679: Chapter 459 679: Chapter 459 Tang Feiyang always felt that the person was smiling at him, and that smile had a tinge of poignant beauty.
There was a bit of worry and sympathy emanating from deep within him.
Tang Feiyang…
why do I have such strange thoughts in my heart?
This person is merely an actor, not worth my sympathy at all, but why do these thoughts arise in my heart?
Tang Feiyang tried hard to ignore it; he had never been in love and had no women around him.
The women his family or mother prepared for him for marriage, Tang Feiyang had rejected.
He felt he was still young and should not be tied down by marriage, especially since there were many elite men like him who were not married.
Of course, Tang Feiyang wanted to go further, to be even more formidable than his father and the older generation.
Whether he could enter the court as an official or not, as long as his cultivation improved, without becoming a more formidable person, being an official would simply be about accomplishing some tasks.
To attain longevity, the ultimate goal on the grand path was not to just remain in the Mortal World.
Tang Feiyang was the eldest disciple of Confucianism Tao, and he held himself to even higher and stricter standards.
“Eldest brother, should we continue our investigation?”
The students below followed him; these were the only students who had not been injured.
“Keep patrolling; those who were injured just now, let them go back to recover.
Only those who aren’t truly injured follow me!”
“Yes.”
Tang Feiyang then led this group of students clad in white, appearing to wander aimlessly.
Students loitering in the streets caused their parents much worry.
Ye Shi was not aware of his aversion to sensuality, having just survived a disaster, and had already sent word to his father about what had transpired here.
General Ye knew about the incident in the street and only instructed them to keep a close watch on the brothel, but not to get too close.
Ye Shi heeded his father’s arrangement, and didn’t know if it was his own sensitivity, but he felt that there was something wrong with that brothel, and it wasn’t just the people of the brothel; that lead courtesan who had deliberately approached him also seemed problematic.
He always felt that the courtesan was acting for his sake, and this time, the harm caused on the street led many people to suffer losses, especially small vendors who incessantly beat drums to cry injustice, demanding compensation from some people.
The injured crowd felt even more wronged and wanted to be compensated, yet they were told that they were also part of the crowd that contributed to the chaos, that they also bore some responsibility, and since they were not the masterminds, they had to bear their own burdens.
What the officials meant was, why did they go to watch the excitement, why did they try to catch the seductive embroidered balls—it was the mischief of flirtation that brought the trouble!
Ye Shi sent a message to his elder brother, telling him about the day’s events.
Ye Tian, upon hearing from his younger brother, suspected that there was nothing simple about the incident, that maybe it was a trap set on purpose.
He did not want to leave the team, but he had a mission, and did not want to leave Yan Weiwei; he needed to hasten and get Yan Weiwei’s family to agree to their marriage.
Before that, Ye Tian wanted to take Yan Weiwei home for a visit.
“Weiwei, are you willing to come back with me for a visit?
Or maybe not to come out for a long time.”
Yan Weiwei knew that her senior brother, unlike them, was not just remaining in cultivation—as with Jiang Tang, he also had his own tasks to attend to.
“Senior brother, I am willing to follow you, but the tasks that you need to do, Jiang Tang has not yet managed to complete for others!”
Ye Tian nodded and said, “As long as Jiang Tang agrees, the tasks he undertakes will be completed quickly.
For now, we can only hurry back to the base and take custody of the medicines that my father sent Tang Feiyang.”
“In that case, let’s inform Jiang Tang that we have stayed here for quite a while!”
“Yes, it’s been a very long time!”
They had been trailing Jiang Tang for two days on the Flying Artifact, spending those two days inside the Flying Artifact, watching the projections of the mighty powers and Dragon King’s team fight.
Inextricably tangled, no one knew when a victor would emerge.
Perhaps to prevent further injuries, whenever one of them encountered danger, they always turned peril into safety!
Whether it was the Dragon King’s team or those adults, all found it odd.
They fought as if they were playing, frustratedly so, and both teams were unwilling to lose to the other, constantly in a stalemate, no one wanting to stop.
“Jiang Tang, why don’t you send us back to base, to receive the herbs sent by that person, turn them into pills, and I’ll take the mission’s medicines back first?”
