Chapter 1 The Misty Night

The night was hazy, and the flying boat of the Six Doors swept across the clouds.

The wind howled high above, as if even the moonlight became blurred in the gale.

Jin Sanniang and Di Rong, two Gold Badge constables, stood at the bow and stern of the boat respectively, maintaining a high degree of vigilance.

So much so that when Ye Chuxiao invited them to drink in the cabin, they turned a deaf ear.

The events in the eight prefectures of Yunmengze had made them fully aware of Ye Chuxiao's importance, so protecting Ye Chuxiao was the most important thing for them.

However, a night passed without any incident, and after traveling hundreds of miles further, they would enter the first major formation outside the Divine Capital.

As long as they entered the range of the Divine Capital's grand formation, theoretically, no one in Daheng would dare to directly attack the official ship of the Six Doors.

A red line appeared on the horizon, leaping out of the pale clouds.

Above the sea of clouds, the red sun rose in the east.

Ye Chuxiao stood on the bow of the boat, feeling the moist, comfortable air, and couldn't help but stretch himself greatly.

Having been accustomed to the survival environment of the Barren Fighting World, now carefully sensing the world where Daheng was located, although the energy flowing between heaven and earth had declined by several levels, the entire world gave him a feeling of greater completeness and freedom, without the sense of oppression and urgency.

It was like successfully landing ashore from a 007's involution company and entering a state unit. Although the salary was lower, the whole person was relaxed.

Creak! Creak! Creak!

The puppet sent by the flying boat brought a face basin for washing and breakfast.

Ye Chuxiao picked up a soft, glutinous egg cake and put it in his mouth.

"You two! Have something to eat!"

"There will be a tough battle later. You have been tense all night. If you fight later, I'm afraid you will be exhausted." Ye Chuxiao issued the invitation again.

This time, Jin Sanniang sat over first, picked up the pancake on the table, and ate it with fruit juice, but looking at the state of the muscles on her thighs and arms, she was obviously not really relaxed.

As for Di Rong, he shook his head and said, "I'll check the formation on the boat again. The closer we get to the Divine Capital, the more vigilant we must be."

Ye Chuxiao picked up the cup on the table, which was filled with fruit juice, and was about to drink it down in one gulp.

Jin Sanniang suddenly moved, flicking her finger, and a thin needle flew out, shattering the cup in Ye Chuxiao's hand.

And in the shattered cup, there was clearly a slender, small hand like that of an infant, holding a short knife full of poisonous curses and evil power.

The originally bright environment suddenly felt dim.

Then a sword light lit up.

It stabbed straight towards Ye Chuxiao's heart.

"How dare you!" Jin Sanniang shouted angrily, twisting her waist, and dozens of throwing knives hidden under her skirt flew out, forming a space of flying knives.

Puchi!

Puchi!

The flying knives shattered several abruptly attacking figures.

But these figures, like white mist in the clouds, dissipated in an instant after being hit by the flying knives.

"What is this thing?"

"Di Rong! Are you dead? Why have so many bugs sneaked onto the boat?" Jin Sanniang rushed to Ye Chuxiao's side quickly, directly pressing her plump buttocks against Ye Chuxiao's body, acting as a human shield in front of Ye Chuxiao.

With a wave of her hand, a large number of golden glittering insects scattered from Jin Sanniang's hand.

These insects rolled on the deck, turning into insect-men as tall as a person.

Each of them looked ferocious, but at this time, they seemed to be able to increase the sense of security.

Woo!

The sound of ghosts crying echoed, and the sinister light pierced through the protective spiritual light of the flying boat.

One insect-man after another pounced on it, but under the shroud of this evil light, they were drained of their essence and turned into withered fragments.

Jin Sanniang held a scimitar in her hand, facing this terrifying evil light, without any avoidance, and the scimitar chopped down as if splitting the evil light into two sections.

The broken evil light turned into flying fireflies.

As the fireflies flickered, the entire deck of the flying boat seemed to be covered with venomous evil spirits.

In an instant, the entire situation seemed to become extremely unfavorable.

"Demonic arts, mere clowns!" Jin Sanniang snorted coldly, emboldening herself.

But she secretly transmitted her voice to Ye Chuxiao: "Di Rong has not responded, he may have already encountered misfortune."

"In a while, we will transfer to the cabin. There is a small teleportation formation in the cabin. I will buy time, and you should teleport towards the Divine Capital as soon as possible."

Ye Chuxiao said, "This is not an illusion, nor is it a magic trick, it is a formation."

"Someone has modified the formation on the boat, changing the spirit gathering part to yin gathering."

"And someone has released many wronged souls and evil spirits to create the illusion that we encountered an 'accident'."

Jin Sanniang said in a low voice, "Why are you saying this at this time?"

While speaking, she smeared the blade of her sword across her index finger, using her own blood essence to bless the treasured sword in her hand, enhancing its lethality against wronged souls.

"My point is, since the formation has been modified, it means that Di Rong has already betrayed us."

