As the city lord, Gongyang Qing frantically arranged for people to search for the pearl.
At first:
The many great families of Loulan were deeply dissatisfied.
They even resisted.
What a joke. He had just finished beating us into submission.
And he killed the Gongyang Family head right in front of us.
Now he wanted us to help him find something?
Had he gone mad?
Oh, right—Gongyang Qing, your family head was killed by him, yet you were still working for him?
Did you have no shame?
Did you have no self-respect at all?
You had thrown away the face of a top-tier family.
More than a hundred families had no intention of helping Chu Qing find anything, nor would they.
However:
Before long, they received news:
At the Imperial Capital Academy, Chu Qing had killed two children of Imperial Capital families.
Before a thousand young heirs of great families, he had slapped the Martial Academy's Vice Principal until his mouth burst open.
And in the Imperial Capital, he had brazenly killed a female official of the Imperial Palace.
Although the Imperial Palace had issued a wanted order.
Although the two families whose children had died had issued wanted orders.
Even the entire empire had begun hunting Chu Qing.
They wanted to bring him to justice.
The problem was:
He was still roaming about perfectly well. Who dared arrest him?
Besides:
There was an Otherkin and a New Realm martial artist at his side.
With those two great experts protecting him, even if other experts wanted to make a move, they might not be able to capture him.
Besides:
The empire's top combatants were either in seclusion or within the forbidden zones.
Very few walked the outside world.
No one could restrain Chu Qing.
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