The city lord’s mansion of Gǔdào Xiān Gé was like the imperial city of a dynasty.
To ensure that no unauthorized personnel entered and disturbed the cultivation of the strong, Gǔdào Xiān Gé would recruit martial artists to serve as guards.
The city lord’s mansion housed numerous powerful individuals, even beings of immortal or divine realms.
Because of this, few dared to barge into the city lord’s mansion to cause trouble.
The guards of the city lord’s mansion were more like decorations.
As this job was not dangerous, the salary was not high.
In addition to the low salary, the guards were also not allowed to leave the city lord’s mansion at will.
Apart from those who had resigned themselves to fate and had no desire to strive, few were willing to serve as guards in the city lord’s mansion.
To easily retrieve the immortal treasure, Ā Xiāng had not designed overly complex defenses.
As long as she could get close to the immortal treasure, she would succeed.
Seven days later, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng accepted the guard duty for the city lord’s mansion together.
This mission was for five years, during which neither of them was allowed to leave the city lord’s mansion.
Old Ancestor Bǎilǐ and Lord Lóng did not accept this mission; they would use these five years to consolidate their strength.
It was not that these two did not want to act, but that this matter did not require too many people to participate.
The fewer people, the safer it was.
On this day, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng arrived at the city lord’s mansion together.
After registering, they were assigned to the same patrol team.
In a corner of the city lord’s mansion, there were two courtyards.
This was the resting area for the guards.
Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng registered as a couple, so they were given a more spacious room.
That night, under the leadership of the captain, they began their patrol.
The captain was an elder in the Immortal Venerable realm. This person had likely suffered some injury and had no hope of further advancement in this life, which was why he served as the captain of the guards here.
Within the city lord’s mansion, apart from the ancestors of Gǔdào Xiān Gé, no one was allowed to scan with their spiritual sense.
Because of this, everyone had to rely on their eyesight for patrols, just like mortals.
Passing by the back garden of the city lord’s mansion, Ā Xiāng looked at the rockery in the center of the artificial lake.
“My immortal treasure is in the crevice at the bottom of the rockery.”
“The immortals and gods of Gǔdào Xiān Gé are all in the city lord’s mansion, so it is not suitable to act now.”
“As far as I know, they will attend a gathering in two years.”
“Once the immortal and divine realm experts leave, we will have an opportunity to get close,” Ā Xiāng transmitted her thoughts to Qín Hàn Chū.
“Then we will wait for the opportunity.”
Chatting secretly, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng walked in their team along a fixed route.
The entire city lord’s mansion had over five hundred guards.
These guards changed shifts every seven days.
As long as it was not their turn to be on duty, they were forbidden from leaving their resting place.
Even during patrols, they could not leave the team.
This meant that even if the immortals and gods left, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng were not without pressure.
Although the opportunity had not yet arrived, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng were repeatedly planning.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
The opportunity Ā Xiāng mentioned finally arrived.
On this day, the three immortal and divine realm experts who had been guarding the city lord’s mansion left together.
At this time, the strongest in the city lord’s mansion were only a few Immortal Saints.
These Immortal Saints were not qualified to monitor the city lord’s mansion with their spiritual sense, so this period was the best time for Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng.
At night, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng were cultivating in their room.
They only opened their eyes late into the night.
Since it wasn’t their patrol time, they could only sneak out in the dead of night.
Over the past two years, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng had already figured out the patrol patterns.
Under the moonlight, their steps were unhurried.
They had timed it perfectly.
Whenever a patrol team left, they would appear and move.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at the artificial lake.
The two entered the lake together and then dived towards the location of the immortal treasure.
A moment later, Ā Xiāng reached the bottom of the rockery.
There was a fist-sized crevice here.
Ā Xiāng reached her hand into it.
When Ā Xiāng withdrew her hand, a water-white bracelet appeared before Qín Hàn Chū’s eyes.
This bracelet showed no fluctuations of elemental laws, clearly having been sealed.
It was precisely because there were no fluctuations of elemental power that no one had discovered it.
“Easily obtained, let’s go,” Ā Xiāng transmitted.
Qín Hàn Chū nodded, and the two floated towards the surface together.
“Wait two minutes.”
Qín Hàn Chū had been calculating the time.
At this time, a patrol team should be passing by.
Two minutes later, Qín Hàn Chū emerged from the water with Ā Xiāng.
Timing it carefully, they returned along the original path.
“Someone’s here.”
Everything had been normal, but at this moment, Qín Hàn Chū stopped.
Ā Xiāng followed Qín Hàn Chū’s gaze and saw a figure walking in the shadows.
This person was clearly not a guard of the city lord’s mansion; they were likely another individual with ulterior motives.
If Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng had been on patrol, they would have taken the opportunity to cause chaos in the city lord’s mansion.
But the two of them now remained silent.
After the person left, the two quickly returned to their resting courtyard.
As soon as they entered the courtyard, a flame shot up into the sky.
With a bang, the flame exploded.
“He’s been discovered.”
The flame that shot into the sky was the signal for the guard team.
As the flame exploded, Qín Hàn Chū’s teammates leaped out of their rooms one after another.
“Suspicious individual, go apprehend them.”
Under the captain’s command, Qín Hàn Chū and the others immediately rushed out of the courtyard.
Fortunately, they had returned. If they had been a minute later, their absence from the resting area would have been exposed.
Once discovered, they would certainly have been regarded as accomplices of the intruder.
Boom!
Not long after Qín Hàn Chū and the others rushed out of the courtyard, the sounds of battle could be heard from a distance.
Immediately afterward, sounds of battle also came from several other directions.
“More than one!”
Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng frowned.
They had thought there was only one thief, but it turned out to be otherwise.
Rumble!
At this moment, a terrifying wave of power struck.
This wave of power was from an immortal or divine realm expert.
The immortals and gods of Gǔdào Xiān Gé had already left. Where did this immortal or god come from?
“Moon Lang Immortal Pavilion, how dare you cause trouble in my Gǔdào City.”
A roar echoed through the city lord’s mansion.
Sensing waves of Immortal Saint realm auras spreading out.
“Kill!”
With an order from the immortal and divine realm expert, hundreds of people rushed in from all around the city lord’s mansion.
“Did the enemy forces attack the main base?” Qín Hàn Chū asked in surprise.
“It seems so.”
“Let’s be careful. If we can’t win, we’ll slip away.”
The oath they had taken at the time only stated that they would not do anything detrimental to Gǔdào Xiān Gé, but it did not forbid them from deserting.
With an immortal or divine realm expert on the other side, who would go to their deaths in such a situation?
Under the leadership of the captain, Qín Hàn Chū and the others began fighting against the people of Moon Lang Immortal Pavilion.
Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng’s opponents were two Immortal King realm martial artists, so the two of them were not in a hurry to escape.
Although they had the strength to defeat their opponents, Qín Hàn Chū and Ā Xiāng were holding back.
As long as they were fighting, they were contributing to Gǔdào Xiān Gé.
While fighting their opponents, Qín Hàn Chū was also chatting with Ā Xiāng: “These people cannot possibly conquer Gǔdào City. They must also be after something.”