Chapter 843: Ambush (2/2)

After a moment of fruitless contemplation, the Wolf King could only give up temporarily and return to the city lord mansion.

Back in the manor, the Wolf King and Ji Rui sat down across one another. The Wolf King said, “Letting Qianye escape is a disaster.”

“Yes!” Ji Rui sighed.

The Wolf King laughed. “It’s only your disaster, though. He won’t escape so easily the next time he runs into me. But if he can escape once from me, he can easily escape a hundred times from you, you had better arrange your guards well.”

Ji Rui looked bitter. He merely sighed and couldn’t say anything for quite a while.

With how mysterious Qianye was, what guard could even stop him? The man had escaped despite the Wolf King attacking in person. What good would it do even if Ji Rui were to patrol the city every night? The city lord did have some hidden aces, but even if he did use all of them, they weren’t any better than the Wolf King’s power.

The two continued to sit silently. The Wolf King was in a fairly bad mood since he still couldn’t figure out how Qianye had escaped. Perhaps Zhang Buzhou would have some answers, but that was the last person on earth he wanted to meet.

In the end, the Wolf King broke the silence and said, “Don’t worry too much. I’ll go and hunt him down myself once things here have been settled. He’ll surely die in my hands unless he never makes an appearance.”

“He probably won’t remain in the Eastern Sea,” Ji Rui said bitterly.

The Eastern Sea was Zhang Buzhou’s territory, and even the Spider Emperor and Moonlight Demons would be affected here. If Qianye was smart enough, he naturally wouldn’t remain here. If he were to escape to another place, like the Throne of Blood’s domain, the Wolf King wouldn’t dare act atrociously there no matter how ferocious he was.

The Wolf King snorted coldly. “I hope he’s smart enough not to appear in front of me.”

With that, the Wolf King retired with a wave of his sleeve, leaving Ji Rui in the quiet room to drown in his own worries.

Just like that, the sky turned dark in a flash. Ji Rui stood up with a long sigh and muttered, “Let’s enjoy some peaceful days first. I’ll just have to think of a way when the time comes.”

He had spent the night in contemplation, yet he couldn’t think of any good solution to this problem. Qianye escaping from the Wolf King’s hands was something he had never expected. Now that he thought about it, Qianye was probably unafraid of him because he had a way to escape.

Just like the Wolf King, Ji Rui had no clue as to how Qianye had vanished. At this moment, Ji Rui was infinitely regretful. Had he known earlier, he wouldn’t have agreed to the Wolf King’s terms. Standing out of this feud would let the Wolf King earn a bit more, at most.

Ji Rui had thought it through. Money was a lovely thing, but there were other ways to earn it.

After making an enemy like Qianye, there was no telling when he would be able to sleep peacefully again.

Ji Rui got up and paced about the study, sighing with a gloomy expression. Since he had already offended Qianye, the only way forward was to offend him to the end. The latter was destined to be unstoppable once he had matured.

A knock came from the door at this point. In his bad mood, Ji Rui scolded the visitor, “What’s so important? Can’t this wait?”

Guan Zhongliu’s voice echoed from the other side of the door. “City Lord, we’ve almost flipped through the entire city, but we couldn’t find any trace of him. Now, our brothers are all exhausted, do you think…”

“... Call it off.” Ji Rui had no real hope of the city guard finding Qianye and only sent them out to appease his emotions. Nonetheless, he still felt some disappointment when he heard that there was no news.

Ji Rui sighed deeply after Guan Zhongliu left. “I can live in peace for at least two years, right?”

Whether it was the Wolf King or Ji Rui, none of them had imagined that Qianye would be standing outside Southern Blue.

Like a wisp of smoke, the latter leapt up and appeared on the city wall and then passed through two patrol squads to enter the city. These movements looked easy, but they weren’t that simple in execution. Throughout the entire process, Qianye only used a little bit of origin power, making his aura seem no stronger than rank four.

People at this level were a dime a dozen in Southern Blue, and innumerable people were going over the walls day and night. After all, every family in the neutral lands had things that couldn’t be brought into the light. The City Guard also understood this situation and would usually turn a blind eye.

So, even if the Wolf King’s perception had scanned Qianye, he would only overlook him as one of the riff-raff.

After entering Southern Blue, Qianye’s faintly discernible silhouette entered an alleyway and arrived outside of the city lord’s manor. There, he looked up at the mansion with a blue shade in his eyes.

There was still a great amount of void origin power swirling in the skies above, but it was nowhere near as violent as in the beginning. This meant that the Wolf King hadn’t activated his origin power, nor was he in a battle-ready state.

Qianye moved near the wall and lithely clawed his way up to the top, his fingers piercing into the structure with each step. He was relying only on his physical strength and not a wisp of origin power. So much so that one would be inclined to think he was an ordinary person without any cultivation.

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