Chapter 36

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“Yes!” Fuquan agreed and hesitated for a moment, saying, “But, My Lord… tomorrow is the first spring auction of the two markets, don’t you still have to go and preside over the big event?”

“I know,” Bai Fenglin lifted his fingers and pinched his eyebrow, “tell Mistress Hua Luo that I won’t be staying overnight. The last auction was disrupted by the Restoration Army, we can’t afford to have any more mishaps this time.”

“Yes.” Fuquan nodded, remembering something, and spoke again cautiously, “The Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion has taken a fancy on a few new young sharks at the preliminary exhibition, they are all stunning – Mistress Hua Luo wants to go and buy them off tomorrow, but she is afraid that if too many people will take a fancy on them, the price will be inflated…”

“Got it, got it… that woman, she’s really shrewd.” Bai Fenglin waved his hand impatiently, “Write down the names of the ones she likes and give them to me – I’ll have the Chambers of Trade men put those slaves on hold tomorrow, so they won’t be offered for public auction on the stage!”

“Aye.”

While the Governor of Ye Cheng was in the lobby, socializing and negotiating with his guests, the smell of blood filled the mysterious courtyard deep inside his residence. With the harsh sound of iron shackles dragging on the ground, one after another, a line of bleeding sharks was carried and placed on the floor of that mysterious inner courtyard.

“A total of five restoration soldiers were captured on the harbor the other day, and they all have been sent to you as the Governor ordered.” The warden did not dare to say another word to the man behind the curtain, “Your subordinate shall retire.”

The courtyard was very quiet, no one else was there. The severely wounded sharks were unconscious and were lying on the ground, silent, with only blood oozing out and staining the soil.

A few moments later, the curtain rolled upwards without being touched even by the wind.

The man behind the curtain emerged in the courtyard, looking at the dying soldiers of the Restoration Army on the ground, and a cold intent swept across his eyes; he raised a finger up and gently flicked it. With a “brush”, as if lifted up by invisible hands, an unconscious shark on the ground suddenly rose up in the air and panned out in front of him.

After just one glance, Shi Ying knew that the shark was close to death with all his bones shattered, and unless he was given back his vital breath, he would not be able to be questioned in the slightest – but naturally, it was not worth the effort to return the soul of such a shark.

With a wave of his finger, he threw the man back into the courtyard beyond, then fetched a second person. This shark was in a slightly better condition, still breathing weakly, his face was as pale as paper, his tongue was bitten off, and one of his arms was broken at the shoulder, it seemed that all the blood had been drained from his body. Shi Ying raised the right hand and folded his five fingers, a lavender talisman suddenly appeared in the palm of his hand; swiping and latching onto the top of that shark’s head, he whispered, “Wake up!”

Miraculously, the dying Restoration Army soldier indeed regained consciousness in his hands.

“What’s your name?” Shi Ying talked lightly, reading directly into his heart.

“Qing… Qingchuan.” The purple light penetrated the skull and the shark moved weakly, his eyes were disoriented, as if a magical force had taken control of his mind – the warrior who had never opened his mouth during the most brutal torture, although he had bitten off his tongue, surprisingly answered all the questions in the hands of the Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain.

With a blank face, Shi Ying continued, “What is your position in the Restoration Army?”

“…” In that moment, the shark paused for a while, until Shi Ying’s five fingers closed slightly before giving a warbling reply, “Mirror Lake Battalion, 3rd… third team, vice-captain…”

Just a vice-captain? A slight frown creased Shi Ying’s eyebrows, “Who is your leader?”

“It’s… it’s Master Zhi.” The shark warrior struggled slightly in his grip before finally saying what he wanted to know, “The Left Envoy… in charge of the Mirror Lake camp… is Master Zhi Yuan.”

Zhi Yuan? Is that the name of the leader of the Restoration Army? Shi Ying nodded slightly, “Has he been to the Western Wasteland before?”

“Yes… yes, he did.” The shark warrior nodded, “Master Zhi Yuan… he… used to live in the Western Wasteland…”

Shi Ying shuddered and a light swept through his eyes, “Has he been to Susa Haru recently?”

“Had been… he had been.” The shark warrior murmured weakly, “Have just… have just been there…”

So, this is the person? The High Priest took a breath without making a sound and gathered his fingers slightly, “Then at the moment, is he in Yecheng?”

“He…” The shark warrior was controlled by him and forced to give an answer when asked, “he is in Yecheng.”

Shi Ying’s heart skipped a beat and his eyes brightened as he continued to ask the last question, “Where is he in Yecheng?”

“In…” The shark warrior opened his mouth to say something, however, unsure of what he saw, his eyes suddenly changed, his face in a trance instantly became pale, and as if awakening abruptly from a nightmare, he let a loud shout out, unexpectedly throwing his head back and breaking free of the right hand that Shi Ying was controlling him with!

There was only a faint clatter, like the wind passing through a crack in a window, and a delicate flash of white light passed by. The warrior suddenly released a cry of anguish and fell heavily to the ground, never to move again – blood bubbled out from his heart like a fountain, taking away his life.

“Who?” Shi Ying’s face instantly flushed and turned his head to look over.

In the courtyard, under the weeping begonias, there was a man standing, without knowing when exactly he had arrived. The man had the same long aquamarine hair and azure eyes as the shark warrior, a slender figure, a soft face, long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, which instantly made the flowers and trees behind him look pale in comparison. The man held a strange sword in his hand, its light streaking through his eyes, cold and bright, like steel.

