togophonebook Chapter 939 - 798: In Position
Chapter 939 - 798: In Position
If the Beiju Commander's plan works, afterward he still needs troops to turn the tide, but if the plan fails, those tokens will only be collected. Therefore, it's better to abandon the tokens and try to preserve the troops' power.
Seeing it was non-negotiable, Xiao Ruomei could only follow orders to execute…
At the East Victory Team Central, Wei Mo, upon hearing the report, suddenly turned around, his eyes showing surprise and suspicion, "Shi Chun's hiding place in the Extreme Abyss?"
His close subordinate Tao Zhi nodded, "Exactly, it was drawn by a spy hidden in the Heavenly Court Team by Nanshan."
Wei Mo narrowed his eyes, "Isn't it too coincidental that it ends up in our hands just like that?"
Tao Zhi said, "Indeed suspicious, arrangements have been made to bring the map over. Should we copy one and send people into the Extreme Abyss to verify?"
Wei Mo thought for a moment, "Don't act rashly. Even if it's true, Shi Chun isn't that easy to move. He's very alert, sending people to investigate hastily will only alert the snake. Moreover, with his current strength, without thorough preparation, we shouldn't act recklessly.
Even if we catch Shi Chun now, the tokens in the hands of the Heavenly Court people scattered in the Extreme Abyss have to be cleared one by one, which would take a lot of time. By the time we're done, the over thousand tokens in Chang Shifei's hands would have become someone else's possessions. Grabbing the ones in Chang Shifei's hands is the most important."
Tao Zhi responded, "Understood."
A figure descended from the sky, landing on a mountain top, clutching a half Mother-child Talisman tightly. It was none other than the number one warrior of the West Ox Team, Feng Yin, with a sullen face.
Even though his cultivation was profound, he still appeared a bit travel-worn.
Soon, another group of demon cultivators flew in and landed next to him. A man asked, "Brother Feng, why did you stop?"
Feng Yin gestured with the Mother-child Talisman in his hand, a bit exasperated, "Received word, Chang Shifei changed course again, been trailing behind him the whole way."
His tone and expression clearly showed impatience, he was tired of the pursuit.
Not only he, but someone also began complaining, "What are the others doing, can't even hold him a bit to buy us some time?"
Feng Yin snorted, "If Su Jikuan hadn't mastered the 'Star-shattering Finger', he might not be a match for Chang Shifei. Chang Shifei's power in the Beiju Team is second only to Su Jikuan, and now Beiju's Heavenly Mirror is almost exclusively scouting for him, not so easy to block."
Someone else joined in the complaint, "Logic says that high-quality steel should be used on the blade; don't know what the commander's thinking, the fastest demon rider got assigned to that fool Da Shen. Now see, Da Shen and that demon rider both got slaughtered by Shi Chun. If we had that demon rider, we'd have caught Chang Shifei long ago, now look at this mess."
Another sighed, "The key is Beiju spares no expense to protect him. Once we're close, they deploy nearby troops to desperately try all sorts of tricks, delaying us with fakery and reality, truly despicable."
Though complaining, after a bit of relief, Feng Yin discerned his direction and resumed the pursuit…
Deep in the Extreme Abyss, a stench of blood permeated.
Inside the cave, under the light of Sandal Gold Flame Energy, a dark red sphere the size of a plate floated in mid-air, emitting rolling blood energy towards Shi Chun's 'Blood Soul Blade'.
This dark red sphere was originally refined by Zhu Xiangxin using the 'Fire Prison God Suppressing Stele' to slaughter hundreds, condensed from their blood energy, intended to be made into a Blood Pill. Due to lack of time, it became an incomplete product, later dropped into the sea, then salvaged back by Wu Jinliang and his group while treasure hunting.
Wu Jinliang didn't know its use, had it on him forgotten, until recently heard the 'Blood Soul Blade' dried Su Jikuan up like a mummy, reminded of this item, giving it to Shi Chun to try, leading to the present scene.
As the blood mist continuously flew away, the size of the dark red sphere slowly shrank.
Beside them, the Mingshan Sect's people were staring dazedly at this bloody and bizarre scene, their blood energy within stirred tumultuously, needing to be suppressed with spells.
