681 Eliminate The Treacherous Ones! (1/2)

In the afternoon, Yun Xiaoyao led Yutang's experts from his usual position, standing with his hand resting on his sword.

At Tie Zheng's command, three thousand and five hundred soldiers swept into the east district to collect dead bodies. The Yutang army was doing much better in collecting the corpses now compared to the past. They no longer needed to search for the deceased over a large area; their task was greatly simplified as they only needed to search near the center of the location.

The count of the deceased reduced gradually, decreasing in number. After all, those who could still stay alive since the beginning of the great fight until now, whether they were the assassins who were being attacked or the martial world artists outside, could be said to be cream of the crop. Almost everyone who was alive was a tough character who was difficult to kill.

Based on this premise, the search for corpses became evidently easier than before. The three thousand people who had entered to do the recovery work retreated after a while.

Yun Yang, who was manifested as a cloud cluster, studied the soldiers one by one carefully but did not find anything suspicious.

Dusk colored the sky. The coppery scent of blood in the city's eastern quadrant was accompanied by the aroma of hot meals, spreading throughout the vicinity. As the aroma drifted, Yun Yang jolted. A wisp of a breeze materialized from the clouds and traveled into the area stealthily.

His vision was greeted by a street that was teeming with people. There were hundreds of individuals calling out noisily to sell wine and dishes, rice and other food items. Their true identities, however, were Tie Zheng's elite Steel Cavalrymen who had gone through hundreds of wars.

Yun Yang maintained his facade as a strong wind and released his divine sense, ensuring that everyone was within the coverage of his deific consciousness. His divine sense was like a soft, caressing breeze that carefully roamed over everyone to inspect them with utter attention. He checked their faces, their auras, the color differences of their wrist, arms, and fingers as well as their necks, shoulders, and faces; he looked at their arms, their calves, the skin color of their entire body – to see if there was any unusual parts or mismatched spots, if their gaze and aura matched each other, if there were any differences between the two…

Yun Yang understood that the blind angle of a disguise lied within these spots.

Tie Zheng had sent a total of seven hundred people this time around, establishing a large-scale trade site by the kitchen work army.

Yun Yang's search already bore fruit before he reached the two-hundredth man. The gain was not that he had found or secured the suspects who could be Ouyang Xiaoshe, but he had found seven impostors instead!

”It looks like the blind spot is really a blind spot indeed; there are so many that were missed out!”

Yun Yang felt like slapping himself.

The large numbers of those who had slipped through meant that his plan was not all-rounded enough and that his set-up was not secure. Seven hundred men had come in – there were still seven hundred men now, but there were already seven impostors before he even reached two hundred!

Where were the original Steel Cavalrymen? This was but a rhetorical question.

The impostors could be martial world practitioners, the assassin league's killer, or… Ouyang Xiaoshe himself!

If Yun Yang had not left a discreet marking on the two pieces of dragon hide treasure map using the Endless Divine Art, making certain that the two pieces of the map were still within the ranks of assassins, Hong Zhan and Hen Bieli could very well be among these impostors!

If he had not been struck with the sudden realization today as he thought about the blind spot, there could have been an even bigger loophole!

Thinking of this, Yun Yang grew more cautious and paid close attention as he continued filtering the trading army. He went through all seven hundred men present and finally discovered a total of thirty-five outsiders mixed in with the troops.

He sucked in a deep breath.

He could only hope that Ouyang Xiaoshe was among these thirty-five people. It was no longer just about Ouyang Xiaoshe now; all thirty-five impostors here had to die!

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