Chapter 344: Tearing

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Under the cover of night, without alerting anyone, Chen Fei smoothly scaled the city wall. Even the soldiers patrolling back and forth on the wall only felt a gust of wind pass by.

Upon closer inspection, they noticed nothing unusual.

These soldiers didn’t suspect a thing because for someone to cross over their defenses at such speed, they must be a cultivator at the aperture tempering realm. Aperture tempering realm cultivators find it extremely difficult to conceal their aura due to the interaction of their acupoints and vital energy.

Yet, just now, they hadn’t sensed any aperture tempering realm aura.

Chen Fei carried Chou Yuanceng and landed in a corner. There was no one on the streets of Shang Wu City. Apparently, facing the siege of the Yashan Army outside, Shang Wu City had imposed a curfew and no one was allowed to run around at night.

“Where does your friend live?” Chen Fei turned to look at Chou Yuanceng.

“Over there.” Chou Yuanceng had identified his surroundings and pointed to the right.

Chen Fei nodded. His figure moved slightly and disappeared from the spot.

In Shang Wu City, there were still soldiers patrolling back and forth. However, compared to the impenetrable figures on the city wall, the patrols in the city were not as exaggerated. Most of the time, these soldiers were maintaining order in the city.

With the Yashan Army surrounding them, if the city was in chaos or if someone was trying to cause trouble, Shang Wu City would be in trouble.

Chen Fei carried Chou Yuanceng and continued forward, avoiding the soldiers along the way. In less than ten minutes, Chen Fei stopped in front of a mansion. Chou Yuanceng’s friend usually lived here.

Chen Fei raised his head and looked at the manor. The plaque read, Zhao Manor.

The entire mansion was huge, but there was no aura of an aperture tempering realm cultivator in the mansion. The place with the thickest aura of the aperture tempering realm was the city lord’s mansion in the distance.

Chou Yuanceng had also sensed the aura in the mansion. He glanced at Chen Fei and saw that Chen Fei was not angry. He let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

Chen Fei carried Chou Yuanceng and leaped into the mansion.

“Over there.”

Chou Yuanceng hurriedly pointed at a location. Chen Fei’s figure flashed and landed in the main courtyard. In the Zhao Mansion, all the family members were present. Chen Fei could even sense a few of the cultivators at the Visceral Tempering realm.

Looking at the situation, the possibility of Chou Yuanceng’s friend leaving was not high.

Chen Fei brought Chou Yuanceng to the study room. Seeing that the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone in the study room had traces of being used, his expression relaxed slightly. It seemed that this trip had not been a failure.

“He might have been summoned by the city lord’s manor. The Yashan Army is besieging the city, so they will definitely send aperture tempering realm cultivators to discuss. Are we going to wait here for him to come back?”

Seeing the situation in the study room, Chou Yuanceng seemed to be quite happy. His face revealed a relaxed expression as he walked to a chair at the side and sat down.

“Crack!”

Just as Chou Yuanceng sat down, a soft and inaudible sound of a mechanism rang out. Chen Fei turned to look at Chou Yuanceng, who revealed a smug smile to Chen Fei.

In the next moment, Chou Yuanceng’s figure and the chair disappeared. A sword light flashed through the air, but it only hit the wall behind the chair, leaving a fine mark.

Chen Fei flashed to the original seat and found that there was an additional hole. As soon as Chen Fei’s head reached over, countless steel needles as thin as cow hair surged out of the hole.

Before the steel needles arrived, a fishy and sweet smell had already spread in the surroundings, making people feel drowsy and sleepy. Their sea of consciousness was turbid, and even their spiritual wisdom was suppressed.

“Chi chi chi…”

Countless steel needles pierced through the roof of the study and flew into the sky. The power of the needles was extremely strong. Even if one was at the aperture tempering realm, they could be injured if they were careless.

Even with his aperture tempering realm cultivation, it would take some time to expel the poison from his body.

“Buzz!”

Countless formation patterns lit up around the study. In an instant, a formation rose up and enveloped the entire study. At the same time, an ear-piercing shriek resounded throughout the entire Zhao Mansion and even the entire Shang Wu City.

Shang Wu City was already in a sensitive state of vigilance. As soon as the sharp whistle sounded, everyone turned their eyes to the Zhao Mansion. From the position of the City Lord’s Mansion, several auras rose and pounced towards the Zhao Mansion.

Looking at their auras, there were several aperture tempering realm cultivators, and two of them were at the middle stage of the aperture tempering realm.

In the study, Chen Fei walked to the hole. At this moment, there were no hidden weapons flying out, but the hole was also sealed by a huge iron plate.

With just a glance, Chen Fei recognized that this iron plate was forged from iron essence. The characteristic of this iron essence was extremely simple, and that was its sturdiness.

Ordinary aperture tempering realm primary stage cultivators would need at least a few moves to break this iron plate. Moreover, the study room was already locked by a formation.

This formation was magnificent. All the power contained in it was not used to attack, but to seal. When a formation specialized in one area, it also meant that this ability would reach an extremely strong level.

At this moment, the only way to break this formation was to break this iron plate. It would take time, and Chou Yuanceng had already escaped.

The people who were trapped here, apart from being unable to capture Chou Yuanceng, had to face the aperture tempering realm cultivators who had rushed over from the City Lord’s Mansion and explain to them what was going on.

