Combat Emperor: Zhang Yu's Journey
Chapters... 299: Signs
The next day Zhang Yu decided to return to the Ning Empire, to the domain of the Xiao Clan.
Given that the blood sacrifice technique required the physical body of the moon goddess, it meant that her next target was Xuan Yin. Zhang Yu was intending to trap Gao Ran and kill him when it came to the domain of the Xiao clan.
However, until three months of waiting, Gao Ran never appeared and the news about him seemed to just disappear.
"Mother, why don't you let me out of the house? What the hell is going on? What don't I know?" It had been three months since Zhang Yu had returned, Xuan Yin was only at home without being allowed out.
Of course it made Xuan Yin curious and confused. Moreover, it seemed like everyone in this house knew about it, while only he did not know.
"Yin'er, this is really nothing. You're here with Mom. Mother will also remain at home with you" Xiao Mei said.
Xuan Yin shook his head. "No Mother. At least tell me what's going on? Why are you keeping it from me? Does this have anything to do with the combatants? What about the academy?"
Xuan Yin continued to ask because she was very curious at this moment. But Xiao Mei could not answer him.
"Sorry Yin'er, but this is for your own good. Your own husband asked me not to tell you that right now the combat group might be after you. We all made plans to trap them. And until then you should remain in this barrier-lined residence," inner Xiao Mei, regretfully.
Meanwhile in the patriarch's residence, Zhang Yu and a few elders sat down seriously staring at the scroll that the new third elder from Long Empire had sent. In the letter explained that even in the Long Empire there had been no rumors of eradication groups since the last time they carried out a massacre.
"Nobody knows where they are now. What exactly are they planning?" muttered Zhang Yu.
"Zhang Yu, you said that the entire army of the combatants died in the academy. Could it be that now the eradication group is recruiting people to create an army?"
The words of the Fifth Elder were taken in by several others. Zhang Yu also felt that it was not impossible. It could be that Gao Ran was reassembling an army then came to the Xiao clan with his suicide squad.
At that moment, Zhang Yu and the Xiao Clan were unable to do anything but wait any longer. They waited for the arrival of the eradication group until it did not feel like two months had passed again.
One morning, Zhang Yu left the domain for the first time since five months back. He toured around the southern mountain range which was the region around the entrance of the domain of the Xiao Clan.
"Zhang Yu, it seems that in front of there is a group of spiritual beasts. While you're watching this territory, I'll go hunting." Long Shen immediately turned into the form of a child. Without waiting for Zhang Yu's approval he had already dashed away to the place where he sensed the existence of the group of spiritual beasts with Sun on his shoulders.
When it was far enough away from Zhang Yu's place, Sun's body expanded to be quite large. At five feet tall, he ran side by side with Long Shen into the forest region of the southern mountain range.
Zhang Yu only watched as he thought no spiritual animal was strong enough to deal with them.
"Maybe I should browse every inch of the southern mountain region." On the way back from the academy Zhang Yu heard that the group of combatants had stayed in the forest a few miles away from the academy before attacking. It does not rule out the possibility of Gao Ran now using the same method and still waiting for the time to attack.
Zhang Yu decided to take another direction away from Long Shen. He moved for a mill in a short time and met some spiritual beasts.
Zhang Yu tried to ignore the group of spiritual beasts. But they even become aggressive when they feel its existence. Even as Zhang Yu emitted the aura of his half-eternal level power, such a group of spiritual beasts did not care about it.
Of course Zhang Yu instantly released energy that made them crash in several directions and die.
"It's really weird!" Zhang Yu increasingly did not understand.
Supposedly this group of spiritual beasts were afraid upon realizing a higher existence, but not only was it not afraid, this group of spiritual beasts instead appeared directly.
Awu!
The howling of the wolf came back from several directions. It didn't take long, in an instant Zhang Yu was able to confirm if there were around fifteen wolves lurking in his place.
The wolves also appeared. The one that made Zhang Yu surprised was that wolf-level wolf that was mostly the fifth level.
"Since when in the southern mountain region were many fifth level spiritual beasts?" Zhang Yu squinted his eyes. He was sure that the southern mountain region was a very rare region where there were high-level spiritual beasts such as the fifth level and above. Yet in one time Zhang Yu was able to find over ten fifth level wolves. This really never happened.
Awu!
A dozen wolves returned to howling long. They stood facing Zhang Yu while showing a barrage of sharp teeth. They were as if they could not sense the aura that Zhang Yu had deliberately unleashed. They lost their natural instinct to avoid higher existences.
"Soul control technique!" Zhang Yu suddenly thought of the technique. Because in his current situation, the existence of a soul controlling technique made perfect sense.
"Zhang Yu!"
Long Shen and Sun returned from their hunt. More precisely, they had to end the hunt closer than they expected.
"Zhang Yu, you ... Eh -" Long Shen's attention was fixed on the scattered wolf corpses.
"It seems you already know." Long Shen only wanted to tell about the spiritual beasts behaving unnaturally. But it turned out that Zhang Yu had also met a similar incident.
Zhang Yu raised his face. "I'm more and more convinced that this is the effect of the soul controlling technique."
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Her night. Zhang Yu discussed with his grandfather as well as the elders discussing the existence of abnormal spiritual beasts. Zhang Yu also said his guess that connected the lekadoannitu with the soul controlling technique.
Although not everyone knew about the soul controlling technique, but they felt that what Zhang Yu said made sense after hearing the story. Moreover, everyone also knows about the state of the southern mountainous areas that belong to a safe area.
Xiao Nie stood up from his seat while patting the table. "If so, it's decided. We'll send some groups to search for the metal control tubes in the southern mountain range."