Xu Lanyi squirmed around in Chen Wentian"s arm as they flew in the air. She was about the same height as him and it was hard to control her flailing arms that were trying to push him away. She wasn"t quite as huggable like his other disciples, with a distinct lack of curves and "fun" a.s.sets. Still she smelled great, a flowery fragrance filling his nose from her recent bath. The thought of the heavenly scene still fresh in his memory made him instantly hard again and he unconsciously hugged Xu Lanyi even tighter."Hey, come on!" Xu Lanyi complained, "Let me go… I"ll get angry!"
Chen Wentian ignored her, he was trying his best to resist to urge to simply take her then and there in midair…
She finally gave up and calmed down a little. "Hmph, annoying master, why did you take me with you?" She asked, "I won"t be much help in a fight between immortals."
"I know. But I just wanted to talk to you. You looked pretty sad and dejected and I want to make sure you are okay. It was a tough situation for you and your sisters and I"m really sorry."
"Oh…" Xu Lanyi suddenly lost her voice.
Up until now, even though she had many dual cultivation sessions with him, she still had not accepted this perverted and stingy master into her heart. She had always kept him at arm"s length unlike Song Wushuang or the twins. She was taken aback that Chen Wentian would actually take the time to talk to her one on one.
"I shouldn"t have left you girls alone for so long and I want to make it up to you." Chen Wentian said honestly.
She was still speechless and he chuckled at her expression. "I know this is a bit of an abrupt change on my part, so take your time. We got some business to take care of first."
He said this as he descended quickly. Xu Lanyi looked around and realized they were back at the Glacier Palace camp. Evidence of the attack had been cleared away. Besides bodies of monsters and fresh dirt everywhere, there was nothing else.
"Hmm," Chen Wentian took a survey of the camp, "Divine Blazing Mountain cleaned up pretty well… Okay, let"s go."
He flew them into the air once again, heading in a direction he could sense a distinct flame aura coming from. This time though, Xu Lanyi was quiet and no longer struggled within his embrace.
They arrived at the Divine Blazing Mountain camp a few minutes later. Their camp also showed signs of battle against a monster horde, with bodies of rotten zombies scattered everywhere as well as b.l.o.o.d.y remains of some kind of huge beast with grey fur and ma.s.sive claws. Bodies of dead disciples lay in neat rows at the center of camp, each carefully covered by a red cloth. There were no signs of Glacier Palace women here, only men. Chen Wentian even scanned the carriages but found nothing.
But before they could get any closer, a fiery red meteor shot up to meet them.
"I am Immortal Divine Blaze Fen Jue. Well met, immortal Chen Wentian." His words were courteous but his demeanor indicated he would not let them proceed further.
Chen Wentian clicked his tongue in annoyance but returned the greeting. He then asked, "Fen Jue, I just came from Glacier Palace"s camp. They also suffered a monster attack during the night but the disciples have completely disappeared. Do you know anything about it?"
"No." Fen Jue said simply.
"Nothing? Your camp is quite close to theirs."
Fen Jue had an uncaring expression and refused to answer.
"Have you seen Murong Aiyin anywhere?" Chen Wentian tried again.
"…" Fen Jue"s face filled with anger, "Chen Wentian, many of my disciples died last night. I am still dealing with the aftermath. Do not bother me with stupid questions about another sect! Leave!"
His fists clenched together and his spiritual cloak blazed to life, lit up with deep red flames.
"Fine, fine. Goodbye." Chen Wentian muttered and took Xu Lanyi and flew off.
"Master, he is lying!" Xu Lanyi complained as she watched the camp disappear.
"I know. It was just a distraction to place my spy down."
He explained to her that he didn"t expect to get anything out of Fen Jue and he didn"t want to get into a brawl with the old man here. The Immortal a.s.sociation generally didn"t care about human immortals fighting each other. However, they could always poke their nose in if it got out of hand and it would then come down to who could make the compelling argument during mediation. He didn"t have enough evidence to start a fight just yet but his trusty shadow fox would take care of that!
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Fen Jue stayed in the air for a long time making sure Chen Wentian was gone. He finally sighed with relief and flew back to the camp. He knew the little nosy b.a.s.t.a.r.d would come knocking and had prepared for it. It was still a gamble but it had paid off.
Fen Jue landed at the center and several elders saluted.
"The way is clear, gather them up." He commanded, pointing to the bodies that were lined up neatly.
His disciples immediately started to collect the bodies and place them in the carriages. They were careful to wrap up each in the red cloth so that nothing was revealed. Once it was done, the entire troop headed out wordlessly.
Unbeknownst to Fen Jue, a black shadow sneaked aboard one of the last carriages. It was of course Chen Wentian in his shadow fox form. He looked around to find only "dead bodies" so he drilled into the nearest bundle of red cloth. As expected, he was met with the sleeping face of a beautiful maiden. He grimaced and double checked all the other bodies in the carriage. They were all Glacier Sect disciples that had been knocked unconscious. There were ten in this carriage. Given the total number of carriages, all the women captured from the camp were here but Long Yifei, her troop, and the elders weren"t.
"Fen Jue, you old dog. I"ll take care of you soon…" Chen Wentian thought viciously as he laid down beside one of the wrapped-up women and continued his spying mission.