Published: March 8, 2025
The next moment, Chu Yang and the others almost screamed out.
They saw that after the white-clothed person appeared, he merely made a casual hand gesture. Suddenly, several snow-covered trees at the corner, along with the flat snow-covered ground, began to shift...
The large tree suddenly transformed into several people, revealing their true forms.
“Did you find anything?” the first white-clothed person asked with his hands behind his back.
“Reporting to Elder, everything is normal!”
“Continue monitoring!” The white-clothed person flew away with a swoosh.
The other white-clothed individuals also shimmered and transformed back into trees, standing tall by the roadside, exquisitely lifelike.
Chu Yang finally saw clearly.
These guys had cut down the trees, leaving only the upper halves intact, covering the stumps with something that looked like white snow. They then dressed themselves in white robes, inserting their heads into the tree trunks, standing upright: they looked just like a large tree braving the cold wind.
Especially for those fleeing, if they passed by in a panic, they would absolutely not discover that the trunk at the bottom of the tree... was actually a person!
Wouldn’t it be too easy to capture them?
Truly a marvel of craftsmanship.
Chu Yang couldn’t help but admire.
The four law enforcers broke into a cold sweat: these bastards from the Li family are really sinister. If it were them in this situation, they might have run straight into a trap...
What made Chu Yang think to stop here and observe?
In the gloomy weather, dark clouds floated in the air, and heavy snow fell...
Unbeknownst to anyone, a shadowy mist enveloped Chu Yang.
The Sword Spirit had returned.
“What’s the situation?” Chu Yang asked with his divine thought.
“The defenses here are very tight,” the Sword Spirit replied. “The ones disguised as trees on both sides are eight supreme first rank experts, and lying in ambush underground are twenty saint level experts. This is what we just observed, publicly.”
“Secretly, above those disguised trees, there’s also a person disguised as a branch, who is also a supreme expert!”
“Every thirty miles, there’s such an ambush. Once they detect something, a long whistle is all it takes for reinforcements to arrive from hundreds of miles away!”
The Sword Spirit said, “This is the first checkpoint for exiting. As for how many more such checkpoints lie beyond this one, it’s unknown, but what’s certain is that this is the first checkpoint, and relatively speaking, the loosest one.”
Chu Yang's expression became heavy.
He understood what the Sword Spirit meant; if just a ‘loosest’ checkpoint reached this level, what about those ‘strict’ checkpoints?
What would happen then?
“These people seem to have consumed ‘Soul-Desire Powder’,” the Sword Spirit continued. “Therefore, divine thought detection generally wouldn’t perceive them. Unless it’s from a ninth rank supreme divine thought…”
Chu Yang rolled his eyes: If it were a ninth rank supreme, would they need to hide here like this? Wouldn't they just swagger out?
“Pay attention,” Chu Yang started to transmit to the others: “The current situation is…”
After hearing Chu Yang’s explanation, everyone was dumbfounded: it turned out there were more hidden in the trees!
“Alright, you all stay put. Brother Wan and I will go out first. So... so…” Chu Yang said, “But you must remember, no matter what happens, you cannot move!”
“Be careful,” everyone said cautiously.
“Of course.”
Chu Yang exchanged a glance with Wan Jian and then the two quietly got up, quickly changed their clothes, and strode out boldly.
In Chu Yang's nine calamity space, there were mostly black robes, with only two white robes available, which were now put to good use.
Chu Yang became a middle-aged man with a sinister appearance, while Wan Jian resembled a rough-looking bandit—compared to Wan Jian's temperament, this was indeed a fitting role.
Both of them carried large bundles on their backs, swaggering as they walked out.