"… The Sacred Heart Palace's stand was to protect Supreme Cloud, even at the cost of our lives. However, all the Supreme Clouds who participated in the battle were high-level Saint Monarchs. There was no room for us to intervene at all, not to mention that we couldn't even determine which one was the real Supreme Cloud … We couldn't even bear the aftermath …"
"Initially, I considered the situation and decided to wait and see. I didn't expect one of the Supreme Clouds to ask for our help and the other Supreme Clouds to do the same, including the Residence of Nine Supremes … In the end, we didn't even have a chance to help. Instead, we were targeted by everyone. It was like a disaster had fallen from the sky …"
"A hundred and one brothers all died in the battle in Tonight City! As for us, even after the battle ended, we still couldn't tell which of the survivors was the real Supreme Cloud … Even though we knew that there was only one Supreme Cloud, everyone could be him … "
"After that battle, the situation became even more chaotic. Even many Holy Sons were dragged into the battle. Seeing that there was nothing we could do, we decided to retreat from Tonight City. It was not because we were negligent in our mission … We had no confidence in dealing with it, and we didn't want to add more casualties. This decision was made by me alone. If the Temple Lord has any punishment, I will bear it …"
"We were truly exhausted. We had the heart to kill the enemy, but we were powerless to do anything!"
"So many brothers were killed right in front of us. We were too weak to take revenge, and we didn't even know who killed them …"
Lei Qianli's old tears streamed down his face. "Temple Lord! It's too tragic … too tragic … "
"One hundred and twenty brothers, only twenty of us returned in the end … I, Lei Qianli, don't have the face to see you again …"
Lei Qianli's choked voice echoed in the grand hall. "I really didn't expect that we would bring such a disaster upon ourselves when we went to welcome our glory …"
Everyone in the grand hall paled when they heard Lei Qianli's report!
None of the people present had expected that such a bizarre change would occur in what was originally a perfectly fine matter.
Now that more than a hundred of their comrades had died in Tonight City, who else could they find for revenge?
Zhan Wufei sucked in a deep breath and closed his eyes, as if trying to suppress the churning emotions in his heart. After a while, he asked, "So … you don't know the final outcome of tonight's battle?"
"I don't know. Palace Master, please punish me."
"You don't even know whether Supreme Cloud will live or die?"
"I don't … I don't know … Hall Master, please punish this old man!"
Lei Qianli raised his head mournfully. "Palace Master Rong Bing … the level of the battle in tonight's city has long surpassed our understanding … There were more than a hundred Great Monarchs competing against each other. The situation was so chaotic that it was indescribable. Our … our strength was completely unable to interfere … many of our brothers were simply killed by the aftershocks …"
Lei Qianli's eloquence was quite impressive. He repeatedly apologized for his mistakes, saying that he was the only one who made the decision. However, the people from the Sacred Heart Palace were not ignorant people. There were more than a hundred Great Lords competing with each other. Even the experts from the Sacred Heart Palace would not be able to withstand the repercussions of the aftermath.
Lei Qianli's decision to retreat decisively and preserve his fighting strength was not only not wrong, it was even meritorious!
Not fearing death, not hesitating to die, and sacrificing for nothing were two completely different concepts!
Zhan Wufei sighed deeply, speechless.
After a long while, he murmured, "When will the greed of humans for power and profit end? They know that they are facing a great enemy like the Demon Race, yet they continue to fight amongst themselves … even with such a perfect Heavenly Dao … it is still unable to stop the treacherous schemes of these lowly people … "
"The blood debt of more than a hundred brothers … what should our Sacred Heart Palace do about it?"
"Without a goal, don't tell me … these over one hundred brothers have died in vain?"
Zhan Wufei's sorrowful voice echoed in the grand hall.
Everyone's faces were filled with rage.
"Lord Supreme Cloud risked his life to enter the depths of the Demon Race for the sake of what I entrusted to him. He went through countless trials and tribulations before returning, and even made a great contribution … but he is being treated like this by these treacherous lowly people. Where is justice in the hearts of the people?!"
