Chapter 1224: He Resembles a Blue Bird

"A resilient young man, indeed," the voice behind him said. "I believe you're not yet twenty?"

The voice was so close to the back of his neck that Jiang Wang could feel the terrifying sensation of his fine hairs being stirred by breath!

But...

He turned abruptly, his Changxiangsi unsheathing with a clang—

His only response was a single sword strike!

A stroke left and a flick right, forming the character for "person" (人)!

In that instant of turning, he also "saw" the formidable cultivator pursuing him—

There was only the outline of a figure. Its appearance, height, and clothing were all obscured from view. Even the outline itself was merely the terrifying trace left by the diffusion of potent energy in the air.

He looked at his opponent but could not see them!

Then, *clang*!

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The outline of a slender finger flicked out, striking directly against the blade of the Changxiangsi.

The sword stance, which he had relied on as a killer move, was thus easily shattered. Terrifying force poured into the long sword.

Jiang Wang refused to let go, his body following the sword!

Suddenly, he was sent reeling more than ten *zhang* back!

Forcing down the nausea, cutting off despair, suppressing his surging qi and blood! His body was still helplessly flying backward, but a cyan cloud mark appeared at his feet. With a light tap, he veered north.

"A promising sword technique," the peculiar female voice commented.

The humanoid outline, still the only visible form, abruptly appeared in his path!

A sound like a tidal wave erupted.

Eight Tones Burning Sea spread out before him.

But before a single vertical cut, the waves of sound and flame dispersed.

Jiang Wang spun sharply in the air, then turned east.

A palm struck from the east, just in time.

Jiang Wang felt as if he had collided with an iron wall.

Under the tremendous momentum, he felt almost as if he had been flattened into a meat patty!

His internal organs felt as though they had been displaced.

He used the force to his advantage, falling backward, then pushing off with his feet. The cyan cloud mark dispersed, and he moved several *zhang* to the west.

Benefiting from the immense and stable Heaven and Earth Solitary Island, the vast rooms opened within his Inner Mansion, and his abundant reserves of Dao Yuan, Jiang Wang quickly regained control of his body. He executed a backflip in mid-air, righting himself, and sped westward.

"You think you can escape? Even if Yue Lengli rushes back with a guilty conscience, he won't be able to save you!"

High in the sky, the bright moon suddenly swayed, and beams of frosty light fell in streams.

Jiang Wang, stepping on cyan clouds, dodged frantically.

A moon beam landed beside him, silently piercing the mountain peak below. He stole a sudden, terrified glance—it had drilled an unknown depth into the dark earth!

This attack was absolutely impossible for a physical body to withstand!

Jiang Wang shifted left and right, up and down, pushing the Step-on-Cyan-Cloud technique to its limit, constantly evading the terrifying moon beam attacks.

Under the night sky, on the barren mountain.

Laborious and arduous, his form was like a coiled dragon.

Moonlight was a forest, and he was like a cyan bird!

"Beautiful footwork!" the peculiar female voice said.

She seemed to greatly admire the scene before her, praising it.

"Every twenty breaths from now on, the speed of these moon beams will increase by ten percent, and their number will also increase by ten percent,"

She spoke with encouragement, "Jiang Tianjiao, please exert yourself."

The gap in strength was like a chasm, completely insurmountable.

This suddenly appearing powerhouse seemed to have a twisted taste, wanting to enjoy the sight of his desperate struggle.

And Jiang Wang...

Could only struggle!

The moon beams became faster and more numerous.

Jiang Wang was completely surviving in the gaps, flying along the edge of a cliff.

He was like a bird fallen into a trap, no matter how much it flapped its wings, it couldn't fly out of the cage!

The time limit for his Sound Perception Immortal State had long passed.

But he remained completely focused, constantly observing his surroundings. He observed with his eyes, listened with his ears, smelled with his nose, and felt with his heart.

Distant mountains, dense forests, the long night...

The startled chirping of insects and birds, the sound of his clothes tearing through the wind, the sound of his own blood surging violently...

