The gates of the Martial Arts Department (MAD) of Lingzhou City.
Duan Tianhe, Cheng Dongfeng, and several other MAD executives were standing on either side of the gates.
An off-road vehicle slowly approached and stopped in front of the gates of the MAD.
The car door opened, and a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, wearing a training suit, got out.
Duan Tianhe and Cheng Dongfeng went up to greet him. They cupped their fists and greeted him as "Grandmaster Ji."
Grandmaster was an honorific title for Rank-7 and above. Rank-8 could be called Grandmaster, and Rank-9 could also be called Grandmaster. The middle-aged man in front of him was a Rank-9 martial artist.
His name was Ji Dongxu, an expert of the northwest Ji Clan.
The base camp of the northwest Ji Clan was located in the ancient city of Xi 'an. It was rumored that the Ji Clan had a certain relationship with one of the Five Great Holy Lands of the Martial Dao, the Jiang Clan of the Yellow Emperor's Tomb. In terms of strength, the Ji Clan was stronger than the Jiangnan Wei Clan, the Murong Clan, and the Long Clan!
On the surface, the Ji Clan had an expert at the Divine Ability Secret Realm holding down the fort, and there were even rumors that the Ji Clan still had a Void Initiation Realm ancestor that was still alive.
Wang Hou was known as the Hua Nation's Number One even though he had just reached Void-tier. That was because he was the first Void-tier elite born after the Revival of Qi. Moreover, as the highest-ranking person in charge of the Martial Arts Department (MAD), Wang Hou was a public figure who was known to the citizens, average martial artists, and Awakened.
The title of "China's most powerful man" was not without reason.
As a matter of fact, Wang Hou was not the only Void-level powerhouse in China.
For example, the Five Great Sacred Grounds each had more than one Void-initiation Realm expert. The Eight Trigrams School's Founding Master, Dong Haichuan, was also very likely a Void-initiation Realm expert. The lifespan of a Void-initiation Realm expert was as long as five hundred years. No one could be sure which ancient sects and martial arts families had such old monsters hidden away.
After a round of self-introductions, Ji Dongxu got to know everyone.
Duan Tianhe said, "Grandmaster Ji must be tired from the long journey. I've already ordered people to prepare a banquet to welcome Grandmaster Ji. Grandmaster Ji, please …"
"Then I won't stand on ceremony."
Ji Dongxu laughed out loud. "I really like the hand-grabbed mutton of Lingzhou City. I've been coming here quite often for it in recent years."
Duan Tianhe heaved a sigh of relief.
At first, he was worried that the elites who came to Spirit State City would be arrogant and difficult to get along with. But now, it seemed that his worries were unnecessary.
They chatted happily and were about to get into the car to go to the restaurant. Suddenly, Ji Dongxu looked in the direction of Jinyintan Beach. Even though it was more than ten kilometers away, the dull explosion still couldn't escape Ji Dongxu's notice.
Not only Ji Dongxu, but Duan Tianhe and Cheng Dongfeng also heard the explosion.
Exchanging glances, the trio leapt up to the rooftop of the MAD's building and looked up to find flames rising above Jinyintan Village.
Then, an extremely tyrannical aura burst forth …
Ji Dongxu's expression darkened. "So strong … even from so far away, I can feel a strong sense of danger. This person's strength is probably close to the threshold of divine-realm!"
"What?"
Cheng Dongfeng and Duan Tianhe's expressions changed drastically when they heard this.
"Could a divine-tier elite have attacked Jiang He?"
In less than ten seconds.
Everything disappeared, and so did the powerful aura. Ji Dongxu sighed. "The battle is over …"
"Damn it!"
Cheng Dongfeng clenched his teeth and clenched his fists, exclaiming in grief and indignation, "The Sky Demon Cult actually mobilized a divine-tier elite? What are our elites doing? Didn't they notice? Jiang He … Is Jiang He alright? "
Both Duan Tianhe and Ji Dongxu were silent.
From their perspective, Jiang He was probably … gone.
Seeing that they were quiet, Cheng Dongfeng promptly leapt down from the rooftop and was about to head to Jinyintan Village to check out the situation, but was stopped by Ji Dongxu. Duan Tianhe caught up to him and scolded, "Don't be impulsive, Old Cheng!"
"The situation in Jinyintan Village is unclear right now. It's too dangerous to go there recklessly!"
After some thought, he whipped out his phone and said, "I'll contact Commander Chen and see if he could get the military elite from Yuzhen to help …"
"Eh?"
Even before Duan Tianhe finished, his eyes tightened and he looked at his phone screen.
A call had just arrived.
Moreover, the caller ID was clearly marked with the name 'Jiang He'.
He looked up at Cheng Dongfeng, and then at Ji Dongxu.
On the other hand, Ji Dongxu appeared puzzled.
To tell the truth, he had been cultivating in seclusion and had only come out recently. His family had sent him to Lingzhou City right after that, and he had no idea who Jiang He was at all.
"Answer it, hurry up!"
Delighted, Cheng Dongfeng exclaimed, "I knew Jiang He would be fine!"
Duan Tianhe breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, though he kept a leisurely expression and said, "What if the Sky Demon Cultists had stolen Jiang He's phone?"
He answered the call and pressed the speakerphone button.
"Hello, Chief Duan!"
Jiang He's voice could be heard from the other end of the call. Before Duan Tianhe could say anything, Cheng Dongfeng approached him and laughed, "Haha, are you alright, Jiang He? Like I said, good people don't live long, while scourges live for a thousand years. How could you die so easily, kid? "
"…"
Jiang He, who was searching the corpses while making a call, did a double take.
Was he cursing him?
