Chapter 145: Chapter 116: Returning to the Mountain, Southern Border Saintess, Dao Companion (Two-in-One)_3
We’ve lost contact with the headquarters of the Southern Border Alliance.
Everyone is as anxious as ants on a hot pan.
Snake Granny sneered:
"Making excuses? A bunch of useless fools!"
She waved her hand, and the person who spoke was slapped into a bloody mist, causing everyone’s hearts to tremble violently. The Southern Border Saintess slowly said:
"Granny, don’t be angry. Give them a chance to redeem themselves."
"Thank you, Saintess!"
"Take us to that location."
She rose and stepped into the air, and Snake Granny cast a cold glance at the crowd, casually pointing out a few leaders, and dragged them along with her.
...
One day later.
The stronghold destroyed by Ning Qi.
Everyone’s figures descended.
"Saintess, Snake Granny, this was the stronghold where Skinny Elder and the others gathered that day. Before that day, Fatty Elder suddenly sent a message, calling all the leaders in Qing State to come. He said ’Lei’ from the Blood Rain Tower had betrayed us, and we needed to investigate carefully..."
Someone slowly recounted the cause and effect.
The Southern Border Saintess and Snake Granny stood side by side, gazing down from above. The Southern Border Saintess gently frowned, speculating:
"Could it be that Fatty Elder was greedy for the Blood King Gu and betrayed the alliance? The traces seem to have been erased quite cleanly..."
Snake Granny slowly shook her head:
"Saintess, you might not know, that dead fatty, though his strength is a bit weaker, he comes from the Heilan Tribe and his loyalty to the alliance is beyond question. This matter likely has another twist—perhaps someone used the dead fatty’s hand to bring this about, which led to Skinny Elder and the others falling into calamity."
At this point.
They had already abandoned the hope that Fatty and Skinny Elder were still alive, just knowing the intelligence available indicated that this matter had been long premeditated.
"Granny, is there a way to restore these traces?" The Southern Border Saintess turned her head to ask, the breeze occasionally lifted a corner of her veil, revealing a fair and sharp chin, somewhat breathtaking.
Snake Granny confidently smiled:
"The perpetrator was indeed cautious, the traces wiped clean, but they underestimated us Southerners a bit, though it’s impossible to completely restore, tracking the power aura characteristics of the perpetrator is no problem."
She landed in the midst of the collapsed ruins.
Gently taking the blue jade-like snake from her neck, she kissed it and then began chanting quickly in bizarre syllables. The blue snake surprisingly began an incredible transformation, its abdomen swelled, dropping small snake eggs, from which soon emerged tiny blue snakes.
The blue snakes shot out like lightning, dispersing in all directions.
Spectators got goosebumps, their scalps tingling.
Snake Granny merely closed her eyes, chanting the incantation, while the blue jade snake coiled on her palm, occasionally raising its body.
After a stick of incense time.
The blue snakes died, turning to powder.
Snake Granny began to listen to the hissing of the blue jade snake, and after a moment, she raised her head, confidently smiling:
"Saintess, I’ve found it."
A look of delight appeared in the Southern Border Saintess’s eyes, silently thinking it fortunate to have brought Snake Granny, whose unique secret technique could track the enemy’s traces, otherwise more time would have been wasted.
"Snake Granny, who did it?"
Snake Granny replied:
"There are only traces of a battle between two Celestial Human Realm experts, one being Skinny Elder, and the other, a strong person adept in using poisonous strength, much stronger than Skinny Elder!"
She began mobilizing the Power of Heaven and Earth, with green mist forming at her side, exactly like what Elder Wang and Ning Qi used. If Ning Qi were here, he’d be amazed at how many remarkable people there are in the world.
However, Snake Granny’s simulation was only in form, the essence of the power was completely different.
"This is how their power should manifest."
The Southern Border Saintess’s eyes sharpened:
"Just one person, wiped everyone out?"
Snake Granny slowly nodded:
"Indeed, it seems incredible, but actually it’s not difficult to understand. This person or entity first used means to capture the dead fatty, then deceived Skinny Elder and others to come using his name, and then attacked them off-guard. Done this way, it can be completely achieved."
"The others in front of them were like ants."
The gaze of the Southern Border Saintess was deep and distant:
"That must be the case, I had already investigated before, the aura of the Blood King Gu has completely vanished, the one who acted might be coming for the Blood King Gu, but other possibilities can’t be ruled out."
She looked towards the person kneeling, her voice like ice that never melts:
"Is there any strong person using this kind of power within Great Yan? You have three days, if you find nothing, there’s no need to face me again. Also, gather all intelligence related to various forces under the command from this period!"
Everyone felt as if granted a great reprieve and hastily responded:
"Yes, Saintess!"
...
One day later.
The Southern Border Saintess sat upright at a desk, reviewing the gathered intelligence, while Snake Granny sipped tea and played with two exotic snakes nearby.
"Saintess, how is it?" Snake Granny asked.
The Southern Border Saintess raised her head, gently massaging her brow:
"As of now, there are two forces with considerable suspicion."
"Which two?"
"Firstly, it is... the Demon Sect!"
Upon hearing these words, the expressions of both the Southern Border Saintess and Snake Granny turned serious.
Even though they are in the Southern Border, they know of the Demon Sect’s name, a force that, despite being suppressed by Great Yan for many years, can repeatedly rise from the ashes and return, showing just how troublesome it is.
"As Granny found earlier, the kind of poisonous strength appeared last year when five Celestial Being Strong Persons from the Demon Sect attacked the True Martial Sect in Qing State, and one of them used this power."
The Southern Border Saintess detailed the events that had occurred on True Martial Mountain at that time.