By this time, Cheng Xiong's guards had searched almost the entire area and were all signaling to him that they hadn't found anything.
Cheng Xiong fell into deep thought. The only thing in the entire courtyard that hadn't been searched yet was the bed in front of him.
He cupped his hands and said, "We still need to search under the bed. I hope Eleventh Master won't mind?"
Zu An frowned: "General Cheng, what do you mean by this? Do you think I don't know if there's someone under my bed?"
As a top-tier embroidered envoy, it would be laughable if they didn't have this much ability. The fact that the other party knew their capabilities and still made such a request was indeed excessive.
Cheng Xiong chuckled and said, "We didn't mean anything by it. It's just that the Eleventh Lord is quite badly injured now, and his senses are probably not as sharp as usual. We'd like to help him check on him so that he can sleep more peacefully."
Before he could even finish speaking, and without waiting for Zu An's reply, he signaled his men to search the area.
Several guards lay on the ground, lifted the cover on the edge of the bed, and began stabbing inside with their knives.
Unfortunately, after poking around for half a day, nothing was found.
Zuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it would be a miracle if they found the problem under the bed. Just then, he heard Yun Jianyue's voice transmission: "Show your anger appropriately, otherwise you will easily give yourself away."
Zu An was startled and immediately realized that if a dignified Gold Medal Embroidered Robe Envoy allowed these people to turn his house upside down without any reaction, it would only prove that he had a guilty conscience.
He snorted coldly, flicked his hand, and directly unleashed the "Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique." The guards who had just stood up felt a powerful force strike them, and they could no longer hold onto their weapons, which flew towards the bed.
Zu An flicked his wrist, twisting several longswords in his hand into a pretzel shape. He said coldly, "Using weapons in my house, didn't General Cheng teach you any manners?"
The guards were sweating profusely and hurriedly apologized.
Lian Chengxiong's pupils shrank, and he glanced awkwardly at the scrap metal on the ground. He hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "My men were too eager to catch the thief and offended Lord Eleven. Please forgive them."
His mind was in turmoil. It wasn't that he was afraid of the other party's cultivation level; the energy fluctuations the other party had just displayed weren't much higher than his. The problem was that he couldn't figure out the meaning behind the other party's move. He knew that if he were in the other party's shoes, he wouldn't be able to do that.
They couldn't even tell what elemental ability the other party possessed.
Zu An said calmly, "If you're so eager to catch the thief, then hurry up and go catch him. Why waste your time here?"
Cheng Xiong's expression changed slightly, but he quickly recovered and gestured for his men to leave: "I hope you won't take offense at my disturbance today, Lord Eleven."
Zuan remained silent with a cold expression.
Cheng Xiong found it somewhat boring and also started to leave. When he reached the door, he glanced at him and said meaningfully, "Lord Eleven's movements were vigorous and powerful; he doesn't seem to be injured."
Zuan said calmly, "Even if you're injured, what effort would it take for a dignified Gold Medal Embroidered Robe Envoy to deal with a few small fry?"
Cheng Xiong's face darkened. The other party's words had also insulted him, but he was really unsure. Each of the Gold Medal Embroidered-Robe Envoys was an extremely mysterious and powerful person, and he was not sure if he could defeat them.
He glanced reluctantly at the other person's bed. If the other person were really much weaker than him, he might have already lifted the covers to check. Unfortunately, the other person was too strong, so he had to give up the idea of lifting the covers.
He secretly comforted himself, thinking that the shape of the quilt was unlikely to be able to hide an adult, at most a child. But how could an assassin who entered the palace be a child?
Moreover, he had already sensed the presence of others in the room with his aura as soon as he entered, and he did not sense the presence of anyone else except Zu An, so he did not insist.
"Could it be that I guessed wrong?" Having gained nothing and offended a top-ranking envoy, Cheng Xiong left with his men with a gloomy face.
Zuan casually pressed the key to the door, and the gate to the courtyard closed automatically.
That's the good thing about this world. Although we can't climb the technology tree, many convenient functions from our past lives can be replaced by knowledge of spiritual cultivation.
He had just closed the door when the blanket was pulled back, and a petite figure emerged from inside.
Looking at Yun Jianyue, who looked like a little girl, Zu An couldn't help but want to pinch her cheeks; she was just too cute.
"Do you want to die?" Yun Jianyue slapped his hand away, then twisted her body a few times before gradually returning to her normal posture, transforming from an adorable little girl into a mature and elegant older sister.
Zuan couldn't help but exclaim, "Has anyone ever complimented you? You look so cute when you shrink!"
A blush flashed across Yun Jianyue's face: "You must not tell anyone what just happened, not even Hong Lei, or I will kill you!"
Zuan's expression was strange: "So you mean no one has ever seen you like this before?"
“Not really,” Yun Jianyue said with a nostalgic look. “Sometimes when I’m bored in the church, I’ll sneak out to a nearby town in this form to have some fun.”
Zuan: "???"
You're the leader of a sect, a powerful and influential one at that. Isn't this kind of mentality a bit off?
Yun Jianyue immediately realized that she seemed to have unknowingly revealed some terrible secret, and her eyes suddenly turned extremely dangerous: "You seemed to have taken the opportunity to touch me just now?"
Zu An immediately waved his hand: "Absolutely not. I'm just worried that if you hear Cheng Xiong's bastard words, you won't be able to resist jumping out to settle scores with him, and that would be troublesome."
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