There were six men sitting in a principle room of an inn in a medium-sized city in the east. Before them knelt a yellow-clothed woman wearing a veil.
“Your Royal Highness, that’s the situation. Although the few of them were incompetent, but they were still members of the Yi Si Empire. Those people killing them is equal to provoking the authority of the Empire.” The yellow-clothed woman said with a slight sob.
The hatred in her heart had practically corroded her entire being. Her proud beautiful face was ruined—ruined by that woman’s one poison pill.
She must persuade the elite team of the Yi Si Empire to take action, and then she would personally peel off that woman’s face to make a human skin mask with.
The man sitting in the central position was handsome and dressed in apricot-yellow brocade clothes. With one glance, it was obvious he was a member of the royal family of a certain kingdom.
He picked up the teacup and gently scraped the tea leaves in his cup with his lid. After a while, he slowly asked: “They’re all dead, so how did you survive?”
“That woman fed me a poison pill and wanted to torture me, so she didn’t kill me.” In order to convince the several people, her eyes were filled with cruelty, and she stretched out and took off the veil from her face.
The several people couldn’t help furrowing their brows when they saw the blue lines on her face. This face was completely ruined.
“Why did she only feed you a poison pill and kill the others?” The person addressed as ‘Your Royal Highness’ looked at the yellow-clothed woman with sharp eyes and continued, saying: “Tell me how you met and the process of why they were killed again. I want to hear the unbiased story, including the reason for feeding you the poison pill.”
He knew exactly what sort of disgusting manner the other team members had, and presumably it wasn’t like what the yellow-clothed woman said just now where they merely met, entered into a fight, and was killed.
The yellow-clothed woman shuddered slightly, and after being overwhelmed by the man’s gaze, she didn’t dare to hide anything anymore and told the story from the very beginning.
“That day we went to the inn in the refuge city to book…”
After finishing, two lines of tears streamed down and she choked, saying softly: “Your Royal Highness, this is all that happened. Qian’er didn’t hide anything and doesn’t dare deceive Your Royal Highness.”
If she had cried weakly and softly when was still more beautiful, then maybe it would arouse a slight heart of pity and tender care for jade in the few people, but they just felt her disgusting with her current ugliness.
“You leave first.” Yi Zhao waved his hand and signalled for her to leave.
The yellow-clothed woman was unwilling, but she also knew how ruthless His Royal Highness was beneath his usual gentleness, so she bowed tenderly and left the room.
“Your Royal Highness, do you think she’s telling the truth?” One of them asked.
Yi Zhao took a sip of tea, “It’s most likely true.”
Then he turned his eyes to the masked man in black sitting opposite and asked, “Che Jin, what do you think of it? After all, one of the people killed was your own younger brother.”
“Although that kid is a good-for-nothing, and I also hate his temperament very much, but I can’t tolerate other people killing him.” The black-clothed masked man’s eyes were tempered with a layer of cold light, “Of course I want revenge.”
They were brothers of the same mother. Even if he looked down on that younger brother, he was still unhappy when he heard the news of his death.
“Sure. It’s just a group of people from a small kingdom. When we meet, we’ll just kill them together.” Yi Zhao smiled indifferently.
While they were at it, they would also take the footwork and the body refining method from that woman to see if it were as powerful as what Huang Qian’er said.
The sky in the due east rose with a grey dawn, and a trace of morning light broke out and scattered down.
Lou Mu Yan and the others stepped into a medium-sized refuge city in the west in the morning splendour.
They still chose an inn as their destination, took their room keys, and went back to their rooms to recover and rest.
As soon as they stepped upstairs, a man in apricot-coloured brocade clothes walked out of Heaven Room Number 1 and just missed them.
The moment Huang Qian’er turned her head, she saw a corner of light purple clothes and felt a familiar, but also unfamiliar, feeling in her heart. She was just about to walk over to take a look when she was called by Yi Zhao. She turned her head back in confusion and went downstairs.
After leaving the city, Yi Zhao pointed to a looming mountain in the distance and said: “Let’s go hunting in that mountain today.”
“Sure. When we return, we should be able to make it back before dark on Second Elder Brother’s flying Demonic Beast.” A man who looked somewhat similar to Yi Zhao said with a smile.
“Huang Qian’er, are you going hunting with us or staying in the city?” Yi Zhao asked.
Huang Qian’er constantly felt uneasy ever since seeing the corner of light purple clothes and hurriedly replied softly: “I want to go hunting with Your Royal Highness.”
At this time, her mind was no longer on earning points and her ranking. In her mind, besides revenge, there was still revenge.
Although the few people were annoyed by her, but they let her follow because she was the only one who had seen the group of people from the small kingdom.
After resting in the inn for a day, Lou Mu Yan opened her eyes when the light of the sunset enveloped the entire city.
“Mo Yan, do you feel like we’re being watched?” She always felt like someone was watching when she killed Demonic Beasts in the Beast Tide every night.
Mo Yan pondered for a moment, “I always feel that there’s something wrong. If we’re being monitored, then it could only be the actions of the Organiser who are using the Arrays set up within this competition space to watch the movements of competitors.”
“There’s such an Array?”
“Of course. There’s a kind of Array within an Array called Image Reflection Array, which can feed back what occurs in the places that are easier to monitor in this large Array to the centre of the Array source, then project the groups of images in the Array source to a special crystal wall. As such, you can see the actions of everyone in those places on the crystal wall.”
Mo Yan glanced at Lou Mu Yan in surprise. Wasn’t this woman very knowledgeable about Arrays? She didn’t even know this?
Lou Mu Yan was a master at playing with Arrays, but the Immortal Cultivation World didn’t have such an Array of reflecting images. After hearing what Mo Yan said, she not only became interested in this Image Reflection Array, but also had some theoretical guesses.
Then, she shrugged helplessly and asked: “Then am I exposing too much?”
“Just don’t expose the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame.” Mo Yan thought for a bit and added: “You best increase the strength of the Array used to conceal the aura of your Natal Magic Tool and don’t let others figure out that it’s made of Heavenly Frost Golden Essence.”
These two things, not to mention on Tian’ling Continent, even in the upper interface, were things that were contended for by powerhouses. Lou Mu Yan’s strength was still very weak, and it wasn’t suitable for her to expose it.
“Mm, that’s my trump card, and I won’t reveal it unless absolutely necessary.” Lou Mu Yan nodded in agreement. Until the moment of life or death, she definitely must not use the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame in this space.
As for the Seal on the Heavenly Frost Golden Essence, she had absolute confidence that others wouldn’t be able to recognise it. But to be more cautious, she would add another layer of a Seal tomorrow in the daytime.
The one human, one beast talked a little more, and only when it was getting dark, did they leave the room and join Yun Zi Mo and the others.
They had already formed the habit of acting at night and resting in a city during the day.
Every time they arrived at a refuge city, Lou Mu Yan would sweep up the Spiritual Herbs or useful Spars in it. The main reason was that the consumption of Spiritual Replenishing Pills was simply too high. She basically refined a pile every three or four days or so.
They prepared to leave the city before night fell, but when they exited the city gate, they happened to encounter a group of people entering the city. Lou Mu Yan glanced at them casually and didn’t recognise them.
But when she saw a delicate woman in yellow clothes following behind that party, her eyes darkened, and she thought inwardly that trouble was coming.
As expected, when the two teams passed by each other, the yellow-clothed woman suddenly pointed at Lou Mu Yan and said, “Your Royal Highness, it’s them.”