Chapter 62: Chapter 59 Sacred Palace
“What?!”
Li Fu, who was just about to step forward to help, was dumbfounded upon seeing the Black Jiao suddenly plummeting down.
Immediately afterward, he hurriedly looked around. He noticed that fleeting black light, and realized there had been outside assistance!
He utilized Divine Traveling to patrol the surroundings.
With Peerless Divine Refinement Skill, one could Divine Travel for eighteen miles!
Although Li Fu was not directly descended from the Li Family, he had once made remarkable military achievements. Combined with the assistance from Li Tian Gang, he had managed to obtain a Peerless Divine Refinement Skill from the Li Family, which also made him a formidable figure within the Divine Travel Realm.
Now, under his surveillance, everything within eighteen miles was completely visible to him, yet he saw no sign of anyone.
At this moment, the sturdy man also reacted, his complexion changing dramatically. He immediately searched for the strong presence that had assisted him, but finding none, he realized that the person had concealed themselves and did not wish to reveal their identity. He bowed deeply and cupped his hands in gratitude:
“I thank the senior for your assistance. I hope the senior leaves a name, so Wei Feng can repay this life-saving grace in the future!”
The voice traveled fifteen miles.
After a long time, there was still no response.
Wei Feng could not help but wryly smile, thinking that the senior who could kill the Jiao dragon with one strike probably wouldn’t care about his gratitude. He couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful in his heart.
He turned his head to look at Li Fu and asked, “Is that senior perhaps one of your Divine General Mansion?”
Li Fu was stunned; he was still wondering if it had been the handwork of that Grandmaster behind the other man.
Divine General Mansion… apart from himself, there shouldn’t be anyone else, right?
However, could it be someone sent from the four Academies?
With doubts in his heart, he could only say, “I’m not sure, but since the senior has taken action, Divine General Mansion will remember this kindness.”
Towards the end of his words, he also bowed respectfully to the heavens and earth around him.
“My husband’s aura…”
Thirty miles away, the female Black Jiao suddenly narrowed her pupils, sensing the robust and overwhelming aura of her mate fading away in the distance, until it finally disappeared completely.
She hurriedly looked toward Li Hao, but saw him looking composed, as if he had casually tossed a pebble. At this moment, he was tidily adjusting his clothes while looking at her.
“What have you done to my husband?” the female Black Jiao asked with a trembling voice.
“What do you think?”
Li Hao said with a faint smile, “I’m afraid your husband won’t make it here. You can give up now. If you’re willing to talk, I might consider sparing your life.”
The female Black Jiao shook all over. She could only sense her husband’s aura disappearing but didn’t know what had actually happened, as the distance was too far, beyond the range of her Divine Soul’s perception.
Yet, Li Hao’s demeanor left her feeling extremely uneasy inside.
“Alright, whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you,” the female Black Jiao hesitated for a moment before her tone shifted, becoming coquettish. She displayed weakness and helplessness.
Li Hao raised an eyebrow, immediately recalling in stories how Demon creatures beguiled and deceived people. These Demon races were not only violent but, when weak, could also charm and confuse the minds of others.
“Don’t play tricks on me! Tell me about the Demon Race’s situation in Northern Yan and why they keep insisting on attacking,” Li Hao said coldly.
The female Black Jiao said delicately, “Ease your foot off a bit first, and I’ll tell you.”
“Stop dawdling!” Li Hao snapped.
The Demon mist dispersed, and the female Black Jiao transformed back into the beautiful woman she was before, now lying on the ground like a willow branch, her cheek still under Li Hao’s foot, looking pitifully disheveled. Yet her expression was soft and charming, her eyes tearfully looking up at Li Hao:
“Don’t you know how to show mercy to women?”
“I have no interest in a rotten snake,” Li Hao said indifferently.
The eyes of the Black Jiao beautiful woman flashed with a trace of humiliation. She hated being called a snake the most, but in order to escape her predicament, she had no choice but to swallow her pride, pleading weakly, “I don’t know much about Northern Yan’s affairs. Can you ease your grip first so we can talk more comfortably?”
Slowly, her palm touched Li Hao’s boots, caressing up his pant leg.
Feeling the provocation from beneath him, Li Hao said coldly, “I’m quite impressed with you, thinking of infidelity while your husband has just died.”
“Huh?”
The Black Jiao beautiful woman was taken aback, her eyes widening as she looked at Li Hao in disbelief: “What… What did you say? My husband… he…”
Seeing the indifference in Li Hao’s eyes, her heart felt as if it had been hammered. Thinking back to her husband’s rapidly dwindling aura, and the scales that had shot out…
Her eyes immediately reddened, the vulnerability on her face vanishing as she looked at Li Hao with ferocity and madness: “You killed my husband, I want you dead!!”
