How can I have a heart of a demonic god in my body?!-Chapter 184 - 0181 Divination Now

Chapter 184: Chapter 0181 Divination Now Chapter 184 -0181 Divination Now “Tieling Mine?”

The face of the Water Moon Sect Master, previously adorned with a coquettish smile, suddenly became expressionless.

“If I’m not mistaken, according to the latest intelligence, it looks like Chen Yu is currently stationed there.”

A glint of cold light flashed in the Sect Master’s eyes.

At that moment,

Guardian Shangguan and the Water Moon Sect Master simultaneously turned their gazes toward the desolate mine ten miles away.

Coincidentally,

the main forces of Yunyue Sect were also retreating from the vicinity of Tieling Mine.

“Chase!”

“Quickly send more troops, now is our chance to surround and kill this boy!”

Their eyes met, heavy with murderous intent.

On the eve of betraying the three sects, the Water Moon Sect Master had sent two Postnatal Qi Transformation assassins to kill Chen Yu.

This assassination attempt was deemed unnecessary and over the top by another powerful senior of their sect, Elder Kui Yue.

After all,

Chen Yu was “blacklisted” by Lv Tiezu, and hardly able to escape his fate.

But,

the Water Moon Sect Master had an intuition that Chen Yu was a man of great destiny, and that a lot could happen during the half-year agreement, leaving much to chance.

After the incident at the Blood Burial Garden,

she confirmed that Chen Yu was the murderer who killed Yi Yunfei and took the opportunity to investigate his past exploits.

The results of the investigation shocked her.

From the Outer Sect’s Great Competition, the Meteoric Iron Gambling Battle, to the Beishan Spirit Garden and then the Blood Burial Garden—along the way, this person had risen against the odds, forging a path like a lotus with every step.

He always turned the impossible into possible!

The Water Moon Sect Master, deeply wary, ordered an assassination despite the opposition of her rivals.

But then,

to her fury, the assassination failed, and the two Postnatal Qi Transformation lives were lost.

Not only that,

after this incident, Chen Yu’s parents disappeared from the world without a trace!

All this further convinced the Water Moon Sect Master that Chen Yu still had the chance to overturn Lv Tiezu’s death sentence.

During the subsequent battles,

the Water Moon Sect Master and Guardian Shangguan, whose children had both been killed by Chen Yu, became closely allied, sharing a common enemy.

On the battlefield, after a long search, they still hadn’t found Chen Yu.

Later,

after numerous inquiries, they found out that Chen Yu was at Tieling Mine, behind the battlefield.

…

“Someone, surround Tieling Mine!”

Guardian Shangguan and the Water Moon Sect Master sent several Postnatal Qi Transformation and a few squads to encircle Tieling Mine.

Eh?

The high-ranking members of Yunyue Sect, who were in the middle of their retreat, noticed that about a quarter of the troops from the Bone Demon Palace’s camp had split off towards Tieling Mine.

“Looking at the Bone Demon Palace’s movements, are they planning to surround this place?”

“Tieling Mine?

There are only some low-grade Spiritual Ore deposits here, with little military force stationed.

Is it worth such a grand display?”

The Sect Master and the others were baffled.

However,

the Bone Demon Palace’s allocation of a quarter of their forces to this incomprehensible action alleviated the pressure on their retreat.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

A score of flying birds were the first to swoop towards Tieling Mine.

But at this moment,

whooosh~

Within Tieling Mine, thick columns of fire and wolf smoke rose, and intense black smoke enveloped midair.

“So much smoke!”

“Cough, cough…

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What is this that’s burning?”

The Flying Bird Knights, serving as the vanguard, hovered in the air, their vision blurred, and their mounts restless.

Before they arrived,

the accumulated dead wood, branches, and straw in the mine had ignited, creating a smoke screen that covered half the sky.

This dust and haze had no effect in repelling enemies but served to limit surveillance.

Before long,

Guardian Shangguan and the Water Moon Sect Master arrived at the smoke-filled Tieling Mine, their expressions shifting.

