Chapter 514: Mysterious Killing Intent

Seeing Wu Zhan’s expression, Chen Jin immediately understood that Wu Zhan must have grown suspicious. His brow furrowed. ’This is trouble.’

He was just about to explain further.

"Don’t bother." But Lv Feng suddenly spoke with cold indifference. His figure flickered, and his right hand shot out to grab Wu Zhan.

Wu Zhan was startled and tried to resist, but before Lv Feng, he—a disciple who ranked among the top of all the examinees—was like an infant. In an instant, Lv Feng had him in his grasp.

Immediately after, a terrifying Profound Power seeped into his body, sealing all of his Profound Veins and Profound Power.

"I’ll ask you, who exactly was fighting here just now?"

Lv Feng’s cold voice echoed through the mountain forest.

"What... what exactly are you trying to do?"

Wu Zhan said, shocked and furious.

"Hmph?"

Lv Feng glared, and a tyrannical force surged into Wu Zhan’s body, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

"I’ll talk! I’ll talk..."

Wu Zhan said in a panic. The feeling Lv Feng gave him was too terrifying. Although Lv Feng’s gaze wasn’t particularly sharp, it felt like he was staring at a demon, and a fear welled up from the depths of his soul.

Right away, Wu Zhan recounted everything that had happened there, holding nothing back.

"Oh?" Hearing Wu Zhan’s story, Lv Feng seemed lost in thought.

"Senior, I’ve told you everything you wanted to know. All my Crystal Stones were taken by Xuan Ye. You can let me go now, right?"

Wu Zhan said, trembling with fear.

"Let you go?" Lv Feng suddenly gave a strange smile. A horrifying burst of Profound Power erupted from the right hand gripping Wu Zhan.

PSHH!

Wu Zhan’s eyes shot wide open. Veins bulged all over his body, and his eyes filled with terror. Like a chicken with its neck wrung, blood streamed from all seven of his orifices.

"You... you actually..."

He struggled to force out the words, his gaze gradually dimming, until finally, all signs of life vanished.

THUD. Lv Feng threw Wu Zhan’s bruised, purple corpse to the ground. His face was twisted in a mask of horror. Inside his body, both his heart and Profound Veins were completely shattered.

"Senior Lv Feng, you actually killed him." Chen Jin’s eyes widened in astonishment, his face a picture of horror. "If the instructors from Gale Light Academy find out, we’re both finished."

"If you don’t say anything, and I don’t say anything, how will the Gale Light Academy instructors possibly know?" Lv Feng sneered. He then took Wu Zhan’s Storage Ring and said indifferently to Chen Jin, "You can deal with Wu Zhan’s body."

Chen Jin cursed inwardly. ’You get all the rewards, but I have to do the dirty work.’ He didn’t dare say it out loud, however, and could only nod repeatedly.

This was the Endless Mountain Range. Disposing of a body wasn’t a difficult task.

Any random Demon Beast could ensure that not even Wu Zhan’s bones would remain.

"Senior Lv Feng, did you forget to ask Wu Zhan which direction that Xuan Ye went?"

Lv Feng smiled faintly. "Why would I need to ask him?"

He walked a circle around the area, then suddenly took out a strange piece of jade. He placed the jade next to the lingering Sword Intent that Ye Xuan had previously unleashed.

Tainted by Ye Xuan’s Sword Intent and aura, Lv Feng’s originally pure white jade instantly turned blood-red and began to emit a faint fluorescent glow.

’That direction, is it?’ After carefully observing the intensity and flickering frequency of the glow, Lv Feng gave Chen Jin an order and immediately shot off in pursuit toward a certain area.

’The Sect Master even gave Senior Lv Feng the Qi Blood Stone. It seems the Sect Master and the others are dead set on killing that Xuan Ye this time.’

Chen Jin glanced enviously in the direction Lv Feng had gone before hastily picking up Wu Zhan’s corpse.

’I have to get rid of Wu Zhan’s body quickly. If the Gale Light Academy instructors find it, I’m done for.’

Muttering to himself, he soon disappeared into the mountain forest.

In the mountain forest, Ye Xuan was speeding along.

After getting Wu Zhan’s two Crystal Stones, he now had a total of eight. He was just two short of the ten needed to exchange for a Tier Seven Spirit Medicine.

Following the Little Purple Mink’s directions, Ye Xuan moved forward at high speed.

Suddenly, a nauseating feeling rose in his heart, making him extremely uncomfortable.

The feeling was faint and intermittent, as if he were being watched by something, giving him an inexplicable sense of crisis.

Ye Xuan stopped in his tracks, his brow deeply furrowed.

An ordinary Martial Artist in this situation might assume it was just nerves from being in the mountain forest.

But Ye Xuan was different. He knew very well that this was his intuition warning him of danger.

’Whether it’s the Cultivation Technique I practice or my martial soul, both are extraordinary. My intuition is rarely wrong.’

Some powerful experts had this kind of intuition. In his past life, some experts with unique martial souls could even sense danger before it arrived and thus avoid it.

