Chapter 315: A Vanquished Foe, and You Dare to Clamor?

Chapter 315 -313: A Vanquished Foe, and You Dare to Clamor?

The land fragment where the Blood Shadow Nether Kill Sect was located wasn’t hard to find.

As long as you found the Blood Dragon Trees, you could quickly follow the trail to the location.

After stepping onto the land fragment, Wen Rou tsked. “This place is actually quite remote. In terms of direction within the Heaven-Reaching Tower, it’s not in the central region.

Besides, most of the halls on it are already destroyed. Even if someone came here, they probably wouldn’t pay it any mind.”

Just then, Chen Yuan’s brow furrowed slightly. He said suddenly, “Wait!”

Wen Rou was taken aback. “What’s wrong?”

“This place is indeed remote, but that doesn’t stop certain people from setting up an ambush for us here.”

Chen Yuan pointed to the footprints on the ground, a wry smile on his face. “Come on out. No need to keep hiding. You set an ambush in advance but didn’t even know to clean up the footprints?”

There was no movement from the ruins ahead. Wen Rou looked at the ground. There were indeed some footprints, but she hadn’t detected any presence.

Wen Rou, somewhat skeptical, formed a Seal Technique. A clear breeze rippled outward, but it detected no presence.

“Master Chen, are you being a bit paranoid?”

Wen Rou frowned. “My Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower’s Rain and Wind Chasing Spell excels at detection. These ruins don’t seem to have anything out of the ordinary.

As for these footprints, it’s possible they were left by the last batch of Martial Artists who entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower.”

Chen Yuan stared ahead and said flatly, “They couldn’t have been left by the last batch of Martial Artists. These footprints are pristine, without even a speck of dust on them.”

Your Secret Technique for concealing your presence is quite brilliant, but unfortunately, you’re a bit too sloppy with the details.”

With that, Chen Yuan drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and condensed the power of the Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow. He fired it explosively toward the stretch of ruins!

But just then, a strand of Cold Ice Sword Qi suddenly struck, blocking Chen Yuan’s Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow. The light of an Array distorted, and the figures of Shangguan Moyuan and his group appeared in the center of the ruins.

Chen Yuan sneered, “I was wondering who it could be. So it’s you bunch of losers!”

In truth, Chen Yuan hadn’t actually deduced the ambush from the footprints.

Even if the footprints weren’t left by the last batch of Martial Artists in the Heaven-Reaching Tower, it was possible that some other Martial Artists had come here before, but had been careless, failed to notice the space beneath the ruins, and simply left.

The reason Chen Yuan sensed something was wrong was because he currently had two Seven Kills Stele Fragments in his body, and there was another one in the ruins.

Therefore, the Seven Kills Stele Fragment in the ruins was stirred by the two fragments in his body, emitting an extremely faint wisp of Blood Fiend Qi that only he, the Commander-in-Chief who controlled the fragments, could perceive.

And as this wisp of Blood Fiend Qi passed through the ruins, it met some sort of obstruction, as if something above was blocking it.

In this situation, it was either a remnant Array or someone hiding there, their subconsciously emitted Protective True Qi blocking the Blood Fiend Qi from escaping.

So, Chen Yuan had actually fired the arrow just to test the waters.

If it was an Array, he could take the opportunity to test its power.

If there really were people in ambush, his arrow would be able to force them out. And as it turned out, there really was an ambush.

Wen Rou’s expression changed at once. She hastily said to Chen Yuan, “Master Chen! I’m not in league with them!”

She had just given the information to Chen Yuan, and now it turned out someone was already here, lying in wait.

If she were in Chen Yuan’s shoes, even she would have assumed that she had colluded with Shangguan Moyuan’s group to ambush and kill him.

“Of course I know it has nothing to do with you, Tower Master Wen. If you wanted to harm me, you could have arranged plenty of other opportunities. There’s no need to lie in wait here to ambush me.”

Chen Yuan shook his head, reassuring Wen Rou.

The two of them had cooperated several times from Lianshan City to the Heaven-Reaching Tower and had long since built a foundation of trust.

Moreover, their interests were intertwined; Wen Rou had no reason to betray him.

Hearing Chen Yuan say this, Wen Rou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked toward Shangguan Moyuan and the others and spotted Qu Yuanfeng standing behind him. Her expression froze.

“It’s ‘Thousand Miles Traceless’ Qu Yuanfeng!

The agent who gave me the news said he got the information about the Blood Dragon Tree from this very Qu Yuanfeng!

And this man is an expert in concealment and Lightweight Skill. No wonder my Rain and Wind Chasing Spell failed.

When we were discussing our search for the Blood Dragon Tree earlier, he was probably nearby, listening to our conversation!”

The moment Wen Rou saw Qu Yuanfeng, she had basically figured out what had happened.

She glared at Qu Yuanfeng and said coldly, “Qu Yuanfeng, this isn’t the first or second time you’ve worked with my Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower.

But this time, you actually used my Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower’s intelligence to plot against someone else. You’re really courting death!”

Never mind the good relationship between Wen Rou and Chen Yuan; even if a regular client had bought information from her, only for it to be a deliberate plant to trap them, it would have been a huge blow to the Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower’s reputation.

By doing this, Qu Yuanfeng had all but completely burned his bridges with the Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower.

“I wasn’t planning on working with your Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower anymore anyway. What are you going to do about it?”

Qu Yuanfeng sneered, “As an agent of the Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower, you’re hanging out with this kid. This is the first I’ve heard of an agent selling information and then tagging along to explore ruins with the client.

Could it be you’ve taken a fancy to this young prodigy? An old cow trying to eat tender grass? I wonder if he even has eyes for you!”

“You’re dead!”

A trace of Evil Qi showed in Wen Rou’s eyes.

‘What does he mean, an old cow eating tender grass? Am I old?’

Chen Yuan waved his hand, signaling for Wen Rou to ignore the man’s words.

“You lot never learn your lesson! It seems I went too easy on you back there!”

Chen Yuan stared at Shangguan Moyuan and Su Changhe and sneered, “Out there, five of you against one wasn’t enough to beat me. And now you dare to ambush me with a few small fry? Who gave you the nerve?”

Besides Qu Yuanfeng, Shangguan Moyuan had three other Condensing Truth Realm Martial Artists under him.

However, Chen Yuan didn’t give a second thought to these Martial Artists who could only cling to Shangguan Moyuan for support.

Su Changhe said coldly, “Chen Jiutian! Don’t be so arrogant!

Back outside, everyone was concerned with saving face. We only exchanged a single blow. It wasn’t a life-and-death battle, so how can you talk of victory and defeat?

Do you really think you fought one against five and that none of us were your match?”

Chen Yuan raised an eyebrow. “I could let it slide if someone else said that. But you, a guy who I beat until you were spitting blood in just a few moves even when you went all out, you dare to claim it wasn’t a life-and-death battle?”

Chen Yuan’s words caused anger to surge in Su Changhe. Just as he was about to say something more, Shangguan Moyuan said in a low voice, “Brother Su, don’t waste your breath on him. The longer we wait, the more can go wrong. Since we’ve been discovered, let’s just attack!”

Shangguan Moyuan felt a slight disdain for Su Changhe.

‘This most outstanding disciple of the Blazing Sect’s younger generation had a rather poor mental fortitude. He’d probably had it too easy for too long and never experienced any real setbacks.

After all, this generation of the Nine Martial Sects didn’t have many exceptional figures, so Su Changhe was already considered the best of them, which led to his arrogance.

It was different for the Eight Great Noble Families. From the moment he was born, Shangguan Moyuan knew that no matter how talented or powerful he was, the cream of the crop in every generation of the Noble Families were almost always the prodigies from the Ji Family of Celestial Bright City.

Their heritage was plain to see; it wasn’t something one could catch up to with effort alone.’

“Tower Master Wen, this has nothing to do with you. You should leave first.”

Seeing Shangguan Moyuan and Su Changhe leading their men in an attack, Chen Yuan said to Wen Rou beside him.

‘Wen Rou’s status with the Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower brought him great convenience. If anything happened to her, Chen Yuan would lose a significant source of intelligence.

If Gu Lichuan and the others were here today, Chen Yuan would have asked them to join forces against the enemy without a second thought.

But Wen Rou… her value wasn’t in her Martial Power, but in her intelligence resources.’

Wen Rou pouted. “Master Chen, you’re underestimating me. My Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower is still a Major Sect on the Jianghu Wind and Cloud Rankings. Do you think we’re all useless apart from our information-gathering skills?

Even if the others are a bit useless, I, Wen Rou, am not!

I fought my way up from the very lowest rank of agents. Dealing with Shangguan Moyuan and Su Changhe would naturally be a stretch, but I can handle some of this riff-raff.

Especially that bastard Qu Yuanfeng. I’m going to kill him with my own two hands!”

Wen Rou’s gaze toward Qu Yuanfeng was filled with an icy killing intent. It was obvious that Qu Yuanfeng’s “old cow eating tender grass” comment had gotten under her skin.

As her voice fell, the power around Wen Rou surged, fully revealing the aura of the Peak of Condensing Truth Realm.

A slender, scarlet Blood Sword materialized in her hand, and she lunged at Qu Yuanfeng and the other three Martial Artists, cloaked in a crimson killing intent.

Chen Yuan was genuinely surprised. ‘He hadn’t expected Wen Rou to be this strong.’

‘Thinking back, in all the time he had known her, he had never once seen Wen Rou fight.

He had subconsciously assumed that the agents of the Celestial Wind Listening Rain Tower wouldn’t have much combat strength and that Wen Rou would be the same. Now it seemed he had been taking things for granted.’

At the same time, Shangguan Moyuan and Su Changhe attacked Chen Yuan from the left and right.

Although the two of them had decided to use their Divine Artifact Incarnations, it was the kind of thing you wouldn’t use unless you had to. And if you did use it, it had to be for a one-hit kill.

At that moment, countless strands of Golden Feather Sword Qi coalesced around Su Changhe. As he thrust with the golden long sword in his hand, they surged mightily toward Chen Yuan.

Su Changhe held nothing back in this attack, pushing his True Qi Power to its absolute limit to serve as the main frontal assault.

Shangguan Moyuan’s figure transformed into a ghostly blue phantom. With a whistling sonic boom, he instantly reappeared behind Chen Yuan.

In the next moment, Cold Ice True Qi erupted wildly from Shangguan Moyuan’s body, forming one Cold Ice Long Sword after another.

As Shangguan Moyuan formed a Seal Technique, the countless Cold Ice Long Swords gathered and merged into one, becoming a colossal Cold Ice Long Sword dozens of yards long that slashed down at Chen Yuan, carrying with it a monstrous Cold Ice Sword Qi!

Beichen Evil-slaying Sword!