Chapter Thirty-Eight

Li Feng walks directly toward the stairway, using ground magic to open a path through walls of stone in his way. He tries to avoid going through people’s homes, but the damage he and Ruan Zan did to the 183rd floor is extensive. It’ll take at least a few days to clean everything up, and several support beams were damaged.

At the stairway, Li Feng jumps into the hole and uses air magic to fly himself up to the seventy-sixth floor, where he uses ground magic to make a hole in the chain blocking him from the entering the floor. Li Feng is only slightly familiar with the addressing of apartments in the mines, so it takes him a few minutes to reach the twenty-fourth room in the third quadrant of the level. Thankfully, each quadrant has a sign to identify it with, and it doesn’t take Li Feng more than ten minutes to find the correct room.

Without knocking or waiting for something to first come through the door, Li Feng uses fire magic to incinerate the wooden door, turning it into ash in a fraction of a second. Behind the door is a man with his arm in a cast, sitting in a chair next to a woman laying in a bed.

That woman is Lam Bai.

Filled with anger, the momentary relief from having found Lam Bai escaping him, Li Feng ground magic to launch a pebble through the injured man’s head faster than he can react to Li Feng entering the room. The injured man’s head splits like a watermelon under a hammer, not standing a chance against Li Feng’s magic.

“Bai, are you okay?” Li Feng asks, approaching Lam Bai. Her servant uniform is ripped, but it’s not ripped off.

“Young… master?” Lam Bai weakly says, turning her head to look at Li Feng. Seeing him, she smiles.

“I’m glad I found you,” Li Feng says, stopping in front of Lam Bai.

“Me too,” Lam Bai says.

“Let’s get out of here,” Li Feng says, and helps Lam Bai up from the bed.

Li Feng and Lam Bai walk out of the room, Lam Bai mostly ignoring the corpse of the injured man. They walk to the stairway, where people have gathered to look at the broken chains. Inconspicuously, Li Feng and Lam Bai walk up the descending stairs, going right past Ya and the other onlookers.

Without stopping to talk to anyone, Li Feng and Lam Bai walk back to their hotel. Walking back up the stairway took a long time, an entire seventy six floors of stairs for the battered Lam Bai and the tired Li Feng, and it’s midday when they reach the surface.

The woman sitting behind the desk at the hotel doesn’t ask any questions when Li Feng and Lam Bai pass, and the two arrive at their room soon after.