The Old Gods

Chapter 835 Exposed?

"Crack!!"

The faceless jade vessel exploded with a deafening roar, sending countless fragments of stone flying in all directions.

Deng Yuxiang, however, did not feel much joy at winning, after all, this scene had happened countless times before.

These are all peak-level fighters from the Burning Gate; it would be truly shameful if they couldn't win.

She reached forward with one hand and used the magic artifact on her wrist, the Rebirth Coin, to bind souls. The five damage dealers present were all pseudo-god bodies, their souls made from the afterimages of gods and demons.

In other words, Deng Yuxiang, Wu Xiao, and others all possess the ability to directly devour and digest the souls of their enemies.

But now was clearly not the time to distribute the spoils. While collecting souls, she turned to look at the two old men in straw raincoats: "Something's up?"

Everyone looked over; they had all heard Bai Yanhui's shouts.

Elders Lu and Bai rushed over immediately. Bai Yan replied, "Absorb it quickly, let's go!"

"Hmm." Deng Yuxiang received the notification from the money for the deceased and commanded, "Wei Yun, you're back."

"Puff puff puff~"

In the empty sky, the sound of crows flapping their wings grew louder as they approached, landing on Deng Yuxiang's shoulder.

"Go!" With the Guardian's command, Lu Yuan opened his aged palm, and the flower bloomed instantly, then quickly closed again.

In an instant, the battlefield was completely empty.

The figure vanished without a trace along with the flower bud.

Just seconds after everyone left, several figures suddenly appeared.

"Loo!" A rather large greyhound, drooling, looked around.

"chatter?"

"Woof~ woof woof!" The five vicious dogs noticed the abnormality almost at the same time.

In the next instant, they appeared in the center of the battlefield.

Each slender dog head was either raised or lowered, and each dog's nose twitched repeatedly.

Within this squad, there were also two human figures, a man and a woman.

One of the male disciples, a vicious dog, was kneeling on a collapsed rock peak, examining the battered mountainside and sniffing it closely.

"It's them!" The man turned to look behind him.

The vicious female disciple's face was gloomy.

These mysterious guys are something else!

It could be a coincidence if they escaped without a trace once or twice, but this has happened four or five times. How could it be a coincidence that this group of people always manages to leave first?
There must be someone like a "prophet" in this team!

Furthermore, the team members also possess the ability to teleport over a wide area.

What kind of people are they?

"Sniff~"

The man lowered his head, took another deep breath, and also smelled the lingering scent of the faceless jade vessel.

Without a doubt, this mysterious team has just killed another Faceless Jade Venerable!
During his previous tracking operations, he was able to detect the presence of the Faceless Jade Venerable on the battlefield. The problem was that he had also detected the lingering presence of other gods and demons' minions.

In other words, this powerful squad not only has the strength to defeat the Faceless Jade Venerable, but is also slaughtering the minions of gods and demons, weakening the power of the god and demon camp!

This is the fundamental reason why the vicious dog and its companion kept tracking them.

"Shall we go back and report to Lord Vicious Dog?" The male disciple's body stiffened as soon as he finished speaking. Between resisting, dodging, and silently enduring, he chose the latter.

"Boom!"

The vicious female disciple stomped on the back of the man's head, burying his skull in the collapsed mountainside: "It's been days, and we still can't find out anything!"
Go back and report now, do you want to be tortured to death by Lord Vicious Dog?

The woman grew angrier as she spoke, and she stomped her toes hard.

Don't you understand the nature of the evil god, the vicious dog?

Even if you complete the mission perfectly, you might still be tortured and used for their amusement! What's the difference between you taking back this little bit of information and asking for torture?
If you want to die, don't fucking drag me down with you!

"The longer Coco drags on, the worse it will be for us... uh."

The female disciple stomped her foot heavily, forcibly silencing the man. She looked at the vicious dogs searching around and said, "We'd better find out something before they die."

Even the Heavenly Realm's Vicious Dog has questionable intelligence; it can't articulate anything clearly.

Only when these vicious dogs die and their souls return to the evil god's true form can the vicious dog master possibly understand the whole story.

Why do we say "possibly"?
Because the evil god, the vicious dog, is not very intelligent, its ferocious bestial nature overshadows everything else. It cannot understand or is unwilling to use its brain in situations that are too complicated.

That said, it was also fortunate that none of the vicious henchmen in this squad were carrying the spirit of the god-like Greedy Wolf.

The Greedy Wolf Clan is quite different from these stupid dogs!
When gods and demons separated in the past, the Greedy Wolf (贪狼) probably took away the vast majority of their intelligence.
Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense that the vicious dog clan has teleportation while the greedy wolf clan does not.

Vicious dog: Are you envious that I can teleport?

It was traded for intelligence.

If there were any henchmen of the Greedy Wolf faction in the team, they might have already committed suicide and returned to the embrace of the gods to report this special news.

"Then let's hurry, let's investigate quickly, and give Lord Evil Dog a satisfactory answer," the male disciple of Evil Dog said in a trembling voice.

"Hmm." The vicious female disciple responded coldly, her face grim.

Unbeknownst to her, hundreds of kilometers away in the direction she was looking, a small team was waiting inside the Stone Peak Cave.

“This is the fifth time.” Deng Yuxiang lightly stroked the broken blade, his face expressionless. “It seems that a group of people is chasing us.”