This time, the knife-wielding Shi Chun did not avoid anyone, since the blood-thirsty nature of his blade was no longer a secret, the Five Great Teams' Heavenly Mirrors had seen it clearly, no longer needing concealment.
The others were just spectators, but Shi Chun, holding the 'Blood Soul Blade' himself, felt the evil spirit in the knife cheering and leaping with joy.
It was also Shi Chun's first time seeing the 'Blood Soul Blade' absorb blood energy for so long, he could distinctly sense the evil spirit's power rapidly rising, becoming stronger, and the speed of absorbing blood energy was increasing faster.
Among the onlookers, Li Hongjiu's eyes moved slightly, noticing that Shi Chun's hand holding the blade had trembled slightly.
He didn't see wrong, as the evil spirit within the blade grew stronger by absorbing blood energy, it began to get agitated, or rather restless, seemingly confident, appearing eager to challenge the one controlling and suppressing it.
Shi Chun had ways to quickly weaken this evil spirit, but this time, he didn't easily suppress it, intending to see how strong the evil spirit in the blade could become.
Yet, the blood energy from the dark red sphere was quickly exhausted, dwindling to nothing, the entire sphere collapsed into the size of an egg, turned grey, finally disintegrating into a heap of flying ashes, slowly drifting to the ground.
The silently observing crowd exchanged glances, just feeling that the blood energy inside them was becoming increasingly hard to calm, harder to suppress than at the start.
Feeling the evil spirit's rampage and restlessness within the blade, unable to settle, Shi Chun didn't indulge it further, once more applied Bath Demon Skill to absorb, the inner evil spirit immediately shivered, initially resisting, but as the transformed blood energy was swiftly extracted, it fell into a state of terror, seemingly shivering and begging for mercy.
Shi Chun merely taught it a lesson, this time he didn't intend to drain it, mainly because the battle was not over, maintaining the evil spirit's efficient blood energy absorption speed might be useful.
Once the evil spirit in the blade calmed down, Shi Chun ceased suppressing it, stroking the blade, smiling to the crowd, "How about this blade?"
Li Hongjiu's expression was somewhat grave, slowly spoke, "Anything bloodthirsty is evil, one wrong move and it can easily backfire, also easily makes you a target for others."
"I'll be careful." Shi Chun smiled as he sheathed the blade, as long as it was useful, he couldn't just destroy or discard it at will.
Li Hongjiu glanced around before asking, "Are you planning to just hide here until the battle ends?"
Shi Chun glanced at Mulan Qingqing among the crowd, not speaking the truth, "What's wrong with hiding until it ends?"
Actually, Shen Moming, who has the skill of shrinking divine powers, has been dispatched to the shallow areas of the Extreme Abyss to await orders. Once a message is received from Manxi, he will return to convey it.
In the Nanshan Team Central Hub, Pu Gong suddenly spoke in a deep voice: "Senior Brother, as reported from below, we've acquired around a hundred more tokens."
Detecting an unusual tone, Ming Chaofeng said: "Isn't that good news?"
Pu Gong replied: "Senior Brother, something's off. The tokens weren't taken through fighting, they were picked up. We found them in hidden nooks and crannies, but no trace of anyone. Now the whereabouts of Beiju's forces are unknown, with only Chang Shifei remaining..."
He turned around and pointed to the cursor representing Chang Shifei on the Mountain River Map, and suddenly paused, "This isn't good, approaching the Extreme Abyss, if Chang Shifei is cornered and flees into the Extreme Abyss, he will be hard to find."
Ming Chaofeng suddenly focused his attention.
The East Victory Central, West Ox Central, Heavenly Court Central, and Beiju Central were all closely monitoring.
The fleeing Chang Shifei finally reached the area of the Extreme Abyss and continued to run without stopping.
At this point, the only one still closely following him was Duan Jie, who was indeed Zhener's contact on the Demon Path.
Exhausted alike...
The figure rapidly flew to the cliff in front of Extreme Abyss, Luo Que, looked at the rising steam from below, then glanced at the message on the Mother-child Talisman, feeling frustrated. The target changed direction again; she initially thought Chang Shifei might evade into the Extreme Abyss, but to her surprise, he was repeatedly zigzagging above this deep chasm, seemingly trying to escape far away, and then suddenly turned back to the Extreme Abyss.
