The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 443 The Death-feigning Sparrow

While speaking, the innkeeper waved her hand, and the sparrow, which was beaten up and had no strength to escape, flew to Li Ye.

Li Ye rolled his long sleeve, and the sparrow arrived in his hand. He didn’t stretch out his hand to receive it because he was afraid that the sparrow was hiding something, but it turned out that it wasn’t.

When the sparrow was caught in Li Ye’s hand, it stopped shouting, and its eyes were full of fear and despair. Before Li Ye could speak, it shouted, “I’ll tell you everything. Don’t kill me!”

Li Ye didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but this sparrow knew what to do. Li Ye didn’t immediately question it. He looked at the innkeeper and thought for a moment. “How can I repay you for your kindness?”

The demon fox appeared with the demon wolf and the demon jackal and asked the demon wolf to freeze the sparrow with his howl. That should be some kind of magical power. Now she personally caught the sparrow and handed it to Li Ye, which helped him solve a lot of trouble. If she had no other purpose, then in Li Ye’s view, this friendship was somewhat thought-provoking.

The innkeeper winked and giggled. “Don’t you know what I want? As long as you want, I’m willing to serve you at any time...”

While she was talking, she suddenly saw Wu You flying over with You Daxiao. Making eye contact with the little girl’s murderous eyes, the demon fox took the initiative to shut up. She rolled her eyes and said, “Childe, why don’t you do your own business first? If there is anything I can do for you, I’m willing to spare my life to help.”

“Demon fox, why are you here again?” Wu You stared at her and warned her with an unkind look, “If you dare to seduce Elder Brother Ye again, I will break your arm!”

When Duchess threatened others, she never said that she would kill them. She didn’t want to do that. The little girl was kind. Even though the demon fox wanted to “plot” against Li Ye, she just wanted to beat her up.

The demon fox smiled sweetly and said, “Duchess, don’t be in a hurry. The sun and the moon can bear witness that I’m truly sincere to Childe...”

“Shut up!” Wu You was so angry that she gnashed her teeth. She threw You Daxiao casually on the roof and began to clench her fists.

You Daxiao was drunk. After being thrown down, he rolled down from the green tiles and fell to the ground with a bang. His head also hit the stone step. He opened his eyes in pain and looked around blankly. “What’s going on?”

Li Ye was furious when he saw You Daxiao’s look. “If you continue to pretend to be drunk, I’ll throw you into the cesspit! It’s okay that you didn’t fight when we were fighting. I take care of your strength. If you’re going to play dumb, I don’t intend to waste any time on you.”

After You Daxiao was exposed by Li Ye, he immediately became embarrassed. He stopped sitting on the ground and flew to the roof with a smile. He looked at the sparrow in Li Ye’s hand and said, “Does this fellow know who sent the demons to make trouble for us?”

Li Ye glanced at the sparrow. “If it doesn’t know, I’ll pull its feathers out, roast it, and eat it with the wine.”

The sparrow trembled, as if it had heard something incredible. It shouted, “How dare you eat demons! You’re a human being. How dare you! Is there any law or justice?”

Seeing Li Ye’s indifferent eyes without any intention of joking, the sparrow was so scared that it shrank its neck. “Don’t, don’t eat me! I’ll tell you everything. I mean it. I won’t lie to you!”

“I only ask once, and you only have one chance to answer. Who asked you to make trouble for me?”

“It’s... You take your sword away first. I’ve already told you that I won’t lie! It’s the shopkeeper of the Star Pavilion. It’s him who gave the order, and those cultivators are also his men!”

“What background does the Star Pavilion have?”

“It’s a store selling something like Magic Treasures and Dan Pills, and it has branches in many big cities of the demon clan. It’s very powerful. The shopkeeper of the Star Pavilion in Panfeng City has, has the cultivation in the Real Immortal Realm!”

Li Ye looked at You Daxiao. “The Star Pavilion? A chamber of commerce?”

