The gorgeous woman in black cheongsam walked forward from Wu Long’s side revealing an enchanting back that was not covered by fabric almost to her round and appetizing buttocks that were swaying from side to side in the tight-fitting hip part of the clothes.
She took the smoking pipe from the attendant, who stood up from the throne politely offering it to her with both hands, and gracefully sat down in her stead. Her alluring slender and long left leg with a high heel went up, opening up the long slit on the side of her long open-back cheongsam, and crossed over her right leg while her back slightly reclined at an angle to the back cushion of the throne creating a mind-stirring twist of her slender waist. She placed her left elbow on the armrest, letting her lower arm and hand hang freely in front of her alluring ample chest wrapped in luxurious fabric and her right hand held the long and thin smoking pipe, which metal parts were golden and the shaft was made of lacquered black wood. As her body was slightly at an angle and reclined she was looking slightly to the side so she turned her face to Wu Long, creating a mesmerizing profile.
The men who escorted Wu Long were visibly perturbed that the situation was not as under control as it normally would be, and were even more alert than before, but she was completely calm and even looked slightly entertained.
“What gave it away?”
“Illusions generally don’t work in front of me so I saw the real you from the moment we met, but even if they were working properly, your apprentice’s technique is still lacking, and she forgot to apply herbal aroma to her body in the illusion, thus the pipe in her hand felt out of place”
Madam Liang’s eyes slightly shined with appreciation as the attendant whose status got exposed as Madam Liang’s apprentice first looked even more shocked and then vexed at her mistake.
“Menxi, make sure to remember this lesson. You may all go”
“Yes, Madam Liang”
Wu Long and Madam Liang looked each other straight in the eyes while her apprentice went out of the room along with all of the guards that escorted him here. Wu Long noted that she sent everyone out to not let any harm come to them should this situation escalate.
“So, what may the person who apparently single-handedly or close to that wiped out the Supreme Master Pavilion want with our humble organization?”
“You are being too polite, humble organizations do not have such beautiful leaders”
“Haha, I will take that as a compliment. Oh! Pardon my manners, my name is Liang Yuhan, you may call me Madam Liang as most people do but for someone as handsome as you I may make an exception and let you call me Big Sister Yuhan”
She smiled playfully at him.
“Wu Long”
Wu Long chuckled at her invitation to call her “Big Sister” and introduced himself in return.
“…I think I may have exaggerated how humble our organization is, we do have at least the competence to know your name, otherwise we would have been out on the streets long ago”
After a slight surprised pause she chuckled.
“I know, but I wanted to tell it to you myself”
Liang Yuhan opened her eyes wide when she saw his charming smile and then laughed out loud.
“Hahahaha, you are an interesting fellow, aren’t you?”
“I will take that as a compliment”
“So, how may we help you?”
“Information”
“That much is apparent, but I am afraid the information you want is not something I can sell to you”
“Even with much wealth?”
“To use wealth you need to be alive”
“Wise, but not in line with your industry’s behavior”
“That would be true if the information was simply sensitive, but by selling it I will become enemies with your enemies, and being enemies with them is bad for business”
As they talked Madam Liang took a deep pull on the smoking pipe and a thin line of herbal smoke escaped her lips in a long straight line. This was a special mix of herbs that some practitioners used as a cultivation catalyst. And the pipe was actually a spiritual treasure. Such pipes could be used to even smoke medicinal pills instead of digesting them. If used in such a manner, the medicinal effect would be absorbed very gradually, thus being not as intense, so a practitioner could accumulate it very slowly over a long period of time and then use it in their next cultivation session.
“…I see, then how about the Clear River Pavilion?” 𝐞𝗼𝘃𝐞𝐥．𝗰𝐨𝗺
“…it seems you plan to interfere in many plans of those people, not just the ones you already ruined… you really are a madman”
“Heh, it seems so”
Wu Long was not surprised that the hands that were moving the whole continent would be behind most plots he would encounter, instead, he would be somewhat intrigued if he discovered a scheme that was unrelated to them since their plans were meticulous and spanned hundreds of years they would most likely remove any schemes of other people as it would be seen as an unnecessary unpredictable variable.
“However selling that information is not strictly going against them, or at least is not crossing the red line of selling information specifically about them, so I might help you…but before that… you must tell me how you knew this was our headquarters.
Only the most powerful and influential people in the three continents know this, while most of the world thinks all our locations are those bureau branches that we run everywhere while treating this place as just a slightly larger brothel in a relatively large city in the middle of an unimportant kingdom no one gives a damn about”
“That’s quite harsh to the Jurong Kingdom”
“Hah! If the Azure Eagle Empire cared even a tiny speck about it, this place wouldn’t degenerate into a den of thieves, bandits, and completely corrupt officials with a corrupt royal family ruling this pile of stinking garbage. The only reason I tolerate it all is since they know their place and don’t touch me or my business, now, will you answer my question?”
She openly laughed at his politeness to what she considered a garbage dump and asked in a sweet voice.
“There is not much I can tell you except that I see a little more than is on the surface. Same as I saw through your disguise”
Madam Liang looked at Wu Long straight in the eyes. Her gaze was piercing, while her expression was still that of an amiable discussion.
“Oh come on, tell this big sister, and who knows? I might even reward you”
As she said this she switched her legs as her left leg went down and her right leg was now crossing over it. This movement made her chest slightly bounce.
“Heh, while that does sound tempting I really have nothing to tell you more than that”
He said while chuckling. At this time she lightly cleaned the smoking pipe of ashes, and after placing a new herbal ball lit it up, taking a few puffs.
“Then how about telling me a little more about yourself?”
“Hmm~ I might consider it if we become more intimate with each other”
“…Hahahaha, oh my~ how bold”
She slightly widened her eyes but then laughed, brushing it off. She stood up and went up to him, placing her left hand on his chest and approaching his face with hers, looking with her dark green eyes into his.
“Come on, handsome, tell this Big Sis a little more about you, will you?”
“I must warn you that charm arts are as useless as illusion arts in front of me, and Pink Dream Flower is not something that can shake me either”
Wu Long smiled as he detected subtle waves of Spiritual Qi mixed with Soul Power coming from her, as well as a change in the smell of the herbs her pipe was emitting.
“Che, you are no fun~”
She made a pretend sullen face and went back to her seat, letting him see the bewitching view from behind again.
She knew that Wu Long was extremely dangerous, and suspected even more danger that was not seen, but she was not afraid of him since she did not detect hostility.
Her greatest strength lay in illusion arts and charm arts which seemed like a joke in front of him, and her combat prowess without them was much lower.
Illusion masters were actually very dangerous and elusive since not everyone used pupil arts. And even those who did were not always safe as there were many illusion techniques, some of them extremely powerful and profound. Wu Long’s Chaos Origin Eyes were just that unique and potent.
She was trying to figure out if she could press him for more information, but she did not want to risk turning him into an enemy when there was no benefit. Besides she had suspicions, and if true, making an enemy of him would be a disaster even she cannot afford.