Chapter 514: Chapter 330: The King’s Guard
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When Yan Xiaobao was sleeping, Xu Biao and Xie Lan looked at the group, not knowing what Yan Xiaobao had done before going to bed. Although he had a plan, he wouldn’t reveal it to his friends until he was completely certain. Only then would he let them know.
Waking up in the middle of the night, Yan Xiaobao noticed that some people in the room were also asleep. Some were sleeping, others were cultivating, but no one was awake. Yan Xiaobao glanced at his many friends, slid out of bed, left the house, and handed over control of his body to Lan Feng.
Lan Feng, being a Saint, made the body belong to a Holy Name Expert as long as he was in control. He drew out the aura and swiftly moved toward the building he had seen earlier.
On this pitch-black night, Yan Xiaobao didn’t use any powers; clad in a black cloak, he became one with the shadows. He easily managed to evade the first group of guards. His main problem was figuring out how to get past the gate guarded by two King-level experts.
Lan Feng moved around the house, searching for a window or any corner that could serve as an entrance. Unfortunately, there was none, and his mood soured slightly.
There was only one way to incapacitate each of these top-ranked experts. Killing them was not an option; he could only render them unconscious.
Lan Feng retreated from the house, once again blending into the shadows, leaving many guards behind. On the outskirts of the grounds, he encountered his first guard to deal with.
With his aura withdrawn, no one could detect him there. Even if they performed martial power scans of the area, they wouldn’t be able to find someone of a higher level than themselves. Thus, Lan Feng was relatively safe as he approached the man before him.
To be honest, Lan Feng didn’t care whether these people lived or died. However, he understood that if he slaughtered a group of King-level experts right in the middle of Dragon Army Headquarters, higher-ranked experts would likely intervene. If that happened, things would no longer be as straightforward as they had been up to this point.
Lan Feng confidently moved through the shadows to approach a King’s guard from behind. In a flash, Phoenix manipulated Yan Xiaobao’s spiritual energy into his hand and struck the guard sharply below the ear. As soon as his hand touched the skin, his spiritual energy was injected into the guard’s brain.
Although spiritual energy was something King Ranking Experts could easily defend against, they needed to sense the energy incoming and use their internal energy to counteract it. Unfortunately for this man, he never saw the attack coming. The Master-level spiritual energy of the young ranking expert was far from sufficient to kill the guard but was still enough to knock him unconscious for at least several hours.
Lan Feng glanced coldly at the unconscious man lying on the ground and quickly moved toward the next guard, striking him down as well. He left the bodies sprawled on the ground, unnoticed under the moonless night sky.
One by one, the guards fell under Lan Feng’s swift assaults. One by one, they were sent to the ground. Before long, the ground was littered with unconscious guards, leaving only the two men standing at the gate.
Lan Feng paused slightly in the darkness, pondering how to remove these two from the gate. Simultaneously attacking both would not be easy unless he used martial power, and employing martial power attacks against King-level opponents would likely result in one or both guards’ deaths.
Lan Feng exhaled deeply, made his decision, and charged at the two guards. Though neither could clearly see him, they both spotted a shadow. Golden light erupted from their bodies, enveloping them entirely in streams of golden radiance. However, how could a Saint possibly fear two pure Kings? With a dismissive snort, golden light appeared in Lan Feng’s hands, forming two golden blades. As he reached the two men, Lan Feng deftly beheaded the guards. Watching the two beheaded guards, Lan Feng sighed heavily. He hadn’t intended to kill anyone, but this was the only method he could think of to enter the building without making any noise or alerting the other guards.
Having killed the two guards and knocked all the others unconscious, Phoenix slowly opened the door to the building, only to discover it was locked. He snorted in frustration while trying to leave, and once again, a streak of golden light flashed. The door opened as the lock vanished soundlessly.
Upon entering the building, everything was pitch-black. There was absolutely no light inside, and the windows emitted no trace of radiance. The door he entered through was the only entrance to the house. From a storage stone, Lan Feng retrieved a light stone, which illuminated the eerie darkness within the building.
Looking around, Yan Xiaobao saw that the entire structure was just a massive room. Mats were scattered across the floor, one after another, with people lying on them completely unconscious.
Inside the room were about three hundred men, women, elderly, and children. All of them were unconscious, yet none of them were dead. Though they seemed alive, their bodies were warm, yet no one was breathing.
Yan Xiaobao could feel Lan Feng’s inner anger, a fury he had never experienced before. Considering the laws created by his father and other Divine Beasts, it was apparent he felt protective of them. He sensed a certain connection to them.