Chapter 131: Chapter 80: Night Burning of the Scripture Pavilion! The Chaos of the Giant Whale!_3
“Chase! Chase! Someone has stolen the secret manuals from Xuanwu Pavilion—including the one with the elusive tracks, apprehend them all!”
A furious and resounding roar filled with rage echoed in everyone’s ears.
From the raging inferno, three figures in black, wrapped tightly from head to toe, burst out like bats, fleeing towards the distance without looking back. Their movements were nimble; they climbed along eaves and dashed across rooftops with ease, as if treading on flat ground.
“Someone has stolen the secret manuals from Xuanwu Pavilion?”
“Seal all the exits of the Giant Whale Gang, no one is allowed to leave!”
This order left many disciples of the Giant Whale Gang both shocked and enraged—who would be so bold as to thieve within the Giant Whale Gang, especially the paramount Xuanwu Pavilion?
Xuanwu Pavilion was located at the heart of the Giant Whale Gang’s territory; even if the theft was successful, escaping would be impossible, like trapping a turtle in a jar—it was a suicidal act!
“Dang dang dang!”
The urgency of the bell, along with resounding shouts, disrupted the tranquility within the Gang. In no time, the lights were ablaze and the entire Giant Whale Gang was alerted. Everyone, from elders to ordinary members, was searching and pursuing the culprit!
Amidst the chaos, it seemed as if the Giant Whale Gang was being turned inside out.
At that moment, Su Changkong had already been roused and stopped his cultivation. Frowning, he was puzzled by the commotion, wondering what had happened to cause such an upheaval.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, Su Changkong’s ears twitched; he heard the sound of a breeze whistling, a sign someone was running on the courtyard walls.
The faint sound, like a breeze sweeping past, indicated how skilled the runner was in Qinggong, yet it wasn’t enough to deceive Su Changkong, who trained both internally and externally, and had reached the Qi-Blood Realm, making his senses extremely sharp.
“Da da da!”
Su Changkong heard the barely discernible sounds of someone leaping onto the roof above him and sprinting across it, the noise faint and light.
“Could it be the main instigator of that major disturbance?”
Having just heard the loud uproar from a distance and now someone unleashing Qinggong to flee in the dead of night, Su Changkong couldn’t help but link the two events together.
“Perhaps… I should take a look.”
After hesitating for a moment, Su Changkong finally decided to see what was happening!
It wasn’t Su Changkong’s concern initially, but the fact that the fleeing person was near his residence made him worry about being inadvertently involved.
Whoosh!
Su Changkong took a deep breath, circulating it in his lungs, which slowed the flow of his blood, and his presence became completely concealed.
Crack crack crack!
With a series of snaps from his bones, Su Changkong suddenly became half a foot shorter and his facial bones shifted, drastically altering his appearance.
The two main features of the Turtle Breath Technique were Bone Shrinking and Concealment; with Su Changkong’s Turtle Breath Technique at the 7th Realm, as long as he fully concealed his breath, unless seen with the naked eye, he would be indistinguishable from a piece of dead wood to others’ senses.
After completing these preparations, Su Changkong leaped from the window, flitting out with the wind, as if he were a night bird—graceful and soundless in flight. His Qinggong was so remarkable it could make one doubt their own eyes, as if what they saw was not a person but a flying bird!
The Five Animal Frolics reached the 8th realm, a level probably achieved by few among those who historically practiced the Five Animal Frolics. Among them, the Bird Play executed by Su Changkong was nothing less than some of the high-level Qinggong movements.
A few hundred meters away from the residence of Su Changkong, a figure garbed in black with a masked face hid in the darkness, their eyes revealing threads of anxiety, as if waiting for something.
Soon, a young man appeared beneath the courtyard wall, also looking around furtively.
The black-clad figure was delighted and immediately burst out from the shadows, appearing in front of the youth.
The two barely exchanged any words before the figure in black took out an item from his bosom and stuffed it into the youth’s hand. The youth quickly concealed it within his sleeve.
“Whoosh!”
After completing the exchange, the person in black stepped on the ground and suddenly shot up several meters high, jumping onto the rooftop nearby and running off in another direction as if on flat ground!
“Chase them! Over there!”
From the darkness, several loud shouts rang out as a number of men dressed in the uniforms of Giant Whale Gang disciples spotted the trail of the figure in black, activating their Qinggong to give chase. Their uniforms were marked with seven blue fishtails, indicating that they were among the elite of the elite within the Giant Whale Gang, even at the level of Deputy Hall Leaders.
In other directions, a large number of Giant Whale Gang disciples were either jumping onto rooftops to pursue or rushing from the ground to intercept and encircle.
As a fearsome gang in the vicinity of Ink Forest Prefecture City, the Giant Whale Gang boasted endless waves of experts. The moment the alarm bells rang, the Giant Whale Gang was locked down, and a mass of experts rushed to the scene, trapping their target with ease!
“Move quickly.”
The young man also hastened his steps to head in another direction, aiming to return to his dwelling.
“Bang!”
However, the youth had only taken two steps when he suddenly felt as if the back of his head had been struck by a hammer, his world spinning as his pupils dilated and he collapsed to the ground.
Behind the young man stood a youth with slender eyes.
This youth was none other than Su Changkong, naturally skilled in the arts of Concealment and Bone Shrinking.
Surprise showed on Su Changkong’s face: “Liu Geng?”
The person lying unconscious on the ground from his strike was indeed Liu Geng!
Su Changkong had been alerted and followed quietly to observe the situation. From afar, he saw a figure in black hand over an item to Liu Geng and then swiftly leave, drawing away the other members of the Giant Whale Gang.
Clearly, the figure in black was one of the culprits behind the commotion tonight, and Liu Geng was also involved, as an accomplice!
And according to what Su Changkong knew, this Liu Geng was associated with Deputy Gang Leader Meng Sang…
After a bit of contemplation, it was clear there was more to this than met the eye!
Su Changkong had heard from Gong Zheng that the Giant Whale Gang was not a united entity, divided into the Leader Faction and the Vice-Leader Faction. With Gang Leader Sikong Yong in seclusion for many years and not showing himself, the ambitious Deputy Gang Leader Meng Sang had been left to his own devices.
The chaos that erupted tonight involving Meng Sang’s people suggested it was likely a clash between the two factions!
After hesitating for a moment, Su Changkong took an object from Liu Geng’s sleeve—the very item that had been handed over by the figure in black.
Upon inspection, Su Changkong saw that it was a scroll. Judging by its appearance, it looked somewhat like a painting or similar artifact, something certainly extraordinary to cause such an uproar!