The Empress’s Gigolo

“A murderer must pay with his life, and a debtor must pay his debts!”

This voice resounded throughout the temple and caused everyone to fly into outrage.

The senile looking elders opened their eyes that glowed with a cold light.

Tyrannical auras swept across the entire hall and cracks started appearing on the statue of the god at the Sea God Shrine above.

This was no longer an issue that only concerned Xu Wuming. Instead, it involved the entire Temple of Heaven.

As Xu Wuming was one of the honored ones of the Temple of Heaven, everything he did represented the organization. They could still consider other requests, but all of the members of the temple would definitely not agree to this.

Many of them felt extremely angry. Even if Ren Baqian came from another nation of the human race, how dare he make such a request?

Ren Baqian shut his eyes gently and allowed these auras to twine around him.

In fact, everyone behaved appropriately and didn’t strike him with their auras.

Otherwise, with dozens of top Spirit Wheel experts, their auras alone would be enough to hurt Ren Baqian.

He sighed. After going around in circles, everything came back to the beginning. Everything that he had said previously had been in vain.

Didn’t he know beforehand that they definitely wouldn’t agree to this request?

However, he still had to display this attitude because he was Zhao Prince Consort of Dayao.

Ren Baqian couldn’t possibly tell the empress and the officials of the imperial court to let go of their hatred and look at the bigger picture, could he?

He couldn’t do this!

Whether emotionally or otherwise, Dayao was his home in this world.

As for reason, Ren Baqian still felt that his request was reasonable. Unfortunately, the other party probably wouldn’t want to reason with him.

Forget it. Returning to the original state it shall be.

Fortunately, he managed to gain two things. He knew who the masterminds were and had managed to stay alive.

These were the most important.

As for the Temple of Heaven, it wasn’t essential to Ren Baqian.

Although their strength was indeed tyrannical and although they truly needed such tyrannical experts, they definitely would be able to go further after they had gotten out of Tianjing Basin.

However, as Ren Baqian had mentioned before, with little control over a force that possessed such great strength, they wouldn’t hold much value to him.

The disadvantages could even outweigh the advantages.

The stronger they were, the more troublesome they would be in the future.

At the thought of this, Ren Baqian’s plan to control these people faded.

If possible, it would be a good choice to blow these people up with a nuclear bomb. With these people no longer around, there would be less trouble,

Unfortunately, eight of the sub-temple chiefs and deputy chiefs weren’t here. Blowing these people up now would cause the remaining forces to fight back wildly.

Moreover, the cooldown period of his teleportation wasn’t over yet.

Ren Baqian opened his eyes and said softly to the people, “Consider it yourselves. Of course, you can also continue to hide here and wait for the glorious day of the human race to arrive.”

This was another opportunity that he gave them before he fell silent again.

With the skills of these people and the forces behind them, it would be difficult for the empress to find them.

After Ren Baqian finished his sentence, he took the sleeping Caucasian, jumped off the shoulder of the statue, and walked out of the hall without looking back.

He believed that these people wouldn’t do anything.

His vision then went black.

“Temple chief, we can’t touch this person.” Zong Shang sat on the statue with a faint smile. “Even for the human race.”

“For the time being, we can’t let him leave.” The old lady leaped to the statue where Ren Baqian sat earlier, reached out, and opened the box, which was slightly larger than the size of a man. Apart from the radio station, there was also a metal box. She had no idea what it contained.

“What do you plan to do with him, Temple Chief?” Zong Shang asked again.

“Although this person came from the outside world and is very important to us, he is too arrogant and doesn’t show the Temple of Heaven any respect. Let’s first keep him for a few days while we decide how to deal with him.”

“If we are only going to keep him for a few days, he will definitely have a way to leave after he wakes up,” Zong Shang replied.

Although the old lady remained silent, she felt extremely carefree.

Ren Baqian was initially quite troublesome, but now, he had brought about his own destruction. Anyone who dared to agree with his conditions would be a traitor to the Temple of Heaven.

In recent years, Zong Shang had been forcing her toward abdication. Now, this incident was a good thing for her because she would be able to gather the support of the originally neutral Xu Wuming and others.

With a stomp of her foot, the radio station and the metal box flew out.

The old lady opened the metal box and found a heavy cylinder that was about half the height of a man. It seemed as if the exterior was entirely made of metal, but she didn’t know what it was used for.

She took the cylinder and the radio station, went back to the top of her statue, and repeated herself, “It’s impossible for us to agree to his request. A murderer must pay with his life? What a joke. Although this man came from the outside world, he isn’t without weakness. Qi Zixiao is his weakness.

Lock him up for a few days first and don’t allow him to wake up. Inform all the sub-temple chiefs to come back for a meeting.”

“Temple Chief, I’m very interested in this person. How about leaving him with me? Under my watch, you would probably feel at ease, right?” Zong Shang suddenly said.

The old lady’s eyes flickered. She originally wanted to keep Ren Baqian by her side to see why the soul worm didn’t work on him. She could sense that the soul worm was still alive.

However, since Zong Shang had spoken, she found it hard to reject him. If he made any mistakes, it would provide her with a reason not to abdicate.

“This person is very important. Please do not make any mistakes.” She nodded.

“Of course!” Zong Shang smiled.

“That’s all for today.”

Everyone got up without a word and vanished from the hall.

They also had to think about where to go in the future.

Many people were also sighing in their hearts. Ren Baqian’s words originally made them feel quite excited, but unfortunately, he made a request that was unacceptable. The situation in the future would be a little more unpredictable now and would indeed require some time to judge.

Xu Wuming took a close look at him before leaving silently.

It wasn’t until Zong Shang took Ren Baqian and the Caucasian away that the old lady groaned softly and sat down with her eyes closed.

An hour later, the stone statue underneath her suddenly moved and shifted a few meters to the side, exposing a dark tunnel.

After she walked into the tunnel, the statue returned to its original position.

After walking hundreds of steps down the tunnel, the old lady came to a small room. There were two long-lasting oil lamps on the wall and a chair and a table in the room. Apart from that, the most eye-catching objects were five crystal coffins at the side.

An elder lay in each of the coffins, and they were fully submerged in blue liquid, including even their noses and mouths.

Taking a closer look at those people, they looked quite similar to the chief of the Temple of Heaven.

The old lady stood in front of the coffin closest to the door, took a bell from the wall, and rang it. The crisp sound of the bell seemed to have some mysterious penetrating power, and it sounded as if it came from far away.

The elder in the last coffin suddenly opened her eyes, golden light shot through her eyes, and it radiated through the blue liquid, turning it green.

If Ren Baqian saw this, he would definitely say that it was green and shiny!