Chapter 2385: Search and Rescue in the North!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Little Nightmare!
This ‘man’ was the Supreme King’s pet. Many people called it ‘Lord Nightmare’.
During that incident in the capital at the third lunar eclipse, Little Nightmare had detonated its body to help Wang Chong escape, leaving it with only a wisp of a soul. But after three years, with the help of the Foundation Dimension, Little Nightmare had been restored. Not only that, it had been able to use this rare moment of peace to grow even stronger, not just in Psychic Energy, but also in obtaining a perfect physical body.
While Wang Chong was in seclusion, it had presided over affairs, working together with Li Xuantu’s God Vanquisher Group. The two of them used the same system, but they had different duties.
Li Xuantu’s main task was to watch the movements of the Celestial God Organization and track them down, so the God Vanquisher Group had more people and resources.
Little Nightmare had a much smaller force, but its mission was even more important. They had only one goal—to find the location of Heaven’s real body and rescue Xu Qiqin—and their current method was infiltration.
The Celestial God Organization was not watertight, but they had strict laws, and they were extremely careful about keeping secrets.
The members of the Celestial God Organization came from all countries: Han, Mengshe Zhao, Turks, Arabs… As they had so many people from various countries, it became possible to infiltrate the organization. Moreover, on many occasions, they would use masks to hide their faces.
The faceless man had been able to infiltrate this way, and so long as one was careful, others could naturally succeed as well.
For three years, their efforts had not let them down, and they had made some progress. Led by the faceless man, these individuals, known as the Informers, had managed to get seven people into the Celestial God Organization.
These Informers were very special. Once they had successfully infiltrated the organization, they ceased any communication with the capital and would not take any reckless actions. Normally, they would act the same as any other member of the organization. With their formidable talent, they were able to rise higher and higher in the ranks, receiving favor and promotions. Their ultimate goal was to find out where Heaven was located.
But it wasn’t too long ago that the Celestial God Organization somehow realized something was off, and the Informers that had infiltrated the organization had all been purged. Only the faceless man had managed to escape.
Most importantly, the faceless man had left a mark near the northern base indicating that he had already found a clue leading to Xu Qiqin and Heaven.
After this, the capital began a large-scale operation.
“There is still no news?” Little Nightmare muttered, its brow furrowing.
There was no need to talk about how important Xu Qiqin was to Wang Chong. If not for Heaven, the two of them would have already been married. In these last three years, none of them had given up on finding her.
Little Nightmare quickly came back to its senses.
“Immediately send more men. Scour the entire north. In addition, contact the Turks. Have them send their shepherds to join the search,” Little Nightmare said sternly.
After a pause, it added, “Pass on my order. Contact Young Master Qingyang and General Li on the front. I need to know their latest movements. No matter what, we must bring back the faceless man.”
“Yes!”
Once the guard departed, the hall fell silent once more.
Little Nightmare looked out the window and began to think.
“Given the time that has passed, they should have arrived by now. Regardless of what has happened, there is no doubt that the faceless man has information that is vital to us!”
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Far to the north, on the vast steppe, several figures surrounded by vast energies rapidly appeared amidst thundering hooves.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! As they got close, they swiftly dismounted.
They looked at the mark on the ground and suddenly said, “It’s a mark left by Zhang Qiantuo.”
This was a pile of stones arranged into a clover shape. At the center was a grass stalk that was commonly seen throughout the steppe, which pointed south. Near the pile of stone was a triangle design. This was a sign that only Zhang Qiantuo would have left.
Only a few people in the Great Tang knew of the faceless man’s true identity, but Young Master Qingyang and company were some of them.
The grass stalk pointing south represented the faceless man’s former identity, the Governor of Jiannan who had lost his wife and children.
This would forever be a source of grief for him, so he had designed this mark in order to remember his wife and children.
On the side, Young Master Qingyang’s guard, Sword Dragon, squatted down and grabbed at the loose earth next to the pile of stone. As it shifted around, it was possible to see that the soil was streaked with blood.
“His injuries are bad. This isn’t looking good.”
The other party had taken great pains to wipe them away, but they had still been able to easily find it.
“The faceless man has always been cautious and would never have left a flaw like this. His injuries are probably more serious than we initially expected,” Invincible Great General Li Siye said in his gruff and deep voice, his face stricken with concern.
He had met the faceless man a few times. Ever since that incident, the man had completely changed, becoming extremely cautious. He would have never committed such an obvious error.
