Chapter 268: Heavenly Revelation
Xia Feng looked up and scanned his surroundings.
Three thousand soldiers and one thousand Half-dragons arrayed themselves, like an ancient beast crouched, exuding immense pressure.
Based solely on physical overall quality, one Half-dragon was equivalent to two soldiers. If they were to engage in a head-on battle, the Half-dragon legion would not have an easy victory.
But the situation was different now.
Inside the Blue Whale, a space filled with red light fell into a brief silence, so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
Four thousand against two.
The Rat-faced Man could not imagine how he could lose.
This was a crushing victory.
As he gestured with a smile, the sound of metal clashing and roars echoed from all directions.
“Roar!!!”
The sky and earth trembled!
The Rat-faced Man couldn’t help but look up in confusion. A horrifying sight that made him aghast met his eyes.
Every Half-dragon had plunged its claws directly into the backs of the two soldiers in front of them, grasping their beating hearts, and suddenly unleashed soul-burning dragon flames.
Before they could even react, two thousand people turned into ashes. The Rat-faced Man’s mouth parted, his eyes vacant.
“What the hell?”
The remaining one thousand soldiers reacted, quickly drawing their swords and activating their Spirit Robes, but it was too late.
What followed was a one-sided crushing battle.
In the center of the bloody battlefield, Xia Feng walked slowly towards the Rat-faced Man.
“Thud—”
Before Xia Feng could say anything, the Rat-faced Man knelt down. “Big shot, hold on, I’m still useful. I can control the Blue Whale’s teleportation channel!”
The Rat-faced Man’s head buzzed, his mind filled with confusion. This K-Masked Man had actually instigated and controlled the Half-dragon legion?!
He had truly hit rock bottom to encounter such a ludicrous situation. Although he didn’t know how it was done, he decided to save his own life first.
Xia Feng was very satisfied with the Rat-faced Man’s quick grasp of the situation. However, he didn’t linger, asking Teacher Freya to stay behind.
He and Mu Qingtong led the Half-dragon legion to Xize Island.
The Blue Whale could teleport a maximum of three thousand people at once, with a two-hour cooldown period for each teleportation.
To forcibly activate it again would require sacrificing more spirit materials and lives.
The corpses filling the Blue Whale’s interior were quickly devoured by the red light, connecting the formation patterns, and a great light erupted.
Xia Feng’s surroundings shifted, the scene of corpses strewn everywhere disappearing, leaving only a world of red light.
However, through his senses, he discovered that the distance to the Spirit Artifact that could help him achieve A-class had been shortened by countless amounts.
It was like one was at the South Pole and the other at the North Pole, but in the blink of an eye, they were neighbors.
Lost in thought, Xia Feng did not delay, leading the Half-dragon army to charge out of the Blue Whale.
Emerging from the whale’s mouth, a hot and pungent sulfurous smell wafted towards them.
They appeared at the foot of a volcano. In front of the floating Blue Whale were more than a thousand soldiers and Season Envoys, who looked on in astonishment at the suddenly appearing Half-dragon army, and the two Black Robe Masked Men leading them.
“What happened? Were those remnants dealt with so quickly?”
“No, who the hell are you two?”
Xia Feng had no time for pleasantries. He sent the Rat-faced Man to hell with a backhand strike, then raised his sword and said in a deep voice, “Kill!”
The ground trembled, dragon roars shook the heavens, and the dense Half-dragons, without fatigue, plunged into battle once more.
“Let’s go, Miss Mu, accompany me to find something.”
Xia Feng glanced at another distant volcanic crater. According to his senses, the Spirit Artifact was in that direction!
Mu Qingtong had never truly understood what Xia Feng wanted to do from the beginning, but it didn’t matter. She would accompany him.
“Yes,” she nodded softly.
*
Xize Island, Volcanic Crater.
Xize frowned as he looked at the person opposite him.
