Chapter 308: Planning the Encirclement and Annihilation

Inside the villa, Lingyun was browsing through a file.

"Lingyun, why are you suddenly asking me for information on Duke Naishi?" Chen Jing asked with some curiosity.

"Because this guy intends to cause trouble for me, and I, too, intend to cause trouble for him!" Lingyun said while flipping through the materials.

"He intends to cause trouble for you? You intend to cause trouble for him?" Chen Jing frowned. "Did something happen?"

"Ye Xi, you should be the one to tell Chen Jing about this matter," Lingyun said to Luo Yexi.

Luo Yexi nodded slightly, then began to recount the story to Chen Jing.

Lingyun's gaze fell upon one part of the file: ten years ago, Naishi's strength was only at the Heaven Tier, and he had once snuck into Huaxia to commit evil. In one battle, he was severely wounded by a Heaven Tier expert from the Dragon Group and nearly died. When he appeared again later, he had already been turned into a Vampire, and under the siege of several Heaven Tier experts, he broke through the encirclement and escaped Huaxia.

Ever since then, Naishi had vanished without a trace for several years, and at one point, he was even believed to be dead. But several years later, Naishi unexpectedly reappeared with the status of a Vampire Duke, using overwhelming force to kill two Holy Knights of the Holy See. Afterward, he even crushed the then-chief Vampire of the Dark Council and took over the Dark Council with an extremely aggressive posture.

As for why Naishi was able to jump two levels from a Vampire Count to a Vampire Duke within a few years, it had always been a mystery, and Naishi remained tight-lipped about it. Everyone speculated that Naishi had obtained a powerful Vampire inheritance within Huaxia, which was why his strength had increased so rapidly; after all, there were no shortage of powerful Vampires who had fallen in Huaxia back in the day.

"Ten years ago, wasn't that the year Youruo met with an accident?" A dark glint flashed in Lingyun's eyes.

As Lingyun spoke, he continued to flip through the data in front of him; these were records of Naishi's activities in Huaxia back then. Suddenly, a piece of information made Lingyun frown. When Naishi was in Huaxia, he had an extremely close connection with a certain family, but that family had since disappeared. Lingyun's pupils constricted slightly, and he quickly began to check the information on this family, finally discovering to his shock that this was the very family that had been wiped out by the Xiao Family back then.

"If my deduction holds, then it's no wonder the Xiao Family hasn't found the true culprit for so many years; who would think to pin the crime on a foreign Vampire? Perhaps even that family from back then didn't know about this matter either." Lingyun slowly closed the file in his hands, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"Lingyun, how is the file looking? Can you confirm the culprit?" Seeing Lingyun close the file, Chen Jing asked.

"It's almost certain; the culprit back then should be Naishi," Lingyun said, rising to his feet. "Now we need to consider how to deal with this guy."

"Naishi is not an easy guy to deal with; back then he already had the strength to handle Holy Knights and Elders of the Dark Council. Now that so many years have passed, his strength must have increased significantly," Chen Jing said with some worry. "With our current strength, can we defeat him?"

"With Master here, beating him isn't a difficult task. What we are considering now is how to take him down completely. After all, things like Vampires are experts at both running away and saving their own lives," Luo Yexi said.

"As far as I know, Vampires can turn into swarms of bats, shadows, or even mist, and they possess extremely tenacious vitality. If one cannot destroy their Blood Core, they will not die," Chen Jing said.

"The choice of the battle location is also a problem. If all of us go all out, shattering a small mountain wouldn't be a problem. If we just start fighting anywhere, it might cause huge casualties," Asuna said.

"If we can set up a powerful Array, shrouding the entire battlefield within it, we could not only prevent the aftermath of the battle from spreading but also stop Duke Naishi from escaping," Busujima Saeko suggested, thinking of Lingyun's astonishing mastery of arrays.

A trace of worry flashed in Chen Jing's eyes: "Duke Naishi never acts alone. Not to mention that this is Huaxia, the place that almost cost him his life. Coming to Huaxia this time, he might have brought most of his assets with him. If that many Vampires start causing trouble, I don't know how much trouble it will cause."

"Chen Jing, you contact the Dragon Group; Ye Xi, you contact the Xiao Family. If the three of us act together, we will definitely be able to keep Duke Naishi and his subordinates in Huaxia," Lingyun said slowly.

"But will they cooperate with us?" Kirito asked with some concern.

"The Xiao Family goes without saying; for these years, they have put in unknown amounts of effort to find the culprit who killed Youruo. If there is sufficient evidence, they will definitely join forces with us," Chen Jing said with a confident expression.

"And the Dragon Group?"

"The Dragon Group, that goes even more without saying. You have to know that the Dragon Group has an external ban: no experts above the Heaven Tier are allowed to enter Huaxia. This time, Duke Naishi didn't just come brazenly, he even brought all his blood servants with him; this is undoubtedly a provocation to the Dragon Group," Chen Jing said. "What's more, back then Naishi committed countless blood debts within Huaxia, and these things were all recorded one by one by the Dragon Group. If there is a chance to kill this guy, the Dragon Group will absolutely not let it pass."

"That's good then. We aren't lacking in top-tier combat power; the only thing we lack is a source of intelligence. If we keep letting Lingyun use Heavenly Calculation to calculate, it will be too mentally exhausting, so for intelligence, we have to rely on the Dragon Group and the Xiao Family," Lingqi said.

"No problem, I will relay that," Chen Jing said.

The Dragon Group's informants are spread across all of Huaxia, possessing a powerful intelligence network. Investigating the whereabouts of a Vampire Marquis, while not exactly easy, is not particularly difficult for a behemoth like the Dragon Group.

"Leave contacting the Dragon Group to me!" Chen Jing said confidently.

"As for the Array Diagram, I will get it done in these few days; leave the other matters to the Dragon Group and the Xiao Family. Let the Dragon Group choose the battle location; they are definitely very good at this aspect," Lingyun said, waving his hand. "By the way, Chen Jing, how is the situation with the Su Family now? Has the Oni King of Black Mountain made a move against the Su Family?"

"The Oni King of Black Mountain, we also find it very strange now; this guy seems to have vanished without a trace and hasn't appeared again. The people of the Su Family are also very depressed now; after all, the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light. If the Oni King of Black Mountain wants to keep dragging it out like this, the Su Family definitely won't be able to endure it," Chen Jing said. "After all, no family can be on guard against an Oni King's attack twenty-four hours a day."

"Is that so?" Lingyun's brows furrowed slightly, then he said, "After this matter is over, I will pay a visit to the Su Family and see if I can drag this guy out."

"Mm, that would be for the best." Chen Jing nodded; there is no such thing as a thousand-day defense against a thief, so solving this matter once and for all is good.