Chapter 624

The next day, early morning.

Lu Ran came to the Council Hall very early; at this time, he was sitting behind the desk, playing with the Cloud Sea Dust Clear Blade.

As his fingertips brushed over the blade, the Cloud Sea Blade would tremble slightly from time to time.

Was it giving a response to its master?

However, this level of feedback could only be barely defined as a "divine weapon embryo"; if it wanted to become a true divine weapon, the Cloud Sea Blade didn't know how far it still had to go.

【Master, Bai Lao requests an audience.】 Suddenly, a sound transmission was imprinted in his mind.

"Enter." Lu Ran placed the Cloud Sea Blade flat on the desk and looked up at the Council Hall gate, which was quite large.

He saw an old man who was tall, thin, and had a full head of white hair walking over.

Under the guidance of the divine weapon "Earth Mark Sword," Bai Yanhui came to the center of the hall and bowed respectfully: "This old man greets the Sect Master."

"Bai Lao, how do you feel today?" Lu Ran went straight to the point.

"Please wait a moment, Sect Master." Bai Yanhui raised a pair of aged palms and skillfully formed seals.

An illusory Great Xia character "Heart" diffused from his body.

"Whoosh~"

Lu Ran looked at the blind old man quietly; no matter how he looked at him, he felt that Bai Lao was especially like the Curse Master himself.

White hair and beard, high-spirited.

A white long gown made him look even more like an immortal with a fairy-like aura!

Clearly seventy or eighty years old, with a face full of wrinkles, but the feeling he gave was that he was incredibly handsome...

Perhaps, this was the legendary "atmosphere"?

"This old man's mind is peaceful, and I haven't noticed anything wrong." Bai Yanhui said slowly.

"Oh?" Lu Ran tightened his grip on the hilt.

Bai Yanhui bowed respectfully: "I wish the Sect Master victory in the first battle."

"Good!" Lu Ran was greatly moved; he didn't expect that today was the good day to flatten Knife Ridge Shanfeng!

He immediately ordered: "Evil Shadow, go notify the generals, gather in the Council Hall in half an hour!"

【Yes!】

It didn't even take half an hour; just a few minutes later, everyone had gathered in the Council Hall.

Lu Ran didn't drag things out either, came to the center of the hall, and raised his hand to cast a spell.

"Whoosh~"

The ancient bronze mirror appeared quietly, rapidly changing its nature, turning into a floor mirror.

Deng Yuxiang took the lead, stepping into the ice and snow.

The sky was filled with snow and fog, covering the sun.

The cold wind was bone-chilling, like small knives, blowing across Deng Yuxiang's face.

She observed her surroundings vigilantly and immediately recognized this place.

When the Lu Sect stormed Knife Ridge Shanfeng last time, they stood right here on the top of the snowy mountain, making a mess of Knife Ridge Shanfeng twenty or thirty kilometers away.

"Hmm?" Deng Yuxiang gave a light suspicious sound.

She looked toward the northeast, but she didn't see that towering mountain peak.

The headquarters of the Lord Bei Feng faction was quite magnificent!

Not only were there four mountain peaks in the southeast, northwest, but the main peak pierced straight into the sky, able to probe into the vast cloud sea.

It was a very conspicuous coordinate.

But at this moment...

Where were the mountain peaks?

"Ah?" Lu Ran was also full of astonishment, looking at the location of the former Knife Ridge Shanfeng.

"I didn't teleport to the wrong place!" Lu Ran's expression was ugly.

Knife Ridge Shanfeng was gone?

After the last battle, the Lord Bei Feng faction suffered heavy losses, so they simply moved house?

"You all stay here, I'll go take a look." Lu Ran said in a deep voice.

"Invisibility." Jiang Ruyi didn't stop him but gave a reminder.

"Hmm." Lu Ran's figure disappeared quietly.

Under the condition of opening the divine technique "Wolf Invisibility," Lu Ran's casting of all techniques would have divine power fluctuations.

But fluctuations were fluctuations; his invisibility state was still there.

With a few simple flashes, Lu Ran stood on the south side of the frozen ice river.

He and the Great Nightmare had been in the snowy forest on this side, interrogated by Lord Bei Feng disciples, and ordered to kneel and submit.

Now, things were different.

Lu Ran's gaze swept across the ice river, looking toward the north, and saw the collapsed mountain peaks...