Jiang Tang actually found it quite boring; he did nothing but preach to these people and, when free, have drinks and chats with the old ancestor of the North City Immortal Sect.
He hadn’t done anything else these past couple of days, and he hadn’t helped with the pill-making practice, nor had he accomplished the task assigned to him by Ye Tian.
He just assumed such common pills did not require his involvement, but lingering around here was not a solution either.
He had brought these few hundred subordinates with him; the construction and management of the base still needed them.
Moreover, finding the Heaven-Mending Spell with the Dragon King was not a task that could be accomplished overnight.
“Alright, let’s head back!”
As Jiang Tang mentioned returning, he also felt the need to dispatch someone to surveil these people.
If the one with low cultivation wasn’t adequate, they could be discovered by those powerful beings, and, unable to match the likes of the Dragon King, he pondered and deemed neither pets nor Magical Treasures suitable; he didn’t want the Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace to do something out of line that he couldn’t immediately stop.
In the end, he thought of the Qianji Fire, the only thing that even the Dragon King could not withstand; it was not that the Xuanming Spiritual Fire was less lethal than the Qianji Fire.
The Xuanming Spiritual Fire was currently being utilized by his avatar for making pills, and the Qianji Fire was indeed too idle and needed to be put to work!
The Qianji Fire, considered idle by its master, was summoned once again, and the Fire Spirit kept growing larger.
After its master left, it discovered amongst those it needed to oversee, was the East Sea Dragon King, whom it had burned before.
The fire seed of the Qianji Fire erupted instantly, enveloping a dozen powerful beings, including the East Sea Dragon King, the Southern Sea Dragon King, the Crown Prince, and the Princess.
The East Sea Dragon King…
What was that old enemy up to now?
Did he want to burn him to death again?
The Southern Sea Dragon King was unaware that the fire had been released by Jiang Tang and assumed such fierce flames were cast by the powerful beings.
The powerful beings, too, were mistaken, believing the formidable fire was dispensed by the Dragon Kings; they collectively attacked the Qianji Fire, using ice and water to extinguish it.
As a result, the dragons and humans, who had just been fighting, united to battle against the Qianji Fire.
“Hissing”
The Qianji Fire became even more furious; it turned into a volcano, with flames growing larger around those people and dragons.
It seemed determined to burn them alive; even the sea water began to boil.
The fish that had thought they escaped danger were not fast enough to escape and died instantly.
The seawater grew scalding hot, instantly cooking many fish, which soon floated to the surface.
For the past several days, the entire surface of the Southern Sea had been churning with waves; water turning scalding hot one moment and freezing the next, such monstrous changes deterred the ordinary folk from daring to fish at sea.
Those who had survived the recent sea disasters took the chance when the water was calm to land at the nearest shore.
Hoping the waves would die down soon so they could head home, they looked at the sea surface strewn with the cooked fish exuding a fragrant aroma.
The faces of the locals were bitter; their livelihood, the big fish, possibly ending.
In order not to starve, they had no choice but to pick up the dead fish to eat.
The powerful beings and dragons that caused this mess in the Southern Sea were too entangled at the moment to care about much; they were trapped by the Qianji Fire, enduring the torment.
The proud lords had never imagined that after emerging from centuries of seclusion, they would encounter such an ordeal.
They had neither found the location where the Immortal Qi appeared nor the formidable person responsible.
Feeling distressed while trapped by the Qianji Fire, the powerful beings who hadn’t united for a long time came together at this moment.
Using their cultivation techniques, they created mountains of snow to cover the area where the Fire Spirit resided.
The Qianji Fire, located at the bottom of the sea, could not extinguish its flames with such attempts and blamed the Dragon Kings for causing trouble.
Considering itself idle before, it now had to undertake this mission and felt compelled to punish the Dragon Kings and the people involved.
Within the Flying Treasure, Jiang Tang could certainly sense the anger of the Qianji Fire as it went to punish those old folks and dragons.
He could only smile helplessly; his pets were all so full of character, sometimes even protesting against their master.
Without high skill levels, he wouldn’t be able to keep them in check.
The Flying Artifact quickly arrived at the edge of the first base; Ye Tian had already begun communicating with his contact.
The person stood on the edge of the darkened base, unable to enter, but had hidden nearby for the sake of the mission and came out upon being called.