txolops Chapter 693 Great Battle! Escape! The Boundless Sea!
Chapter 693 Great Battle! Escape! The Boundless Sea!
The pursuers behind us are getting closer and closer.
The three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators had already entered the hall. The leader shouted and unleashed his fiery avatar, sending two enormous, sky-covering fiery palms crashing down on Chen Fan's head.
The entire hall was warped and deformed by the intense heat, and the cultivators inside scattered in terror.
Without turning his head, Chen Fan swung his sword in a backhand strike.
This sword strike combined the dual concepts of cause and effect and life and death. The gray-white sword light slashed into the giant fiery palm. The power of cause and effect disintegrated the fiery patterns in the palm inch by inch, while the power of life and death completely drained the spiritual energy and vitality from the flames.
The two giant fiery hands shattered in mid-air, turning into a rain of fire that scattered across the sky.
The mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator let out a muffled groan, and his Dharma form swayed a few times.
A look of horror flashed in his eyes!
He wondered how long this eunuch had only broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.
How could they possess such formidable combat power?
Using the recoil from the sword strike, Chen Fan fell into the teleportation array like a streak of gray lightning.
He embedded a mid-grade spirit stone into the array's core, and the teleportation array instantly lit up.
"Stop him!" The leading elder roared, leading more than a dozen Nascent Soul elders to attack together. In an instant, spiritual light soared into the sky, and a sea of fire and ice blades clashed as they poured towards the location of the teleportation array.
But it was too late.
With a flash of light from the teleportation array, Chen Fan's figure vanished from the spot. All the attacks missed their mark, striking the teleportation array and shattering the platform into pieces.
Gravel flew everywhere, and dust filled most of the teleportation hall.
After the smoke and dust cleared, only a broken array platform and rubble remained in the hall.
Chen Fan has disappeared without a trace.
The leading mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator stood before the ruins, his face ashen. After a long silence, he finally managed to squeeze out a sentence through gritted teeth: "Issue the order: Chen Fan murdered the Fourth Prince and has betrayed the Zhao Kingdom. Effective immediately, issue a warrant for his arrest throughout the entire territory. The East China Sea Army must immediately seal off Zhenhai Pass and not allow this villain to escape into the Boundless Sea."
He paused, then added in a lower voice, "Also, send this message back to the Imperial Household Department. The matter of the Fourth Prince must also be reported to the Emperor."
The other worshippers in the hall looked at each other, each with an incredulous and bewildered expression.
A gold medalist, a man who once brought great honor to the State of Zhao at the Hundred Clan Assembly.
A man who had just returned alive from the grasslands and had just broken through to the Divine Transformation stage betrayed the State of Zhao.
The cause of all this was that the Fourth Prince himself destroyed the only way for him to leave Tiannan Star!
Zhao Yan stood at the entrance of the teleportation pavilion, gazing in the direction of the Military Formation Division's teleportation hall, remaining silent for a very long time.
Han Cen and Ouyang Ye stood behind him, both with a hint of sadness on their faces. Things had developed in a way that had exceeded everyone's expectations.
"Your Highness, that teleportation array..." Han Cen asked cautiously.
Zhao Yan waved his hand, his voice sounding somewhat weary: "There's no need to chase him. Even if they try, they won't catch up. Chen Fan was able to escape from Wang Zhenyue when he was at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage. Now that he has stepped into the Divine Transformation stage, unless the King himself takes action, no one can stop him."
He turned and walked towards the palace. After a few steps, he suddenly stopped and said without turning his head, "Send down the order to raid the Fourth Prince's residence. Arrest all his accomplices. As for Duan Wuliang's family, deal with them according to the law."
Han Cen and Ouyang Ye exchanged a glance and simultaneously bowed in agreement.
Zhao Yan looked up at the horizon in the direction of the East China Sea, but he couldn't see anything there except a hazy layer of clouds.
He knew that once Chen Fan left, he would never come back.
And that's all he can do.
……
Several days later, in the depths of the boundless sea, in Black Reef City.
This black market, built on the reef island, is a place for the demonic cultivators of the Boundless Sea to conduct private transactions. Dozens of low stone buildings made of black stone are haphazardly squeezed in the center of the reef island, with only narrow alleys between them that can only allow one person to pass at a time.
The alleyway was lined with stalls selling everything from magic crystals and magical artifacts to magic pills and materials from monsters.
The air was filled with a complex stench of blood, decay, and the smell of the sea. Occasionally, a few rough curses would come from one of the stone buildings, followed by the crisp sound of a wine bowl shattering against the wall.
Chen Fan sat in a corner of a shabby tavern deep within the black market, a bowl of the cheapest, lowest-quality demonic wine in front of him. He had changed into the black robes that the demonic cultivators of the Boundless Sea were accustomed to wearing, suppressed his cultivation to the early Nascent Soul stage, and slightly altered his appearance using a character-fixing technique, making him look like a sallow-faced, unremarkable rogue cultivator.
The Black Soul Banner was tucked into his waistband, completely encased in an insulating barrier to prevent any leakage of soul power. The Golden Cicada lay quietly in his sleeve, maintaining this half-asleep, half-awake state ever since leaving the imperial city, seemingly aware that this was not the time to cause any disturbance.
A dozen or so demonic cultivators, ranging in cultivation level from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul, sat sparsely in the tavern.
At the next table, several demon cultivators at the Golden Core stage were drinking and talking loudly, their voices not too low, as if they wanted everyone around them to hear them and show that they were well-informed.
"Have you heard? Something terrible has happened in Zhao Kingdom." A demonic cultivator with a full beard took a big gulp of wine, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and lowered his voice but couldn't hide his excitement. "The Fourth Prince Zhao Yu has been killed! Right there in the Imperial Palace, in front of the Regent Crown Prince Zhao Yan, he was stabbed through the heart! Even his soul was extracted, he can't even enter the cycle of reincarnation!"
"When did you get this news?" A tall, thin demonic cultivator beside him curled his lip in disdain. "It's already spread throughout Black Reef City since yesterday. The person who killed the Fourth Prince is named Chen Fan, the same Chen Fan who won first place in the overall individual score at the Hundred Sects Conference two years ago. I heard that he was only at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage two years ago, but now he's already at the mid-stage of the Divine Transformation stage. He killed the Fourth Prince's confidant Duan Wuliang with one sword, and defeated a Divine Transformation stage Divine Transformation cultivator with another. More than a dozen Divine Transformation cultivators couldn't stop him, and he escaped through the teleportation array."
The third demonic cultivator approached; he was a bald old man with early-stage Nascent Soul cultivation. His few remaining yellow teeth were barely visible as he spoke. "Your accounts are incomplete. I just returned from the Zhao Kingdom. The latest news is that the Zhao King has personally ordered a manhunt for Chen Fan throughout Tiannan Star. A bounty of five million mid-grade spirit stones is offered, dead or alive. The four first-tier cultivation kingdoms of Dayu, Yan, Chu, and Qi have also received personal letters from the Zhao King requesting assistance in his capture. The Wang family has even added a two million spirit stone reward, and Wang Zhenyue is personally leading the team, which is already heading towards the Boundless Sea. I've heard that this man has a blood feud with the Wang family; Wang Teng and Wang Xuan both died at his hands. Now, Wang Zhenyue wishes he could skin him alive."