It was hard to say if the aperture tempering realm cultivators of Shang Wu City would be willing to listen.

“You’re indeed as cunning as a fox.”

Chen Fei looked at everything before him and chuckled softly. In the next moment, Chen Fei’s body swayed slightly and dissipated into vital energy.

This wasn’t Chen Fei’s real body, but his shadow clone. At this moment, Chen Fei’s real body was standing in a corner of Shang Wu City. The rat demon in his sleeve jumped onto Chen Fei’s shoulder. Its nose kept trembling, and then it turned into a black light and rushed forward.

Chen Fei’s ears moved slightly. The special characteristic of the wind gathering technique was displayed to the extreme by Chen Fei.

Hundreds of meters below Shang Wu City, Chou Yuanceng came to a secret chamber through a secret mechanism. This secret chamber was quite large. Formation patterns appeared on the walls of the secret chamber, covering everything here.

At this moment, in the secret chamber, a figure sat cross-legged in a blood tank filled with blood. Traces of vital energy were guided by the formation patterns and slowly injected into this figure, maintaining the figure’s vitality.

Chou Yuanceng looked at the figure and walked to the blood tank. He grabbed the figure’s head and used the most forbidden technique of the Blood Origin Technique, Blood Spirit Possession!

The person in the blood tank was Chou Yuanceng’s best friend. Of course, the other party had treated Chou Yuanceng as his life and death friend. One day, Chou Yuanceng had sneakily attacked him and refined him into his current appearance before placing him here.

This Blood Origin Technique was an extremely pure demonic technique. Everything was for the sake of becoming stronger, and everything was for the sake of survival. When he encountered irreversible injuries, there was still a way to seize the body.

Since that was the case, Chou Yuanceng naturally had to prepare a path for himself. After all, there were still so many people stronger than him in this world. Who knows, something might happen one day.

This Zhao Mansion, his family, the traces of the study, everything was meticulously arranged by Chou Yuanceng. This was his backup plan.

If anything happened, the arrangements here would come in handy.

Ever since Chou Yuanceng was defeated by Chen Fei, he had planned to lure Chen Fei here. This was the path of retreat he had prepared for himself, a path of survival after death.

However, there was one thing that Chou Yuanceng had not lied about. His best friend had indeed cultivated the Great Thunder Sword. If not for that, Chou Yuanceng would not have known some information about the Great Thunder Sword.

Chou Yuanceng’s body began to split open, and blood began to gush out, climbing onto the figure in the blood tank.

This was the Blood Spirit Possession. It wasn’t just a forceful possession of the mind. The power of the blood within the Blood Origin Technique made it even easier to possess.

“All!”

A low growl was emitted from Chou Yuanceng’s mouth. Possession was an extremely painful matter for both the possessor and the person being possessed.

However, the person in the blood tank had already lost his consciousness. He only had physical strength and no spiritual intelligence, so he naturally couldn’t feel any pain.

It was very difficult for other cultivation techniques to allow people without spiritual intelligence to continue living. This involved extremely exquisite control methods, but the Blood Origin Technique could.

Chou Yuanceng’s pale face turned into a sinister expression. The blood essence flowing out of his body was the essence of the Blood Origin Technique. This was the true essence of this technique.

“Bang!”

Suddenly, a muffled sound rang out in the secret chamber, or rather, on the wall of the secret chamber.

Chou Yuanceng was suddenly shocked. He turned to look at the wall, where a crack had appeared. Before Chou Yuanceng could react, another muffled sound rang out. The crack on the wall widened and then shattered.

From the hole, two hands reached in. These two hands grabbed the two sides of the wall and began to tear the wall made of iron essence.

“Kakaka!”

An ear-piercing sound rang out in the secret chamber. Chou Yuanceng had watched helplessly as the wall was torn apart by this terrifying force.

The iron essence was unable to block an attack that was too strong, but Chou Yuanceng had never thought that the iron essence would be torn apart by such pure brute force. What kind of terrifying power was this?

A huge hole was torn in the wall. Chen Fei walked in from the outside. When he saw the scene in the secret room, a smile appeared on his face.

“How could you come so quickly?”

Chou Yuanceng stared at Chen Fei, his eyes filled with fear and confusion. Chou Yuanceng had put in a lot of effort to set up the formation in the mansion. Even a middle-stage aperture tempering realm expert would be trapped for more than an hour.

Even if Chou Yuanceng himself was sealed by such a formation, he probably wouldn’t be able to come out for an hour.

Given the current situation in Shang Wu City, the Aperture Tempering realm experts of the City Lord Mansion would never let Chen Fei escape easily.

Chen Fei didn’t answer Chou Yuanceng’s question. After Chou Yuanceng cultivated the Blood Origin Technique, he had a tyrannical aura. Chen Fei didn’t believe that such a person would have any good friends.

Chen Fei walked towards the blood tank step by step. Chou Yuanceng had wanted to move, but he realized that he could no longer move. Once the Blood Spirit Possession was activated, he could not do anything else before it succeeded.

Fifteen minutes was enough, and the time for planning was also sufficient. However, Chen Fei had appeared.

Chen Fei stood in front of the blood tank and looked at the figure in the blood tank. Chen Fei could feel the aura of the Great Thunder Sword from him..