83 Evolve (1/2)
”Chirp! Chirp!”
In the open sky, the Iron-tailed Black Eagle flew higher and higher, and finally became a small black dot.
”Keke!”
The Flower Fox Ferret waved its paws around. Its progress of recovery was halfway, and it seemed excited.
”Don't worry! Nobody can take advantage of us! I will take revenge for you!”
Fang Yuan comforted the Flower Fox Ferret, smiling.
The trouble that Old Crane brought to him could not be paid back by just a mouthful of blood!
Furthermore, he was worried that the other party did not know his true strength, and they attempted to fight their way in with martial artists.
”The brothers who have broken through the Death Gate are still just on par with the Flower Fox Ferret, and both Hu Yuxu and Zhang Sheng, who have broken through the 4 Heavenly Gates, are no match for me... The Iron-tailed Black Eagle can deal with the rest!”
Fang Yuan's battle plan was simple, or even too plain, but it didn't matter!
With the flying spiritual beast, He could fight and, escape whenever he wanted to and could always be on the top of things!
Zhou Wenwu was a local of Qingye City. Even though he could not match against any of these enemies, he could stalk and get information about them within the city as easy as the snap of his fingers.
”The party did not stop at Qingye City, and went straight back to Cangshui County?”
With this information, Fang Yuan's smile widened. ”Even though they were cautious, they still underestimated my abilities and think that they could get away?”
”Chirp! Chirp!”
The Iron-tailed Black Eagle seemed to know what he meant, and with a long chirp, he increased his speed.
...
Two World Mountain.
This was the separation between Qinghe County and Cangshui County. The mountainous ridge was continuous, hilly and was like a dragon, separating the two sectors.
”Chirp! Chirp!”
The Iron-tailed Black Eagle possessed an astonishing eyesight; it noticed a trail of what seemed to be a campsite and immediately descended.
”Who would've known that they could make it this far, they are really quick!”
Fang Yuan examined the surroundings and it was full of fire pits, tents etc. His expression suddenly changed. ”Something's not right!”
He went up and noticed cuts on the tents, flipped pots and bowls, and the blood stains on the ground. He became interested. ”Internal conflict?”
At this point, he had no other doubts, and he opened the tent flaps.
”Whoosh!”
A pungent smell of rot filled the air, and in the tent laid two people. They were the martial artists who came that day to look for trouble, but both of them had no signs of life.
”Dead... Poisoned?!”
Fang Yuan looked at the weird smile that both corpses had, and looked at the embers in the fire pit. He remained speechless.
”Who would've known... Someone accomplished what I set out to do!”
He scavenged the tent and found even more corpse within the tent. Accompanying the morning peace in the forest, this was a scene filled with fear.
”Seeing how it is, it seems that most of them did not see it coming and died in their dreams and the remaining ones who found out what was happening tried to retaliate...”
Fang Yuan came to the boundaries of the campsite and found even more martial artists corpses, and their cause of death, being stabbed by a weapon. There were slash marks on the neighbouring trees as well, evidence of a fight.
He closed his eyes, and it was as though he could witness the scene last night. ”Only one person has the ability to poison so many on such a large scale, and that is... Old Crane!!!”
Only this doctor would know of such colourless and odourless quick-acting poison, and he would not draw suspicion to himself because of his status.
”But... Why did he do it?”
Fang Yuan was confused. ”Just to cover up for his failure? Not to this extent, right?”
He only took it as a possibility; after all, anything could happen when one becomes crazy.
It seems that the rational madman could only do so much.
Following the tracks forward, Fang Yuan's eyelid twitched.
”One skilled martial artist escaped... This is retaliation!”
In front of him was two corpses with their heads split open. The wounds were inflicted by a sword.
”Zhang Sheng's Tumultuous Nine Sword Technique?!”
Fang Yuan twitched his eyebrow. ”Did Old Crane go crazy? To the extent of harming Zhang Sheng? Or was he forced to?”
He understood everything once he noticed the imprint on a tree trunk; it was that of a palm.
”Iron-tailed Black Eagle!”
He called for it and quickly leapt on its back. ”Follow this trace, and search the campsite for clues! Don't give up anything suspicious!”
...
”Nine dragons strike!”
In the woods, Zhang Sheng was pale. His clothes were tattered, and the sword in his hands swung about; the only thing that was visible was nine streaks of flashes, as though the galaxy was upside down and flowing down.
”Puff!”
He was fighting the two brothers who broke through the Death Gate, Ah Da and Ah Er. Witnessing his attack, both of them went pale and tried their best to fend off the attacks.
”Whoosh whoosh!”
Two distinct sword slices were heard. Both of them were in disbelief and fell to the ground. Each of them had a cut half an inch on their forehead.
”Puff!”
Zhang Sheng kept his sword. He looked uncomfortable, and suddenly spat out a mouth of black blood.
At this moment, a sneaky shadow pounced towards Zhang Sheng, and a claw landed on his abdomen.