Chapter 262: The Phantom Sound Box hidden inside the Mechanical City!
A ninth-rank expert, although impressive, wouldn’t be able to subdue over four hundred people.
They weren’t four hundred chickens or ducks, easily captured without resistance.
Led by Black Jade Kirin, the group entered the underground fortress.
The underground fortress was built with grandeur, truly a palace beneath the earth.
Both sides only brought down a thousand or so people.
Led by the Black Jade Kirin, the group quickly arrived at the gathering place of the Mohist Sect disciples.
Four or five hundred people were lying limply on the ground, looking as if even breathing was difficult.
Seeing the Black Jade Kirin leading a group of people in, the old man Ban instantly understood everything.
He laughed bitterly, “Ever-changing, Black Jade Kirin. No wonder… no wonder.”
After entering the underground fortress, everyone felt weak all over, and almost everyone realized they had been poisoned.
But no one could figure out how they were poisoned.
Angry glares were fixed on the Black Jade Kirin.
The strange toxin had invaded their entire bodies, leaving them too weak to even curse.
Even Li Mo had to admit that the Black Jade Kirin was indeed a formidable weapon.
Otherwise, even if they had entered the Mohist Sect’s mechanical city, it wouldn’t have been so easy to reach this underground place.
If the Mohist Sect ancestor knew that the fortress he designed to be impregnable was broken into like this, he would probably climb out of his grave in anger!
“Are you the second-in-command of the Mohist Sect, old man Ban?”
Lord Yan Chun took a step forward, looking down at old man Ban at his feet.
Old man Ban gritted his teeth, “What if I am?”
“Heh heh, still tough, huh? Quickly, tell me, where is all the Mohist Sect’s treasure?”
Only then did Lord Yan Chun reveal his true motive.
Going through all this trouble wasn’t just to impress Li Mo.
The Mohist Sect had been around for hundreds of years, they must have amassed a considerable amount of treasure.
“You want the Mohist Sect’s treasure? Let me go and I’ll tell you, how about that?”
Suddenly, a young voice came from the crowd.
“Dao Zhi, how dare you!”
“Dao Zhi, you coward!”
“If you dare say a word, I’ll haunt you even as a ghost.”
Lord Yan Chun laughed heartily, patting his bulging belly, “Good boy, a wise man knows when to adapt. Rest assured, as long as you tell me where the treasure is, I definitely…”
“Is that okay, National Advisor?”
He turned to ask Li Mo beside him.
“Lord Yan Chun, you make the decision.”
Li Mo nodded indifferently.
Lord Yan Chun felt relieved, turned back to Dao Zhi, and said, “Speak up, I promise not to kill you if you tell me.”
Dao Zhi’s eyes rolled, “Come closer, I’ll only tell you.”
Lord Yan Chun happily ran over, struggling to squat down his fat body and leaned his ear closer.
“Dao Zhi, how dare you!”
“Dao Zhi, I really misjudged you!”
“You spineless wretch, you don’t deserve to be a Mohist Sect disciple!”
Amidst the scolding, Dao Zhi slowly raised his head.
At that moment, his expression suddenly changed.
In a flash, he pulled out a dagger and slashed at Lord Yan Chun’s neck.
“Die!”
Lord Yan Chun was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
How could he be slashing at my neck again?
“Ah!”
A cold light flashed before Lord Yan Chun’s eyes.
Before Dao Zhi’s dagger could reach him, his own hand was chopped off by someone.
A large amount of blood gushed from the severed wrist, splattering hot blood all over Lord Yan Chun’s face.
“A petty trick.”
He said disdainfully. Li Mo extended his hand, retrieving the sword that chopped off Dao Zhi’s hand and returned it to the soldier behind him.
“Your Highness!”
“Kill him!”
Lord Yan Chun’s guards quickly rushed forward and pulled the stunned Lord Yan Chun back.
A few others swiftly killed Dao Zhi with a few strokes.
Only then did everyone understand Dao Zhi’s intention.
Seeing him being killed, their eyes turned red.
“We’ll fight you to the death!”
Lord Yan Chun, who had been scared stiff, finally came to his senses, instantly enraged.
He roared viciously, “Kill them all, leave no one alive!”
If Li Mo hadn’t intervened just now, he would have really met his end here.
“Let’s go.”
Li Mo turned and said to Fei Yan.
Whether the Mohist Sect people lived or died was of no concern to him.
Screams in the secret room echoed one after another as hundreds of Mohist disciples quickly died under the blades of the Yan soldiers.
Lord Yan Chun wiped the bloodstains on his face with a handkerchief, walked out with a grim expression, cursing all the while.
Seeing Li Mo, he immediately put on a different face and ran up with a smile.
“Thank you for your help just now, National Advisor.”
Li Mo waved his hand lightly and said, “It was a small effort.”
Lord Yan Chun sighed regretfully, “Ah, it’s a pity we didn’t find out where the treasure is. This dungeon is so huge, who knows how long it will take to find it.”
Li Mo curled his lips into a smile.
Pointing in a direction, he said, “If you go this way, Lord Yan Chun will find what he is looking for.”
Lord Yan Chun’s eyes lit up: “How did the National Advisor know?”
Li Mo smiled mysteriously.
“Lord Yan Chun, have you forgotten? I have agents within the Mohist Sect.”
Lord Yan Chun slapped his head: “Oh right, right, how could I forget that.”
In reality, it wasn’t the Black Jade Kirin who told him.
Black Jade Kirin only infiltrated the Mohist city of mechanisms after Six-Fingered Black Man’s death.
It was when Li Mo ordered Zhang Han to take the Mohist disciples away.
Let alone the treasure location, Li Mo knew the exact position of every single brick in this dungeon.
Seeing Li Mo standing still as he was about to lead people over, Lord Yan Chun hesitated.
“National Advisor, you’re not coming?”
Li Mo shook his head: “This dungeon is filled with mechanisms, I won’t take that risk.”
Lord Yan Chun became extremely excited upon hearing this.
If you’re not going, doesn’t that mean I get all the benefits?
“Hahaha, as they say, fortune favors the bold. If the National Advisor isn’t going, I’ll take my men over.”
Li Mo nodded with a smile: “Please, go ahead.”
Without further hesitation, Lord Yan Chun led his soldiers in the direction indicated by Li Mo.
Fei Yan looked at Li Mo with a smile and said, “This doesn’t seem like husband’s usual temperament.”
Li Mo put away his smile and asked, “Why not?”
Fei Yan’s lips curled into a charming smile as she teased, “Husband always takes all he can; why are you so kind as to hand over the Mohist treasure today?”
Li Mo coughed awkwardly under the strange gaze of Moon Goddess.
He took Fei Yan’s warm little hand and walked in another direction: “Come, I’ll take you to find something else.”
The Mohist treasure was not as vast as Lord Yan Chun imagined.
The Mohist, indeed, had been passed down for generations for hundreds of years.
But most of that money was used to build their city of mechanisms and this underground fortress.
The remaining money was not even worth Li Mo’s regard.
He was not here for gold or silver.
What he sought was the “Phantom Music Box” hidden in this dungeon!
This was the key to unraveling the mystery of the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.
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