Chapter 156: 156. Chapter 154: The One Silencing Them Is Behind

156. Chapter 154: The One Silencing Them Is Behind

"Brother Huan, is something wrong?"

Lou Buzhi looked chubby and plump, but he was actually not stupid at all; he saw at a glance that Ding Huan's expression was off.

"Everyone, follow me."

After saying that, Ding Huan walked along the direction of the Jiucha Market for roughly a few hundred meters, then stopped and said:

"Brother Buzhi, we need to say goodbye to the past."

After saying that, Ding Huan cut a piece off his own clothes, then cut two pieces off Qi Qi Xinyue's clothes.

Not only that, he also cut a piece off his own shoe, and helped cut a piece off Qi Qi Xinyue's shoe.

Next, he cut off a small tuft from both his own hair and Qi Qi Xinyue's hair.

"Old Six, come here." Ding Huan beckoned Old Six over.

After Old Six came over, Ding Huan continued to help trim a few patches of hair from Old Six.

"Brother Huan, what about me?"

Lou Buzhi asked carefully.

"You too, I'll help you."

After Ding Huan finished speaking, he cut three pieces off Lou Buzhi, including his clothes and shoes. He also cut off a large tuft of Lou Buzhi's hair.

After gathering these things marked with divine sense imprints together, Ding Huan originally planned to burn them all in one go.

However, he felt that burning them in one go was somewhat improper; if the divine sense imprints he himself had placed suddenly vanished, he would notice it immediately.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan pointed to one side and said to Qi Qi Xinyue and Lou Buzhi:

"You two keep speeding up in this direction, the faster the better."

The direction Ding Huan pointed was neither toward the market nor toward Changqiu City, but toward a side direction.

"Then what about you, Brother Huan?" Lou Buzhi asked.

Ding Huan smiled:

"I have some things to take care of, don't worry, I'll be right over."

Qi Qi Xinyue didn't ask at all; she trusted Ding Huan.

"Be careful."

After giving Ding Huan that reminder, Qi Qi Xinyue quickly left, in the direction Ding Huan had pointed.

Seeing that Qi Qi Xinyue and Old Six had both left, Lou Buzhi hurried to follow them.

Ding Huan, meanwhile, took those things and sped toward the Jiucha Market.

The Jiucha Market was still considered quite bustling, and the things inside were countless times more advanced than those in the Little Star Horn Market.

But Ding Huan had no mood to linger here; after entering the market, he kept stripping out those imprints and tossing them onto various stalls.

After finishing this, Ding Huan went to a rest inn, paid for a room, and only then used an escape art to swiftly leave this market.

Ding Huan was certain that someone on the flying ship that had brought them here wanted to kill the few of them.

The reason was simple: silencing them.

Ding Huan suspected it was that middle-aged man whose name he didn't know.

He didn't know this fellow's cultivation level, but this fellow seemed to be extremely eager for Immortal Demon Pills.

Perhaps the fellow who had killed Ding Qi in his divination because of the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror was that middle-aged man.

Unfortunately, his abilities were limited, and he couldn't divine a clear picture.

But the fact that he could no longer divine anything once he reached the back of the Jiucha Market most likely meant he had been killed.

Since they wanted to silence the few of them, that meant Sang Sang Yuhe and the others were also within his scope of silencing.

He should still have a day or two to escape.

If that middle-aged man wanted to silence them, he would first have to silence Sang Sang Yuhe and the others.

He could only hope that Sang Sang Yuhe and the others could hold out for a while and not be silenced so easily.

Ding Huan's speed was extremely fast; when he caught up with Qi Qi Xinyue and the others, they were already several hundred li from their agreed-upon spot.

"Brother Huan, what did you go do? Took so long?"

Lou Buzhi was very happy to see Ding Huan return.

Ding Huan's tone was grave:

"You guys are too slow, everyone speed up."

Ding Huan had previously assumed Lou Buzhi would be the slowest, but to his surprise, Lou Buzhi's speed was actually very fast.

His speed was completely disproportionate to his build.

The slowest was actually Old Six.

This made Ding Huan unable to resist casting a contemptuous remark:

"Old Six, you talk about wanting Foundation Establishment all day long, and right here you're the one holding us back."

Old Six squawked a few retorts, but what Ding Huan said was the truth.

Fortunately, Old Six's cultivation was still decent, so he could just barely keep up.

After a full day of urgent travel, Ding Huan didn't dare slow his pace.

This concerned his own life; he didn't dare slow down.

……

"Qi Yushan, you……"

Not long ago, on the flying ship Ding Huan had taken, a thin, frail man clutched his throat; he had been ambushed.

"Qi Yushan, what are you trying to do?" Just at this moment, Sang Sang Yuhe appeared; she couldn't believe what she was seeing unfold before her eyes.

The five of them came out together, and this time it was a tremendous haul.

As long as they bring these items to the Merchant Tower, their future will be brilliantly bright.

Just as the spaceship was about to enter the Dao Cultivation World, Qi Yushan suddenly killed three of his companions.

Had she not happened to step out, Qi Yushan would have knocked on her door and killed her.

"Sorry, but the Immortal Demon Pill is too important to me—I won't hand it over."

Qi Yushan looked at Sang Sang Yuhe, his tone utterly calm.

In fact, he had been hesitating all along, wondering whether to strike.

