Chapter 39

Flipping to the roof, Ye Chu lifted the glazed tiles and made an opening large enough for a person to enter. With a flip, his body disappeared into the study.

The Imperial Study was one of the forbidden areas of the palace. Although there were guards outside, the inside was completely empty! Ye Chu looked around; the Imperial Study was piled high with books, clearly indicating that this king was a lover of reading.

However, this also increased the difficulty for Ye Chu to search!

Time was limited. Ye Chu searched through the rows of books and indeed found many scrolls of bedroom techniques and courtesan paintings. He casually picked up a few and threw them into his arms without even checking if they were what Pang Shao wanted!

There were many scrolls of bedroom techniques, but Ye Chu tossed them aside, not wanting them. Among the rows of books, he wanted to find the unique copy of the Red Slaughter!

However, after searching through all the rows of books, Ye Chu did not find the unique copy he was looking for. This made him frown, thinking that Su Rong might have been lying to him.

Shifting his gaze from the bookshelf, Ye Chu's eyes moved to the desk in the Imperial Study, where memorials were spread out. Even the jade seal, intricately carved with a golden dragon, was there, lifelike and very beautiful.

Ye Chu picked up the jade seal and bit it with his teeth, discovering that the golden dragon was indeed made of gold.

Ye Chu tapped it a few times, seeing that the golden dragon and the jade seal were perfectly connected, thus dispelling his idea of chiseling off the gold.

Pulling open the drawer, Ye Chu searched through it for a while, finding many unique copies, but not the one he was looking for.

Ye Chu searched the entire Imperial Study but still did not find it! Just as he was beginning to doubt whether Su Rong had lied to him, his peripheral vision caught a book propping up the corner of the desk.

Ye Chu reached out and pulled out the book, discovering it was exactly the unique copy of the Red Slaughter he was looking for!

"Damn!" Ye Chu couldn't help but curse. The unique copy of the Red Slaughter was such a precious item, and the other party had used it to prop up the desk corner. Ye Chu felt like strangling the King of Yao.

With the unique copy of the Red Slaughter in hand, Ye Chu was about to jump back to the opening on the roof when he saw a figure drop down from the opening he had entered through. This made Ye Chu's heart leap, and before he could avoid it, the figure had already landed in the Imperial Study, standing opposite him!

Originally startled, Ye Chu's fear instantly disappeared when he saw the figure before him. Because it was a woman, and a woman of extraordinary beauty!

The woman was exquisitely beautiful, with eyes as cold as Su Rong's, but compared to Su Rong's transcendent coldness, this woman was more mature and alluring. She had long legs, a slender waist, stood gracefully, had rosy lips, a slightly protruding chin, a long and smooth neck, a high and firm chest, a slim and elastic waist, and a broad and sensual hip, all of which were irresistibly attractive!

For a mature person, such a woman was undoubtedly very attractive!

But this wasn't what surprised Ye Chu the most. What surprised him was: apart from her alluring and seductive nature, the woman had a transcendent and noble aura. She stood there quietly, like a fairy, free from the dust of the secular world, beyond the three realms, exuding a transcendent dignity from her soul, making people feel ashamed in her presence.

"Damn!" Ye Chu had met the Empire's Grand Emperor, but he had never felt this way. Yet, he felt it from her.

After entering the Imperial Study, the woman glanced at Ye Chu and then shifted her gaze to the study. However, seeing the mess, she turned her gaze back to Ye Chu, looking at the unique copy of the Red Slaughter in his hand, and asked, "Are you a thief?"

Her voice was charming but carried a sense of authority.

"Are you not a thief?" Ye Chu smiled at the woman, thinking that anyone who entered through the roof instead of the front door and was a woman must be a thief. However, she was too bold, not even covering her face.

"Coming to take something from the State of Yao is giving face to the State of Yao! So, it doesn't count as theft!" the woman shook her head and said.

Ye Chu, who was about to leave, almost stumbled and fell. To say that stealing was giving face to the State of Yao, Ye Chu couldn't even bring himself to do it. But this woman said it so casually, making Ye Chu involuntarily give her a thumbs up and say, "Impressive! I can't match you!"

"Did you search the entire Imperial Study? Do you know where the jade seal is?" the woman asked Ye Chu, her voice very soft and captivating.

Ye Chu looked at the woman in surprise, not knowing why she was looking for this thing. The jade seal was useful in the king's hands, but useless in anyone else's! No one would dare buy it, or Ye Chu would have stolen it to make some money.

However, Ye Chu didn't ask more and pointed to the drawer of the desk.

"I just threw it in there!" Ye Chu said.

The woman nodded, waved her hand, and the desk automatically opened, with the jade seal landing in her delicate and smooth hand.

Having obtained the item, the woman did not linger. Her figure flashed, and she leaped towards the roof, her movements graceful like a fairy! The opening was not large, but her long dress did not get caught. As she went out, her dress brushed against the tiles, causing them to fall.

"Crack..."

The sound was not loud, but in the quiet night, it was abnormally loud, instantly alerting the guards outside the Imperial Study.

"There's a thief!"

As the guards shouted, they saw the woman standing on the roof.

"Shoot!"

The guards shouted, and many of them drew their arrows, shooting at the woman standing on the roof.

Inside the Imperial Study, Ye Chu listened to the commotion outside and couldn't help but curse, "Damn! This woman is trying to get me killed!"

Seeing the door of the Imperial Study being kicked open, Ye Chu didn't hesitate. He leaped onto the roof, just in time to see the woman casually blocking a volley of arrows.

The woman's movements were very calm, but with this casual move, the dozen or so arrows flying towards her stopped in front of her. With a casual push, the arrows were all broken.

"Amazing!" Ye Chu couldn't help but be startled. To have such skills, she must have at least reached the Xiantian realm.

"No wonder she dared to steal the jade seal, she has reached this realm!" Ye Chu muttered, but still couldn't help but warn, "There are Xiantian realm experts in the palace, it's best to leave quickly!"

The woman glanced at Ye Chu but ignored his words, walking straight towards the guards without dodging.

The intrusion into the palace alarmed many people, and