Chapter 1463: Chapter 553: Island Break-In (Part 3)
So he swaggered right onto the island, but didn’t go chasing after Jiang Lan.
He was just one of the leads on this island.
Merely there to draw attention.
Right now Su Mo still had things to do, and had no intention of getting entangled with Jiang Lan...
"So then... where are the Li Sect Disciples now?"
Su Mo’s gaze turned toward the back mountain of Cui Xin Temple, he pondered for a moment, then moved out at once.
After changing into this set of Dark Dragon Hall Disciple clothes, things really did get much easier.
Although many places on this island could be taken in at a glance, the back mountain was deep and thick with woods.
Su Mo stepped into them, and in just a moment had already run into several Dark Dragon Hall Disciples.
Only, whenever they met, Su Mo would naturally turn around and head off, and they would assume Su Mo was also going to capture that thief Jiang Lan.
Once, twice, it all went smoothly.
But walk the night road too often and you’re bound to run into ghosts.
This time, the Dark Dragon Hall Disciples he met, he thought it would be the same as before, all prioritizing Jiang Lan.
He hadn’t expected that when they passed by, one of them would suddenly say:
"Your Qinggong isn’t good enough, by the time you get there Jiang Lan will probably already be taken down.
"A man makes his name on the battlefield—this is the moment. If you’re one step slow, you won’t even get to eat shit while it’s still warm.
"Come on, come on, I’ll give you a lift!"
"..."
Su Mo almost just slammed him straight into a crack in the mountain.
Using you?
He glanced at the many Dark Dragon Hall Disciples around him, and it wasn’t convenient to strike immediately.
Otherwise, wouldn’t he be forced to play a one-man stealth massacre?
So he simply let things go for now.
Just as well to take the chance to gather some intel.
In only a short while like this, they’d already reached Cui Xin Temple.
Cui Xin Temple had originally been a Sect.
At this moment the square was filled with shouts and killing.
From a distance, corpses were scattered all along the way.
Jiang Lan was swinging the pipe in his hand, fighting and cursing at the same time.
At first Su Mo hadn’t heard clearly what he was cursing about, only when he got closer did he make it out:
"You bastard, I asked you for my pipe and you didn’t give me any tobacco..."
Su Mo thought about it and realized he actually had forgotten about that.
At his ear came the conversation of a few Dark Dragon Hall Disciples:
"Although this Jiang Lan betrayed us, we have to admit his martial arts really are formidable.
"We’ve already sent out so many experts, yet still can’t take him down.
"If this keeps up, we’ll probably all have to stake our lives."
"If it’s staking our lives, then we stake them."
Someone else said, "The Hall Master has treated us with boundless grace, our lives were already sold to the old man long ago. Now that it’s time to use our lives, how can we be content to fall behind others?"
"But that group who came not long ago is still lying in ambush.
"I heard the real enemies aren’t far now."
"If you ask me, at this point we should let them come out and fight side by side with us first, then talk."
"Not necessarily... they’re Disciples of the Eight sects, good at sea battles.
"They’re being kept to deal with that Demon Su Mo and that bunch of self-important Righteous Path Jianghu people."
"Just who is this Su Mo, anyway?
"Why’s he worth such a big fuss?"
"By the way, why doesn’t Jiang Lan go break the prison? Those people who still think he hasn’t betrayed Dark Dragon Hall are all locked up there. If he went and rescued them, it’d be better than fighting solo here."
"You’re still worrying about that traitor?
"Enough chatter, it’s time for us to move. When he comes over, I’ll hit him in the face to draw his attention, and you lot go for his lower three vital points—show no mercy!"
The last speaker was the one who had dragged Su Mo along the whole way.
Speaking up to here, he glanced at Su Mo:
"In a bit, you stay behind me and strike when you have the chance. If you can land even a single solid blow, then it won’t be in vain that the Hall Master trained our martial arts to this level."
"..."
Listening to this, Su Mo just felt something was off.
He’d seen many kinds of organizations.
The people of Eternal Night Valley treated the Night Lord as the heavens, believing everything the Night Lord did was out of great ambition and lofty ideals.
They followed him for that, and even death held no regret.
There were also those on Longmu Island, all sharing a single purpose, rotten through from top to bottom, willingly marching to their deaths.
But this lot was still different from the Dark Dragon Hall mob.
Their obedience toward the Dark Dragon Hall Master seemed like an extremely blind submission.
They were willing to give everything for it, including their lives!
There wasn’t the slightest trace of their own will in it, and they even took it as an honor to die for this.
This... was very strange.
If it wasn’t Poison, then they’d probably been brainwashed, right?
Did this Dark Dragon Hall Master actually have such methods?
That was unexpected.
Thinking this far, he lowered his voice and asked:
"Uh... where are those Eight sects people now?"
"Where else could they be?
"There’s a batch hidden in a cave in the back mountain—their ships are too many to hide that many people.
"The rest are hidden inside Cui Xin Temple, and another portion are on two nearby hidden islands.
"Stop asking these irrelevant questions, we’re about to make our move..."
As he said this, several people leapt up together, pouncing toward Jiang Lan.
The plan sounded great, but as soon as they got close, facing a palm that came straight at him, Jiang Lan didn’t even look.
He casually grabbed the man’s wrist, then swung him up and flung him.
In an instant, people were flying all around again.
But by now Jiang Lan was already panting heavily.
No matter how deep his Inner Strength, it had its limits.
Fighting to this point, he had a faint feeling he couldn’t keep it up.
Su Mo hid in the dark, watching quietly, when he suddenly heard the system prompt.
[Quest: Escort Dark Dragon Hall Deputy Hall Master Jiang Lan to Nanhai Cuixin Temple! (Completed!)]
[Reward: Settling...]
"Oh?"
After a brief thought, his figure twisted and vanished without a trace.
At that moment, Jiang Lan suddenly felt something, and snapped his head toward where Su Mo had just been standing.
But the spot was already empty.
His brows furrowed for a moment.
In that instant of distraction, palm shadows came at him from all directions. He took one head-on and was directly blasted into a nearby ruined great hall.
But this, in turn, gave him an idea.
With enemies on all sides, he couldn’t hold out for long.
Now he only needed to guard the doorway—anyone who came in would die!
And as Jiang Lan stood alone at the gate, blocking ten thousand, slaughtering his way through to clear the hall...
In the dungeon Dark Dragon Hall had set up inside this Cui Xin Temple...
Without a sound, there was already one more person.
His gaze swept around slightly, and he couldn’t help but smile:
"Quite a crowd..."
As the words left his mouth, an angry shout rang in his ear:
"Who’s there?"
