Chapter 717 - 390: The Graceful Assassin
Chapter 717: Chapter 390: The Graceful Assassin
Zuo Zhongtang never imagined, not even in his dreams, that attending a grand martial world gathering would land him as a prisoner.
The prison was exquisite... the sort of exquisite that’s very sturdy.
An iron door, iron windows, and even an iron bed.
"There’s definitely something wrong with Li Xianyi. What kind of good person would set up an iron bed in a cell? Where did he get so much iron from?"
Zuo Zhongtang grumbled vehemently; such cells are not unheard of.
But they usually hold rather important people or old devils from the martial world who have been around for years, or those with an unusual identity, under any circumstances cannot be escaped from by big figures.
Of course, from this latter point of view, he is indeed qualified to be housed in such a cell.
After all, as the Young Sect Leader of the Profound Mystery Sect, he should have this kind of treatment.
But the problem is, every cell he passed was like this.
He wasn’t special!
He let out a deep breath, an inexplicable sense of despair rose up within him.
As Young Sect Leader of Profound Mystery Sect, he’s in love but cannot have it.
It’s quite a failed life.
Now as a Jianghu Person, it seems he’s rather a failure too...
Because he never realized that the person who caught Jiang Qianliu and was deeply offended by him was actually the Third Young Master.
If he had known it was him, he would never have acted so forcefully.
But alas, he was already in a bad mood at the time; after all, anyone who sees the person they love pairing happily with another will surely feel unhappy.
Plus, Jiang Qianliu being caught by the opponent, in a pathetic state.
Thus, he had both anger and an outlet for it, and everything fell into place naturally.
The only mistake was, he didn’t recognize the opponent’s identity, which led to such a great disaster.
Can the Profound Mystery Sect afford to offend this Third Young Master?
He truly doesn’t know.
What kind of outcome awaits him?
He’s unclear too.
With a creaking sound, a gap opened at the bottom of the prison’s iron door, and a tray with food was sent in.
Zuo Zhongtang snorted coldly, decided in his heart, even if he starved to death, he would never eat the food given by the opponent.
But his internal organs beat the drums of dissatisfaction, making him decide to be temporarily defeated by reality.
"Eating one bite won’t kill me!"
Zuo Zhongtang picked up the food and began to devour it, and moments later he cursed loudly:
"There’s definitely something wrong with Li Xianyi; how can the cook at Immortal Cloud Manor be better than my Profound Mystery Sect’s skills!?"
"This is too delicious... Is this what a prisoner should be eating?"
Not fully satiated with wine, but filled with food.
After eating and drinking, he leaned on the iron bed, continuing to ponder the outcome.
Footsteps sounded again.
He had heard such footsteps once before, which belonged to the person who brought the food.
The sound quickly reached him, and Zuo Zhongtang suddenly became excited:
"If I seize his hand while he’s reaching for the things, compel him to hand over the key, or open the cell door... do I have a chance to get out!?"
He thought and prepared comprehensively.
But as he moved forward, he fell flat on the ground, quite miserable, almost breaking his chin.
He forgot... his meridians were still sealed by Chu Qing with Cold Ice Inner Power.
Though not particularly severe or damaging the meridians, he couldn’t mobilize any Inner Strength.
Just now he wanted to use Body Technique, took a step, but Inner Strength didn’t follow... resulting in tripping himself.
While wallowing in self-pity, he heard another thud.
Zuo Zhongtang chuckled and thought, which unlucky fellow is trying to imitate me?
Otherwise, why does it sound so similar?
While pondering, he heard a creak, and the cell door was unlocked by someone.
Zuo Zhongtang was momentarily unbelieving, blankly raising his head to see a man in black standing at the door, looking at him with a peculiar gaze.
Four eyes met, and Zuo Zhongtang awoke as if from a dream:
"Who are you?"
"Ask no more, come with me."
The man in black stepped forward, grabbing his shoulder, and turned to walk out.
Zuo Zhongtang was greatly shocked; while he desired to leave this place, it wasn’t to be taken away like this.
His goal was to obtain freedom!
Not to leave the wolf’s den only to enter the tiger’s lair!
However, with his meridians sealed by cold energy, he was immobile, and the man in black’s Martial Arts were high, he could not resist at all.
He could only be helplessly taken away by the other party.
Through twists and turns, out of the prison, a leap and a few efforts to escape, soon left this Immortal Cloud Manor.
Once they were on solid ground, the man in black released his hand:
"Provoking that person... your courage is indeed impressive."
Zuo Zhongtang finally had a chance to speak:
"Who are you? Why are you saving me?"
"What do you think?"
The man in black coldly turned around.
Zuo Zhongtang furrowed his brow:
"I don’t know..."
"Hmph."
The man in black sneered:
"You truly don’t know who I am? Why I’m saving you?"
The man in black spoke, his eyes narrowed slightly, an extreme intent to kill flooded over the sky suddenly.
Zuo Zhongtang felt horrified, feeling a chill rushing straight to the top of his head.
He couldn’t help tensing his whole body, just watched the man in black step forward, speaking coldly:
"Acting for the heavens, punishing with killing!
"In front of the Mirror of Sin... there’s no good person."
Upon hearing this, Zuo Zhongtang felt as if he was like fireworks, being set off into the sky, exploding with a face of splendor.
"You... you are actually someone from the Mirror of Sin!?