Keep Playing the Music, Keep Dancing!

"Uh..."

"What you said seemed to make a bit of sense."

Lu Xuening blinked, then nodded.

"But there are so many people here, so many watchful eyes. How are we supposed to get to the top floor?"

Lu Xuening asked again.

She felt like her brain was no longer enough, so she took the initiative to ask Chen Fan.

"Of course, we walk right up there in broad daylight."

"That courtesan said Wangchun Pavilion had a theater on the first floor, a tavern on the second, a gambling house on the third, the courtesans' quarters on the fourth, the singing courtesans' quarters on the fifth, and the top courtesans' quarters on the sixth."

"Those six floors should all be open to the public. At the very least, the first four floors should be freely accessible. There might be guards on the fifth and sixth floors, and ordinary people probably can't get up there."

"So we can first go take a look at the fourth floor, see if we can find a chance to sneak onto the fifth or sixth floor, then head to the top floor."

Chen Fan thought for a moment before speaking.

"If I'd known, I would've brought the Flying Tiger Claw."

Lu Xuening shook her head somewhat dejectedly at his words.

"Are you really certain that the hidden owner of Wangchun Pavilion is a demonkin?"

Chen Fan asked again.

"I'm certain."

"But I don't know whether he's actually hiding on Wangchun Pavilion's top floor. If we barge in rashly and find nothing up there, we'll only alert the enemy."

"And both you and I will probably be punished. As government officers, breaking into a private residence for no reason is a violation of Great Zhou law."

Lu Xuening replied.

"Eat first. After we're done, each of us takes two girls to the fourth floor, knocks them out, then comes back out to meet up. After that, we'll figure out how to get to the top floor together."

Chen Fan could not help nodding when he heard Lu Xuening's answer.

He desperately needed Demonkin Lifespan to improve his strength. In this chaotic world of demonkin, only strength was truly reliable.

The two of them ate and drank like a whirlwind, then each called over one of the two courtesans from earlier. With one girl in each arm, they headed straight for the fourth floor.

The two followed the courtesans into their rooms, decisively knocked them out, then left their rooms and met at the staircase leading from the fourth floor to the fifth.

"There are no guards at the fifth-floor entrance. Go straight up."

The two glanced up the stairs, then swiftly ascended to the fifth floor.

"There are two people guarding the entrance to the sixth floor."

Lu Xuening said in a low voice.

"We've come this far. Let's just knock those two out and take a look at the top floor."

Chen Fan said.

"Just what I wanted!"

As soon as she spoke, Lu Xuening's figure flashed. Like a nimble cat, she shifted her feet and instantly climbed to the sixth floor.

Bang! Bang!

Before the two guards at the sixth-floor entrance could make a sound, Lu Xuening had knocked them unconscious and sent them sprawling to the ground.

"If I'd known you had such speed and skill, we wouldn't have needed to sneak around like thieves at all. We could've just knocked out the guards from the start."

Chen Fan said enviously.

Although he had already reached the fourth stage of the Divine Treasury Realm, the Blood Martial Saint level, and possessed the perfected Blade Draw Slash, speed remained his weakness.

Even if he ran with all his strength, he was still nowhere near as fast as Lu Xuening.

This showed that Lu Xuening had certainly mastered a movement technique or martial skill.

"Hide those two first. Someone will probably notice that they've disappeared soon enough. We don't have much time left."

Lu Xuening gave Chen Fan a helpless look as she spoke.

If she had fought her way from the first floor to the top, even if the guards stationed at the stairway entrances had not sent out a call for help, the others in Wangchun Pavilion would have discovered her long ago.

Chen Fan grabbed one leg from each guard with one hand, dragged the two like dead dogs, and tossed them into an unoccupied room before shutting the door.

The two headed through the sixth-floor stairway straight for the top floor of Wangchun Pavilion!

There were guards on Wangchun Pavilion's top floor as well—four broad-shouldered, thick-waisted martial artists holding weapons and glaring like tigers eyeing prey. From above came the shrill wails of women.