"At the banquet, more than a dozen Supreme Clouds appeared one after another, each of them with the cultivation base of a Great Lord. How powerful is the mastermind behind them?! How many forces and how many people plotted this to lead to such an outcome! But this matter itself is even more chilling, shocking, and infuriating! "
"After this incident, who wouldn't be chilled? Who would still be willing to work for them? Who would still be willing to sacrifice? If that's the case, why don't we just give this vast territory to the Demon Race and create a new world! "
Zhan Wufei said in grief and indignation, "At least dying in the hands of the Demon Race is a heroic sacrifice after fighting back. But dying in the schemes of our own people, what is that?!"
The entire grand hall fell into a pin-drop silence.
Only Zhan Wufei's sorrowful and indignant voice echoed for a long time.
Lei Qianli hung his head low, but his tensed heart had already relaxed.
His strategy of retreating in order to advance had worked. Zhan Wufei would no longer suspect him.
This matter had been dealt with for now!
"More than a hundred of our brothers died in battle … list out the names …" Zhan Wufei's expression was sorrowful. "Compensate the families of those who died in the battle against the Demon Race, settle them down, and train their descendants."
"Yes."
"Lei Qianli."
"Your subordinate is here."
"This trip of yours … sigh …" Zhan Wufei seemed to want to say a few words of consolation, but the words did not leave his mouth. "Bring the remaining brothers … rest well for two days … but don't go into seclusion. There are still many things that require your explanation, as well as the follow-up matters regarding Supreme Cloud that require your assistance."
His voice finally trembled slightly. "This seat's thoughts are in a mess right now … all of you may leave …"
Zhan Wufei closed his eyes after he finished speaking. An unprecedentedly solemn atmosphere slowly spread throughout the grand hall.
…
Lei Qianli walked out of the grand hall and looked at the remaining nineteen men under him. His expression was somber as he said, "Everyone has worked hard on this trip. Go back and rest and calm yourselves … this journey has been too tough for our brothers …"
"Yes."
The men dispersed and went their separate ways.
Lei Qianli also walked with heavy steps towards his own residence.
His expression was sorrowful and solemn, sighing deeply from time to time. However, a jade pendant had already been silently crushed in his wide sleeve.
…
At the foot of the mountain, in a secluded valley.
The green-clothed man smiled faintly and muttered, "This Lei Qianli is indeed a wily old fox, and his tongue is even sharper. Even after such a huge incident, Zhan Wufei still did not suspect him and allowed him to slip through. Even I have to give him the word 'respect'!"
"So the current leader of the Sacred Heart Palace is actually this muddle-headed. What's there to be afraid of?"
He floated out and drifted slowly towards a direction on the smooth snow-covered ground. He said faintly, "Soul, follow me. This matter is temporarily settled, we should hide … the next time we appear, it'll be the time when the world changes. "
A cloud of smoke silently rose up and followed behind him, heading in the same direction ….
…
Dozens of miles away.
Yun Yang's deific consciousness, which had already reached the level of a half-Saint, was fully unleashed. Soundlessly, he had monitored thousands of miles of space around him.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed as he stared towards the east. There was a sinister fluctuation of the power of the soul in that direction!
The target … was there?
He landed abruptly and dived into the dense forest below with Shangguan Lingxiu. Using the countless trees to conceal themselves, he stuck close to the ground and followed in that direction. His speed was extremely fast, but he was also extremely cautious.
Just as Yun Yang was about to move, there was a soft gust of wind behind him.
A figure suddenly appeared behind him with a whoosh.
It was the leader of the Sacred Heart Palace, Zhan Wufei!
"Have you found him?"
"Yes … he's in that direction."
Both of them communicated telepathically.
"Where's Lei Qianli?" Yun Yang asked.
"I've pacified that old man …" Zhan Wufei's eyes were filled with extreme hatred. "If it weren't for the person behind him, I would've eaten him alive!"
"It's alright. Lei Qianli is in the Sacred Heart Palace now. As long as he doesn't suspect anything, he won't expose himself and escape. Even if he escapes, it's just a small matter. As for this side, it's the true enemy that must be eliminated … "
Yun Yang said, "Things have their priorities, there's a choice."
"That's right."
Zhan Wufei said in a low voice, "My emotions are unstable now … it's easy to be noticed. You're in front, I'll be fifty miles behind you, waiting for an opportunity. Once the battle starts, I'll follow the movement you've made and rush over immediately. "
"Alright!"
