Chapter 2559 - 2249: I Must Go Personally

Under the boundless, endless night, streaks of firelight scattered across sheer cliffs and precipices.

The Sky Wolf Palace sat amidst towering mountains and steep ridges.

Outside one great hall, two statues of giant wolves rose high, their stone heads lifted to the sky as if howling at the moon.

Inside the Palace Master Hall of the Sky Wolf Palace, two rows of candle flames lit up the entire hall.

On the throne at the very top of the hall, a burly man dressed in beast hide had one arm wrapped around a stunning beauty.

Just then, a man in grey clothes entered the hall and knelt on the ground, saying:

"Palace Master, the Saintess is still in the Border Wilderness."

After hearing the grey‑clothed man’s words, Huyan Lie flew into a rage. A terrifying aura burst out from him, directly blasting the two women beside him away.

The two maids scrambled up from the floor, then knelt and prostrated themselves, trembling violently.

Huyan Lie snorted coldly and said:

"All the forces of Central State have already returned. Why has she not come back? What is she staying in the Border Wilderness for?"

Yelv Nanyan was extremely important to him. If he wanted to break through to the peak of the Saint Realm, he needed a top‑grade Furnace Cauldron—and Yelv Nanyan was the most suitable Furnace Cauldron for him.

There was a special power within Yelv Nanyan’s body, and that power could stir up the vitality within him.

Last time he had gone into seclusion too hastily, to the point he forgot to instruct others not to let Yelv Nanyan leave the Sky Wolf Palace. As a result, Yelv Nanyan seized the chance to get out of the Sky Wolf Palace.

When he woke up last time, he heard that the Border Wilderness restriction had already opened up some cracks, and stronger Spirit Martial Artists could be sent to the Border Wilderness.

So he had Qiu Baichuan take Yelv Nanyan’s exclusive Spiritual Treasure, the Primordial Pearl, and head for the Border Wilderness, wanting Yelv Nanyan to have a sliver of ability to protect herself.

Afterward, in order to stabilize his Realm, he went back into seclusion again.

He had originally thought that once his seclusion ended, Yelv Nanyan would just about have returned, yet up to now she still had not come back.

After Huyan Lie calmed his emotions a little, he continued asking:

"Have you found out why she is remaining in the Border Wilderness?"

The grey‑clothed man prostrating on the floor spoke in a quivering voice:

"According to information provided by the Disciples who escaped back, it is said the Saintess was forced to marry a Border Desolate Native."

The Disciples the Sky Wolf Palace sent to the Border Wilderness had not all been killed by Lu Chen.

For Yelv Nanyan’s sake, Lu Chen spared a portion of them.

Some of the Disciples of the Sky Wolf Palace defected to Dazhou, while some pretended to surrender, and when Lu Chen was not paying attention, escaped from the Border Wilderness, bringing back news of Yelv Nanyan.

After hearing the grey‑clothed man’s words, Huyan Lie flew into a rage once more, and the terrifying aura on his body surged again.

The throne behind him was instantly shaken to pieces, and the two maids prostrating on the floor fainted dead away.

It was bad enough that Yelv Nanyan had run off to the Border Wilderness, she had even ended up with a Border Desolate Native.

This top‑grade Furnace Cauldron had been defiled just like that.

However, even if Yelv Nanyan had married someone, that special power within her body should still remain.

As long as that special power in her body had not been noticed, Yelv Nanyan could still serve as his Furnace Cauldron.

At this moment, the grey‑clothed man kneeling in the hall carefully asked:

"Palace Master, what should we do next?"

Huyan Lie shouted:

"Immediately send people to the Border Wilderness. Bring Yelv Nanyan back to me, and as for that native—have him cut to pieces by a thousand blades."

Hearing this, the grey‑clothed man quickly said:

"Palace Master, the Eternal Night has not yet passed. If we send people to the Border Wilderness now, the ones we send may very well not reach there."

