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Chapter 228 - 228: Tracking, the Queen of the Nine Nethers
Lu Jun was speechless. The Hunter Alliance's Elder Lingxi was here—that was Salan.
Wasn't she just alerting the enemy by doing this?
He calmly said, "No rush. The Black Vatican dares to do these things right under the eyes of the Ancient Capital. Do you think there's no one supporting them from behind?"
As his words fell, the member of the Judgment Court suddenly understood, fell into deep thought, and murmured, "Looks like we need to initiate the Judgment Court contingency plan."
When the existing official system can no longer be trusted, the Judgment Court will activate an independent route, carry out parallel execution, bypass all procedures, and not even internal members of the Judgment Court will know.
Lu Jun nodded to himself. That mysterious gray-robed man in the original story was probably a product of this system.
With his arrival and his crisp, decisive way of tearing up the script, the group felt both heavy-hearted and somewhat confident they at least knew many secrets and could handle them in advance.
Asha'ria stood to the side, expressionless after hearing everything, no one could tell what she was thinking.
In any case, her intelligence business was about to be taken over by Lu Jun.
The members of the Judgment Court felt that there was no time to lose, and they needed to return quickly also escorting the villagers of Huacun back to the Ancient Capital.
At this moment, Asha'ria refused to go with them, stating she had another goal to continue deeper into the Undead Forbidden Zone to find a colleague and obtain a certain item. (Original text from the novel)
Logically speaking, to prevent any leaks of information, the Judgment Court should secretly detain everyone.
But that high-ranking member gave up upon learning that Asha'ria was from the Parthenon Temple and held extremely high status.
He even explained, "The Parthenon Temple despises the Black Vatican more than anyone. With her identity, she would never betray humanity."
Hearing that, Lu Jun secretly ridiculed currently, the supreme ruler of the Parthenon Temple, the Hierophant, was the Black Vatican's Pope. It was full of holes.
The short man shook his head and said, "What colleague? She's probably just here to collect corpses. These foreign powers like the Parthenon and the Holy Hall Court all came to the Ancient Capital."
"They claimed to study the root cause and solve the undead problem. In the end, they achieved nothing and even got themselves killed, turned into undead, and left us to clean up the mess."
Everyone looked at each other. After the brief interlude, they organized the villagers to depart in a grand procession.
Fortunately, the dangerous village had enough gray garlic, so the journey was safe and sound.
Asha'ria floated away with her followers, not even turning her head, diving into the depths of the Undead Forbidden Zone.
Mo Fan turned his head and looked back, curious about what this mysterious and lethally seductive woman was searching for on this land full of death and conflict what exactly did she want to do? 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝖔𝔪
At that moment, Lu Jun flipped onto the back of the Night Thunder Dream Beast, his whole body turning into a mass of shadow and silently departing.
He casually tossed out an explanation: "To prevent any information leaks, I'll follow her. I'll catch up with you all later."
Hearing that, everyone nodded, feeling it was a very reasonable action. Only Lu Mei seemed thoughtful.
Separated from the group, Lu Jun tailed Asha'ria from a distance.
He wanted to determine how much control she had over the Dark Angel Saint Soul, whether it had automatic detection abilities—better to be cautious.
In fact, with the augmentation of Ding Yumian's main soul imprint, Lu Jun's Mental Invisibility had reached a freakish level—easily enough to bypass the passive detection of a Forbidden Curse-level undead.
Unless Asha'ria could actively control the Dark Angel and unleash Forbidden Curse power.
That was obviously impossible, and at this stage, it was uncertain whether she was even aware of the thing inside her.
After a while, Lu Jun saw Asha'ria stop at a tomb it seemed she had arrived at her destination.
It was a relatively grand noble's tomb, with slumbering Commander-level Corpse Generals. Despite the dense swarm of undead, they didn't attack the living.
Lu Jun was genuinely curious about Asha'ria's actions.