As the nauseating feeling intensified, Ye Xuan immediately halted and tried to discern its source carefully.

After some perception, he quickly figured out where the sickening sensation was coming from.

’This feeling... it’s just like when I was afflicted with the Nether Heart Seed. It’s as if someone is watching me from the shadows.’

Having identified the nature of the feeling, Ye Xuan quickly came to a conclusion.

’It seems someone is using a unique method to lock onto my position, causing my intuition to instinctively sense danger.’

But this time, there were no marks on him, which meant the other party must be using some kind of special method to track him.

There were many Tracking Techniques in this world. Some, like clairvoyance and clairaudience techniques, could lock onto a target from thousands of miles away, making them impossible to evade.

’The only ones who hate me to the bone are the Profound Mystery Sect. Could it be Crazy Battle and his men? Did they use some special method to get to this mountain range?’

This thought first occurred to Ye Xuan, but he quickly dismissed it.

’If it really were Crazy Battle and the others tracking me all this way, I wouldn’t only be sensing the danger now.’

Besides, he had a great deal of faith in Gale Light Academy’s security.

’If it’s not Crazy Battle and his group, could it be one of the students?’

Ye Xuan thought of another possibility.

And the more he considered it, the more certain he became.

’Gale Light Academy is the number one academy in the Dream Realm Plain. It’s filled with geniuses from all the major powers. The possibility that the Profound Mystery Sect has a prodigy hiding within Gale Light Academy is actually very high.’

’It’s inconvenient for the Profound Mystery Sect to move against me directly, so it’s entirely possible they’re using one of their geniuses at Gale Light Academy to eliminate me.’

The more Ye Xuan thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

’Among this batch of new students, I haven’t seen anyone suspicious. Even if there was someone from the Profound Mystery Sect among them, none are capable of threatening me.’

What kind of perception did Ye Xuan have? He could see clearly whether any new students were hiding their strength. Even if the Gale Light Academy instructors couldn’t tell, no one could hide it from his Divine Spirit Gaze.

’In that case, the other party is most likely one of the ten senior students.’

Ye Xuan pieced together the clues, gradually closing in on the truth.

His expression grew slightly solemn.

Having dealt with the Profound Mystery Sect for so long, he knew better than anyone how ruthless and unscrupulous they were.

In their previous clashes, he had already revealed the Aethereal Plume. And Crazy Battle was fully aware that Qin Feng, the Patriarch of the Qin family, had died while hunting him.

’Putting myself in their shoes, if they’re making a move this time, it will be a decisive, lightning-fast strike. They won’t allow for any mistakes.’

At this thought, Ye Xuan could no longer remain calm.

He was confident, but not arrogant.

’Right now, the enemy is in the dark while I’m in the open. If I keep searching for Crystal Stones, it’ll be easy for them to find an opportunity and lure me into a trap. Rather than let that happen, I might as well lie in wait.’

With this in mind, Ye Xuan immediately found a secluded spot and began to make arrangements in secret.

One by one, he set up array flags, quickly placing them in various corners.

To defend against the Profound Mystery Sect’s pursuits, Ye Xuan had never let his guard down. He had used his free time to create many array flags, storing them in his Storage Ring for emergencies.

In just a short time, several level-six grand arrays had silently taken shape under his hand.

And just then, the intense killing intent and sense of crisis grew even clearer in his mind.

Ye Xuan knew his pursuer was very close.

He sat cross-legged on a rock, quietly gazing into the distance.

He was also very curious who was so interested in him that they would track him all this way.

Sure enough, he didn’t have to wait long before a domineering figure appeared in his line of sight.

It was a young man in blue robes. He was quite handsome, with a sunny disposition.

His fair face was so gentle that a single glance could give one a faint feeling of warmth.

If not for the inexplicable killing intent that surrounded him, Ye Xuan would never have believed that such a cheerful young man was the one who had been tracking him.

The moment Ye Xuan saw him, Lv Feng also saw Ye Xuan.

SWOOSH!

Their gazes collided in mid-air, sparking an inexplicable flash of light. A dense aura erupted between the two.

"You’re Xuan Ye?" A look of surprise and suspicion appeared on Lv Feng’s face, and he frowned. "You’re actually waiting for me here?"

Lv Feng had imagined many ways he might meet Ye Xuan, but he had never expected it to be like this.

And from Ye Xuan’s sharp gaze, he could feel that although the young man before him was only at the Tier Five Third Layer, his presence was extraordinary.

"Was it you, who’s been tracking me all this time?"

Ye Xuan stood up and said indifferently.

This young man was in his twenties and someone Ye Xuan had never seen before. He was undoubtedly a senior student from the inner courtyard.

"You could actually detect my tracking?"

Now, Lv Feng was even more astonished.

His Qi Blood Stone could track a person’s location based on a trace of their qi, blood, and aura. In essence, it was attempting to track the person’s physical body, so in theory, it was indeed possible for it to be detected.