Chapter 456: Chapter 232: Shooting and Awakening!
The White Jade Treasure Sword is ultimately not an Innate Magical Treasure.
Moreover, the Saintess was left only in soul form, greatly weakening her defense. After Jiang Feng shot more than twenty arrows, the arrow shadows finally shattered the White Jade Treasure Sword.
Clang.
The White Jade Treasure Sword broke into three pieces.
In the Divine Sect Treasure Hall, Elder Wang, who was casting magic, saw a lamp in front of him wavering violently, and his heart leaped into his throat.
If this lamp extinguishes.
The Saintess would truly be annihilated.
In the end, there was a small flame left on the lamp, stubbornly burning.
"Whoosh!"
At the same time, a red beam of light appeared before him, and he reached out to catch it.
It was a Jade Pendant.
Inside the Jade Pendant lay a fainted human figure.
That person was none other than the soul of the Saintess.
"When will the Grand Elder and Yang Qiang exit seclusion?"
Elder Wang asked in a trembling voice.
"There is no response yet."
A disciple beside him cautiously replied.
"Summon everyone in the Sect with a strength of Sixth-Layer Qi Condensation or above to wait for me at the Martial Arts Palace!"
Elder Wang said in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
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"Today, I’ve killed so many Divine Sect disciples, including the Six-armed Divine Emperor, and left the Saintess without a body, only her soul lingering. I wonder what method the Divine Sect will use to deal with me?"
"The Cyan Snake Demon clan has enmity with the Divine Sect."
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"Perhaps I should go find the Cyan Snake King for a good talk."
Jiang Feng thought to himself.
After his strength improved, he felt confident enough to talk with the Cyan Snake King. He always felt that the agreement between the Cyan Snake King and the Emperor of the Great Tang wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
"It’s a pity that, after taking such a big risk, the Saintess still managed to escape."
Jiang Feng was vexed.
If he had approached the Saintess back then and shot the arrow from a close distance, perhaps he could have retained the Saintess’s soul.
However, entering the world hidden within the White Jade Treasure Sword greatly increased the danger; he wasn’t sure if he could avoid that strike.
Misfortune lies in what fortune relies on, and fortune in what misfortune hides.
Maybe it’s fate!
Jiang Feng didn’t have a second chance to kill the Saintess, and even if he did, with the disappearance of the White Jade Treasure Sword from his perception range, he wouldn’t risk it lightly. One could say the Saintess’s fate was not to end.
"Hm?"
"Something’s wrong!"
"There’s a problem!"
But just as he was about to leave this place of troubles and go seek cooperation with the Cyan Snake King against the Divine Sect, Jiang Feng thought of something, turned around to look at the Saintess’s corpse, and was struck as if by electricity.
"Saint Heir?"
"Saintess?"
"With my current strength, even with the Dragon Bone Bow, I could not kill the Saintess."
"How could I have killed the Second Prince back when my cultivation was at Fourth-Layer Qi Condensation? Even if his body was shattered by me, his soul should have survived."
Jiang Feng muttered to himself.
The difference between Saint Heir and Saintess is just one character.
He didn’t think the life-saving measures given to the Second Prince by the Divine Sect would be much weaker than those given to the Saintess.
"Didn’t the Little Cyan Snake say the Second Prince had a Soul-Stabilizing Jade?"
"Could the Jade Pendant that just took away the Saintess’s soul be the Soul-Stabilizing Jade?"
"The Second Prince isn’t dead?"
"No, if he wasn’t dead, the Divine Sect and the Royal Family wouldn’t be pursuing me this relentlessly."
"The Emperor wouldn’t hold a state funeral for the Second Prince either?"
"Could it be that someone else killed the Second Prince, and I was used?"
"Who?"
"Who could have killed the Second Prince?"
Jiang Feng grabbed his head, the more he thought, the more he felt something was wrong, and he paced in circles.
"Who else but me could have killed the Second Prince?"
"Who could have done it so mysteriously and pinned all the blame on me?"
"This person is not only extremely powerful but also above suspicion by everyone."
"Who?"
"After I left, who was the first to approach the Second Prince?"
"Li Yang!"
"The Emperor of the Great Tang!"
"The one who killed the Second Prince was the Emperor of the Great Tang!"
Jiang Feng couldn’t stop himself from stepping back.