The cave was dark, and the atmosphere was terrifyingly oppressive. Bai Rao stood gracefully, her beautiful eyes behind the mask revealing a terrifying divinity. She spoke calmly, "Our kill efficiency has been very high over the past month, so it's normal that we've been targeted."

Bai Yan replied, "Whether they are the same group or not, I am not sure."

After all, the intensity of the Mountain Realm battlefield is too high, and Bai Yan Hui is a person from the Sea Realm. Any invading enemy could cause unease in the heart of the spellcaster.

Deng Yuxiang said, "Let's head south and change the battlefield! This will also prevent us from slaughtering too many of our own kind of demons and monsters and attracting unnecessary attention."

Bai Rao then said, "Should we talk to Xiao Lu about this?"

Deng Yuxiang hesitated for a moment, not wanting to bother him any further.

“Nightmare Protector!” Bai Yan Hui spoke again.

"Ok?"

"I'm about to hit a bottleneck in my cultivation. Why don't we return to the mountain realm and rest for a while?" Bai Yanhui suggested.

The former master of the Valley of Innocence was no ordinary person.

Bai Yanhui was well aware of how proud this group of people were, and if he were to directly say that they wanted to "avoid the limelight," it would probably cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers.

"Elder Bai is about to advance?" Deng Yuxiang raised her eyebrows slightly, her mood unusually improved.

The stronger the prophet in the team, the better the team can carry out the mission.

"Yes." Bai Yanhui nodded.

It has been more than four months since he merged with the Cursed God Sculptor. The concentration of divine power in the Heavenly Battlefield is far beyond what Holy Spirit Mountain can match.

As a pseudo-god, Bai Yan Hui has no upper limit to cultivation, and her growth rate is truly remarkable.

"Okay." Deng Yuxiang pondered for a moment and nodded in approval of the proposal.

After more than a month of fighting, it's time to rest and recuperate. The main task is to send the holy energy contained in the afterimages of gods and demons back into the original stone sculpture.

Yan Chou, who had always been silent, suddenly said, "I will stay in the Heavenly Realm to continue collecting the Qi of the Holy Spirit."

If Yan Chou were to fight the Faceless Jade Venerable one-on-one, it would indeed be difficult.

But he was tasked with killing other gods' minions and collecting holy energy.
Yan Chou certainly possesses sufficient combat power and mobility to stir up trouble in this realm.

“You’re going on a mission alone, which makes you easy to expose.” Deng Yuxiang pondered for a moment, then shook her head.

Yan Chou frowned as he looked at the young woman.

Everyone could naturally sense the dissatisfaction of the Heavenly Realm expert, but Deng Yuxiang's attitude was firm. She looked at the man and said, "I am the captain appointed by him."

With just one sentence, Yan Chou "woke up," and his imposing aura quickly dissipated.

It was only natural for the soldiers of the Burning Gate to obey the orders of the First Protector, but facing the overly powerful former subordinates of Yunhai, Deng Yuxiang still had to use someone else's name to suppress them.

Seeing that Yan Chou had become docile, Deng Yuxiang couldn't help but picture someone's face.

It's been over a month since I last saw him. I wonder how Xiao Luran is doing.

Hmm. So, does that mean I didn't see him/her?
Her original stone sculpture, however, remained deeply embedded in his mind, never leaving it for a moment.

[Lu Ran?] Inside the sculpture garden, the Nightmare Stone Sculpture directly called out, [Little Lu Ran?]

【Huh?】 Lu Ran had just finished storing He Qifeng in his mind and returned to the ends of the earth when he heard the voice of the Great Nightmare.

Is it convenient to talk?

"What's wrong, sis? What happened?" Lu Ran asked hurriedly.

Deng Yuxiang felt a warmth in her heart, and even her cold gaze softened: "I want to lead the team back to the mountain border for a temporary rest."

Lu Ran breathed a sigh of relief: 【Great! It's been over a month, it's time for your divine and demonic afterimages to return with their supplies. Should I come pick you up?】

"No need, let's talk when we meet." Deng Yuxiang knew that Lu Ran was at Holy Spirit Mountain.

After all, Lu Ran always carried the stone statue with him, and she could naturally sense the distance between his physical body and the original statue.

"The edge of the sky." Lu Ran left those words behind and headed straight for the edge of the cliff.

Then he saw a phantom, magnificent teleportation array.

"call!!"

One by one, figures fell down, all dressed in green raincoats, blue hats, and steel masks, which filled Lu Ran with a sense of accomplishment.

"Master!"

"Young Master." In the thick fog, a group of people respectfully bowed towards the edge of the cliff, their imposing aura overwhelming!
Lu Ran was so happy!
Good, good, good, they are all my generals!

"Everyone, you've all worked hard. Did the mission go smoothly?" Lu Ran faced the sea, but turned his head 180 degrees to look at the group of powerful figures kneeling behind him.

"Our team may have been exposed. We're not sure if there's another group tracking us all along," Deng Yuxiang reported.

"Oh?" Lu Ran's expression darkened.

This matter was indeed unavoidable.

The longer they cause trouble on the Heavenly Battlefield, the greater the risk of being exposed!
After listening to Deng Yuxiang's explanation, Lu Ran nodded thoughtfully: "You should go back to the garden first."

I was thinking that since a few more members of the Burning Gate had advanced to the Heavenly Realm during this period, I could try to build a second team.

But the current situation
[Mr. Conglong.]

[Sect Leader?]

Come to the ends of the earth, let's talk.

(End of this chapter)