood next to him, but he had no idea what she was thinking about. All of a sudden, she went up to the door and gave it a violent kick.

Boom!

“Yeah, it’s really metal!” she said with a limp after confirming her suspicions.

She took off her embroidered shoe and revealed the pale sole of her foot. Sure enough, her big toe was swollen and red.

“He’s stupid and so are you. Can’t you just tread over it?” Lin Qiaole felt a little unhappy that they didn’t live up to her expectations.

Ren Baqian was speechless.

How could he endure being criticized by her!

Li Yuanzhu was between laughter and tears. This Lin Yue… Li Yuanzhu had never heard about this side of her before!

Suddenly, noise could be heard from down the mountain. The Boat Gang members had heard the banging of the doors and were probably coming up very soon.

Li Yuanzhu stepped forward and used both hands to push the door, but to no avail.

Although it might look like a very simple push, she actually used quite a bit of effort. Previously, she had even sent an iron door flying with a push. The door to the seclusion area of the Boat Gang’s chief was indeed strong enough. It couldn’t be made of just steel. It was probably reinforced with some rare metals as well.

This was actually true.

Not only was the door made of steel, the walls on both sides were also made of the same material.

Apart from being a place of seclusion, this cave also served as an escape route. Back when the Boat Gang established their base here, they had also considered the situation of encountering enemies that they couldn’t withstand. This door could at least buy them some time against ordinary Spirit Wheel experts.

A green bamboo sword appeared in her hand, and she pointed it forward. Without making too loud of a noise, numerous cracks started meandering across the door from the point of impact. Suddenly, the door collapsed.

This door, which the Boat Gang had pinned great expectations on, was shattered by an ordinary tap of a sword.

“It’s empty!” Li Yuanzhu glanced around the cave.

“It truly is empty.” Ren Baqian wasn’t surprised at all.

In fact, when he heard that many of the sects’ experts had gone into seclusion, he had already thought of this possibility.

There were only three possibilities in this situation. It could be that the experts had faked going into seclusion, that they were forced into doing so, or that they were already dead. Going into seclusion was just a false impression they created.

This time, Ren Baqian came here simply to verify what the situation was. In fact, after he kicked the door just now, he already knew that the cave was empty when there was no reaction.

Since it was empty, the person who knew where the chief of the Boat Gang went was the left guardian!

Whether or not the seclusion was real or if he had concealed his identity to do other things or if he had already died…

Before the rest of the gang came up, Ren Baqian went in to take a look at the cave using the dim illumination of the moonlight. It wasn’t exactly big. There were three stone chambers inside, one of which was filled with some food. The other two were empty.

“Who is it?” The gang members approached quickly. Ren Baqian could already hear the noises outside before he was done looking around.

However, the end of the sentence sounded as if it was made by a rooster that was pinched around its neck.

As Ren Baqian hurried out, something caught his attention when he was near the door. He took a close look at the side of the door, somewhat guessing what had happened…

He stretched out his hand and gave the intact half of the door a push… and it actually opened…

Looking bitter, he exchanged glances with Li Yuanzhu, who was standing outside.

“The door opens outward!”

She was stunned.

“It wasn’t locked. We simply had to pull it open…”

Li Yuanzhu was at a loss for words.

She still tried to maintain the calm and spiritual look of an expert, but her mouth was slightly twitching…

After all, she had just done something stupid…

Ren Baqian mourned his feet for a minute before looking up. There wasn’t one, but three gang members who came up, and they were lying on the ground. Xin Zhe was stepping on one of them and holding another in her hand.

Besides them, there were still other people running up the mountain.

“Which one of you is Left Guardian Zuo Lengtang?” Ren Baqian asked with a smile.

“Xin Zhe, let them go.”

“Cough, cough! Who are you? What happened to our chief?” The man whom she held in her hand rubbed his neck, and a lingering fear could be seen on his face. However, he managed to forcefully suppress it after seeing the shattered door.

“Why do all of you like asking questions?” Ren Baqian laughed as a spear appeared in his hand once again.

This was more persuasive than words.

Sure enough, the man’s face immediately changed, and he trembled with fear. He wasn’t even this afraid when Xin Zhe had slammed them on the ground just now.

It was different after knowing that the person in front of him was a Spirit Wheel expert who had condensed a Heaven-grade weapon.

“Which one of you is Zuo Lengtang?”

The man quickly turned to look at the man who was lying on the ground.

The other man had already stood up, leaving this person prone and motionless.

Ren Baqian’s face changed slightly, and he asked Xin Zhe, “Did you kill him?”

“I didn’t use any force!”

Everyone’s faces changed as they quickly went up and turned that man around. His face had turned pale while his lips were black. There was also dark blood and white foam at his mouth…

When Ren Baqian checked for a breath, the man wasn’t breathing.

“Left Guardian!” the other two men cried out.

“He took poison and committed suicide!” Ren Baqian frowned and presumed that the poison had been in the man’s mouth from the start. This man was truly resolute to have taken his own life when faced with a bad situation.

Who exactly was this left guardian?

Was the culprit behind the scenes really that strong?

“This man tagged along behind them, so I thought that he was just one of the soldiers!” Xin Zhe added, explaining the reason why she stepped on him.

She knew what Ren Baqian wanted to investigate on this mission and felt a little apologetic given that the first person they checked had taken poison and committed suicide.

“Forget it. We didn’t know what they would do, and this was truly hard to prevent. It will serve as an experience for the future.” He wasn’t really bothered by what happened.

Although this person had died, one issue was actually verified.

There was a big problem regarding all these experts successively going into seclusion.

In addition, one of the culprits was actually within the Boat Gang and was one of the chief’s two guardians no less.

Apart from the Boat Gang, there were probably culprits hidden within all the other sects as well.

The man who spoke just now asked in a pleading tone, “You guys, what exactly happened?”

After all, the Boat Gang was no match for the people before them. Interrogating them was out of the question.

“Your chief isn’t inside—it’s empty. As for his whereabouts, I’m afraid this is something that only Zuo Lengtang knew about. As for the rest of the situation, you have seen it for yourself,” Ren Baqian replied faintly.

“You are looking for our chief?”

“We just wanted to confirm some matters. Now, we have already completed half of our objectives.” Ren Baqian couldn’t be bothered to explain too much. This man didn’t need to know too much either.

It was already kind of Ren Baqian to explain so much to the man.

“Let’s go!” Ren Baqian turned and went where there weren’t any flaming torches.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of getting into any conflicts with the other members of the Boat Gang, but there was no need to kill more people.

The purpose of him coming to the Yun Nation was to save people, not to kill.

More importantly, he was in a heavy mood at the moment. Bitter even!

Damn it! The door actually opened outward…