King of Creation

Chapter 1951: Chapter 1936: Chi Ling’er Is Abducted

Since Clan Leader Tu Zheng had already said as much, Hu Qingtong could only stay at home and wait, putting her heart into cooking a few good dishes for Ye Zhen and Zhu Hong.

During the meal, she didn’t ask where Chi Ling’er had gone. Mainly because Chi Ling’er was quite well-behaved; before leaving to play with her little friends, she had informed Hu Qingtong, so Hu Qingtong hadn’t taken it to heart.

Reunited after a long separation, whether it was Ye Zhen, Hu Qingtong, or Zhu Hong, they drank to their hearts’ content. In the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed, and the sky had darkened.

"That little monkey Chi Ling’er, once she starts playing she goes crazy and forgets to come home. Brother Ye, Brother Zhu, you two sit a while longer. It’s getting late, I’ll go call Chi Ling’er back," Hu Qingtong said.

As a Disciple, tasks fall on her shoulders; Ling Qianbi immediately volunteered, saying she would go out and call Chi Ling’er back.

Ye Zhen nodded with pleasure.

But Half a Quarter-hour later, Ling Qianbi returned like a whirlwind, panic written all over her face. "Master, Sister Hu, Chi Ling’er is gone.

I circled around Xuanjia Hill and its surroundings, but I didn’t find Chi Ling’er, nor did I find those kids who went to play with Chi Ling’er."

"What?"

Ye Zhen and Hu Qingtong shot to their feet and rushed out the door, soaring into the sky.

Looking down from high above, with the Eye Power of Ye Zhen and Hu Qingtong, the entire Xuanjia Hill and even its surrounding area were completely within their field of view.

They didn’t see so much as a trace of Chi Ling’er, not even the shadow of any children.

The blood drained from Hu Qingtong’s pretty face in an instant, leaving it completely pale!

"Don’t panic. Maybe they’re just playing hide-and-seek, or they went to someone’s house to play." Ye Zhen offered a word of comfort, then let his Primordial Spirit Power spread outward in all directions without the slightest restraint.

In an instant, he drew the attention of several threads of Divine Sense, but Ye Zhen’s own Divine Sense also swept through every corner and clump of grass on Xuanjia Hill in the span of a heartbeat.

Aside from those small courtyards and private spaces protected by Formations, Ye Zhen had already scanned the entire Xuanjia Hill and its surroundings with his Divine Sense.

He still didn’t find any trace of Chi Ling’er.

Moreover, Xuanjia Hill was over thirty li long and fifteen li wide; under normal circumstances, a group of children playing would never run outside that range.

Ye Zhen’s heart clenched tight in an instant.

"Impossible!"

"Because she’s from the Human Clan, I’ve drilled this into Chi Ling’er many times. These past years she’s never set foot in other kids’ homes. Even if she occasionally goes over to celebrate someone’s birthday, she’ll come back first and get my permission." In her panic, Hu Qingtong’s voice was close to sobbing, her mind already in complete disarray.

Ye Zhen’s heart kept sinking lower and lower.

He drew in a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, forcing himself to calm down—he had to calm down.

Only by calming down could he have a better chance of finding Chi Ling’er.

"Kitten, come and track Chi Ling’er’s scent."

The Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten wasn’t particularly skilled at tracking by scent, but the sense of smell of a Demon Beast was hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than that of the Human Clan.

The Kitten understood how serious the situation was. Following the method Ye Zhen had taught, it channeled Spiritual Power into the Spirit Apertures around its nose. After just one circuit, it picked up a trail of scent.

"Mm, Little Chiling came out from here and first played around here for one First Transition." The Kitten kept sniffing. "The scent here is very mixed, but after playing for a bit, she went over there, toward the Swing Tree..."

The Kitten kept sniffing nonstop, and very soon, the places where Chi Ling’er had played were already far from the direction of home.

"My Lord, Little Chiling’s scent lingered here for a while, and then it just vanished into thin air. Mm, and there’s another scent here, should be an adult’s scent, completely different from a child’s," the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten said.

"An adult’s scent, and Chi Ling’er vanishes... So Chi Ling’er was taken by someone?"

A flash of cold light appeared in Ye Zhen’s eyes. He suddenly turned to Hu Qingtong and said, "Qingtong, go right now to the homes of those kids who were playing with Chi Ling’er and see if they’re there. If they’re not, notify everyone to search together. If they are, then find out exactly what happened."

"Alright, I’ll go right away."

"Qianbi, Brother Zhu, you two go with Qingtong."

