99: Hunting

“So that’s how it is.”

Ling Yun nodded in understanding, then looked at Lin Yang and asked, “Then what does the Saint think Zhou Laifu got that made Zhao Changwei press him so hard?”

“I don’t know about that. It could be some ancient Heavenly Art, a peerless Martial Skill, a rare medicinal herb... anything is possible.”

Lin Yang shrugged.

“Saint, if we were to save Zhou Laifu right now, would he be willing to share what Zhao Changwei wants with us?” Ling Feng, who was by his side, then asked.

Hearing this, Lin Yang pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

Zhou Laifu had been beaten so badly and still refused to reveal the secret; there was no reason he would gratefully hand it over to them after they saved him.

Wouldn’t that mean he took the beating for nothing?

Just as Lin Yang, Ling Feng, and Ling Yun were secretly communicating and debating whether to save Zhou Laifu, Zhao Changwei suddenly kicked Zhou Laifu in the crotch and snarled:

“You dare to flirt with my girl! I’ll beat you to death, you son of a b*tch!”

Lin Yang: “???”

Ling Feng: “???”

Ling Yun: “???”

“Huh? This isn’t right! Weren’t they arguing over the ownership of some Opportunity?”

The three exchanged glances, all looking bewildered.

“Brother Changwei, spare my life!”

“Sister-in-law did it willingly!”

Zhou Laifu rolled on the ground, begging for mercy repeatedly.

“......”

On the mountaintop, Lin Yang, Ling Feng, and Ling Yun were speechless.

A gentle breeze blew, leaving the three in disarray.

They had thought Zhou Laifu had obtained some extraordinary treasure that Zhao Changwei coveted, and he refused to hand it over even unto death.

After all that, it turned out to be a scene of catching an affair.

After a moment of silence, their eyes widened even more.

Isn't this much more interesting than clues about treasures?

“Speak, when did it start!”

“Whose child is it?”

“...”

Rumble!

Just as Lin Yang and the other two were secretly listening to the gossip below, enjoying themselves, a deafening thunder suddenly rumbled in the sky.

“Is it going to rain?”

The few of them looked up and saw the wind and clouds gathering above their heads. In a blink of an eye, a vast thundercloud, ten thousand feet wide, appeared.

Immediately, thousands of bolts of lightning erupted from the thundercloud. Countless electric currents surged through the Void Realm, instantly forming a giant lightning barrier that enveloped an area hundreds of miles around the valley.

Even Lin Yang and the other two, hiding on a nearby mountaintop, were covered by this sudden lightning barrier.

“Such powerful lightning Qi!”

“Within the Demon Immortal Tomb's barrier, only the Lei Ji Saint from Fenglei Temple, whose Saint Foundation was cut off by the Saintess, could summon such immense lightning Qi to seal off space!”

Looking at the vast lightning Qi permeating the surrounding Void Realm, Ling Yun said in a deep voice.

“Fellow Daoist Lei Pi, what are you doing?”

Just then, Zhao Changwei and the others in the valley also noticed the massive thundercloud above their heads. Mistaking it for the Lei Ji Saint intending to attack him, he immediately shouted at the Void Realm in a deep voice.

From Zhao Changwei's shout, Lin Yang and the others also learned the Lei Ji Saint's true name.

Lei Pi!

“Zhao Changwei, stop dwelling on your trivial matters. You didn’t even notice you were being spied on by rats from the Holy Emperor Sect!”

A dull, thunderous voice came from the Void Realm. It was Lei Pi speaking.

Boom!

At the same time, along with the sound, three figures with surging auras slowly appeared from the horizon.

Looking at the three figures that appeared, Lin Yang and the others' eyes narrowed slightly.

The leader of that three-person team was no stranger to Lin Yang.

It was the Lei Ji Saint, Lei Pi, who had previously ambushed him.

Of course, after his Saint Foundation was cut off by Ji Ru Qianlong that day, the Lei Ji Saint should now be more appropriately called the Thunder Pole Venerable.

However, even so, Lei Pi was once a powerful Martial Saint. Even though he had now fallen to the Martial Venerable Realm, he was not someone an ordinary Peak Martial Venerable could compare to.

Moreover, from his words just now, it was clear that he had already discovered Lin Yang and the others.

Crack!

Sure enough, after Lei Pi appeared with the Fenglei Temple team, he immediately struck a palm towards the mountaintop where Lin Yang and the other two were hiding.

“Damn it, how did he know we were here?”

Ling Yun cursed, then quickly got up and also unleashed a spiritual energy palm print.

The two palm prints met in mid-air, like two meteorites colliding in the Universe, exploding with a “bang” and creating an earth-shattering roar. A fierce gust of wind was stirred up, blowing away a small mountaintop not far away.

At the same time, it completely exposed the whereabouts of Lin Yang and the other two.

“Holy Emperor Sect!? They really are here!”

Zhao Changwei, who was originally brutally beating the adulterer below, also had his pupils contract slightly at the sight, and then his entire face suddenly darkened.

As the saying goes, family shame should not be aired, let alone with the Holy Emperor Sect, which was an enemy force of the Nether Palace.

Previously, a Saint from the Nether Palace had ambushed Lin Yang, but like the Lei Ji Saint, his Saint Foundation was cut off, and his status in the palace plummeted.

Before leaving, that Saint from the Nether Palace whose Saint Foundation was severed had asked him that if he encountered the Saint from the Holy Emperor Sect on this trip, he must vent his anger for him.

