Rebirth of the Urban Demon Lord

Chapter 49 The mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter Forty-Nine: The Mastermind

The hall was plunged into darkness, as all the lighting equipment shattered under the power of the thunder.

Amidst the shards of glass scattered on the ground lay a dozen or so Taoist priests, their bodies charred black, writhing and wailing. One of them, whose hair and beard were completely burned off, was leaning against a pillar; his clothing still allowed one to identify him as Shan Quan.

"Cough cough..."

The old Taoist priest coughed a few times, then raised his charred face. "What kind of monster are you? How can you unleash such powerful spells when you only have the cultivation of the Fusion stage?"

Blood was flowing from many parts of his body, and his charred skin had cracked open.

Zhuo Yang squatted down in front of him, picked up the whisk, shook it a couple of times, then nodded and put it into his Qiankun bag. The material was good; it could be used to improve the quality of the Dragon Pattern Sword.

He then looked at Shan Quan and said calmly, "Who sent you to test me?"

Dan Quan coughed a few more times, then gave a bitter laugh: "What good will it do to say it? In the end, we'll all die!"

"I can give you a quick death." Zhuo Yang looked at him indifferently, "Perhaps I can spare your life. Such injuries are not fatal for someone with your Heartbeat Stage cultivation!"

"Undying?" Dan Quan's hope ignited instantly. "Are you telling the truth?"

“Yes!” Zhuo Yang calmly met his gaze.

Dan Quan's breathing became heavy. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Fu Zhiqi invited me here. He said he found the person who killed my disciple Wu Xuan, and that you were selling a very miraculous pill. I was tempted by greed and came."

"Is that all?" Zhuo Yang was somewhat disappointed. He had baited the hook, but only caught a small fish, which was very uninteresting.

“Fu Zhiqi also said,” Shan Quan took a deep breath, afraid that Zhuo Yang wouldn’t believe him, “that there is a mysterious master protecting me in the dark. I never believed there was such a master in the first place, and sure enough, I haven’t seen that so-called master come out yet.”

Zhuo Yang immediately frowned. His judgment was correct. If the elixir was put out for sale, it would definitely attract attention. However, the person who came was not the one he was looking for, but his enemy.

At that moment, Zhuo Yang had an idea. He immediately jumped out of the window and sped towards the place where the sensation came from.

The protective jade pendant left for Wu Hongliang is broken!

The location sensed by the sensor was not far away, directly below. Zhuo Yang flew out of the building and crashed to the ground with a muffled thud, causing large cracks to appear in the concrete.

"Still underground!"

Zhuo Yang swept his eagle eyes around, circulated his true energy, and stomped his foot on the ground.

With a loud crack, the concrete floor seemed to explode, sending debris flying everywhere. When the dust settled, only a deep hole remained in the ground.

Sunlight streamed down his body as Zhuo Yang stared at a man in a jacket a dozen meters away and said in a deep voice, "You shameless fellow, actually ambushing a few ordinary people!"

This is an underground parking lot. At the man's feet lie several people, including Dongfang Jiye, Wu Hongliang, and a few bodyguards. None of them are moving, and it's impossible to tell if they are alive or dead.

"Tch." The man stepped into the light, revealing his figure. He was tall and muscular, wearing a jacket and jeans, and looked like a musician, but he was not young, around forty years old.

"They are not ordinary people. The medicinal effects of the elixir have not been fully absorbed yet, so they should be considered half-cultivators!"

He looked at Zhuo Yang coldly, "I'm very curious, where did you get your alchemy skills? You actually managed to create a spiritual pill that everyone in the cultivation world dreams of, which can be used to improve the aptitude of an ordinary person!"

"It's a secret!" Zhuo Yang replied calmly.

"Oh, by the way, my name is Yuan Chen, a retainer of the Wang family." He brushed the dust off his jacket, completely disregarding Zhuo Yang. "Judging from your appearance, you're just a cultivator in the Fusion stage. I'm quite curious about how you managed to kill Liu Yimin."

Zhuo Yang used his demonic eyes to observe him and noticed a golden light flashing in his dantian. He immediately frowned: "Late stage of Golden Core?"

"Oh, you've got a good eye. I'm getting more and more curious about you." Yuan Chen sized up Zhuo Yang and gave a sinister smile. "Looks like you have a lot of secrets. I'd love to catch you and interrogate you bit by bit!"

"Wang Shanlong ordered you to kill me?" Zhuo Yang asked coldly.

"Young Master only learned that Liu Yimin is dead and sent me here to see him." Yuan Chen seemed more relaxed, but his eyes were fixed on Zhuo Yang, his aura chilling. "I had a good relationship with Liu Yimin and wanted to avenge him and also put Young Master's mind at ease, so that Young Master wouldn't be unable to let go of the past and couldn't concentrate on his cultivation."

After saying that, he touched the ring on his finger, and a gleaming longsword immediately appeared and was grasped in his hand.

Zhuo Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled. Similarly, he also took out the Dragon Pattern Sword from his Qiankun Bag.

At this moment, the Dragon Pattern Sword was reforged by him using millennium-old cold spring iron, making it of even higher quality and radiating a chilling light under the sun.

With a flick of his longsword, Zhuo Yang's aura suddenly changed, as if a precipitous peak were piercing the clouds.

Yuan Chen said in surprise, "So you use a sword too? Not bad, but in my eyes you're just trash!"

He casually swung his longsword, and ink splattered everywhere, seemingly forming a perfect ink painting with mountains and water, making people feel at ease.

"This is the Ink Cloud Sword Technique, its power is extraordinary, remember it!" Yuan Chen suddenly widened his eyes and charged straight at Zhuo Yang.

A true Golden Core stage expert exudes an incomparably powerful aura. Compared to Liang Yongqing and Lu Mingjiang, who forcibly boosted their cultivation to the pseudo-Golden Core stage, it's like comparing heaven and earth.

Zhuo Yang was only at the peak of the Fusion stage, two whole levels away from the Golden Core stage. He leaped out of the underground parking lot and used the Cloud Flowing Step to escape.

Only a fool would stay and confront a true late-stage Golden Core expert head-on.

"Why are you running? I'm not going to eat you!" Yuan Chen shouted indifferently, but his figure was not slow at all, closely following Zhuo Yang a dozen meters behind.

Zhuo Yang dared not fly directly into the sky. Golden Core cultivators could already fly, making it a hundred times easier for them than for him.

He deliberately chose to run through narrow places, such as vegetable markets and the middle of the road, as slippery as an eel.

Yuan Chen had a headache. He chased after Zhuo Yang, shouting, "Zhuo Yang, stop running! Let's find a quiet place to settle this once and for all. You've made such a commotion, the Dragon Court will come after you!"

Zhuo Yang ignored him and continued running towards the messy area.

Ahead lay the central commercial street of Lingzhou. He jumped from the third-floor rooftop, immediately eliciting screams from the crowd.

Then, he used his movement technique to rush into a shopping mall at an extremely fast speed...

Yuan Chen, somewhat hesitant, took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and jumped off the building from the other side. After chasing into the mall, he completely lost track of Zhuo Yang.

"Damn, is this kid a slippery eel?"

He cursed and activated his true essence perception, step by step delving deeper into the shopping mall.

The mall was crowded and the atmosphere was chaotic. Even with his late-stage Golden Core cultivation, it was impossible for Yuan Chen to lock onto Zhuo Yang's aura, which made Yuan Chen's anger surge.

He saw a figure flash by in the distance and immediately gave chase.