Last time, the Lu Sect crowd indeed caused no small blow to Knife Ridge Shanfeng, but the mountain peaks still stood majestically and hadn't been destroyed so severely.

At this time, the five mountain peaks, including the main peak, were all damaged together!

Some mountain peaks had collapsed.

Some still stood stubbornly, but they had been cut off!

The cross-sections were covered with thick snow, turning into a "flat-topped" appearance.

"Swish~"

Lu Ran's figure flashed again, stepping onto the collapsed mountain body.

"Don't!" His heart fell to the bottom.

He had thought that the Lord Bei Feng faction had moved house.

But looking at this appearance, Knife Ridge Shanfeng had clearly experienced a great battle!

Had another sect gotten there first, snatching a step ahead of the Lu Sect and destroying Knife Ridge Shanfeng?

Thoughts raced through Lu Ran's heart.

Who could have such great ability to destroy the headquarters of the Lord Bei Feng faction?

The Sword One faction?

But those female sword immortals who killed without blinking were far away from here!

Could it be the Mountain Lord faction?

As second-tier gods, these two powerful sects had always been at odds.

In the human world of Great Xia, the spheres of influence of the deity Mountain Lord and the deity Lord Bei Feng bordered each other; the straight-line distance between the two powerful god statues was only two hundred kilometers!

There wasn't even a weak god sect to act as a "buffer zone," which was unique in Great Xia.

And in the Sacred Spirit Mountain, although Lu Ran hadn't encountered Mountain Lord disciples, he had corresponding intelligence, knowing that the headquarters of the Mountain Lord faction was also in the northeast region of the continent.

Damn!

The more he thought, the uglier Lu Ran's face became.

Lu Ran searched for a while longer, then opened the teleportation mirror, and the Lu Sect generals filed out, observing the surroundings rapidly.

"People are all gone." Lu Ran said in a deep voice.

Anyone could hear that the Sect Master was in a very bad mood.

Deng Yuxiang, Yan Shuangzi, and others also had ugly expressions.

Seeing Yu Changsheng suggested: "Sect Master, let's search carefully to see if we can find some valuable information."

"Hmm, don't act alone, be careful." While speaking, Lu Ran saw Bai Yanhui in the crowd.

Bai Lao's mind was peaceful; was it because there were no enemies in this expedition?

"Pop~"

The pale golden fish flew up, and a golden beam of light fell quietly.

Seeing Yu Changsheng's expression became solemn; he had found a corpse in the collapsed mountain body.

"Bad!"

Seeing Yu Changsheng sighed in his heart; the situation he least wanted to see had appeared.

He dug open the rubble and also saw a frozen corpse.

This was a middle-aged man, wearing white clothes, with blood holes on his body.

Such attire indicated that he was a Lord Bei Feng disciple.

This frozen face still wore an expression of terror, as if he had seen something terrible before he died.

"Sigh." Seeing Yu Changsheng sighed heavily in his heart.

If there were no corpses here, everyone could have thought that Knife Ridge Shanfeng had moved as a whole and destroyed the old site.

But reality was right before their eyes; collapsed mountain bodies were burying one corpse after another...

This once again confirmed that Knife Ridge Shanfeng had been attacked!

In this way,

what was the Shadow Guardian to do...

Knife Ridge Shanfeng had left Yan Shuangzi with too many wounds.

Piercing the heart and etching the bones, indelible.

Yan Shuangzi, who had suffered humiliation, finally built up her strength, filled with anger, and rushed back for revenge, only to find that the enemy had already perished.

How could her heart knot be untied?

Someone else slaughtered Knife Ridge Shanfeng; how could that count as her own revenge?

Although, things in life often go against one's wishes.

But this dirty world was just too cruel to Yan Shuangzi.

"Clatter, clatter."

Seeing Yu Changsheng pushed aside the frozen rubble and saw another white-clothed disciple.

It was just that this time, the corpse was only half.

Seeing Yu Changsheng raised his head and looked at Lu Ran standing by the pit; their eyes met, and the two had the same look, meaning the same psychological activity.

"Swish~"

Yan Shuangzi gripped the Owl Ling Blade fiercely, and her figure disappeared without a trace.

Lu Ran turned his head to look and opened his mouth.

Looking at the empty snowy ground, he hesitated for a long time but still didn't send a sound transmission.

