"Alas," Chen Xiaofei sighed, squatting down beside Xia Yun. "There are probably secret tunnels belonging to the Qingming Pavilion all over the place down there beneath ordinary people's homes. The moment he knew where an entrance was, he slipped right down. I can't just go chopping up people's houses to look for a passageway."
Chen Xiaofei was furious. The Qingming Pavilion had made thorough preparations indeed; all their retreat routes were arranged underground. Anyone who didn't know the exact entrances would have to rip apart the common folk's homes just to find them.
"The nickname the common people gave me is the Sky-Walking Blade. How could I possibly tear down their houses?" Chen Xiaofei justified it to himself, convincing himself that letting the Wheel-Turning King get away was entirely in the interest of safeguarding the people's property, and definitely not because he still had plot relevance later on.
Chapter 207