It was a knight clad in bright silver armor, with a Silver Helmet Mask below his nose, covering his jaw, revealing only a pair of ashen-white, indifferent eyes. Above that, his brow was engraved with a sacred white X mark.
He planted his longsword into the rock, his gray hair tied in a wolf’s tail trailing down his neck, standing unmoving in the fiery wind.
Just now, Xize was preparing to head to the forbidden zone when this Wolf-tail Knight suddenly landed on Xize Island.
“Yin Shi.”
Xize narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, “Why has your Apocalypse come to my Xize Island?”
The Apocalypse Knights, a supervisory organization established during the empire’s early days, possessed the highest law enforcement authority above the eight great legions. Its core principle was: ‘Any individual or force detrimental to the empire would become a target of the Apocalypse, even the eight great legions, without exception,’ and they possessed the right to kill with impunity.
Yin Shi raised his ashen-white eyes slightly, his voice indifferent. “Xize, on behalf of the Vice-Leader of the Garden Investigation Team, I am issuing you an inquiry.”
As the Wolf-tail Knight spoke, Xize’s neck stiffened slightly, his mind went blank, but after a moment, he quickly regained his composure, his expression unchanged.
He pushed up his small glasses on his large nose and squinted. “Your Excellency Yin Shi, I have been stationed in the northern frontier for many years, and with such a distance separating me from District 51, do you really believe the Garden case is related to me?”
“This is an investigation order.”
The Wolf-tail Knight ignored his question and conjured a golden paper appear out of thin air. Dense text floated in the air, with a sacred white X-shaped seal in the center.
“Your Excellency Xize, please cooperate with the investigation.”
The stout officer carefully examined the investigation order and finally looked up at the knight opposite him.
Such high-level investigation orders were only issued when there was conclusive evidence, and due to the special nature of the spirit materials, forgery was impossible.
Therefore, it was certain that the investigation team had already obtained relevant conclusive evidence.
As for where they got it from?
Xize vaguely guessed that the only possibility was that not all members of the investigation team who had intruded into the forbidden zone had died. The surviving member, through the spatial channel opened by the Blue Whale connecting to the outside of the forbidden zone, had seized the opportunity to transmit the relevant information.
He had reviewed the profiles of the investigation team members, and the only member with such long-distance information transmission capability was a fifth-level Season Envoy belonging to the Yin Dragon Legion: Lin Musen.
It was precisely because of this special ability that Lin Musen was selected by the investigation team.
Thinking of this, Xize did not panic. He smiled and nodded, “Alright, begin asking.”
Yin Shi said nothing more. The pointer of a silver-gray compass the size of his palm spun, emitting a crisp ticking sound, and a silver stream of light shot into Xize’s brow.
“Xize, were the one hundred thousand troops guarding White Emperor City thirty years ago rebels?”
“No.”
“Xize, from thirty years ago until now, have you been sending troops disguised as the Nightmare Clan to attack White Emperor City?”
“Yes.”
To Xize’s surprise, he admitted to this.
It was important to remember that under the witness and recording of the compass, all words would become conclusive evidence with legal effect.
Yin Shi paused his questioning for a moment, then continued:
“Xize, from thirty years ago until now, have you used the souls of the one hundred thousand troops to create the ‘Spirit-Gazing Stone’?”
“Yes.”
“Xize, are you the mastermind behind the Garden case?”
“Yes.”
“Xize, are you the mastermind behind the White Emperor City miscarriage of justice?”
“Yes.”
The Wolf-tail Knight asked several more questions, and Xize answered them all.
“Good.”
After a short while, the Wolf-tail Knight closed the compass that recorded the images and looked up indifferently. “Your Excellency Xize, thank you for your cooperation.”
As he spoke, the surrounding barrier dispersed, and a frantic bald officer from outside rushed in.
“Walker Sir! Something has happened!”
