Chapter 729: Bai Feng's Return (1)

In Great Xia, Hong Tan was starting to act overbearingly.

To the east, at the Rising Sky Sea, an eighth-stage Mountainsea stationed there was just assassinated. The event shocked the entire Rising Sky Sea. That Mountainsea had been killed right inside the military camp.

One Sunmoon after another was called back to the camp. Who did it? The Myriad Race Cult? The marine beasts? Or someone else?

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Rising Sky Sea.

Atop a certain island, Chen Yong was coughing blood yet laughing cheerfully.

"Are you still alive?"

Beside him, Feng Ji lay sprawled on the ground. After a while, he gruffly replied, "Yeah. You're quite strong. Much stronger than back then."

"I'm alright, I suppose." Chen Yong smiled, "Finally, that animal is dead."

Feng Ji was too tired to say more. After a long pause, he asked, "What next?"

"We continue." Chen Yong said, "Heal up and kill more people. There are too many parasites in the Human Realm. Since nobody is willing to clean the trash, let me do it."

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Sure." Feng Ji paused slightly before asking, "Will you be able to stay alive?"

Chen Yong said, "I'm fine. Since I walk the defensive path, this is merely a small wound."

Defensive path? This so-called defensive expert was actually quite an effective killer. That eighth-stage Mountainsea was only able to seriously injure him before getting killed immediately after. Was that still a defensive expert?

"How are the Six-Winged Divine Sect people?"

Chen Yong thought about it and said, "There is no rush. We'll keep walking them around. That makes it easier for us to make them scapegoat when we need it."

He sneered, "I will have some people fan the public sentiment. The Six-Winged Divine Sect has sinned greatly and commited countless murders yet the Knowledge Seeking Realm and War Shrine are completely useless against them. They allowed this sect to continue doing as they wish in the Human Realm. All the deaths in our path are unrelated to us."

Feng Ji said nothing. If what they did was exposed, things would be very troublesome. Chen Yong did not have solid proof to turn the Six-Winged Divine Sect into their scapegoat. Once his action of killing a high-ranked military official in the Rising Sky Sea was exposed, a great crisis would come. An eighth-stage Mountainsea was no longer a nobody.

But Chen Yong did not seem to mind. After coughing yet another mouthful of blood, he laughed, "Su Yu's Acupoint Fusion Art is really quite good. The Body Strengthening Art is pretty good as well. You should cultivate them when you have the time."

"It's too difficult."

He was already a Mountainsea. Opening new acupoints was too hard. It was different for Chen Yong since Chen Yong's body wasn't at the Mountainsea Realm yet. Chen Yong nodded. That was true.

But it didn't matter as they had a shortcut for acupoint opening as well. He said, "When we can't stay in the Human Realm any longer, we'll smuggle ourselves out of the Human Realm. Maybe we can try to enter the Divine or Devil Realm and kill some people there. We can rob some heavenly source fruits and use these fruits to open our acupoints."

"You seem to have completely let go of all your inhibitions."

Chen Yong had changed a lot after leaving the academy.

Chen Yong said, "Great Xia Cultural Research Academy and Great Xia are both chains keeping a lot of people in fetters. That place is a massive cage. It does not cage our enemies. Rather, it cages a bunch of sullen, helpless, and indignant individuals who want the best for Great Xia.

"Me, my teacher, my martial uncle, Great Xia King, Prefect Xia, Marquis Xia, and Principal Wan are all being caged by this massive prison. There are millions upon millions of innocent lives in Great Xia. Our faith in Great Xia's banner is also one of the things shackling us down.

"Over the past fifty years, these people have been repressed and forced to keep to themselves. But one incident at a time, this cage is slowly breaking apart."

Chen Yong sneered, "The culprits who are slowly breaking this cage apart will regret their actions one day. I am merely an insignificant figure among these repressed individuals. When those truly ferocious beasts are uncaged, these people will regret everything they have ever done."

Feng Ji sank into silence. A long time passed before he spoke again, "How strong is Principal Wan right now?"

"I don't know." Chen Yong did not elaborate. He said, "Time for us to go. The Rising Sky Sea is only one of our stops. After killing that fellow, this place will be teeming with Sunmoons soon. Perhaps even an Invincible will scan this place for us. Feng Ji, I'll take you on a tour around the magnificent Human Realm."

More like taking him on a killing tour. But Feng Ji kept that thought to himself. They stopped talking and focused on recovery. After a few hours, Feng Ji was finally well enough to start moving again. They continued their travel like before, with Chen Yong vanishing into Feng Ji's shadow.

