UGB Chapter 86 The Chase
Chapter 86 The Chase
As soon as Tu Chishe landed on the island, he immediately concealed himself, unleashed his divine sense, and cautiously made his way towards the valley where the Zhou family members were located.
Although he felt it unlikely that the Gong family would send a hidden expert to instigate a war, he still felt somewhat uncertain.
In this situation, it's naturally better to be as cautious as possible.
As they got closer to the valley, Tu Chishe discovered that everyone on Yunrui Island seemed to have vanished into thin air; they hadn't found a single person along the way.
It is important to know that the perception power of cultivators in secret realms is extremely strong, especially their ability to sense the aura of other cultivators.
"Could they have all been killed by the Gong family?"
With this in mind, Tu Chishe finally found several corpses at the entrance of the valley, which were clearly all members of the Zhou family.
One of them was the core clansman who had previously followed Zhou Che.
"Hmph, good riddance!"
Tu Chishe sneered. Did they really think he didn't know what these people were saying about him behind his back?
However, as they got closer to the valley, Tu Chishe keenly sensed the bloody smell floating in the air. Upon entering the valley, he saw that outside the houses where the Zhou family cultivators lived, there were corpses lying all over the ground!
These corpses were either blown to pieces, had their chests pierced, or had their necks mangled and bloody, making them look extremely gruesome.
"It seems they all died at the hands of the same person..."
A doubt arose in Tu Chishe's heart. The cultivators stationed on the island by the Zhou family were not weak either, numbering over thirty, with a small portion of them being late-stage Spirit Condensation cultivators. Even if a few Spirit Condensation Perfection cultivators came, it would be impossible to kill them all so cleanly!
The problem is, he didn't sense any trace of the powerful figures from the secret realm here.
In other words, there was only one person who came, and he was a cultivator in the Spirit Gathering stage, yet he killed more than thirty members of the Zhou family!
"When did the Gong family produce such a powerful young cultivator at the Spirit Nascent Soul stage?"
Suppressing his unease, Tu Chishe quickly searched the area and finally found a survivor among the corpses—Zhou Che, who was at the ninth level of the Spirit Condensation Realm!
Although Chen Ye severed his legs and one arm, and shattered his neck bones, cultivators of this level possess extremely strong vitality, and even though more than two hours have passed, he is not completely dead yet.
Tu Chishe circulated his true qi and forcibly transferred a wisp into Zhou Che's body.
The true qi of the hidden experts was extremely domineering. Zhou Che was seriously injured and had lost too much blood. With such domineering and violent true qi entering his body, it was almost certain that he would not survive.
But that's not important. Tu Chishe just wanted to know the details from him. As for whether he would live or die afterward, Tu Chishe didn't care at all.
"Well……"
With a painful groan, Zhou Che, who had been unconscious, slowly regained consciousness. Upon seeing Tu Chishe, he quickly spoke.
"Elder Tu, quickly pursue and kill the enemy!"
Perhaps it was because this wisp of true qi was too domineering, but Zhou Che spoke without any weakness at this moment, as if he were experiencing a final burst of energy before death.
"Chasing down the enemy?"
Upon hearing this, Tu Chishe let out a cold laugh.
"Almost all thirty-odd cultivators of yours have been killed. Who knows if what came here was a secret treasure of the Gong family? How am I supposed to hunt them down?"
Although he didn't sense the presence of any other powerful figures from the hidden realms, Tu Chishe remained extremely cautious, since there were spiritual artifacts that could conceal one's aura.
"No, it's just a young man at the seventh level of the Spirit Gathering stage. He possesses two top-grade magic artifacts and his combat power is astonishing. Elder Tu, please go and kill that person quickly!" Zhou Che hurriedly replied.
"A seventh-level Spirit Gathering cultivator? Deacon Zhou, are you joking?"
Tu Chishe didn't believe Zhou Che's words at all. If he had said that he was at the Great Perfection of Spiritual Condensation, that would have been one thing, but a mere seventh-level Spiritual Condensation cultivator had killed so many members of the Zhou family and severely injured Zhou Che, who was at the ninth level of Spiritual Condensation!
Are all the Zhou family members a bunch of good-for-nothings?
"I...I didn't lie to you!" Zhou Che's tone suddenly became anxious when he saw that Zhou Che didn't believe him.
"That kid's spiritual power was extremely strange, seemingly carrying a peculiar fiery aura, and he also kept highly venomous bees and insects. We were caught off guard, which is why he managed to kill us!"
"Fire elemental? Poisonous insects?"
Tu Chishe frowned, glancing at the Zhou family members' corpses, their necks mangled and bloody. It did indeed look like the work of some kind of poisonous insect.
"etc!"
But just then, Tu Chishe suddenly paused and quickly approached a corpse to examine it closely.
Within the bloody, mangled wound, a faint aura of fiery energy lingered!
He was all too familiar with this aura; wasn't it the same aura emanating from his previous spirit pet, the second-tier Crimson-Winged Fire Python?
"How could that be?"
A look of surprise flashed in Tu Chishe's eyes. Could it be that his spirit pet was not dead?
No, that's impossible. Chi Yi's body was severed by that woman from the Gong family with a single sword strike, so he definitely couldn't have survived. Or is it that someone took away the Chi Yi Fire Python's demon core and refined some kind of fire elemental energy?
"Damn it, why didn't you say earlier that the kid used fire poison?"
Tu Chishe reacted and angrily cursed at Zhou Che, who was lying on the ground, barely alive.
He originally cultivated fire-attribute techniques, and the reason he chose the Crimson-Winged Fire Python as his spirit pet was not only because the fire python had good combat power, but also because its fiery breath could assist his cultivation.
If he possessed the Fire Fiend, he would have already cleansed away the remaining sword energy in his body over the past few years!
"Which way did that kid run off to?"
At this moment, Tu Chishe couldn't care about anything else. As long as he could recover from his injuries, he would leave immediately. Why would he need the Zhou family's protection?
"No, I don't know... I was already unconscious at the time, and he told me to use..."
Tu Chishe had no time to listen to Zhou Che finish speaking. When he heard that Zhou Che did not know where the person was, he immediately leaped out of the valley and began to carefully investigate with his divine sense.
Sure enough, they found the remnants of many cultivators outside the valley.
However, these auras were extremely mixed, numbering at least a hundred, and following the auras all the way, they all disappeared on the shore!
Before leaving, Chen Ye gave the spirit farmers on the island seven small spirit boats. As for which direction they went or how many people were on each boat, that was none of Chen Ye's business.
Tu Chishe followed the direction with the strongest aura of cultivators across the sea. Because he might obtain the Fire Fiend he had been dreaming of, he didn't care about the depletion of his true qi. He flew while using his divine sense to investigate.
After flying for about three hundred miles, Tu Chishe found a small spirit boat on the sea, which was crowded with more than a dozen cultivators!
Tu Chishe brandished his Crimson-Azure Greatsword, unleashing a blazing blade of energy that instantly cleaved the swaying little spirit ship into pieces.
"what!"
"Help!"
The spirit farmers above screamed and fell into the water. The true qi within the body of the Red Serpent condensed into a giant hand, randomly grabbed an unlucky spirit farmer and pulled him in front of it, asking him viciously.
"Tell me, where is the cultivator who attacked Yunrui Island?"