"Move!"

Hearing the filthy words, decadent music, and a woman's increasingly miserable screams from the top floor, Chen Fan frowned. He gripped the Hundred-Refined Embroidered Spring Blade tightly and charged upstairs.

"Kid, what are you doing?"

"This is a private place. Leave at once!"

Seeing Chen Fan stride up with an imposing bearing, the four guards shouted angrily.

"The Brocade Guard is conducting official business. All irrelevant persons, get out of my way!"

Chen Fan barked in a deep voice.

The four men's expressions changed. They exchanged glances, then, without prior agreement, raised their blades and hacked at Chen Fan!

"Courting death!"

A fierce gleam surged in Chen Fan's eyes. He drew the Hundred-Refined Embroidered Spring Blade and unleashed the perfected martial skill, Blade Draw Slash. A terrifying blade radiance streaked across the sky like a bolt of silver lightning, and the blades in all four men's hands were severed in a single strike!

"If you don't get lost now, you won't be so lucky when my next blade falls!"

Chen Fan said as he looked at the four guards.

They were merely martial artists at the first stage of the Divine Treasury Realm. If he had wanted to kill them, that strike would have sliced them and their weapons cleanly into two.

"Get lost already!"

Lu Xuening shouted as well. The four men immediately fled in all directions, racing toward the top floor.

It looked like they were going to fetch reinforcements.

Chen Fan and Lu Xuening exchanged a glance, then headed straight for the top floor. The moment they entered, the scent of blood filled the air. The entire floor was built in extravagant splendor, a pool of wine and a forest of flesh.

Yet the wine pool gave off a thick reek of blood, while the forest of flesh hanging along both sides of the corridor consisted of cooked female bodies.

"Wine soaked in human blood, human flesh steamed and boiled—without a doubt, demonkin!"

Lu Xuening was not afraid at the horrifying sight before her. Her entire body trembled violently, and killing intent steamed off her.

"What lies before us is ironclad proof!"

"No need to hold back any longer. Kill our way through!"

Chen Fan's gaze was icy as well. Clearly, he too had murderous intent.

The terror and cruelty of demonkin were simply enough to make one's hair stand on end!

He had never imagined that the top floor of Ping An County's foremost brothel truly hid a demonkin that ate human flesh, drank human blood, and violated human women!

Inside the top-floor hall.

The songstresses sang and danced. A White Ape nearly ten feet tall pinned a slender, beautiful top courtesan beneath him.

The top courtesan cried out in heart-rending anguish, but the White Ape only grew more excited. He reached out, gripped her neck, and thrust wildly.

The top courtesan desperately pounded the White Ape's chest and struggled with her hands and feet, but her movements gradually slowed and weakened.

The suffocating feeling grew worse and worse. At last, her hands dropped limply, her eyes bulged outward, and she left this world with humiliation and unwillingness.

"Phew!"

"As expected of a top courtesan. That was really something!"

"What a pity she was too frail. I wasn't even satisfied yet, and she died!"

"Someone!"

"Wash her clean, drain her blood, and steam her up. We're having an extra dish tonight!"

"Hahaha!"

The White Ape laughed wantonly, and every bit of this scene was seen and heard by Chen Fan and Lu Xuening.

Boom!

Chen Fan kicked open the half-closed main doors of the hall. The fine hardwood doors shattered into pieces beneath his kick.

The commotion startled the White Ape. The lightly clad songstresses, who had been working hard to play instruments, sing, and dance, were so frightened that they stopped as one and looked toward the doorway.

A handsome, valiant youth dressed in black strode in from outside, holding the Hundred-Refined Embroidered Spring Blade. Behind him followed a feminine-faced young master, holding a sharp longsword.

"Why have you all stopped?"

"Keep playing the music, keep dancing!"

The White Ape looked at the two who had entered from outside with calm disdain. He glanced toward the songstresses and spoke expressionlessly.