Chapter 1142: Chapter 1127: Plotting Against Yan Tu
Perhaps it was because Star Island had been peaceful for a long time, or perhaps the internal regulations of Stars Tower were strict, that no one would bother the Young Tower Chiefs in the middle of the night.
Under such circumstances, even though it had been more than two hours since Ye Zhen captured the five Young Tower Chiefs, the entire Star Island seemed as if it was asleep, with nothing amiss.
At this time, Ye Zhen was using Earth Escape to infiltrate the embankment of an underground river within Star Island, holding two Supreme Spirit Crystals in his hand, rapidly restoring the significantly depleted Spiritual Power within him.
Just half an hour ago, Ye Zhen ambushed the patriarch of the Ning Family on Star Island, Ning Chun.
The Fourth Tower Chief, Ning Chun, like the Tower Chief Gai Shanjun, was in closed-door cultivation, but the place of his closed-door cultivation was within a grand formation filled with iron rods.
Occasionally, Ning Chun would launch one or two Thunder Strikes before carefully observing the many changes of the Thunder Light within the grand formation, using it to comprehend Thunder Element Dao Patterns.
Fortunately, the ground inside the grand formation where Ning Chun was training in seclusion was only filled with iron rods, with the ground still being made of earth.
This gave Ye Zhen an opportunity, especially with the experience of killing the Tower Chief Gai Shanjun.
Suddenly, Ye Zhen appeared behind the Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun. A call of ‘Old Fourth’ made Ning Chun involuntarily turn his head, his expression incredibly shocked.
The Thunder Prison Grand Formation he was in had another formation guarding the outside to prevent anyone from disturbing it. Without his permission, no one could enter.
He couldn’t understand how Second Brother Huang Tan had entered.
However, the five Tower Chiefs of Stars Tower have lived together for hundreds of years and are extremely familiar with one another, so soon he realized something was amiss.
But it was too late.
Just like Gai Shanjun, upon realizing that his Divine Soul was out of control, the Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun was stunned. Shortly after, his head flew off even more swiftly than that of the Tower Chief Gai Shanjun.
A few breaths later, Ye Zhen cleared up and left swiftly.
To Ye Zhen’s annoyance, there were no Dao Talismans found on the Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun or in his Storage Ring.
There were, however, two Soul Artifacts discovered. One was a Thunderbolt Thrust, which significantly increases Thunder Spirit Power. Being only a Mid-grade Soul Device, Ye Zhen, who possessed an Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Pearl, didn’t care for it.
The second Soul Artifact discovered on the Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun was strangely similar to the Ten Thousand Stars Plate, yet not quite the same. The star-shaped patterns on it were arcane and mysterious, slowly rotating with the light.
Like the Star Plate obtained from the Tower Chief Gai Shanjun, the Star Plate in Ning Chun’s hand was quite unique. When Ye Zhen’s Four-colored Innate Soul Light entered it, it was as if it sank into the ocean, with no reaction.
Both Gai Shanjun and Ning Chun’s Star Plates were like this, prompting thoughts in Ye Zhen’s mind.
“Could there be some mystery to these Star Plates?”
“It seems that if Gai Shanjun has one and Ning Chun has one, then Yan Wudi, Ou Tu, and Huang Tan should also have them. There are at least five of these Star Plates!”
As he pondered, Ye Zhen continued to restore his Spiritual Power, and soon, the significantly depleted Spiritual Power within him was mostly restored.
“Since I’ve already killed two Tower Chiefs of Stars Tower, and they haven’t discovered me, why not make this matter even bigger?” Standing up, a grim and fierce killing intent suddenly appeared on Ye Zhen’s face.
After escaping to the Star Plate’s surface, Ye Zhen circled the Star Plate once more. There was still another hour before dawn, and currently, the people from Stars Tower hadn’t discovered the happenings on Star Island.
So, Ye Zhen still had time to act.
After a brief contemplation, Ye Zhen directly escaped from the ground to the Northern Mansion of the Yan Family, one of the five mansions on Star Island.
Ye Zhen’s current target was the ancestor of the Yan Family, Yan Tu.
The feud between Ye Zhen and Stars Tower initially started with the Yan Family. Since Stars Tower dared to harm Ye Zhen’s family, he would give Stars Tower an unforgettable memory today.
This idea of Ye Zhen’s was unquestionably crazy; even if the Sky Wing Three Saints knew, they would think Ye Zhen had gone mad.
Of course, Ye Zhen was not insane.
To deal with an experienced Dao Realm expert like Yan Tu, the ancestor of the Yan Family, even if the Sky Wing Three Saints joined forces, at most they could severely defeat Yan Tu, but to kill him would be incredibly difficult!
However, Ye Zhen, with the two trump cards of Jade Finger Scorpion Poison and Little Demon, had some confidence.
Of course, if Ye Zhen didn’t have such a rare treasure as Jade Finger Scorpion Poison in his hand, he would definitely not dare to act rashly today and would flee as far as he could.
Quickly, Ye Zhen infiltrated to a location a hundred meters below the Silent Chamber where the ancestor of the Yan Family, Yan Tu, was engaged in Silent Cultivation.
Attaching Divine Soul Spiritual Power to Earth Spiritual Power slightly to observe, Ye Zhen silently cursed.
The ancestor of the Yan Family, Yan Tu, was currently condensing Divine Soul Power.
With his Cultivation reaching this point, constrained by the environment of the True Profound Continent, Yan Tu, who had reached the Peak of First Stage of the Dao Entrance Realm, could no longer advance in Cultivation.
The only path of cultivation left was Divine Soul Power.