Unexpectedly, fate works in mysterious ways, and they encountered the Holy Emperor Sect's team so quickly.

“Buzz!”

Just as Lin Yang was also curious about how Lei Pi had found them so precisely, he suddenly felt something, and sharply turned to look behind him.

Not far away, a strange black mist slowly permeated from the Void Realm, and from it emerged a bizarre black shadow, neither human nor ghost.

“Heavenly Kingdom Sect!?”

Lin Yang's eyes narrowed slightly.

“Saint, be careful! He is the leader of the Heavenly Kingdom Sect's team this time. There is very little information about him. We only know his title is Night Shadow, and he has the strength of a Nine-Revolutions Martial Venerable Peak.”

“Other than that, we have never heard any other news about this person before, as if he appeared out of thin air.”

Ling Feng and Ling Yun, seeing the ghostly shadow suddenly appear behind them, also felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and their expressions couldn't help but become a bit more solemn.

What the two of them didn't know was that this Night Shadow was a special Clone of the Heavenly Kingdom Sect's Saint, Holy Son Ye Chen, specifically for this Demon Immortal Tomb.

Moreover, after obtaining Si Guoyi's essence blood, Night Shadow was completely controlled by Si Guoyi.

At this moment, everything Night Shadow saw was being secretly fed back to Si Guoyi's mind in real-time, through an unknown method.

And at this moment, Si Guoyi's eyes, through the connection with Night Shadow, were glaring fiercely at Lin Yang, wishing he could tear the latter into a thousand pieces.

“Strange, how did the Heavenly Kingdom Sect and Fenglei Temple discover our tracks?”

Ling Feng and Ling Yun were still very puzzled.

There were no traitors among them to tip off the enemy, so how could they be so easily and accurately located?

Hearing Ling Feng and Ling Yun's puzzled remarks, Night Shadow's gaze slowly lifted, his eyes so dark that black water could almost drip from them.

How did I find you?

Damn it, you should ask your Saint that question properly!

This b*stard has several hundred drops of Martial Saint essence blood, which he extracted from him, on his person.

How do you think I found you?!

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Meanwhile, on the other side.

In a maze-like grand canyon, two figures were rapidly advancing towards the depths of the altar in the center of the canyon.

If Lin Yang were here, he would surely recognize that these two were the young Supreme from the Four Symbols Pagoda, renowned as the Dragon and Phoenix Twins.

“Brother Ji Zhi, this place is so remote. Do you think the Legacy map could really be in a place like this?”

“Sister Tang Jiang, this is the greatest secret our Four Symbols Pagoda has kept until now. The successive Pagoda Masters would never intentionally leave such a hidden secret to trick future generations, so you can rest assured.”

“Giggle~ If the other forces knew that our Four Symbols Pagoda had the whereabouts of the Legacy map, I wonder what they would think.”

“Hehe, whenever I think of those forces only considering strength when selecting teams, and not considering male and female pairing, I can't help but laugh.”

“Those fools would never have thought that the Demon Immortal Legacy requires both a man and a woman to go to the sweet love giant tree and make a wish to have a chance to activate it...”

The two were still chatting and laughing on their way to the altar in the center of the valley.

Unbeknownst to them, at this moment, on a mountaintop near the valley, a pair of bright eyes were watching them.

A bright-eyed, white-toothed young girl was whispering to the ring on her hand.

“Yao Mu, are we really going to snatch their map?”

“Silly child, this map was left by an ancient Demon Immortal, and after the Demon Immortal's demise, this map is already an ownerless item. Whoever snatches it, it belongs to them.”

“Hmm, what you said makes sense. But they are both Peak Nine-Revolutions Martial Venerables. Wouldn't doing this be too risky for us?”

“It's fine. When the time comes, just relax your mind and let me take over your body.”

“Alright...”

......

A short while later, the two young Supreme of the Four Symbols Pagoda finally passed through the maze and arrived at the altar in the center of the canyon.

The altar was surrounded by a circle of ancient Restrictions, looking extremely complex.

And at this moment, more than the Restrictions, a roll of ancient parchment map placed on the altar first caught their eyes.

“Hahaha, the Pagoda Master did not deceive me, there really is a map!”

“I searched high and low, but found nothing. Now, without any effort, it's right here!”

The two were overjoyed looking at the map on the altar.

Immediately, they wasted no time and began to break the Restrictions around the altar.

After more than half a day.

Just as the two young Supreme of the Four Symbols Pagoda were busy and sweating profusely, a soft “bang” sound suddenly came, and the Restrictions around the altar slowly began to crack.

“Hehehe~ With this map, we will surely be ahead of everyone else. The Demon Immortal Legacy is ours!”

Looking at the gradually shattering altar Restrictions, the eyes of the two young Supreme of the Four Symbols Pagoda were as bright as lamps, and genuine smiles couldn't help but appear on their faces.

Whoosh!

However, just as they reached out to take the ancient map on the altar, a graceful figure suddenly descended from the sky, like a Phoenix spreading its wings, swiftly passing before their eyes.

Along with the graceful figure of the Phoenix, the map on the altar also disappeared.

The two young Supreme of the Four Symbols Pagoda were stunned at first, then their eyes blazed with anger as they glared in the direction the graceful figure had left.

“Nangong Xueli, leave the item behind for me!”