The Peerless Emperor-Chapter 304 - 305 Provocation
(I need to take a leave, I’m really too tired, sleeping at midnight and getting up at six in the morning to prepare for work, then heading to the warehouse to move and unload paint, I owe three more updates today. I won’t go out during the holiday but update properly.)
Lin Qian’s words left Yuan Xiang stunned for a moment, followed by a laugh, "You are really too overbearing, and your words are too absolute."
Lin Qian understood Yuan Xiang’s incomprehension.
In his previous life, the Fantasy Empire online game was very cruel. The player’s defeat didn’t matter much.
But once the Empire lost, it meant the nation was doomed!
The consequence of national extinction was that you had to start over with the management of the Empire, the only exception being that technologies and skills that had already been researched no longer needed to be studied and could be used directly.
Lin Qian’s undefeated legend was something that the whole Fantasy Empire game community talked about with great relish, and when the game went international, he was still the champion at the world competition.
That’s why Lin Qian was very confident that in the war against the Swift Hidden Clan and the Invisible Clan, the winner would definitely be him!
He believed in himself, he believed in the Huaxia Empire!
As for Yuan Xiang’s worries about failure, Lin Qian found them entirely unnecessary.
Night had fallen, and within the fourth space of the Small World, snowflakes were fluttering down, turning the landscape into a frozen world.
Yet, in this icy and snowy realm, there was a palace occupying the area, brimming with the vitality of spring. With one glance, you could see the rippling blue waves and flowers blooming everywhere, a stark contrast to the surrounding snowy world.
Under the same night sky, in a courtyard of the palace, a young member of the Swift Hidden Clan was by the pond, holding a jade cup in his hands that contained fluctuations of space, clearly a Storage Soul Device.
The young Swift Hidden Clan member reached towards the mouth of the cup with a twist of his hand, and a fluffy, lifeless Soul Beast was pulled out and tossed into the pond.
As the fluffy Soul Beast was hurled toward the pond, a tiger-striped fish leaped out of the water and swallowed the deceased Soul Beast in one gulp.
After ingesting the Soul Beast, the tiger-striped fish flipped in mid-air and then plunged back into the pond once more.
Behind the young Swift Hidden Clan member, another clansman was half-kneeling, reporting to him.
"Young Master, there have been no regular reports from the city that guards the gate, and we are also unable to contact Bai Qi."
Hearing his clansman’s report, the young Swift Hidden Clan member frowned and turned around, "Has anyone been sent to check?"
"Someone from City One has already been dispatched to find out what’s going on. We should have results soon," the half-kneeling clansman replied, making the young Swift Hidden Clan member nod slowly.
Just then, a figure suddenly scaled the wall and came straight to the young Swift Hidden Clan member.
This figure was none other than the one-armed member of the Black Blade Fish Clan, who was actually, of course, from the Invisible Clan!
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"Bai Ximing, the city that guards the gate, which my clan is in charge of, has suddenly lost contact. Can you reach them?" the Invisible Clan member who had taken over the body of the one-armed Black Blade Fish Clan, asked the young Swift Hidden Clan member.
Bai Ximing shook his head, waved his hand to indicate that the reporting clansman should leave. After the other party left, he then spoke up, "The connection has been cut off, the daily reports have not been delivered, and we are unable to contact them. It’s not only us who have encountered this situation."
"This is really like seeing a ghost, could something have happened in the Dream Guarding City? Impossible, only a few hundred people from the Human Clan and the Sea Clan have entered this time, they couldn’t possibly have breached the city that guards the gate!"
"Wuzhan Shuang, anything can happen, just like the two squads I sent out that never came back," Bai Ximing stared at the Invisible Clan before him, who had devoured the Black Blade Fish Clan. With his hands clasped behind his back, he watched the tiger-striped fish swimming in the pond and spoke indifferently.
Wuzhan Shuang remained silent, and after a while, finally broke the silence, "Your Swift Hidden Clan is faster, so I won’t send anyone to investigate. Just let me know when you have results. My father and the others are busy breaking the Array that protects the heart of the world; they don’t have the time to deal with matters here."
"Right," Bai Ximing, watching the pond, his pure white eyes revealing a hint of fierceness, a green tint faintly emerging in his hand. With a tight squeeze, the jade cup-shaped Storage Soul Device was crushed into powder by his grip, the twisted spatial fluctuations not harming him in the slightest.
"If I find out who’s been sabotaging us, I will make them wish for death, yet unable to die."
In the Third Space’s Battle Plain, a member of the Swift Hidden Clan enveloped in green Soul Power accelerated toward the city of Shoumeng, having received the young master’s instructions to check on the situation there.
As he flew, suddenly, a figure burst from the dim grassland below under the night sky, a cold light flashing, aimed at his throat.
The sudden appearance was incredibly fast; he hadn’t reacted yet when he saw his body, propelled by momentum, flying forward.
His fading consciousness vaguely saw a black figure disappearing into the dark night, leaving no trace behind.
"What’s going on?" The Swift Hidden Clan member, destined for the city of Shoumeng, never understood what exactly had happened before his death.
When the first-ranked city received no message from the dispatched clan member for a long time, the strongest guardian of the city felt something was amiss and sent another person for reconnaissance, instructing them to be extremely cautious and to hide their tracks.
At the same time, he reported the current situation to Bai Ximing.
In the Fourth Space Oasis, where time was icy and snowy, Bai Ximing’s countenance grew dark upon receiving the news.
After the first-ranked city reported the first missing scout, he had a bad feeling about the situation. By the time of the second report, four scouts had vanished without a trace.
It was no joke—these four Swift Hidden Clan members tasked with spying on the city had encountered a night shadow; what chance did they have of surviving?
By the time the death toll reached ten, Bai Ximing could no longer contain himself. He slapped his palm down onto the stone table in front of him, and stone dust flew into the air, landing on the ground and turning into a pile of powder.
At this point, Bai Ximing couldn’t be more clear: something had definitely gone wrong in the city, someone must be upsetting their plans.
And that someone was probably the same person who killed his two squads.
Bad news followed on from the failure of the plan to assimilate genius members of the Human and Sea Clans into the Second Space fortifications; the Swift Hidden Clan members hidden in the Second Space had been completely wiped out, with only one clan member managing to escape back with two words.
According to him, those were the words left on a note by the black-hooded figure in the shadows.
"You, coerce."
Bai Ximing was still somewhat confused, but immediately after, he received a report from the first-ranked city. One of the clan members who had been sent to gather intelligence had finally returned with a note that also had two words on it.
"Fool, dumb."
Bai Ximing easily combined the four words together, and in a rage, his Soul Power wreaked havoc throughout the courtyard, turning his captive tiger-striped fish into fish fillets.
"You! Dumb! Fool!" Bai Ximing gritted his teeth and spoke deliberately, "It’s been a long time since someone dared to provoke this young master like this!"
