novelraw Chapter 318 : Quan Yu
Chapter 318 : Quan Yu
The moment the formation broke open, the person imprisoned within collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut. She hurried forward to support him, instinctively wanting to check his breath to confirm if he was still alive.
However, an ice-cold hand suddenly gripped hers, and a cool, hoarse voice came to her ear,
"Who... are you?"
She looked up and met the eyes that had suddenly opened. In that instant, those eyes revealed undisguised sharpness and scrutiny. Chu Sang secretly breathed a sigh of relief; at least he wasn't a useless dead person.
The person was still alive, so this trip wasn't in vain.
Her eyes curved, and a smile tugged at her lips as she said lightly, "Then who are you? What great trouble did you cause? How did you end up imprisoned in the Quan family's restricted area?"
The person's face was covered with a silver-white mask, perhaps put on by the Quan family in advance. They seemed very reluctant to let anyone know their true identity, though this identity was already quite obvious to Chu Sang. But she didn't want to have rescued an impostor, so it was better to confirm the identity anyway.
Her other hand gripped his chin, quickly removing his mask. He didn't resist, whether out of surprise or indifference.
Seeing the man's face clearly, Chu Sang's pupils trembled slightly. This person looked... almost identical to that Quan family's Second Young Master, Quan Yi. For a moment, she thought she had encountered that scoundrel again and almost couldn't resist lashing out. But on second thought, it didn't make sense; that Second Young Master held a high position in the Quan family and couldn't possibly be imprisoned in a dungeon.
The face was nearly identical, but the expression and the feeling he gave off were completely different. The person before her, with his disheveled long black hair and the frost gradually fading from his eyes, told Chu Sang that beneath the same appearance were two completely different people.
"You're not the Quan family's Second Young Master, Quan Yi, are you?"
The other person stared at her for a long time, seemingly not expecting anyone to be bold enough to dare infiltrate the Quan family's restricted area alone. After a moment of silence, he said in a low voice, "...I am Quan Yu."
"The Quan family's eldest young master, Quan Yu? How did you end up imprisoned here?" She had actually guessed correctly.
The Quan family's two young masters were actually twins.
Chu Sang was somewhat surprised. This was information she hadn't gathered. The outside world knew very little about the true situation within the Quan family, most of it being neighborhood rumors. Information about this eldest young master was particularly scarce, as if the Quan family had no such person at all.
"Why have you come here?"
Quan Yu didn't answer but asked in return, his tone sounding less like a first meeting and more like old friends reuniting, which Chu Sang found strange. Her mind went blank for a moment, forgetting what she was going to ask next. He released her wrist and suddenly said, "Now that you know my identity, shouldn't you tell me your true identity as well?"
Exposed so quickly, Chu Sang touched the human skin mask on her face. Had that old fool, the Sima family head, given her a fake? But she didn't feel embarrassed about being exposed. After all, she would have to reveal her true face to this Quan family eldest young master sooner or later. She calmly tore off the human skin mask on her face and said, "Pleased to meet you."
He looked at her for a long moment, then smiled and said, "Long time no see."
This strange tone made Chu Sang even more confused, but she didn't pay much attention to it at the moment. She raised an eyebrow and asked, "How did you recognize that I was using a human skin mask?"
"I'm an artifact forger. I've dabbled in human skin masks on the market in my early years, so naturally, I can see flaws better than ordinary people. The attire you're wearing is the uniform of the clan's guards, who are strictly ordered never to enter the restricted area. Moreover..." He paused, lowering his gaze to the sword at her waist, "This Mystic Spirit Sword was forged by me for my coming-of-age ceremony. It's the first peerless divine artifact I forged in my life. I wouldn't mistake it."
Mystic Spirit also excitedly emerged, overjoyed to see its original forger.
It looked just like seeing its own father.
Chu Sang glanced at Mystic Spirit, this disloyal thing, then looked at the eldest young master she had just rescued, suddenly understanding why Mystic Spirit's personality and appearance didn't take after her at all. So its real father was here.
Quan Yu took the Mystic Spirit Sword and looked at it with some nostalgia. This sword had passed through the long river of time for ten thousand years, changing hands many times and undergoing multiple forgings. Its appearance was no longer the same as its initial form, but the deity Mystic Spirit felt most familiar with was still the one who truly created it in the beginning.
"This sword was forged by me during my coming-of-age ceremony and thrown into the lower realm... It has found the master it should truly follow, not disappointing the effort I poured into it back then."
Chu Sang took back the Mystic Spirit Sword he handed to her, blinking and rarely pondering her own poor interpersonal relationships. Was... he referring to her? This person seemed to have quite a high opinion of her, but wasn't his attitude towards her a bit too strange? It didn't seem like that of a stranger they had just met, but more like an old friend reuniting after a long separation.
She opened her mouth, about to ask something more, when suddenly chaotic footsteps came from outside the restricted area. Without thinking, she knew that those people had discovered that the formation of the restricted area had been destroyed—someone had broken in.
If they didn't run now, the pursuers would catch up soon.
Quan Yu glanced towards the entrance of the restricted area, frowning slightly, his eyes showing a hint of coolness. Then he turned to look at her again, "You should go. I can hold them off. After all, I'm a member of the Quan family; they won't do anything to me."
"No, you have to come with me." Chu Sang reached out to grab him, her other hand producing several talismans, aimed at the direction of the entrance.
She had come specifically to take him away; how could she possibly let him go? Keeping him with her, she had other uses for him.
Surprise flowed through Quan Yu's eyes, seemingly not expecting that she had come specifically to take him away. He didn't say anything more, quietly watching her break through the siege. The super version 4.0 explosion talisman that Chu Sang had specially improved to deal with Upper Realm deities finally had its chance to shine, displaying its divine might. As the crowd rushed into the entrance, nearly a hundred explosion talismans were thrown out like scatter blossoms.
"Boom!"
In an instant, it could be described as heaven-shaking and earth-shattering without exaggeration. The entire restricted area shook, threatening to collapse, with large pieces of rubble falling, as if it might cave in at any moment.
She directly blasted a new exit in the restricted area, attached an invisibility talisman to each of them, and rushed out in the chaos.
The formation outside the restricted area had been reinforced; the Quan family acted fast indeed. Breaking a new formation wasn't actually difficult for her, but it would require some time to reason through it first. Quan Yu brought out a divine artifact similar to an ordinary formation-breaking awl, but with an upgraded form and appearance. The formation was broken and shattered, and she quickly led him out. But the commotion here also attracted other Quan family guards, who hurried over in this direction. Several elders of the Quan family also mobilized.
One elder brought out an incense burner. The blue smoke from the incense burner didn't move with the wind but pursued the two of them.
It had to be said that the Quan family people had some tricks up their sleeves, not at all on the same level as barging into the Sima family. These divine artifacts were ones that she, a country bumpkin, had never even seen before. The ashes from the fallen blue smoke scattered on the ground, emitting a faint light, outlining the footprints and traces of their escape. Even the invisibility talisman was ineffective.
"She can't escape far, quickly chase!"
"We absolutely can't let that little thief escape!!!"
The elders immediately led people in pursuit. Chu Sang attached several more speed talismans to herself but still couldn't shake off these pursuers. She inwardly cursed that these people were truly like maggots on bones, unrelenting until death.
They were forcing her to bring out her next move.