God of Pets

Chapter 401 Attacking the Imperial Mausoleum
Xiu Jieming sat by the French windows, holding a notebook and a pen, writing and drawing, but it was unclear what he was writing.

"People from the Inspection Department came to the Xiu family to see me." Seeing Chen Guan come in, Xiu Jieming didn't stop writing as he spoke.

"They're asking you to deal with me?" Chen Guan's mind raced.

"It wasn't explicitly stated, but that's the gist of it, so I came," Xiu Jieming said.

"So, what are you planning to do to me?" Chen Guan pulled up a chair and sat down. He looked at the notebook in Xiu Jieming's hand and saw that he was drawing on it. He couldn't tell what he was drawing for a moment. There were strokes here and there, and black patches here and there. He didn't know what he was drawing.

"I haven't thought about it yet, but we definitely have to do it, otherwise some people will be worried. What are your thoughts?" Xiu Jieming continued drawing without looking up.

“What ideas could a nobody like me have? You can do whatever you want to me,” Chen Guan said.

Xiu Jieming laughed: "It's not like I'm bullying you. Here's what we'll do: my legion is going to develop the imperial tombs, and I'm sending you to help."

"Okay," Chen Guan agreed without hesitation.

"You agreed so readily, aren't you afraid I'll rip you off?" Xiu Jieming looked up at Chen Guan.

“You tricked me, I admit it,” Chen Guan said seriously.

"Alright, I'll take care of digging and burying you. You can go with peace of mind. I definitely won't let you die without a burial place," Xiu Jieming said with a smile.

"I haven't lived enough yet, I can't live on," Chen Guan sighed.

“No, if you don’t die, someone will be unhappy, and if that person is unhappy, none of us will have a good life,” Xiu Jieming said, his smile fading.

"Am I really that unpopular?" Chen Guan was speechless.

“You’re standing in the wrong place, you’re in other people’s way, you’re blocking their path, how can you expect others to like you?” Xiu Jieming paused and then said, “If you don’t want to die, move over a bit, don’t block other people’s way, and don’t get in their way. If you want to move over, the Xiu family’s door is always open for you.”

Chen Guan understood Xiu Jieming's true intentions; Xiu Jieming planned to take him to the Xiu family.

"Have you ever thought that even if I went to the Xiu family, I would still be blocking their way?" Chen Guan didn't answer whether he would go or not, but suddenly said this.

Xiu Jieming frowned slightly: "What you said sounds like a provocation."

"If you think it's provocation, then it means there's definitely something going on here, isn't it?" Chen Guan said with a smile.

Xiu Jieming stared at Chen Guan for a long while before lowering his head and saying, "It's not impossible."

"It's not just a possibility, it's a fact. Would that person really make the Heavenly Court army take the surname Xiu?"

"That's true, but we still have to walk the roads we have to walk, eat the food we have to eat, and do the work we have to do, otherwise we'll lose our jobs now."

"So, you're saying we have to fight?"

"Unless you leave Ji Nan Hong and join my Xiu family."

"I like to see things through to the end, and I can't just leave like this without a clear explanation."

"Then we have no choice but to fight, and we must make sure that those who want to see it do so."

"I'm just a lowly second-stage awakening cultivator, I can't fight this battle." Chen Guan shrugged helplessly.

"It's alright, I'll take care of it." Xiu Jieming said as he finished the last stroke.

Originally, his drawings were scattered and disorganized, making it difficult to discern what they were. However, after the last stroke was added and Xiu Jieming turned the notebook upside down, Chen Guan finally realized that what he had drawn was actually a picture of carp swimming upstream against a waterfall.

Xiu Jieming tore off the piece of paper and placed it in front of Chen Guan, closed the notebook, and got up to leave: "Go back and give me some instructions. You'll be coming with me tomorrow."

Chen Guan did not leave the conference room, which was originally the conference room of the Qilin Legion. He convened a meeting with the core high-ranking members of the Qilin Legion.

"Battalion Commander Chen, you can't go to Xiu Jieming's place," Bai Yueguang reminded him. "The Xiu family only transferred you there, saying it was to help command the corps, but how could the Xiu family possibly lack a commander?"

“Xiu Jieming has an order from the Ancestral Court, which allows him to freely deploy the Heavenly Court army within the secret realm of Beiman Mountain. If I don’t go, it would be disobeying orders, and I can’t bear that crime,” Chen Guan sighed.

"We still can't go. We can wait until the regimental commander comes back," Zhu Hongzhi said.

"That's all we can do for now. If Xiu Jieming sends someone to look for me again, please help me block them and say I'm not here." Chen Guan made the relevant arrangements.

Early the next morning, Xiu Jieming broke into the Qilin Legion's encampment alone, defeated Bai Yueguang, Zhang Yujian, and Zhu Hongzhi in three moves, and took Chen Guan away from the encampment.

Chen Guan didn't make a move; he followed Xiu Jieming on his own.

He originally wanted to put on an act, but considering that Fu Tianji would definitely make a move, he could only take Fu Tianji with him and leave the camp with Xiu Jieming.

Xiu Jieming's team set off directly from the Qilin Mountains, heading towards the Imperial Mausoleum.

Chen Guan had previously killed the Thousand-Year Ghost Emperor in the Imperial Mausoleum and obtained the Underworld Emperor Sword Technique, so he was not unfamiliar with the Imperial Mausoleum.

However, the place where the Thousand-Year Ghost Emperor is located is only the outermost part of the imperial mausoleum. There are many more imperial tombs inside, including Ghost Emperors who have reached the second or third awakening stage.

Xiu Jieming brought his men here this time to break through the imperial tomb and completely destroy it.

According to Xiu Jieming, at the deepest part of this imperial mausoleum lies an extremely terrifying imperial tomb.

The Heavenly Army had organized many operations, but in the end, they never even saw the Ghost Emperor in the Emperor's Tomb. The ghost soldiers and generals around the Emperor's Tomb alone were enough to rout the various army groups.

Xiu Jieming's target is the Ghost Emperor in the Emperor's Tomb, and Chen Guan will play the role of deputy commander in this battle.

"Xiu Jieming is Xiu Jieming, not some good-for-nothing like Xiu Haofeng. He directly arrested Chen Guan and sent him to attack the imperial tomb," Hu Quan said with a smile, holding his thermos.

"Xiao Hu, go and take a look. Make sure you see Chen Guan dead there. If he's not dead..." The old man, who was the head of the inspection department, didn't finish his sentence.

"Understood, I'll handle it." Hu Quan got up and left, knowing full well what the section chief was thinking.

Chen Guan was nominally the deputy commander, but in reality he was just a standing spectator. Xiu Jieming's army was far stronger than the Qilin Army.

The Yin soldiers from the underworld along the way were swept away by the army.

Even if the Ghost Emperor appeared, he was quickly slaughtered under the army's offensive.

Xiu Jieming's army has tens of thousands of members, all of whom are third-level cultivators, and each of them has an extraordinary aura. Any one of them could be a top-notch expert.

"Having a family is really great," Chen Guan thought to himself.

Along the way, Xiu Jieming didn't need to do anything; his subordinates took care of everything for him. The resources he plundered all ended up in Xiu Jieming's hands, and he could choose whatever he wanted.

(End of this chapter)