Chapter 1723 - 774: Three Teams (Part 2)

Chapter 1723: Chapter 774: Three Teams (Part 2)

And all the Cultivation Techniques will link into a single whole, supporting the core Swordsmanship, the Heavenly Lotus Sword Technique, patching up all its weak points and extending its strengths, turning it into a supreme, top-tier Swordsmanship!

An ancient and mighty Swordsmanship will surely also push her strength to a whole new level!

"Where are we going next?"

Although Chen Ya only wanted to find some cave-like place to shut herself in and cultivate with single-minded focus—after all, she lacked nothing now, she only needed time to grind.

Other people might still run into bottlenecks, but with Chen Ya’s monstrous ability to comprehend Swordsmanship, she practically had no Swordsmanship bottlenecks at all; she just had to keep learning and her strength would keep rising.

However, Chen Ya also understood that her idea of finding a place to hide was unrealistic.

Because the risks in the wild were far greater than the risks of staying in a town.

Out in the wilds, demons of all levels could appear; maybe with a casual strike, one of them would slap little nobodies like them—who hadn’t even had time to grow—into paste.

But if they just burrowed into some random small city, then once the White Lotus Sect finished cleaning up their internal chaos and had hands free to deal with them, hiding in such a small city would hardly give them any chance to escape—information there is transparent, they’d simply send experts to suppress and erase them.

After all, the White Lotus Sect isn’t some small, obscure sect; their information network is decent.

That was why Chen Ya asked.

But Chen Ya had confidence in Shen Heilian.

Ever since this guy started scheming against the White Lotus Sect, every step of his plan had been laid out perfectly; sure, part of the credit went to her completely cooperating and flawlessly executing the plan, but Shen Heilian’s plan was what took the biggest share.

With someone so skilled at plotting and planning, there was no way he hadn’t considered contingencies for after their escape.

Sure enough, Shen Heilian just smiled faintly.

"Next, next we’re going to be facing the White Lotus Sect’s anger like never before! With just the strength of the two of us, and our flimsy backgrounds and weak connections, if we want to survive this terrifying hunt, I can only think of two places we can go."

Chen Ya frowned at him, signaling him to go on.

This round of revenge Shen Heilian took on the White Lotus Sect wasn’t just about disrupting their internal affairs; he also gained massive benefits from it that he needed to slowly absorb and digest.

After all, Shen Heilian’s dream was to personally destroy the Black Lotus, raze the White Lotus Sect to the ground, and kill everyone in the White Lotus Sect with his own hands.

For that, his current strength was still far, far from enough.

Which made a temporary refuge incredibly important.

"Of these two places, the first is... the Demon Capital!"

What?!

Chen Ya’s eyes went wide.

Chen Ya had thought Shen Heilian would mention some perilous terrain, somewhere like a Land of Gathering Evil.

But on second thought, surviving there would be hard for them too; before the White Lotus Sect even arrived to kill them, they’d die in that deadly terrain, so she’d already ruled that possibility out.

Yet she still hadn’t expected Shen Heilian to be so insane—to choose...the Demon Capital!

"The Demon Capital, that’s demon territory, the two of us..."

"You’ve been buried in the White Lotus Sect these days, so you don’t know: I’ve gotten reliable information that the Demon Capital actually keeps a batch of Humans penned up. As long as we can be selected and get penned up by the demons of the Demon Capital, then the Demon Capital will be the safest place we can possibly stay right now! Even if the Sect Leader of the White Lotus Sect comes, he’ll have to stand outside the city gates and stare helplessly, not daring to cross even half a step!"

The Demon Capital is that strong??

Chen Ya was dazed.

She had heard bits and pieces of many rumors about the Demon Capital, and about that Demon Emperor, but in the end her strength was still shallow, so she didn’t have that clear a concept of it.

To be honest, hearing Shen Heilian say this now, Chen Ya was a little tempted in her heart.

After all, all she needed was a safe, quiet place to rest and cultivate.

But there was still a problem.

"What if we want to leave the Demon Capital?"

Like sheep entering a tiger’s den—easy to enter, hard to leave.

The Demon Capital isn’t somewhere you come and go as you please.

