Chapter 368

After silently killing Zhao Weizhen, Xu Jin did not leave but continued to be invisible, cautiously approaching the strongest seventh-tier peak aura—that is, the position of the Marquis of Yangdu—slowly approaching, and while approaching, sensing.

In the Baidou Divine Sect branch event that involved his sister Jiang Er, Xu Jin felt that the Marquis of Yangdu had a problem and might be colluding with the Baidou Divine Sect.

The Baidou Divine Sect abducted two or three thousand people and operated on his fief for several months, yet he was completely unaware?

Is this normal?

Not normal.

But at that time, Xu Jin didn't have the ability to investigate the Marquis of Yangdu, but the seed of suspicion had been buried since then.

Today, there happened to be an opportunity.

And Zhao Weizhen was a confidant of the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, so during the Warm Dream interrogation just now, besides the events targeting Ning Yuchan, Xu Jin conveniently interrogated some questions about the Marquis of Yangdu.

The gist was what secret things Zhao Weizhen had done for the Marquis of Yangdu.

Upon asking, he actually asked about more than twenty items.

Xu Jin also roughly understood Zhao Weizhen's role in the eyes of the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce—a glove or a scapegoat.

Just like the Marquis's military advisor who came out to plead guilty and accept punishment when problems appeared on his fief before.

Once a problem occurred, pushing Zhao Weizhen out would allow him to cut ties with him.

However, could he really cut ties?

He couldn't!

No one is stupid, and the high-level officials of Chen Guo, such as the Grand Master, are even less stupid.

However, there would be political trade-offs; they wouldn't take action against a seventh-tier top powerhouse who held heavy troops, had far-reaching influence in the military, and had strong combat power because of this matter.

As long as it was within the tolerance limit, as long as you, the Marquis of Yangdu, had an attitude, then some things could easily pass.

Once something happened, Zhao Weizhen was the Marquis of Yangdu's attitude.

Because of this, Zhao Weizhen participated in and executed many secret things for the Marquis of Yangdu.

Among the more than twenty items, more than half were related to two star domains: one was the fourth-tier Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain, and the other was the fifth-tier Lanshan Star Domain.

Xu Jin was familiar with the fourth-tier Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain; it was the star domain where he obtained the Baidou Divine Sect's Star Official Seal.

From the timeline, before Xu Jin entered the fourth-tier Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain, Zhao Weizhen had sent people to the Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain three times according to the Marquis of Yangdu's orders; after Xu Jin came out of the Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain, he sent them twice—once ten elites, once twenty elites—and the result was that they all died inexplicably.

A portion of the elites in the latter batch were even personally picked up by Zhao Weizhen from Chen Guo Battle City under orders.

This timeline matched up.

The Baidou Divine Sect within the Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain was nine times out of ten a product of the Marquis of Yangdu colluding with the high-level officials of the Baidou Divine Sect.

Then what about the fifth-tier Lanshan Star Domain?

From the information obtained from interrogating Zhao Weizhen, after Zhao Weizhen took over as Right Sima, he had sent people to the fifth-tier Lanshan Star Domain once, arranged for people to send supplies twice, and received supplies from the Lanshan Star Domain several times, once every two months, very stably.

Then, this Lanshan Star Domain was highly likely to be the Marquis of Yangdu's private goods.

It could also be another product of the Marquis of Yangdu's cooperation with the Baidou Divine Sect.

Xu Jin had discovered that the various star domains on the Star River Battlefield were indeed the territories where the Baidou Divine Sect and the Blood God Sect developed best.

If one could get another big shot to secretly protect and hide information, one could make a fortune in silence.

Xu Jin was now approaching the Marquis of Yangdu while invisible, wanting to investigate the specific situation of the Marquis of Yangdu.

And see the specific reaction of the Marquis of Yangdu.

Because Zhao Weizhen's death would be discovered before long.

Just approaching within eight or nine hundred meters of the Marquis of Yangdu, Xu Jin sensed the Marquis of Yangdu's aura and cultivation clearly.

The effect of the thirty-six Mingji Star Patterns was extraordinary.

The maximum sensing distance was eighteen hundred meters, but the optimal sensing distance was around nine hundred meters.

At the same time, the wonders of the Mingji Star Patterns were increasing, including a certain auxiliary effect when deducing and comprehending star patterns.

When refining the Star Official Seal before, when faintly sensing the direction of the other twenty-seven Star Official Seals, activating seven or eight Mingji Star Patterns made it incomparably vague, but if he activated thirty-six, there would be a faint direction.

Xu Jin had already decided that next, he must deduce and improve the Mingji Star Patterns.

The Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce's cultivation was very normal—seventh-tier peak.

But the divine soul fluctuation made Xu Jin very surprised.

The specific divine soul cultivation could not be sensed clearly, but Xu Jin could sense very clearly that the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, had already condensed a primordial spirit.

The Grand Master, Cheng Yuexiao, with his status and resources, had only condensed a primordial spirit embryo in his divine soul cultivation before and had been unable to thoroughly break through to condense a primordial spirit.

The Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, was at the seventh-tier peak and was only a commander of an army, yet he had condensed a primordial spirit early on.

Although it was said that there were more resources on the Star River Battlefield, it was indeed a bit abnormal.

However, if one combined the point that the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, was colluding with the Baidou Divine Sect, then the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, condensing a primordial spirit was very normal.

In the shadows, the invisible Xu Jin was waiting quietly.

Those clerks hypnotized by Warm Dream would wake up in at most a quarter of an hour.

A quarter of an hour later, inside the military headquarters, there was suddenly a commotion and noise.

A few breaths later, in the courtyard in the center of the military headquarters, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce's unique seventh-tier peak aura suddenly rushed out from the courtyard and landed towards the Right Sima's courtyard.

Zhao Weizhen's death had already been exposed.

Xu Jin didn't move.

His position was eight hundred meters away from the Right Sima Zhao Weizhen's barracks.

He just needed to lurk here quietly and activate the Mingji Star Patterns to observe the situation.

Zhao Weizhen's death was very strange.

It was a bit like a locked-room murder case.

The guards outside the door insisted that there was no movement and they hadn't left.

The several literary historians inside the room said they just had a trance and discovered that Sima Zhao was lying on the table, motionless for a long time, before they discovered the problem.

Injuries?

There were no injuries at all.

Being so strange, naturally, someone was lying.

The Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, ordered people to torture and interrogate the several literary historians, but they gained nothing.

An hour later, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, returned to his military headquarters, which could be called a mansion but was heavily guarded by the army.

And he summoned his other confidant, the Right Military Advisor, Sun Yan.

"Three things. First, although Weizhen died strangely, I can see that Weizhen should have died under a divine soul secret art. Arrange for a secret investigation of all newcomers to Yangdu Battle City in the last ten days; anyone with a strange face must be investigated carefully.

Second, send someone to secretly investigate the recent situation of Ning Yuchan of the Second Department of the Fifth Guard," the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, arranged directly.

The Marquis of Yangdu's arrangement made the Right Military Advisor, Sun Yan, a bit puzzled, "Marquis, does the death of the Right Sima have anything to do with Ning Yuchan?"

"It's not clear yet, I just have a guess, you go and investigate."

"Yes."

"Third, regarding cultivation, you should slow down a bit recently and take over all the affairs that Weizhen handled before, especially the Lanshan Star Domain matter; there can be no relaxation!

Besides managing supplies, continue to strengthen the military formation training there, strengthen the power there, and choose an opportunity to carefully arrange to kill an alien king, and then gather one or two Lanshan Star Domain heavenly star wills to strengthen the control over the Lanshan Star Domain.

The Fire Cycle Yunxing Domain has been lost, so the Lanshan Star Domain absolutely cannot have any problems," the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, arranged.

"Marquis, rest assured, your subordinate will handle it well and then report to you." "Go."

After arranging these, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, stood by the window for a long time without a word.

Xu Jin didn't dare to get too close.

Because Xu Jin himself didn't know the primordial spirit level of the Marquis of Yangdu.

He didn't know how long he had condensed his primordial spirit.

Although Xu Jin's primordial spirit embryo was improving rapidly, compared to old ghosts like the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, the time since his breakthrough was still too short.

Caution is paramount.

But what could be determined was that the Marquis of Yangdu knew about Zhao Weizhen deliberately targeting Ning Yuchan, and even including the conflict between Zhao Weizhen and Ning Yuchan, he even tacitly approved of it.

Also, the Lanshan Star Domain definitely had a problem!

Half an hour later, Xu Jin silently sneaked away from the military camp and returned to the inn.

It was fortunate that Xu Jin was cautious and had been invisible all the way back to the inn.

When he was a few hundred meters away from the inn, Xu Jin discovered an abnormality.

The Uncle Xuan Hu Army had sent patrolling soldiers to ask the innkeeper about the whereabouts of Qi Qi Tian Sheng.

It had to be said that the troops under the Marquis of Yangdu had very strong mobility.

This was also related to Yangdu Battle City being on the front line and having relatively few floating people.

They quickly locked onto the strange visitor, Qi Qi Tian Sheng.

Not only that, above Yangdu Battle City, there were five seventh-tier auras constantly patrolling; as long as there was any abnormality anywhere, within a breath, the five seventh-tier powerhouses could surround it with a boom.

Fortunately, Yangdu Battle City was not sealed.

Relying on his high-level invisibility art, Xu Jin cautiously sneaked away from Yangdu Battle City at an extremely low speed for forty or fifty miles, only then revealing his figure and stepping on the stars, starting to fly at high speed towards the direction of Chen Guo Battle City.

But just after flying for three breaths, suddenly, an extremely majestic and powerful aura stood in front like a mountain or sea, blocking Xu Jin's way.

In his line of sight, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, wearing armor and a helmet, appeared in front.

"You did a great thing on my turf; Chai has been waiting for a long time!"

