Chapter 280: Chapter 257: Assault on the Great Derivation Sect! Seizing a City! (8,000-Word Chapter)

Azure Ancient Pill is refined using Azure Ancient Juice, and the healing effect is excellent.

"Yes."

Feeng Zhi took out the Azure Ancient Pill and fed it to Lix Yan.

Chu Ming then approached the corpse with the bloodied face and picked up that silver longsword, the Great Derivation Sword.

Feeng Yi was collecting the spoils nearby.

A moment passed.

"Clan Leader, it’s done."

"Let’s go."

"..."

The three of them left with the Great Derivation Sect’s Lix Yan.

Before long.

A figure returned carrying the head of a pale woman.

Upon seeing several corpses in the ruins.

"Who is it?!"

The roar echoed throughout the mountain peak.

...

Pingzhong County, outside the south city, in a dense forest.

Silhouettes moved in the forest, each wearing black robes and wielding saber, numbering in the hundreds.

"Brother Feeng Chen, why haven’t Elder Feeng Zhi and Elder Feeng Yi returned yet?"

"They should be back soon." Feeng Chen, at Refining Organ Perfection, appeared calm on the surface but felt anxious inside.

Suddenly.

"They’re back."

The trees rustled, and three figures entered the forest.

"Clan Leader!"

The hundred members of the Wind Spirit Race saw the newcomers, and all bowed in salute.

"No need for this."

Chu Ming walked to the front of the crowd, glancing around.

A hundred members of the Wind Spirit Race, besides Feeng Zhi and Feeng Yi who were at the Meridian Unlocking Realm, there were also three at the Refining Organ Realm, with the rest at the Strong Bone Realm.

It seemed that with one command, the Wind Spirit Race had brought out the elite of the clan.

"Cough cough..."

At this moment, Lix Yan, who Feeng Yi had carried all the way from the Great Derivation Sect, woke up.

"You all..." Lix Yan’s eyes were clouded, filled with blood.

"We are not the Blood Evil Sect, nor the Commandery Mansion, and certainly not the Martial Immortal Alliance."

Feeng Zhi looked at Lix Yan, his face marked by ravines showing little expression.

"Then who are you... cough cough... and why did you save me...?"

Lix Yan was seriously injured, but he could sense that within this group, there were two people with Meridian Unlocking Realm aura, one of whom wasn’t weaker than him when he was at his peak.

He struggled to turn his eyes, looking towards the not-so-distant place.

There stood a young man in black.

Unable to feel his aura, yet he could see that the two at the Meridian Unlocking Realm and everyone else deferred to the black-clothed young man.

"Rescuing you was just done along the way." Feeng Zhi added.

Just done along the way?

Upon hearing this, Lix Yan’s face, which still had some traces of doubt, suddenly froze.

Indeed, for someone betrayed by all, who would come to their rescue?

"Thank..." he wanted to bow in gratitude but found he couldn’t lift a hand.

"I’ve heard that you once had quite a good relationship with Pingzhong County Mansion and helped them eliminate bandits multiple times?"

Chu Ming approached him, lowering his gaze at Lix Yan.

Saving Lix Yan was indeed, as Feeng Zhi said, partly to disrupt the Blood Evil Sect’s plan, but also more than that.

He needed to ask some things from this famed Martial Arts Sect ancestor of Pingzhong County.

Upon hearing this, a complex expression flashed across Lix Yan’s face.

"Those are all past matters, from now on, I, Lix Yan, am irreconcilable with both the Mansion and the Blood Evil Sect."

Without the constraints of sect or family, there was only one thing left in Lix Yan’s heart — revenge!

"Do you know where there are water bandits between Pingzhong County and Xirong County, West Capital Grand Canal?" Chu Ming continued to ask.

"Water bandits?" Lix Yan was momentarily stunned, then caught his breath and replied: "West Capital Grand Canal is the Qin Dynasty’s most important waterway in the west, it can’t possibly have water bandits."

Really none?

Chu Ming’s brows furrowed slightly.

No water bandits, then he’ll have to think of another way to handle the grain and fodder containing Threads of Nourishing Essence and Red Light Treasure Water.

He originally planned to drive the water bandits on West Capital Grand Canal to raid the grain and fodder, and then have the Wind Spirit Race take away the Threads of Nourishing Essence and Red Light Treasure Water hidden inside.

This way, the problematic grain and fodder would become clean before entering Xirong County.

When that time comes, it would become difficult for certain people to falsely accuse his mentor of ’manufacturing armor privately,’ and these people would end up with a crime of intentional false accusation.

"Cough cough... But," after speaking, Lix Yan’s chest heaved slightly more, "West Capital Grand Canal doesn’t have water bandits, but White River does."

"The area of Nanyu County, Pingzhong County, is very close to White River, the nearest point between them is less than ten miles apart."

"And in the White River Basin of Nanyu County, there are at least five groups of bandits, among them, three are water bandits."

"The most formidable group of water bandits is stationed by a Meridian Unlocking Realm, which robbed the fleet on West Capital Grand Canal three years ago."

Lix Yan said all in one breath, his face turning rather pale.

Upon hearing this, Chu Ming felt moved inside.

Nanyu County’s White River Basin and West Capital Grand Canal are separated by less than ten miles, it wouldn’t take long for the water bandits on White River to reach West Capital Grand Canal.

"Do you know where their lair is?" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"One is at Yellow Sand Dune on White River, while another is quite cunning, hiding its lair at a place far from White River, near Huaidong below Nanyu County, the strongest of the two water bandits is only at the Refining Organ Realm."

"As for the water bandits led by a Meridian Unlocking Realm, they have long changed their location due to a siege by Pingzhong County Mansion, I do not know."

Two water bandits... should be enough.

Chu Ming lifted his gaze and walked to the side, Feeng Zhi and Feeng Yi followed up.

"Please, elders, go to Yellow Sand Dune and Huaidong."

"Clan Leader wants to destroy those two water bandit lairs?" Feeng Yi asked.

"No need to destroy them, you just need to kill their leaders and replace them."

"Tomorrow, I will transport a batch of grain and fodder through Nanyu County, West Capital Grand Canal, have the water bandits raid it, distract the Guard Army escorting the grain and fodder, and then have our clansmen take away the... from the grain and fodder."

Chu Ming explained the plan to them in detail.

"Remember, just take the materials from the grain, no need for slaughtering, as for those water bandits, let the Guard Army handle them."

"Understood." The two cupped their hands.

Then, Feeng Zhi looked towards Lix Yan behind him, "Clan Leader, how should we deal with Lix Yan?"

"This person..."

Chu Ming pondered for a moment and turned back to approach Lix Yan.