“Two third-stage Black Robe individuals have advanced from the No. 1 volcano defense line and have now reached Volcano No. 8!”
“?” Xize was stunned, his face turning grim. “Third-stage? Are your subordinates made of shit? Letting two third-stage individuals break through the defense line?”
“Sir…” the bald officer Gaze up cautiously. “Almost all the troops on the island have been dispatched…”
As he spoke, he realized the Wolf-tail Knight was nearby, and his words faltered. He continued,
“Currently, only two thousand troops remain on the island, and more than half of them are engaged in repelling the rebellious Half-dragon army at the No. 1 defense line.”
“Half-dragon insurgency?” Xize was stunned again, veins bulging on his forehead. “What is going on now?”
“This subordinate does not know.”
“…”
Xize felt a headache coming on. He turned and looked towards the distant volcanic crater, vaguely seeing two figures rapidly approaching their location in a crater far away.
Lately, everything had been going wrong, with constant problems. He felt like all the bad luck of his life had occurred in the past two months.
After a moment of silence.
“Heh~ Fine.”
Unknowingly, his mood quickly returned to calm. After all, things couldn’t get any worse.
Now, whether it was the Garden case or the White Emperor City case, a scapegoat was needed.
To put an end to the investigation, he knew he had to take the blame.
After taking the blame, his master would find a way to exempt him from the death penalty, at most it would be permanent imprisonment, and after a few years of maneuvering, he might only be imprisoned for two to three hundred years, and finally exiled to the Gray Realm.
According to his master’s promise, upon his release, he would be given the key spirit material to promote him to Venerable, and then he would serve in a secret organization cultivated by his master in the Gray Realm.
It was also a pretty good development path. At least the Gray Realm was freer than the Empire.
However, before going to prison, there were a few things he needed to do.
First, naturally, was to resolve the Calamity Force issue on Eji. After resolving it, even if he were imprisoned, he would have Eji by his side every day, and they could even get married and have children in prison, have children, have children every day… live a wonderful life without needing to cultivate and fight.
The thought of this made Xize look forward to it.
After all, the moment he saw the manifestation of the Spirit Artifact, he knew he had found the love of his life! It was love at first sight.
As for the second matter, it was naturally to eliminate Xia Feng. Since he had already made an enemy of this young genius, he naturally had to find a way to kill him.
Otherwise, with the growth rate of such a young genius, in three hundred years, he might truly become a Venerable.
Then, even if he were released from prison after three hundred years, it would be no different from seeking death.
However, he didn’t need to worry too much. His master would likely send someone to deal with that kid named Xia as well.
As thoughts flashed through his mind, Xize turned to look at the Wolf-tail Knight, his eyes narrowing. “Your Excellency Yin Shi, before arresting me, could you let me handle some personal matters?”
The Wolf-tail Knight said indifferently, his expression unchanged. “Please do, but you only have half an hour.”
“That’s enough,” Xize smiled and nodded.
Just then, one hundred people landed in the volcanic crater from afar and knelt on one knee respectfully before Xize. “Walker Sir.”
This was the first squadron of Envoys trained by Xize, the strongest squadron after meticulous selection and rigorous training. Among them, ten possessed Spirit Artifacts, forming an even more powerful Spirit Artifact team.
The ten Spirit Artifacts worked together seamlessly with excellent tacit understanding. In specific situations, their combined effect could even severely injure a True Martial Realm expert. They were extremely powerful.
“Wu Mo.”
“Reporting.” A bald man from the Spirit Artifact team stood at attention and stepped out.
“Go and deal with those two Black Robe individuals. Make it quick.”
After Xize casually gave the order, he walked towards the center of the volcanic crater.
Wu Mo nodded with a calm expression and led the Spirit Artifact team members to turn and rush down the mountain.
Sensing the approach of the stout officer to the periphery of the Calamity Force Field, the mare with lazy golden hair scattered over her shoulders and neck slowly opened her beautiful eyes.
