"The Secret Sword Bureau?"
Below the iris of the mimicry chip, Li Yao's real pupils constricted to the size of two sharp needles. He was like a venomous lizard that had seen its prey and retreated to the deepest part of the darkness, ready to launch the most brutal, fatal strike at any moment!
The Secret Sword Bureau was the largest, and almost the only, intelligence agency in the Federation. It provided critical intelligence support for the government of the Federation, the major sects, and the military.
According to Jin Xinyue, only the Secret Sword Bureau had access to a very secret intelligence network in the Blood Demon Sector.
The information about the Blood Demon Sector that the Secret Sword Bureau disseminated was authoritative information. Anybody who met the final verdict of the Secret Sword Bureau would find it hard to turn the tables around.
If the Secret Sword Bureau had presented 'unquestionable' evidence, it was indeed possible that Ding Ling Dong, Professor Mo Xuan, and Luoxingzi, the Cultivator from the Flying Star Sector, would have believed it.
Together with the wretched mental devil inside his body, there was no way he could have defended himself!
The mental devil slowly craned its head out of his brain and said innocently, "Are you blaming me?"
"Get out of my way. I need some peace and quiet!"
Condensing a telepathic thought, Li Yao pressed the mental devil back to the depths of his brain by brute force. He pondered calmly. "The critical question is, who provided the 'unquestionable' false evidence?"
"There are only two people who are capable of fabricating false evidence and convincing everybody. They are Lu Zui, the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, or Guo Chunfeng, the supervisor of the 'Demon Execution Division', which is the first division that deals with the intelligence about the demon race.
"Lu Zui, the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, is two hundred years old this year. When he was dominating the world, Elder Nether Spring was still drinking milk! It can't be him.
"So, it must be Guo Chunfeng?"
Li Yao retrieved the files of 'Jin Dan' Guo Chunfeng, 'the strongest cultivator of the Heaven's Origin Sector', that Jin Xinyue had prepared for him, from his brain again.
The supervisor of the Demon Execution Division, who intimidated all the saintesses of the Pantheon of Demons, was sixty-two years old and could be counted as a young man among the Cultivators. It was a good time to rise.
According to the files that the Pantheon of Demons had collected over the past ten years, Guo Chunfeng's background was very clear. He was born in a noble family of Cultivators. He was the son of the Sect Leader of the Red Pine Sect, a local sect of the Wasteland.
However, when he was seventeen, he encountered a Beast Tide. The Red Pine Sect, along with Red Pine City, had been swallowed up by the beast tide. Everyone in the sect had died in the beast tide, and he was the only one who had survived.
That's right.
Perhaps, the real 'Guo Chunfeng' was already dead when he was seventeen, and the enormous outbreak of beast tides was only meant to deliver a fake 'Guo Chunfeng'!
After Red Pine Sect was destroyed, Guo Chunfeng had been recruited by the Union Army as an orphan. He spent five years in the army before he joined the Secret Sword Bureau.
As for him, he was in the Secret Sword Bureau. There was no telling what kind of harsh training he had received. The only thing that was known was that he had demonstrated quadruple talents when he was not yet forty. He had cracked dozens of major cases of the demon race's infiltration in the Tian Yuan Realm and captured quite a few experienced saintesses of the Pantheon of Demons.
He seemed to have a natural intuition about the demon race. As long as he extended his nose and sniffed, he would be able to smell the scent of demons.
It was for that reason that he, who was less than a hundred years old, had … He had defeated countless competitors and become the supervisor of the first division of the Secret Sword Bureau, which was the most popular post in the Secret Sword Bureau.
For five hundred years … The greatest enemy of the Xing Yao Federation had always been the demon race. The intelligence work on the demon race was of paramount importance. As for the arrival of extraterrestrial devils and the crimes of the Cultivators, they were nothing more than scabies.
Therefore, the first division, which was responsible for the intelligence of the demon race, was three times larger than the second division and the third division combined. The supervisor of the first division was almost certain to become the director of the Secret Sword Bureau in the future!
He was on the list of suspects that Li Yao and Jin Xinyue had analyzed. It was very likely that Guo Chunfeng was Abyss in the first place. Therefore, the suspicion had been raised to more than 95%!
"Lu Zui is a Nascent Soul cultivator who has been famous for a long time. He stepped into the Nascent Soul stage decades ago. It is impossible that Elder Nether Spring could have swapped him for an important person in the Secret Sword Bureau! "
Li Yao confirmed again. "Even if Elder Nether Spring has a way to kill Lu Zui, where is he going to find a trusted subordinate who is as capable as Lu Zui?
"Did he recruit a demon emperor as his trusted subordinate and let the demon emperor swallow excessive Divine Blood of Chaos before he turned into a human being and pretended to be Lu Zui? Then, he found a way to substitute the fake Lu Zui so that the 'fake Lu Zui' could manage the daily work of the Secret Sword Bureau for decades without any loopholes?
"You must be kidding! If Elder Nether Spring had such abilities, the Spore Stratagem would've succeeded eighteen years ago!
"Therefore, it can only be Guo Chunfeng. The time, identity, and position all match!
"He is the supervisor of the Demon Execution Division, and he is directly responsible for the intelligence collection and analysis in the frontline. If he had provided false intelligence in the beginning, it is possible that everybody, including Lu Zui, would've been fooled!"