You Daxiao quickly said, “It’s a famous chamber of commerce in the demon clan, and it’s rich, but I have never heard that they are in the business of assassinating people...The action against us should be a special case.”

Li Ye was lost in thought.

While Li Ye loosed his strength slightly, the sparrow quickly twisted its body and changed a more comfortable position in Li Ye’s hand. Seeing Li Ye thinking, it couldn’t wait to say, “The shopkeeper said that you have the emperor’s sword, which is valuable, so he wanted to rob it today...”

Li Ye glanced at the sparrow.

Seeing Li Ye’s unfriendly look, the sparrow immediately straightened its neck and promised, “I’m telling the truth!”

You Daxiao thought for a moment. “That’s reasonable, but how did he know that you have arrived at Panfeng City? I don’t believe that he’s not ordered by someone else.”

Li Ye sneered. “I don’t care who it is, but I don’t come to the demon clan to be timid and to be bullied. Since they dare to make trouble for me, are they ready to bear my anger? Let’s go to the Star Pavilion! When I find the mastermind behind the plan, I’d like to see if he dares to stand in front of me and fight me aboveboard!”

You Daxiao applauded. “Brother Li, you’re domineering. That’s what you should do!”

When Wu You chased Li Ye, she also brought all the assassins’ Magic Treasures. Although they were just six low-ranking Magic Treasures, they were not ordinary. After all, as long as they were Magic Treasures, they were precious.

Before leaving, Li Ye took the Magic Treasures and planned to refine them with the Dragon Qi to improve the class-ranking of the Luke Sword.

Seeing Li Ye taking the knives, spears, axes, and the other things, the sparrow thought that it was going to be dismembered. It was so frightened that its eyelids turned and it fainted in Li Ye’s palm.

Li Ye ignored it and put it on his shoulder casually. Then he began to mobilize the Dragon Qi.

Unlike the last time, the Dragon Qi was obviously not so active this time. It opened its eyes indifferently. After it glanced at the Magic Treasures, it closed its eyes again with a disdainful look.

Of course, Li Ye wouldn’t let it lose its temper, so he immediately gave down a will. The Dragon Qi couldn’t disobey Li Ye, so it reluctantly twisted its body and swam out of the Ocean of Qi. It opened its mouth and absorbed the Magic Treasures.

The runes on the six Magic Treasures flashed for a while, and then, the snake-shaped Spiritual Qi emerged from them.

In fact, it was not accurate to call it Spiritual Qi. It was just the airflow from the fluctuation of the Spiritual Qi. The airflow was full of sinking and floating runes and contained indescribable power.

This time, Li Ye could sense it more clearly. The fluctuation of the power on the airflow gave him a breath of the world’s origin.

However, no matter how powerful it was, there was no room for it to be arrogant in front of the Dragon Qi, and it was obediently absorbed into the Luke Sword. Similarly, unlike the last time, after the airflow was absorbed by the Dragon Qi, it didn’t light up the runes on the Luke Sword immediately but stayed in the Dragon Qi for a long time.

Frowning unhappily, the Dragon Qi digested it for a while. Then, it spat out a few mouthfuls of foul smells with a look of disgust, like eating dregs during the meal. A while later, the Dragon Qi opened its mouth and spat out a pure stream of air, allowing it to enter the Luke Sword.

As the runes were lit up, the Luke Sword trembled with buzzing sounds, and its momentum increased steadily. Finally, a cyan light column rose and rushed straight to the night sky.

You Daxiao was shocked and delighted. “It’s at the middle-ranking!”

After the light column dissipated, the Luke Sword returned to its original state, but it looked more breathtaking.

The Dragon Qi slowly swam back to the Ocean of Qi. It didn’t move with his body coiled. Closing its eyes, it began to fall asleep, as if it was very tired.

Li Ye was speechless by the series of human-like movements and expressions of the Dragon Qi. But he was quite happy now because his Luke Sword became a middle-ranking Magic Treasure.