He was startled by his own thought.
Last time, when he captured the Little Cyan Snake, he suspected there was something peculiar about the Second Prince’s death, thinking the Second Prince wasn’t dead and was possibly reconstructing the Golden Body. It was only after receiving confirmation from the Little Cyan Snake that he believed the Second Prince was truly dead.
However.
Today, with his Eighth-Layer Qi Condensation strength.
Plus the Innate Magical Treasure, the Dragon Bone Bow, even after destroying the Saintess’s body, he couldn’t retain her soul.
How then could the Second Prince have been easily killed by him?
Upon tracing back, he finally understood the key to the problem.
"I finally understand."
"Why the Emperor of the Great Tang set up an ambush for me with the Little Cyan Snake and insisted on killing me even if I fell into the hands of the Divine Sect."
"He secretly imprisoned Sister Dong and Uncle Huo’s family, allowing Liu Chen to find nothing, to prevent me from being captured by the Divine Sect."
"If I were intercepted by the Divine Sect, there’s a chance that him crushing the Second Prince’s soul would be exposed to the Divine Sect!"
"Even a vicious tiger won’t eat its cubs, why would Li Yang kill the Second Prince?"
"The ruthlessness of imperial power is indeed true."
"Ah, when I captured the Little Cyan Snake and learned from it that Li Yang imprisoned Han Dong and others without aiding the Divine Sect against me, I should have realized something was amiss."
"If Sister Dong were here, she surely could have helped pinpoint the problem."
Jiang Feng realized belatedly.
Thinking back now, he realized that when the Little Cyan Snake fell into his hands earlier, the truth of Li Yang secretly killing the Second Prince should have been revealed.
Unfortunately, he underestimated human nature.
He couldn’t find a reason why Li Yang would kill the Second Prince, so he didn’t think in this direction, instinctively assuming the Second Prince wasn’t dead at that time.
Who would have thought the Second Prince was dead, but at the hands of Li Yang.
"If I could see Sister Dong again, I must ask her. She could probably figure out why Li Yang killed the Second Prince."
"After today’s incident blew up so much, I wonder if Sister Dong and Uncle Huo’s family were affected."
"With Sister Dong’s intelligence, she surely would take Uncle Huo and the rest to seek refuge with the Cyan Snake King!"
"Now I can only seek cooperation with the Cyan Snake King to find out more about the Divine Sect’s secrets to deal with their future plans."
"Maybe I can find an opportunity to meet Sister Dong."
Jiang Feng thought of using the Thousand Faces technique to assume a new identity and remain hidden, but he knew this was not a long-term solution. Firstly, the Divine Sect has the Celestial Calculation Divine Heir; hiding indefinitely will eventually lead to being caught.
Only by entering the underground passageway, cooperating with the Cyan Snake King, and learning more about the Divine Sect’s magic talismans, can he increase his chances of winning.
Only when driven to the brink, out of options, should he continue using the Thousand Faces technique to evade the Divine Sect’s pursuit and engage in guerrilla warfare with them.
For now, if he could get support from the Cyan Snake King, he’d have to try to seize it.
On the way back, Jiang Feng used the Thousand Faces technique to transform into a Loose Cultivator identity, silently following several who traveled far and wide to explore the Underground Palace in Dragon Capital, quietly returning to Dragon Capital.
He hurried back from the south.
Thinking that midway he killed several Divine Sect disciples, including the Six-armed Divine Emperor, some Loose Cultivators probably noticed the commotion. So before returning to Dragon Capital, Jiang Feng made a detour, specifically choosing to enter Dragon Capital from the North City Gate.
At this time, the entrance to the North City Gate was still crowded with people.
Uncle Huo’s family of five were still hanging on the city gate tower.
Chief Wang, Chief Feng, and Chief Ma, upon learning the news, immediately gathered their belongings and families and left Dragon Capital.
The plight of Uncle Huo’s family kept them on edge.
If they could hide far away, they would.
When Jiang Feng returned to Dragon Capital, it was the next day when the city gates opened. From afar, he saw people hanging from the city tower, with crowds pointing and talking below.
He didn’t use his spiritual sense to investigate.
To avoid being detected by cultivators within the Imperial City.
When his eyes could clearly see the figures, he turned his gaze towards them.
