719: Chapter 479 719: Chapter 479 Their cultivation levels had always improved together, a true testament to their brotherhood.
Sometimes Luo Yaxuan missed his junior female apprentice and regretted not requesting to bring her with him to the Imperial City this time.
Lai Jianlin also missed the junior female apprentice, as the two of them were in love.
Apart from their daily calls, not being able to meet every day made him regret not taking her with them.
Knowing that their abilities were insufficient, if they left the Imperial City to bring their junior apprentice sister here, they feared they might be ambushed by others again.
Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin were also aware of the heavy responsibilities they bore.
They carried many valuable resources that if not in the safety of the Imperial City, they could easily be killed for their treasures without ever knowing how they died!
Two days later, their families sent people to help with the construction, responding to the messages sent by the two men.
Besides supervising the construction work, Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin used their spare time to cultivate and teach family members some skills.
Of course, the abilities of the family members who came out on the mission with them were not as high as those who were constantly out on missions.
Here in the Imperial City, their abilities were too weak, so Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin taught them secret manuals they had acquired to help elevate the family members’ cultivation levels.
Except for the spells that they couldn’t learn due to different Spiritual Roots, they fulfilled their responsibilities as young clan leaders to enhance the quality and capabilities of the family members.
Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin frequently entered and exited the General’s Mansion, and it became known that a certain hunting ground had been converted for someone else’s construction.
There were people already targeting them.
Liu Xu was one of the people keeping an eye on Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin.
They suspected these people of frequenting the General’s Mansion.
They also took over the hunting ground near the east gate, close to the General’s Mansion.
If the General’s people or friends claimed this place, the General’s influence would expand even further.
Liu Xu felt that the opposition was becoming an increasingly powerful adversary that couldn’t be allowed to finish building houses and shops on this land and take more business away.
Other people targeting Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin were some of the King’s princes.
The King had not abdicated and had yet to appoint a Crown Prince.
His sons, now grown, were not allowed to live outside the palace.
He feared that if his sons built their own mansions, they would garner more power and vie for the throne.
The King always kept his sons in the Imperial Palace, letting them indulge in pleasures, and sometimes, he even despised his sons for lacking ambition.
Yet he never considered that his actions were deliberately rendering his sons incompetent!
On the surface, the King’s sons seemed to squander their lives in pleasure, each appearing ineffectual, but were they really unambitious?
In reality, they had their own Hidden Guards and secretly enlisted their maternal families to help them ascend to power.
Because Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin were supervising the work, during the day, they would be on the construction site where people had already started to dig the foundation.
The duo, along with their people, were clearing the forest, aiming to convert the entire area into a plantation base after wiping out all the game within it.
Suddenly, a group of people barged into the site, claiming that the digging was illegal and that the land belonged to the royal family.
They attempted to drive away the workers who were digging the foundations.
The person in charge, along with the workers, were at a loss, facing these individuals dressed as government officials.
This mob arrested the person in charge and the workers and slapped handcuffs on them, binding their hands and feet.
The person in charge and the diggers were just ordinary citizens who, facing such a situation, were panicked and continuously protested their innocence, asserting they were only hired to work there.
“Keep shouting, and we’ll kill you!” one of the henchmen declared.
These henchmen, following orders to come here, discovered that the people present were just ordinary citizens, neither martial artists nor cultivators.
Finding it an easy task to bully them, they decided to imprison them, leaving the construction site without workers.
Lai Jianlin and Luo Yaxuan, looking down from the sky, noticed the trouble on their side of the site and were about to descend to help.
However, another group appeared in the sky, riding Flying Artifacts and with their faces covered even during the daytime, looking somewhat like assassins.
They were not targeting the people on the site but instead zeroing in on those up in the air.
Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin engaged in battle with their team.
Meanwhile, at the forest base, another group of unidentified individuals arrived, searching the area for something.
Luo Yaxuan and Lai Jianlin, with their people, had already started fighting the assailants above.