It was the first time for the demon fox, the demon wolf, and the demon jackal to see this refining method—if it was a refining method. They were so shocked that they couldn’t speak for a while.

The sparrow lying on Li Ye’s shoulder with its belly rolled opened its small eyes secretly and saw Li Ye throwing away the knives, spears, and axes. It breathed a sigh of relief when it knew that Li Ye didn’t intend to dismember it. Its chest that swelled with a holding breath sank down with relief now.

But it immediately realized that something was wrong. For fear that Li Ye would find something, it quickly took a deep breath and swelled its chest to continue feigning death.

After enhancing the Luke Sword, Li Ye was ready to take action. But Wu You was still staring at the demon fox, while the demon fox was looking at Li Ye with sincere expectations. It seemed that she wanted to be a good demon and fight side by side with them.

Li Ye didn’t intend to let the demon fox and her men follow him. After all, two of them were in the Sky Immortal Realm, and one of them was in the Ground Immortal Realm. If they made any trouble behind them, Li Ye and the others would be attacked front and rear. But if he didn’t let them go, they would follow him in the dark. “I can’t kill them directly, right?”

For the sake of the demon fox helping to catch the sparrow, Li Ye said to the demon fox, “Maybe you would like to go with us?”

The innkeeper smiled charmingly and said, “Since you’ve invited me, I’m willing to follow you.”

Wu You was furious. She took a breath and wanted to refuse, but she didn’t say anything and breathed out in the end.

She didn’t want to disobey Li Ye, because she knew that Li Ye must have his reasons for doing things. Even though she couldn’t figure it out for the time being, she was willing to follow his will.

When the demon fox saw Wu You’s movements, she gave her the glad eye. Wu You was so angry that she clenched her fists. This time, the demon fox didn’t dare to provoke her anymore.

Li Ye flicked the head of the sparrow on his shoulder. “Lead the way.”

The sparrow was already very afraid of Li Ye. It had a conditioned response to get up, but it suddenly remembered that it was feigning death, so it couldn’t lead the way. “Is Li Ye testing me?” It froze halfway as it turned over, and it didn’t know what to do. “Since I’ve moved, is it too late to turn over back?”

But it soon had an answer for all the demons looked at it. The sparrow stood up embarrassedly and coughed twice. “I’ll lead the way.”

...

As one of the famous big chambers of commerce, the Star Pavilion was naturally located in the center of Panfeng City. But it was already late at night. Only restaurants and brothels were doing business. In the shop street where the Star Pavilion was located, there were very few demons.

The attic in the backyard of the Star Pavilion was ablaze with lights. A demon tiger was drinking with a demon bear. Each of them had a table full of delicacies made from birds and animals. Bones were all over the tables, and there were a lot of empty wine jars beside them.

The demon tiger was the shopkeeper of the Star Pavilion in Panfeng City. As a Great Cultivator in the Real Immortal Realm, he could remain the human figure for 24 hours a day without consuming a lot of Spiritual Qi. But like many other cultivators of the demon clan, he preferred his true figure.

While they were eating happily, they suddenly heard loud explosive sounds in the distance. It was noisy. They looked out of the window. The demon tiger smiled and said, “There seems to be a fight.”

The demon bear said, “I wish it won’t cause too much noise. Otherwise, I have to send demons to check the situation. I still have to maintain the order in Panfeng City.”

The demon tiger said, “Lord, don’t worry. It’s easy for six cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm to assassinate a cultivator in the Ground Immortal Realm. Even though this Prince An from the Tang Empire isn’t an ordinary cultivator in the Ground Immortal Realm and has a powerful fighting ability, they can defeat him quickly.”

The demon bear raised its wine jar and touched the demon tiger’s. “When this matter is done, I will make you my sworn brother!”

The demon tiger smiled and said, “That’s great! But you still have to pay this time.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll give you the Magic Treasure when the sparrow comes back!”