Chapter 62 The Plan's Premature Start

Above the high wall on the northern border of e0.

Overlooking the earth.

The mountains were hidden in the night. After the fires on the land were extinguished, a drizzle fell between heaven and earth. Suzaku unfurled the [Li Fire] domain, soaring from the high wall and streaking towards the distant, rolling mountains.

"You... quickly go and clean up those lowly people."

With He Chan dead, Du Hu temporarily took over the e0 district's cleanup task.

After Suzaku left, he stood on the wall of the northern district, ordering all the enforcers to disperse and quickly carry out the remaining "cleanup work"... A large number of e0 district natives fled the high wall, surging in all directions. Some escaped into the mountains, and some fled towards the Northern Caves. In fact, the cleanup work was hardly difficult.

The biggest difficulty was finding the girl for the "Cloud Mirror Mission."

Until now...

No one knew the girl's exact information.

The Tower of Origin was making such a fuss only because Mr. Yan's divination pointed to "e0 District."

A large number of transcendents escaped during this riot, and that girl was likely among them... According to the information provided by He Chan, the Suzaku Divine Envoy had already ferreted out the mastermind behind the riot.

The Western Continent, Light City!

Du Hu stood on the high wall, silently watching the ants on the ground.

The rain grew heavier.

He glanced back. The riot inside the district had been suppressed. The time for the Red Dragon, Cloud Tiger, and Black Tortoise to arrive at "e0 District" should not be far off... In this rare moment of silence, he closed his eyes and unfurled his fourth-tier domain.

Long strands of rain hung suspended above his head.

This second-in-command confidant under the Suzaku Divine Envoy channeled his mental power into his personal sealed item, a flat badge engraved with a sacred, blazing sun. The central symbol of this badge was a golden sun, surrounded by eight folded wings.

Eight wings, embracing the sun.

It looked like a token of an Apostle.

But in fact, this badge did not possess divinely bestowed power. It was just a "special object" used for long-distance mental connection.

Du Hu's spirit passed through the badge, crossed layers of mountains, left the Southern Caves, and arrived at the Western Caves.

The night in the Western Caves had no bells or drums, nor any riots.

Su Ye sat on a long chair, feigning sleep with his eyes closed. Thousands of strands of golden light flowed from his brow, converging into a round of golden sun, almost exactly the same as the engraved pattern on Du Hu's secretly kept "badge." That was the symbol of the Light City's top-level breathing technique, cultivated to perfection.

"Lord Su Ye, it is I, Shensu."

A hoarse voice came over.

Su Ye frowned, his eyelids twitching slightly.

"...We may be exposed."

Su Ye opened his eyes.

He looked at the dim night sky. Rain fell, and a drop landed on his face.

A trace of bewilderment flashed in the eyes of this Light-Blessed Child.

Su Ye sat up, his hands pressed on the armrests, and asked, word by word, "What did you say?"

Du Hu asked, puzzled and confused, "Was tonight's e0 District riot arranged by you?"

"..."

A silence of ten seconds stretched between the two.

"The Tower of Origin's Tianshui issued the latest 'Cloud Mirror Mission.' Judging from the previous guidance from the temple... this 'Cloud Mirror Mission' is likely to have locked onto the new master of the future Fire Seed of Wine." Du Hu lowered his voice and said, "I have been staying in the Suzaku mansion, and before I had time to pass the information on to you, news of the e0 District riot came."

Su Ye rubbed his brow and said coldly, "...Continue."

"He Chan, the garrison of e0 District, is dead. I don't know what means Suzaku used to find the clues, but in short, the Tower of Origin has now locked onto the perpetrator as coming from Light City."

Du Hu vaguely sensed that something was wrong. He looked at the evidence in his hand and said blankly, "Tonight's riot... was it not arranged by you?"

Of course, Light City couldn't have sent only two people on this southward journey!

During the long-term layout.

The temple had infiltrated its faith into all continents... The most difficult place to penetrate was the Central Continent. The Wine God Seat's "Wine Faith" shrouded the entire Central Continent, with priests everywhere. Transcendent individuals who wanted to obtain the priest's star robe were destined to come to the Tower of Origin in person. In this way, foreign continent faiths could hardly spread in this land.

However, there were always slip-ups. The temple's layout was no shorter than that of the Upper City. Long ago, the Holy Arbitrators had researched "ways to deal with" this. They spent a great deal of effort to "infect" some priests who had already obtained the star robes in some remote places.

This method had a very low return rate.

Because these priests who had obtained star robes could no longer step into the Upper City and enter the Tower of Origin... In other words, these people had basically given up the possibility of advancing within the Central Continent priestly system and had become marginalized figures within the Tower of Origin.

The information that the Holy Arbitrators could obtain from controlling these people was very limited.

But... it was better than nothing.

Du Hu was such a person. He was stationed in the small city of "Duoma" on the western side of the Central Continent. After willingly dedicating his life to the Light, he obtained the name of Holy Arbitrator bestowed upon him by the temple.

Shensu.