"Princess Chimei, I must trouble you to use your status to question all of the Fox Clan Patrols on duty, see if any of them noticed something unusual." Ye Zhen was an outsider; the Fox Clan Patrols wouldn’t pay him any mind, but Hur Chimei’s identity should be very useful.

"Alright!"

Ye Zhen waited there anxiously.

He had only just gotten a daughter, and they hadn’t even acknowledged each other yet, and now she was gone—how could Ye Zhen not be frantic?

But no matter how anxious Ye Zhen was, bad news still came one after another.

Hur Chiling once again invited the Fox Clan’s Supreme Third Elder Tu Che over. Using the authority of the Supreme Third Elder, Tu Che questioned everyone one by one, but the news was all bad.

The Patrol in charge of the Xuanjia Hill area would pass by Xuanjia Hill once every an hour. They’d seen Chi Ling’er twice, but on the third pass, there were no longer any children playing, and no suspicious people going in or out.

The Patrols in the surrounding areas, as well as the Fox Clan Dao Realm expert on rotation, also hadn’t discovered any suspicious persons entering or leaving Tu Mountain.

At the same time, Hu Qingtong had also gotten an answer on her end. Counting Chi Ling’er, there had been seven children playing together.

Four of them had gone home after playing for a bit, while the other two, along with Chi Ling’er, had kept playing until the end.

But those two had simply fallen asleep while playing. When they woke up, only the two of them were left—Chi Ling’er was gone.

After waking, those two children had gone straight home.

Basically, it could be confirmed that Chi Ling’er had disappeared.

Nine times out of ten, she’d been taken away by someone.

But who had taken Chi Ling’er, why take her, and what use did they have for Chi Ling’er?

No one could figure that out.

Tears dripped from Hu Qingtong’s eyes one by one. By this point, she was completely at a loss and could only pin her hopes on Ye Zhen.

Forcing himself to calm down, Ye Zhen went over the day’s events from beginning to end, feeling that something about what had happened today was rather strange.

First was the Fox Clan Great Clan Leader blocking Hu Qingtong from leaving—he’d put in far too much effort.

A mere Clan Leader had gone so far in his words just to keep Hu Qingtong for a day and a half. If it wasn’t because there was some truly important matter, then he definitely had ulterior motives.

Moreover, if there really was an important matter, it had to be something huge.

Aside from that, the timing of Chi Ling’er being taken was far too coincidental.

A handful of children were playing together, yet in the end only Chi Ling’er was taken, while the two kids who had stayed with her until the end had merely been put to sleep.

If the culprit had been some utterly vicious fiend, how could they spare those two Fox Clan children and single out only Chi Ling’er?

In other words, the one who had taken Chi Ling’er definitely had a special purpose.

That is to say, Chi Ling’er should still be safe for the moment.

The problem was, they didn’t know who had taken her.

Ye Zhen felt that there might be clues on those children.

However, in just this short period of time, the news that Chi Ling’er had been taken by some villain had already spread. Every family was now watching their children like hawks; even if Ye Zhen wanted to ask a few more questions, it would be impossible.

"Let’s go, back to the courtyard first!"

Under the gaze of the Fox Clan members, Ye Zhen led the distraught Hu Qingtong back to the small courtyard.

The moment they returned to the courtyard, Ye Zhen released Big Ears Nie Ting from the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space.

Seeing a person suddenly appear, everyone’s expressions showed a bit of surprise, but only a little.

A self-contained One Realm type of space that could hold living beings was indeed precious, but there were still quite a few such things in this world.

Zhu Hong was one example; that Ye Zhen also possessed such a space was not surprising.

In the shortest possible time, Ye Zhen explained the situation to Nie Ting. "Any clue related to Chi Ling’er, even if it’s a conversation where someone mentions children, must not be overlooked."

"Yes!"

Within Qingqiu Tushan, no one could have imagined that as Big Ears Nie Ting’s ears quivered, every sound within tens of thousands of li around Tu Mountain flowed into his ears.

One message after another, useful or not, as long as it was related to children, was all sent into Ye Zhen’s mind via Divine Soul Telecommunication by Nie Ting.

"My lord, a young noble is currently reporting the news of Chi Ling’er going missing face-to-face to someone the servants address as Great Clan Leader. The location is right in the center of Tu Mountain!"

"Reporting to the Great Clan Leader in person?" Ye Zhen’s eyes widened sharply. Wasn’t the Great Clan Leader supposed to be away?

Something’s wrong!

There’s definitely something wrong here!