Chasing him made her anxious; if he's pushed too hard, he could take the risk and flee into the Extreme Abyss anytime. This would make all her efforts in vain.
Her journey was far more exhausting than anyone else's. The Beiju's bunch berated her with vulgarities to interfere in her pursuit of Chang Shifei. They insulted her with such filthy language several times that she couldn't hold herself back, abandoning the pursuit of Chang Shifei to hunt those people down.
Even Ming Chaofeng couldn't persuade her against falling for it.
They claimed she had an affair with her master, how could she tolerate it?
The rumors even vividly described the shape of some birthmark on her body.
Others said she secretly bore someone's child, detailing where the child was being raised so convincingly it nearly drove her insane.
She discovered those bastards from Beiju had used every trick in the book.
Moreover, they cursed with masked faces, if she didn't chase them, she'd never know who cursed her, nor whom to exact revenge upon.
Even if she caught up and killed them, there would still be someone else to curse her; she had never been insulted so much in her whole life.
Despite her worries, she took a deep breath and flew up to chase again...
In the Heavenly Court Central, Manxi, observing Chang Shifei's escape closely, was equally anxious from Chang Shifei's maneuvers.
The Heavenly Court Team lurking in various sectors of the Extreme Abyss had been gradually contacted, and the departure time from the Abyss was set, and the moment was fast approaching. Now, Chang Shifei was running around atop the Extreme Abyss, who knows how many were chasing him.
Unable to stand it, Manxi took out the Mother-child Talisman to contact Lan She, directly asking: Brother Lan, what's Chang Shifei doing running circles around the Extreme Abyss?
In the Beiju Central, Lan She picked up the Mother-child Talisman, glanced at the message, and casually replied: A coincidence, I just wanted to contact Brother Man, but Brother Man reached out first. As per our previous agreement, to show sincerity, I let Chang Shifei head to deliver the tokens to Brother Man. Now, Chang Shifei is being pursued closely, Brother Man should dispatch nearby forces to support quickly, lest things change.
The reason he previously discussed collaboration with the other side was precisely prepared for this moment.
He feared Chang Shifei might head towards Shi Chun's hiding spot, arousing suspicion from Manxi's side, so he found an excuse first.
He assumed Manxi knew Shi Chun's hiding place, unbeknownst that Manxi wasn't aware, nor did Shi Chun reveal his hideaway to anyone inside their faction.
Thus, Manxi was left baffled, staring blank at the message on the Mother-child Talisman handed to Mulan Jin, "No way, he's really going to deliver the tokens as a sign of partnership sincerity?"
Mulan threw him a sideways glance, lightly reminding, "If you truly believe him, you should send people to support him, but how that support would suffice is decided by Chang Shifei. Forceful interception probably won't work, nearby people may not be opponents to either Chang Shifei or those chasing him."
"Damn it..." Manxi cursed a foul word, immediately picked up the Mother-child Talisman to contact Lan She, intending to agree on a specific location for Chang Shifei to throw the tokens into the Extreme Abyss and leave.
Lan She naturally couldn't agree, deliberately arguing with him.
Their argument dragged on and on, and finally, along the Extreme Abyss, Chang Shifei spotted the designated landmark position and shouted quickly, "Follow me!"
He immediately darted into the inside of the Extreme Abyss.
Closely following, Duan Jie also plunged into the cliff; then, with open eyes, witnessed Chang Shifei reach out and absorb a Jade Scroll from a crevice in the stone wall.
After slightly identifying the contents of the Jade Scroll, Chang Shifei immediately discerned the terrain on the cliff wall and led Duan Jie further into the depths of the Extreme Abyss.
The image of both people successively escaping into the Extreme Abyss caused the Heavenly Mirror images of the Five Great Teams to seemingly freeze, the image locked where the two dodged inside.
In the East Victory Central, Wei Mo also held a Jade Scroll depicting a map of the Extreme Abyss, precisely as sent from below, supposedly concerning the hiding location of Shi Chun.
The Jade Scroll contained a description of the entrance's terrain, the boulder split into five sections was conspicuously present in the mirror image, causing his pupils to suddenly contract, his gaze averted to the location of the light spots on the Mountain River Map, and abruptly spoke out: "Tao Zhi, swiftly order Yan Zhili to cease the pursuit and conceal on-site. Deploy a small number of personnel to follow for further investigation."