Afterwards, in the long years of more than a decade, Du Hu never went to the Upper City once. He gave up all his promotions and concentrated on listening to the guidance of the Gospel... Finally, the planting of Light City bore fruit. Due to the fierce infighting among the new generation of four Divine Envoys, even those high-level transcendents stationed in the eight directions of the Central Continent received attention.

Du Hu followed the orders of Light City and joined the ranks very early. He chose to follow the Suzaku Divine Envoy. As Suzaku gained power, he also rose in status in "Duoma," gradually gaining trust and being able to continuously extract core information from the Tower of Origin.

After years of cultivation, he finally ushered in this mission to go south to the Sangzhou Caves.

Suzaku... had brought him along.

After Du Hu finished asking.

The connection between the two fell silent again.

And this silence was equivalent to giving the answer.

Du Hu took the initiative to break the silence, saying, "Lord Su Ye, that's all the main information from the e0 District. I'll transmit the remaining information to you mentally. The Red Dragon and the others are almost here."

Having said that.

He ended this mental connection built by the badge.

"..."

Su Ye stood in the heavy rain. The round sun condensed between his brows had already dissipated in the rain. This Light-Blessed Child pressed his hands against the city wall, silently browsing the information that Shensu had transmitted to him, becoming more and more confused and puzzled as he thought about it.

He Chan was assassinated!

The attacker was stained with the aura of "Light"!

Therefore, Suzaku believed that Light City had an undercover agent...

In fact.

Light City did have one.

And it wasn't just "Shensu."

Moreover, Light City was indeed preparing to incite a riot in the Sangzhou Caves. They needed these transcendents to become Holy Arbitrators to fill the Lake of Incense in Sunset Mountain, but all of this hadn't started yet! At least... not tonight!

Once such a nonsensical, oolong incident was encountered, it was impossible to explain clearly... Su Ye had already anticipated what would happen next. After confirming Suzaku's clues, the Red Dragon would soon find him.

Inciting riots and snatching the Cloud Mirror Girl... These two things had already been placed on the head of the Western Continent.

Even if he denied it, it would be useless.

The Tower of Origin didn't need evidence to do things.

Or rather, they had already obtained enough "evidence"!

As long as the Red Dragon determined that he had done it...

Who killed He Chan was no longer important. This debt would only be counted on his head.

"...Bang!"

Su Ye stood silently on the high wall, becoming more and more annoyed the more he thought about it.

He heavily punched the top of the wall!

At the same time, lightning flashed.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—Behind him, a faint shadow could be vaguely seen. At the moment the lightning flashed, the shadow walked out in the heavy rain.

"I'm back. I heard everything just now."

"The e0 District incident was not my doing."

The shadow took the initiative to speak, "If I wanted to kill He Chan, I wouldn't have exposed the 'Light' aura..."

"...I know."

Su Ye laughed softly.

He didn't turn his head to look at the shadow, but looked into the distance, saying quietly, "The Tower of Origin also knows this."

"..."

The shadow fell silent.

"When everyone suspects you are the murderer, then you better really be. There's no way to explain this." Su Ye slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, "If the Tower of Origin is prepared to put this debt on my head, then let the plan start ahead of schedule... How is your preparation?"

"Sixty percent of the 'Gospel Incense' has been deployed in the twenty residential areas of the Western Caves."

The shadow said softly, "These past few days, I discovered... that there is also a hidden faith organization in the depths of the Sangzhou Caves."

"Oh?"

Su Ye raised an eyebrow.

"This organization is called 'The Neutrals'... They have existed for many years, are not large in scale, but have done many things, influenced many people, and have been fighting against the 'Storm Faith' in the era when the church was popular." The shadow said, "The plan to spread 'Gospel Incense' should have been very smooth, but the natives of the Sangzhou Caves are more resistant to our doctrines than expected... Therefore, I must use the 'Book of Blazing Sun' to complete the root planting of the Gospel seeds. The resistance to the spread of church faith comes from 'The Neutrals'."

"They hide very deeply, have cultivated for many years, and advise the natives of the Sangzhou Caves to unite together, resist the church, not to believe in external things, and to be their own masters. To erase these mental influences, the power of the Holy Book must be used."

There was a hint of teasing and regret in the shadow's tone, "During this period, I caught several members of the Neutrals organization. Their spiritual seas were all locked, unable to be stripped or deciphered. They were tortured several times, but still refused to say anything. In the end, they could only be killed."

"Several?"

"Three."

"Interesting..."

Su Ye narrowed his eyes. The previously broken clues were reconnected at this moment, "You said, could the riot in the e0 District tonight be the work of the 'Neutrals' organization?"

The shadow was stunned.

"If 'The Neutrals' is a vast force capable of influencing the entire Sangzhou Caves, there certainly wouldn't be only three members in the depths of the Southern Caves."

Su Ye said calmly, "I'll leave this matter to you. Continue to catch them, and if you catch any more, let me interrogate them. No matter what, I must find out the mastermind behind 'The Neutrals'."

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