Chapter 1146: Chapter 1131: The Nightmare Continues
Ye Zhen originally thought that with the consequences he caused on Star Island and the deliberate traps he left behind, not only would Star Island fall into chaos for a while, but there might also be some misunderstandings between the Yan family and the Ning family, two of the five surnames in the Stars Tower.
However, Ye Zhen didn’t expect that once Ancestor Gai Jun of the Yan family appeared, he resolved everything completely. This was not just because the conflicts between the surnames of Stars Tower were fewer than Ye Zhen imagined, but mainly due to the unrivaled prestige of Gai Jun, the former Tower Chief!
Since it didn’t cause chaos, Ye Zhen simply began healing and restoring his Spiritual Power by the riverbank of the underground river.
The nightmare of the Stars Tower had only just begun!
Yan Tu’s desperate strike before his death inflicted significant internal injuries on Ye Zhen. Even with the Healing Pills crafted by the Shuili Dan King, Ye Zhen only fully recovered by the evening of the following day, April 10th.
The first thing Ye Zhen did upon recovery was to observe the external situation.
What he saw was startling.
Above the core area of Star Island, Tower Chief Huang Tan, Tower Chief Ou Tu, Tower Chief Yan Wudi, Ancestor Ning Shiyi of the Ning family, and Ancestor Gai Jun of the Gai family, five Dao Realm experts hovered in the sky, holding hands. On each person’s forehead, there appeared an almost tangible three-colored Innate Soul Light.
Ancestor Gai Jun of the Gai family was in the center, with the other four split on either side. The Divine Soul Power of the four was gathering towards Gai Jun’s forehead in a mysterious vibrating manner.
The instant the Divine Lights of the five converged, a peculiar tricolor light shot from Gai Jun’s eyes, casting far away and enveloping a hundred-meter square area on Star Island.
Within the area covered by the tricolor light, everything that happened, even the internal condition of a stone, was presented in Gai Jun’s mind.
More astonishingly, Ye Zhen was stunned to discover that this Divine Sense could penetrate approximately ten meters into the ground almost as if it were tangible.
It should be noted that all Martial Artists’ Divine Soul Powers, including Ye Zhen’s, could not penetrate through solid obstacles like plants, soil, stones, or buildings.
Divine Soul Power can only extend in the void, avoiding obstacles, even if targeted, barely able to penetrate through walls within one meter thickness.
Even focusing deeply, Divine Soul Power can penetrate only one meter underground, and that would be the limit.
Ye Zhen could only observe distant areas by attaching his Divine Sense to the ubiquitous Earth Spiritual Power or Water Spiritual Power in Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi using the Mirage Dragon Pearl or Black Dragon Martial Meridians.
Now, these five working together could directly penetrate Divine Soul Power ten meters underground, which shocked Ye Zhen.
Despite the surprise, this powerful energy from five people working together still couldn’t discover Ye Zhen.
A few moments later, this tricolor light nearly scoured from the core area of Star Island inch by inch, not overlooking a single corner.
Whenever anything suspicious was found, a group of Establishment Kings would immediately swoop down and dig a hundred meters into the ground.
Ye Zhen felt that the people of Stars Tower might have gone mad.
Not only mad, but this madness continued for four hours until the late night when it finally subsided.
This was because the Divine Soul Power of these five Dao Realm experts was too depleted, that they had no choice but to stop.
After stopping, the only five Dao Entrance Realm beings left in Stars Tower had blood-red eyes.
“We will recover our Divine Soul Cultivation in batches, and others will recover their cultivation batch by batch internally and externally, but the ones on duty must not slacken for even a moment!” Gai Jun commanded loudly.
With the death of Tower Chief Lord Gaishan, Gai Jun naturally took over the duties of the Tower Chief, leading everyone.
Immediately, ordinary Establishment Kings left in batches to rest, while the five Dao Realm experts gathered to discuss countermeasures.
“After exhaustive searching of the island, the result is out. Besides the five missing Young Tower Chiefs, two others have disappeared! These two people are Dark Tower’s Grand Steward Zhang Yi and the person escorting Zhang Yi back, Di Kuohai!”
Speaking, Gai Jun whirled around, his gaze locked fiercely onto Tower Chief Ou Tu, the implication clear.
Explanation needed!
“It’s clear that Zhang Yi had just undergone Body Possession Technique and is completely unrelated. Disappearing now is suspicious! Di Kuohai’s disappearance is even stranger!” Huang Tan commented.
“I said earlier that outsiders can’t easily enter the island without screening. Third Brother, you broke the rule! What do you say!” Yan Wudi suddenly roared, and if it weren’t for Gai Jun stopping him, he would be going up to fight right now.
Ou Tu’s expression turned extremely ugly.
Obviously, based on the results, Di Kuohai and Zhang Yi were most suspicious.
“Zhang Yi couldn’t be problematic; all his descendants and concubines are here! As for Di Kuohai, even if there were issues, with Fourth Stage Establishment cultivation, it’s impossible to cause such a commotion!
He was inspected upon entering the island, no one in his Spirit Beast Bag, no chance of sneaking an outsider in!” Ou Tu explained.
“Then tell us, who could it be, who caused this incident!” Yan Wudi, whose ancestor had died, shouted in fury.