“There’s something that I don’t understand. Since he escaped, why didn’t the faceless man directly tell us where Xu Qiqin and Heaven were?” Li Siye said.
The faceless man had left behind information, but it did not mention where Heaven had been sealed or Xu Qiqin’s location. This was one of the main reasons they had made no progress in this operation.
“Because there are some places that cannot be described with words,” Young Master Qingyang said as he continued to squat on the ground.
Some things could not be described, like space. Once a location transcended geography, their locations became difficult to convey through normal means.
“If my guess is right, he’s still being pursued and doesn’t have time to leave behind any detailed information. Moreover, even if he did tell us, any information that’s too obvious would be wiped away, and such actions would make it even easier for him to be tracked down,” Young Master Qingyang calmly said.
“By the bloodstains, I deem those pursuers are very close to catching him.”
As Young Master Qingyang spoke, he warily inspected his surroundings.
Clang!
Seeing this, Sword Dragon immediately understood something. His expression chilled as he pulled out his sword and tensed his muscles.
The surrounding atmosphere instantly went taut.
“Kill!”
Almost the moment Sword Dragon pulled out his sword, an earthquake shook the area, and low howls and cries resounded in their ears.
And that voice… was coming from underground.
Boomboomboom!
Several figures immediately shot out of the earth.
“Kill them!”
Following this order, these figures turned into Lu Wus and Asuras. Sixty to seventy men in black had appeared, tightly surrounding the group.
These people had been waiting underground for a long time, waiting for Young Master Qingyang’s group to step into the trap before making their appearance.
Without the slightest hesitation, these people charged at Young Master Qingyang’s group, their bodies seething with killing intent and the flames of Lu Wu, Ju Bi, and Mara.
Young Master Qingyang’s group was instantly surrounded.
And the true killing intent did not even come from these several dozen men in black.
Bang!
The earth sundered apart as a brilliant wave of saber energy several hundred feet long flew upward and then came back down, cleaving apart the fabric of space as it descended on the group.
This attack was savage and sinister, and made the air hiss as black fissures appeared in its wake.
Even Subtle realm experts would be heavily injured if struck by the spatial fissures, let alone others. This person’s cultivation was clearly on an extremely high level.
At almost the same time, two other saber energies of the same nature began to approach the group of three from two other directions.
“Careful!”
Young Master Qingyang’s group could sense an intense danger approaching, and their faces turned grim.
The Celestial God Organization had clearly dispatched experts of extraordinary power to pursue the faceless man, at least at the high level of the Subtle realm. Even worse was that Young Master Qingyang and the others could not see the people who had unleashed those waves of saber energy. Those saber energies seemed to be independent existences.
The danger levels were at maximum. It was obvious that they had predicted that Young Master Qingyang’s group would appear here and had waited in ambush.
Whether they found the faceless man or Young Master Qingyang’s group, their operation would be a success.
Even so, while Young Master Qingyang and Li Siye were surprised, they were not panicked.
The sixty-some experts lunged forward. Just when the three saber energies were about to make impact, Young Master Qingyang waved his sleeve, his right hand circling in the air before slapping the ground.
Buzz!
The world darkened as a black and white Taiji pattern appeared. Wrapped in torrents of Stellar Energy, it slammed into the ground.
The Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art!
Young Master Qingyang used this supreme art of the evil path. Just like Wang Chong, Young Master Qingyang had reached an extremely high level of attainment in this art, surpassing the original restrictions of the art and reaching the ‘Dao of Yin Yang’.
As Young Master Qingyang’s palm hit the ground, an enormous energy made the world tremble. The ground for one thousand feet around began to splinter apart, the flat steppe becoming like the deck of a ship on the rolling ocean. This vast wave of Yin Yang Stellar Energy sent all the surrounding men in black flying.
As Young Master Qingyang’s talent in martial arts was only second to Wang Chong’s, the Dao of Yin Yang in his hands possessed a frightening power.
“Aaaaah!”
Screams rang out as the various flames used by the men in black were extracted from their bodies and surged into the bodies of other men in black. In a flash, all of them had been set aflame, their Stellar Energies thrown into disarray.
Not only that, Young Master Qingyang used some of this flame energy and converted it into a tricolor barrier of black, red, and violet which he used to block those three waves of saber energy.
These three saber energies were tyrannical beyond compare, and Young Master Qingyang was only able to break their momentum, but for this trio, that was enough.