I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 265 - 117: Gathering Troops in Ji Land, Reestablishing the Clan Division! (2)
The powerful divine sense enveloped the surroundings, passing through each house in the city, hiding its figure in the shadowy corners, listening attentively to the movements in each dwelling it passed.
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Three hundred miles outside the Three Fire Tribe City.
Huo Chang entered the mountains, making his way to the cliff where the Cyan Simurgh resided.
The Cyan Simurgh, in a dense cluster of cliffside trees, had chiseled out a cave for its dwelling.
After Huo Chang gave a whistle, the Cyan Simurgh quickly revealed its head and soared out, spreading its wings.
At that moment, in a hidden part of the distant mountains, a Xiaoyang’s eyes burned bright as it spotted the flying Cyan Simurgh.
Under the night sky, the Cyan Simurgh, with wings shimmering with a cyan glow, was quite conspicuous.
Even though the Cyan Simurgh soon took Huo Chang into the rock cave, it was still detected by the Xiaoyang Martial Artist.
"Has anyone entered the mountain recently?"
"No, I have not gone out from the cave."
The Cyan Simurgh shook its head. After hiding here, it even gave up hunting and fed on the Primordial Blood Pills specially made by the Blazing Flame Tribe.
"Is there something happening outside?"
Huo Chang peered through gaps in the branches at the entrance of the rock cave, scanning the surrounding mountains and forests, but under the night sky, the verdant wilderness revealed nothing.
"Let’s go, let’s fly a circle and head north."
Then, the Cyan Simurgh burst out of the cave, Huo Chang standing on its back, surrounded by surging blood energy, blending red and cyan light, quickly turning into a stream of light, shooting out of the mountains and heading north.
Rumble!
Following that, a spot in the mountains was burst open by grass, wood, earth, and stone as a Xiaoyang and a Black-Feathered Goshawk shot out.
The Xiaoyang Martial Artist flipped onto the goshawk, following behind the Cyan Simurgh.
"Don’t follow too closely!" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
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"Where are they!"
On the back of the goshawk, after pursuing a thousand miles, Muo Zhang looked around but could no longer see the cyan stream of light.
At the same time, above the goshawk, the sound of wind like thunder, the Cyan Simurgh spread its wings like an arrow, swooping down.
Not good!
As the sound of wind and thunder arose, Muo Zhang urged the goshawk downwards without hesitation.
Although it had decent ability, if it fell from such a height, it would either die or be severely injured.
In the cyan-gold eyes of the Cyan Simurgh, it reflected the goshawk and the Xiaoyang Martial Artist on its back, as its wings stirred up countless wind blades, descending first and forming a cyan torrent mid-air.
Clang!
On the back of the Cyan Simurgh, Huo Chang’s blood energy surged, the scarlet long blade piercing the sky, merging war intent with the blade.
The sword qi spanned a hundred feet across the sky, falling without reservation onto the Xiaoyang Martial Artist’s head.
"Ah!"
Muo Zhang was greatly terrified, his whole body’s blood energy erupted, and he jumped off the goshawk in an instant, with the blade light brushing past half of his body, his arm turning into a mist of blood instantly.
The goshawk had no time to scream, being split into two by the crashing red fire blade light, its body blasted into a ball of red fire under the wash of sword qi.
Muo Zhang tumbled to the ground, rolling out, groaning loudly, his body’s black hair standing on end, repeatedly punching upwards.
Clang!
The descending knife light struck a Great Ape formed from red fire on his body, causing his entire form to crack like a meteor, flying out and crashing down, shattered into countless pieces.
The Cyan Simurgh swept past Muo Zhang, more wind blades like knives quickly severing his limbs, leaving a broken upper body.
Huo Chang quickly gathered up the Xiaoyang before him and disappeared from the scene.
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For half a month, Shen Can mingled within the Three Fire Tribe City.
As expected, it was lively.
Within the entire clan city, nominally the strongest was Huo Ning, who had a Celestial Vein at the Seventh Layer, rapidly advancing in the past two years.
Yet, in Shen Can’s perception, there were at least two with a Celestial Vein at the Ninth Layer in the city, unknown if there were more.
The reason these two were discovered by him was their arrogance, thinking no one could perceive the aura emitting from them.
"Are they waiting for me?"
Huo Ning had opened a large underground darkroom in the center of the clan city, guarded all around by people from the main tribe of the Blazing Flame Tribe.
Though these tribesmen were elite, facing a Celestial Vein Ninth Layer Martial Artist, they were somewhat lacking, likely having been seen through completely.
After discovering the Antelope Qilin Beast, Cyan Simurgh Soldiers, and Luo Feng, yet still abiding quietly, it was clearly waiting for him.
Apart from these two Celestial Vein Ninth Layer Martial Artists, Shen Can also discovered Blood Warriors hidden within the city.
Blood Warriors would do anything for profit, mostly connected with the Xiaoyang Race.
These Blood Warriors were deeply concealed, their rotting aura likely masked by some Witch Artifact.
Shen Can did not take action, as these people mingled within the clan city, moving against them would easily alert others.
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Clan Hall.
Huo Ning was cultivating.
"Who!"
Suddenly, Huo Ning awakened, grabbing the long spear placed before him.
Once he saw the figure before him was Shen Can, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, his gaze turned towards the hall entrance.
"I entered the city quietly, unnoticed by anyone."
Shen Can spoke, revealing through Huo Ning’s reaction that Huo Ning was aware the clan city was not entirely safe.
"Ancestral Temple Keeper, I overestimated myself. There are too many uncertain outsiders in the clan city now."
Huo Ning spoke, showing a bitter smile as he felt things were getting out of hand.
"How many of our clan people are there?"
"Thirteen hundred."
"Additionally, there are the two thousand Blood Sea Guards I cultivated in secret, one thousand in the clan, and the other thousand handed over to Huo Zhan.
The Miner Slave Martial Artists he consolidated have also consumed the Xiaoyang Blood Pills, counting the thousand I’ve given him, the number reaches five thousand."