After waiting a long time, he saw a familiar figure in a blue robe flying in from the distance on the wind.
It was none other than Mu He. His expression was cold, hands behind his back. His cultivation had clearly reached peak Tier-3 Advanced in three systems: Psychic, Curse, and Wind.
Seeing this, Lu Jun drooled in his heart—top-quality materials.
If his Curse Element's Ghost Punishment gained another ghost to form a male-female Yin-Yang pair, his Domain would be complete, and his Advanced Stage could be considered fully cultivated.
The next step would simply be to raise his cultivation level.
However, he suppressed the impulse in his heart. Mu He wouldn't escape from here. Once they returned to the Ancient Capital, a net would be waiting no need to alert the enemy now.
Very soon, Asha'ria coldly threw a gray-cloth-wrapped object at Mu He.
Mu He opened it and saw a pitch-black Netherstone, nodding in satisfaction. It was a rare treasure combining Undead, Space, and Chaos elements, only produced in the Dark Plane.
It was also the primary energy source that powered the Shayuán Magic Formation!
"I've brought the item. If it weren't for that person's commission, I wouldn't have risked my life for this trip.
Asha'ria said coldly, "Who you are, what background you have I don't care. To me, you're just a client. Tell that woman: from now on, we're even."
Hearing this, Mu He smiled elegantly. "I will deliver your words to that lady. Are you sure you don't want to take part in our great cause?"
Heh. Asha'ria sneered in disdain.
Mu He looked at her deeply, full of wariness. In the end, he didn't make a move and quietly withdrew.
At the spot, Asha'ria fell into deep thought, pondering something unknown.
Given her identity and what she knew of Salan, she had long guessed this was the Black Church's doing. That meant every time she transported Netherstone, the ancient capital moved one step closer to destruction.
Massacres. The true culprit.
Although bound by favors and contracts, she didn't care. On the contrary, she was rather interested in selling out her "teammates." Let's see who's more skilled in the end.
Little did she know, in the distance, Lu Jun had seen everything, a confirming expression on his face. Asha'ria was indeed closely tied to the ancient capital incident.
It was skipped over in the original story, but now he had witnessed it all his curiosity satisfied.
As for Asha'ruiya's actions, Lu Jun had no particular opinion. Whether she was just doing shady business or being forced by other things, the woman probably didn't care either way.
According to Lu Jun's memories, Asha'ria was exactly this type of person neither good nor evil, elusive, wrapped in mystery.
She appeared to stand on Mo Fan's side of justice, but in truth, she always had her own agenda and profited from it.
Come to think of it, she and Lu Jun were clearly the same type of people.
A sliver of conscience, like how while selling information, she simultaneously leaked tons of intelligence about the Black Church to the ancient capital practically giving them a God's-eye view.
She deeply valued family, like how in the future she'd travel far and wide just to save the Black Dragon Emperor.
She was selfish and good at riding the waves and currying favor never one to go against the wind like Mo Fan.
Lu Jun waited a long time. Asha'ria, too, didn't leave. At last, another earth-shattering secret arrived.
A palace maiden in flowing white robes glided in from afar, graceful and tall, with enchanting yet dignified features, and an aura of sacred nobility.
That's right glided! At that moment, before Lu Jun could react, the Totem Pearl in his arms began trembling violently—the Black Serpent Totem was clearly fearful. It seemed to sense a Monarch-tier presence!
Wait, if it's someone of that level...
Lu Jun's eyes widened as he studied the one-of-a-kind, otherworldly ghostly beauty. He had never seen her before, but he could guess.
Could this be—Queen of Netherworlds?!
Holy crap, a final boss character!
Asha'ria's business was truly a servicing both light and dark, and now even selling to demons?
That made it three sides she was playing!
Lu Jun sincerely admired the woman. Damn, no wonder she was the most unfathomable and cunning woman in the original story the one Mo Fan longed for yet could never attain.
He watched the unfolding trade with deep curiosity.
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