“She… She is the senior inspector in Six Doors Organization… Luo Puti… The pinnacle of Qi refining whose combat power is said to be around twenty thousand!”
Old Tortoise recognized her immediately.
“Twenty thousand?! That is insane…”
Though most of the onlookers were shocked that a single kick had defeated Long Aotian, they now learned that Luo Puti was actually being merciful. She could have killed him with a single kick if she wanted to!
Ten thousand combat power versus twenty thousand combat power! They were of totally different worlds and incomparable!
*Blaaargh…*
Meanwhile, Long Aotian had his knees on the ground, and began to vomit blood. Suffering from an extreme headache and dizziness, he barely had the strength to get back to his feet.
“Bao Linshuang… You asshole… Why didn’t you tell me your sister is Luo Puti! I would not have attacked you if you said so!” Long Aotian was frustrated. Most of the people in Dragon City knew her, and he would not have went up against her even if he had balls of steel!
“Listen up! All of you!” Luo Puti stepped up and told them sternly. “The key to Emperor Yan’s tomb had been handed over by Chen Xiaobei and Murong Xiaoyao to the government! From this moment forth the tomb is official government business! Failure to comply is punishable by death!”
Members from the five factions retreated over ten meters at her words. Luo Puti had made herself quite clear; none of them had the guts to challenge her authority.
“Inspector Luo had her say! We have to obey her! Pull back!” Old Tortoise said as he prepared to lead the members of Hundred Beasts Faction back where they came from.
“Hold on!” Chen Xiaobei shouted all of a sudden.
“Inspector Bao, how may we assist you?” Old Tortoise said politely while the rest of the six members bowed reverently as if they were Chen Xiaobei’s grandchildren.
“You people! I want all of you to slap yourself ten times! And then get lost!” the enforcer ordered.
“That… May I ask why?” Old Tortoise was shocked, and clearly not too happy about it.
“Why? You guys were just talking about gangbanging my sister not too long ago! I remember those words!” Chen Xiaobei glared at them coldly. It was definitely a non-negotiable order.
“This…”
The Hundred Beasts Faction were stunned. However, they could not deny that they had been vocal in their intentions to violate Luo Puti. All of them stole a glance at her only to find that the Ice Demon Queen was positively furious.
Obviously, they were scared to death.
“Are you going to slap yourself or not? Don’t waste my time! My sister is getting impatient!” Chen Xiaobei said, raising his eyebrows. “Think about it! Do you really think that ten slaps outweigh your lives? Am I asking too much here?”
“No… Not at all… We will slap ourselves now…”
All of them were seriously frustrated, but none had the guts to bargain in front of the Ice Demon Queen!
*Smack!*
*Smack!*
*Smack!*
All of them – including the respectable Old Tortoise – raised their hands and began to slap themselves. Worried that the pair might not be happy with the way they slapped themselves, all of them put their backs into it – so much so that their faces became swollen in a purple hue.
“We… We have done slapping ourselves…” Old Tortoise said with a teary face.
“Get lost if you’re done!” Chen ordered, rolling his eyes. “Remember what my sister had said! She will slay those who steal from the tomb!”
“Yes… We remember…” All of them nodded, not daring to say another word.
“Let’s go in.” Luo Puti said casually as she headed for the tomb, with Chen Xiaobei at her heels like a loyal dog.
They reached a thirty-meters-long hallway after walking past a wall that was five-meters thick; they had finally arrived at the core of the mountain.
There was a huge stone door by the end of the hallway. An artistic impression of nine dragons fighting for a single dragon ball was carved out on the stone door; a majestic scene.
“Take out the jade seal and the safety jade pendant.”
Upon closer observation, Luo Puti found square and round slots on the dragon ball; those were keyholes.
“Nice!”
Chen Xiaobei had carried his backpack with him today so that nobody could see him operate his cellphone. He kept it in his backpack, which in turn allows him to pick stuff out from his treasure chest under concealment.
And he would not need to worry about Luo Puti learning his secrets.
“Here you go! I think we can just slot in these two items into the keyholes.”
Chen Xiaobei glanced at the keyholes before pushing the jade seal into the square keyhole, and the safety pendant into the round keyhole!
*Click!*
Both of them heard a loud click, and a crack formed around the dragon ball.
“Try turning it,” Luo Puti suggested.
“Alright!”
Chen used both his hands to grab hold of the huge dragon ball and quickly rotated it.
*Click!*
*Click!*
*Click!*
*Brroooomm…*
The stone door opened automatically just like in the movies. All that lay within the tomb was now within reach.
“That…”
Stunned at the scene that welcome them, Chen and Luo stared blankly ahead.
….
Outside the tomb, Long Aotian finally recovered the from the Ice Demon Queen’s kick. He stared at the entrance of the tomb in anger.
He had come expressively to the Green Vine Province for Emperor Yan’s tomb! And then Luo Puti came and simply took everything away from him after all the effort he made to locating the tomb. It was as if someone stole his life savings!
“Poison Rat! How many Flaming Pills do you have with you right now?” he asked coldly.
“Five! Other than Savage Cow, Old Tortoise and me, you guys can have one each!”
“Give it to me!” Long extended his hands to Poison Rat.
“Master! Please think about it!” Old Tortoise quickly interrupted him. “Flaming Pills may increase your combat power for three days but its side effects are not something that should be messed around with!”
“I thought about it! My body could recover after suffering the side effects, and an opportunity like this will be gone forever if we don’t grab it now!”
“But… Your combat power will only be boosted to twelve thousand! You still can’t defeat Luo Puti!” Old Tortoise added hesitantly.
“Savage Cow is gone, we can count him out! And there are five people here, plus your wittiness and Poison Rat’s poison. I say we have the chance to take out Luo Puti!” Long Aotian continued determinedly. “Let’s go for it! We might be able to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle! Pebbles into boulders! As long as we kill Luo Puti, we will be able to rule the world!”
“Yes, master! Wealth on this scale can only be acquired with risk! We are more than willing to take the risk!”
All of them hailed from Jianghu; most of them had been through life-threatening situations.
And with greed being the motivator, none of them protested against Long Aotian’s decision.
“Alright! Let’s do this!” Old Tortoise finally nodded.
Poison Rat took out five Flaming Pills.