While he was pondering, Duanmu Ming said, "Brother Han, do you understand it now? The Li Yao you met in the Blood Demon Sector is definitely not right. Whatever he asked you to do, he must've been up to something! Therefore, tell us his plan. We will analyze it carefully and talk to the Iron Commander later! "
Li Yao's voice was full of suspicion. "Really? But I have brought the hope of peace! The Blood Demon Sector is willing to surrender conditionally. We have won the war. What we need to do next is to negotiate for more benefits for the Federation without sacrificing a single soldier! "
Duanmu Ming raised his eyebrow. "Is that so? What is the situation in the Blood Demon Sector right now? What conditions did the Pantheon of Demons propose? "
Li Yao shook his head and said, "I've brought a lot of documents and letters from the Pantheon of Demons. But we can talk about the details after we meet the Iron Commander. Now, please escort me to the Iron Commander, Brother Duanmu!"
Duanmu Ming's face was gloomy. "Brother Han, I've said so much just now. Do you still not trust me completely?"
Li Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "Of course I trust you, Brother Duanmu, but I don't know if the people around you are trustworthy. Before we set off, Li Yao revealed a piece of top confidential information to me. It is said that Elder Nether Spring's spies are even in the Tian Yuan Realm!"
Duanmu Ming was dazed for a moment. Taking a deep breath, he said, "I'm afraid that this is another scheme of the Blood Devil, isn't it?"
"I don't know whether or not it is a scheme," Li Yao said. "But I've brought a lot of files back. I'll send them to the Iron Commander and let him make the decision!"
Duanmu Ming narrowed his eyes and nodded. "Alright. This is a matter of great importance. Let's go back to the command center of the Dragon Horse Legion and talk to the Iron Commander directly. Then, I'll send a crystal warship to escort you back to the headquarters of the General Staff!"
He stepped forward again and extended his iron arm, which was covered in the Crystal Suit, to Li Yao. "Brother Han, can you walk on your own?"
"No problem!"
Li Yao grabbed Duanmu Ming's hand naturally and was helped to his feet by him. After catching his breath for a moment, he staggered out of the cave.
He walked in front of Duanmu Ming, as if he did not sense Duanmu Ming's creepy eyes at all.
The two of them walked all the way out and soon saw a glimmer of light at the entrance of the cave.
Suddenly …
Li Yao felt as if all the bones in his body had been taken away. He collapsed in the blink of an eye. He was both like a viper and like a withered leaf as he drifted away from the ground.
Above him, where his head and his chest should have been, two pieces of magical equipment that looked like animal traps were ejected from the darkness and bit each other brutally. Dazzling electric arcs were triggered, and hundreds of runes were unleashed. Revolving quickly, they condensed into two indestructible barriers!
If Li Yao had not squatted and dashed out, he would've been bitten by the iron teeth of the two pieces of magical equipment, and his internal organs and shoulder blades would've been locked by the barriers!
Li Yao bellowed. His body, which looked like a dry leaf a moment ago, suddenly expanded like a balloon and dashed toward the entrance of the cave, only to be forced back by the two Crystal Suit that had been lurking at the entrance of the cave.
Huala! Huala! Huala!
The walls around collapsed. Together with Duanmu Ming, six Heavy Crystal Suit that were emitting intimidating auras surrounded him. The narrow cave was completely blocked!
"Brother Duanmu, what's the meaning of this?"
Li Yao roared, his eyes bloodshot.
Duanmu Ming did not expect that 'Han Tuhu' would escape from the capture of the two pieces of barrier magical equipment. His face was somewhat awful, and his translucent mask gradually turned silver. He sneered, "What's the meaning of this? It's very simple! Brother Han, you are an accomplice of 'Blood Devil Li Yao'. Before we meet the Iron Commander, of course, we have to send you to the Secret Sword Bureau for interrogation and clear your name! "
"So, you are a 'Child of the Nether World'!"
As if he had just woken up from a dream, Li Yao shrieked and charged at Duanmu Ming, his bone tail turning into a lightning spear!
Duanmu Ming gasped hard. He did not expect that his opponent would know such a sensitive name as' Child of the Nether World '. He was even more determined to kill him!
He and Han Tuhu were both commanders of the Union Army. The two of them had fought each other many times in the military exercises. Their combat ability was on par with each other.
However, with the Crystal Suit on him, his combat ability had been multiplied, and he had been prepared for the upcoming battle. 'Han Tuhu', on the other hand, was heavily wounded and did not have any plate armor except for his shell. How could he be a match for him?
"Catch him alive!"
Duanmu Ming grinned hideously. Two clusters of frost were condensed on the fists of the Crystal Suit immediately. Instead of dodging, he smashed the bone tail at Li Yao's chest brutally. His fists were still in midair, but the icicles on them were extending nonstop like sharp tusks!
The other five Exos lunged forward in roars, too. Their dazzling magical equipment unleashed a storm of wind blades and electric nets!
They were all the men of sacrifice that Duanmu Ming had trained in person. When they were dealing with experts such as Jin Dan, they naturally had a set of delicate ways to cooperate with each other. They were not trying to defeat the enemy in one attack but to block the target's space of movement with their magnificent bodies so that Duanmu Ming could launch the main attack!
If their target had been the heavily wounded Han Tuhu, there would have been no chance for him to escape at all.
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