…
The man in green took the Soul Demon and crossed three mountains in a row. During this period, he deliberately changed his position seven or eight times. Only then did he laugh self-deprecatingly. "There's really no accident … but it's never a big mistake to be cautious …"
His slender body suddenly merged with the Soul Demon, and his speed rose again as he shot in another direction like a bolt of lightning.
The other side of that direction was a bottomless abyss.
The man in green's body came to the edge of the abyss quickly and jumped down without hesitation. As the clouds and mist rippled slightly, his body was already hidden under the bottomless abyss!
How could such a hiding place be discovered if one did not see it with one's own eyes?
…
After a breath, Yun Yang's body landed on the cliff as light as a feather.
With just a glance, his body swayed and he went to the rock where the man in green had jumped down. After a moment of hesitation, he also stood on the rock.
Without the slightest hesitation, he leaped up. The place where he landed was exactly the same as where the man in green had jumped down.
The distance was exactly the same, not the slightest bit different!
In the thick clouds and mist, Yun Yang's figure was like a floating feather, falling slowly and silently. Yun Yang, who had long been used to the company of clouds and mist, was far more familiar with its properties than others. Even if the Heaven Sealing Seal was still there and it was difficult to use his manifestation powers, he was still like a fish in water in the clouds and mist. He had changed into plain white clothes earlier, and in the hazy clouds and mist, he was even more inconspicuous.
Wherever he passed, there was even no unusual fluctuation in the clouds and mist.
The reason why Yun Yang was so careful was that he did not know who he was following. The only thing he knew now was that this person was very important.
This person, as well as Lei Qianli, should be the Demon Race's spies lurking in the Human Race. They had been buried in the Bound of Universe for thousands of years, or even longer.
Lei Qianli had been the Great Elder of the Sacred Heart Palace for a long time. This was already a very high status in the Human Race. However, compared to that person, he probably paled in comparison. It was expected that the person's management in the Human Race was more effective.
After so many years of painstaking management, there must be a plan.
If it were not for the fact that Yun Yang had a special feeling for the Soul Demon, he would not have been able to find this person at all this time.
The bottomless abyss in front of him, such an unexpected hiding place, could already be seen.
However, now that he had found him, he could not let him escape this time no matter what.
They had already drifted down to a depth of about forty to fifty thousand feet, but they still had not reached the bottom.
It was often said that the bottomless abyss was a bottomless abyss, but it was really rare in the world. An abyss of thirty to five thousand feet was already a rare big abyss. Now that they had fallen forty to fifty thousand feet, they still had not reached the bottom. It was really amazing and amazing!
In the monitoring of Yun Yang's divine sense, the Soul Demon was still moving below, continuing to go down. This proved that there was more here. Could it be a veritable "bottomless abyss"?
Above …
Zhan Wufei leaped down.
…
It was not until about thirteen thousand feet that Yun Yang felt the ground again. When he looked again, even someone as daring as Yun Yang could not help but feel a chill run down his spine.
The bottom of this bottomless abyss was a land of death.
A veritable land of death!
Countless bones covered a thick layer; all the ground under the cliff was covered with white bones. It was unknown how many bones there were and how many years they had been piled up.
Other than that, there was nothing else. There was no other color at all, not even a blade of grass!
There was only the white bones, all the way to the distance …
"Sh * t, how many people have died here?"
Yun Yang, who considered himself to be ruthless and had been stained with blood, could not help but be speechless at the sight.
Yun Yang did not stand on the white bones. Instead, he hovered in the air, hovering a few inches above the bones, and sped towards the direction he could vaguely sense.
There were countless bones here. Who knew when the bones under his feet belonged to and who they belonged to? With Yun Yang's current cultivation base, even if he restrained his energy to the greatest extent, it was inevitable that some bones would be damaged by inadvertent contact, and the damage was bound to make a noise. In such a quiet place, the slightest unexpected noise could alert the enemy, turning the situation of the enemy in the dark and him in the light.
In short, there was no harm in being careful!
Dozens of miles behind him, Zhan Wufei had also landed quietly. His movements were as silent as Yun Yang's, extremely cautious.
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