The Bodyguard King’s CEO Wife Chapter 1795: Searching

"Master, the families behind us will catch up very soon, let’s pick up the pace." Feng Ling reminded.

"Alright, Kai, let’s hurry up and move." Chen Yuxin had originally wanted to close the palace gate to block those families from coming in, but no one knew where the mechanism was, so they could only move forward.

"Master, there’s a door ahead." Feng Ling walked in front and reported back to the group behind.

"Open it." Chen Yuxin ordered. Several Chen family members immediately stepped forward and forced the door open, but this time the door was quite "cooperative" and actually opened very quickly, without any obstruction.

"Family Head, it’s all treasures inside." Chen Ruoya led a few people in first; the room was packed full of pills, bottle after bottle, even bigger in scale than the pill rooms of the major clans. In the middle sat an alchemy furnace, and if she guessed right, it should also be a supreme-grade piece. This was only the first room, and it already hid so many treasures. If they searched through the rooms behind one by one, wouldn’t they strike it rich.

No wonder so many families wanted to be the first to come here. With so many treasures, they could assemble a cultivator "legion" in a short time. Once they obtained such vast resources, even a second-rate family could soar to become a Huaxia aristocratic clan.

Seeing so many treasures, Chen Yuxin was visibly excited. With these, the Chen family could even become the number-one family in Yanjing. The Wang Family had suffered disastrous losses; as for the remaining Ji Family and Murong Family, when the time came they could only look to the Chen family’s lead.

"Kai, don’t you have a Storage Ring? Can you take all these things?" With so many treasures, relying on people carrying them obviously wouldn’t work. Besides, there were still many rooms behind that they hadn’t searched. Ye Shikai did not refuse; if they didn’t take these treasures, sooner or later other families would, and then it would all become trouble.

Once the Storage Ring came out, all the treasures present were swept into his bag, even the alchemy furnace in the center was stored away. The Storage Ring might not be a combat treasure, but it was extremely convenient. Most crucially, among all the families here, there wasn’t a second Storage Ring; only Ye Shikai had the ability to bring all the treasures back.

"Kai, let’s keep moving forward." Chen Yuxin said.

"Let’s go."

At the same time.

"Just now, the Wang Family and Tang Family people wanted to retreat. That proves they must have already clashed with the families ahead." Zheng Li said coldly. He hadn’t expected that there were actually families walking in front of them that had "cut off" all five families.

"I saw Tang Can and Wang Lianfeng both heavily injured. Just who possesses such formidable strength to rout two families at once?" Ji Tao was a bit tense; this meant there was an even stronger opponent ahead, stronger than those two families.

"The Chen family." Ji Qian murmured.

"Right, we almost forgot about the Chen family." Ji Tao’s expression grew grim. From the beginning they hadn’t seen a trace of the Chen family; he hadn’t expected they had already stolen a march.

"And him." Ji Qian had a vague guess as to who had crushed those two families. Aside from him, there was likely no one else who could have done it.

Not long after, the five families arrived at the palace gates. The main doors had already been opened. Zheng Li didn’t delay and immediately ordered everyone into the palace. The five families together numbered in the thousands, but once they entered this palace, it didn’t feel crowded at all.

"Our families took heavy losses up ahead, yet the Chen family seized the lead. If they want to swallow all the treasures alone, this old man will not agree." Li Changtian said angrily.

"Yes, what Elder Li says is very true. The Chen family is being far too shameless."

"So many treasures—if the Chen family wants to hog them all, aren’t they afraid of choking to death."

The other family heads all chimed in. What every family most wanted was to be the first to enter the palace; what they feared most was some other family heading in first. The Chen family had indeed incurred public wrath. When interests diverge, conflict becomes inevitable. Of course, these were just the words on the surface; the subtext of the family heads was simple: if the Chen family was willing to cooperate, they could still get a share of the pie. But if the Chen family wanted to monopolize everything, the five families would absolutely not agree.

"Everyone, be careful. There might be mechanisms here." Zheng Li was actually very cautious. This was an unknown place where danger could lurk anywhere.

"Family Head Zheng, the Chen family has already gone so far ahead of us. We should also speed up, otherwise all the treasures will end up in their hands." The other family heads were already burning with impatience. Ji Tao, however, did not voice his stance. As the old saying goes, ’if you’re too hasty, you’ll never eat hot tofu,’ but here, being hasty could very well mean losing your life.

"Very well then." Zheng Li was inwardly just as anxious, and unable to withstand the urging of the other family heads, everyone sped up. However, they quickly came to a fork.

"There are four paths here. Which one should we take?"

What lay before them were four branching passages, each one looking more or less the same.

"There are many treasures in this palace, and the families behind us will arrive soon. I propose that our five families act separately." Li Changtian suggested.

"I agree with Family Head Li’s idea. If we all take the same path, what about the other three? Of course we should split up."

"Yes, I agree as well."

"Alright then, since that’s the case, let’s each take our own route." Zheng Li was somewhat helpless. By rights, in a completely unknown place that was very likely dangerous, splitting up carried the risk of being defeated one by one. But in the eyes of those few family heads, only their desire for treasures remained; they were already unable to restrain themselves, so how could they possibly listen to advice.

The five families each took a different path. Ji Tao decided to go with the Li Family down the second passage. No one knew what lay at the end of each road...

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"Kai, what exactly are you looking for?" While the Chen family members were searching for treasures, Ye Shikai was also constantly searching for something. But clearly, his target was not those treasures. Meanwhile, Chen Yuxin did not show much greed toward the treasures. All her attention was on Ye Shikai.

"Nothing." Ye Shikai waved his hand. He knew very well that the reason Chen Yuxin stuck close to him was because she was worried he might "run off."

"Kai, this time we’ve gotten so many treasures. Compared to this, the relic I went to before was simply dwarfed."

"What are you trying to say?" Ye Shikai countered.

"This time we’ve taken the lead. As long as we secure these treasures, the Chen family can dominate one side in Yanjing, and we’ll be able to live peacefully." Chen Yuxin held his hands, her eyes full of expectation. How could Ye Shikai not know what she was thinking? But what he wanted was to be able to go back and find He Linghan.

"Enough, let’s hurry up and keep searching. You’re pregnant—let Feng Ling and Xue Ming look after you more."