Chapter 669: Auspiciousness Descends from the Heavens (1/2)

[V6C199 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]

Li Kuanglan?

Qianye immediately recalled that lightning-fast sword of ice, that mirage-like blue robe, and that friend-cum-foe, Li Kuanglan. It was just that Zhao Jundu had already blocked that life and death battle for him, so why was she calling on him now?

Qianye actually had no interest at all in a showdown on the eve of such a great battle. He would rather use any extra strength he had against the dark races. Was the enemy assault not serious enough? Even the Zhang clan had been beaten back.

On the other hand, a madman like Li Kuanglan might do just about anything. One couldn’t speak reason with her. Additionally, with her powerful combat strength and the Li family as support, she had long since gotten used to causing trouble—almost nothing could restrain her.

It was just that her actions seemed to go against her promise with Zhao Jundu. With the fourth young master’s temperament, he might actually bring the army to the Li family to “debate” this matter.

The moment he thought of this, Qianye threw the notion to the back of his head. Zhao Jundu took pretty good care of him, but he couldn’t keep relying on this brother for everything.

Moreover, Qianye’s combat arts had been refined in fire after going through a perilous battle with Eden and not too far off from Zhao Jundu himself. After formally reaching the level of an ancient vampire count, his body was being upgraded by the auric flame blood with each passing day.

Hence, he started looking forward to his meeting with Li Kuanglan.

Qianye began thinking of something as he put the letter down. Just who was this lieutenant?

On the other side of Indomitable, an ashen-faced Song Zining rushed into the Zhao clan camp and made straight for Zhao Jundu’s central army. At every checkpoint, he only needed to flash his identity token to be allowed through. In truth, the seventh young noble was currently quite famous on the floating continent, if not throughout the world, and most of the Zhao clan soldiers recognized him. The inspections were only formalities born of obligation and duty.

He faced obstruction only when he reached Zhao Jundu’s office. However, Song Zining lifted the female secretary up with a wave of his fan, put her down behind him, and then entered the room.

Zhao Jundu was reading a battle report behind his desk. He said without even looking up, “Bullying my secretary, what standards! Are you going to take responsibility for her?”

“The standard of your words is really not impressive!” Song Zining mocked unceremoniously.

“Hey, you’re doing quite a lousy job with nurturing your temperament. At this rate, your cultivation will drop in a couple of years.” Zhao Jundu seemed to be in a good mood.

Song Zining noticed that he was indeed too anxious. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and said, “What’s with Li Kuanglan?”

“What?”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know! Why is she here to find Qianye?”

Zhao Jundu finally looked up calmly and said, “Oh you’re talking about that. You’re pretty well-informed, aren’t you?”

Song Zining replied furiously, “Rubbish! She wasn’t hiding it at all. What’s so strange about me knowing about it? Don’t tell me you don’t know.”

Zhao Jundu smiled indifferently. “Of course, I know. But it’s nothing serious, don’t fret about it.”

“Nothing serious my ass! Haven’t you already settled things with her?”

“Of course I have, but the thing I settled was the life and death battle. I don’t care about anything else. Li Kuanglan didn’t come here to fight to the death, either. She only wants to swap pointers.”

Song Zining sneered, “Swap pointers? Don’t tell me you don’t know about her sword arts. More than one person has died ‘swapping pointers’ with Li Kuanglan.”

Zhao Jundu leaned onto the chair and looked at Song Zining with a spurious smile. “In any case, it’s fine as long as no one dies. It’s fine even if he’s beaten black and blue. Speaking of which, it’s pretty strange for you to be so concerned!”

Song Zining stared at Zhao Jundu for a long while. His face sank upon seeing that the latter had no intention of giving in. “Do as you wish! But if something really happens, don’t blame me for what I’ll do.”

Zhao Jundu said indifferently, “You probably can’t do anything to the Li family with your current power.”

Song Zining was just about to step outside the door, but he stopped upon hearing these words. He responded slowly, “I really don’t have a lot of merit, but I do like to hold grudges.”

With that, he left, banging the door loudly behind him.

A frosty smile appeared on Zhao Jundu’s lips. “You dare slam my door? Looks like you don’t know how vengeful I am. Men!”

The female officer entered after hearing his summons. “What are your orders?”

Zhao Jundu replied, “Collect a list of all the unmarried girls from our family.”

“I’ll handle it immediately.” The secretary left, puzzled as to why the fourth young master would want this list. It would seem he was looking to arrange an engagement for a certain young noble? However, the fourth young master had never been interested in such matters. Could it be that he had finally thought it through and was about to start preparing for his succession?

Within the office, Zhao Jundu was tapping lightly on the table. He pondered for a moment before breaking into a sudden laugh and muttering to himself, “Be obedient or I might just let Yuying marry you!”

After leaving the Zhao clan camp, Song Zining ran back to his office and summoned his trusted aides for a secret meeting. Soon, these subordinates left in a hurry. An intelligence network thus sprang to life, collecting all information regarding Li Kuanglan’s visit.