504: Chapter 68 Cause and Effect 504: Chapter 68 Cause and Effect “Hurry up!”
“Even faster!”
The Qu River surged tumultuously as several wooden boats, propelled by the Primordial Stone Array Pattern, rapidly pushed forward.
Finally, from beyond a hundred zhang, the huge silhouette of the Purple Green Treasure Ship emerged from the dense fog.
Que Qi squinted his eyes, fixating on the Treasure Ship as he instructed word by word: “The Special Enforcement Officer will be arriving soon…
we must clean everything up before the Lord arrives.”
The spies accompanying the Special Enforcement Officer all had serious expressions, wiping their blades, preparing to engage in battle.
They had scrutinized the intelligence about the Fan Yin Temple delegation over and over.
Miao Zhen, Jun Mountain, Xie Zhen.
These three strongest combat forces were currently absent.
The Cultivators at the Cave Heaven Realm on this Treasure Ship numbered only two or three, and the Special Enforcement Officer alone could hold them off.
Their mission was to kill the rest of the delegation.
This massacre would ultimately be pinned on the Southern Border Evil Cultivators.
“Rumble…”
The river roared as the wooden boats approached the Purple Green Treasure Ship.
Merely thirty to forty zhang apart, Que Qi abruptly stood up, drew his sword skyward, and loudly commanded: “Kill!”
Clang, clang, clang!
The grappling hook crossbow bolts shot out, piercing through the fog and embedding into the hull of the ship.
The ropes tensed.
The spies of the Imperial City Department leapt up, using the tension to fly onto the ship.
At the stern of the Purple Green Treasure Ship.
Deng Baiyi was pushing a wheelchair while Mi Yun calmly watched this scene unfold, with a prepared formation of Fan Yin Temple monks standing behind them.
“Indeed, they’ve come.”
Mi Yun sighed lightly: “Yuan Jimo intends to bury the entire delegation in the Qu River…”
Buzz!
The grand array of the Purple Green Treasure Ship erupted with a vibrating sound.
The first spy who boarded the Treasure Ship took out a talisman from his chest and threw it out.
This was an “Explosive Flame Talisman” made by the Refining Department, not of high grade, but with extreme lethality against waterborne vessels like the Purple Green Treasure Ship.
Amid the violent explosion, the Treasure Ship’s grand array was torn open—
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Countless crossbow bolts, along with iron chains, rained down, striking all over the ship.
The spies of the Imperial City Department began boarding.
“Everyone, prepare for the enemy.”
With an indifferent expression, Deng Baiyi turned the wheelchair, taking out a talisman from his sleeve, while he and Mi Yun quietly retreated backward.
The monks of the Fan Yin Temple no longer displayed any trace of compassion on their faces, each holding spears and staves, forming a battle array, ready to clash with these spies.
“Squeak—”
Just then, a piercing noise sounded.
The door that hadn’t been opened since Xie Zhen’s departure, opened once again.
Qian San, dressed in green robes, stepped out from inside.
Looking at the ropes and crossbow bolts covering the sky, as well as the black-clad spies stepping onto the ship, his expression was very grim.
…
…
Xie Xuanyi left the river’s center, not looking at the burning Jade Talisman gate.
He controlled Sword Qi, returning to the Purple Green Treasure Ship at the fastest speed, and as expected…
when he arrived, everything was over.
From a hundred zhang away, he could see the empty Imperial City Department’s Primordial Stone wooden boats, bobbing along with the river winds.
Directly after.
He saw the iron chain ropes hanging around the ship.
There was the scent of a raging fire on the ship.
And black smoke was rising…
The monks of the Fan Yin Temple were crowded together on the ship, clearing a large open space.
Amidst the flickering flames, Qian San was sitting alone before this blaze.
The monks looked at him with a mix of odd expressions.
A mix of reverence and fear.
No one knew what was being burned inside this blaze that emitted ash after ash.
Xie Xuanyi landed on the Purple Green Treasure Ship, his expression complex as he looked at this immense blaze…
If he wasn’t mistaken, this was the dharma of the Yin God Realm that Qian San had conjured.
All of Yuan Jimo’s spies died in this blaze, deader than dead.
Que Qi was at Perfect Cave Heaven.
These spies were also formidable in their own right.
If not for Qian San, the outcome of this ambush was uncertain.
Even if he had returned to the Treasure Ship now, it was likely that the victor could not yet be determined.
It was just a pity…
Qian San was a powerful figure at Yin God Late Stage.
Before the crushing power of absolute strength, the plan of the Imperial City Department to ambush was but a joke.
“Benefactor!
You’re back?!”
Mi Yun saw the familiar figure in black, a mix of shock and joy, hurriedly speaking.
Xie Zhen was much quicker than he had imagined.
“…Yes.”
Xie Xuanyi nodded slightly, slowly approaching the immense blaze: “Have they all been killed?”
“Of course.”
Qian San replied subconsciously, frowning as he said, “Wait a minute…
how did you come back so fast?
Did you encounter Yuan Jimo?”
How could this kid be faster than Jun Mountain and Miao Zhen?
What was going on?
“Yuan Jimo?”
Xie Xuanyi, hands behind his back, shook his head meaningfully: “Shopkeeper Qian, what are you talking about?
Why would we encounter Yuan Jimo while sailing on the Qu River?”
“…”
Qian San was momentarily stunned.
Sitting in the wheelchair, Mi Yun, and Deng Baiyi, also froze for a moment.
The next second.
Boom—a thunderous sound echoed from several li away, carrying over!
Everyone instinctively looked in the upstream direction of the Qu River.
The thick River Fog enveloping the Qu River was swept away in a flash!
A tremendously powerful Divine Thought spread out and swept over!
The next second.
As the Divine Thought settled, it locked onto the Purple Green Treasure Ship, and the river waves solidified.
A tall figure in a black robe, with the settling of the Divine Thought, materialized, taking only few breathes to travel from the Jade Talisman gate to the location of the Purple Green Treasure Ship…
Xie Xuanyi looked up.
Qian San also looked up.
There was now an additional figure atop the mast.
This was not the first time Xie Xuanyi had encountered him…
“Lord Relegated Immortal.”
Xie Xuanyi raised his head, smiling as he spoke: “We meet again.
What wind does the Qu River blow today that brings you here?”