Chapter 938: Shocking Moment Two Wang Chaos

From the very beginning, Xu Xiaoshou had mastered Jian Nian, just as he had mastered Jin Zhao Bai Yan, which shared the same origin as Sheng Nu Wu Xiu.

Rao Yaoyao seemed to grasp what Shou Ye was implying:

Xu Xiaoshou also possessed the ability to imitate Ba Zun An.

Moreover, given Ba Zun An's current weakened state, the more carelessly Xu Xiaoshou impersonated him, the higher the status of those observing, the less likely they would dare to act or test him.

This paradoxically increased the success rate of Xu Xiaoshou's impersonation of Ba Zun An.

What's more, after Yi Zhan's death, the imitator was very likely to have fallen into Xu Xiaoshou's hands, which raised the probability of his successful impersonation to an even higher level.

"Truly not to be underestimated..."

Rao Yaoyao finally raised her guard to the fullest.

Shou Ye's words were harsh, but they were undeniably true and had their reasons.

If she fell into Sheng Nu's trap and was surrounded by multiple enemies, treating Xu Xiaoshou with the same previous disdain, even she, Rao Yaoyao, would not escape unscathed.

But...

The only thing hard to accept was...

He had only just broken through to the Grandmaster realm under my sword not long ago... Rao Yaoyao furrowed her brow, truly struggling to accept that a mere Grandmaster junior could pose a threat to someone of Tai Xu's level.

"Let's go out!"

Having learned what she needed, Rao Yaoyao waited no longer. She had Wang Da Chui dispel the domain seal and led Shou Ye back into the view of the others.

"Ji Jian Pan."

She personally took the Ji Jian Pan, then examined the recorded battle traces in the disk while cross-refercing the scene, but found no traces of Huang Quan or Ba Zun An's departure.

The only remaining traceable mark at the site was the spatial channel aura left by the spatial attribute stowaway.

A spatial attribute stowaway... Rao Yaoyao pondered, thinking that since Huang Quan and another spatial attribute stowaway had appeared simultaneously, based on probability, there shouldn't be a third spatial attribute individual in the Yunlun Mountains.

So,

The spatial attribute stowaway who finally escaped was very likely the white-haired, short-statured youth she had previously focused on, whom she had tested with the Spatial Source Stone, only for the action to be disrupted by Xu Xiaoshou, Jiang Xian, and others, and ultimately abandoned due to a series of pressing events.

This was merely a suspicion.

Rao Yaoyao didn't verify it immediately. Instead, she personally approached the lingering fluctuations of the spatial channel.

After such a long delay, the residual spatial traces had mostly dissipated.

Fortunately, the Ji Jian Pan had recorded the coordinates of the 362 spatial channel exits. Rao Yaoyao unleashed a spatial fragmentation flow with her sword, verifying each one, but still found no significant clues.

The spatial fragmentation flow was too chaotic; in an instant, it could erase many traces, let alone after so much time had passed.

Standing beside the spatial fragmentation flow, Rao Yaoyao didn't feel discouraged.

For her, this was merely the beginning of the mission. She had handled more complex and difficult tracking cases before.

"The appearance of the spatial attribute stowaway—show it to me."

Rao Yaoyao extended her hand, and Shou Ye stepped forward, handing over the jade slip that Zhu Mi Er had previously recorded.

He also shared his thoughts:

"I suspect he is Ye Xiaotian, the inner court dean of Tian Sang Ling Gong in Tian Sang City."

Rao Yaoyao's brow twitched slightly.

Her spiritual sense scanned the jade slip, and she recognized that this was indeed the person she had previously tested with the Spatial Source Stone.

So, back then, he didn't take the Spatial Source Stone because he had anticipated my test? How clever... A smile curved at the corner of Rao Yaoyao's lips. Meeting Shou Ye's serious gaze, she said softly:

"I suspect the same."

Suspicion wasn't enough.

Rao Yaoyao was a woman of action.

She immediately turned to her subordinates and said gravely:

"Send a message to the Sheng Shen Dian Tang headquarters in Dong Tian Wang City at once. Have them contact Tian Sang City's city lord's mansion and obtain all information on Ye Xiaotian, the dean of Tian Sang Ling Gong, then dispatch people to verify it in person.

"I don't want hearsay; I want the Tian Sang City city lord to see it with his own eyes and personally reply to me with all verified intelligence.

"After that, have the Sheng Shen Dian Tang headquarters in Dong Tian Wang City send people to Tian Sang City for verification. If what the city lord says doesn't match what our people find... Take down the Tian Sang City city lord's mansion directly!

