I Have Countless Past-life Identities-Chapter 57 - 55: Forced by Overwhelming Power, Witnessing the Three Stages of ’Diamond, Yellow Court, Carefree’ in the Demon Hunting Department!
Outside Wutong Prefecture!
The bright sun shining in the clear blue sky sprinkled its light through the dense green forest, creating shadows that roared like the wind.
Having removed the crimson Prefecture Venerable robe embroidered with white pheasants, and now only wearing simple silk white clothes, Bai Qiuyi, devoid of his noble demeanor, walked alongside Jiang Yi, seemingly evading someone’s pursuit.
Crossing the mud and weeds, Bai Qiuyi occasionally looked back.
Gazing toward the direction of their hurried departure from Wutong Prefecture, this formerly high-ranking and powerful Wutong Prefecture Venerable still found it absurd:
"I envisioned many ways things could go wrong,"
"but..."
"I never expected that it would be because of that young man from the Xie Family that things went awry!"
"Master of Baoping State, Demon Hunter General... What exactly did he comprehend in the Martial Temple that allowed these two esteemed figures to descend upon Wutong Prefecture?"
"Wutong Prefecture is located remotely, being the city closest to the Northwest Wilderness."
"Coupled with the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall further north, blocking the expelled Taoist Demon Court, normally, no Fourth Step Great Power would deign to come here."
"Yet now, two have come!"
Bai Qiuyi looked frustrated.
Beside him, not only Jiang Yi was present.
There were also two eighth-grade assistant officials from the Government Office, trusted aides of Bai Qiuyi.
But when all of this fell into the eyes of Jiang Yi, who left Wutong Prefecture hurriedly with Bai Qiuyi the previous day,
it all seemed to change in nature.
The official aura they wore began to turn vague and elusive,
because of the arrival of the Master of Baoping State and the Demon Hunter General.
Following Bai Qiuyi out of the Prefecture City of Wutong yesterday, it wasn’t just the four of them.
Initially, there were dozens of people.
Among them, even the weakest gave Jiang Yi a sense of ’Great Innate’.
Even though he had now reached the Vajra Realm, Jiang Yi knew clearly that these subordinates who listened to his ’good master’...
He couldn’t match any of them.
However, perhaps due to fear of someone pursuing them,
these people, under Bai Qiuyi’s instructions, after leaving dozens of miles from Wutong Prefecture, split into groups of three to five, scattered into a dozen different directions, fleeing and hiding in various places.
Instinct... no, reality told Jiang Yi.
He was likely on some pirate ship.
Any normal person, let alone a normal person.
What kind of person was Bai Qiuyi before?
A magnificent Prefecture Venerable of Wutong, he was the master of Jiang Yi, Song Chai Xin, and others in succeeding generations of Prefecture Examinations, deeply entrenched, with an intricate network of contacts, the parental official of the entire Wutong Prefecture City!
Just one word from him, even the century-old noble Xie Family or renowned sects, orthodox martial arts halls, dared not act rashly in his presence.
A Fifth Grade Prefecture Venerable within the Government Office, upon hearing that the Master of Baoping State and the Demon Hunter General had rushed over overnight, didn’t react by greeting them. Instead, he took his accumulated assets and trusted aides, threw down the Mansion Venerable Order, removed his official seal, and fled, fearing he couldn’t escape fast enough...
You’re hiding something!
Throughout the journey, Jiang Yi remained silent.
He knew he had been tricked by the grand promises Bai Qiuyi painted.
But there was no choice,
an inheritance containing the complete Orthodox Sword Dao’s sword seed was enough to captivate his mind.
In addition,
over the past year, this Lord Bai personally assisted him in inheriting and comprehending its mysteries, and promised to provide him with an opportunity no less than ’Ancient Path of Reception, knocking on the Martial Temple’ in the future!
He even personally promised,
that he wouldn’t be inferior to Song Chai Xin, and within thirty years, he could achieve the Third Step, return to the Ming Huang State Divine Capital, and reclaim the hereditary title for the Jiang Clan.
One grand promise after another, like immense wealth.
Moreover, the person making the promises indeed had genuine abilities, was in a high and powerful position, a Prefecture Venerable, capable of commandeering enough silver coins and resources to support the martial artist’s advancement to the Third Step...
Various reasons combined.
At that time, feeling inferior to Song Chai Xin, and even Xu Zuorong, Jiang Yi, in his despair and loss, grasped hold of this light in the darkness,
He didn’t want to slink back, marry into Lu Miaomiao, the Noble Lady of the Marquis’s Mansion, relying on her family’s powerful elder’s cold-eyed charity to have a chance to bring glory to his family.
He also wanted to attempt, like his family’s former elders, to establish a foundation for future generations.
In the end, an unguarded moment pulled him into this mess.
As if seeing through Jiang Yi’s thoughts, Bai Qiuyi, now unmasked, stopped pretending:
"Jiang Yi, as I told you before, you gain some, you lose some."
"Your involvement with me, your being taken away by me, is just like that Song Chai Xin, a Half-Demon, enduring cold gazes to this day. Even though he seized the top spot, he still couldn’t rid himself of those strange looks, it’s the same logic."
"I come from the Bai family. Decades ago, your mere hereditary title was insignificant; any blood of the Bai Clan, upon reaching a certain martial cultivation, could attain a third-grade official rank, equivalent to dukes and marquises."
Decades ago, the Bai Clan’s bloodline?
Jiang Yi’s heart trembled.
He came from the Divine Capital and his ancestors were prominent, unlike the remote regions of Wutong Prefecture, where martial artists knew nothing.
"Master Bai, are you... one of those Half-Demons within the Sinful Blood Alliance, ’swearing to overthrow Great Zhao with a blood oath’?!"
Originally, Jiang Yi thought Bai Qiuyi merely did many ’keeping in the dark’ deeds in Wutong Prefecture, not daring to let the higher-ups find out.
But it now seemed...
It was far more than just hiding from the higher-ups!
The Sinful Blood Alliance, the blood-oathed ’Various Houses’ within, were half-demons colluding with demons. They dared to even take off the head of a State Demon Hunter General, openly hang it up, provocatively challenging Great Zhao. What wouldn’t they dare do?