"The formation in the cabin has probably been destroyed as well," Ye Chuxiao said.

Jin Sanniang's face darkened and said: "Traitor... hateful!"

Ye Chuxiao said unhurriedly: "This is hateful?"

"Do you know why they waited until we were close to the Divine Capital before making a move?"

Without waiting for Jin Sanniang to answer, he continued to say: "Because someone wants to kill us openly and aboveboard."

"A Six Doors flying boat, but full of wronged souls and evil spirits, approaching the Divine Capital, the stationed powerhouses in the Divine Capital have the qualifications and reasons to blow us... and the entire boat to pieces."

Ye Chuxiao's words were no longer for Jin Sanniang to hear.

Sure enough, after Ye Chuxiao's explanation, a sword light flew down from above the nine heavens.

Wherever the sword light passed, all the wronged souls and evil spirits melted like snow meeting the blazing sun.

Such a sword light with a strong 'aura' obviously came from the hand of someone at the Intent Realm.

While the sword light swept across, in the depths of the clouds, another more 'personal' battle had already begun.

In the clouds, the sword and the black poisonous staff clashed.

A burst of thick black smoke emerged from the poisonous staff.

The black smoke billowed up, covering an area, forming a poisonous domain.

Everything in the domain showed inevitable decay, quickly falling towards the end of death.

The flying boat was also included in the suddenly expanding domain.

From a distance, it looked as if an extremely ominous poisonous cloud was drifting towards the Divine Capital.

In the direction of the Divine Capital, the guarding powerhouses had already discovered the approach of the aura.

The divine artifact guarding the Divine Capital was brewing an extremely terrifying attack.

"I am Zhong Yiyang, the head of the Beishan Sect, and I am cooperating with your Shi Huang and Shi Shen to capture the criminals. Do not attack." The sword-wielding person, while expanding his own domain to confront the poisonous cloud domain, shouted loudly.

However, Zhong Yiyang's shouting obviously did not have a very obvious effect.

The offensive gathered in the direction of the Divine Capital was still very obvious.

In the poisonous cloud domain, Jin Sanniang, who was protecting Ye Chuxiao, had already dyed her originally black hair with frost.

At the critical moment, she actually endured and absorbed the aura in the domain on behalf of Ye Chuxiao.

Perhaps foolish, but worthy of being moved.

In the darkness, Ye Chuxiao held a knife and swung it down from a distance.

Above the high sky, he casually performed a slash, and deduced heavenly punishment, dark clouds gathered, and heavenly power was revealed.

Boom!

The knife light wrapped in heavenly thunder, extremely yang and extremely righteous, fell down.

Even more terrifying lightning was still spreading at a higher altitude.

Looking from below, the entire sky was instantly transformed into a pitch-black color, becoming the home of thunder.

Boom!

Heavenly thunder rumbled, directly blasting open the poisonous cloud domain.

All the resentment, evil spirits, yin, strangeness, and evil auras and things in this domain were all shattered and dissipated in the roar of this thunder.

The staff that supported the poisonous cloud domain also broke together.

Shua!

A corpse that had been split into two sections and cut open in the middle fell from mid-air.

The incomplete corpse fell heavily on the ground, half of its face still showing the fear before death.

Zhong Yiyang looked at the corpse and recognized the identity of the corpse.

Old Ancestor Jiu Tu, a figure who became famous hundreds of years ago. More than a hundred years ago, it was rumored that he was killed by Chen Wang Xiao Chi.

Now it seems... the rumor is false.

However, at this time, this Old Ancestor Jiu Tu, who was once infamous, was really dead.

Zhong Yiyang raised his sword and clasped his fists: "Thank you for your help, senior."

"With such swordsmanship, even the current Knife King who dominates the Dao of the Blade is probably not as good. May I ask which senior made the cut?"

At that time, Zhong Yiyang's and Old Ancestor Jiu Tu's domains overlapped, and a fierce collision was taking place.

They didn't see who made the move.

If Zhong Yiyang didn't see it, the group of powerhouses who were gazing from above the Divine Capital further away would not have discovered it either.

Seeing no one responding, Zhong Yiyang could only sheathe his sword and land on the deck of the flying boat.

He glanced at Ye Chuxiao, whose hair was frosted and completely unharmed, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Zhong Yiyang released a sword energy, shattering the remaining poisonous evil energy in Jin Sanniang's body.

The masters of these poisonous evil energies had all fallen, and they had become water without a source. Zhong Yiyang shattered them very easily.

"I have cleared the poison from your body, but you have also suffered a serious injury. You will need to recuperate well for the next few months and take more warm and nourishing spiritual medicines. There should be no major problems," Zhong Yiyang said.

Jin Sanniang barely got up and clasped her fists, saying, "Thank you, Sect Leader Zhong!"