"As for Ye Xiaotian..."

Rao Yaoyao methodically issued all the procedures, then her lips curved up in amusement: "If things go as expected, you should be able to submit a resignation report from Ye Xiaotian to me, and while you're at it, tell me who the new dean of Tian Sang Ling Gong is."

"Yes!"

The surrounding red-clad individuals listened intently, feeling a chill.

In just a moment, Sword Immortal Rao had deduced the answer she most wanted—the one most likely to be correct.

Furthermore, she had factored in possibilities like the city lord's mansion colluding with Tian Sang Ling Gong and given clear directives.

How much time had passed from start to finish?

Even Shou Ye couldn't help but marvel; this was truly worthy of the red-clad Dao master, with reasoning as clear as could be!

The surrounding Dao-cutting subordinates acknowledged the orders and withdrew. Rao Yaoyao turned her gaze back to the spatial rift.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, dividing her spiritual sense into 362 parts that instantly pierced through the spatial fragmentation flow and reached the 362 exits.

Still no clues...

After all, too much time had passed.

"You mentioned earlier that Murong Ying and one of his team members had already gone to that one abnormal spatial channel exit?" Rao Yaoyao asked.

"Yes, Sword Immortal Rao," Zhu Mi Er stepped forward respectfully. "The captain identified an issue with one of the spatial channel exits and didn't delay for a second; he immediately took someone to trace it."

They've fallen for it... Rao Yaoyao smiled inwardly, not believing that the cunning fox-like Ye Xiaotian would leave such an obvious flaw.

She quickly realized:

If Ye Xiaotian had been there, he could have erased all spatial traces.

But leaving 362 channel exits was clearly to mislead.

Then, creating an anomaly at one of the exits was just to sow confusion amid the misdirection, making people firmly believe in the "correct answer" they had worked hard to find, only to waste more time and effort chasing it.

But it didn't matter...

"With plenty of enforcers, even if there's just a sliver of possibility, we can send people to verify. Perhaps that's what Murong Ying is thinking too." Rao Yaoyao had considered this as well.

Since that single anomaly was being followed by Murong Ying, it probably wouldn't lead to major changes.

Rao Yaoyao noticed the increasing number of enforcers around and pressed the communication device on her earlobe, ordering the enforcers still en route not to come.

Here, they already had enough manpower.

"Based on what Shou Ye said, we can track Ye Xiaotian for now, but Huang Quan and Ba Zun An are the priorities—especially since the latter might be Xu Xiaoshou in disguise.

"Even if Shou Ye's guess is wrong and Ba Zun An isn't Xu Xiaoshou, the whereabouts of these two will become even more crucial!

"One is a Yan Wang cultivator, the other a Sheng Nu leader..."

Rao Yaoyao suddenly sharpened her gaze, expanding and broadening her spiritual sense to search for any anomalies in the Yunlun Mountains.

But as soon as her spiritual sense spread, all the stowaways seemed to sense it and hid themselves in advance.

Thus, this sweep yielded nothing for Rao Yaoyao.

Like rats scurrying in the shadows... Rao Yaoyao couldn't help but curse inwardly, but there was nothing she could do. If the traces of Yan Wang and Sheng Nu were that easy to follow, they wouldn't deserve those titles.

"Spread out!

"Search every inch of the ground!"

Rao Yaoyao resorted to the most basic method of thorough scanning.

The Dao-cutting and Wang Zuo enforcers responded and scattered, quickly getting to work.

At that moment, a small disturbance erupted at the nearby forest path entrance.

"What happened?" Rao Yaoyao looked over.

She saw a disheveled man burst out from the forest exit. His face was caked with layers of grime, making it impossible to see his features, and he wore only a pair of floral underwear, looking utterly bizarre.

He had clearly been captured by the enforcers conducting the exhaustive search.

"Sword Immortal Rao!"

Zhu Mi Er from Murong Ying's team hurried over, nearly tripping as she ran, her expression full of panic: "Sword Immortal Rao, there's—there's a situation..."

Rao Yaoyao's eyelids lowered, her eyes turning icy.

Zhu Mi Er was at the Wang Zuo Dao realm—what could have frightened her like this?

The fear from deep within her soul was palpable even from a distance.

"Speak!" she said coldly.

Zhu Mi Er's teeth chattered, her face deathly pale as she bowed: "Reporting to Sword Immortal Rao, we found someone nearby, but it's not an enemy—it's one of our own..."

Rao Yaoyao was surprised: "An enforcer?"