Nearby, a massive beast was just about to attack them when the shadow covered it and instantly killed it. Next, both Feng Ji and the shadow vanished from the area.

After some time, a group of people appeared. The leader of the group had a frosty look in his eyes. All of them looked somewhat sorry.

"Damn it!" One of them cursed, "Sect Master, do we keep tailing them? Just what is going on? Did Chen Yong kill that military official?"

Damn it!

A military official of the Eastern Navy stationed at the Rising Sky Sea had been killed. That was an eighth-stage Mountainsea, a big shot. Because of that, several Sunmoons of the navy had been scanning the area non-stop over the past few days. Since this group of cultists was quite conspicuous, they were nearly encircled by the navy.

They managed to escape, but they lost a Mountainsea in the process. The Six-Winged Divine Sect had two Sunmoons and six Mountainseas. One of the Sunmoons had left the group to lure the people from the eight families away. The rest of them continued their pursuit under the lead of the remaining Sunmoon. They were confident in their success, but after such a long pursuit, they had lost two Mountainseas.

As for the remaining four Mountainseas, each of them was carrying injuries as well. And after the navy discovered them at the Rising Sky Sea, they had also been made scapegoats for the assassination.

Assassinating a military official on active duty. That was punishable by death. Previously, only the eight families were pursuing them. But now, even the military would start hunting them, including some people from the War Shrine. It didn't matter how strong they were or how big the Human Realm was. Things would still be very difficult if a holy land started hunting them down.

"Sect Master, let us flee. We won't be able to survive this for long."

Some of the Mountainseas were thinking of giving up. They didn't want to die. They had just lost a Mountainsea not long ago. It wasn't easy for a cultivator to reach the Mountainsea Realm. But two such experts had been lost in only one month.

The surviving members had a feeling that if this continued, all of them would die. The sect master sank into silence. Should they continue the pursuit? If they continued, they might really end up dead. But...could they still stop? Also, were Chen Yong and Feng Ji the ones who had killed that Mountainsea? Were they strong enough to do that?

If it was really them, why? That was an eighth-stage Mountainsea. Even their group would need to spare some effort to kill such an individual. Things couldn't have been easy for Chen Yong and Feng Ji.

A different Mountainsea gloomily asked, "Who was the killer? There is no way for us to remove suspicion from us. We are being blamed for taking the life of a Mountainsea official. This is too dangerous. Offending the military is completely different than causing trouble in some small cities."

The military was filled with countless experts. If the situation continued escalating, some military experts might even return from the frontlines to hunt them down. That would be far more dangerous than being hunted by the eight families. The local military could not compare as well.

The military at the Allheaven Battlefield had fought for over three hundred years. They had reached an extremely high level in combat, pursuit, and encirclement. It would be very difficult to escape the pursuit of these people.

More importantly, this felt terrible. They were not the killers! But who would believe them? What? Were they going to say that Chen Yong was the culprit? What a joke!

Feng Ji was a third-stage Mountainsea while Chen Yong was a fresh Mountainsea. Were they supposed to kill an eighth-stage Mountainsea just to make the Six-Winged Divine Sect scapegoat? What nonsense was that?

The sect master stood there silently. After a bit, a jade pendant in his sea of willpower shook. A voice came from the jade pendant, "The high-ranked military official, Liu Qi, is dead?"

"Yes," replied the sect master.

"Was it you?"

"No!"

"Chen Yong?"

"Yes. That is very likely."

After a short silence, the voice came again, "Kill him at all costs. I will give you a list of names. There are several locations he might head to next. Kill him."

The sect master's heart skipped a beat. He said, "Lord, is Liu Qi one of us?"

"Yes."

Realization dawned on the sect master. Chen Yong had caught on to their tail!

He asked worriedly, "Will this affect you, Lord?"

"Don't worry. Chen Yong has no proof of anything. Liu Qi is not enough to implicate me. But we can't let him continue. Otherwise, this is bound to attract more attention."

"This subordinate understands." The sect master decided to make his request, "Lord, I need help. I need a good tracker. Chen Yong and Feng Ji are too hard to track. The Human Realm is too big and the scope of what we can do is too small. We have a lot less leeway when moving out in the public."

During this pursuit, there were a few times when Chen Yong would flee into some large cities. And these cultists wouldn't even dare to show their presence in cities with experts in it.

Furthermore, Chen Yong was simply too good at concealment. Up until this point, they had yet to even encounter him once. There was only that one encounter with Feng Ji, but he was able to escape.

"I'll arrange for it."

The conversation ended there.