47: Chapter 47 Top-Grade Spiritual Vein!

The onlookers, both townspeople and cultivators, watched Li Guidai passionately demanding debt repayment amidst the demonic BGM. Their expressions twisted; they wanted to laugh but were afraid of offending Yaoguang Sacred Land, so they held it in with great difficulty.

"This Pavilion Master Li is truly something else!"

Emissary Lin Shuang and her disciples from the Sacred Land were truly dumbfounded. They had traveled the cultivation world for many years, capturing numerous fiends and wiping out many evil sects. What kind of situation had they not seen?

But someone like Li Guidai, who faced an interrogation from the Sacred Land not by defending or resisting, but by pulling out a bizarre magical artifact to play a "Debt Repayment Song" on the spot—this was definitely a first in the history of the world!

"What kind of weirdo is this Li Guidai, anyway?!"

Emissary Lin Shuang stared fixedly at the sky demon soundbox that was looping "Ye Fan! Pay back the money!", her brows furrowed into a knot.

Her powerful divine sense flowed like mercury, once again carefully scanning the entire Ganlu Town and the surrounding area. She indeed found no spiritual energy fluctuations or hidden auras belonging to Ye Fan.

Thoughts raced through her mind:

"This Li Guidai and his wife are both Golden Core cultivators with impressive strength. Especially that woman; her temperament is extraordinary, and the quality of her Golden Core seems extremely high."

"Without concrete evidence, forcibly performing soul searches or suppressing a force with two Golden Core cultivators based solely on leads would damage the Sacred Land's reputation and easily cause unnecessary trouble."

"While it's hard to fully believe Li Guidai's seemingly absurd and outrageous performance, to some extent, it does provide a seemingly reasonable explanation!"

"Ye Fan was just passing through and offended the local boss over something as shameful as dining and dashing or harassing a maid, and then he was beaten out."

"Enough!"

Emissary Lin Shuang finally lost her patience and shouted sternly, her voice containing a trace of Nascent Soul Stage pressure, forcefully interrupting the ear-piercing noise.

She suppressed the urge to smash the sky demon soundbox along with Li Guidai's cheeky, smiling face into the ground, and said coldly:

"Li Guidai, is it! You had better be telling the truth! If I find out later that you have the slightest collusion with that Ye Fan, the wrath of Yaoguang Sacred Land is definitely something a mere Golden Core cultivator like you cannot withstand!"

With a flick of her jade hand, a jade slip emitting a cold, moonlit glow shot toward Li Guidai: "This is a communication jade slip from our Sacred Land. If you have any more news about Ye Fan, or think of any relevant clues, report it immediately! Let's go!"

Having said that, she took a deep look at Li Guidai and Zhuge Yue, who had remained silent but possessed an aura that could not be ignored.

She flicked her sleeve and, leading her group of Sacred Land disciples—whose expressions were almost out of control and whose eyes were filled with complex emotions—transformed into several brilliant streams of light and vanished into the horizon in an instant.

Only after that suffocating pressure had completely dissipated did Li Guidai truly heave a sigh of relief and raise his hand to wipe away the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead.

Then, a gnashing-teeth expression appeared on his face as he viciously gave the sky the middle finger:

"Ye Fan! You damn scammer! Don't let me catch you! Otherwise, I'll sell you to a black mine to dig spirit stones to pay off your debt!"

[Ding! The host has successfully resolved the initial investigation by Yaoguang Sacred Land with an "S-Rank Rating" by using surprise, obfuscation, and perfect utilization of information asymmetry and props! Reward distributed: One-time Heavenly Secret Shielding Talisman × 1, Medicine God Fragment + 2% (Current 8%).]

Listening to the system's notification, Li Guidai felt slightly better, but his sense of crisis had not diminished at all. He knew deep down that Yaoguang Sacred Land was not to be trifled with. This time, he had only temporarily bluffed them; there would surely be secret agents monitoring them later, or even more covert investigative methods.

He immediately turned around and solemnly summoned all the core members.

Zhuge Yue, Yang Qingqing, his parents Yang Xiaoqiao and Li Jiantou, and even the Kuang Family father and son who had just surrendered and were "behaving well," held an emergency family meeting at Deep Cloud Abode.

