The next day, the two woke up as sun rays fell over their faces.
Ren Yue and Long Chen reluctantly opened their eyes and saw each other. Initially, the two were startled to see the other person so close to their body.
However, they soon recalled the events of the last night and blushed madly.
Ren Yue tried her best to hold back her embarrassment as she spoke affectionately, "Let's take a bath, darling."
"Together?" Long Chen asked instinctively. It was only later that he realized what he had uttered.
His ears turned red with embarrassment, but he didn't say anything to explain himself.
"Hmph," Ren Yue stood on the floor and slowly walked towards the bathroom attached to her room.
Just before entering the bathroom, she gazed in Long Chen's direction and asked with a teasing smile, "… Aren't you going to come along?"
Her voice had a tinge of seductiveness and raunchiness.
Long Chen's face flushed with embarrassment as he heard that voice.
"Don't mess around. I can't hold back any longer," Long Chen spoke while ogling her beautiful figure.
Ren Yue chuckled upon hearing those words. She was naturally delighted as she thought of it as praise and happily headed into the bathroom.
Long Chen secretly left Ren Yue's room through the window and sneaked into his room. He entered his bathroom and took a long bath, washing all parts of his body.
After an hour, Long Chen and Ren Yue met in the living hall in the presence of her maids and guards. Ren Yue wore a new dress. This was a gorgeous blue dress that made Ren Yue appear rather graceful.
Long Chen gazed at her hair and noticed they were still wet. Blood rushed to his face as he couldn't help but imagine her naked body under the shower.
'Her every action seems to mesmerize me so thoroughly. This must be the aftereffect of restraining my desires and emotions.'
"How is Grandpa Mo's condition?" He asked.
Ren Yue responded, "He woke up in the morning and stated that he felt no pain. His meridians are withering. I am afraid that he can't utilize Ardor as readily as before."
Long Chen had already anticipated this situation, "I see. This is also good. It's time for him to retire."
Ren Yue nodded her head in agreement. She thought the same about this situation.
"I will be leaving now. I need to interrogate that member whom I captured yesterday," Long Chen spoke with a serious glint in his eyes.
"I see," Ren Yue nodded. She asked, "What should I do?"
Long Chen had to think for a bit before informing her, "Ask your subordinates to investigate all the known 4 Star Warriors in this city. Now that Grandpa Mo has retired, we urgently require a 4-Star Warrior."
"Alright. By the time you return, I will have this information ready," Ren Yue agreed with his viewpoint.
Long Chen soon left the house and headed towards the warehouse where his subordinates had imprisoned the council member they had captured yesterday.
In the meantime, Ren Yue ordered her subordinates to gather information about all the 4 Star Warriors in Dongchun City.
After giving this order, she returned to her room and began to meditate. She utilized her Revolving Yin Merit Law to strengthen her Ardor.
When it was nearly nighttime, Long Chen returned with an ashen look.
The information he had received as he interrogated that member was genuinely frightening. Even with the knowledge of his previous life, Long Chen never expected that the Noble Shadow had such a terrific background.
According to this member, the Noble Shadow is actually a submissive force of a Noble Family. However, the true identity of this Noble Family was utterly unknown. Only the elder in the council might know about the Noble Family's true identity.
When the Zhongxing Kingdom's Royal Family was fighting against the Jorailian Kingdom's Royal Family, many families and influential people supported the Zhongxing Kingdom's Royal Family.
They naturally held selfish motives. The Zhongxing Kingdom's Royal Family had promised to help them replace the existing Noble Families.
Thus, most of the Noble Families in the Jorailian Kingdom were replaced by newly formed Noble Families.
The Zhongxing Kingdom's Royal Family also released many statements that legitimized their status.
Initially, most of the families that supported the Zhongxing Kingdom's Royal Family in their rebellion were weak.
During this time, an influential individual started to invest in an organization.
The original purpose of this organization was to create a sense of terror in the hearts of the high-ranking people in the territory. This was to keep an eye on them and also to prevent them from immediately rebelling against the Zhongxing Kingdom's rule.
However, the individual soon saw a business opportunity and decided to take a step forward.
He created a secret force that harassed the merchants and extorted an appropriate sum of treasure in return for not targeting them.
Typically, the most influential merchants resisted the first few times as they increased security significantly. However, it was for naught as the Noble Shadow still quickly looted their caravans.
This situation continued for a year or two, but the merchants soon realized that this was a losing situation.
They had no idea about the other party's true strength or financial power. Furthermore, the protection fee was far lower than the salary they paid to those additional guards protecting their caravans.
