168: A large masked party?

[Eye of Enslavement proficiency increased: Peak → Flawless Grade.]

Upgrade advantages:

1. At this proficiency level, the probability of enslaving creatures up to fifth-tier higher than the user is 100%.

For creatures more than fifth-tier higher, the probability gradually decreases.

2. The enslaved person cannot reveal any information about the enslaver and will forget everything about their meeting.

Ways to break this: Flawless Grade Soul Interrogation, Flawless Grade Mind Interrogation...]

The enslaved can only answer questions they know consciously and cannot answer information in their subconscious.

[Soul Interrogation] is required to interrogate things in the subconscious.

In this regard, [Eye of Enslavement] is slightly lacking, but the advantage is that it allows for infinite interrogation.

"I ask a question, you answer."

"Yes, Master!"

"First question: how many other traitors like you do you know of?"

"There's also the Medical Department, Team 55 Captain Ji Shuxue.

City Guard Team Captain Ban Lin..."

You Yuntao knew of four more people, scattered across other departments.

This meant every department had enemy moles; no wonder every operation was always intercepted by those Evil Beasts.

"Second question: are you afraid of me?"

"Yes!"

"Why are you afraid of me?"

"Because I know your strength is already enough to kill a Grandmaster Level."

"Then where did you get this information?"

"The High Priest!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Fei immediately broke into a cold sweat.

It seemed this High Priest was watching him at all times!

This was definitely a dangerous individual who had to be guarded against.

If possible, Chen Fei wanted to strangle him early to prevent a greater threat in the future.

"Third question: what information does the High Priest have on me?"

"The High Priest knows it was you who led that group of Geniuses all the way into the Fierce Land, so he issued a Kill Order on you.

As for your specific strength, he doesn't know either.

Also, anyone who kills you can claim a fifth-tier Spirit Treasure from him."

Chen Fei chuckled: A fifth-tier Spirit Treasure? He really thinks highly of me!

"Fourth question: who is the High Priest? Where is he now?"

"I don't know who the High Priest is, only that their base is in a certain church in Tianqing City."

Chen Fei took this to heart, a faint glimmer flickering in his deep pupils.

Tianqing City? Well, isn't that a coincidence!

He was quite familiar with the place where he was born and raised; there were only seven churches in total.

It seemed he would have to make a trip back.

Looking at it this way, You Yuntao knew even more than Cao Gan, indicating that this guy's status in the Extinction Cult wasn't low.

However, since he wasn't a King-level Beast Tamer, it probably wasn't that high either.

"Then do you know the specific time of the beast tide?"

"I don't know!"

Chen Fei asked several more miscellaneous questions, resolving many of his doubts.

Suddenly, he remembered something: "Let me ask you, do you know about Jiang Yiyi being parasitized by a Gu worm?"

"I do!"

Chen Fei's pupils constricted. Had he finally found the culprit?

"Who was it?"

"I was the one who gave her the Gu worm. Because of that, I received the first batch of resources, which allowed me to advance faster than others."

Good grief, so it was this You Yuntao behind it all.

Then he would settle the score with him and Cao Gan after the beast tide.

Chen Fei was afraid that killing You Yuntao now would alert the enemy and make the High Priest wary.

Since he already knew the High Priest's hiding place, he had to go there.

But before returning to Tianqing City, there was one more thing he had to do.

That was to upgrade the Hidden Origin Art to Flawless Grade as well.

That way, no matter where he went or who he met, he could hide himself well.

[Hidden Origin Art proficiency increased: Peak → Flawless Grade.]

Advantages of the upgrade:

1. Completely hide cultivation, aura, Killing Intent...

2. As long as skills are not used and movements are not too large, one can turn invisible.

3. The Concealment micro-barrier expands to form a small Domain.

4. Not only can the physical body be hidden, but skills can also be hidden.

However, only one skill can be hidden at a time.

Note: Those with cultivation below Emperor-level cannot detect Flawless Grade skill hiding.]

"Awesome!" This was Chen Fei's evaluation after reading.

From now on, within the Spirit Taming Continent, no one except for transcendent existences like the Void Primordial Demon could probe his Truth.

What excited Chen Fei even more was the ability to hide skills.

It was so cool it was beyond words!

After packing his things, Chen Fei stepped directly through the Crystal Portal. When he stepped out again, he was in his own home.

He had placed a Crystal Gate at home long ago, and now it was coming in handy.

There were only a few churches in Tianqing City; it would be easy to narrow them down.

However, Chen Fei planned to move at night and use the Hidden Origin Art's ability to minimize his presence.

When night fell and the last trace of red vanished from the sky, Chen Fei, dressed in a night suit, disappeared into the darkness.

He investigated one by one until he reached the sixth church, where he stopped.

Crouched in a tree, he happened to witness this scene:

Black soil, black trees, a black graveyard, dim light... This darkness extended all the way to a white church, clearly demarcated.

Chen Fei remembered the last thing Song Gong had said during the interrogation: "We dwell in the zone where black and white intertwine."

"So that guy really wasn't lying!"

If all the information was correct, then this must be the place.

However, should he barge in now?

No, absolutely not!

Even with the Hidden Origin Art, it wasn't a guarantee.

There were more than one or two King-level Beast Tamers inside, and their strength was unknown; he couldn't take the risk.

The best way currently was to wait—wait for the moment they appeared, wait for the moment they were alone.

What Chen Fei didn't expect was that this wait would last for five whole days.

Even with Chen Fei's steadiness, which surpassed his age, he almost couldn't hold on.

"Coo~ Chen Fei, there's movement!"

To better hide, not many Third Generation Gu Worms were dispatched—only a few hundred—but they had all the routes around the church completely monitored.

As soon as someone came, they immediately reported back to Little Gu.

Because the light was very dim, the vision transmitted back was also pitch black.

It wasn't until the person passed under a streetlamp that Chen Fei saw a blurry figure.

Clad in a black cloak and covered in bandages, their appearance was completely obscured.

"These people really know how to hide!"

Chen Fei still didn't move, quietly watching as the person pushed open the church doors.

Not long after, another figure darted past. Chen Fei only had time to see the person's mask—a clown mask.

If Chen Fei wasn't mistaken, this person practiced a movement technique, and a very extraordinary one at that.

His first instinct was that this was someone from a Great Family.

It was hard for ordinary people to get their hands on a Cultivation Technique of this level.

Following that, a crying face mask, a bronze mask, a grim reaper mask, and a beetle mask appeared one by one.

Chen Fei couldn't help but complain: "Is this a large-scale masked party?"