"You don't need to thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank the person who drew the knife. If he hadn't killed Old Ancestor Jiu Tu, the aura that invaded your body would have turned into bone-eating maggots. Even if your Shi Shen constable took action, it would be difficult to clean it up completely for you. Even if you didn't die for the rest of your life, you would be crippled." Zhong Yiyang said, but he looked at Ye Chuxiao a few times, and after not seeing anything, he flashed and left directly.

"Tell your Shi Shen constable that I have repaid his favor."

"Since you invited such an expert to hold the field, inviting me is unnecessary."

The person had disappeared, but the voice remained in place.

"This Sect Leader Zhong... is really a person of temperament!" Ye Chuxiao said.

Jin Sanniang nodded: "Indeed!"

Ordinary people, even if they have something unpleasant in their hearts, would not say it so directly.

"Perhaps it is because he followed his heart that he was able to cultivate into the Intent Realm!" Ye Chuxiao said with emotion.

Jin Sanniang seemed to have some feelings when she heard this.

Ye Chuxiao's words were not just for saying.

An invisible domain had already shrouded Jin Sanniang, following the fluctuations of her own inspiration, and transforming some insights into unique fluctuations, teaching them to her.

Although this would not be able to pull her to the height of the Intent Realm, it could make her path to the Intent Realm a little easier.

And from Jin Sanniang's perspective, she just happened to have a little feeling because of Ye Chuxiao's words, and accumulated some experience in her heart.

After resolving Old Ancestor Jiu Tu, the flying boat finally arrived smoothly at the Divine Capital.

As for the missing Di Rong, Ye Chuxiao had actually quietly dealt with him.

Otherwise, with such a poisonous snake on the flying boat, the pressure Jin Sanniang had to face before would only be greater.

"Leading out Old Ancestor Jiu Tu, perhaps Shi Huang and others will gradually investigate Chen Wang Xiao Chi based on the clues, but it is probably still far from them connecting Xiao Chi with Jin Buyi."

"And I don't need to expose this point in advance for the time being."

"Now what's interesting is that some of the formation nodes on the flying boat have been changed, which feels familiar to me."

"Some of the hiding places are actually my omissions and flaws in the Dao of Formation in the past."

"If it weren't for my special conditions, I'm afraid I would still suffer in similar problems."

"This shows that the person responsible for setting the plan and changing the formation has a certain understanding of my abilities."

Thinking of this, Ye Chuxiao had actually locked onto the candidate.

Returning to the Divine Capital, the so-called 'crisis' was temporarily resolved.

Although the Divine Capital was full of changes and undercurrents, the overall trend was still stability. If preparations were not made in advance, assassinating Ye Chuxiao, this 'great meritorious official', would involve a wide range and would not be conducive to stabilizing the foundation of the country.

Ye Chuxiao was jumping on Jin Buyi's nerves, actually forcing Jin Buyi to make a choice.

Whether to take the initiative to expose himself, launch a major offensive, and solve Ye Chuxiao.

Or just watch Ye Chuxiao's actions, gradually eroding his originally set plan.

And no matter how Jin Buyi chose, he fell into Ye Chuxiao's rhythm.

Ministry of Justice, Heavenly Prison.

Ye Chuxiao saw the old eunuch Feng Yu again in an elegant and comfortable cell.

This cell had already been transformed into a vibrant place.

In addition to the potted plants and trees all over the room, there were also two cats, a dog, and a pair of parrots.

Feng Yu sat among the flowers and animals, looking at Ye Chuxiao who came alone, and was a little surprised.

"What, did you think I would come with a large number of constables from the Six Doors?" Ye Chuxiao shook the wine pot in his hand, as well as the appetizers.

Feng Yu opened the prison door and invited Ye Chuxiao in.

"You should do this."

"Although my abilities are bound here, how do you know that I haven't found any loopholes?"

After Feng Yu finished speaking, he suddenly froze for a moment, and then said: "So that's how it is, you are because you are confident and completely fearless of me."

"It seems that your strength has really changed a lot."

While speaking, Feng Yu's face showed a dark green color, and a poison that penetrated deep into his soul was corroding all of him.

"Do you have any unfinished business?" Ye Chuxiao asked Feng Yu.

Feng Yu said: "Those who gave birth to me are dead, and those I gave birth to are also dead. As for the rest... what does it have to do with me?"

"Then why did you still take action?"

"Isn't it good to retire in peace?" Ye Chuxiao asked.

As for how eunuchs have children... ordinary eunuchs certainly can't, but a great eunuch who controls half of the Hidden Court may not be able to do it.

There will always be some special methods.

"You don't understand. For people like me, some things must be done, and some orders must be executed."

"Little Ye! You are very smart, but you don't know who you are facing, so your cleverness will become foolishness."

"Leave! Leave Daheng, leave this world."

As Feng Yu said this, he tilted his head to the left and stopped breathing.

Together with his soul, he dissipated in the pre-administered poison.

The great eunuch Feng Yu died.

Jin Buyi's important helper for controlling the Hidden Court had one of his hands cut off.

"Next, Jin Buyi's counterattack will be even more fierce and turbulent."

"And the more fierce he is, the more flaws he will reveal."