“Cough, cough…

Protector, there’s not a soul in Tieling.”

An Organ Refining Stage Flying Bird Knight reported back.

This development left Guardian Shangguan and the Water Moon Sect Master with darkened, embarrassed faces.

“That kid must have been on alert, using smoke to block the view from aerial reconnaissance.

Looking at it this way, he couldn’t have gotten far.”

The Sect Master’s chest heaved with suppressed rage as she coldly analyzed the situation.

At this moment,

if the two were to mobilize all of their hundreds of elites to encircle within ten miles, there was an eight or nine out of ten chance that they could catch Chen Yu.

However, such a plan was impractical.

Their target was to pursue the main force of Yunyue Sect; if they succeeded, they could annihilate a sect.

By comparison,

use all their main strength for an Organ Refining Stage disciple?

Even if the two were willing, other Qi Transformation Realm seniors would not comply.

Eventually,

Guardian Shangguan and the Water Moon Sect Master had no choice but to assign one person to lead a team responsible for pursuing Chen Yu.

“Let me do it.”

With calm confidence, the Water Moon Sect Master led a team of fifty or sixty elite disciples from Water Moon Sect, remaining at Tieling Mine.

This time,

she, the master of a sect and a Qi Transformation Innate expert, took charge personally.

She refused to believe that kid could still create a miracle.

At the same time,

among the evacuating upper echelons of Yunyue Sect,

Elder Mao turned his head back to the thick smoke of Tieling Mine, with a complicated expression.

He faintly guessed,

the abnormal actions of the Bone Demon Palace, as well as the smoke here, must be connected to Chen Yu.

“There are ten days until the next full moon.

My help for you ends here.”

“From now on, it’s all up to your own fate.”

Elder Mao sighed inwardly.

…

Five or six miles away from Tieling Mine, in a stretch of forest.

A young man dressed in a beast hide armor, his face grimy and dark, was tied up with a bunch of twigs and leaves.

At first glance, he looked just like a small, moving tree, blending seamlessly into the mountain forest.

“Heh, the strategy and route for this retreat, I’ve run through them in my mind over a hundred times…”

Chen Yu chuckled softly, looking towards the Tieling Mine cloaked in smoke.

Originally,

Chen Yu had been in the Tieling Mine for more than a month and had long prepared an escape route for retreat.

Because of the bloody experience of the Beishan Spirit Garden being attacked at night, Chen Yu made numerous preparations.

The first preparation was for the smoke to counter birds flying overhead.

After receiving the news of the frontline’s crushing defeat, Chen Yu had people prepare large amounts of deadwood, branches, and straw, piled up at Tieling Mine.

As long as it blocked the aerial reconnaissance view of the birds, the success rate of the retreat would increase by twenty to thirty percent.

The second preparation involved a meticulous control over the nearby terrain.

With the help of the Iron Moon Strange Insect’s detailed terrain survey, Chen Yu had already designed more than a dozen escape routes.

The third preparation was to establish sentry towers on the high ground, to stand guard day and night.

Moreover,

as soon as Chen Yu discovered the “Bone Demon King” appearing ten miles away, he decisively ordered everyone to retreat, then set fire to all the deadwood, branches, and straw.

Of course,

Chen Yu didn’t follow the large group withdrawing but instead set off alone, using a hidden route, taking advantage of various geographical covers to distance himself from Tieling Mine.

Zip zip swoosh!

Chen Yu darted along the complex terrain, with nearly constant cover throughout his route.

Whether it was trees, mountain peaks, or some bushes for concealment.

Even,

Chen Yu had the Iron Moon Strange Insect excavate hidden mountain cave passages between certain areas of the mountain, just large enough for one person to pass through.

After passing through, Chen Yu swung a punch, and the mountain wall collapsed, blocking off the mountain cave passage.

As time went on,

Chen Yu was getting farther and farther from Tieling Mine.

Ten miles…

twenty miles…

thirty miles…

continuously escaping the danger zone.

According to Chen Yu’s plan,

as long as he could flee a hundred miles away and hide anywhere, unless the enemy dispatched more than a few hundred elite troops, it would be extremely difficult to find him.

