Chapter 785: A Step Too Slow
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
“Two things. First, find out who sent the bronze mongoose mask to the underworld trade fair. Second, immediately send me to the headquarters of the Old G.o.d Cult.” Xia Fei waved his hand and spoke in a tone that would accept no objection.
Keenan and Clean Knife were both taken aback. They hastily asked, “To the Old G.o.d Cult? Their headquarters is in the Shas territory.”
Xia Fei raised an eyebrow and sternly said, “I don’t need to know where it is. You just have to give me the coordinates.”
Keenan swallowed and quickly went out to gather information for Xia Fei. The only people left in the room were Xia Fei and his old acquaintance, Clean Knife.
Clean Knife gave up his seat for Xia Fei and then offered him a cup of tea. Xia Fei took the tea but did not drink, instead looking out the window and thinking.
Clean Knife pursed his lips and awkwardly stood around.
Keenan quickly jogged back into the room and gave Xia Fei a card with the coordinates written on it. “This is the location of the Old G.o.d Cult. As for the information on the bronze mongoose mask, we can’t get it for now. The Galerain Society is on the verge of exploding.”
Xia Fei nodded. He took the card and walked out of the room. In the courtyard, he took out his spatial compa.s.s and disappeared with a *whoosh*.
After watching Xia Fei leave, Keenan wiped the sweat off his forehead and sighed. “He’s really a monster of the Skywing Clan, a warrior who climbed out of a pile of dead. He’s so serious that I almost got a heart attack.”
Clean Knife could not help but nod his head in agreement with the third executive’s words. The casual and unrestrained Xia Fei and the serious Xia Fei were like two completely different people!
…
*Whoosh~*
The spatial gate opened, and Xia Fei strode out.
This was an island surrounded by steep cliffs on all sides. There was no sound except the splas.h.i.+ng of the waves against the craggy rocks.
“Is that mysterious energy ball in your seventh brain region doing okay? You said that you had absorbed a lot of energy this time, so why aren’t you as anxious to release it as before?” Oro somewhat worriedly asked.
Xia Fei could be said to have obtained a sea of energy from killing Xu Ming, but for some reason, he did not feel that threatened this time. He was undoubtedly br.i.m.m.i.n.g with energy, but he did not seem as anxious as before.
Xia Fei shook his head. “It’s very strange. The energy ball in my brain region hasn’t changed in size; in fact, it seems able to contain many times more energy now, and the energy I’ve absorbed feels very stable.”
Oro said in delight. “The Bronze Mongoose was from the ancient era. Perhaps by absorbing that scoundrel’s energy caused your energy ball to mutate or perhaps your control of the brain region grew stronger following your rapid increase in level. In any case, this is wonderful news! You can now store more energy in your brain region!”
Suddenly, Xia Fei frowned and sniffed the air. “There’s a stench. The stench of death.”
*Whoosh~*
Xia Fei vanished as he rushed toward the large temple in the center of the island.
Corpses!
Xia Fei found many bodies on the way there. From their strange attire, the deceased were probably all believers of the Old G.o.d Cult. They had died roughly one day ago.
“It’s bad. Someone has probably been here before us!” Xia Fei grimly said.
In the blink of an eye, Xia Fei charged through the gates of the Old G.o.d Cult and saw a giant carved-out mountain. The Old G.o.d Cult’s headquarters was set at the base of the mountain; the entire mountain had been hollowed out to serve as a place for the devotees of the cult to cultivate. There were many small rooms with various functions set up around it.
After looking around, Xia Fei rushed inside!
*Whoos.h.!.+*
Xia Fei carried the Blood Crystal in his right hand. With its third edge, the Blood Crystal was much heavier now, and it felt rather good to hold.
A river of blood!
Corpses were piled up like small hills in the main hall. It was clear that a ma.s.sacre had taken place here! There was no life to be found within the Old G.o.d Cult. It had become a city of the dead!
“Who did this?!” Oro gravely asked.
Xia Fei squatted and inspected a body that had been cleaved in two. “Xu Ming just died, and the Old G.o.d Cult was wiped out. Regardless of who did it, I smell a conspiracy.”
Xia Fei had gained an important piece of information from Ellen. There was a divine altar in the Old G.o.d Cult that no one except Cult Leader Xu Ming was allowed to enter. Not even his junior brother, Xu Yuan, was permitted inside.
This had drawn Xia Fei’s suspicion. Since the Law of Time was not on Xu Ming, then the divine altar was the best hiding spot!
Alas, Xia Fei had been a step too slow. Someone had already forced their way into the Old G.o.d Cult and killed the tens of thousands of believers. Their goal had most likely been the Law of Time!
Gritting his teeth, Xia Fei lunged off the ground!
According to Ellen, Xia Fei could find that divine altar at the back of the island by a steep cliff.
He saw a domed building made of white jade, looking like the observatories used by ancient astrologers. Countless skylights had been opened, and the heavy alloy doors had been blasted apart!
His brows furrowing, Xia Fei got a bad feeling.
“Crafty Approach!”
Xia Fei flitted into the altar like a ghost and saw that it was completely intact. Besides the door, the altar showed no signs of being damaged, as if no one had been here before.
“Ocular Cognition!”
