Chapter 10: Night Visit to the Chancellor's Mansion

Lu Ye's heart was filled with sweetness as the little Lu Chen was able to say such words. She closed her eyes and leaned against the small chest of Lu Chen, gradually falling into a deep sleep.

Seeing that Lu Ye had fallen asleep, Lu Chen slowly sat up, got out of bed, and quietly walked to a cabinet on the ground, taking out a locked box. From it, he took a set of night clothes, indicating that Lu Chen often sneaked out at night to play. Otherwise, he wouldn't have such essential items.

As he walked to the door, Lu Chen turned his head and looked at Lu Ye, who was sleeping comfortably on the bed, and muttered, "Sister Ye! I won't let anyone bully you! I will make everyone know that you are my Lu Chen's woman!"

Outside, the night was dark and the wind was high, a perfect time for murder and robbery. Lu Chen smiled slightly, leaped, and disappeared from his room. In no time, his figure appeared on the roof of his room. Looking at a brightly lit place in the western part of the capital, a wicked smile appeared on Lu Chen's face, and he quickly ran towards it.

Before long, Lu Chen had arrived outside a mansion that was twice the size of the Lu family estate. Indeed, Lu Chen was now standing outside the residence of the imperial chancellor, the Li family.

Upon hearing that his predestined woman had been bullied, Lu Chen was very angry. However, this cunning boy did not plan to directly eliminate the so-called genius. In many cases, a person's life can be more painful than death. Lu Chen wanted the Li family to know what pain truly meant.

Lu Chen's divine consciousness quickly scanned the entire Li family mansion, including the area 100 meters underground. He knew that many families would build bases or warehouses under their mansions, storing either the family's wealth or mysterious powers.

Lu Chen had two purposes for coming today. One was to cripple the so-called genius, making him realize how easy it is to go from a genius to a waste. The second purpose was to rob the chancellor's mansion, as he was short on pocket money and didn't want to miss out on free opportunities.

Lu Chen's divine consciousness had already detected several places in the mansion with powerful energy. If his guess was correct, these places were where the Li family's wealth was stored. Thinking of the enormous energy he had detected, Lu Chen couldn't help but drool.

Lu Chen's current cultivation level did not allow for teleportation, and he had not learned any magic, so he could only quietly sneak towards one of the places with the most energy. Although the greater the energy, the greater the danger, Lu Chen did not believe that anyone in the chancellor's mansion could harm him with his current abilities.

It must be said that Lu Chen was extremely lucky. When he arrived at his destination, he found no one guarding it. Although there were many restrictions and barriers, they were of no use to Lu Chen. After all, cultivators were generally experts in array formations. A person who hadn't even touched the basics of array formations would have no effect with the barriers they set up against a master-level array formation expert.

Lu Chen flashed into the secret room, which was quite large, about the size of a soccer field on Earth. As soon as he entered, he was stunned by the golden sight before him. Piles of gold coins, numbering at least a hundred billion, were there. However, Lu Chen didn't believe that the chancellor's mansion, with a history of over two thousand years, had only a hundred billion gold coins.

In this world, gold coins were not the largest unit of currency. The largest was purple gold, with one purple gold equaling ten thousand gold coins, one gold coin equaling one hundred silver coins, and one silver coin equaling ten thousand copper coins. An ordinary family's annual expenses would be around fifty gold coins. For nobles, however, it was calculated in purple gold, with at least a hundred to a thousand.

Purple gold contained abundant energy, which made it extremely valuable. However, because no one on this continent knew how to use or extract the energy within purple gold, it could only be made into purple gold coins for use.

Lu Chen didn't believe that the entire Li family had no purple gold coins besides the gold coins. No one would believe such a claim, which meant that the purple gold coins were stored elsewhere. Lu Chen chuckled and began to use his divine consciousness to probe the room, which was originally filled with gold coins but was now empty.

Sure enough, as Lu Chen had expected, the area where he was standing was hollow, and the energy below was much greater than in the room. If his guess was correct, this should be where the Li family stored their purple gold coins and other treasures.

Although Lu Chen couldn't teleport, he could easily perform a simple wall-penetrating technique. Suddenly, a milky white light emitted from his body, and he began to slowly sink. If someone were standing next to him at this moment, they would be shocked to think that Lu Chen was a ghost.