Li Guidai emphasized the seriousness of the situation, describing Ye Fan as a "peerless scammer who eats without paying, harasses innocent women, and causes trouble everywhere," and demanded that everyone maintain a unified story to the outside world, resolutely distancing themselves from Ye Fan.

At the same time, he ordered Yang Qingqing to send more personnel to strictly monitor outsiders in Ganlu Town and to use the existing intelligence network of Mengchun Brothel to collect all information regarding Yaoguang Sacred Land and Ye Fan.

After the crisis was temporarily resolved, life seemed to return to calm, but undercurrents were still surging.

In the following days, Zhuge Yue would occasionally take the initiative to talk to Li Guidai about the memory fragments in her mind that were gradually becoming clearer.

She recalled some extremely vague fragments that seemed to be related to an ancient force called "Guanghan Palace." Her Heavenly Yin Immortal Body seemed to have a deep connection with this "Guanghan Palace."

These memory fragments brought some scattered yet incredibly exquisite techniques for utilizing the power of Taiyin and ancient knowledge, allowing her strength to steadily improve.

However, at the same time, Li Guidai also keenly noticed that the cold and aloof temperament on Zhuge Yue did not seem to be solely brought about by her cultivation improvement and memory awakening.

Occasionally, when the moonlight was at its strongest, or when she was deep in thought and recollection, she would reveal a sense of alienation, as if she were looking down on all living beings and did not partake in human fireworks. This was quite different from her original gentle, quiet, dependent, and considerate nature.

This made Li Guidai feel both curious and vaguely worried. He tried to use the system to investigate, but only received a prompt:

[The partner's memory fragments involve high-level karma and ancient secrets. You need to collect more Medicine God Fragments or wait for a special opportunity to unlock deeper information.]

A few nights later, a figure wearing a hood, acting suspiciously, avoided all eyes and ears, and quietly sneaked to the back door of Yuegui Pavilion, specifically asking to see Li Guidai.

The person was a secret contact left behind by Ye Fan, and he brought a sealed jade slip.

In the jade slip, Ye Fan first expressed his apologies with sincere words, explaining that he had been pursued by Yaoguang Sacred Land with nowhere to go, and was truly helpless, which was why he had resorted to such a desperate measure!

He had diverted the trouble to Li Guidai and repeatedly promised that he had absolutely no malicious intent.

Then, he changed the subject and revealed a shocking piece of information:

While being frantically pursued, he had been desperate and accidentally stumbled into a desolate, dead, and silent land located at the border between the Eastern Region and the Central Region.

There, relying on some special intuition, he discovered a small, top-grade spiritual vein that had not yet been discovered by anyone!

The location was extremely hidden, guarded by a powerful natural maze formation, and there were several powerful demon beasts with auras comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage lurking in the vicinity.

Knowing that he could not possibly get his hands on it alone, he recorded the specific spatial coordinates, the weak points of the formation he had observed, and some ideas for breaking it all into the jade slip, leaving it for Li Guidai.

Holding this heavy jade slip, Li Guidai's mood was complicated to the extreme. After a long while, he spat out, grumbling:

"Ye Fan, you bastard... you really scammed me, but this apology gift... is also damn good!"

An ownerless top-grade spiritual vein!

This meant an almost inexhaustible supply of pure spiritual energy, enough to support the high-speed development of the entire Li Family for decades or even centuries. How many experts could this cultivate?

This temptation was too great!

On the other side, Emissary Lin Shuang led her people back to Yaoguang Sacred Land to report the mission. She reported everything she saw and heard in Ganlu Town, especially Li Guidai's bizarre "Debt Repayment Song" performance, as well as Zhuge Yue's unforgettable, stunning appearance and the situation regarding her suspected special physique, truthfully and exactly as it happened.

Surprisingly, the Holy Maiden herself, who was always shrouded in a mysterious halo and was rumored to have been defiled by Ye Fan,

after hearing the detailed description of Zhuge Yue, did not become furious or urge them to investigate as others had expected; her reaction was rather subtle.

She was silent for a moment, then only calmly ordered:

"Do not act rashly against the Li Family for now; the priority is still to track down Ye Fan's whereabouts. As for that Zhuge Yue... just keep an eye on her."