The prey on the other side of the forest had already been stowed away in the Storage Bag.
So many people had suddenly appeared, whether they were cultivators or practitioners of Ancient Martial Arts, they all represented a faction.
Besides the Government Officials and the masked figures that had not revealed themselves in the high skies, the other intruders into the forest all represented a faction, with each team being wary of one another before fighting broke out amongst the trees.
Luo Yaxuan’s lightning attacks were even more formidable than before, thunder and lightning resonated in the sky, and the originally sunny sky was quickly shrouded in dark clouds.
His wind and thunder, after learning from the Secret Manual given by Jiang Tang, became much more powerful and the effects were strikingly loud.
Thunder Roar frightened the approaching masked figures, with bolts of lightning as thick as arms streaking towards those people like a Thunderstrike.
The wind, fiercer than a level 12 hurricane, blew those cultivators who had managed to stabilize their bodies in the high altitudes, causing them to almost be swept away as they struggled to keep their balance.
The cultivators swooping down from the heights, their faces covered, had targeted two people in a fight of many against few, all with Golden Core stage Cultivation.
But because of a single move, they couldn’t stabilize their bodies, and their face coverings were blown away.
Luo Yaxuan’s use of wind and thunder directly affected all the cultivators in the sky, as well as those who had charged into the forest.
These people had never seen such powerful lightning Spells and were caught off guard, struck by thunder and electrified until they trembled.
Those who entered the forest were hit by such thick bolts of lightning that the trees themselves conducted electricity, and being in the forest, the shocks made them tremble and collapse to the ground in faint.
The Government Officials on the ground were not spared either, blown away by the fierce wind.
Some were struck by lightning, trembling and frothing at the mouth.
Only the ordinary people were protected, watching in amazement as those who had detained them fell to the ground.
While Luo Yaxuan launched such a fierce attack, Lai Jianlin only used Wood Spells to bind the attackers with Vine Whips.
Then, together, one used lightning to stun the adversaries and electrocuted their skin until it was scorched.
Poor fellow cultivators with Golden Core stage Cultivation were taken down by just one or two moves.
Having their faces exposed as their masks were blown away, the captured could only choose death to avoid revealing their masters’ identities.
After seeing that the matter was settled, Luo Yaxuan stopped using his Spells and, realizing that the captured chose to commit suicide, he felt that the situation was very peculiar.
Unsure why someone would attempt to assassinate them, as they had no enemies in the Capital City.
The only explanation was that someone coveted the construction site and deliberately caused chaos to prevent them from building.
Barely had they begun construction when there were already attacks and deaths.
Luo Yaxuan felt that according to the rules of house construction, it was no longer auspicious to build here.
Perhaps that’s what those people intended, something he must report to Saint Lord Jiang Tang.
The people in the forest still didn’t know who had attacked them, but they were already unconscious.
The Government Officials, unaware who had sent them, also fainted.
Jiang Tang received the message from Luo Yaxuan and ordered him to find Ye Tian.
The construction site continued, as the Cultivation World doesn’t heed superstition.
Those who were digging the foundation, originally thinking they would enter The Governmental Authorities’ prison, if not killed then stripped of skin, were simply there to make some money and had such bad luck to get caught.
They felt that even if they were released later, they wouldn’t dare to work here again.
When they witnessed the ferocious wind and lightning, they believed that an Immortal was protecting the place, safeguarding the construction site, and that the Immortal was punishing the evildoers.
Ye Tian was busy refining Artifacts and did not have time to deal with such a minor matter.
He left the situation to his younger brother Ye Shi, who took some people from the General’s Mansion, all of whom were members of the Guard Army.
When they arrived, they found the Government Officials struck by lightning with their skin blackened.
They felt that those people deserved it, no matter who had instructed them to cause trouble at a site approved by the King; they were to be punished for their crimes.
Ye Shi then ordered that the people bound in the forest, the teams that had been injured by the lightning burns, to be handled as they had already fainted.