NOVPUBThe three had only pursued for a few minutes when they had captured all of these dozen or so figures.
This was also the reason the group had decided to give chase.
If these people were strong, Huang Ri and his companions wouldn’t have considered pursuing them.
When Huang Xing removed the black veils from these dozen people,
they all showed panicked expressions, hastily begging for mercy.
Clearly, they had not expected to encounter such powerful individuals this time.
"Who are you?" Huang Xing asked with a frown.
"You better tell the truth, otherwise I will make you wish you were dead."
"Spare me, my lord, my name is Wu Jiang.
We are all loose cultivators!"
The person in black in the middle cried for mercy without a second thought.
"Speak, what was your purpose at the inn," Huang Ri asked indifferently.
"We had no purpose, someone approached us, they wanted us to sneak around in your room tonight and then leave,"
Wu Jiang hurriedly explained, "I didn’t do anything!"
"Yes, yes," the other loose cultivators around him nodded in agreement.
"Wrong, Huang Yue is in danger."
Upon hearing their words, Huang Ri immediately reacted.
His figure stepped in the air and he ran directly towards the inn.
Since the inn was not far from them, it took less than a minute for the group to arrive at the inn.
But as soon as they arrived, Huang Ri’s eyes split with fury at the scene before him.
He saw Huang Yue lying in a pool of blood, her life hanging by a thread.
And the three bound figures in black robes were chopped into minced meat with a knife, dying in a way too horrific to look at.
"Yue’er," Huang Ri took a stride forward to Huang Yue, lifting her up to check her condition.
He shouted, "She’s still breathing, she’s still breathing.
Guard me while I treat her."
The strength of the Saint Vein Realm lies in the intact True Fate, any severe injury can slowly recover.
At this moment, although Huang Yue had sustained very serious injuries, her True Fate was undamaged.
Hence, under Huang Ri’s treatment, after a bit more than an hour, Huang Yue gradually regained consciousness.
She looked extremely weak.
"Elder of the Evil God Cult," she said faintly.
"Don’t talk now, we already know, go rest,"
Huang Ri nodded and said with a pale face.
Huang Yue nodded slightly and entered the room with Huang Xing’s assistance.
Huang Ri stood up and said to Xu Zimei, "Young Master Xu, thank you for your help tonight.
We need to stay with Yue’er, you should rest early."
"Can you tell me about the Evil God Cult?" Xu Zimei asked.
Since he couldn’t sleep tonight anyway, he might as well learn about this sect.
Their influence was indeed somewhat unexpected.
"Actually, we don’t know much about this sect either.
Even the ones we’ve caught in the past would rather die than reveal any secrets."
Huang Ri shook his head and sighed.
"I only know the general distribution of the Evil God Cult’s influence.
Besides their leader, who is hailed as a True God, there are four Vajra and Protectors underneath.
The Protectors are distinguished as Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise.
And the four Vajra are Subdue Dragon, Subjugate Tiger, Furious Eyes, Prajna."
Xu Zimei nodded slightly and, after chatting with Huang Ri for a while, he returned to his room.
Huang Ri and the other person might not have noticed this incident because they were too anxious about Huang Yue’s injury.
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But Xu Zimei sensed something strange.
It had only taken them a few minutes to pursue those Loose Cultivators, so how could Huang Yue have sustained such severe injuries in such a short time?
Unless the opponent was much stronger than her, at the level of the Divine Vein or even a being who had Stepped into Immortality.
But if the opponent was really that strong, they would have attacked directly. Why bother using Loose Cultivators as a diversion to lure them away?
After returning to his room, Xu Zimei sat cross-legged.
At this moment, his consciousness had entered the True Fate World.
He waved his hands, and the Chaos Pearl slowly floated out from the void.
Breaching layer upon layer of the void, it floated in mid-air, radiating the aura of the Way.
Xu Zimei used the Chaos Pearl to enter the River of Fate once again.
He wanted to inspect Huang Yue’s River of Fate.
The River of Fate quietly drifted in the cosmic starry sky, resembling the Milky Way hanging upside down in the heavens.
This river water was composed of the fates of countless people from the Yuan Central Continent.
With ripples surging along the river.
No one would expect that in this silent starry sky, everyone’s fate was being unscrupulously scrutinized.
...…
It was a long time before Xu Zimei slowly opened his eyes.
He let out a light chuckle, took a deep breath, and shook his head slightly.
Inspecting the River of Fate was very draining on him.
He hadn’t expected that the power of the Evil God Cult was so vast; on the surface, the Phoenix Perching Empire seemed extremely prosperous and strong.
It appeared to be a scene of national peace and good order.
In reality, internally, it was already riddled with holes and undercurrents were seething.
However, these matters had nothing to do with Xu Zimei. As long as the Evil God Cult did not trouble him, he couldn’t be bothered to interfere.
After celebrating his grandfather’s grand birthday, and once he had dealt with the matters entrusted by the Sword Immortal Jiang Yun, he would head to the Endless Heaven Sea to search for the Taiyang Zuzhao.
Then, he would also try to advance into the Divine Vein Realm.
The time for his Destiny to form was approaching, and as long as he advanced to the Divine Vein Realm, Xu Zimei’s plan would be more than half successful.
Whether it was the second Battle Body or the third, or even the reincarnated Baili Xiao, he no longer viewed them as important.
He had long stopped considering his contemporaries; Xu Zimei’s goals were now the older generation.
After all, in a real fight, the opponent wouldn’t care about your age.
A night passed in silence, and due to Huang Yue’s injuries, the group decided to rest in Phoenix Hoaring City for a few days.
Then they would take a Teleportation Array to the Phoenix Feather City, the capital of the Phoenix Perching Empire.
Xu Zimei descended the stairs to find that Huang Ri and his companions had already started to have breakfast on the first floor.
"Brother Xu," Huang Xing immediately greeted him upon seeing Xu Zimei come downstairs.
"Is Miss Huang Yue alright? She looks to be in good spirits," Xu Zimei said with a smile as he sat down.
"It’s nothing serious. Though the injuries were severe, her True Fate is intact," said Huang Xing.
"Brother Xu should also be careful recently. Yue’er mentioned that the person who attacked her last night was one of the Four Guardians of the Evil God Cult, the Prajna Venerable."
"I will," Xu Zimei replied, nodding with a smile.
After breakfast, the group decided to take a stroll around Phoenix Hoaring City.
Stepping out of the inn, the bustling crowd on the street was lively.
The vendors on both sides were energetically hawking their goods.
Watching Huang Ri and Huang Xing walk ahead, Xu Zimei quietly asked Huang Yue with a smile,
"Miss Huang Yue’s position within the Evil God Cult must not be low, right?"
Hearing Xu Zimei’s words, Huang Yue’s expression froze.
A flash of murderous intent swept across her eyes, then she quickly replied with a smile, "What is Young Master Xu talking about? I don’t understand."
"Last night’s three men in black robes were killed by you, weren’t they?" Xu Zimei said calmly, without hurry.
"What do you think their reaction would be if they knew that the comrade who had been conspiring with them for years was actually an undercover agent of the Evil God Cult?
What would be their reaction?"
``` 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝒐𝒎
