Chapter 2447: Danger

Wind passes over the long sea, no time for self-pity.Ten thousand li of clouds come, what regrets are there?

Xiashi Commander Qi Wen stands on the deck of the disaster warship, gazing at the distant sky. He sees only dense ghost fog, like smoke, spreading through the sea of clouds. Ji Xuan Zhen holds the Sky-Cutting Ghost in his hand, firmly gripping the four directions. Large masses of dark clouds, the terrifying power of the Derived Dao level, continuously fall into the sea.

In a sense, King Jin of Jing Country killing Bo Lu in the nearby sea today also gives a great gift to the people of Qi.

He will enjoy the most precious part of this gift.

After all, when a True Monarch dies, it greatly benefits heaven. Bo Lu's Dao body is an immense supplement to the nearby sea archipelago, and he has already received the appointment of the Great Qi Maritime Affairs Military Supervisor. He is the highest military chief of the nearby sea archipelago.

The reason this position doesn't use the more fitting title of "Nearby Sea Military Supervisor" is naturally to avoid touching on the sensitive nerves of other countries, saying that Qi Country occupies the sea border as its own – although this is practically the case, it's best not to express it like this. The sea border is the shared sea border of the human race; all sides have responsibility and all have authority.

He indeed caught a good time, picking up the benefits of the collapse of the Middle Ancient Heavenly Road and Jing Country's comprehensive withdrawal from the nearby sea for free.

But it is also the result of his efforts to seize opportunities.

The duty of the "Great Qi Maritime Affairs Military Supervisor" is to "supervise the nearby sea military."

The one qualified to compete with him for this position was Tian An Ping.

Regardless of the comparison of strength between the two, or their performance in the last nearby sea change, or even the clearly visible future, he was inferior. His advantage lay in being reliable, stable, the kind of person who can steadily get things done without causing trouble. The nearby sea now needs stability.

However, Tian An Ping doesn't seem interested in this position. Since the nearby sea change, he has been in seclusion until now.

He didn't have to contend much; the competition ended just like that.

Someone like Tian An Ping indeed wouldn't choose the official path to cultivate.

And for him, the advantages of the official path are manifesting – the faintly visible Cave True gateway ahead became clear the moment Qi Country's sea power was established. And before the "Great Qi Maritime Affairs Military Supervisor" appointment was issued, he had already quietly and silently become an official path True Person.

Grasping nine armies, governing the vastness of the nearby sea. With more time and management, given the potential of the nearby sea archipelago, looking towards an official path True Monarch is not entirely impossible.

This place is not inferior to South Xia.

Father used to often say that older sister was a person without fortune, "enjoying glory for long, or as injury," so no matter what, he wasn't willing to hand over the Qi family to her. Now, perhaps it has been verified.

He, however, is a fortunate one.

How many years he just sat quietly waiting at home in Dong Lai.

Once he came out of the mountain, fate turned out like this for all sides. The foundation Qi Xiao laid during his years of fighting on Jue Ming Island all became his current provisions.

The Xiashi army is conducting military exercises today. The Great Qi Maritime Affairs Supervisor, Court Discussing Doctor, and Town Sea Alliance Leader Ye Hen Shui are also patrolling and governing the various islands today. Of course, this is all to guard against accidents caused by Ji Xuan Zhen and Bo Lu fighting here, under the guise of "vigilance against Equality Country." But they all understand that Equality Country members will not come.

Qi Wen opens his palm. A door, virtually suspended in his palm, is left red and right black. This door seems like a fleeting glimpse, hiding between the virtual and real.

"Fortune, ah, disaster depends on; disaster, ah, fortune latent."

He also doesn't know who will find disaster or fortune in today's matter?

He sighs slightly, cuts off the emotions in his heart, and subconsciously looks up—

But sees in the distant sky, black rain suddenly falls.

Deep and gloomy black raindrops, in the process of falling, turn into burning black paper balls. The sea wind blows, and they then unfold freely in the air.

They are paper figures, each wearing different official robes, with their main bodies all black.

These paper figures all have exaggerated expressions outlined with vermilion brushstrokes. They laugh, are angry, or scold, a mix of red in black. The paper figures either hold knives, raise banners, or drag long chains, unexpectedly covering the sky, like dark clouds overhead.

Terrifying power brews within them.

As if hell has already descended.

Vaguely in the midst, a strange voice sounds: "Equality志士, come to welcome and protect the Dao person!"