Everything he saw, heard, and smelled was constantly combining in his mind, searching for that slim possibility of victory.

The cyan cloud mark shattered and reappeared.

Under the autumn moon, the contemporary Tianjiao in his cyan robe dashed left and right. Traces of blood were still at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes showed no panic, only determination.

He did not know where the enemy came from, who the enemy was, how he could escape, or when the end would come!

But he struggled determinedly.

Exhausting everything he had, doing everything he could.

The mountain hollow where the culprit apprehension team had dispersed was surprisingly tranquil.

When Li Youji flew back, Yue Leng was looking around at something.

"Lord Yue!" Li Youji asked, "Did you get him?"

"He ran!" Yue Leng retorted, "How about your side?"

Li Youji shook his head, "These little scoundrels, they run really fast."

"Oh, right." He asked again, "Where's Jiang Wang?"

"Don't know." Yue Leng looked around, "I just got back too, and I haven't seen a soul."

"Are there any signs of a fight?" Li Youji asked with some seriousness.

"Haven't found any either," Yue Leng said.

Li Youji focused his divine sense on his eyes, scanned the area, pointed at a special mark on a mountain rock, and chuckled, "This kid went back first!"

Yue Leng was no stranger to the special marks of the Green Card. After seeing it, he also breathed a sigh of relief, "If anything were to happen to the Yellow River Champion, we would both be held responsible."

Li Youji's tone was also relaxed, "If we really lost the pride of the nation, I would be primarily responsible, after all, I was the one who brought him out to apprehend the culprits."

"Alright, let's go back first." Yue Leng was in no mood for jokes, "This matter of the Yang Kingdom remnants is not that simple. These two people being able to escape from us means their strength is naturally extraordinary. Can a displaced prince of the Yang Kingdom have such great power?"

Li Youji also nodded, "This case needs to be further investigated. But it's also possible they hired people. It's not strange for that Yang Xuance to have something like a 'restoration treasury' as a bargaining chip. Oh, by the way, did you catch any information about the person you were chasing? Was it a King Yama from the Hell Without Doors?"

Yue Leng said, "It shouldn't be a King Yama. But I couldn't discern their origins either, they escaped too quickly."

Li Youji agreed, "Yes, I don't know where they came from. These black rats, every single one of them, are very good at hiding!"

The two God-Descending Realm constables thus chatted all the way back to the State of Qi.

"What? Constable Jiang hasn't returned?" In the secret Green Card stronghold in Lucheng, Li Youji asked with a frown.

Lin Youxie was painting at the time, depicting the body hanging before the city gate... This was, of course, a drawing of Huang Yihang's fatal fall.

Upon hearing the question, she paused her fine brush, "Didn't Lord Jiang go with you to apprehend the Yang family remnants? Why are you and Lord Yue the only ones back?"

Yue Leng's face turned very grim. He abruptly turned to Li Youji, "You are responsible for this!"

"The responsibility that belongs to me, Li, I will never shirk," Li Youji's voice also turned cold, "However, you should seriously consider how to explain the matter of following us halfway!"

The two people who had just been acting like close comrades were instantly at loggerheads!

The truth was, the current Jiang Wang was no longer an insignificant minor character. He was a peerless Tianjiao with a third-rank official position, a flag-bearer for the younger generation of Great Qi!

Lin Youxie lowered her gaze, resting it on a piece of unfinished black tile in the painting.

Just at this moment, a minor official hurried in, holding a jade slip in his hand.

"Is there any urgent news?" Li Youji asked.

This minor official was from this secret liaison point and naturally recognized the three of them.

Upon hearing the question, he directly reported, "Something has happened to the chief constable of Zhaoxiang City, his entire family has been wiped out!"

"Including the chief constable?" Lin Youxie asked.

The minor official replied, "Including him, the entire family, not a single survivor."

Yue Leng had also learned about the case Jiang Wang and Lin Youxie were investigating, so he naturally knew what role the chief constable of Zhaoxiang City played.

Therefore, he asked, "Are there any clues now?"

The minor official said somewhat nervously, "Lord Jiang investigated there!"