Chapter 2687 - 2686: Rescue by Fellow Clansmen

"Stop, stop, stop! These devil beasts weren’t killed by us. When we got here, the ground was already covered with corpses!" Ling Feng immediately said, hoping to salvage something.

But how could the Devil Clan brute listen to Ling Feng’s explanation? He pointed at the corpses and asked, "Then what are these? Are you saying the members of the Devil Clan committed suicide?!"

"This... if you insist on saying that, it doesn’t matter to me..." Ling Feng scratched his ear.

The brute saw Chao Yue nearby with a frown and shouted angrily, "Chao Yue! Are you involved in this too?"

Ling Feng glanced at Chao Yue. How did this devil beast know the old Taoist’s name? Could they know each other?

Sure enough, Chao Yue’s brow loosened in the next moment, and he even called out the devil beast’s name, "Feifa! Your followers weren’t killed by us. Indeed, when we reached the mountain, the ground was littered with corpses."

"I was wondering why such a thing would happen and was just about to go to the mountain’s peak to find you."

Feifa waved his hand, glared, and said, "You say my followers weren’t killed by you? Then tell me, what was your real purpose for coming up the mountain this time? Was it not to slaughter our Devil Clan?"

"Are you humans trying to provoke war again?!" Feifa stepped forward, roaring in anger. The overwhelming Devilish Qi even made Chao Yun in front shake uncontrollably.

Chao Yue shook his head, "We humans have no intention of starting a conflict, but your followers violated the agreement by coming down the mountain to slaughter villagers. My ascent this time was naturally to teach your Devil Clan a lesson."

"However, we didn’t kill these devil beasts. We’ve been framed. Someone got here before us, killed the devil beasts, and then blamed us..."

Feifa clenched his fist, suddenly interrupting Chao Yue, and then said coldly, "Words are useless. Since my followers died because of you, I must seek justice for them!"

Seeing that explanations were futile, Chao Yue also became angry. The longsword behind him automatically unsheathed and flew to his hand. He snorted coldly, "I knew that talking logic with you Devil Clan members was useless."

"Then let me see if you’ve improved over the years!"

Chao Yue’s figure flickered, rapidly wielding his sword as he charged at Feifa, and Feifa naturally wasn’t one to back down. With a crackling sound all over him, he and Chao Yue began to grapple.

Watching Chao Yue and Feifa fight back and forth, Ling Feng was somewhat astonished, "Is your master acquainted with this devil beast?"

Chao Yun nodded, "Master and I have cultivated here for many years and naturally know this General Feifa. He is one of the Devil Clan generals stationed at Dongzheng Mountain."

"In my memory, I haven’t seen him go down the mountain to harm innocent civilians. Although he belongs to the Devil Clan, he isn’t particularly brutal or sinister, so everything has been peaceful for many years."

"Master’s encounters with Feifa have been few and far between."

"Then who do you think will win between your master and this monster? I somehow feel like this guy is quite strong." Ling Feng looked at the dodging Chao Yue, feeling a bit puzzled.

Chao Yun remained calm and said, "Feifa, as the Devil Clan general stationed near the human territory at Dongzheng Mountain, is naturally very powerful..."

"Oh, then why don’t you go and help your master!" Ling Feng carefully used "you" here, instead of saying "we," because he absolutely wouldn’t get involved unless it was absolutely necessary.

"No worries, although my master is somewhat unserious in everyday life, he is still very strong. I learned my Sword Control Technique from him. Although Feifa is powerful, my master won’t necessarily die."

Ling Feng glanced at Chao Yun, thinking to himself: Wow, you’re something, daring to speak so irreverently about your master. Are you truly family who have relied on each other for over a decade?

Joking aside, Ling Feng had already started pondering the previous events. He didn’t really care about the conflict between the Devil and Human Races, but the recent events were starting to involve him.

All the way here, the devil beasts were dead, but none of them had any wounds. Until they were near the peak, the originally unwounded devil beasts suddenly displayed sharp weapon-like injuries.

And Ling Feng, along with Chao Yue and his master, carried sharp weapons like blades and swords, clearly indicating someone intended to pin the blame for the devil beasts’ deaths on them.

If this scheme seemed too obvious, then another detail by the perpetrator was quite "meticulous."

They deliberately arranged for the devil beasts along the way not to show wounds, lowering the trio’s guard, luring them up the mountain before revealing the plot. Their intentions couldn’t be more insidious.