Unexpectedly, someone really comes to save Bo Lu!

Is Equality Country that desperate?!

Not only Qi Wen is greatly surprised.

Even Ji Xuan Zhen, who was fishing, is quite unexpected.

He is fishing, but he fundamentally doesn't think he can catch a fish. He was long prepared for an empty rod.

A straight hook with salty bait, and yet, willing ones come themselves.

"Good one, Equality志士! Count it as having two taels of dog guts. Let this king see your methods!" Ji Xuan Zhen's right palm, holding the Sky-Cutting Ghost like a knife, suddenly spreads out his left hand. He just grabs in the air—

Ten thousand li of smoke and clouds vanish!

The black paper figures covering the sky, and even that vaguely strange voice, are all grabbed in one go. They pose absolutely no hindrance.

The brewing wind and rain storm is directly aborted in the womb.

"Only this much?!"

"Sage Duke?!"

"Divine Hero?!"

"Zhao King?!"

These underworld paper figures are still considered not bad methods.

But what Ji Xuan Zhen has painstakingly fished for here, what he wants to welcome, how can it only be this level of battle?

Without even reaching the Derived Dao level, how can he be satisfied with this hasty clash!

He closes his five fingers. The Yuan force in the high sky surges like a huge funnel, connecting the sea and sky. The airflow outside the funnel, floating like tentacles, intertwines in an instant, instantly collapses, shrinks, and solidifies, forming an ancient, bright yellow giant bell with a breath of time.

Music is divided into twelve pitches.

This is the central yellow bell!

The moment this bright yellow giant bell forms, there is a grand sound, washing over heaven and sea, searching indiscriminately in all directions.

The so-called "yellow bell great chime" is this sound.

As soon as this sound rings, Ji Xuan Zhen knows something is not right.

What underworld paper figures, what Equality志士, though an exaggerated bubble. The subsequent offensive is rootless water, fundamentally just a splash.

The central yellow bell exhaustively searches the thousand-li sea domain, but cannot find any trace of the opponent making a move.

The one who made a move is not even here.

This doesn't count as a true move; the opponent doesn't have the courage to truly stand before him.

At the same time, intelligence from the Mirror World Platform continuously flies in, continuously alerting—

On De Qiao Island, on You Xia Island, on Huan Island, on Small Crescent Island... In the skies above these islands, the Qian Tian Mirror has captured traces of mysterious experts rapidly approaching the maritime battlefield!

The officials from the Mirror World Platform responsible for handling this intelligence issue an emergency alert, suspecting a large-scale attack by Equality Country.

Ji Xuan Zhen, however, only gives a cold snort.

Bluffing!

If Equality Country truly made a large-scale move, daring a decisive battle at sea, it would be impossible for their traces to be captured so easily.

The methods that appeared in these places should belong to the same category as those underworld paper figures, though they blew up a bubble. They are even weaker; these methods don't dare to truly approach this battlefield, only daring to pretend to approach from afar.

What is their purpose?

To delay Bo Lu's death? To probe the reality?

Ji Xuan Zhen is a person who doesn't like carrying questions forward. While continuing to suppress Bo Lu, he pushes the central yellow bell outward and grabs towards the sky with a big hand! He grabs countless rays of light, as if dragging something, and pulls them down heavily!

As if the entire sky is descending.

The sun hanging high above turns into a round mirror at this moment.

The Mirror World has spread out!

Among the thirty-six small cave heavens, one is named "Vermilion Sun Great Birth Heaven," ranking thirty-first. It was obtained by the Central Empire and refined into the Qian Tian treasure mirror.

The so-called "pervading illumination in all directions, mirroring the present world" is this.

The power of the Qian Tian Mirror is taken over by Ji Xuan Zhen at this time.

In this instant, all the veins and causes and effects connected to those underworld paper figures are illuminated by the mirror!

Endless flowing lights flash by, complicated and faint messages, like a rushing heavenly river.

Ji Xuan Zhen already sees—

A wisp of extremely faint and obscure power, winding forward.

De Qiao Island, You Xia Island, Huan Island, Small Crescent Island... This wisp of power was transferred a full seventeen times, winding around eleven islands. Using old men selling sugar cakes, children flying kites, and girls welcoming guests at brothels, using the hearts of these ordinary common people, wearing cause and effect, wrapped in red dust, this power finally reached the maritime battlefield, causing the shock of the underworld paper figures descending from the sky.

