Chapter 204 Unexpected Savior

Chapter 204 Unexpected Savior

The room was quiet for some time, and then, a few female attendants came, serving wine and refreshments, and quickly left as the main character of the evening arrived in the room.

Gong Liwei was in a gorgeous dress that accentuated her curvaceous figure, a little different from the one she was in on the stage before since this one was easier to take off. Her green eyes looking at Wu Long were filled with a tumultuous mix of fear, dejection, scorn towards the man who bought her maidenhood, unwillingness, helplessness, and despair.

She was in Qi Manifestation Realm, same as Wu Long, and even if she could, in her opinion, overpower him, she could not do anything about the people outside. Various thoughts went through her head, but none of them gave her an answer with a good outcome for herself.

"Please have a seat"

Wu Long pointed to a seat opposite of him and casually poured a wine cup for himself. Gong Liwei's eyes flashed with hesitation and a small reaction that Wu Long did not miss but only smiled at.

"The poison will not be of any use to me"

Wu Long said with a smile and astonishment went through her eyes. She hesitated since she ultimately did not want to harm someone she did not even know, compassion ran through her mind in a split second, but it was also true that he was a person who bought her virginity, and was about to claim his prize.

"H-how did you know?"

"I know quite a bit about poisons"

"Then... why are you drinking it?"

"Because it is good wine, the poison is tasteless so it does not spoil the taste, as well as because they are watching me do it from the opposite building"

Wu Long said while he leisurely sipped the wine. Though the opposite building was not as tall, Wu Long sat not far from the big window, and thus his position was observable from a room with wooden window shutters on the top floors.

He was now in the Qi Manifestation Realm, and could finally utilize the 3rd layer of the Battle Cultivation Scripture, which allowed the user to passively cultivate, albeit with a minuscule efficiency, while doing other activities. Thus a user could potentially cultivate while eating, walking around, or even fighting. The downturn of such cultivation was that even with superior cultivation techniques, the efficiency was almost negligible, but with Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art, Wu Long could now refine poison as he ingested it, so they effectively were giving him cultivation resources with which he could temper his body. He could even refine injuries, though very slowly, while actively participating in battle.

"But then why are you telling me this, are they not listening in?"

"I have blocked the sound with a formation"

Wu Long shrugged his shoulders and Gong Liwei finally started to understand that she was not before a simply lecherous man who thought of women as commodities, but someone with much more to discover. Although her opinion of him did not improve much from this revelation, she was at least a little interested in what he wanted to talk about so she slowly nodded and sat opposite of him.

"Did you want the poison to work so you could run to your prince?"

"..."

Her eyes widened at his question, but she then lowered her head and nodded.

"Is it that bad that I do not want to become a plaything of men who buy my body like it is a piece of furniture?"

She asked with some scorn in her voice, but also helplessness, since the more Wu Long seemed knowledgeable and mysterious, the slimmer her chances of getting out of this with her maidenhood intact got.

"Hmm, if he was actually trying to help you I would not interfere, but you know better than I do that he is not, since it was from your slight murderous intent that I understood the plot of his assassination"

Gong Liwei froze and a shiver ran through her as she dreaded the fate that would follow this revelation.

"That son of a bitch deserves death! Yes! I wanted to kill him for what he did, so what? He actually dared to play the hero who could save me when he was the one who put me in this hell all along!"

Her rather meek demeanor then completely changed as she tore off the mask of pretense.

"You see, that's why I interfered, if you succeeded, your life would be forfeit along with all of your family whom you obviously love enough to agree to be brought here for them. And if you did not succeed, your fates would not be much different"

Wu Long was still calmly seeping the wine, both enjoying the taste and the benefits he got from the poison as she was processing his words.

"Love? They lived lavishly until they ran us into debt, and even after losing most of their businesses they still continued to spend as much as when everything was good. And when the debts accumulated, they just sent me off like a doll"

She said with anger burning in her eyes.

"Hm? Then why did you agree? They could not legally send you against your wishes"

Wu Long raised his eyebrows as he did not expect that his assumption about her relationship with her family was completely off.

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"I am just curious, you do not have to answer me for now"

Wu Long said with a chuckle when he saw the suspicion and caution in her eyes.

"Anyway, you can relax, at least as far as it is possible in your situation, as I do not intend to take you to bed just because I won that bid, though I must say that you have ruined my plan, since now I must go against people I was planning to hire"

He said while chuckling, as he truly did not expect to run into such a situation when he approached the establishment. He was looking to make a big purchase and then purchase what information he needed from the owner, but his plans were completely thrown off by her appearance, as he saw the situation that was going to play out.

"Haa~ so much for information gathering, well, I will at least get what I can when I thrash this place I guess"

He said as he truly wished that he could still persuade Old Yen to do business with him by showing his financial abilities, but alas the poisoned wine told him that the negotiations were off and they wanted to proceed with the plan they had for the prince.

Gong Liwei looked at him with round eyes as his words slowly seeped into her, since they were too shocking to think he was speaking seriously, but coupled with his expression and no signs of joking, she finally understood that he was really going to go against the people of this establishment.

"There is a Foundation Building Realm expert among them..."

"I know"

"It is madness!"

"You are the one telling me about rash actions?"

He chuckled, as her intention of killing the prince of the Empire was a lot worse than his intention of fighting against a crime organization. She looked at him for some time, not being able to refute his words.

"Anyway, they should expect the poison to start working about now..."

Just as Wu Long said, he noticed through a window a woman, remarkably resembling Gong Liwei but a bit younger, around Luo Mingyu's age, come in front of the gates of the building and take out a beautiful zither, setting it in front of her.

"Hm? Is that..."

"Cui'er? What is she..."

As Wu Long was intrigued, Gong Liwei followed his gaze and shock appeared on her face as she started talking, but then a sound of a string being pulled on the zither clearly rang, and a destructive wave went forth toward the building.

The young men in front of the building who were trying to get customers to go in instantly turned cold-faced as they sprang into action with weapons appearing in their hands, but were blown away by the Sound Technique used by the young maiden. The wave blew the gates and everything in its way as it traveled toward the building with an earsplitting roar of destruction.

Wu Long sprang into action as he took Gong Liwei and evaded to the back of the room, away from the window.

The sound wave blew up the side of the building, exposing the rooms within and partially destroying the floors or ceilings of rooms closest to the front side.

Gong Liwei, did not even react to being held in Wu Long's arms as she teared up and looked at the maiden.

"...she came to save me..."

"That is quite questionable, considering she almost blew you away"

Wu Long chuckled as he was somewhat dumbfounded by the actions of the young maiden. As he assumed that these two were sisters, he also noted that maybe rashness in decisions and recklessness was what they had in common.