Still, Cheng Dongfeng asked curiously, "What actually happened, Jiang He? Were you attacked by the Sky Demon Cultists? I sensed an aura comparable to that of a Transcendent expert … How did you escape from a Transcendent expert's hand? "
"Escape?"
Jiang He chuckled. "What divine-tier … there were indeed many who tried to kill me, and one of them was very powerful, but I don't think he was that powerful. He was just a little lacking compared to divine-tier elites."
After all …
Jiang He had seen divine-tier elites before, and Feral Kings were at that level as well.
Feral Kings also belonged to this level. He had killed the Black Serpent King, a newly advanced "Feral King", so he could make this judgment.
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Jiang He exclaimed in delight, "I found it, I found it …"
Over at the other end of the call, Cheng Dongfeng and Duan Tianhe had a stomach full of questions, but could not help asking after hearing Jiang He's words, "What did you find?"
"The token plate!"
Jiang He replied. "I found the Sky Demon Cultist's token plate … Eh, it's different from the Fiend Decree, Decan Decree, and Elder Decree."
After a closer look, Jiang He realized that the token plate was quite nice.
It was exquisitely crafted, with the word 'Sacred' written on the back and 'Right' written on the front.
"Sacred?"
"Right?"
Duan Tianhe frowned and said, "I've never heard of such a token plate. Jiang He, are you sure the one who tried to kill you was a Sky Demon Cultist?"
"I'm sure."
Jiang He replied. "I even found a Decan Decree on his companion just now."
"What the hell!"
Cheng Dongfeng suddenly cried out in surprise even as he pondered, unable to stop himself from exclaiming, "Sacred … Sky Demon Cultists call themselves the Sky Demon Cultists, and that 'Sacred' stands for Sky Demon Cultists, so right …"
His voice was shaking and his Adam's apple bobbed as he said in disbelief, "There are still the Sentinels of the Left and Right above the Elders of the Sky Demon Cult. Could this token plate represent the Sentinel of the Right?"
"The Sentinel of the Right?"
"That's right, that's right. I just heard the two Decans call him 'Lord Sentinel' or something, and it seems that he's the Sentinel of the Right …"
Jiang He sighed. "No wonder he's so powerful, giving the impression that he's not much weaker than Feral Kings … it seems that he's an elite who has perfected the Boundary of Wills."
He strode to the courtyard's main entrance and searched for the tokens on the three corpses before he said, "There are three more corpses here. One is Speed the Venerable One, another is Sword the Venerable One, and the last one …"
Both Speed Star and Sword Star were easy to identify since the back of their token plates had the word 'Decan', while the front had 'Speed' and 'Sword'. Even so, Jiang He did a double take when he picked up the old woman's token plate and asked hesitantly, "It's an Elder's Token Plate, and there's a 'One' written on the front. Could this old woman be the Sky Demon Cult's Senior Elder?"
Over at the other end of the call, both Duan Tianhe and Cheng Dongfeng appeared utterly shocked and unsure what to say just then.
Ji Dongxu blinked and could not help asking, "Who is this Jiang He? According to what I know, the Senior Elder of the Sky Demon Cult is definitely an old woman. She is extremely powerful, and her grasp of the Boundary of Wills is almost perfected! "
He sighed. "Could she be a divine-tier elite, slaying the Sentinel of the Right, the Senior Elder, and several Decans?"
Ji Dongxu's expression turned solemn at once and he said, "Chief Duan, Master Cheng, that's not very nice of you. Since there's a divine-tier elite standing guard at Lingzhou City, I should visit Senior Jiang He first."
"Who is it?"
Since Duan Tianhe's phone was on speakerphone, Jiang He could naturally hear what Ji Dongxu said, and could not help exclaiming, "Who are you? The Sentinel of the Right is slandering me, and you're slandering me as well? "
"Whatever, I'm not bothered to argue with you. Old Duan, send someone over. I'll go elsewhere and take a look."
Thud!
Jiang He promptly hung up.
After all …
The potato landmines had blown up some corpses and mangled corpses …
Jiang He did not even want to dig graves for those corpses. It was too disgusting, and it would be best if Duan Tianhe sent someone to deal with them. …
When he arrived outside the front yard walls, he found that the place had been blown up into a mess. Weirdly, however, the walls around the potato landmines were unscathed, and the mangled corpses were strewn all over the place.
Jiang He leaped over the wall and into his farm, finding the Flowing Cloud Holy Child's shoes, clothes, and skeleton beside the Cloudscraper Vine. "Huh?" He exclaimed in surprise. "Did you get rid of the people who tried to climb over the wall and sneak into my house?"
The Cloudscraper Vine shuddered a few times, and its nine thick tendrils slowly unfurled. At the center of the tendrils was the Sky Demon Cult's Fourth Elder, who was wrapped like a dumpling by the Cloudscraper Vine's leaves.
His mouth was stuffed with several Cloudscraper Vine leaves, and he began to struggle violently when he saw Jiang He, whimpering and moaning.
Delighted, Jiang He exclaimed, "There's a survivor?"
"Well done, Cloudscraper Vine!"
Reaching out to stroke the Cloudscraper Vine's thick tendrils, Jiang He encouraged, "After I torture him, I'll give his corpse to you as nourishment!"
Delighted, the Cloudscraper Vine rubbed its tendrils intimately against Jiang He's body.
"Don't, don't. Just rub against me, but don't come in … you're just going to grow in my yard without my orders!"
The Cloudscraper Vine actually wanted to enter Jiang He's body right now.
Jiang He scowled, and could not help inhaling sharply as he stared at the tendrils that had grown much thicker and longer —
"Gasp!"
"That's a hundred meters long, isn't it?"
"It's so big … could it still enter my body in the future?"
The Cloudscraper Vine could crawl under his skin and even form a pollution-free combat armor, but could it still enter when it was so thick and long?
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