Chapter 2189: Chapter 2189: Heavenly Emissary Holy Festival?
The bluestone in the alley was not ordinary bluestone, with considerable defensive capacity. At this moment, a straight narrow sword mark extended all the way to the edge of sight on the bluestone on both sides.
There was no collapse, and besides that sword mark, not even a crack could be seen on the bluestone. But Ye Haochuan knew that these bluestones, including the earth and rocks for dozens of miles behind them, had all been split in two.
That wasn’t even the most shocking part. Under the Heavenly Eye, Ye Haochuan could clearly see that on the sixth gate, besides the sword mark that was cut upon his arrival, there was another more prominent sword mark deeply embedded in it.
This sword mark didn’t cut the gate completely, but it shattered the remaining formation, making the gate appear dim.
Looking at all this before him, Ye Haochuan’s heart surged with waves, and he stared blankly at the Jade Sword in his hand, unable to let go of it.
The Jade Sword seemed not to have a Sword Spirit, but just by its might, it was clearly not an ordinary Immortal Artifact. Although it consumed a lot when used, it could definitely turn the tide at crucial moments.
"Green Jade!" A name suddenly popped into Ye Haochuan’s mind; it wasn’t engraved on the Jade Sword, but Ye Haochuan naturally thought of these two words as if the sword itself was named this.
After a long time, Ye Haochuan stored the Green Jade Sword into his ring and rummaged through the broken corpse, but he couldn’t find any Storage Ring, leaving him to sigh.
Fortunately, obtaining the Green Jade Sword was already a great opportunity, so there was nothing much to regret.
Ye Haochuan collected his thoughts and swiftly traveled through the passage, quickly arriving at the second gate from when he came in.
Previously Xu Linglan mentioned waiting there with Ye Yishu for him.
But when he arrived, he found that there wasn’t a single person here.
As he was wondering, he suddenly noticed a Jade Slip on the ground. After injecting a bit of Spiritual Energy into it, Xu Linglan’s anxious voice emanated from it: "The Sky Hunting Association encountered trouble, I headed back first!"
Hearing this, Ye Haochuan was anxious. After the last battle, the Sky Hunting Association had suffered heavily. He wondered what trouble arose this time and whether it would worsen their existing plight.
Thinking of this, Ye Haochuan couldn’t stay any longer, and under the Gale Immortal Canon, he transformed into a remnant shadow in an instant.
The passage outside the first gate had returned to its original state. In just a few minutes, Ye Haochuan reached the end of the entire underground cave.
It was in the depths of a vast forest, appearing extremely concealed.
Ye Haochuan quickly dispatched a few Immortal Transformation Stage Demon Beasts that noticed his aura and charged at him, then summoned the Heaven Escape Bead, finding the direction of the Sky Hunting Association’s main force, becoming a rainbow in the sky.
Two hours later, Ye Haochuan had flown countless miles and finally saw the castle from before.
But now, that castle no longer had its former appearance, with the city gates and walls all in ruins, half collapsed, a picture of desolation.
A tightness gripped Ye Haochuan’s heart. He quickly opened the Heavenly Eye, discovering there wasn’t even a person in sight, not even a broken corpse could be found.
Unwilling to accept it, Ye Haochuan flew to the Sky Hunting Association’s headquarters in that valley, yet he saw the same scene.
"Could it be that the Holy See annihilated everyone?" Ye Haochuan’s heart sank completely.
At this moment, a disheveled figure suddenly staggered into Ye Haochuan’s vision, stumbling into the hidden small city in the valley.
"Dolly?" Seeing this person, Ye Haochuan rushed over.
"It’s all over, all over..." The sturdy man Dolly, upon seeing the state in the valley, suddenly cried like a two-meter tall child.
"What happened?" Ye Haochuan, who had suddenly appeared, asked urgently.
When Dolly saw Ye Haochuan, joy immediately lit up his eyes, and he grabbed Ye Haochuan’s hand, saying, "Hurry and rescue Madam, if you’re late, she might be dead..."
In the fastest manner, Dolly recounted the events of the past few days.
It turned out shortly after Ye Haochuan and the others were besieged by the Holy See, they found the location of the Sky Hunting Association’s headquarters with the help of Dennis and other traitors, launching a fierce assault.
Without a single powerful figure in the Sky Hunting Association to serve as an opponent, they quickly suffered a devastating defeat and fled, simultaneously sending a distress signal to Xu Linglan.
However, by the time Xu Linglan arrived, the remaining members of the Sky Hunting Association had once again been surrounded by the Holy See.
Despite Xu Linglan’s desperate fight, they were eventually outnumbered and captured by Xierui and two other eight-winged Angels who merged with their stations.
They even declared they would, using heretical punishment, burn him alive on the Holy Tribunal’s Divine Platform during the Heavenly Emissary Holy Festival, making known to all the brutal consequences of resisting the Holy See.
"When is the Heavenly Emissary Holy Festival?" Ye Haochuan, anxious as he was, suddenly thought of other matters and asked, "The child Xu Linglan returned with, are Li Yun and Rui’er still alive?"
"The Heavenly Emissary Holy Festival is just two days away," Dolly quickly replied, "That child was captured with Madam, as for Li Yun and Rui’er, it was too chaotic back then, I don’t know if they survived."
Hearing that his son was also taken, Ye Haochuan became even more anxious, summoning the Heaven Escape Bead to fly toward the Heart of the Earth Island.
Dolly suddenly reminded him, "Do you really think you can match the three eight-winged Angels of the Holy See by going like this recklessly?"
Ye Haochuan had a sudden realization, forcibly suppressed his inner impulse, pondered for a moment, and formed a preliminary plan.
He decided not to use the Heaven Escape Bead for travel; although it was fast, it would still take nearly ten days to reach the Heart of the Earth Island, which he couldn’t afford.
He found a nearby small town that hadn’t been occupied by the Sky Hunting Association, where the Heavenly Emissary Statue and Heavenly Emissary Servant continued to operate as usual.
He quietly appeared in the Offering Temple, using the connection between a Heavenly Emissary Servant and Heavenly Emissary Standard to open a space black hole, instantly arriving in a sanctuary of a four-winged Holy Heavenly Emissary.
"It’s you?" The four-winged Angel, upon seeing the suddenly appearing Ye Haochuan, was stunned and hurriedly tried to call out.
Before he could utter a word, Ye Haochuan appeared fiercely in front of him, and then several key points of his body suddenly ached, his Spiritual and Flower Energy became chaotic, and after several surges, his consciousness began to blur.
Ye Haochuan’s face bore no hostility, and with his current strength, dealing with a four-winged Angel who had not merged with their standard and only had Immortal Transformation Late Stage cultivation was no more troublesome than crushing an ant.
"Ghost Escape Technique!"
Ye Haochuan’s soul instantly left his body, invading the Sea of Consciousness of the four-winged Angel.
Thanks to feedback from the Old Ghost Woman, the strength of Ye Haochuan’s soul had reached the level of a True Immortal cultivator. The soul of the four-winged Angel could not even resist and was completely devoured by Ye Haochuan.
Ye Haochuan hid his body well, then swaggered out of the Holy Temple.
