Chapter 2788

After bidding farewell to Lin Wan'er and returning home, Ye Chen only had two things on his mind.

The first thing was to hurry and refine the lightning-struck wood of the Mother of All Tea that Lin Wan'er had given him into a Thunder Command.

The other thing was to wait eight hours to see where the Anti-Qing Society's Boeing 777 was heading next. If it was Jin Ling, then he had to take countermeasures as soon as possible.

Since there were still eight hours left, Ye Chen immediately began to refine the Thunder Command upon returning home.

Refining the Thunder Command was already a familiar task for Ye Chen.

When he returned to his room and channeled spiritual energy into the piece of lightning-struck wood from the Mother of All Tea, he had originally thought that everything would be as easy as refining the previous Thunder Command. But he didn't expect that when the spiritual energy entered the lightning-struck wood and began to perfect the array inside, he discovered that his previously invincible spiritual energy was actually having a hard time moving even an inch inside this wood.

If refining lightning-struck wood before was like using a carving knife, then the wood itself was like an ordinary piece of wood, and the knife could easily carve the patterns he wanted.

However, compared to the previous lightning-struck wood, this current piece was like a piece of incredibly hard, high-strength steel. The carving knife made of spiritual energy found it very difficult to leave a mark on it.

Ye Chen hadn't expected that this lightning-struck wood, which looked ordinary, would have such difficult internal characteristics to refine. However, at this point, he had no other magic tools to protect himself, so he had no other choice.

Helpless, he could only increase the injection of spiritual energy exponentially. The rate of spiritual energy consumption surged instantly, just like when it was being crazily absorbed by Lin Wan'er's ring back then.

Ye Chen knew that there was no turning back once the bow was drawn. Moreover, as a tea tree that had lived until the heavenly tribulation, the Mother of All Tea could almost be considered the pinnacle of existence among trees. To refine such lightning-struck wood into a magic tool would inevitably require more effort.

Therefore, Ye Chen took out a Cultivation Pill and calmed his mind to refine the Thunder Command with all his might.

Although the spiritual energy consumption was fast, with a Cultivation Pill as a supplement, the spiritual energy was barely enough.

Several hours later, Ye Chen, drenched in sweat, finally opened his eyes.

The piece of lightning-struck wood in his hand, which was as thick as an adult's forearm, had been refined by him into a palm-sized Thunder Command.

This Thunder Command was pitch black all over, emitting a faint metallic luster, and its texture was extremely fine and dense; it was completely impossible to tell it was made of wood.

Holding the Thunder Command in his hand, Ye Chen could even feel the sensation of thunder and lightning surging within it.

That feeling was like standing by the sea in the evening, watching the dark clouds gathering in the depths of the ocean, with thunder and lightning flashing and roaring across the entire sea surface.

Not only was there an extremely vast field of vision of heaven and earth, but there was also that surging feeling of heaven and earth being connected as a whole by thunder and lightning, fierce and profound.

But if the Thunder Command was placed aside, this feeling would immediately disappear.

And when Ye Chen's fingertips brushed across the surface of the Thunder Command, he seemed to be able to feel that surging sensation of the entire sea level being covered by thunder and lightning in his mind again.

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the power of this Thunder Command was likely much stronger than the previous one.

Just as he was excited about the newly refined Thunder Command, Chen Zekai called him again and reported, "Young Master, that Boeing 777 has applied for a flight path from Melbourne, Australia, to Mandalay, Myanmar;"

"Mandalay?" Ye Chen frowned and asked, "Is the information accurate?"

"Accurate." Chen Zekai said firmly, "The flight path currently reported by this plane to the Australian air traffic control department is indeed to Mandalay. They will likely land at Melbourne Airport in about four hours. After landing, they are expected to rest for about an hour, and then continue to fly to Mandalay. It takes about eight hours to fly from Melbourne to Mandalay, so it will take at least a dozen more hours to arrive in Mandalay."