"Y-Yes..." Zhu Mi Er looked as if she'd seen a ghost, still trembling as she stammered, "He's not just any enforcer; he's my teammate, under our team captain Murong Ying..."

Rao Yaoyao knew of Murong Ying.

This Dao-cutting captain was currently tracking the anomalous spatial fluctuations left by Ye Xiaotian with one of his team members.

"So?" Rao Yaoyao released her spiritual sense to soothe Zhu Mi Er's panic, choosing not to shout.

Zhu Mi Er felt the power of Tai Xu and calmed slightly, but remnants of terror lingered.

She pointed back at her teammate, who was covering his lower body and chest while hunching his legs: "He—he's called Wang Chao..."

"Wang Chao?" Rao Yaoyao was puzzled. "Is there a problem?"

"Yes!" Zhu Mi Er's skin prickled with goosebumps, as if reaching the most terrifying part. She shifted her finger toward the spatial rift behind Rao Yaoyao and said fearfully:

"Sword Immortal Rao, before you arrived, our captain Murong Ying had already entered the spatial rift with one of his team members...

"He—he's also called Wang Chao!"

Rao Yaoyao froze on the spot.

Beside her, several Dao-cutting guards who hadn't yet left, including Shou Ye and Wang Da Chui, also froze.

Then, a chill ran down everyone's spines, as if they'd encountered a ghost. They all instinctively leaped away from the spatial rift, distancing themselves by a full zhang!

"Are you joking?" Wang Da Chui widened his eyes, staring at Zhu Mi Er. "You're scaring me to death!"

"I'm not joking..." Zhu Mi Er said, feeling wronged: "We verified this Wang Chao—his details, speech, behavior, everything is the normal Wang Chao.

"But—the one who went with Captain Murong Ying was also normal.

"He was normal enough that he and the captain discovered Yan Wang and Sheng Nu together, exchanged information, acted together, and left together...

"For such a long time, neither the captain nor any of us noticed anything wrong with that Wang Chao!"

Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.

Two Wang Chaos?

This was too horrifying!

If the one here was the real Wang Chao, verifiable by identity, then what on earth was the one Murong Ying took with him?

Shou Ye felt a shiver run through him.

He'd dealt with ghost beasts for half his life, and while the "ghost" in their name often just meant they were dim-witted, they weren't much to fear with proper preparation.

But these "two Wang Chaos" were genuinely ghost-like, sending chills unrelated to cultivation or realm—just from the event itself.

"Wait...

"Ghost? The second Wang Chao?"

Shou Ye's thoughts stalled for a moment, then snapped back from somewhere.

Wasn't this similar to his earlier prediction?

The only difference was that the main character had shifted from the Eighth Sword Immortal to the unassuming Wang Chao, so no one had reacted at first...

Shou Ye turned to look at Rao Yaoyao and saw that Sword Immortal Rao was gazing back at him with the same realization.

The two paused for half a breath before saying in unison:

"Xu Xiaoshou!"

A wailing wind, like the howl of ghosts and wolves, echoed from the cliff and soared into the sky.

Amid the swirling mist, Ye Xiaotian landed on the cliff's peak, feeling as if he were standing in a sea of clouds.

He was covered in blood but didn't care; he was only in awe of the world below the high cliff.

The cliff was clearly once part of a towering mountain, but now it had been split in half, as if by a god's massive sword.

The released force had ravaged the surrounding areas on both sides.

With such a high cliff cleaved in two, the sky now poured in endless clouds, and the base flooded with vast seawater, inspiring sheer dread.

"Is there such a high cliff in the Yunlun Mountains?

"And the sword intent here doesn't seem ancient; it feels newly formed..."

Ye Xiaotian marveled, touching the rubble beneath him. As he used Sang Lao's pills to heal, his thoughts wandered.

This sword scar, which had so powerfully split the cliff, made him think of one person...

The Eighth Sword Immortal!

He recalled the rumors from the Wang City night battle: In a critical moment, a figure had suddenly appeared in the Yunlun Mountains. That figure manifested a great Buddha, who wielded a sword that lit up the night, drawing all of Sheng Shen Dian Tang's forces back to defend the Yunlun Mountains, and summoned the Sky City containing the Feng Sheng Dao Ji above Wang City!

"Is this the site?"

Ye Xiaotian remembered the information spread by residents near the Yunlun Mountains after the Wang City night battle. Feeling the shocking sword scars around him, he was deeply moved.

Ba Zun An had inexplicably saved his life, and now he had inexplicably arrived at the origin of the Great Buddha Slash...

Coincidence?

Or fate?