This scene was quite a heavy blow to Yan Shuangzi.

"What kind of wound is this?" Jiang Ruyi asked with a frown.

Seeing Yu Changsheng picked up the corpse and looked at the blood holes carefully.

On the side came Deng Yuxiang's cold voice: "Knife wound, or sword wound."

"Hmm." Seeing Yu Changsheng nodded and looked at the other half of the corpse; this person had been cut in half at the waist, and the cutting surface was very smooth.

"The sample is too small." Lu Ran opened the teleportation mirror and ordered, "He Tangzhu Jing, go call Xiong Xiong and the others."

"Yes!" Jing Hong immediately walked into the mirror.

Vice He Tangzhu Xiong, Shi Yong, and Shi Biao were all Mountain Ghost believers, possessing the perception technique "Mountain Intent," able to understand information inside the surface and underground.

Before long, Jing Hong returned with the three of them, immediately starting work.

"I'll go see Shuangzi." Deng Yuxiang's voice was still cold.

"I'll go." Lu Ran said in a deep voice, "You are almost exploding yourself, you can't comfort people."

Deng Yuxiang suppressed the raging anger in her heart and said in a low voice: "Do you know where she is?"

Lu Ran nodded silently and flashed away.

When he appeared again, he arrived at the depression between the two peaks.

Although most of the mountain body had collapsed and the sharp peaks were gone, the cave entrance located in the middle and lower parts of the steep mountain wall existed stubbornly like a chronic disease.

This cave had once been the place where Yan Shuangzi was imprisoned.

At that time, she had been forced to tear up her contract and didn't possess flight techniques, which could be called having no path to heaven and no door to enter the earth.

Of course, even if she could fly, the jailers who watched her all day wouldn't let her escape.

Lu Ran floated forward slowly, landing at the cave entrance, and sure enough, he saw a figure standing silently.

She was terrifyingly silent, looking at the northwest corner inside the cave without moving.

That was the place where she had once lain, living without any dignity, waiting for death.

"Whoosh!!"

The cold wind blew into the cave along the entrance as always.

Blowing on Yan Shuangzi, it seemed to also blow on the skinny woman in the corner.

The disheveled woman didn't shiver.

It had nothing to do with habit.

Before her physical body died, her spirit had already been tortured to collapse and destroyed.

"It's me." Lu Ran reminded softly, fearing that this silent trapped beast would turn around and stab him.

Yan Shuangzi was like a sculpture, without any reaction.

Lu Ran stepped forward, one hand falling toward her back, but stopped in mid-air.

After a full two seconds, his palm still landed on her back.

Yan Shuangzi's body trembled slightly.

"Evil Shadow..." Lu Ran had just opened his mouth when he stopped abruptly.

Only until he stood beside her and saw her profile did he discover that she was already covered in tears.

No sound, no sobbing.

She just stood there silently, looking at herself in the corner like a dead dog, covered in bruises and motionless.

Hot tears gushed out, flowing uncontrollably.

She had finally returned.

Carrying a heart of revenge, carrying the people closest to her, she had killed her way back.

But the people who had cruelly tortured her were gone.

Pain, despair.

Helpless.

A familiar taste surged into her heart; this place that had once imprisoned her had once again destroyed her completely.

Why?

Why did heaven treat me like this...

"Elder Xing is a Sea Realm powerhouse; he won't die so easily." A gentle voice came from beside her.

Yan Shuangzi was like a lost puppet, turning her head slowly.

The tear-blurred eye sockets could only see a blurred outline.

Yan Shuangzi was undoubtedly a resilient woman.

At this moment, this appearance of hers, which was almost broken, made Lu Ran's heart twitch fiercely.

"The peak masters and sect elders of Knife Ridge Shanfeng are all in the Sea Realm; they won't die easily." Lu Ran repeated softly, "Let's dig out all the corpses and you identify them one by one, okay?"

"If... he really... died?"

Lu Ran was silent.

He gently pulled her into his arms, pressing her head, and pressed that tear-stained face against his shoulder.

Lu Ran's gentle eyes became incomparably gloomy.

No,

Lord Bei Feng disciples in the Sea Realm fly very fast.

They escape very fast.

Lu Ran constantly comforted himself.

But if that old bitch really died, then his soul would return to the embrace of Lord Bei Feng.

Lord Bei Feng...

Lord Bei Feng!!

(End of chapter)