Chapter 614: Evil Disciple
There were officers guarding the four spiral staircases leading to the second floor, all fully armed. Furthermore, Xia Feng discovered that his Eye of Deconstruction was unable to penetrate the walls of the second floor, only showing a mosaic-like blur. It seemed there was a powerful barrier on the second floor that could block all scrying and spatial manipulation.
Xia Feng withdrew his gaze, casually took a glass of red wine from a waiter’s tray, and walked deeper into the great hall.
“I heard Princess Freya was kidnapped by an evil disciple named Xia Feng the day before yesterday. Is it true?” The banquet was filled with gossip, and whether it was the gentlemen conversing or the ladies in their cliques, everyone was very curious about what had happened two days prior.
“It is true, but Mr. Dong Jun did not give that foolish evil disciple a chance to run rampant and immediately dispatched warships to rescue Princess Leya. Heh~ I heard that Princess Leya’s attitude towards Mr. Dong Jun finally improved because of this incident.”
“Oh? So the hero saves the beauty trope is effective after all, even royalty falls for it.”
“You guys don’t know, I heard that the evil disciple used to be Princess Leya’s student in Area 51. He was secretly and obsessively infatuated with the Princess, and even used to wear Princess Leya’s discarded stockings. A total pervert! After gaining the power of an evil god this time, he was driven by lust and committed this abominable deed!”
Xia Feng’s footsteps faltered, a twitch at the corner of his eye as he continued to walk forward.
“As expected, people from a rural place like Area 51 are just disgusting.”
“Wait! If that’s the case, Princess Leya wasn’t defiled by this evil disciple, right?”
“Nonsense! Of course not. However, I heard that even before he died, that evil disciple Xia Feng was still drooling over Princess Leya. Princess Leya has been shut in for these past few days, probably quite disgusted.”
Xia Feng’s footsteps paused again. “Are these big figures idle? Gossiping all day long?!”
“I seem to remember the name Xia Feng. Weren’t you saying a few months ago that this person was the Eternal Day Holy Son?”
“I’m not sure about that, but people claiming to be the Eternal Day Holy Son to deceive others happens every year, so it’s not unusual.”
“Indeed.”
The conversations were fragmented. Xia Feng didn’t listen further. He weaved through the small groups of people and sat down on a secluded sofa. He brought the wine glass to his nose, sniffed, and put it down with a frown. As expected, he still wasn’t used to drinking this thing. While swirling the wine glass, Xia Feng continued to use his Eye of Deconstruction to scan his surroundings, observing the identities of the banquet attendees.
The most eye-catching among them was the man in silver armor sitting boldly on an elegant sofa in the center of the great hall. The man had a sacred white VII-shaped mark carved between his eyebrows, and a silver helmet mask below his nose. However, the mouth of the mask was stretched into a terrifying shark’s grin reaching his ears. Judging by his armor and the mark on his forehead, he was a Heaven’s Revelation Knight. Miss Mu had collected information on the appearances of several Heaven’s Revelation Knights, and Xia Feng recognized this person. – Heaven’s Revelation·Slayer Seven.
Slayer Seven seemed very hungry, widely opening his shark’s teeth as he quickly devoured the apple in his hand. His scarlet eyes flickered with a bloody glow, and finally, he crunched through the apple core, swallowed it whole, and gulped it down. He ate one every three seconds, and the two-meter-high pile of apples in front of him was significantly reduced in a short time.
Whether gentlemen, ladies, or officers, everyone in the great hall kept their distance from him, even fearing to look in Slayer Seven’s direction. A ten-meter radius around Slayer Seven was left as a quiet, empty zone.
To avoid attracting attention, Xia Feng didn’t stare at the man and quickly averted his gaze. However, he then saw someone unexpected. Dipus. The Pope’s son had disguised himself as a young noble, wearing a tuxedo, and was talking to a few ladies with a gentle smile. The ladies were elegantly dressed and quite attractive. Dipus’s witty remarks made the crow’s feet at the corners of their eyes fade slightly, making them radiant.
As if sensing a scrutinizing gaze, Dipus turned his head towards Xia Feng. However, he only glanced over before turning back without much concern. Xia Feng’s disguise technique, using the Azure Tree mask, was far superior to the Pope’s son, so he wasn’t afraid of his true identity being seen. What puzzled Xia Feng, however, was why this son of the Pope had come here? And why did he deliberately disguise himself?
The Black Moon General Court was also located in Area 15. Ye Li Dongjun’s birthday banquet should have sent an invitation to the Black Moon General Court. Logically, if the Pope’s son wanted to come, he could have done so openly. But looking at the current situation…
Xia Feng pondered. He suddenly recalled copying the Absolute Twin Pupils sub-spirit artifact from Ye Li Kong on his way to Area 15. Ye Li Kong’s goal at the time was not only to enslave him and make him, a Dragon God Bloodline, a slave of Ye Li Dongjun. Ye Li Kong also wanted to kill the two Black Moon Saintesses and prevent them from returning to the Black Moon General Court. At that time, Xia Feng guessed that someone in the Black Moon General Court wanted to harm the two Saintesses and couldn’t act directly, so they entrusted Ye Li Dongjun to send subordinates to do it. But now, it seemed that Ye Li Dongjun and the Black Moon General Court were likely not cooperating but were in a hostile relationship!
So, why were these two factions enemies? As he pondered, Xia Feng remembered the incident during the Lantern Festival last night, when Dipus appeared at the Sky Lantern Pavilion wanting to seize the Sumeru King Order. Thinking of this, he largely understood. It was probably the Sumeru Throne that had made Ye Li Dongjun and the Black Moon General Court enemies. Within the Black Moon General Court, there should be someone with high authority who had also obtained a seat in the competition for the Sumeru Throne. Xia Feng looked again at the gentle-smiling youth in the distance, Dipus, who was likely one of these nine seats. Therefore, the internal strife in the Black Moon General Court and the assassination of the Black Moon Saintess by Ye Li Dongjun might both be related to the competition for the Sumeru Throne.
With his thoughts cleared, Xia Feng nodded thoughtfully. Thinking this way, he realized that from the moment he was adopted by Uncle Wei, he had been connected to the Sumeru Throne. And after copying a spirit artifact with a ‘life mark’ and entering the Life Roulette space, he had become completely entangled in this storm.
While contemplating, Xia Feng suddenly froze, his gaze falling on a middle-aged man sitting alone in a booth in the distance. The man was leisurely sipping wine, his face also disguised. His disguise technique was on par with Dipus and was easily seen through by Xia Feng. And beneath that false face was a face Xia Feng knew very well. Uncle Wei!
“Old Wei, why is he here?” Xia Feng was slightly shocked. Since leaving Area 51 and starting his life on the run, he hadn’t seen Old Wei again. After they were framed as the culprits in the garden incident, they fled separately. He hadn’t expected to meet again at Ye Li Dongjun’s birthday banquet. Seeing Old Wei reminded Xia Feng of what the old soldier Li Zaishi had told him in White Emperor City. More than twenty years ago, the only person successfully sent out of the White Emperor City Forbidden Zone by the soldiers was the son of Lord Wei Zhong, the city lord, Wei Shutong.
Would Old Wei come to this Sky Fortress now to assassinate Ye Li Dongjun during the birthday banquet? Xia Feng’s heart sank, and he thought about it before getting up. Just as he was about to walk towards Old Wei, the Heaven’s Revelation Knight in the center of the hall, who had been constantly gnawing on apples, suddenly turned his head, his sharp gaze falling on him. It locked onto him tightly.