Its purpose seems to be just to shock once.

But the battlefield opened by the Central Empire is not something anyone can touch; one cannot come just because they want to, and leave just because they want to.

Under Ji Xuan Zhen's control, the Qian Tian Mirror instantly illuminates ten thousand li, searching for a snake in the grass, stripping this wisp of obscure power of all disguises, revealing its curse power.

Even with ten thousand methods, a thousand kinds of turns, and however prudent.

The gap in power still crushes everything.

He already sees Hai Men Island, sees an altar quietly burning inside an inn. It is burning so fiercely that in a blink, only a corner is left, but after all, it didn't manage to burn out completely.

The Qian Tian Mirror illuminates this place again, a small room in a cave. Ji Xuan Zhen is already prepared for a remote kill and has informed Qi Country's Maritime Affairs Supervisor Ye Hen Shui in advance—"Execute Equality Country members. Afterward, there must be an explanation. Supervisor Ye, no need to worry!"

Before he killed his way to the nearby sea, the foreign affairs officials of Jing Country had already communicated with Qi Country, resulting in the unspoken understanding that they could cross this border and pursue and kill for ten thousand li without anyone interfering. But at the moment of finding the target, he still wants to inform them once more. This is respect for Qi Country and also his determination to kill the thieves.

No matter where the opponent escapes, how they escape, they must die!

This thief escapes very fast, with extremely keen spiritual awareness, but these cannot become reasons for him to provoke Jing Country.

Ji Xuan Zhen's gaze turns again, and then he sees a wisp of green light, deeply submerged at the bottom of the sea—

Found it!

He spreads his five fingers, just about to make a remote killing move.

But Tian Gui Bo Lu, who has always been chased and slaughtered by him, turns around at this moment.

Bo Lu has never felt that someone would come to save him.

Jing Country possesses the most powerful military force in this world. Destroying Tian Gong City is effortless, not even counting as a warm-up.

Ji Xuan Zhen pursuing and killing for ten thousand li, giving him opportunities to escape, including tormenting him now, his purpose has always been very clear—precisely to force other members of Equality Country to come and save him.

If Equality Country remains silent without a sound, that ideal banner would be truly laughable, and the belief of fellow travelers would necessarily shake.

But Equality Country can only remain silent.

Jing Country has already spread a large net. In this situation, if members of Equality Country come, one will die. Even if the three great leaders all come out, and all Protector Dao people descend, there will be no exception—everyone is not that stupid.

If catching one member and tormenting them could lure out all the remaining members, Equality Country would have been destroyed long ago!

He torments himself, bitterly struggles not to give up, just to let more people see him soaring in the sky, see him casting the light of equality with his life.

But unexpectedly, someone comes to save him?!

This is too stupid.

And too moving.

The paper figures covering the sky, imitating underworld messengers, although their faces are wiped off. But they are like a fierce flame, igniting Bo Lu's eyes. He seems to see the homeland he will ultimately return to. Isn't that a kind of guidance?

"Ji Xuan Zhen! Turn back and look at me!"

He suddenly counterattacks. This body goes against the wind ten thousand zhang, instantly becoming a red-haired Tian Gui.

His eye color is blood red, his fingers grow sharp claws, and his skin shows ghost patterns.

Although his body is injured and mutilated, his profound bones are faintly visible, and blood flows incessantly, yet his power is still majestic.

Endless ghost qi spreads across half the sky, almost forming another heavy sky curtain, temporarily isolating the illumination of the Qian Tian Mirror.

Woo woo woo

Woo woo woo!

Between heaven and earth, a tragic ghost cry rings out.

The suffering people of the world, the wronged people of the world, those with hate not vented, with resentment not resolved, all the accumulated grievances of the dead, when will they have this cry!

Crying out that heaven and earth are unfair, crying out that the world is unfair, crying out that people have none but me, crying out that there is no road forward, crying out that there is no door between life and death.

This extreme grief ghost cry can destroy the lifespan of heaven and earth and injure the fundamentals of Dao principles.

It is Bo Lu's lifelong grief, possessing immeasurable divine might.

"Then come look at you!" Ji Xuan Zhen is completely fearless, instead provoked. He could withstand the restrictions of Tian Gong City and beat Bo Lu heavily injured and escaping. At this moment, how could he fear this injured sick cat?

