175: Chapter 165 175: Chapter 165 Tang Feiyang frowned helplessly as he ate a few bites of rice and some dishes, and though wine was poured for him, he did not drink.
He still had to review the mission, and he would need to go out again in the evening for a check, so how could he drink?
He was not like those junior fellow disciples; he was a leader, and when he went out at night to investigate, it was for everyone’s safety.
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Tang Feiyang took a secret passage out of his room at night, bringing along a steward but none of the drunken junior fellow disciples.
He also worried his little cousin might cling to him.
When he quietly emerged from the secret passage onto the grand streets of Immortal Venerable City in the darkness, he felt the city, under the cover of night, seemed not quiet but brimming with lurking dangers.
Tang Feiyang and the steward, both cultivators of Confucianism Tao, practiced a cultivation technique that used poetry and writings, and had cultivated their own strength.
They could move with the agility of a leopard while walking, and they were also faintly surrounded by a turning tide of fortune.
While Tang Feiyang and the steward were investigating inside the city, they faintly sensed they were being followed, as if someone was also secretly checking on them.
He did not know whether these people were friends or foes and was careful to guard against them with the steward.
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Ye Tian, having discovered the traces of a Taoist during the day and captured him within the Heaven-Earth Net, could not yet bring him out for interrogation.
After sending his junior sister back to their Immortal Sect residence, he set out alone in the evening to their point of contact.
Having asked the shopkeeper to escort the princess back earlier, perhaps due to sending people to escort her, the shopkeeper was still at the contact point.
“Young General, it wasn’t convenient to talk when the princess was here, but given that Immortal Venerable City has all kinds of complex characters, including those from foreign countries, we, during our investigations, discovered a group of individuals.
Their attire matches ours, but their movements and behaviors are somewhat strange,” the shopkeeper reported.
“Where are they staying?” Tang Feiyang inquired.
“They’re staying in a civilian residence.
We investigated a bit, and today, the son of the Prime Minister entered that residence,” the shopkeeper replied.
“Liu Tao is here too!
It seems the Prime Minister is not so simple,” Tang Feiyang mused.
“Young General, are you suggesting the Prime Minister is a traitor?” the shopkeeper asked.
“I can’t be sure yet.
We’ll have someone keep an eye on that civilian residence.
Maybe their house has a secret passage like ours.
What worries me more is if they are using explosives,” Tang Feiyang said.
Ye Tian knew from his past life’s high technology, explosives could be remotely detonated from a distance.
If an explosion occurred during the competition, all the elite of the Cultivation World present, along with the watching crowd, would be obliterated.
If those individuals took advantage of the explosion to blow up the surrounding city as well, it would bring disaster upon the local residents.
This was his greatest concern, that the enemy’s plots might already be underway, and they must catch these people very cautiously.
Protecting everyone within Immortal Venerable City was their current mission.
“Young General, I’ll arrange it right away,” the shopkeeper affirmed.
“Hmm, I will go out and take a look,” Tang Feiyang responded.
“Young General, do be careful.
If the enemy has such a plot, they might target you,” the shopkeeper warned.
“Hmm, I will be careful,” Tang Feiyang assured.
Ye Tian had already suspected that the Prime Minister’s residence was dubious and wanted to go in for an inspection.
Ye Tian exited the contact point through a secret passage and took to the streets, flying within a Magical Treasure, observing the city from above, and spotting all the architectural sites.
He also noticed some people flying high in the sky, unsure if they were friends or foes, and he remained cautiously vigilant.
Looking down from high altitude had its advantages, as one could spot acquaintances at a glance from above.
The cultivators flying in the sky might just be patrolling.
When those people saw Ye Tian, they were also on alert, guarding against him.
Seeing that he was just flying high in the sky without showing any hostility or attacking those people,
the patrollers in the sky eventually disregarded him.
Ye Tian spotted an acquaintance, Tang Feiyang, patrolling on the streets too.
He paid no attention to Tang Feiyang, instead sticking to his original plan and stealthily observing from high above the Prime Minister’s residence.
Ye Tian took out his Illuminating Mirror and discovered that there were many hermits inside the residence, and a feature that one could not ignore, the house had infrared security.
The infrared setup was only inside the house, it couldn’t be deployed high in the sky, so Ye Tian could observe these people clearly from above.
In the dark and murky sky of that night, those people did not realize he was up there.
Ye Tian was even more certain that people from a foreign country were residing in the Prime Minister’s house.
Using his advanced abilities, he extended his spiritual power downwards to investigate and found the Prime Minister’s son, Liu Tao, in a room, making strange motions on the bed.
Ye Tian could tell at a glance that the man had ingested some kind of hallucinogenic drug, certainly administered by someone inside the house.
He saw an official he had encountered in the court before, not knowing previously that the official was a confidant of the Prime Minister.
This man had hidden deep, certainly out with the Prime Minister’s son on some errand.
It was unclear whether their task involved leaking information to the enemy.
Opposite that official stood a woman wearing a kimono he had seen on television in his previous life, along with a few men speaking a foreign language.
Ye Tian knew some English from his previous life but did not understand this foreign language, yet when they spoke with the official, they spoke in the language of Ancient Xia Country.
If not for seeing them in this residence, should one see these people on the street, one would just assume they were from Ancient Xia Country.
There wasn’t a big difference in appearance, only in their speech and some of their gestures.
They spoke in whispered tones, but Ye Tian could hear their talk of hidden explosives clearly with the use of his spiritual power.
Ye Tian thought with alarm that just as he suspected, these people harbored a huge conspiracy.
He had to find the secret tunnel these people were using and catch them at the exit.
While Ye Tian was still searching for their secret passage, he heard the official say,
“I heard that the Princess appeared in Immortal Venerable City today.
It’s a pity we didn’t encounter her at the first opportunity.
Otherwise, capturing her covertly could have been used to threaten the King.”
“Second-rank Master, why didn’t you speak sooner?
If we had known the Princess was here too, we surely would have secretly captured her to hold as our hostage.”
“I only received the news just now.
Our enemy, the General’s Mansion, is just too formidable.
They encountered the Princess first and escorted her back safely.”
“Damn it, your General’s Mansion?
Is it that Young General who ruined our plans these past few times?”
“Yes, that’s right.
The General has also come here, precisely to hunt you down.”
“Hmph, we’re not so easy to deal with,”
“You’ve forgotten, he has a Magical Treasure that allows him to see your tracks.
Maybe even this residence isn’t safe.”
“Then we can only meet in the secret tunnel.
If the house isn’t safe,”
“That’s a feasible plan.
The traps were set up precisely according to your schematics, and those who set them have already been killed.”
Hearing these people discussing him inside, Ye Tian clenched his fists.
It seemed these people had killed quite a few.