Chapter 238 - 154: Forced Entry (First Update)
Chapter 238: Chapter 154: Forced Entry (First Update)
Three days later!
Su Jie and his companions left the Ghost Ridge Palace without incident, parting ways with Hall Master Zuo Xiping.
“The rest of the journey is up to you, be careful on your way.”@@novelbin@@
With Zuo Xiping’s parting advice, Su Jie and the other two gradually left the towering mountains of the Ghost Ridge Palace and arrived at the plains.
“Let me change your appearance first.”
Ning Xinyue bounced over to Su Jie, her delicate little hands pinching Su Jie’s facial muscles as a strange Spiritual Power flowed into him, cool to the touch.
Su Jie’s facial muscles slackened first, then gradually morphed into a different appearance.
After a dozen seconds, Ning Xinyue clapped her hands, satisfied with her handiwork, “Done, see how I did.”
As she spoke, she even took out a mirror to show Su Jie the transformation.
In the mirror was a plain face, showing no trace of Su Jie’s original appearance.
“I didn’t expect you to be quite skilled.”
Su Jie touched his own face, feeling the remnants of Spiritual Power. Until this power completely dissipated, his countenance wouldn’t change.
This way, he wouldn’t have to worry about his identity being discovered while traveling in the outside world.
After all, his original face had a bounty of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones on it, making being recognized extremely dangerous.
“Now you know how important I am.”
Ning Xinyue proudly lifted her chin, then went on to alter Xiao Fengyuan’s appearance, and finally changed her own as well.
After these maneuvers, even the members of the Ghost Ridge Palace, if standing in front of the trio now, would not be able to recognize them.
“First, let’s pinpoint Qi Shijian’s location.”
Su Jie took out the Identity Jade from his bosom. A red light spot appeared in the upper left corner of the Jade, flickering on and off.
“To the northwest, he’s heading towards Fengzhou.”
Xiao Fengyuan’s eyebrows knitted slightly. The light spot on the Identity Jade could act like a compass, indicating direction, and the closer it was to the Jade’s host, the brighter it would become. They would use this method to seek their target.
“No matter the distance, we must capture him.”
Su Jie put away the Identity Token, imagining that the other party might also be on alert, which explained why he had traveled so far.
“Brother Su, Brother Xiao, someone’s coming.”
Ning Xinyue tugged at Su Jie’s sleeve, pointing to a cavalry team that appeared in the distance.
The cavalry team consisted of more than a dozen Righteous Sect disciples, clearly on a patrol mission. Upon seeing several strangers like Su Jie and the others, they immediately spurred their horses to quicken their pace.
After all, due to the Sect wars, no ordinary people dared to venture near the area.
“Who are you, skulking about? State your origins.”
A harsh voice bellowed as weapons were drawn.
“I’ll handle this.”
Xiao Fengyuan turned around, his left sleeve fluttering, and from within flew a Top Grade Three Refinement Multi-legged Centipede. In an instant, it swelled to over thirty meters long, countless underbellies turning into elongated tentacles. Hundreds of tentacles obscured the view with their messy, intense barrage.
Dirt and stones burst from the ground, accompanied by screams and blood as numerous bodies were smashed into mush, mingling with the soil and vegetation on the ground.
The unfortunate Righteous Sect disciples had encountered two of the strongest disciples from the Ghost Ridge Palace. Although they had the advantage in numbers, they were actually trapped in a hopeless situation.
“Run, run!”
“That move, it’s the Nine-headed Demon Spear.”
“Quick, notify the Sect Elders… ”
Some of those lucky enough not to be killed were so frightened they ran for their lives without looking back.
Xiao Fengyuan’s hand now held a black long spear that had appeared out of nowhere, a Mid Grade Magical Artifact.
Facing several disciples in a sorry state of escape, he didn’t give them a chance to return and send a message. The blood-colored patterns on the long spear were faintly emerging.
The fleeing Righteous Disciples’ eyes, nose, and ears gushed with blood as they convulsed on the ground, all the blood in their bodies uncontrollably being sucked out as it flowed into the black long spear, making the blood-colored patterns on the spear’s body even more vivid.
Less than half a minute had passed before the battle had already ended.
These Righteous Disciples, with the gap in combat strength too great compared to Xiao Fengyuan, were slaughtered without much resistance.
“So powerful.”
Ning Xinyue couldn’t help but click her tongue in secret admiration and involuntarily turned to look at Su Jie, subconsciously comparing the strengths of the two men.
“Brother Xiao’s skills are truly extraordinary,”
Su Jie said with a smile, offering his compliments. He had intended to deal with any stragglers, but it seemed there was no longer any need for his help.
“These Righteous gentlemen, I certainly won’t be merciful when killing them,”
Xiao Fengyuan’s eyes were bloodthirsty and brutal, and at this moment, he truly resembled a Demon Cultivator, a far cry from his previous demeanor.
“Let’s clean up and leave. It’s not suitable to stay here for long,”
After tidying up the battlefield a bit, the three quickly left the area, heading northwest.
…………….
Su Jie and the others had planned to leave quietly, but the area sealed off by the Righteous Sect was larger than they had anticipated.
Along the way, they would occasionally run into patrolling Righteous Disciples. The slightest discrepancy in passcodes or secret phrases would reveal their identities as Demon Cultivators, forcing them to silence witnesses along their path.
However, engaging in such actions too frequently naturally came with the risk of exposure.
“The patrols by the Righteous are getting denser; our identities have likely been exposed,”
Su Jie said, concealed among the dense branches, after watching a patrol team leave moments ago.
No matter how many were silenced, with so many patrolling disciples going missing, those Righteous Sects would definitely realize something was amiss and suspect a group of powerful Demon Cultivators had slipped away.
“If need be, we’ll just force our way through.”
Xiao Fengyuan spread out the map, noting that their current location was actually far from Ghost Ridge Palace, but the intensity of the patrols was abnormal, clearly targeted based on their trail of killings. The Righteous were strengthening their defenses and blockades, attempting to capture Su Jie and the others.
“That’s indeed our only option. I will lead the way and fly us out,”
Su Jie nodded, releasing the thousand-hand centipede from his sleeve.
Flying was too attention-grabbing, which was why Su Jie had been reluctant to do so before. But now that their general location had been exposed, they might as well use the fastest way to break out of the encirclement.
Sizzle!
Once the thousand-hand centipede was released, its body rapidly expanded in coils, transforming in a moment into an eighty-meter-long massive creature.
“Mid Grade Five Refinement poisonous insect.”
Xiao Fengyuan was taken aback. The last time he saw the thousand-hand centipede, it was at Mid Grade Four Refinements. Just a few months had passed, and it had advanced to Mid Grade Five Refinements. Its transformation speed was indeed too fast.
“Come on up,”
Su Jie stood on the head of the thousand-hand centipede, while Xiao Fengyuan, without fuss, joined him. He owned a mount too, the Four-eyed Illusion Demon Fox, but it wasn’t fast at flying, nowhere near as useful as the thousand-hand centipede.
Ning Xinyue hesitated, only climbing onto the back of the thousand-hand centipede after receiving a stern look from Su Jie, closing her eyes in the process.
“Xiao Qian, take off and ascend. We’re breaking out,”
Su Jie patted the head of the thousand-hand centipede, which then trembled with force, propelling itself rapidly skyward.
Now with a size comparable to a Boeing 747, the Righteous Cultivators were certainly not blind.
As the thousand-hand centipede took flight, it immediately became a magnet for attention, attracting eyes from all directions.
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