Chapter 0055

Chapter 55: The Probe Fails and She Gets Kidnapped

The beautiful guide led them around the Imperial Capital. As time passed, Zhou Tong’s face grew colder: “Stop.”

Hearing this, the guide trembled all over. [What is going on? Did I expose myself this fast? No. Impossible.] She shook her head and denied the thought. She was Qian Miao Yu, the supreme empress of the Ling Xiao Empire, an expert in disguise. With the help of her ancestral treasure, even specialists could not see through her. Only someone with terrifying spiritual power could peel back layer after layer to see her true face. Such a person almost did not exist.

“Honored guest… wh… what is it?” she asked in a timid voice, sneaking a look at Zhou Tong. [He looks so much like the boy in my dream. The figure, the outline… at least an eighty percent match.]

“You brought us to a remote place,” Zhou Tong said, giving her a side-eye that made her blood run cold: “Are you guiding us, or planning a robbery?”

“I didn’t…” Qian Miao Yu’s voice shook. At this moment, Zhou Tong overlapped completely with the man from her dream.

Lian Han Xing and Mu Rong Ya narrowed their eyes and stared at her.

“I don’t know what you are talking about. I am only an ordinary—”

“Enough,” Zhou Tong cut her off: “Do you want me to peel off your painted skin right here and show everyone your real face?”

The empress almost broke down from fear. Her proud disguise was seen through in a glance. Was he truly the man from her dream? She had approached Zhou Tong in disguise to test his strength, but a heavy mist seemed to shroud him. She could not learn a thing.

“You say she is in disguise?” Mu Rong Ya asked, shocked. As the Joyous Union Sect’s sect master, she was an expert at disguises. Even she had not spotted it, yet Zhou Tong had. What terrifying insight.

[No good. At this point, I have to use my last step,] the empress thought, face pale. [No matter what, I must see your strength.]

A Jade Pendant sat in her palm, sending out strange waves. It was her arrangement all along. If she crushed it, powerful death assassins would rush out to attack Zhou Tong. No one could hide their cultivation at the edge of life and death. It was the best test. Even if those assassins were caught, they would kill themselves at once and leave no trail. Even if Zhou Tong died, that would be better. For the Empire’s survival, she would offend the Jade Purity Sect without fear.

“What is that?” Zhou Tong snatched the Jade Pendant from her hand, startling the empress.

“Give it back!”

“You wanted to crush it, right? I will do it for you.”

With a crack, the Jade Pendant turned to powder.

Boom. The spiritual energy in the area went wild. A flood of killing intent burst out, and bystanders scattered like birds.

“Brat, hand over your life!” More than a dozen black-clad men appeared at once. Daggers in hand, they stabbed toward Zhou Tong. Each one was at the Heaven Severing Realm, fast and fierce, with shocking power.

“You overestimate yourselves,” Zhou Tong said with a cold laugh. He struck with a single palm. Carried by Sixfold Sword Momentum, the force drove all the black-clad men back at the same time.

“What kind of rank dares to play at surrounding me? The ones surrounded are you.”

As his words fell, Mu Rong Ya and Lian Han Xing turned white-haired and, left and right, pressed down on Qian Miao Yu’s shoulders, pinning her so she could not move.

“What are you doing?” Qian Miao Yu asked, startled, her face the picture of innocence.

“Drop the act. You already slipped,” they said. “We are leaving.”

The two women exerted force. With Qian Miao Yu and Zhou Tong in tow, the three vanished on the spot. They moved so fast it was like they had evaporated, leaving the assassins staring in the wind.

A moment later, time seemed to start again.

“Oh no!”

“Your Majesty has been kidnapped!”

In a hidden space, an intense and very embarrassing interrogation was underway. Qian Miao Yu had never imagined she would one day appear before others in such a shameful posture. A red cord wrapped her tightly, making her curves more obvious, and she hung suspended in midair.

Zhou Tong eyed Lian Han Xing with a strange look: “Why are you so skilled?”

“Don’t make a fuss,” she said. “I practice tying every day. My craft is top-notch. This red cord suppresses cultivation. For someone at her level, there is no escape.”

“Talk,” Mu Rong Ya said coldly as she stared the prisoner down. “Who are you, and why did you approach us? If you cooperate, I will give you a quick end.”

“I don’t know what you mean. Let me go. I am just a girl from an ordinary family.”

“Still stubborn.”

Mu Rong Ya reached to the cleft of Qian Miao Yu’s chest and tugged out a pendant. At once, the empress’s aura was hard to hide.

“Nice treasure,” Mu Rong Ya praised. Then she ripped off Qian Miao Yu’s mask and revealed a stunning face.

“You were born a beauty. Why turn to theft?”

Qian Miao Yu fell silent. She had nothing more to say.

“Let me handle her,” Zhou Tong said as he stepped closer. “With the Soul Search method, this will end soon.”

At once, panic flashed across Qian Miao Yu’s face. “I will talk. I will tell everything!” she blurted. “It was Mo Liu Su. Mo Liu Su told me to watch you!”