The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1448

Chapter 1448: Chapter 1444: Duke Missing Chapter 1448: Chapter 1444: Duke Missing Soon, the square was deserted, with only Yuan Tiangang, Shen Luo, and Li Jing remaining.

As for Golden Wings Large Peng and Flower Ten Women, they were still imprisoned inside Li Jing's Treasure Pagoda.

“Shen Luo, you are also seriously injured. Go back and rest for now. You don't need to worry about the following matters, just focus on recovering from your injuries,” Yuan Tiangang cautioned.

Upon hearing this, Shen Luo hesitated briefly but nodded in agreement.

Once Yuan Tiangang and Li Jing had left for the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, he returned alone to his private courtyard.

However, when he left the Four Seas Hall and was near his courtyard, he saw a familiar figure squatting by the gallery, sobbing softly.

“Little Fox Misu, what are you doing here?” Shen Luo asked softly.

Hearing his voice, the girl suddenly looked up, her eyes red, paused for a moment, and then forced a smile.

After some inquiries, Shen Luo learned that after escaping from the Four Seas Hall, this young girl from the Fox Clan had lost contact with two of her clan elders and had encountered a magical beast attack. Fortunately, two Feathered Spirit Guards had helped her slay the beast.

She didn't dare go search for them on her own and could only wait here.

“The situation outside is truly unsafe right now. Come with me to a safe place and wait there until things stabilize in the city, then I will help you find them,” Shen Luo reassured her.

Little Lox Misu hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.

In Chang'an City, other than Grandma Qiu and her two elders, she literally had no other kin. At this moment, the only person she could trust was Shen Luo.

Thus, Shen Luo took her back to his small courtyard to settle down, but he felt uneasy along the way, concerned about whether Lu Huaming was injured or not.

Shen Luo briefly checked his own body, found that the elixir had entirely taken effect, and noticed some mana accumulating in his dantian. He decided not to heal his injuries just yet and instead went out to assess the situation around the city.

After settling Little Fox Misu, he left the Great Tang Dynasty Government.

The city was in a state of devastation at the time, with many buildings damaged. This wasn't so grave in itself, but the sounds of grieving could be heard everywhere.

Though the government had quickly evacuated the people during the demon's upheaval, many had still perished.

Shen Luo sighed inwardly; he couldn't do much for these people. The only thing he could do was trace the origin of these demons and seek vengeance for the deceased.

He quickly reached a giant fissure in the city; the demons had emerged from here before, and the government had already dispatched disciples to seal the area around the fissure.

Not wanting to draw attention, Shen Luo used magic to hide his figure and investigated the nearby and inside breath of the fissure.

The interior of the fissure surged with turbid qi, connected to the earth's energy channels, and nothing was abnormal. The demonic qi from those demons had also dissipated.

“It seems that investigating through the qi won't work,” Shen Luo murmured to himself, then looked towards the nearby area of the fissure and stealthily flew over.

These ground fissures shouldn't appear for no reason; if this demon attack was orchestrated, the nearby residents might know something.

The area near the giant fissure had the most casualties, with very few survivors, all enveloped in sorrow.

Shen Luo had no trouble with this; he used some minor soul-bewitching tricks and easily extracted the specific details from these people.

However, the commoners were all baffled and knew nothing; he had been busy all night, and only managed to get one useful piece of information from a neighborhood watchman. The night before the celebration, this watchman saw a dark figure acting suspiciously near a huge fissure, seemingly hammering something into the ground.

It was too dark at the time, and given that the watchman was merely mortal, he couldn't see very clearly.

As dawn began to break, Shen Luo stopped his investigation and headed towards the Great Tang Dynasty Government to find Lu Huaming, hoping to learn if he had any information.

The morning sun was just rising, casting ten thousand rays of golden light inside Chang'an City, resplendently splendid.

However, there was a sense of panic among the people of Chang'an City, and few pedestrians could be seen on the streets, which lacked their usual bustling atmosphere.

With a sigh, Shen Luo picked up his pace, when a figure in a white robe, wearing a bamboo hat, came toward him; in the moment their figures intersected, the figure in white suddenly emitted a light “Eh,” and swiftly blocked Shen Luo's path, the eyes under the bamboo hat shining brightly as they sized him up.

“Who are you, Your Excellency, and why do you block my way?” Shen Luo asked with a slight start, bowing slightly.

The figure in white spoke softly, revealing herself to be a girl, and by the sound of it, quite young, “I am Tu Xue, a little girl. I apologize for the disturbance. May I know your esteemed name?”

“I am surnamed Shen. May I know why Daoist friend Tu seeks me out?” Shen Luo also scrutinized the person in front of him, his divine senses spreading out to gauge the girl's cultivation level as he spoke.

However, her aura was elusive, and he couldn't detect her cultivation realm, causing Shen Luo to feel a chill in his heart.

With his previously strong divine senses, he could roughly perceive the cultivation realms of those at the Taiyi Stage, and during the great battle at the East Sea Dragon Palace, he had refined most of the Ancestral Dragon Soul's soul power, greatly enhancing his own. Yet, he could not ascertain the cultivation level of the person before him; could her strength surpass that of Taiyi?

“I am but a humble oversea freelance cultivator,” the girl in white continued as she lifted her bamboo hat to reveal a delicate face with a melon-seed shaped face, large eyes, and willow-shaped eyebrows–a combination that was not strikingly beautiful, but pleasant to look at, “specialized in dealing with spiritual materials. I have always admired the opulence of the Great Tang and have come here to trade and make acquaintances with some of the esteemed cultivators of the Great Tang. Brother Shen appears to be a monk of the Great Tang; may I have the honor of making your acquaintance?”

“Dealing in spiritual materials? I apologize, but I have pressing matters to attend to, and must decline your kind offer,” Shen Luo glanced at the woman and refused without hesitation.

The depth of this woman's cultivation was unclear, and her accosting him on the street under the guise of business immediately made it suspicious; although he didn't know what she ultimately wanted, caution was best.

After saying this, he no longer paid attention to the woman in white and took a detour to continue forward.

The woman in white watched Shen Luo's retreating figure, her eyes narrowing slightly with a hint of sharpness, but she glanced around and, suppressing the impulse, let Shen Luo leave.

Feeling that the woman did not follow, Shen Luo breathed a sigh of relief and quickened his pace, soon entering the Great Tang Government.

Inside, the halls of the Great Tang Government were in disarray, with many people rushing about, seemingly in the midst of a major incident.

“What happened?” Shen Luo frowned and headed towards the main hall of the Great Tang Government.

Lu Huaming and several elders stood there; Shen Luo recognized Senior Huang Mu among them, their faces all wore expressions of anxiety, but Cheng Yaojin was nowhere to be seen.

“Brother Lu, what has happened?” Shen Luo inquired.

“Brother Shen,” Lu Huaming only then noticed Shen Luo's arrival.

“What is all this chaos about within the Great Tang Government? What happened? Why isn't Duke Cheng present?” Shen Luo asked again.

“The Master has disappeared,” Lu Huaming exchanged looks with the other elders and sighed.