Even if they were selected and penned up, trying to escape from a Demon City would still be unimaginably difficult, and that’s not even mentioning that the master of the Demon Capital is that Demon Emperor that even the White Lotus Sect doesn’t dare provoke.

Shen Heilian had naturally already considered this aspect, so very quickly, he spoke of the second choice.

"Then we set out for the Capital."

"The Capital?"

Chen Ya was stunned.

What kind of idea was this?

Shen Heilian, however, kept up a bit of suspense, smiling as he said, "The Capital is far more complicated than you think, and it’s likewise a territory where the White Lotus Sect doesn’t dare reach its hand."

"...If we’re going to the Capital, our journey there will be fraught with risks."

"So we need a batch of good horses."

"You have something in mind?"

"Sui Chong Pass, Black-footed Horses!"

Sui Chong Pass, the mandatory route into the Central State.

Chen Ya seemed thoughtful, then slowly nodded.

"Then... let’s depart for Shangjing!"

...

Outside the Capital, the official roads branched out like tangled roots and twisted joints, using the Capital as an absolute core and endlessly spreading outward, splitting into road after road.

And on every official road, even at this mid-morning hour, there would be patrol squads strictly inspecting along the way.

Ordinary demons, let alone drawing near this place, even getting close to the road would see them spotted in advance and dealt with by the patrol squads.

So the level of safety in the entire Capital was something other towns and other places couldn’t even begin to compare to.

Like a siphon effect: any expert, anyone with ambition, would yearn for the Capital, wanting to come here to develop and make a name for themselves.

Thus the Capital was packed with experts, with geniuses everywhere you turned; if you wanted to stand out in such a brutal, such a hyper-competitive environment, then without some real skill and some background, it was absolutely impossible.

Fu Lingqing was someone who could be said to have barely made a bit of a name for himself in the Capital.

At least, that’s what he himself thought.

After all, being able to hold some minor official post in the Capital, even if it was just as the captain of a patrol squad outside the city, still made him a well-known figure, someone countless people wanted to curry favor with.

So when Fu Lingqing walked the official road outside the Capital, his nostrils were pointed at the sky; he didn’t even look people in the eye.

Yet it was precisely this Fu Lingqing, who had "made it", who today saw a remarkable convoy coming out from the woods off the official road.

"’Suo’... could those be Suo Family people?"

Fu Lingqing’s heart gave a start, and before he could speak, the trusted subordinate beside him had already, as usual, stepped forward and bellowed.

"Bold! Who goes there ahead, trying to enter the official road without first asking our Mr. Fu!"

No sense of judgment!

Did you not see the hesitation on my face!

Fu Lingqing was a bit annoyed inside, but outwardly remained calm and unruffled.

Because right now he didn’t know what kind of convoy this was; if it wasn’t that Suo Family, but just some caravan from some small city, then if he lowered his posture from the start, wouldn’t he lose face?

At worst, if things turned out otherwise, he could just say he, the lowly one, failed to recognize Mount Tai, and surely the lord wouldn’t hold it against a little man.

Thinking this, Fu Lingqing carefully looked toward the convoy.

Soon he discovered that this convoy was actually formed by three separate groups.

The first group was of course the Suo Family’s, the large banner bearing the character "Suo" was quite eye-catching.

The second group was an escort convoy flying the two characters "Zhuge."

The third group was much smaller in scale, only a single carriage, and the reins were held by a teenage boy and a little girl, both looking like they were aloof from worldly matters—no idea which young master and little miss had gone out traveling.

The three groups had different rules but had mixed together, traveling side by side, naturally leaving Fu Lingqing a little puzzled.

And with his subordinate’s shout, the three groups obediently came to a halt.

From the Suo Family’s convoy, a man soon rode forward, face full of arrogance.

Fu Lingqing’s heart skipped a beat; seeing that attitude, he more or less understood in his heart that this Suo Family was indeed that Suo Family from the Capital, not some roadside stray cats and dogs.

Sure enough, as the Suo Family member holding an Identity Token flashed his credentials, Fu Lingqing hurriedly led his squad in salute.

"So it is the lords of the Suo Family—this lowly one, Fu Lingqing, failed to recognize Mount Tai, I beg the lords’ forgiveness..."