Ou Tu’s expression suddenly grew fierce, “Old Fifth, what are you yelling!”
“Who damn well wants this kind of situation!”
“Maybe those two were just coincidentally discovered by the enemy!”
“You think any Tom, Dick, or Harry can infiltrate Star Island and then silently eliminate an Ancestor and two Tower Chiefs?”
“It’s been found out that except for our Ancestor, the two Tower Chiefs were all ambushed!”
“Then tell me, even with an ambush, who could do it? Who could face and kill your Yan Family Ancestor head-on?”
With a roar, Yan Wudi was left speechless.
“Indeed, this matter is quite strange. No one can be blamed for now; we can only investigate. Let’s stick to my previous plan,” said Gai Jun, whose face turned somewhat dark, as he separated the two.
Gai Jun’s plan was the previous plan.
First, naturally, is to tightly seal the information.
Secondly, not seeing the bodies of the five Young Tower Chiefs means they are still alive, so there is still a chance.
If the five Young Tower Chiefs are alive, the one who did the deed will certainly make demands, and in that case, we can only wait.
Lastly, the current search cannot stop. An entire day has passed, and there’s no news from outside Star Island, so there’s no need to search the seas beyond Star Island.
If the enemy has already escaped to the Outer Domain Dead Sea, then they’ve long gone.
But if they’re still lurking on Star Island, there is a possibility of finding them.
After setting the strategy, three of the five Dao Realm experts returned to their residences to quickly recover their Divine Soul Power, while the other two hovered over Star Island, silently keeping an eye on the island below, ready to respond to any emergencies at any time.
Watching from the sky with countless pairs of eyes of flowers, grass, and trees, a sinister smile suddenly appeared on Ye Zhen’s lips, “The nightmare continues!”
Muttering to himself, Ye Zhen’s figure suddenly vanished.
Yan Shiqi was a Martial Artist of the Yan Family of Stars Tower with a Sixth Stage Establishment cultivation. Because he was born into a declining branch and ranked seventeenth, he got such a name.
However, he had a good cultivation talent, reaching Seven Veins. Not only was he the focus of family cultivation, but his family also enjoyed wealth and prosperity from then on.
Being of the Yan Family Bloodline and being loyal to the family, Yan Shiba was entrusted with an important task: since the incident, he has been guarding the Yan Family’s mainline genius, Yan Ziyue, who was born with Nine Veins Heavenly Meridian.
This was one of the pre-selected successors for the next Yan Family Tower Chief. Once the current Young Tower Chief Yan Che assumed the position of Yan Tower Chief, the family would immediately select the best candidate from the pre-selected successors to confirm as the Young Tower Chief.
Originally, these candidates were not worth such protection on Star Island.
But now, with the simultaneous disappearance of the Young Tower Chiefs from the five families, these next-generation Tower Chief candidates immediately became a top priority for protection.
Given the urgent situation, Yan Shiqi dutifully fulfilled his duty. However, after standing guard for nearly a day and night, Yan Shiqi couldn’t hold it any longer.
No matter if it’s an Establishment King, everyone has pressing needs.
After instructing another to keep guard, he quickly left the courtyard, turned around, and found a tree hollow to relieve himself.
Having held it in for half the day, there was an indescribable sense of relief at this moment.
While he was joyfully relieving himself, he didn’t notice that several branches of the tree beside him suddenly rose at an inexplicable speed.
Not only that, but the grass under his feet and the flowers meticulously trimmed by the Yan Mansion servants beside him were also growing rapidly.
As Yan Shiqi finished relieving himself and was about to pull up his pants, the thick tree branch beside him suddenly wrapped around his neck, tightening rapidly.
As his neck was strangled, Yan Shiqi instinctively attempted to mobilize his Spiritual Power to resist.
But just as the branch wrapped around Yan Shiqi’s neck, another branch, like a human hand holding a short sword, suddenly thrust straight into the top of Yan Shiqi’s skull.
Yan Shiqi instantly died.
A figure emerged from the ground, and with a flash of light from the storage ring, Yan Shiqi’s body was collected. In the instant the body was stored, the five fingers wrapped in four-colored Divine Soul Light violently seized and contained Yan Shiqi’s Innate Divine Soul.
A few breaths later, all the crazily growing flowers, grass, and trees returned to their original states, and even some bloodstains quickly disappeared as they were absorbed by the twisting plants.
Half a quarter-hour later, beneath the Silent Chamber where Yan Ziyue rested, suddenly exploded with two extremely cold auras.
Yan Ziyue and the other Sixth Stage Establishment King protecting him groaned and fell back, blood streaming from their seven orifices. One person fell back with his head up, and the other trembled all over like a sieve!
With Ye Zhen’s current cultivation at the Innate Soul Light Sixth Realm, coupled with the terrifying power of the four-colored Innate Soul Light, a casually executed Soul Thorn was not something an ordinary Sixth Stage Establishment King could withstand.
Ye Zhen emerged from the ground in an instant, with a sweep of his sleeve, killing and capturing as he went. However, Ye Zhen deliberately stored Yan Ziyue in the Spirit Beast Bag.
A few breaths later, Ye Zhen, having erased all traces, burrowed into the ground again, heading straight for the next target!
That night, the exact same situation unfolded continuously in each of the five families on Star Island.