My CEO Bai Fumei’s wife

"I know her name is Yan Mingyu, and she is my wife."

Ye Qingxue's hand stopped on the spirit tower. She paused for two breaths, then withdrew her hand without asking any further questions.

Kui Wu poked half of his bull's head out of the spirit tower. He had been guarding the entire battle inside, but hadn't landed a single punch, and was feeling incredibly frustrated.

"Boss, what's going on outside? The spirit tower was shaking just now, was it an earthquake?"

"It's not an earthquake, it's this young master undergoing tribulation."

Kui Wu's bull head was fully extended, two thick breaths spewing from his nostrils, and his bull eyes were wide open like copper bells.

"You've broken through to the next realm, boss! What realm are you at?"

"Nascent Soul".

These two words changed Kui Wu's expression from shock to something indescribable. He hadn't followed Qin Yu for very long, but he had personally witnessed this man fight his way up from the late Foundation Establishment stage to the Nascent Soul stage, at a speed that seemed as if God had opened a back door for him.

Meng Qianyun and Zhuge Chuchu also came out of the spirit tower. As soon as Meng Qianyun landed, she looked around.

"The imperial decree has been issued. All exits of Tian Shu City have been sealed off, and not only the city gates, but even the teleportation arrays have been shut down. The entire city has become a cage."

"This young master cannot be confined in a cage."

Qin Yu took out a token from Meng Hanbing's storage ring. It was a pass that only the sect leader of the Divine Path Sect possessed. It was engraved with the special mark of Martial Emperor City. With this token, one could use any secret passage in Tian Shu City.

As a sect leader recognized by Martial Emperor City, Meng Hanbing has an exclusive evacuation route in Tian Shu City. This route is not subject to the restrictions of the imperial decree sealing the city, because the person who designed this system did not expect that the sect leader's token would fall into the hands of a wanted criminal.

When Zhuge Chuchu saw the token, her glassy pupils flickered, and she scanned the surface of the token with her divine gaze technique.

"The spiritual energy imprint on the token belongs to Meng Hanbing. After she dies, the imprint will dissipate within three days, which means this token can be used for a maximum of three more days."

"Three days is enough. This young master only needs half an incense stick's time to leave the city."

Qin Yu put away the token and put everyone back into the spirit tower, leaving only himself standing in the dark alley. The Thousand Machine Veil was still on his face, but he had changed his face. This time, he was not a merchant, but a middle-aged man in his forties wearing the uniform of the Divine Path Sect.

Meng Hanbing's trusted disciple.

When he emerged from the dark alley, patrol teams from Martial Emperor City were already conducting checks on the streets. Every hundred feet, a group of cultivators in black armor were checking the identities of passersby.

The first obstacle was two hundred feet ahead, where four black-armored cultivators at the Golden Core stage blocked the way.

When Qin Yu walked over, he had already shown the sect leader token of the Divine Dao Sect. The four black-armored cultivators exchanged glances after seeing the special mark of Martial Emperor City on the token.

"Where did the people from the Shinto Sect go?"

"The sect leader told me to evacuate through the secret passage. The imperial decree has nothing to do with our Divine Path Sect."

The black-armored cultivator verified the spiritual energy imprint on the token, confirming it was indeed a special pass issued by Martial Emperor City. They had no authority to intercept such items.

"Let it go."

Qin Yu passed the first checkpoint, followed by the second and third. The procedure for each checkpoint was the same: show the token, verify the mark, and pass. Meng Hanbing's special pass was of an extremely high level in the security system of Tian Shu City, so high that even the Emperor's Decree could not cover it.

Qin Yu used a dead man's token to pass through the Emperor's seal.

There is a secret passage on the west side of Tian Shu City, known only to sect leaders. The entrance is in the cellar of an abandoned tavern, and the passage connects to a desolate mountain thirty miles outside the city, with no checkpoints along the way.

When Qin Yu stepped out of the passage, it was already dawn. He had been in Tian Shu City for less than two days. He went in as a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and came out as a Nascent Soul early-stage Blood Fiend, now with a wife whose soul was incomplete and missing a Heaven-Defying Pill. Everyone in the Spirit Tower was released, and the spirit boat flew out of the storage ring. The group boarded the boat and flew south.

The first thing Zhu Zhen did after being released was to roll around on the deck.

"I'm suffocating! I've been locked up in the Spirit Tower for a whole day, and I can't even stretch my legs out. Boss, could you please find a bigger place to lock me up next time?"

"If you think it's too small, just lose weight yourself."

Xiao Long lay on the bow of the boat and breathed out a breath of dragon breath to warm up. Kui Wu held his sister and sat at the stern. Kui Hong could already speak in complete sentences. The effects of the Soul Purifying Elixir were better than expected.

Meng Qianyun stood next to Qin Yu. She had been wanting to ask a question but didn't know how to start. In the end, she couldn't hold back.

"How do you plan to get to the Western Nether Sea? That place is at the westernmost end of the Martial Emperor Continent, separated by the entire territories of Yanlong Prefecture and Wu Kui Prefecture. Once the Emperor issues the decree, the three prefectures will conduct a joint investigation, and your portrait will be plastered all over the city gates of every city."

"The portrait is fake. With the Thousand-Layer Veil in place, no one can draw my true face."

"The portrait is fake, but Zhu Zhen and Kui Wu's physical characteristics are real. A pig demon, a minotaur, and a young dragon—this combination is unique in the entire Martial Emperor Continent. Anyone who sees it can recognize it."

This is indeed the most pressing issue right now. Qin Yu can change his face, but he can't change the faces of his three divine pets. As long as they are released outside, they will be recognized.

"Therefore, I need a place where no one can control me."

"There is no place on the Martial Emperor Continent that no one can oversee."

“There is one.”

Qin Yu took out the jade slip that replicated the catalog of the Western Underworld Secret Records from his storage ring and pointed to a line of text in the catalog.

The outer sea area of ​​Youming Island, a vacuum zone where the jurisdiction of the three states intersects, is within the sphere of influence of non-human races.

The jurisdiction of the three states was completely severed at the boundary of this sea area. The imperial edict was worthless outside the coastline, because the sea was the territory of the demon race, and the power system of the Martial Emperor City could not extend there at all.

"You will travel by sea."

“Starting from the southernmost port of Yanlong Prefecture, we will travel west along the coastline, bypassing the coastal defenses of Wukui Prefecture and directly entering the outer perimeter of the Western Nether Sea, without passing through any human cities along the way.”

Meng Qianyun mentally retraced the route. It would take at least two months of sea travel from the southern tip of Yanlong Prefecture to the outer edge of the Western Nether Sea. Along the way, they would have to cross three sea areas controlled by the demon race, each of which was guarded by at least a powerful demon of the seventh rank or above.

"The death rate on this road is over 80%."

"The mortality rate for traveling by land is 100%. Which would you choose?"

Meng Qianyun shut up; she realized that compared to Qin Yu, she was as timid as an ant.

Zhuge Chuchu remained silent, sitting in a corner of the spirit boat, gazing at the southern horizon with her crystal-clear eyes, where a kind of fortune she had never seen before was surging.

"Your wife's fortune is being drawn southward. The missing part of her soul is not in the depths of the Western Nether Sea, but on the first line of defense on the outer perimeter."

Qin Yu glanced back at her; this piece of information was even more valuable than the catalog in the Western Underworld Records.

"How many troops are there defending the first line of defense?"

"I can't see the specific troop deployment, but the aura around that location is very chaotic, as if a major battle has just taken place, and the defensive line may have been breached." (End of Chapter)