Chapter 786: Who Has the Most Annoying Technique

Stephanie, clad in a bikini, was lounging carefree on a deck chair by the pool while a handsome, fair-skinned young man massaged her.

I bet Ye Xiu has already left Biluo Island in a rage. It’s a pity he doesn’t know he can’t enter King Island, nor does he know where the three Great Judicator Families are. He can only go to the islands inhabited by the third-rank population, Stephanie thought with an air of profound wisdom.

"There are three islands inhabited by the third-rank population. Which one will Ye Xiu go to?" the young man asked.

"I don’t know!" Stephanie shrugged. "Send word to the Island Masters of the three islands. Tell them to report immediately if they spot any strangers."

The words had barely left her lips when she suddenly sensed something and whipped her head to the right. In the next instant, a Thousand Paper Cranes flew toward her at lightning speed. It was so fast that the naked eye could hardly track its trajectory.

"Oh? Ye Xiu actually sent me a reply."

Stephanie caught the paper crane and cheerfully unfolded it. However, the moment she saw the content of Ye Xiu’s reply, her smiling face froze as if struck by lightning.

The message read:

"A pound of Golden Blood a day keeps the aches and pains away. My back doesn’t hurt, my legs aren’t sore, and I can carry a two-hundred-pound sack up five floors without even flushing or losing my breath. Infuriating, isn’t it?"

This short sentence was ten, a hundred, even a thousand times more devastating than the thousand-word letter Stephanie had written to Ye Xiu.

The message struck Stephanie like a bolt from the blue. Her head buzzed, her mind went blank from a lack of oxygen, and her body swayed for a moment before she collapsed onto the lounge chair.

Then she shot back up, roaring with fury and madness, "Ye Xiu, I’m going to kill you! Kill you!"

Seeing Stephanie fly into such a rage, the young man’s ’delicate frame’ trembled with fright. He cautiously picked up the letter that had fallen from her hand. After reading it, he tried to comfort her with a laugh.

"My dear, don’t be angry. Ye Xiu is just trying to provoke you. Even if he enjoys living like a savage, the Princess can’t possibly have enough blood to give him a pound every day."

"You know nothing!"

Stephanie shattered the young man’s head with a single palm strike and roared, "Kristina possesses the Life Totem! Her self-healing ability is incredibly strong; she can absolutely supply Ye Xiu with a pound of blood every day!"

The thought of her daughter supplying Ye Xiu with a pound of Golden Blood every day, like some milkman on his morning route, drove Stephanie to furiously attack everything in sight. She laid waste to the backyard, leaving it in utter chaos.

After venting for a while, she noticed the butler had appeared nearby at some point and asked, "What is it?"

Her voice was low, her expression savage.

The butler hesitated. Although she didn’t know what had happened, she could see Stephanie’s current state and knew she couldn’t handle any more shocks.

"Speak. Nothing else could possibly worsen my mood right now," Stephanie said grimly. She meant that no news could possibly be more serious than her daughter being drained of a pound of blood every day.

The butler hesitated for another moment before finally reporting, "Aside from Drunken Fairy Island and Dream Island, formations have been placed around all the islands inhabited by the lower-ranked populace. People can’t get out, and no one can get in."

The islands she spoke of did not include Biluo Island or Seven-Star Island, as those two no longer housed anyone from the three Great Judicator Families or the Eternal Kingdom.

"What?" Stephanie was so shocked, she went cold all over. "Doesn’t that mean our food supply has been cut off?"

"It’s not just the food," the butler said faintly.

Stephanie’s expression grew even grimmer. This matter was far more dire than her daughter being bled for a pound of blood every day.

"Notify all core members of the three Great Judicator Families and convene an emergency meeting immediately!"

After a long silence, Stephanie added in a low voice, "Additionally, inform the Silver Cloth Assassins raiding Biluo Island. They are to exterminate everyone on the island and bring Ye Xiu and Kristina back unharmed."

The butler nodded. "As you command!"

...

That evening, Ye Xiu paced back and forth in the yard, his anxiety written all over his face. Qin Qing, Leng Yue, Chloe, Mo Luo, and Jiaojiao stood by silently.

Leng Yue, Chloe, and Mo Luo all looked terribly grim. They had followed Ye Xiu for ten years and had never seen him so agitated.

"We still haven’t figured out how the three Great Judicator Families managed to transport their armies to Drunken Fairy Island and Phoenix Perch Island so silently. Everyone, prepare for disaster. I feel the crisis is imminent," Ye Xiu said gravely.

At his level of power, his sixth sense was often prophetic. He had a feeling that an army of Mutated Beasts would soon appear on Biluo Island.

Just then, Ye Xiu’s phone rang. It was Ghost Shadow.

"Young Master, according to our intelligence operatives, a large number of Mutated Beasts have appeared on Biluo Island in the southern mountains, the eastern forests, and the western farmlands. A large group of martial artists in silver clothes has appeared with them. Furthermore, the number of Mutated Beasts and silver-clothed martial artists is increasing rapidly."

Ye Xiu listened with a stoic expression before hanging up. He turned to Qin Qing and the others. "You heard him. Immediately notify all ordinary people and all First, Second, and Third-Grade Martial Artists on the island to take refuge in the underground air-raid shelters. All other martial artists are to engage the enemy. Remember to warn everyone that those silver-clothed warriors are likely Silver Cloth Assassins, who are capable of self-destruction."

Without a word, Qin Qing, Chloe, Leng Yue, and Mo Luo departed at once.

Just as Ye Xiu was about to take Jiaojiao to join the battle, his phone rang again. It was an unnamed number, but Ye Xiu recognized it. It was Wu Yiping’s!

Ye Xiu answered, and Lin Feng’s voice came from the phone. "Ye Xiu, I’m leading an army of several hundred thousand, and we’re about to arrive at Seven-Star Island. See? I didn’t lie to you. I said I’d cooperate, and here I am."

Hearing Lin Feng’s voice was like a divine melody to Ye Xiu’s ears.

He quickly said, "Forget the pleasantries, there’s something I need to ask you..."

Ye Xiu rapidly explained the sudden appearance of the army from the lower-class islands and the fourth-rank martial artists on Drunken Fairy Island and Phoenix Perch Island.

Lin Feng replied, "I know how they did it."

Ye Xiu’s eyes lit up. "Spit it out!"

Lin Feng explained, "Back when the Temple exiled the three Great Judicator Families to the Eternal Islands, it used a Supreme Mystical Power to build numerous undersea passages connecting every island."

"For example, Biluo Island has undersea passages leading to Seven-Star Island to the north, Drunken Fairy Island to the northwest, and Phoenix Perch Island to the northeast..."

Ye Xiu had no time to listen to Lin Feng finish and cut him off. "Tell me the location of the undersea passage entrance on Biluo Island."

Lin Feng replied, "I have a map of Biluo Island. I’ll mark the entrance and exit locations and send it to you. But they are all concealed by formations, so it won’t do you any good even if you know where they are."

"Cut the crap and hurry up!" Ye Xiu urged.

"Alright!" Lin Feng said.

Ye Xiu hung up, his heart pounding with adrenaline and urgency.

Just five minutes later, Lin Feng sent the map. After seeing the marked location, Ye Xiu scooped up Jiaojiao and sprinted at full speed toward the entrance to the undersea passage in Biluo Island’s southern mountains. This was the entrance closest to the Abandoned City.