Learning that the other party was not coming to Jin Ling, Ye Chen's first thought was that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

It seemed his empty-city strategy had not been seen through by the other party.

However, he was also very puzzled in his heart, not understanding why the Anti-Qing Society had suddenly sent a plane to Myanmar.

Therefore, Ye Chen called Lin Wan'er and relayed the situation reported by Chen Zekai to her.

When Lin Wan'er heard that the Anti-Qing Society's plane had gone to Myanmar, she was immediately surprised and said, "How could Wu Feiyan suddenly send people to Myanmar at this time..."

Ye Chen said, "Perhaps they have a base for dead soldiers in Myanmar? Or perhaps the Right Military Governor's Office is in Myanmar?"

Lin Wan'er said suspiciously, "According to Wu Feiyan's personality, at a time like this, she must be very cautious and uneasy. She would definitely let the entire Anti-Qing Society enter a state of silence. Once the Anti-Qing Society enters a state of silence, the Five Military Governor's Offices will each operate independently and maintain absolute silence. It is even more impossible for Wu Feiyan to send people from the headquarters of the Anti-Qing Society."

Hearing Lin Wan'er's analysis, Ye Chen couldn't help but be unable to figure it out, so he said, "If that's the case, the Right Military Governor's Office is definitely not in Myanmar. What is Wu Feiyan's intention in sending people to Myanmar at this time?"

Lin Wan'er was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "What if the one going to Myanmar is Wu Feiyan herself?"

"Wu Feiyan herself?" Ye Chen asked in surprise, "Why did Miss Lin make this judgment?"

Lin Wan'er said, "Mainly intuition. I always feel that Young Master's empty-city strategy will definitely scare Wu Feiyan. Under these circumstances, Wu Feiyan should not be mobilizing troops anymore. And since that plane set off for Myanmar so quickly, the greatest possibility is that Wu Feiyan herself is going."

Ye Chen asked puzzledly, "Then what do you think she is doing in Myanmar at this time, Miss Lin?"

Lin Wan'er thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, she likely wants to go through Myanmar and enter China from the Yunnan-Myanmar border!"

Ye Chen exclaimed, "Wu Feiyan is coming to China?! Could it be that she is coming to Jin Ling in person?!"

"No." Lin Wan'er said, "Wu Feiyan will definitely not come to Jin Ling in person. I suspect her purpose in coming to China is to go to Southern Yunnan first, and then go to the Ten Thousand Mountains."

Having said that, Lin Wan'er added, "Wu Feiyan has been wanting to find the heavenly treasures and magic tools and medicinal pills left by the Master all these years. Now that the Master's portrait has suddenly appeared in Jin Ling, she should want to go to the Ten Thousand Mountains quietly to try her luck."

Ye Chen said in surprise, "If she wants to go to the Ten Thousand Mountains, wouldn't it be more convenient to fly directly to Vietnam than to Myanmar? After all, the Ten Thousand Mountains are not far from the Vietnamese border, while there is still Southern Yunnan between them and Myanmar."

Lin Wan'er pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps she just wants to go to Southern Yunnan first, and then go to the Ten Thousand Mountains. After all, she once fought against the Qing with my father in Southern Yunnan. And after my father was seriously injured and died by her hand back then, I buried my father in Southern Yunnan. She has always held deep resentment toward my father and once personally dug up the empty grave I built for him. Perhaps she was stimulated in her heart this time and wants to revisit the old place."

Speaking of this, Lin Wan'er added, "Wu Feiyan still has more than ten hours before arriving in Myanmar. I estimate she will not enter China through conventional channels. It is highly probable that she will sneak into the country from the border line. In that case, she will definitely walk across the border. And Mandalay is more than three hundred kilometers away from the border. Even if she takes a car to the vicinity and then transfers to walking, it will take at least several hours to enter Southern Yunnan. In this way, I still have a window period of twenty hours!"

Ye Chen asked subconsciously, "A window period? Miss Lin, you don't intend to go to Southern Yunnan during this time, do you?"