The Noble Shadow had naturally expected that the merchants would soon think in this direction. Thus, they kept the protection fee nominal so the merchants would pay it.
This allowed the Noble Shadow to achieve many objectives.
Firstly, the Noble Shadow extorted a lot of money from the merchants of a particular city. It easily covered the expenses of all the Noble Shadow members.
Secondly, the Noble Shadow could also act as an investigator that kept an eye on the merchants.
Meanwhile, the influential individuals continued to pay tribute to the Noble Shadow because they realized that this organization held a connection in administration as well. The tribute wasn't too great, and they could still earn substantial gains.
Most importantly, the merchants didn't need to hire too many guards to protect their caravans. The Noble Shadow would typically take care of all the obstacles or bandits in the region.
No one in the area dared to resist the Noble Shadow Organization because of their influence, power, and manpower.
However, this changed completely with the presence of the Benevolent Corps.
For some reason, the Benevolent Corps managed to resist the Noble Shadow and even put them on the defensive.
The merchants felt that this was an opportunity for them to deal with the Noble Shadow once and for all, so they joined forces and attacked the Noble Shadow's bases all across the Dongchun City.
These were all small warehouses or some other bases of the Noble Shadow that were spread over the Dongchun City.
The merchants were aware of these bases previously as well, but they didn't have the guts to assault these bases. However, the presence of the Benevolent Corps increased their courage immensely.
The merchants were all shrewd men and knew that the Noble Shadow wouldn't easily reveal their true strength against them.
Right now, the Noble Shadow's main objective is to ascertain the might of the Benevolent Corps. The Noble Shadow will act only after thoroughly assessing their power.
Long Chen did find crucial information by interrogating this member.
He discovered that this territory was just one of the many territories under the Noble Shadow. Secondly, he also acquired the knowledge of the most probable location of the treasury!
However, Long Chen felt that the Noble Shadow might realize his aim and set up a trap for him at that spot.
Thus, he had to be prepared to handle any and all unexpected situations.
At this moment, Long Chen isn't that interested in the treasury as compared to the true identity of the Noble Family behind this Noble Shadow.
It couldn't be the Jin Family as the initial investment required to set up this organization was immense.
The Jin Family didn't possess such an impressive wealth or anything remotely similar. In fact, they are one of the weakest Noble Families.
Thus, someone else must be behind the Noble Shadow.
'It won't be easy to figure out the force behind the Noble Shadow. There must be a reason they can stay concealed for so long. I should focus more on looting the Noble Shadow's base in Dongchun City.'
"The Noble Shadow's base is in Dongchun City. It's a seven story building in the northwestern direction. There are around twelve members of this council. The person we previously interrogated was also a member of this council. This means that only ten council members remain. Seven of them are 3 Star Warriors while three are 4 Star Warriors. They also have many warriors stationed inside and near the building."
Ren Yue spoke solemnly, "Attacking them head-on will be suicide. We need to enter their treasury covertly."
"That will also be quite challenging. The council must be keeping a rigorous watch over the treasury. Sneaking into the treasury without alerting the enemy will be impossible for us," Long Chen spoke.
Ren Yue knew that Long Chen was speaking the truth.
"Do we give up then?" Ren Yue asked.
Long Chen shook his head negatively and spoke with a smile, "No. Even if we can't acquire the complete treasury, we can still acquire a part of it."
Ren Yue was mesmerized by that smile as she intuitively believed Long Chen's words.
"Alright. I trust you," She spoke coyly.
"Good. What about the information regarding the 4 Star Warriors in this city?" Long Chen inquired casually.
Ren Yue responded proudly, "I sent all my subordinates to gather the details of these 4 Star Warriors. From their personal life to their professional life, they recorded everything."
Ren Yue's spatial ring flashed with a red light as a huge stack of files appeared on the table.
Long Chen glanced at these twenty seven files and spoke, "This is good. There should be someone among them we can use."
Very soon, the two opened each file and discussed the details regarding each member.
After reading the details about each 4 Star Warrior in Dongchun City, Long Chen spoke, "Let's leak the Noble Shadow's location to these 4 Star Warriors selectively. Naturally, we have to choose the warriors who do not have any relation to a particular organization, including the city administration."
Four warriors fit this description.
Ren Yue spoke, "Let's slip this information quietly in their group. We can bribe someone from their groups respectively and achieve our objective."
"Yeah. I was thinking the same," Long Chen spoke. He then added, "We need to start as quickly as possible to deal a massive blow to the Noble Shadow."