At the start,

he could occasionally see birds in the distant sky, but later, he almost couldn’t see any trace of the Flying Bird Knights.

Finally,

after leaving Tieling Mine two hundred miles behind, Chen Yu found an underground cave in the deep mountains with the help of the Iron Moon Strange Insect.

“This place should be safe…”

Within the underground cave, Chen Yu sat cross-legged and began to meditate and recover.

Meanwhile,

a group of fifty or sixty elites led by the Water Moon Sect Master began a carpet search near Iron Ridge Mountain.

“Reporting to the Sect Master, we have found no trace of the target.”

“Reporting to the Sect Master, we’ve captured and killed seven or eight Yunyue Sect disciples, and after questioning, none know Chen Yu’s whereabouts.”

“Reporting to the Sect Master, I suspect that Chen Yu has already escaped our encirclement.”

…

Half a day later, the string of fruitless reports made the gloom on the Water Moon Sect Master’s face grow even thicker.

“Wu Yue!

You are the best tracker in our sect, any suggestions?”

The Water Moon Sect Master spoke gravely.

In front of her stood an old man with a mole at the corner of his mouth.

“Replying to the Sect Master.

Based on my years of tracking experience, this person seems to know how to counter-track.”

The old man paused and spoke calmly and unhurriedly.

“The biggest difficulty is that we don’t have any items that carry Chen Yu’s scent, and our manpower is seriously lacking, while the enemy seems to have prepared in advance.”

The old man briefly went through each point.

After listening to the analysis, the Water Moon Sect Master frowned deeply.

Even the best trackers would find it extremely difficult without the target’s scent to track, especially if the opponent knew how to counter-track.

“As for manpower, there’s nothing I can do about that.

Try to come up with a way, and if you can track down this person, I’ll reward you with a Qi Storage Pill and a medium-grade treasure.”

The Water Moon Sect Master promised a generous reward.

Upon hearing this, the old man with the mole on his mouth showed a hint of joy.

After a long contemplation,

the old man inhaled deeply and spoke solemnly:

“Now, there’s only one method, and it’ll depend on luck.”

“Let’s hear it.”

“The subordinate needs two days to familiarize with the nearby terrain; then, considering the situation Chen Yu was in at that time, design several optimal escape routes.

After that, we can trace the vines back to their roots…”

A glint of sharpness flashed through the old man’s eyes.

“Of course, this approach relies on luck and assumes that the target has stayed within a few hundred miles nearby and hasn’t fled too far.”

The old man added.

“Alright, let’s try that.”

The Water Moon Sect Master nodded.

She had an intuition that Chen Yu had chosen this place to take his post not far from the front lines for some reason.

…

As the Bone Demon King emerged, causing turbulence in the world of Chu Country’s sects,

in the northern lands, unknown tens of thousands of miles away,

on the Great Snow Mountain, at the very top of an ice peak reaching into the clouds, within view was a desolate world draped in silver, blanketed by a pure white snow.

Squeak!

Suddenly, the door of an unassuming straw hut at the peak opened.

Out walked a child.

“May I ask the immortal child whether the Great Witch has received the offering I sent a few days ago, and if the divination has a result?”

A middle-aged man was kneeling on the ground, his body encased in frost.

At first glance, he looked like a human-shaped ice sculpture.

The middle-aged man, whose cultivation was at the level of Qi Transformation Innate, had knelt in front of the straw hut for a full three days and three nights.

On the ice peak, where the extreme cold was felt even by those at the Qi Transformation Realm, it was a struggle to endure.

Now,

the middle-aged man felt an icy chill throughout his body, his skin and bones were frostbitten, and his True Qi was largely depleted.

If this continued for two more days, his life might be in danger.

“You are the top disciple of Lv Tiezu, right?

Quite loyal indeed!”

“En, the result of the divination has come out.”

The child, about twelve or thirteen years old, had an air of premature world-weariness.

“The result of the divination has come out?”

The middle-aged man was visibly moved, his mission finally having some accountability.