It wasn't his conscience—he knew he had only one chance; if he failed and the others surrounded him, he was finished.

Even when Ding Huan and the others had gone below, and the spaceship was about to enter the Dao Cultivation World, he still hesitated.

Only just now, when Jin Da and Yu Jiting turned their backs to him, did he seize the opportunity and make up his mind to act.

He ambushed and killed those two; Gong Qi happened to step out and saw it—he didn't hesitate to ambush Gong Qi as well.

Sang Sang Yuhe knew her strength was far inferior to Qi Yushan's; now that Qi Yushan wanted to kill her, she probably couldn't even escape.

At that moment, the mortally wounded Gong Qi suddenly grabbed Qi Yushan's leg:

"Yuhe, run away quickly…"

Sang Sang Yuhe reacted instantly, sprinting wildly to the ship's entrance and pressing the hatch release.

"You're asking for death."

Qi Yushan roared in fury, slapping Gong Qi's head—his brains splattered, dead beyond any doubt.

By then, Sang Sang Yuhe had already opened the hatch and rushed out.

"Sang Sang Yuhe, if I'd known the news of the Demon Pill had spread outside, I'd have killed your entire family…"

Qi Yushan knew Sang Sang Yuhe's escape technique was extremely powerful; if she escaped the spaceship, he could never kill her.

Regret was useless—he could only issue a threat.

Sang Sang Yuhe heard Qi Yushan's threat; had he not threatened her, she wouldn't have dared reveal this.

Half an hour later, Qi Yushan erased every trace from the spaceship.

Poor those seven talented youths, they hadn't even been possessed before Qi Yushan killed them.

After killing everyone, Qi Yushan immediately rushed toward the Jiucha Marketplace.

Silencing them? He had to kill them all.

But when he reached the marketplace, he was stunned.

o￠o

He found all the spiritual awareness marks—not one belonged to the person he sought.

After asking around the marketplace for over an hour, he finally pinpointed the inn where Ding Huan had checked in.

Qi Yushan swore that unless he tore Ding Huan into a thousand pieces, his heart's rage would never be quelled.

How many things did he have to do?

A mere insect had trapped him in this tiny marketplace, wasting his time—how could he not be furious?

What made him even angrier was that the inn had no record of Ding Huan.

Ding Huan had indeed booked a room, but he never stayed there at all.

He continued searching the marketplace carefully, yet wasted another half day and still learned nothing.

Ding Huan and the others had vanished as if into thin air.

Worse still, before vanishing, they had scattered their spiritual awareness marks everywhere.

Qi Yushan forced himself to calm down, then steered the spaceship toward Changqiu City.

In Changqiu City, he also had a mark.

…

Ding Qi arrived in Changqiu City and immediately checked into an inn, then took out the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror.

The Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror was not only a Dao cultivation technique, but also possessed the divine ability to foretell the future.

He had read some of its descriptions of the foretelling ability, but it was too mysterious and complex—he simply had no interest.

After Ding Huan's reminder, he had long suspected Ding Huan also possessed foretelling skills.

But such matters were hard to ask about.

Ding Qi took out the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror not to foretell, but to resolve a problem in his own cultivation.

Yet before he could solve his issue, a feeling of extreme unease washed over him.

Ding Qi knew the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror itself could discern past and future.

Now, holding it, he felt restless and couldn't calm down—he sensed a bad omen.

Would he die in Changqiu City?

The thought didn't bother him until he dwelled on it—then the unease grew worse.

He put away the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror, and the unease vanished.

When he picked it up again, the unease returned sharply.

He didn't fully understand why, but vaguely sensed it was connected to clothing or a hat.

He immediately changed his outer robe—the unease remained.

After half an hour of anxiety, Ding Qi simply changed all his clothes and shoes.

Without a hat, he shaved his head clean.

The unease lessened somewhat—but still lingered.

Ding Qi decisively chose to leave Changqiu City—he couldn't stay here.

Compared to Ding Huan, his experience was not much worse.

Whether or not he was a puppet, he had at least sat in the position of Star Lord for so many years.

He somewhat suspected that his own danger might be related to the people on the flying ship wanting to silence him.

The reason for the silencing was very likely the Immortal Demon Pill that Ding Huan had brought back — that thing's value was too outrageous.

If someone wanted to forcibly claim it for themselves, then it was truly possible that a silencing would happen.

The moment Qi Yushan arrived at Changqiu City, he found the inn where Ding Qi was staying.

What made him furious was that Ding Qi had also left.

He had even left through proper check-out procedures.

Leaving was one thing, but the key was that this guy had actually shaved his head. Not only that, he didn't want any of his clothes or shoes, and even threw his bag away here.

Even if Qi Yushan were Bai Chi, he would know that Ding Qi definitely still had a storage device on him.

He wanted to silence them, but one person from the flying ship had escaped, and not a single one of the small grasshoppers in his eyes had been silenced.

The furious Qi Yushan nearly wanted to burn down this inn.

However, after calming down, he knew that now he had to first return to the merchant house in the Dao Cultivation World.

The Mortal World of the Triple Heaven Star Land was just as vast and boundless; with his current cultivation, it was almost impossible to catch and silence all those escaped ants.

As for issuing a wanted notice, his rank was still far from sufficient.

Moreover, he didn't dare either — this was no small matter. Once Ding Huan and the others were caught and others asked about the specific situation, he would be confessing without being pressed.