Chapter 495: Hearing Yin Yue Missing

Sea surface.

The ship is galloping. Except for Lu Feng, everyone on the ship is full of smiles.

This time everyone has a full harvest, even Innate experts can hardly hide this joy of harvest.

In the eyes of Shao Chaozong and others, Lu Feng's low mood is because Xu Siyuan died in the seabed cave, and he is sad for losing a good friend.

However, only Lin Chen knows that Lu Feng's low mood is indeed because of Xu Siyuan, but it is not because of Xu Siyuan's death, but because of Xu Siyuan's betrayal.

Xu Siyuan had a life-saving grace for him, and his own martial arts talent was also extremely high. Otherwise, even if Lu Feng gave him martial arts resources from time to time, and he secretly killed other martial artists to grab martial arts resources, it would be impossible to cultivate to the second stage of Innate at this age.

Killing people and grabbing treasures can indeed bring windfall, but to cultivate to the second stage of Innate, the resources required cannot be satisfied by killing people and grabbing treasures. In order not to expose his identity, the people Xu Siyuan killed were not the top power children in Guangwu City, but those who were similar to his background, or slightly better.

In the cabin, Lin Chen sat there, closing his eyes to rest. He was already thinking about how many Innate crystals he could liquefy with the Quenching Crystal Sand he obtained this time.

"Brother Fang is not a martial artist from the islands near Jiushan Island."

Zhu Ru smiled and spoke to Lin Chen. On the way here, Zhu Ru didn't pay much attention to Lin Chen, and the words she said on the ship were few and far between.

But this time back, Zhu Ru was very concerned about Lin Chen. She took the initiative to find Lin Chen to talk several times.

"No."

Lin Chen spoke lightly. He knew

"With Brother Fang's strength, if you were a martial artist from near Nine Mountains Island or from the East Sea Region, this little sister should have heard of you. It seems Brother Fang must be from another region."

There are many martial artists at the Second Stage of the Innate Realm throughout the East Sea Region, and it is impossible for Zhu Ru to have seen every single one, but the memory of Innate martial artists is never poor; even if she hadn't seen them, she would have heard of them.

For Zhu Ru, she herself is at the Second Stage of the Innate Realm, so she pays more attention to martial artists of the same stage in the East Sea Region; she can be certain that there is no martial artist named Fang Zhan in the entire East Sea Region.

"I am from the Fulong Region."

"The Fulong Region?"

Zhu Ru suddenly realized: "No wonder this little sister has not heard of Brother Fang's name. Is Brother Fang traveling to the East Sea Region?"

"Yes, my martial path hit a bottleneck, so I decided to travel around for a while."

Regarding Lin Chen's answer, Zhu Ru had no suspicions; it is the most normal thing in the world for an Innate martial artist to choose to travel, including traveling across regions, when their cultivation hits a bottleneck.

"Since Brother Fang is traveling, why not come be a guest at my Pingxiang Sect? The Pingxiang Sect is on Star Moon Island, not far from Nine Mountains Island."

Zhu Ru blinked her beautiful eyes, fully displaying the charm of a mature woman.

"I will go when I have time."

After inviting Lin Chen to be a guest, Zhu Ru also rose gracefully and left.

Lin Chen watched Zhu Ru's departing back; he did not know what kind of woman she was, but he knew this woman was very intelligent and handled things with great discretion.

It was very clear that Zhu Ru wanted to befriend him, but she had a great sense of propriety and did not use her own advantages to keep pestering him.

Six days later.

"Everyone, I have matters to attend to, so I will disembark first."

Before they had even reached Nine Mountains Island, Shao Chaozong proposed his departure; Innate martial artists can fly through the air on the sea and do not necessarily need to ride a ship.

Most of the time, they ride ships only because the journey is long; if they were to rely on their own flight, the Innate energy within their bodies would easily be exhausted.

The amount of Innate energy within an Innate martial artist's body relates to how much of their strength they can exert.

But now that the ship was only half a day's journey from the nearest island, with Shao Chaozong's strength, flying through the air would at most consume one-tenth of the Innate energy in his body.

Shao Chaozong left very directly, and only two hours after Shao Chaozong disembarked, Zhang Sheng also proposed his departure, with the exact same reason.

The next day, Zhu Ru also left the ship; unlike Shao Chaozong and Zhang Sheng, when Zhu Ru left, she once again invited Lin Chen to visit the Pingxiang Sect on Star Moon Island.

"Brother Fang, these few left because they are carrying Quenching Crystal Sand and are not at ease returning to Nine Mountains Island with me."

Lu Feng watched the three of them leave and informed Lin Chen of the truth.

Killing to seize treasures is not considered a strange thing in the martial world; the Lu family's strength in Guangwu City on Nine Mountains Island is not weak, and these three were afraid that once they reached Nine Mountains Island, Lu Feng would use the Lu family's strength to secretly take action against them.

"Shao Chaozong and Zhang Sheng are both the strongest in their families; if my Lu family really wanted to take action against them, we would have no misgivings. As for the Pingxiang Sect where Zhu Ru belongs, although they also have experts of the Third Stage of the Innate Realm sitting in command, as long as my Lu family takes action secretly and does not give the Pingxiang Sect any evidence, there will be no trouble."

In the martial world, even disciples of the same sect will guard against each other, let alone a team like theirs that cooperated temporarily.

In fact, if Lin Chen had not heard that Xu Siyuan was plotting to seize the Lu family's assets and known that the Lu family only had one elderly man at the Second Stage of the Innate Realm left, and because Hearing Yin Yue was still on Nine Mountains Island, he would also have chosen to leave halfway.

That would be the safest choice.

One day later.

The ship arrived at Nine Mountains Island; after disembarking, Lu Feng did not say goodbye to Lin Chen to return to the Lu residence, but chose to head to the inn with Lin Chen.

Lu Feng was using actual actions to put Lin Chen at ease; he would not change his mind just because he had returned to Nine Mountains Island and go home to unite with the elders of his family to take action against Lin Chen and seize back the Martial Will and the treasures in the Hundred-Object Box.

While still some distance from the restaurant, Lu Feng suddenly said: "Isn't that the maid?"

Lu Feng did not know every maid in the auction house, but because he had seen her, he still recognized the person.

Lin Chen saw Yu Jin standing at the entrance of the inn, his expression sank, and he walked quickly toward the inn.

"Lord Fang!"

Yu Jin also saw Lin Chen and Lu Feng walking over; before she could run over, she saw that Lin Chen had already appeared before her.

"Lord Fang, twenty days ago, just after you left, someone took Miss Yue away. I... I couldn't stop them."

"Miss Yue?"

Lu Feng, who arrived a step later, also recalled what the manager had told him—that when Brother Fang went to the auction house, he was accompanied by a little girl.

"Do you know who took her?"

Lu Feng questioned sternly; Brother Fang was his life-saving benefactor, and the Lu family also had some foundation in Guangwu City.

"Brother Fang, do not be anxious; as long as they are in Guangwu City, they cannot run away."

Lin Chen was not so optimistic in his heart at this moment; he had no enemies in Guangwu City, and he was afraid that people from the Moon Soul Clan had found them and taken Hearing Yin Yue away.

If that were truly the case, twenty days had passed, and even if he wanted to save Hearing Yin Yue, he would be helpless.