544 The Divine Palanquin Moves North (2/2)

The blood-colored Judicial priest robes fluttered in the wind as Ye Hongyu walked out indifferently. Everyone, including the priest in red, bowed in salute when they saw her.

Ye Hongyu did not speak with other priests in the temple or go to the palace to accept the greetings of the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qi. She left with her 500 Divine Hall guards and dozens of subordinates from the Judicial Department.

The divine palanquin came in the twilight and left shortly in the night. Ye Hongyu had left the West-Hill Divine Palace and came to the capital of this kingdom in the human realm seemingly just to meet Ning Que and heal Sangsang.

The subordinates from the Judicial Department had stayed silent throughout. However, they could no longer suppress their shock and gazed at the dark windows in the temple bewilderedly. They imagined that the relationship between the Academy and the Great Divine Priest must be really close to have the Divine Priest of Judgment come and go at his will.

The hulking Luo Kedi walked silently behind the palanquin. He looked at the figure hidden behind the yards of satin indifferently. However, a wild passionate greed danced in his eyes.

The Tao Addict was called the Tao Addict because she was addicted to Taoism. However, was she really the addict, like believers believed, who only had eyes for cultivation and nothing else and knew nothing of the world? He thought silently and wondered if this person who had used the Academy to solidify her position in the Divine Hall really cared naught for the world.

The autumn winds on the continent grew stronger. Capital Cheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom located in the extreme north had already welcomed winter. Withered yellow leaves rolled on the ground of the quiet streets and were crushed to powder accompanied by crisp sounds.

A martial law had been put in place on most streets of the capital since dawn. The streets were devoid of anyone else other than weapon bearing troops. Even so, the soldiers were exceptionally vigilant as they stood with their backs against the streets. They stared at every moving object, including the leaves.

All of this was because of the giant divine palanquin that moved slowly on the streets. The palanquin had just entered the capital through the Southern City gates. It passed the imperial palace without stopping and headed to the Nothern City gates.

The palanquin was extremely large and luxurious, it looked like a moving temple. It should move extremely slowly due to the hundred papal cavalryman and dozens of powerhouses from the Judicial Department surrounding it. And it was indeed moving very slowly, but what was amazing was that the palanquin was still in the capital of the Kingdom of Qi in the south a few days ago and it was already at the capital of the northmost Yan Kingdom now. It was practically a miracle.

The several layers of satin surrounding the four sides of the palanquin were extremely thin. However, like the winter willows by the lake enveloped in mist. they did not block out light nor the cold winds.

It was cold within the palanquin and mist would appear if one breathed. Ye Hongyu still wore her thin blood-red Divine Priest robes. Her bare feet stepped lightly on the rug as if she could not feel the cold at all.

Crown Prince Chongming wrapped his robes around him tightly. He tried his best to sit regally and respectfully, trying his utmost best not to look at the beautiful girl's naked feet. He knew that while the girl was beautiful, her body, beneath the blood-red robes, and her beauty belonged to Haotian. Mere mortals like him could not get close to her.

Ye Hongyu looked at the weak man seated a few feet away from her. She said coldly, ”You have disappointed me.”

Crown Prince Chongming smiled bitterly, saying, ”Great Divine Priest, even though I really want to kill my younger brother, he is still my father's son. He has many loyal subordinates in Yan Kingdom. The crux of the matter is, he is already a Grand Cultivator in the Knowing Destiny State. The Yan Kingdom is weak and is powerless to stop him.”

Ye Hongyu said with a blank expression, ”Even the weakest country cannot be defeated by a cultivator. I have said in my letter that you just have to hold him back for some time if you can't stop him.”

”It is my fault for disappointing you, Great Divine Priest.”

Crown Prince Chongming looked to the northern wilderness outside the city gates. An extremely complicated emotion appeared on his face and he muttered, ”Once he goes there, nobody can stop him.”

Ye Hongyu looked at his expression thoughtfully.

Prince and Long Qing and his fallen knights have successfully beaten several lines of defense placed by the West-Hill Divine Palace. After entering the lands of Yan Kingdom, he seemed to have melted into the lands and crossed the capital silently before entering the Wilderness.

To many, the West-Hill Divine Palace's pursuit of the betrayer had to end here. That was because the Haotian Taoism sect had not tried to enter the Wilderness in pursuit of the Great Divine Priest of Light who had betrayed them a thousand years ago.

Because the seemingly barren piece of land which was actually fertile did not belong to those from the Central Plains.

Haotian's Divine Light did not extend there.

However, unexpectedly, the Great Divine Priest of Judgment's palanquin did not turn back south at Capital Cheng. Instead, it continued towards the Wilderness.

The chilling autumn wind became stronger in the Wilderness. There was a moment when the heavy veil around the palanquin was lifted by the wind. It was only then that a priest discovered that the Divine Priest of Judgment was gone.

In the Wilderness on the northwest border of Yan Kingdom was a mountain that did not seem too dangerous. There was a hot spring in the mountain. By the mountain, was a slender, blue, sea-like lake in the shape of a beautiful woman's waist.

The autumn wind blew on the cliffs, Ye Hongyu's blood-red robes billowed, outlining her captivating silhouette. Just like the slender blue lake below the cliff, many in the world would willingly drown themselves in it.

Ye Hongyu's expression did not falter as she looked at the bonfires by the blue lake. Just like her ascension to take the place as Divine Priest of Judgment, it seemed natural to her.

Since she had promised Ning Que to kill the mad dog personally, she would do it no matter whether she had to chase him down to the corners of the earth or to the Central Plains or Wilderness.