CHAPTER 401: CHAPTER 46: THE SHOCKING INCIDENT TEN YEARS AGO

"Ziyu, let’s go," Ximing issued a startled and inexplicable roar.

The surface of the Chaos Egg, which originally symbolized auspicious energy with its cloud Qi, had changed; the clusters of cloud Qi were now roiling like rolling ink.

What was even more terrifying, under the influence of that dark power, Guo Ziyu, who was originally skilled, felt his body stiffen, unable to dodge at all.

Seeing that the sickle was about to hit Guo Ziyu, in the nick of time, Ximing recklessly released his Dark Power, symbolizing the special Cultivation Technique of the Divine Court, erupting like a volcano, gushing forth.

The two energies collided, at a stalemate for a moment, and only the smell of something charred filled the air.

The clash of Dark Powers affected the surroundings; tiles from nearby houses were swept up, and at this rate, it wouldn’t be long before the people in the Mountain Market were attracted here.

"Color Worm, make your move," Yue Jinghua secretly summoned the Gold Eater Worm.

"Owowo, darling, don’t be mad, here I come," the Gold Eater Worm coquettishly flapped its wings, promptly deploying its Divine Worm Talent - No-fly.

In the sky, a vortex resembling a black hole appeared, and like a fully powered vacuum cleaner, it instantly sucked in the two stuck energies.

No-fly rendered all Dark Power ineffective within a mile’s distance, apart from their own faction. It was the Gold Eater Worm’s first time using No-fly on such a large scale, and it was startled by the power it unleashed.

Time, Dark Power, everything seemed to be firmly grasped by an invisible large hand.

Yue Jinghua leaped forward, "Ziyu, hand the Chaos Egg to me, and take Ximing to leave here immediately."

With an ominous premonition approaching, Yue Jinghua placed the suddenly frenzied Chaos Egg into the Star Sea, and taking Ximing, who had fainted due to the extraction of his Dark Power, with one arm, fled from the weapons store like flying.

Shortly after their departure, a flash of light denoting the Transmission Array appeared; Song Mu, one of the Judgment Envoys from the Divine Court, and subordinate specifically to Zong Shaoqing, showed up.

He arrived at the spot where Yue Jinghua and the others had just been, looked around and said, "It’s Ximing’s Dark Power fluctuation, what’s going on with this lad? Didn’t he already say he wanted to remain incognito and not use the Divine Court’s power anymore? This is troublesome; his whereabouts might have been revealed."

With a soft sigh, Song Mu disappeared around a corner of the street.

"Lord Sha Xi, it must be correct, I’ve seen that man," just when Ximing exerted the power of the Divine Court, Lord Sha Xi and her close maid realized the special energy fluctuation after leaving the weapon store area.

"Man? Are you talking about that wooden-faced man who was with that cunning young mercenary? I don’t see anything special about him. He’s wooden-like and doesn’t even dare to look directly at me. Your judgment is getting worse, actually fancying such a man," Lord Sha Xi said contemptuously, in her eyes, the only real men were her biological father, the Third Hall Elder, and Zong Shaoqing. She wouldn’t even bother giving a second look to others.

"Lord Sha Xi, you are mistaken, I am wholeheartedly devoted to the Divine Court, I wouldn’t dare to harbor such thoughts. Do you remember that I was originally a maid of the Third Hall Elder, and later the Third Hall Elder was dispatched by the temple to stay in a distant place? Among the people dispatched with the Third Hall Elder, there was the Judgement Envoy Ximing. Although that man has changed slightly in appearance, he is indeed Ximing." After the Third Hall Elder left, his maid was also assigned to other halls.

"Really? I heard that the Third Elder went to a very secret location and couldn’t easily return. No one in the temple knows exactly where they went. Neither my mother nor my father ever wish to talk about it in front of me," Lord Sha Xi remembered that except for the yearly goods that the Third Elder ordered to be sent back, he had never appeared in the Divine Court since then.

Even during the selection of the Divine Sons and Goddesses back then, it was no exception.

"I would not dare remember it incorrectly. Also, about ten years ago, I know there was a time when the items transported back to the Divine Court by the Third Elder encountered problems. Although I was only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, I remember it very clearly. It is said that the people sent back by the Third Elder were attacked midway, including a Judgement Envoy and several accompanying palace disciples who were injured. Ah, I remember even more vividly, Song Mu, who was a palace disciple at that time, was one of the disciples ordered to go for the rescue. He made a meritorious deed during that escort mission, and after successfully delivering the items back to the Divine Court, he was promoted to Judgement Envoy and finally assigned under the Divine Son’s command," after being reminded by the maid, Lord Sha Xi recalled that her Chaos Egg seemed to have been sent by the Third Elder.

In the Divine Court, most of the Judgement Envoys are raised from a young age within the temple, but there is also a group of people who are promoted from the ranks of the palace disciples.

"Are you saying, Ximing didn’t die? He betrayed the Divine Court for that ordinary-looking woman?" Lord Sha Xi felt more and more uneasy, and thinking about how Yue Jinghua suddenly changed her tone earlier, signaling Guo Ziyu to step forward and buy the Chaos Egg, the anxious expression on Ximing standing behind Guo Ziyu was very unusual.

"It must be so," the maid said excitedly. The Divine Court has regulations, traitors are to be executed without pardon. If someone provides clues about the traitor or kills him, they could take over the traitor’s previous position.

That means, if she wasn’t seeing things wrong, and Ximing truly was a subordinate of the Third Hall Elder, then as long as it is verified that he betrayed the Divine Court and she provided vital clues, as soon as Ximing dies, she has a great chance of becoming one of the Judgement Envoys.

"We can’t delay, we need to go back right now and capture that traitor," Hearing this, Lord Sha Xi felt a surge of excitement. She wanted to show those who mocked her as useless that she, Lord Sha Xi, truly had real skills and wasn’t just relying on the protection of her parents to become a Goddess.

The two of them, accompanied by a group of mercenaries, headed back to the weapon store.

Seeing the mess on the ground, the maid grew even more convinced: "Miss, there’s no mistake, that person must be the Judgement Envoy Ximing."

"You, does anyone know the origins of that young mercenary and a few people around him just now? Whoever provides valid clues, this Goddess will reward handsomely," Lord Sha Xi believed, as long as she found out the identities of those people, finding Ximing wouldn’t be too difficult.

Among the mercenaries, many recognized the Ximing couple, and someone immediately interrupted, "I recognize that couple, they are the owners of the Xuan Beast Store in town, Ximing and Guo Ziyu, their shop is located in the Central Area."

Another one said, "I recognize that youth, he’s a new mercenary who recently arrived in town, his name is Yue Jinghua, belonging to a mercenary squad called ’Second Generation Soldier’, he’s a nobody."