“I gave you a chance to live; don’t waste it,” Li Hao said.
“Want to know about Northern Yan? You can dream on!”
The Black Jiao beauty looked deranged and let out a roar, “My demon race has sworn an oath, we would never betray the Sacred Palace. You will never learn anything, go to die, I want you dead!!”
She lunged at Li Hao with her claws bared, even trying to bite his boots, and her body tumbled once again, transforming into her true dragon form.
Li Hao furrowed his brows slightly, surprised that the news of her husband’s death would provoke such a violent reaction. Could it be that demons also have true feelings?
As the Black Jiao writhed madly, Li Hao once again pressed down on its head to subdue it.
However, the female Black Jiao appeared to have lost all reason, constantly roaring and rolling around. Seeing this, Li Hao had no choice but to send her on her way.
With a crushing blow to the head of the Black Jiao, the piercing shrieks abruptly came to an end.
Li Hao shook the blood off his hands, glanced at the twitching tail of the Jiao, and sighed softly.
He hadn’t expected that, after all that effort, he would learn nothing.
As for the so-called Sacred Palace and the Northern Yan demon race’s plot to invade Dayu, his father, whom he hadn’t seen in over a decade, probably knew more than he did.
Shaking his head, Li Hao didn’t linger any longer. He took a step and returned to the tea stall outside the official road.
Those following him, like Fu, would likely find the corpse of the Black Jiao and take care of it.
Outside the tea stall.
The sight of Li Hao walking silently from beyond the official road startled everyone, with Yu Wei jumping in fright.
Li Yuanzhao paused, quickly approaching Li Hao excitedly, and whispered close to his chest, “Hao, have you entered the Soul Succession Realm?”
Li Hao was a little surprised, instantly realizing the reason and nodded with a smile.
The Soul Succession? He had already completed that long ago.
“Really?!” Li Yuanzhao’s eyes widened in immense excitement.
Watching the excitement in his eyes, Li Hao patted his shoulder with a smile, “It’s a minor matter, nothing much. Have you all eaten your fill?”
Li Yuanzhao, already used to Li Hao’s casual manner, didn’t think it a trivial matter and whispered excitedly, “If our mother knew you achieved Soul Succession, she would be overjoyed.”
“Hmm.”
Thinking of their noble and dignified mother, Li Hao’s heart filled with respect that was involuntarily solemn. Over the years, it had only been their mother who treated him consistently well.
Time reveals a person’s character; when first adapting to this new world’s elite environment, he had been naive about human nature, having been taken advantage of.
Now, after a long time, he had come to understand the true nature of each Madam in the family.
For instance, Madam Four, who fostered Yuan Zhao, was not a simple character.
She was just childless and extremely low-profile in the mansion, appearing gentle and kind.
“Li Hao, where did you go?” Du Qiuyue asked curiously upon seeing Li Hao arrive.
“Encountered a demon, took care of it,” Li Hao answered with a smile. He hadn’t intended to say anything, but considering they were soon heading to Qi State to hunt demons, it might be good to let them feel a bit of tension ahead of time, to prevent being too relaxed later and risking their lives.
“A demon?”
The group was stunned, with Ren Qianqian looking at Li Hao, trying to gauge the truth of his statement.
The old man at the tea stall expressed his surprise, “Young hero, you said there was a demon?”
Li Hao said to the old man, “Boss, it’s getting dark. You should pack up and go home early too.”
“Really? Was there really a demon?” the old man asked, his curiosity piqued.
Li Hao laughed, but at the same time, he sighed inwardly.
He didn’t know why he sighed.
Without elaborating further, once he saw that everyone had finished eating and drinking, he called them to mount their horses and set off.
On the Red Blood Horse, as they traveled along the way, Yu Wei and Du Qiuyue seemed to warm up to Li Hao again, so they became more brazen and inquired whether he really had reached the Soul Succession Realm.
Li Hao nodded with a smile, not denying it.
Both of them were astounded, exclaiming repeatedly, not expecting that the Alpha Academy’s strongest disciple would be right beside them.
The sword-carrying girl on horseback tightened her grip on the reins.
As Li Hao and the others left the tea stall, in the distant sky hidden behind the clouds, an inconspicuous bird flew through the mists toward the horizon.
Yet in the bird’s eyes lay deep fear. It knew it must deliver this terrifying report to Northern Yan, to Monarch Bai.
There is a lad of the Li Family, aged fourteen, suspected to be a Grandmaster!
Undoubtedly, once this news broke out, countless people would be shocked.
And if the elders in the Sacred Palace were aware, they would never allow a second direct disciple from the Gan Tao Palace to arise within the Human Race.
After the bird and the young rider left, in the jungle where the female Jiao’s corpse lay, Li Fu and Wei Feng arrived, having followed the scent there. The smell of blood was just too strong!