Chapter 465: Going to Save the Birds (2/2)

The trip took a long time, half a month of constant travels, but they were all cultivators, and the weakest one among them was a Heavenly Knight, while the strongest was an Emperor, so moving without stopping for half a month was nothing to them.

As they had gone on for half a month, the villages they came across grew in numbers. Sometimes they were small and counted only a few hundred villagers; other times, there were towns with more than five thousand citizens.

They avoided the bigger cities, mainly because they were barricaded and full of soldiers that were waiting to delay them, and hopefully, lower the number of soldiers in the Demon Phoenix Army.

Xue Wei looked around as they were moving forward. He had a nagging feeling of discomfort in his heart as if something was going to go wrong, but he could not put his finger on what exactly was happening. Were they genuinely stepping into a trap?

He was also still puzzled about the Diviners from the Chang'an Continent. How had the experts of the Xiyang Continent found them? Chang'an was supposed to be very far away from the Xiyang Continent, so far that it might even take ten years of travels, but somehow they had managed to find a Diviner.

Even if the Diviner was lying and claiming that it was capable of taming a Sovereign Beast, it had to be a genuine Diviner. Otherwise, the name and the continent would not have been mentioned.

Everything was spiraling out of control. Xue Wei felt a need to understand what was happening, but things were eluding his grasp.

For now, all he could do was to go with the flow, and hope that he could handle what would happen in the future.

Suddenly, the people traveling in a snake formation stopped in their tracks, everyone looked towards the distance, and they could not help but take in a deep breath of air.

In front of them was no town nor a city, but a large and flat plane. The plane would usually be empty, but today things were different.

A whole army of the Xiyang Empire was waiting for them. In front of them were two massive cages, and within these cages lay three Vermilion Birds.

These Vermilion Birds were lying on the ground, the blood masked by the fiery red color of the feathers, but the agonizing cries that escaped their lips caused the Demon Phoenix Army to shudder. Just what had these noble birds experienced to cause such grievances?

Looking at the birds, Xue Wei instantly recognized one of them as the Chi Branch member, and he tightened his lips. Although they could not be considered friends, he still respected this person, and seeing him beaten like this was never a pleasant feeling.