Chapter 2590: Striking from the Shadows

After the duplicate discovered the problem, it did not alert the Zhou tribe, but instead, wearing the Invisibility Cloak, entered this world.

He currently has no suitable identity, so he raised to the Zhou tribe the matter of Foreign Tribe collaborators.

Therefore he plans to secretly eliminate these Foreign Tribe collaborators first, then negotiate with the Zhou clan chief.

Those strongmen polluted by the Foreign Tribe are mostly in the tribe's central area, and are easy to find.

While the duplicate was searching for a target, a Martial Cultivator whose Golden Core had been polluted by the Foreign Tribe walked out of the tribe, a grim grin on his face, clearly up to no good.

However, this Martial Cultivator's realm is low, only at the Celestial Being First Tier.

Ye Liuyun followed behind him, wanting to see what this fellow intended to do.

After that Martial Cultivator left the tribe's settlement area, he walked a long distance and arrived before a dense forest.

There stood a cottage with a small courtyard.

In the courtyard an elder stood with a young boy.

The elder was chopping firewood, while the boy helped by picking up the broken sticks.

The Martial Cultivator kicked the simple wooden gate of the courtyard away with a casual kick, smashing it into the elder, causing him to spit fresh blood; the frightened boy Hu hurriedly lunged forward shouting "Grandpa!"

The boy immediately saw the ferocious Martial Cultivator, and instantly spread his arms, shielding his grandfather.

But Ye Liuyun, through his Golden Pupil, saw that the elder and the boy were not cultivators at all, just ordinary civilians, with no cultivation at all.

He used his Divine Sense to feel the surroundings, found no one nearby, and stepped directly forward.

With his current strength, even if he stood behind that Martial Cultivator, he would not be detected.

"Hmph, old thing, I'm here to send you off!"

The Martial Cultivator snarled at the elder lying on the ground.

A flash of despair crossed the elder's eyes as he asked the Martial Cultivator, "You may kill me, but Ping'er is still young and knows nothing. Could you, in gratitude for me having saved your whole family's lives before, spare him?"

"My orders are to cut the weeds at the roots, so spare me the chatter."

The Martial Cultivator let out a cold snort, showing no mercy, and moved to strike.

"You're not allowed to kill my grandfather! You traitorous scum who have allied with the Foreign Tribe, I'll fight you!"

The boy did not retreat, picking up a thin wooden stick and brandishing it.

The elder, though weak, managed to shout to the boy, "Ping'er, don't worry about me, run!"

When the Martial Cultivator heard the boy's words, a cruel glint appeared in his eyes, and he raised his hand to palm‑strike him.

However, his palm formed in the air and never came down.

His whole body seemed frozen like a statue, staying in place.

At this moment, the duplicate also lowered the Invisibility Cloak, revealing his form.

The boy, frightened, covered his eyes with one hand and waved the wooden stick wildly with the other.

The elder closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

Ye Liuyun walked over to the elder, gave him a drop of Life Spring Water, then helped him sit up.

"It'll be fine, rest a while and you'll recover."

Ye Liuyun told the elder.

The elder, seeing it wasn't the Martial Cultivator, was a bit surprised, but quickly realized he had been saved.

The boy, seeing Ye Liuyun lift the elder, didn't know if he was friend or foe, looked at him with doubt, still clutching the wooden stick.

The elder repeatedly thanked the duplicate.

The Martial Cultivator clearly realized that Ye Liuyun's strength far exceeded his.

But he could not recall where he had seen Ye Liuyun, and shouted, "Kid, where did you come from? I'm a guard of the tribe."

"These two lowborn scoundrels are treasonous, betraying the tribe. I'm here to purge the gates for the clan chief."

"Now hurry and let me go."

Ye Liuyun's response was to immediately launch a Soul Search.

The elder's name was Luan Feng'an, originally a servant of the Jin clan chief's household.

Before the Jin clan was annihilated, the clan chief had already discovered that some people were Foreign Tribe collaborators.

Thus he preemptively told these secrets to his Servants, then let them flee and spread the news.

Although Luan Feng'an was merely a common household staff, he also learned the true situation.

Not only were there Foreign Tribe collaborators within the Jin clan, but also many within the Zhou clan.

After the Jin clan chief's whole family was killed, the Zhou tribe unified the two tribes and has been hunting down those Servants ever since.

It was only because Luan Feng'an had no cultivation realm, and thus went unnoticed, that it took so long to trace his whereabouts.

They thought that since Luan Feng'an had no realm, a simple guard could deal with him, but they didn't expect to encounter Ye Liuyun's duplicate.

The duplicate again performed a Soul Search to learn who had allied with the Foreign Tribe.

But the search itself gave them a startle.

In this person's Sea of Consciousness, the knowledge of Foreign Tribe collaborators numbered at least dozens.

And this was the situation of the Jin clan he previously belonged to.

According to him, the Zhou tribe also had many.

However, the range he could reach had low realms; for higher‑level information, he was not clear.

Ye Liuyun finished the Soul Search and was pondering how to deal with this Martial Cultivator.

At this time, Luan Feng'an's body had almost fully recovered, and he thought Ye Liuyun was hesitating whether to release the Martial Cultivator.

He immediately dragged his young grandson to kneel before Ye Liuyun, and said, "I don't know which tribe you belong to, but the words our clan chief told us before his death are true: in both the Jin clan and the Zhou clan, many are Foreign Tribe collaborators."

"I may not be a Martial Cultivator, but I swear I am not lying."

"If you have the ability, please help spread this information, save the peoples of these two tribes, and prevent them from harming each other, which would benefit the Foreign Tribe."

If you want to kill me, I won't resist.

But I hope you can spare my grandson's life.

He is called Luan Ping; his parents were killed while covering our escape.

He is still young and naive; even if he spoke, no one would believe him.

Please, please, be merciful and spare him!

Ye Liuyun, upon hearing this, simply drew the Demon Slaying Sword and with a backhand strike cut off that Martial Cultivator's head, then collected the corpse.

He helped up the dazed old man and his grandson.

"Rest assured, I already know about this; among the two tribes, there are indeed many Foreign Tribe spies, and that person just now was one of them.

"I will go and eliminate them all one by one."

Luan Feng'an, upon hearing this, burst into tears, muttering something about heaven having eyes, and kept kowtowing to Ye Liuyun.

"Your location has been discovered by the Zhou tribe's people; they likely won't spare you, so move quickly!"

Ye Liuyun also reminded them to move away quickly, lest the Zhou tribe send more people.

The grandfather and grandson are ordinary commoners; any Martial Cultivator could easily kill them.

The old man, upon hearing this, also repeatedly agreed, but he said with difficulty: 'We are not Martial Cultivators; we have no cultivation level.'

We dare not go far; if we must relocate, we would have to move closer to the tribe.