Xia Fei’s eyes lit up like flashlights as he scanned the area.
There were several dozen statues in the altar, all of them depicting a very well-endowed woman, probably the G.o.ddess that the Old G.o.d Cult venerated.
One of the statues held a shortsword with a glossy sheen. It was seemingly frequently polished.
Xia Fei walked up to it and gave the sword a light push. The sword was actually pushed back!
*Clack clack!*
Two stone statues immediately moved to the side, revealing a hidden room.
Xia Fei went inside and found that the room was completely empty, but the orderly marks on the ground indicated that there had been items placed here not too long ago. Someone, however, had moved all of these things, even the lamp on the ceiling, out.
“They cleaned out this place pretty good. Those intruders probably didn’t find what they wanted, but they’re also in a hurry, so they decided to empty out the entire room and slowly search through everything once they got back,” Oro said with a chuckle.
Xia Fei nodded in agreement. From the marks on the ground, he could tell that the items which had been moved were rather heavy. If the intruder had found what they wanted, they wouldn’t have needed to go through the effort of cleaning out the room so thoroughly.
“Let’s go. We were a little too late. This place is part of the Shas territory; it’d be really bad if we were spotted here,” Oro helplessly said. He was very depressed that they had not found the Law of Time.
Xia Fei was unmoved. He continued to inspect the secret room with his sharp gaze, seemingly intending to penetrate through every inch of stone.
Suddenly, Xia Fei smiled.
He went to a corner of the room, squatted, and picked up a wooden shard.
This little shard was covered in grooves and had seemingly fallen from a larger piece.
“What is this?” Oro asked in curiosity.
“Something left behind by the intruder.”
Oro snorted. “A little piece of wood! It’s not proof of anything. How can you be so sure that the intruder left it behind.”
Xia Fei smiled. “There are clear marks in this corner indicating that something rather heavy was placed here, but the breaks on this piece of wood are new, less than twenty-four hours old, and there’s a little white on the edges that are also new. This means that when that person was moving something, they accidentally brushed up against something, causing this piece of wood to break off. Do you still need me to explain anything else?”
Oro was rendered speechless. He had already borne witness to Xia Fei’s deductive abilities, and he was probably the only one able to deduce that this piece of wood had been left behind by the intruder from just a few tiny details.
After finding this little piece of wood left behind by the intruder, Xia Fei had no plans to stop. He continued to inspect the chamber, patiently looking it over again and again.
No matter how good one’s a.n.a.lytical ability was, one need to pair it with patience and meticulous observation, and Xia Fei was someone who was very patient and had a sharp pair of eyes.
Several minutes later, with a start, Xia Fei rushed up to a wall on the other side. He thrust the Blood Crystal into the wall and pried out a white stone. He weighed the stone in his hand, a look of delight on his face.
Oro asked, “Is there something fishy about this rock?”
*Pa!*
As he spoke, Xia Fei raised his hand and crushed the rock!
Inside was a brown metal box, the size of his palm and particularly heavy!
“This isn’t an ordinary stone, but a White wardstone, a stone that can reflect back waveband detection. This stone is of a slightly different shade, so it’s clearly been installed later, and it weighs differently in my hand,” Xia Fei explained to Oro, which had him feeling frustrated at once. Everything Xia Fei said made sense, so why had he not noticed anything?
Suddenly! Xia Fei’s eyes turned harsh.
“Someone’s there!”
He jumped off the ground and punched with both fists, busting his way through the thick ceiling of the secret chamber!
At the same time, several vicious law force attacks obliterated the divine altar and the secret chamber!
*Rumble!*
In a fierce explosion, the divine altar collapsed! It had been dragged down into the earth!
This was the result of a Law of s.p.a.ce attack working with a Law of Matter attack. If Xia Fei had not chosen to break out from above, he would have been buried alive by these powerful law forces!
With sharp eyes, Xia Fei coldly looked around. He saw two figures who were fleeing in two completely different directions after seeing that their attacks had failed to strike true!
“Hmph!”
Snorting, Xia Fei shot out like a bolt of lightning in pursuit!
Trying to play hide-and-seek with a high-speed warrior was no different from suicide!
Two hundred forty thousand meters per second!
Before those two realized what was going on, Xia Fei had already seized both of them!
*Bang!*
Enemies did not deserve any courtesy from him!
Xia Fei swung his arms together, smas.h.i.+ng the two a.s.sailants against each other! Their heads began to bleed and b.l.o.o.d.y spittle flew out of their mouths as their eyes saw stars!
*Whoos.h.!.+*
The Blood Crystal was sinisterly thrust into the chest of one, while Xia Fei stomped on the chest of the other.
“Talk! Who are you?!” Xia Fei coldly ordered.
But the moment he spoke, he realized that something was wrong. White froth was coming out of the mouths of his two a.s.sailants, and air was only coming out of their noses, not in.
‘Eh?’ Xia Fei placed his hands on their necks and frowned. “Dead?”
Oro grumbled. “You managed to capture the two of them alive, so how did you end up killing them?! Now, you’ve done it. The trail’s gone cold.”
“I didn’t kill them.” Xia Fei ignored Oro and used the Blood Crystal to pry open one of their mouths.. He saw a strange black line on his a.s.sailants’ tongues.