Moreover, because his life span was nearing its end, his Innate Divine Soul had begun to weaken. He had no choice but to condense Divine Soul Power day and night to resist this aging and delay death.
However, condensing Divine Soul Power brought great trouble to Ye Zhen.
When Yan Tu condensed Divine Soul Power, the power instinctively covered the surroundings, and any slight movement around would appear in Yan’s Divine Soul.
Not to mention the Little Demon activating the Three-Edged Iron Saw Grass to break the earth and secretly stab Yan Tu, even a speck of dust rolling on the ground would fall under Yan Tu’s observation.
In other words, even before the Three-Edged Iron Saw Grass broke the earth, as long as there was a slight change on the surface, Yan Tu would immediately wake up.
“Could it be that I have to give up?”
Ye Zhen muttered, hesitating a bit. If he missed today, missed now, once the matter is exposed, the vigilance of Star Island would definitely increase exponentially, and Ye Zhen could never again have an opportunity like today.
Ye Zhen originally wanted to switch targets and assassinate the father of Tower Chief Gai Shanjun, Gai Jun, but upon reflection, nine out of ten, the old ancestor of the Gai Family, Gai Jun, was also cultivating Divine Soul Power.
Moreover, in terms of cultivation techniques, the earth attribute cultivation technique practiced by the Gai Family was better at defense, making assassination even more difficult.
It would be better to try to assassinate Yan Tu.
For a moment, Ye Zhen pondered a countermeasure underground. Using the previous method of killing Ning Chun and Gai Shanjun to assassinate Yan Tu would be no different from courting death.
After a quarter of an hour, looking at Yan Tu’s quite spacious and extremely quiet courtyard where he was cultivating, Ye Zhen’s mind was moved.
Perhaps because of his status or his reliance on his cultivation, in Yan Tu’s courtyard, besides two guards outside the yard, inside, only two lowly trained servants were already asleep in the servant’s room.
Apart from that, there were no other personnel inside or outside this large courtyard, and the silent chamber where Yan Tu was cultivating was separated by several corridors from the guards outside the courtyard.
In this situation, Ye Zhen quickly came up with a plan.
Since he couldn’t approach Yan Tu directly, he decided to lure him out.
After carefully sensing, because of his cultivation, Yan Tu’s Divine Soul Power didn’t cover a wide area, mainly focusing on the three zhangs around him.
Since the Silent Chamber was shrouded in the Light of the Guardian Talisman, Yan Tu’s Divine Soul Power didn’t cover beyond the Silent Chamber.
This gave Ye Zhen some room to prepare.
He directly moved to just outside the Silent Chamber door, then ordered the Little Demon to cultivate the Three-Edged Iron Saw Grass, commanding it to grow right in the stone cracks at the Silent Chamber’s doorstep.
To be safe, Ye Zhen commanded the Little Demon to cultivate three Three-Edged Iron Saw Grass plants, hiding them in different places, ready at any moment.
Then, Ye Zhen carefully recalled the voice of the Second Tower Chief Huang Tan, which he occasionally heard over the past few days, and imitated it slightly.
“Only sixty to seventy percent similar, still too short on time, but in an emergency, it should be enough!”
Afterward, Ye Zhen disheveled himself further, not only covered in blood, but even his hair was in disarray.
Gripping a Demon Cloud Fruit in his hand for emergency preservation of life, Ye Zhen took a deep breath, “It’s win or lose, all in this one move!”
With a slight move of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen’s figure suddenly appeared from a corner inside Yan Tu’s secluded courtyard. As he appeared, the body of the Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun appeared in his embrace.
The next moment, Ye Zhen’s expression became incomparably terrified, even pained.
With a stomp of his foot, Ye Zhen staggered and ran towards Yan Tu’s silent chamber, crying out as he ran, “Fifth Great-Uncle! This is bad, something big has happened!”
Ye Zhen’s voice, tinged with sadness and terror, instantly awakened the only five people in Yan Tu’s secluded courtyard.
Yan Tu, who was cultivating in the Silent Chamber, suddenly opened his eyes, and with a flick of his Divine Sense, discovered the staggering ‘Second Tower Chief Huang Tan’!
But what shocked him the most was the corpse held by the Second Tower Chief Huang Tan, a body that was still bleeding, adorned in attire he was all too familiar with.
In an instant, Yan Tu took a sharp intake of breath.
At the same instant, the two guards outside the courtyard and the two maids resting inside were startled awake by Ye Zhen’s shout.
The two maids rushed out of their room in a panic, utterly shocked by Ye Zhen, or the blood-drenched Second Tower Chief Huang Tan, forgetting even to kneel in salute.
As for the guards at the peak of Mid Establishment Realm standing outside the door, seeing the staggering ‘Second Tower Chief Huang Tan’ rushing towards the Silent Chamber, exchanged glances, their expressions filled with bewilderment.
Since when did the Second Tower Chief Huang Tan get here, and how did they not know?
At this moment, they lacked the courage to step forward to stop and question. Given the appearance of the Second Tower Chief Huang Tan and that mournful cry, it was definite something major had occurred.
At the same instant, Yan Tu inside the room, taking a sharp breath, quickly rose, and with three steps making two, charged towards the door.
As Yan Tu flung open the Silent Chamber door, Ye Zhen happened to arrive at the doorstep, dropping to his knees abruptly, effectively blocking Yan Tu at the doorsteps.
Simultaneously, Ye Zhen raised the corpse of Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun and the shattered head high, crying mournfully, “Fifth Great-Uncle, Old Four… Old Four he…”