113 In the Name of Justice (2/2)

Shen Mu and Luo Zhirou were both stunned silly when they heard this. Both of them felt betrayed and unaware of what exactly had happened. No matter how much they thought about it, they could not make sense of any of it.

Xue Wei had not been able to cultivate initially, for a long time. He had been hated and looked down upon by everyone, but then he started to rise like a shining star, becoming much more magnificent than the others.

Had he perhaps struck a deal with the Primordial Beasts back then? Shen Mu could not help but consider this.

”I don't think he did,” Luo Zhirou shook her head at Shen Mu when he suggested it. ”I don't think that he was actually siding with the Primordial Beasts before this, but he had no other option than to turn to them after we pushed him away. I think that humans pushed him towards the Primordial Beasts.”

Luo Zhirou's voice was steady but low. She knew that this was something she was never allowed to say, and the only reason she dared to do so was because Shen Mu was the one standing in front of her.

Shen Mu panicked when he heard her words. ”Don't ever mention it again,” he whispered frantically while looking around to see if anyone had heard the words spoken by the young woman.

Luo Zhirou looked at Shen Mu with a bit of a complicated look in her eyes. She pitied the man who had to forget all about friendship for the sake of his family's survival, the man who had to do what the majority wanted as heir to his family and the city lord's successor back home.

At first, Shen Mu had feared that the Crown Prince would withdraw all the support he had given them before, but strangely enough the Crown Prince did no such thing.

In fact, it was the Crown Prince that in the end managed to support Shen Mu and Luo Zhirou enough to make the jury believe that they had been deceived by Xue Wei.

Shen Mu and Luo Zhirou were quickly forgotten by the common people, but the nobles never stopped monitoring them. If they displayed even the slightest sign of betraying humanity, they would be killed right away.

While the capital was filled with trials to check whether or not people were connected to Xue Wei, there were more and more members of the team of Primordial Beast Hunters that gave up their hunt for Xue Wei.

Although they were tempted by the bounty on Xue Wei's head, they all knew that it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. They had all lost their window of opportunity to find him.

The only group continuing their hunt was the company controlled by Yuan Chao. He would never give up hunting for Xue Wei.

There were multiple reasons for this captain of the human army to want to continue his pursuit of Xue Wei.

First off was the fact that Xue Wei was his target. His entire company had been tasked with the capture of this young man, and they would never step down before they saw his head severed from his body.

The other reason was that Yuan Chao was a very just man. He wanted to protect the citizens as much as he possibly could, and he was very loyal to the kingdom.

When Yuan Chao was a child, his parents were both in the army, and both died in a trap laid down by humans who had colluded with Primordial Beasts. This trap had killed an entire battalion of soldiers and there were no survivors.

When Yuan Chao learned about this, he felt his heart burning with agony and sadness over the fact that humans would turn against their own kind, and now that he was tasked with finding such a person, he would give it his all to ensure that no others would end up as victims to such cruel methods.

Yuan Chao was a very renowned hero in the army. He did nothing for the sake of improving his military career, all he did was kill Fierce and Primordial Beasts.

Many expected him to become a Primordial Beast Hunter the moment he broke through to become a Heavenly Warrior.

”Everyone, the beast and human has passed through this place!” Yuan Chao exclaimed excitedly as he observed the dead person that was right in front of them.

”These people have all been killed in one move. Some of them are killed by claws, and some of them have their heads severed.”

”The speed with which they travel is slow considering how long that goes between the killings. I imagine that we will catch up with them when we are in the Flowing Blood Prairie.”

”Captain,” someone called out, ”please enlighten me, are we truly going to leave the kingdom and enter a no-man's land for the sake of capturing that kid?”

”Exiting the territory of our kingdom is nothing,” Yuan Chao said decisively, ”We will enter the center of the continent if we have to! We will chase him to the ends of the earth to give justice to all the lost souls that he has harvested!”

”Be aware, we have killed his martial brother Tie Haolong. His Royal highness has decreed for us to not return empty handed. His Royal Highness has informed us about his wicked deeds, and we have thwarted his plan to kill Xiao Lei. It is expected that one day, if we do not kill him, he will return to kill us! This is something we can never allow to happen, and thus we will capture him and kill him in the name of justice!”