Under his control, a figure shot out from the cave entrance. Yang Jueshang looked at the puppet exuding a cold aura, its body turned a bluish-black, with an expressionless face.
He had turned over the entire Yinming Cold Pool but still couldn't find any trace of Lu Yu. He fixed his gaze on the deep cave that still held a small amount of pool water.
"Did he escape inside?" Yang Jueshang speculated.
"It's useless." Yang Jueshang descended, gathering solid power in his palm. He threw a nearly tangible sphere of spiritual power into the deep cave, where it exploded at the bottom.
The cave entrance was widened considerably. After repeating the sa action several tis, Yang Jueshang had enlarged the deep cave to accommodate five or six people entering side by side.
After entering the deep cave for nearly a hundred ters, he saw a dark fissure. At first glance, he quickly turned and left.
Flying out of the cave entrance, his face looked sowhat pale. From that fissure, he had glimpsed a great terror.
"Is that the Netherworld?" Yang Jueshang thought with lingering fear.
Glancing back at the cave entrance, he hesitated for a mont before ordering the puppet to block it with earth and stones.
By now, Yang Jueshang understood that he had been deceived by Lu Yu; there was no puppet at all at the bottom of the pool, nor anything else.
Even if there was, the puppet had already fallen into the fissure, making it impossible for him to obtain it.
Lu Yu had also vanished without a trace, and Yang Jueshang withdrew his own divine soldier.
His divine soldier resembled a giant chicken leg, except the flesh on the divine soldier appeared quite eerie, its origin unknown. It was rough, sinister, covered in scars, and had more than a dozen pure black eyeballs growing on it, which were still swiveling around.
When Yang Jueshang looked at the eyeballs, they turned to look at him as well, indicating that Lu Yu's eyeball hadn't closed tightly, aning Lu Yu was still alive, or at least still in this world.
However, Lu Yu had already left the range that his divine soldier could sense, and the eyeballs were spinning randomly, not knowing which direction Lu Yu was in.
The seven puppets that had filled in the Yinming Cold Pool soared, flying one by one into the eyeballs of Yang Jueshang's divine soldier. The eyeballs housing the puppets slowly closed their eyelids, entering a dormant state.
Yang Jueshang put away his divine soldier, gestured for Yang Wu to follow him, and left Kugu Ridge.
As he departed, he delivered one more strike, leveling the entire valley.
He did not want anyone to co into contact with that fissure. He wasn't afraid of people getting injured by approaching the fissure; he feared soone might accidentally provoke the terrifying presence on the other side, bringing disaster to Beifeng City.
As the patriarch of the Yang family, he still hoped that the Yang lineage could continue. For it to continue, Beifeng City naturally must not be destroyed.
Lu Yu returned to Beifeng City, still feeling a lingering fear. He imdiately penned a letter and had the steward of the Divine Weapon Pavilion deliver it to Lu Jingfeng, the City Lord of Beifeng City.
Strike while the iron is hot; it's crucial to report swiftly.
Lu Jingfeng found it odd to receive a letter brought by a steward of the Divine Weapon Pavilion. Out of respect for the pavilion, he took a mont to glance at the letter Lu Yu had written.
The letter was brief, only taking a few monts to finish, yet its contents were significant enough to give Lu Jingfeng a headache.
"Soone, send people to guard the secret realm of Fire Rain Mountain..." Lu Jingfeng dispatched personnel to verify the authenticity of the letter's content. Since it ca from the Divine Weapon Pavilion, he was eighty percent convinced it was true.
Not long after, soone returned to report their investigation findings.
"All three leaders who were to take over the guard duty at the secret realm of Fire Rain Mountain have disappeared. Blood traces were found in front of the guardhouse at Fire Rain Mountain, but no corpses were found."
Not finding any corpses didn't surprise Lu Jingfeng, since the letter ntioned Yang Jingyuan using external ans to dispose of the bodies, discovering any corpses would have been unexpected.
Just as Lu Jingfeng was about to issue the next command, a ssenger burst into the hall, shouting, "Urgent report, the body of Leader Zhou Tong has been found at the edge of a forest on the Fire Rain Mountain range."
Upon hearing this, Lu Jingfeng was shaken to the core. The letter didn't ntion Zhou Tong's death, only that Leader Liu died at Yang Jingyuan's hand.
Suddenly enlightened, he realized if his guess was correct, the next news would surely be about Yang Jingyuan's death.
"Report! Urgent report! The corpse of Leader Yang Jingyuan has been discovered at the foot of a cliff in the Fire Rain Mountain range, initially judged to have been attacked by a beast."
Lu Jingfeng silently looked at the information being relayed below, gazing quietly at the ceiling. What exactly was the Yang family trying to do?
Even a clan mber at the Qi Sea realm—it's not easy for the Yang family to cultivate one—could just be dismissed so easily?
What were they plotting?
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