## Chapter 580: This Is Part of the Plan
It was beyond Ye Lixuanqi’s expectations.
As soon as his enraged shout died down, Xia Feng’s figure in the cave instantly vanished.
A life-threatening premonition struck him!
*Something’s not right!* Ye Lixuanqi’s heart lurched, and he was about to retreat.
Suddenly, three pairs of pale hands emerged from the ground, their terrifying strength locking onto his calves. Simultaneously, something like countless crawling insects, blood-red in color, seeped out from the shadows on the ground, densely and directly piercing into his soul.
“Wha—t——!” The searing pain made his eyeballs bulge. He wanted to summon his Battle Puppet for help, but at the corner of his eye, he saw that the Battle Puppet was also frozen in place. Just as he was about to turn his head,
The brat appeared behind the Battle Puppet at some unknown time. He pulled out the blood-red long saber stuck in the ground and with a casual wave, the Battle Puppet strongman’s head flew off.
Even if it was just a puppet, it was still a Venerable One. How could it be decapitated so easily?
Who exactly is this brat?! This is completely different from what he had expected. As Ye Lixuanqi was filled with horror and despair, he saw the flying Battle Puppet’s head suddenly crack with countless fine lines, like shattered ceramic, with countless lights overflowing.
Xia Feng had just neatly sheathed his saber when he suddenly felt something was off. He quickly flickered behind Freya, embraced her, and then unleashed Musashi Tengu.
“Boom—!!”
The Battle Puppet’s head exploded like a missile thrown into a cave, erupting in a terrifying mushroom cloud of fire that blasted a huge opening in the side of the mountain.
As the smoke and fire dispersed, the cave had indeed been turned into a much larger cavern.
Xia Feng, holding Teacher Freya, retracted Musashi Tengu and then saw the shattered remnants of the dismembered Battle Puppet, along with Ye Lixuanqi, who was completely dead and in pieces.
This left him somewhat speechless.
He hadn’t actually planned to kill Ye Lixuanqi immediately.
But judging by the situation, the man who looked like a mechanical puppet had self-destructed before dying.
Of course, that wasn’t the main point. The main point was that this puppet had managed to kill its own master along with itself.
Did it decide it couldn’t beat me, so it resorted to this mutually destructive tactic?
Xia Feng was puzzled.
However, before he could figure out what was going on, he heard a faint buzzing sound in his ears.
He returned to the cave entrance and gazed into the distance.
In the distant sky, a dense cluster of star-like dots could be vaguely seen rapidly approaching. They grew larger, and soon, twenty aerial warships appeared, exuding a powerful aura, like dark clouds pressing down on the city.
“This is the King Descending Star unit, equipped with the God Relic, King Descending Star. They are usually only dispatched when facing a Six-Eyed Nightmare, or a Venerable Third Realm imperial criminal,”
Freya, holding onto Xia Feng’s neck, explained in a low voice, “Under normal circumstances, such a unit would also dispatch one of the [Six Guards] as the overall commander, one of Ye Li Dongjun’s six confidants, each possessing formidable strength.”
Hearing this, Xia Feng couldn’t help but frown. *Wait, to kill a small fry like me, do they really need to send such a terrifying force?*
*Why does it feel a little off?*
The current situation made him suspect that Ye Li Dongjun might be setting a trap for him.
—Did Ye Li Dongjun already know he was Sirius and therefore set this trap?
But… if it was a trap, using his own wife as bait would be too costly, wouldn’t it?
Xia Feng’s heart was filled with doubts.
***
Main Warship.
Jin Yanghong glanced at the compass in his hand and couldn’t help but be stunned, a little surprised.
He looked at the tall, sturdy man beside him with a solemn expression and said in a deep voice, “The Life Compass shows that Ye Lixuanqi is dead. Are you certain this is within Mr. Dong Jun’s plan?”
Ba Ji was nearly two meters tall, with thick eyebrows and a broad face, possessing an upright and imposing appearance. He nodded calmly without hesitation:
“This is part of the plan.”
*Part of the plan?* Jin Yanghong hesitated, but he suppressed his questions.
As the warships continued to approach,
A youth emerged from the blackened, pitted cave entrance, looking up towards them, holding a woman with wine-red hair who had fallen into a coma. Upon meeting, without any preamble, Ba Ji pointed in the direction of the cave.
To Xia Feng’s astonished gaze, a sphere of crimson light slowly rose from the center of the warship formation that was descending from the sky.
It was ten cubic meters in size, quite colossal.
Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that countless sword energies clashed and surged within the sphere. The surface of the sphere also expanded and contracted like unstable lava, on the verge of exploding at any moment.
“Buzz—!!”
Just then, ten long swords, forged from crimson lava, thrust out from the sphere and, at a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye, struck towards the cave entrance on the cliff face!
Like divine punishment from heaven, the only sound in space was a dull thunder.
*Don’t these guys negotiate or chat? Are they just going to start fighting like this?* Xia Feng felt a slight stinging pain between his eyebrows, sensing danger, his expression slightly solemn.
He couldn’t figure out if this was a staged fight or if they genuinely wanted him dead, so he could only unleash Musashi Tengu and flee in the opposite direction.
“The records state that Xia Feng is only 19 years old, at most a Fourth-stage Spirit Master,” Jin Yanghong mused, looking into the distance. “But did you create a puppet with the strength of a True Martial Second Realm? Isn’t that a bit fake?”
*!*
Ba Ji shook his head.
Before departing, he had asked Jian Xin, and Jian Xin had said that this Xia Feng puppet was made by the Alchemic Casket. Once activated and in its awakened state, it could indeed possess the strength to fight a Venerable One.
As for why such immense power was granted, Jian Xin said it was part of the plan.
He was told not to ask further.
Jian Xin was Mr. Dong Jun’s most trusted Guard, and held the greatest authority among the Six Guards. Since Jian Xin had said so, he naturally wouldn’t pry.
He would just execute the order.
“Looking at this strength, it’s likely beyond the True Martial Second Realm. Its speed alone can rival that of a Venerable,” Jin Yanghong said in a deep voice. “Lord Ba, are you sure this is also part of the plan?”
Ba Ji nodded calmly.
“Fine…” Jin Yanghong shook his head, his majestic eyes gazing into the distance. “Then what is the next part of the plan?”
Ba Ji looked towards the fleeing alchemic puppet in the distance and said calmly, “Next, it’s my turn to appear.”
Before leaving, Jian Xin had told him to go all out and not worry about whether he would kill the puppet.
He was somewhat perplexed by this. If they were to leave the Xia Feng puppet alive, albeit heavily injured, they could utilize it again.
Later, they could use this puppet to stage another disgraceful event.
Last time it was a fake kiss; this time, it could be a fake union.
As long as there was a time gap, although Mr. Dong Jun’s actions were always due to his wife feeling disgraced, these were indeed two separate disgraceful events.
This was clearly the option that maximized benefits.
Yet, Jian Xin had instructed him to go all out.
Although he was a Venerable Third Realm, as a genius of the previous era, with various trump cards and the God Relic, King Descending Star, he could even fight a Venerable Fourth Realm without issue.
Therefore, Jian Xin’s command undoubtedly meant for him to kill and destroy the Xia Feng puppet, completely eliminating the possibility of a second use.
