Chapter 478: Broken Order (1/2)
Chapter 478: Broken Order
When they were gone, Zhen Huilan said, frowning, “Lu Kang, things like this have been happening a lot recently, right?”
With a bitter smile, Lu Kang nodded. “Yeah, a few other powerful sects also refused to pay us spirit stones after arriving in the city via the teleportation portal you’ve established for us.”
After a brief pause, she said, “I have a suggestion for you, considering Cai Lan isn’t here to keep order. From now on, turn this teleportation portal off and tell people that it’s broken. And since you don’t have some of the spiritual materials needed, you won’t be able to fix it within a short period of time.”
Lu Kang seemed to be in a very difficult situation as he said, “But if we do that, we might offend the foreigners who want to come to our realm through our portal. Our head also thought about shutting the portal down. However, he was afraid that if we did, foreign experts would seek trouble with him in the future.”
Zhen Huilan sighed. “You need to survive the imminent calamity first. It’s hard to say if there will be a future for the Blood Skull yet, so I suggest you focus on the present.”
Lu Kang sighed repeatedly over their difficult situation.
“You three go ahead and return to our residence while I go and learn about the situation inside and outside the city,” Zhen Huilan commanded. “Afterwards, I’ll determine when to go to the Void Illusion Mountain Range.”
Pei Qiqi nodded. “Okay.”
Immediately afterwards, Nie Tian and Li Ye followed her to their residence in Shatter City.
On their way, Nie Tian noticed that there were many more Greater Heaven stage foreign cultivators in the streets than before. He even saw a few Worldly realm foreign cultivators giving out glittering spirit stones to others in exchange for information.
They mostly asked about the situation in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.
After returning to their residence, the three of them weren’t in the mood to practice cultivation. Now that an atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty loomed over all of Shatter City, everyone felt insecure and uneasy, as if a storm was coming.
“Thankfully I was wearing this new mask when Huang Fan came,” Nie Tian thought to himself, looking overjoyed as he touched the slightly chilly mask he was wearing. “If I were wearing the old one Dong Baijie had given me, he might have already recognized me.”
Deep in the night, a bloodcurdling scream broke the silence.
Nie Tian, who was cultivating with Star Stones, was instantly awoken. With a grim expression, he pushed his window open and looked down into the lonesome street.
He had lived in Shatter City for some time, but not once had he seen someone openly break the Blood Skull’s rules and kill people in Shatter City before.
The Blood Skull forbade all sorts of fights inside the city.
If people wished to fight each other, they would have to acquire permission from the Blood Skull, and the fight would have to take place in the Blood Fighting Pit inside the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
If fights broke out in other locations in the city, the Blood Skull would immediately send out powerful experts to end the fight and punish the parties involved.
But now, during the first night he had returned to Shatter City, he heard someone’s agonized shriek right before death.
As he stood by the window and pondered the situation, he caught sight of a middle Greater Heaven stage man being pierced through the abdomen by a masked, black-garbed early Worldly realm expert with a spear.
The man let out a miserable cry and died.
The black-garbed killer dragged his victim’s body into the shadow of the street, and then disappeared after a quick search.
Even though it happened quite far down the street, Nie Tian was able to get a clear view of the whole thing. Afterwards, his expression turned increasingly grim.
KREEEN!
The wooden door to his room was pushed open. Pei Qiqi and Li Ye came in and walked to the window where Nie Tian was standing.
Li Ye didn’t drink today. His eyes remained sober as he said in a low voice, “The order of Shatter City has been broken. When I returned, those who worked for me told me that killings take place inside the city every night now. Many powerful foreign experts and even those who live in the city no longer respect the rules set forth by the Blood Skull.