He charges towards Bo Lu. He directly lifts his hand and makes a cut like a knife. His palm cracks the ghost dome, chopping the boundless ghost qi into pieces, twisting and entangling them into segments, like wriggling worm corpses falling into the sea. The sound of the ghost cry is extremely sorrowful and pitiful, a scene that makes one's hair stand on end.

"You think your comrades have come to save you, and you actually have feelings of the same path, having the courage to seek life."

Ji Xuan Zhen's angry words burst out. He strides forward, easily breaking through the ghost encirclement, killing his way to the front of Bo Lu's ghost body. With the central yellow bell, he shakes out a grand sound, suppressing the extreme grief ghost cry, and with a palm strike like a knife, he vertically inserts it into the top of his head!

From Tian Gong City all the way pursuing and killing to here, he was not just putting on a show. All the way, he cut with his knife, already weakening Bo Lu to a critical point, able to capture and kill him at any time.

At this moment, showing his might, Bo Lu in his final resurgence fundamentally cannot resist.

"But do you know, up until now, Equality Country has taken no action."

"Those who just interfered with this king were not even people from Equality Country. But rather, some... clown-like assassins invited by who knows who!"

While crushing Bo Lu, Ji Xuan Zhen loudly proclaims: "Those who disturb my great matters have nowhere to hide! Chief Ouyang Si, go kill him! No need to leave anyone alive!"

The mirror light that permeates the sky is taken over by another kind of will at this moment.

"As you wish."

A cold voice responds in the deep sea.

In that extremely deep abyss, a point of light rapidly lights up.

That is a figure wearing a Ji Xing law robe.

The Great Si Chief of Tian Jing City's Ji Xing Si, True Monarch Ouyang Jie.

The total chief of Dao Country's Ji Xing Si!

As long as a country belongs to the Dao, it has this part of the Ji Xing Si.

Theoretically, all Ji Xing Sis are under his jurisdiction.

His position is so important, yet he rarely appears outside of Jing Country. The Ji Xing Si in Tian Jing City is also basically only internal.

Even his dispatch shows Jing Country's determination to eliminate Equality Country.

Truly, whoever comes must die.

"Kill him!"

The light in the sky changes constantly. The entire azure sea is continuously wavy. The authority of the Qian Tian Mirror is being rapidly transferred, and the frantically escaping assassin has already been locked on.

Ji Xuan Zhen's identity is special, possessing the highest authority of the Qian Tian Mirror.

But this authority still returns to the Mirror World Platform, and then is transferred from the Mirror World Platform to the Ji Xing Si, which still takes some time – this is a necessary step.

Before this, Ouyang Jie has already set out one step ahead.

He descends in one step to that inn on Hai Men Island. The room inside is already empty, but the remnants of the burning altar are still there. He grasps it, and already feels the remaining curse power within. His cold lips curl up slightly: "I say, what Equality志士, really dare to come. Originally, it's this... rat!"

"Little mouse, climb the lamp stand, steal oil to drink, cannot come down."

A crisp child's voice rings in his ear. Bare-bottomed children run around on the street.

Kuang Ming walks out of the Bai Yu Jing wine house, letting the light of the sky sprinkle all over his body.

This is actually the first time he has come to the Bai Yu Jing wine house, but he lived in Xing Yue Plain for a period very early on – at that time, he was in mutual confrontation with the current South Xia Military Supervisor Shi Ming Cun.

Former Tian Feng Valley was not deserted, but it was far from having today's prosperity.

It's truly interesting. This place where Jing Country and Qi Country contend endlessly, even having to mutually retreat because the struggle is too intense, is unexpectedly quietly branded with a personal label just like this.

He gazes into the distance, in the direction of Suspended Temple – he once sent a monk named Ku Jue to reflect at the temple.

Hehe.

He smiles, covering the crazy killing intent in his eyes, turns around, and continues walking forward.

Facing the approaching travelers, their strides are hurried.

There are merchants pushing carts, men squatting on the ground looking at goods.

And there is a... increasingly near jade smoke pipe?

Kuang Ming is instantly alert. He twists his body, already breaking free from the invisible binding, and a long spear is already in his hand!

The faces of all the pedestrians on the entire street distort. Lines of cold gazes crisscross, bringing extreme killing intent, rapidly lifting high, forming a high-suspended chessboard.

A voice rings in his ear—

"Heard you enjoy danger!"