pappabearbooks Chapter 537 - 504 Changes III
Chapter 537 - 504 Changes III
"That guy sure runs fast." Yue Dewen touched his chin.
"By the way, Sect Leader Yue, I have a question, and I’m not sure if you can answer it?" Qing River asked.
"Go ahead. If I can answer, I certainly will." Yue Dewen was in a good mood at this moment.
"Did you really get injured?" Qing River asked curiously with wide eyes.
"I did." Yue Dewen nodded. "Otherwise, how could I deceive the entire world?"
"Then, did Palace Master Yu Yan really fall out with you and leave?" Qing River asked again.
"She did. She doesn’t plan to come back." Yue Dewen nodded.
"This..." Qing River was somewhat speechless.
"You want to ask why I have life-and-death vendettas with so many sects, and why they are willing to listen to me this time? Cooperate with me, right?" Yue Dewen chuckled.
"Yes..." Qing River was indeed puzzled about this.
Clearly, Yue Dewen had killed so many skilled masters and so many sect followers before. Why are they now willing to cooperate and act together? Willing to heed his orders?
Yue Dewen looked up at the countless military camp tents stretching to the horizon. And the sporadic resistance and unrest erupting in the distance.
"Actually, I’m also surprised...."
"Perhaps it’s because we all have a common enemy...right?"
His last sentence grew fainter, as if he wasn’t answering Qing River, but merely talking to himself.
Now, the Great Capital is within a hundred miles.
Although I’ve entered and exited this place countless times.
But this time... it’s different....
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"Quick! Move quickly!!"
A rebel army, lucky to break through the blockade from behind King Mu Li’s army, charged through, led by several silver-armored generals, escaping swiftly from the encirclement of soldiers.
Fortunately, no one made a deadlock, and the generals ordered to suppress them merely pursued symbolically before allowing them to leave.
King Mu Li suddenly died, and his son immediately announced that Cosimo would take over all military affairs.
Then followed a series of purges, reclaiming military authority.
Some unwilling generals were killed on the spot.
The few remaining hardliners fled with their horses.
Taking advantage of the army’s confusion, the generals with no morale or direction.
Everyone was waiting for the upper management to stabilize.
These escaped forces took advantage of the situation, fleeing from the area covered by the military camp, galloping along the road they came on.
Among the troops, one person wore armor similar to other soldiers, appearing as a regular deputy general.
But if any high-ranking figure saw his face, they would be shocked.
This person strikingly resembled the current King Mu Li!
’The second substitute... dead too... Cosimo... I treated you like a brother! Is this how you repay me??’
This person was the truly hidden King Mu Li!
His two life-long crafted substitutes were now completely spent. What it brought was escaping two fatal situations.
And now.....free from the cage, King Mu Li finally thought clearly.
What does Cosimo really want to achieve?
Or rather, what do the Thousand Teachings Alliance, Cosimo, the Great Dao Teaching, and all other sects truly want!
"Indeed, the world’s smartest, orchestrating everyone with one move!" The more King Mu Li thought, the more alarmed and angered he became.
By now, the troops he led had escaped to a range of over ten miles from the main army.
"Prince... now... everything is gone!? We have nothing left!? What should we do now!?" The guard slowed his horse, looking towards him dejectedly.
"Return to the territory! With Earth Mother’s guidence, we still have a chance! We can rise again!" King Mu Li said harshly.
"Earth Mother’s guidance?!"
"Indeed! There’s still hope! We haven’t lost yet!! Move!" King Mu Li said in a low voice.
A hundred or so riders swiftly galloped back along the direction they had come.
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Around Wushan Prefecture.
Two blurry figures lightly landed on tree branches, looking down at the distant Wish Girl Gorge.
"That’s the headquarters of the Human Immortal Temple, a place of Residual God... truly an Evil God foreign demon, everyone should exterminate!" One person said coldly.
"Sang Lan fell because of a place like this? Laughable!" Another person said.
"That kid didn’t want to diligently practice martial arts and indulged in pleasures, he deserved such a calamity."
"What’s the point in saying so much, let’s go in and see first. How can a mere Residual God dare to stop us?"
As Earth Mother’s envoys, they had long been accustomed to the feel of dominating all external gods beneath them.
Though they were just Earth Mother envoys, and their strength was similar to that of Sang Lan, they had a strong backing.
Just as the two were about to enter Wish Girl Gorge.
An invisible ripple shot down from the distant sky like lightning, landing on their heads.
"Yue Dewen isn’t harmed!?"
The two paused simultaneously, staying in place.
"Are we still going?" one whispered.
"You go, I won’t." The other replied.
"Then I won’t go either."
"This place is designated by the Great Dao Teaching as a no-meddling area, we should just take a look, forget about the action. Harmony is precious."
"Indeed, harmony is precious, let’s treat it as a relaxing outing."
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Elsewhere.
On the official road from the Great Capital to Wushan Prefecture.
Two palanquins, carried by four expressionless bearers, were speeding along.
"On the way to Wushan, this Human Immortal Temple is truly peculiar, able to create special individuals who recover from wounds by absorbing blood. This time, I definitely want to capture more for close study." Inside one palanquin, a woman’s cold voice said.
"I am quite interested in the Temple Master, to be able to kill Sang Lan head-on, he indeed has considerable power. Though Sang Lan’s backing, the Cold Heaven God, is just a mere Residual God. But even at full Descent of the God, only slightly weaker than me."
In the other palanquin, a gentle-voiced young man replied.
"I think you plan to capture some endlessly self-healing pretty girls, enjoying their first nights time and again. Isn’t that your goal?" The woman said disdainfully.
"Anning, you still misunderstand me too much..." The man smiled wryly.
"Misunderstanding? I saw it with my own eyes back then...." The woman’s words were cut off by an invisible ripple from the sky, landing in their minds.
Their conversations stopped abruptly, their expressions visibly changing.
"Yue Dewen isn’t harmed!?"
"Not only unharmed... but also Cosimo... the Great Brightness Religious Alliance... turned out to be mere pawns! What a grand scheme!!" The woman said through gritted teeth.
"Family crisis, return immediately!" The man said solemnly.
The two palanquins abruptly stopped and turned back, racing towards the Great Capital.
At the same time, the teams initially headed toward the vicinity of Wushan Prefecture to investigate the Human Immortal Temple.
At this moment, they unanimously turned around, frenziedly returning to the Great Capital.