41: You just enjoyed watching it, didn't you?

Chapter 41: You just—had a good time watching, didn't you?

Li Yunshu rubbed his neck and muttered.

"Why do I suddenly feel a bit cold?"

Just then, that familiar sense of crisis assailed his heart. He abruptly turned his head, and a pair of jade legs were right before his eyes.

Following those legs upwards, illuminated by the light screen, the Empress stood before him.

"Your… Your Majesty,"

Pei Xuanji slowly lifted her foot, and the surrounding air instantly dropped, the water in the hot spring quickly freezing.

"You came to the palace just to watch this?"

"Your Majesty, hear me out—"

Bang!

Before Li Yunshu could react, he was kicked into the hot spring, and a large hole was smashed into the foot-thick ice.

Water splashed everywhere as Li Yunshu plunged to the bottom of the hot spring.

Even though it was a hot spring, he felt no warmth, only bone-chilling cold.

What to do when caught watching a documentary by the subject? Waiting online, urgent!

In the icy water, he didn't forget to put the backup copy he held into his storage ring.

Although he didn't know when the Empress appeared behind him, the memory orb responsible for recording had been in his embrace the whole time, so the Empress shouldn't have seen it.

Putting away the storage ring, he wanted to float to the surface, but there seemed to be a barrier on the ice.

Even with his spiritual energy, he couldn't break through the ice.

Helpless, he could only search for the hole he had made when he fell into the water.

He circled the hot spring once and finally realized that the entire water surface had been completely sealed.

"Mmph—"

Through the ice, Li Yunshu could only vaguely see the Empress standing by the hot spring. His fists pounded on the ice, but it had no effect.

Gulp, gulp, gulp... His breath ran out, and Li Yunshu drank several mouthfuls of icy bathwater.

Bang, bang, bang.

No matter how hard he tried, it was useless.

Just as he felt he was about to lose consciousness, he flipped his palm, and the Soul Banner appeared in his hand.

The White-robed Yin Spirit appeared at the bottom of the pool, and then a spatial rift appeared, swallowing it.

Pfft!

Entering the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit's space, Li Yunshu spat out a mouthful of bathwater, followed by a violent fit of coughing.

Cough, cough... However, just as he caught his breath, the Empress had already stepped into this space.

Li Yunshu also knew that this space might stop a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, but it would definitely not stop the Empress.

"Your Majesty, hear my explanation!"

At this moment, black mist swirled around the Empress, making her resemble an evil spirit.

The Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit stood far to the side, not daring to approach.

The Empress slowly walked towards Li Yunshu, and a layer of frost covered everywhere she passed.

"You just—had a good time watching, didn't you?"

Only one image filled her mind: herself lying prostrate on the incense table, her backside whipped red by this fellow's whisk.

No wonder, that day after she returned to the palace, she felt a burning sensation when she sat down.

Now the truth was revealed!

Li Yunshu completely missed the point; he only vehemently denied it.

"It was my first time seeing it too. I really didn't know there was a memory orb in Sanqing Hall beforehand..."

Just then, he suddenly felt his body unable to move, as if it were confined.

And what was with his backside uncontrollably sticking out?

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the black mist swirling around the Empress condense into a black long whip in her hand.

Li Yunshu's pupils widened; he seemed to understand what the Empress intended to do.

"No, everyone ate bleeding blue that night. I didn't mean to—"

Slap!

...The next day.

Outside Zichen Palace.

After being disciplined by the Empress last night, Li Yunshu still felt a stinging sensation.

The Empress was truly vengeful; he used a whisk, and she used a whip.

Fortunately, only one of the two memory orbs was discovered; the backup content survived.

Li Yunshu's gaze was fixed on the officials entering the great hall, and various tags flashed before his eyes.

Until the appearance of one tag made Li Yunshu stop his gaze.

[Let Li Yunshu live a few more days; I will definitely avenge my two sons.]

His gaze moved down; the owner of this tag was not Zhao Youde.

It was a slightly stooped old man, looking about fifty years old.

Under his official hat, pale sideburns were visible.

Although the tag he wanted to find wasn't seen, Li Yunshu knew he most likely wouldn't see that tag anymore.

Because the other party's tag had changed.

The one that once said—

[Zhao Youde has no fertility at all; his sons are all mine o(^｀^)o]

Now it had become—

[Let Li Yunshu live a few more days; I will definitely avenge my two sons.]

Besides Zhao Yi and Zhao Xun, when had he ever killed anyone else?

No need to ask, this old man must be the one who cuckolded Zhao Youde.

Li Yunshu nudged the imperial guard beside him with his elbow and asked in a low voice.

"Do you know who that adult with a slightly hunched back is?"

The imperial guard beside him looked in the direction of Li Yunshu's gaze and replied in a low voice.

"That is Minister of Justice Qi."

Hiss—

Li Yunshu took a deep breath. Zhao Youde was the Minister of Justice, and this one was the Vice Minister of Justice.

Good heavens, this Minister Qi actually messed with his own superior.

He firmly remembered this Minister Qi; since the tag above his head had changed, he naturally had to be wary.

Soon, Li Yunshu saw an old acquaintance—Zhao Youde.

At this moment, Zhao Youde had lost his former vitality; his whole person looked somewhat dejected and bewildered.

Li Yunshu lowered his head slightly; clearly, his master's wife taking charge of Tianquan Sect had put great pressure on Minister Zhao in an unseen way.

So next, he just needed to find a way to take down these two ministers.

When Qi Tai reached the entrance of Zichen Palace, he seemed to sense something and turned to look at Li Yunshu standing at the entrance.

Li Yunshu also looked up at this moment, their eyes met, and he showed a smile full of killing intent.

Qi Tai's heart skipped a beat, his steps involuntarily paused, and then he turned his head, pretending nothing was amiss, and walked into the great hall.

As for Zhao Youde, who was walking behind, he didn't know what he was thinking and didn't notice that the person standing at the entrance was Li Yunshu.

After the morning court ended, Li Yunshu left the palace directly.

Town Demon Division.

After more than a month apart, Zhao Qian and Sun Li immediately came up to Li Yunshu again when they saw him.

"Where have you been for the past month?"

"I heard Jingming Temple is being renovated; it's quite grand."

The two spoke enthusiastically, one after another.

Li Yunshu just smiled and gave a perfunctory reply.

"Your Majesty assigned me a task, so I was away for a while."

After speaking, he immediately began to change the subject.

"By the way, who is our captain now, Zhou Wu or Zheng Wang?"

The reason he came to the Town Demon Division was to learn more about Minister Qi here.

After all, he didn't even know the other party's name yet.

Sun Li shook his head.

"You guessed wrong; it's neither."

"Hmm?" Li Yunshu looked puzzled, "Then who is it?"

When he left, Liu Lu had only recently died, so the position of captain of the Ninth Squad was undecided.

But in terms of strength, Zhou Wu and Zheng Wang were the strongest in the Ninth Squad, so he thought it must be one of them.

Zhao Qian spoke.

"The captain of the Ninth Squad now is Shi Chuan, who returned from Western Zhou."

"Shi Chuan?" Li Yunshu had never even heard that name.

Sun Li lowered his voice.

"Shh, keep it down. The person entering the door is him."

Li Yunshu turned to look, and the tag above his head made him feel something was off.

[Obtain the Great Chu spy list.]