Ling Feng had reason to suspect that the corpse’s lack of wounds earlier must now have injuries, all caused by sharp weapons.

Ling Feng immediately spread his Divine Sense to investigate, and everything was as he suspected: the corpses now bore wounds, along with another bizarre occurrence.

Ling Feng discovered that he could actually use his Divine Sense now, and the purple-black mist that blocked it earlier had vanished, leaving only a thin rolling purple aura.

Ling Feng believed that this purple aura was surely related to Feifa. His clothes were purple, and all his attacks carried a faint purple aura.

The last suspicious point was that strange laughter just now, identical to the one Ling Feng heard when he first arrived in this world and witnessed the silencing of the Black Panther Devil Beast.

Black feather, disappearing black aura, all black, now Ling Feng is even more certain that someone is manipulating things from behind the scenes.

Whether it’s the Spatial Storm, the beast attack, or this false accusation, someone is orchestrating everything from the shadows.

Ling Feng’s gaze gradually became sharp, without telling anyone about these discoveries and conclusions, he kept them silently in his heart, believing that the person behind the scenes would soon reveal themselves, and they would meet eventually.

On the other side, the battle between Chao Yue and Feifa was nearing its end.

Feifa’s body had been pierced by Chao Yue’s Sword several times. Although the bleeding had stopped, its movements and attacks had slowed down, though it still stood firmly, breathing heavily.

And Chao Yue’s situation was not very optimistic either. Although it seemed that he had the upper hand, only Ling Feng acutely noticed that the water Chao Yue was using to grip his sword was trembling slightly.

"You little Jiao, I didn’t expect you to have made some progress after so many years!" Chao Yue squeezed out a smile and mocked.

"Little Jiao?" Ling Feng was a bit surprised, could it be that this Feifa in front of him is a Jiao Dragon Devil Beast in human form? Then why not deploy him to guard rivers, but instead stay in the deep mountains?

Feifa said coldly, "No matter how much we Devil Beasts cultivate, we can’t catch up with the cultivation speed of the Human Race; it’s unfair that the heavens granted your Human Race unparalleled cultivation talents, allowing you to always suppress us!"

Chao Yue snorted, "Heh, don’t act modest after getting the benefit. So what if our cultivation talent is higher? Are you that stupid?"

"Not to mention that you Devil Clan have a long lifespan, the long-lived ones among the Human Race are like children in your eyes, aren’t they?"

"You can easily reach the peak after living for thousands of years, yet you still have the face to say that the heavens are unfair?"

Chao Yue showed no mercy to Feifa.

Ling Feng nodded, the Human Race does indeed have a slightly higher cultivation talent than the Devil Beasts, but it’s not overly exaggerated. The lifespan of the Devil Clan, however, is quite long, generally twenty to thirty times that of the Human Race.

It is due to this advantage that the Devil Clan has remained enduring and becomes stronger over time.

"There’s no need to say more!" Feifa waved his hand, "Although we couldn’t determine a victor today, it’s no big deal, in the future..."

"Who said I can’t defeat you? You think you’re something just because you’ve gained some skills, do you mean to say that the innocent humans harmed by your followers are just forgotten like that?"

"Absolutely not!" Chao Yue interrupted Feifa, glaring with anger.

Feifa was first stunned, then his expression turned entirely dark, "Are you saying you have the means to kill me? Then by all means, try!" Feifa pounded his chest.

"If you don’t leave me today, I am determined to report back to the Demon King to seek justice for our clan’s innocent Devil Clan who were killed or injured,"

"As long as the Human Emperor hasn’t given our clan an explanation, we will not rest in peace, and by then war will surely break out again!"

"Even if I die, I will eradicate you deceitful humans!" Feifa roared.

"Alright, alright, the enmity between the Devil and Human Races was forged tens of thousands of years ago, what’s the use of saying these things now?"

"Your Devil Clan kills humans, and we humans also enslave you Devil Clan, neither of us are good, so why bother fighting..."

Chao Yue’s sharp Sword suddenly shot out, streaking a golden light, aiming directly at Feifa’s head.

Feifa, whose arm meridians had been severed by Chao Yue, was now powerless to raise his hand to block the Golden Sword’s attack.

Just as the Golden Sword was about to pierce through Feifa’s head, a sharp whistle was heard.

"Ding———"

The clear sound echoed through everyone’s ears.

Feifa opened his eyes and found a man in a white robe standing in front of him, holding a Longsword in his hand.

"Heh, killing a member of our Devil Clan on our own territory, has the Human Race really become lawless?"