Chapter 1631
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Chapter 1631 Her Name Is…
“My lord, do you know that person down there?” the deputy general asked with confusion.
Huo Qubing shook his head.
“He actually managed to subdue that female demon… I thought in this world, only you, my lord, could control her.” The scholar in Confucian robes looked at the mysterious person wearing a charred bamboo hat and robes, his eyes revealing shock.
“He is strong,” Huo Qubing said solemnly. “I had thought that in this world, only I had reached that realm… but now it seems that is not the case.”
“You mean he has also reached that realm?!” This time it was the deputy general’s turn to be shocked with his mouth agape.
Lin Qiye subdued the female prisoner purely relying on his physical strength, so even they couldn’t detect his spiritual power fluctuations. But Huo Qubing’s realm was far above the scholar and deputy general, so he could naturally see that Lin Qiye exuded the aura of a human at the ceiling level in his every movement.
Huo Qubing silently observed the figure who carried the unconscious female prisoner with one hand and dragged several monster heads with the other, lost in thought.
After a long while, he finally spoke slowly:
“Please come upstairs for a discussion.”
Hearing Huo Qubing’s voice, the man began walking up to the building. Finding the monster heads cumbersome, he casually tossed them at the bottom of the tavern and carried the female prisoner up.
When he entered the room, the deputy general and others finally saw his face clearly, and the shock on their faces grew even more intense!
Under the charred bamboo hat was also a young face, appearing to be about the same age as their lord. He had a broken sword hanging at his waist, and his entire aura was contained, making him seem like an ordinary person.
Seeing Lin Qiye so young, even Huo Qubing was stunned for a moment, his expression somewhat strange.
“Greetings to the Champion Marquis,” Lin Qiye cupped his hands and said.
“Your name is Lin Qiye?” Huo Qubing asked. “Where is your ancestral home?”
“Uh… ancestral home…”
Lin Qiye was taken aback, becoming somewhat hesitant, “My ancestral home is Cangnan.”
“Cangnan?” Huo Qubing turned his head and exchanged glances with the scholar, whose face was also full of confusion, shaking his head to indicate he had never heard of it either.
“Judging by your age, you should be of the same generation as me, so why did you refer to yourself as a junior just now?”
Lin Qiye hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath and said seriously: “Because I come from more than two thousand years in the future, so naturally I am a junior.”
As his words fell, the tavern sank into dead silence.
Huo Qubing, the deputy general, and the scholar froze in place. After a long while, the deputy general finally broke into a dry laugh:
“More than two thousand years later? This young friend surely loves to joke… hehe…”
The Confucian scholar pondered for a moment and said somewhat uncertainly: “Joke? I don’t necessarily think so… With unusual talents emerging across the land these days, it’s not impossible that someone could traverse time.”
“Yan Zhong, you really believe he’s from two thousand years in the future? That’s two thousand years!”
“I’m just saying it’s possible.”
While the two were arguing, Huo Qubing was continuously examining Lin Qiye, his brows tightly furrowed:
“Can you prove it?”
Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over his body. Apart from the deep red cloak under his bamboo hat and the Ama-no-Murakumo sword at his waist, there was nothing else from his original era. Small items like his mobile phone had shattered during the time travel.
Should he use prophecies to prove his identity?
But the problem was that Lin Qiye, as an ordinary person who had only studied until halfway through high school before becoming a Night Watchman, knew very little about history. His knowledge of this era was limited to Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che and Champion Marquis Huo Qubing’s conquest at Wolf Mountain. He knew nothing else… He couldn’t just tell Huo Qubing that after the Western Han would come the Xin Dynasty, Xuan Han, and at the end of Eastern Han the Three Kingdoms period with endless warfare, could he?
There was no way to verify such things anyway!
After struggling for a moment, Lin Qiye could only half-guess as he spoke, “In the future, you will greatly defeat the Xiongnu, climb Wolf Mountain, and build an altar to worship heaven…”
The scholar looked at him suspiciously, “The future? That already happened two years ago… isn’t it common knowledge now?”
“…”
Damn! How do those historical time travelers in novels happen to know so much historical knowledge?
Lin Qiye cursed inwardly, then seemed to think of something.
“My lord, has the Demon Suppression Bureau been established yet?”
Huo Qubing’s pupils contracted slightly.
He turned to look at the scholar and deputy general, who also had bewildered expressions.
Huo Qubing indeed had plans to establish a special office to suppress evil spirits… but that was just a temporary idea. Besides the scholar, deputy general, and the now unconscious female prisoner, he had never told anyone else. How did this young man know about it?
“You…” The deputy general looked at Lin Qiye in astonishment, momentarily at a loss for words.
Huo Qubing stared at Lin Qiye for a long time, then turned and sat down in his chair. Instead of answering Lin Qiye’s question, he slowly said:
“Have you had dinner yet?”
“…No.”
“Sit down and join us,” Huo Qubing said calmly. “Let’s not waste this table of food.”
Seeing this, Lin Qiye didn’t decline and sat down at the table, picking up chopsticks and eating voraciously.
Having traveled through more than two thousand years of time, Lin Qiye was already feeling hungry. Although this body seemed like it wouldn’t die without food, Lin Qiye naturally wouldn’t miss the opportunity to satisfy his appetite.
Watching Lin Qiye eat like a starving ghost, the scholar and deputy general’s expressions became somewhat strange. This young man who appeared out of nowhere seemed to be full of suspicious points.
Could he be an assassin coming to kill their lord?
Just as the two were on high alert, Lin Qiye seemed to remember something and pointed at the unconscious female prisoner nearby:
“My lord, who is this person?”
“A death row prisoner,” Huo Qubing glanced at the female prisoner and said flatly. “This demon woman possesses a strange ability that allows her to devour those weaker than herself, transferring their faces into her body. By switching to those faces, she can use their abilities.
Moreover, whenever she devours someone, she can graft their lifespan onto her own. As long as she continues to devour others, she can achieve longevity. The longer she lives, the more powerful she becomes, able to devour even more people… In this cycle, she can become immortal and extremely powerful.
The drawback is that those she devours continue to exist within her, tormenting her mind. Also, the abilities she absorbs become fixed at their current level. To improve a certain ability, she needs to spend a great amount of time and effort.”
Lin Qiye nodded slightly. Huo Qubing’s description matched what he had seen in the archives… and the “unusual talents” Huo Qubing mentioned should be Taboo Enclosure possessors.
According to Lin Qiye’s knowledge, [Eternal Face] was the only Taboo Enclosure among many that fed on its own kind, also known as the most evil Taboo Enclosure, because the process of collecting “faces” could only be done by devouring alive, which was extremely cruel. But similarly, the longevity and power it could reach were beyond what ordinary Taboo Enclosures could achieve.
If the world’s seven great King Enclosures were given personalities, the Fifth King Enclosure [Eternal Face] would definitely be a cruel immortal evil king!
Although Lin Qiye knew of the existence of this Fifth King Enclosure, he had never heard of anyone possessing it, so he asked curiously: “What is this prisoner’s name?”
“Name?” Huo Qubing paused for a moment.
“Her name is Gongyang Wan.”