"Moreover, we have learned that a terrifying Mysterious being in the Saint Realm has appeared in the Border Wilderness."

Hearing this, Huyan Lie cooled down.

Indeed, even if a Saint Realm Spirit Martial Artist were sent to the Border Wilderness right now, once they encountered the Deceit Tide, there was a chance they would not be able to escape alive.

Although Yelv Nanyan was very important to him, he still could not send a Saint Realm off to the Border Wilderness to die.

If he wanted to seize Yelv Nanyan and bring her back, he would still have to wait until the Eternal Night ended.

After that Huyan Lie said to the grey‑clothed man:

"Enough, you may leave."

The grey‑clothed man said respectfully:

"Yes, Palace Master."

Then the grey‑clothed man left the hall.

The great hall doors closed, leaving only Huyan Lie and the two unconscious maids in the entire hall.

Huyan Lie walked to the center of the hall, took a deep breath, and lowered his head to look at his palm. In his palm, some black fine lines had appeared. Within those lines was mixed a manic power, a power that was devouring his vitality, yet at the same time was activating the vitality within him.

This power originated from Yelv Nanyan.

Back when he discovered Yelv Nanyan’s special power, he had Yelv Nanyan bleed, then extracted this mysterious power from her blood.

It was precisely because he had fused the power in Yelv Nanyan’s blood that he could break through to the Late-period Saint Realm so quickly.

Originally, he had planned that once his seclusion ended, he would turn Yelv Nanyan into a Furnace Cauldron and completely absorb and refine that mysterious power inside her body.

He had not expected that this single bout of seclusion would end with Yelv Nanyan running off.

Huyan Lie could not help but harbor some suspicion—could it be that Yelv Nanyan had discovered his scheme, and so took the initiative to leave Central State?

But even if she had fled to the Border Wilderness, so what?

Now that the Border Wilderness restriction had already vanished, people of Central State could go to the Border Wilderness at any time.

Once the Eternal Night ended, the Sky Wolf Palace could send people to the Border Wilderness to seize her and bring her back. Everything she had done would be in vain.

Perhaps Yelv Nanyan was not actually running away; she might really just have gone for the Ancient Inheritance spoken of by the Tianji Pavilion.

But no matter what the reason, the moment Huyan Lie thought of how Yelv Nanyan had already become another man’s woman, he felt extremely displeased.

Yelv Nanyan was his Cultivation tool, yet another man had used her first. This was something he could not tolerate.

Thinking of this, Huyan Lie’s hand could not help clenching into a fist.

A moment later, Huyan Lie took another deep breath.

Forget it—as long as she is still alive, that will do.

In any case, he only treated Yelv Nanyan as a disposable Cultivation tool. Once he seized the power inside Yelv Nanyan’s body, Yelv Nanyan would likely become a dried corpse. Whether she was still a pure maiden or not was no longer that important.

At this time, Huyan Lie suddenly felt a sharp pain all over his body. He hurriedly circulated the spiritual evil within him, forcing himself to endure this stabbing pain.

Once this bout of pain passed, he discovered that the aura within his body had grown stronger again, his strength once more increased.

Huyan Lie clenched his fist and said:

"This power is indeed strange. When the Eternal Night ends, I must personally make a trip."

Time passed day by day. This Eternal Night lasted an extremely long time; in the blink of an eye, a full year had gone by.

An Eternal Night of a full year’s duration made it impossible for the crops of this world to grow.

Even if ordinary commoners were not swallowed by the Deceit Tide, they might very well starve to death.

But Dazhou did not lack grain in the slightest.

Lu Chen controlled two Small Worlds. Whether it was the Small World that had sealed Ji Yunmeng’s Memory Pearl, or the Small World that had sealed Yun Yudie’s Memory Pearl, both could be used to grow crops, and the crops could survive.

These two Small Worlds provided ample grain for Dazhou, allowing the entire Border Wilderness, even under the Eternal Night, to present a thriving, prosperous scene.