Chapter 1514 - 574: She Also Has Cauldron Breath?
"Speak up, is the issue of the Soul-breaking Elixir related to you?"
"Liu Li, let go of me first, how could I ever contend with you, but I know something, perhaps related to the Soul-breaking Elixir."
Yi Qianyu felt a spiritual power of considerable pressure sweeping over, his body and organs felt as if they had been severely hit.
He was secretly anxious, never expected that although Dongfang Liuli looked delicate, her spiritual power was so terrifying.
At that time, Di Shen effortlessly subdued her, just what kind of strength did Di Shen possess...
Yi Qianyu dared not think further, as the constraints on his body relaxed, his breathing resumed freely.
"I heard that recently someone in the city has been secretly selling demon beast meat. Some people who usually buy Soul-breaking Elixir have turned to buying demon beast meat. The price of that demon beast meat is also cheap, only twenty merit points; one of my subordinates, his friend bought a portion of that demon beast meat."
Yi Qianyu only learned of this matter this morning, he rushed to report it to Dongfang Liuli immediately to curry favor.
After Yi Qianyu finished speaking, he thought Dongfang Liuli would be moved, but who knew that when Dongfang Liuli heard it was about demon beast meat, there wasn’t a trace of excitement on her face; on the contrary, there was some disdain.
Secretly selling demon beast meat is not uncommon in Qiyu City, and Dongfang Liuli had heard of it before.
But Liu Guang Pavilion had never intervened.
Consuming demon beast meat indeed could increase spiritual energy, but that’s all. It’s unlike the Soul-breaking Elixir, which can remove evil aura.
Seeing Dongfang Liuli’s indifferent expression, Yi Qianyu hurriedly took out a piece of demon beast meat.
"Don’t take my word for it, when I first heard, I thought as you did. But after I consumed that demon beast meat, I discovered something different, take a look first."
Yi Qianyu brought a piece of demon beast meat wrapped in oil paper, it seemed to be bought a few days ago.
Yet the meat remained fresh, and Dongfang Liuli just glanced at it, her eyebrows involuntarily moved.
Her fingers landed on the meat, a thread-like Qi visible only to a keen eye entered into the piece of demon beast meat.
Upon checking, Dongfang Liuli’s delicate body trembled slightly.
How is it possible!
How could there be Cauldron Breath within this meat!
There’s no mistake, though it’s faint, that Cauldron Breath has a similar effect to the one in her body.
Seeing Dongfang Liuli’s expression finally change, Yi Qianyu was incredibly proud.
"Liu Li, now you should believe me. If this cheap demon beast meat circulates on a large scale in Qiyu City, the situation of Liu Guang Pavilion will become even more difficult. If you are willing, I can handle this for you, investigate the matter, and bring the black-hearted merchant selling demon beast meat before you."
Yi Qianyu was willing to do anything to win the beauty’s heart.
Fool!
Dongfang Liuli sneered inwardly with extreme disdain for Yi Qianyu.
Not even knowing he’s poisoned by Soul-breaking Elixir, and yet he wishes to defeat the Tang City Team.
In this respect, Tang Tiansong is much better than Yi Qianyu.
However, Yi Qianyu still has some value to be exploited.
Dongfang Liuli had been able to control Qiyu City secretly for so long, not without the contributions of a lackey like Yi Qianyu.
Fine, she would bear with this fool for a while longer.
Once her senior brother returns, she can withdraw from Qiyu City, accompanying him to the Central Plains.
Di Shen is waiting for her in the Central Plains after all.
Without changing her expression, Dongfang Liuli instead curled her lips into a captivating smile.
"Yi Qianyu, it isn’t appropriate for Liu Guang Pavilion to intervene directly in this matter, so I’d trouble you to investigate. If you can catch the black-hearted merchant behind this, I’ll reward you generously."
Her melodious voice was so intoxicating that Yi Qianyu readily agreed, immediately setting out to find the whereabouts of the black-hearted merchant.
As soon as Yi Qianyu left, Dongfang Liuli’s expression grew solemn.
She dismissed the managers and proceeded to the topmost floor of Liu Guang Pavilion.
The eastern side of Liu Guang Pavilion’s top floor only ever received distinguished guests.
But hidden on the western side of Liu Guang Pavilion, the secret was known only to Dongfang Liuli, as she held the only key.
Dongfang Liuli entered the room on the western side, and upon opening it, the setup was enough to amaze any Liu Guang Pavilion customer.
Because in that room, there was a large array of Spiritual Artifacts on display.
Among them, hanging on the wall was a longsword, actually a Demigod-stage Spiritual Artifact.
Dongfang Liuli approached that Demigod Artifact Spirit Sword, playing with its sword tassel.
A creaking sound was heard below Dongfang Liuli’s feet, and a perfectly good tile suddenly sank, leading straight to the underground.
In fact, a basement of no less than two thousand square feet was hidden within Liu Guang Pavilion.
The existence of this basement was unknown even to Liu Guang Pavilion’s managers.
It was a large basement, and according to its functionality, it was divided into an Alchemy Room and an Artifact Refining Workshop.
In between the Elixir Room and the Artifact Refining Workshop, there were rows of cages.
The number of cages surprisingly reached fifty or sixty, each cage was several feet tall and several feet wide, each cage had corresponding papers attached to them, marked with durations ranging from one month to twenty-four months.
The cages were made of special materials, each bar of the cages was as thick as an adult’s arm.
Those bars weren’t made of ordinary ore iron but instead shimmered with the light of talismans, they were made of Talisman Iron.
A kind of reinforced iron that could only be refined by Alchemists of at least the Nine Rank or Fang Venerate Level.
Cages made of such Talisman Iron, even Heaven Rank Spiritual Artifacts could hardly cut through them, they were capable of imprisoning practitioners at the Divine Power Realm level.
And within those cages, were imprisoned demon hunters.
Among them, most were unrecognizable as human.
Some were in tattered clothes, covered in scars, some had already fallen to all fours, like demon beasts, eyes bloodshot.
"How’s the experiment progressing?"
Dongfang Liuli stood before the cage of one of the demon hunters.
"Lord Dongfang, they’ve just been fed the Soul-breaking Elixir. It’s been confirmed that after consuming the Soul-breaking Elixir for about a year, they become unable to shake off the addiction, lose their minds, and fully become our puppets." A nearby Alchemist promptly replied.
"Twelve months, that’s too long, increase the dosage of the Heart Execution Grass. My senior brother will return soon, we must enter the core region of Central Plains at the latest in two months. By then, these people will be put to use."
Dongfang Liuli’s face was expressionless.
"But my lord, once the Heart Execution Grass is cultivated and refined into Soul-breaking Elixirs, the efficacy greatly increases. If consumed too much at once, it might lead to the body being overwhelmed, causing organ failure and death."
The alchemist in charge of the experiment said cautiously.
"And what of it if a few die, weren’t these people always saying they’d brave burning fires and boiling caldrons for me?"
Dongfang Liuli said, her jade fingers, like green bamboo shoots, lifting a demon hunter’s chin through the cage bars.
Who would have thought that these demon hunters imprisoned in cages like beasts were once Dongfang Liuli’s admirers and suitors.