It was this shark who caught him off guard just now and killed his companion, right before his eyes!

“A lightsaber?!” At that moment, Shi Ying exclaimed in disbelief, a shocked expression flashed across his face – this kind of lightsaber, which could take a person’s life with the Qi aura used by the sword, could actually appear in the hands of a shark?!

He blurted out, “Are you under the Order of the Sword Sage?”

“Huh…” The shark didn’t reply. The lightsaber in his hand pointed down to the ground, and all the shark warriors lying across the surface had their throats cut with a single blow, cleanly and painlessly.

This man broke into the Governor’s residence alone, taking a huge risk, only to kill his companions and silence them? The sharks are gentle and submissive, it is rare to see such a decisive and spirited person.

“No, you can’t be a member of the Sword Sage sect. That’s not a lightsaber you’re using.” Shi Ying frowned slightly, examining the other man – for thousands of years, being the highest Temple of Martial Arts in Yunhuang, most of the disciples under the Sword Sage Sect had been Kongsang subjects, with some occasional Midlander, there were never any sharks. Currently, both Fei Hua and Liu Meng have just inherited the title of Sword Master and have not yet officially begun to take on disciples, so there is no chance that they will take this shark into their family.

He couldn’t help but say coldly, “Where did you steal your swordsmanship skills from?”

That shark didn’t utter a word as the lightsaber in his hand rose up and landed head on!

“No sense of proportion.” Shi Ying frowned and instantly joined his fingers, pointing at the sword net. A light condensed instantly between his fingers, resembling another massive sword, whistled down into the air and broke the incoming net of swords – a cracking sound reverberated through the entire courtyard and the whole building was shaken.

The thousands of lights in the air disappeared for an instant, as if they had been shattered, before they instantly condensed again and turned into nine sharp rays descending from the sky!

Shi Ying’s eyes were sharply fixed, and without making a sound, he took a breath, quickly stepped back, raised his hands and formed a seal on his chest, instantly releasing a spell – asking the heavens for longevity! What this shark had unleashed was actually the most sophisticated sword art under the Sword Sage, the “Nine Questions”!

This shark was, indeed, no ordinary person!

Only a booming sound was heard as the light of the sword pierced down from the sky, but impacted against an invisible barrier. Shi Ying’s clothes were moving as if they were being blown by a violent gust of wind, and he could not help but feel shocked: He had used as much as eighty to ninety percent of his strength in this strike, yet he was only able to match the light sword. This shark turned out to be a rare opponent he encountered in Yunhuang!

By the moment the light sword disappeared, the person in front of him had also vanished. The aura of the sword remained lingering in the air, so biting and sharp it was no less powerful than that of the Sword Sage at the time.

There were bits of blood scattered all over on the ground, he was not sure if it was spilled from that man or from the bodies of those shark warriors on the ground.

Shi Ying gazed at the empty courtyard and couldn’t help turning pale slightly – being born in the sea, with little physical strength by nature, and having had their bodies split open and rebuilt afterwards, the sharks have excellent agility and balance, but their strength has always been lacking in favor of flexibility. However, the shark standing in front of him earlier had broken through these limitations and developed such unparalleled swordsmanship skill!

Who is this shark? To break through the limits of a species’ power, one must have the support of the family lineage. Could he be the “one” he had been looking for? He frowned at the idea and quickly looked at his fingers – it wasn’t that he couldn’t stop the man just now, he had deliberately let him go and simply planted a tracking charm on his body.

“Chongming.” He turned his head a bit on a side and summoned the bird.

The white bird that was dozing off on the shelf behind the curtain with its head tucked under its wings, woke up with a loud “flutter” and spread out its wings – it was the size of a parrot when it first came out from behind the curtain, but when it landed in the courtyard, it became like a huge white snow sculpture in a flash.

Shi Ying pointed to the sky, “Go, help me find out where that shark went just now!”

With a grunt of discontent, the Chongming divine bird rolled its sleepy eyes and, with a flurry of wings, whistled into the sky, its body expanding in a flash to become the size of a giant whale, its four red eyes gleaming as it chased the trail on the ground, focusing on the Governor’s Palace.

The four eyes of Chongming could reach up to the Nine Heavens and down to the Yellow Springs, and under its chase nothing could be hidden between the Six Harmonies.

The Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain lowered his head and gazed at the corpses littering the ground at his feet, his eyes gradually changing.

Yes, according to the astrological signs, in about seventy years of time, there will be a catastrophe in Kongsang that will destroy the whole nation – however, despite his best efforts, he was still unable to see exactly what was going to happen, and could only see the patch of returning evil rising up from the Blue Sea and heading slowly above the Capital of the Jialan Empire. The only thing he could foresee was that the cause of everything would be related to a shark who was currently located in Yecheng. That shark will unveil the curtain of chaos in Yunhuang and push Kongsang into the abyss of destruction!

The White Pagoda will fall, the Six Kings will perish, the Imperial Sky will be sealed, the blood of the Emperor will be cut off, and thousands of people of Kongsang will become the wronged victims of the wicked… Whenever he gazed at the return of evil, he could see these visions coming one by one from decades later emerging into the heavens, like cold prophecies shown to the astrologers by the Gods.

A great tribulation of that magnitude had been carved into the stars and hung above the head of every Kongsang person in Yunhuang, like an unstoppable wheel of destiny. Yet, no one was seeing it, no one believed it. Only two people were aware of it: him and the Great Master Da Si Ming. Wide awake, watching as Doomsday slowly made its way towards them.

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