Almost the moment the Marquis of Yangdu's thunderous voice rang out, the Marquis of Yangdu drew his bow like a full moon, and three arrows in a row, cyan arrows gathering countless starlight from all directions, bombarded towards Xu Jin.

The moment the sound wave appeared, the arrows had already appeared in front of Xu Jin.

And the moment he saw the arrow light, the earth's magnetic field moved slightly, and Xu Jin fell to the ground without hesitation.

The moment he fell to the ground, he avoided these three arrows just right, but these three arrows seemed to have locked onto Xu Jin, turning a corner and continuing to bombard Xu Jin, but because Xu Jin was skimming close to the ground, they bombarded into the ground.

The moment he landed, Xu Jin accelerated again.

Instantly raising his speed to the limit, four-fold Liushuo!

Just as he was accelerating, two other seventh-tier mid-stage powerhouses killed him from the left and right in front.

Divine soul secret art, Startle Dream!

In an instant, the seventh-tier powerhouse blocking Xu Jin's path had his starlight scattered, and his expression fell into a daze.

Xu Jin took the opportunity to sweep past, but inevitably, his speed slowed down slightly.

"Want to leave? Not that easy!"

The Marquis of Yangdu's angry shout rang out; it was the Marquis of Yangdu who had caught up!

As the bowstring rang, another three arrows in a row.

This time, extremely close.

The moment the three arrows bombarded and the sound wave exploded, they had already bombarded Xu Jin's back.

The first arrow directly caused Xu Jin's Fish Screen Jin Zhong to ripple hugely, cracking inch by inch.

The second arrow bombarded in a flash; Xu Jin's Fish Screen Jin Zhong shattered directly, and the Golden Scale Overlapping Armor star art on the sixth-tier supreme-grade Golden Scale Armor he had just managed to support also shattered instantly.

The third arrow arrived; shocked, Xu Jin also activated the star art Flower Transfer at this moment.

Seventy percent of the arrow's starlight slid towards the seventh-tier mid-stage military powerhouse on the right, and the remaining power bombarded Xu Jin's sixth-tier supreme-grade Golden Scale Armor, being easily blocked.

Borrowing this blow, the Marquis of Yangdu further closed the distance with Xu Jin, and another seventh-tier mid-stage military powerhouse also killed him in a flash.

Without hesitation, Xu Jin used Startle Dream again!

Bombarding towards the Marquis of Yangdu!

In order to fight for the momentary time to escape.

But after Xu Jin's one Startle Dream, the star power around the Marquis of Yangdu only fluctuated slightly, as if he were fine, continuing to attack Xu Jin.

"Divine soul secret art, actually able to shake this Marquis, it really is you!" Now, the Marquis of Yangdu had completely locked onto the murderer.

At the same instant, the third seventh-tier mid-stage military powerhouse also recovered from the previous divine soul attack and surrounded and killed Xu Jin again.

In an instant, three seventh-tier powerhouses surrounded and attacked Xu Jin from different directions; it seemed he had fallen into a dead end!

And at this very moment, Xu Jin's mind turned rapidly.

Between falling to the ground to use Earth Root to fight to the death and escaping, he chose to escape.

With a thought, he had already activated the star art Chaos Star on the Chaos Star Fall hanging on his chest, and his whole person disappeared in an instant!

The Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, who had missed, roared at his other two subordinates the next instant, "Chaos Space Displacement Emblem, the distance will not exceed two hundred miles, search!"

"Send the assembly signal!"

The moment the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce's voice fell, a blinding starlight exploded in the high sky a hundred miles away.

Although far, with the eyesight of the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, and the others, they could still see it.

"There, chase!"

"Send the assembly signal, take people to surround and block!"

The moment the Marquis of Yangdu chased over, he issued an order again.

But after chasing for only twenty breaths, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, gave up.

It wasn't that his speed couldn't keep up.

Xu Jin's four-fold Liushuo was fast, faster than most seventh-tier powerhouses, but he, Chai Ce, primarily cultivated the wind type and was also extremely good at speed.

As long as he continued to chase, he could still catch up.

The Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, estimated that if he continued to chase, he would be able to catch up in at most two quarters of an hour.

But the problem was that the Marquis of Yangdu's seventh-tier subordinates couldn't keep up at all.

And they would be pulled further and further away.

What if there was an ambush?

What if the other party assassinated Zhao Weizhen and then let him track him, just to lure the snake out of the hole?

A fourth-tier ninth-layer cultivator with such astonishing combat power was very rare.

Not to mention that his divine soul cultivation was faintly on par with his.

Such a person absolutely couldn't be from a wandering cultivator background; he must have a foundation.

If someone set an ambush with this, and he chased over alone, wouldn't he be falling into a trap?

A son of a thousand gold does not sit under a dangerous hall!

He, the dignified commander of the Uncle Xuan Hu Army, didn't need to take risks!

Therefore, the Marquis of Yangdu, Chai Ce, decisively withdrew!

As for losing the chase, he wasn't afraid!

Such a brilliant and talented person shouldn't be hard to find!

(End of chapter)