Free Web NovelChapter 1666: Chapter 966: Sanatorium (Part 2)
Captain Zheng is quite reasonable, nodding to show understanding: "Captain Yang, just go ahead and do what you need to do, try not to involve the innocent. If anything goes wrong, I’ll take full responsibility."
Captain Zheng knows in his heart that Yang Xiao is here to help him this time, and he must maintain the right attitude. Expecting to reap rewards without taking any risks is impossible. freewēbnoveℓ.com
"Is everything set up around the area?" Yang Xiao’s gaze searched the red lines marked on the map. This sanatorium is halfway up the mountain; if a confrontation occurs, these Withered Bone Pavilion evil cultivators might retreat into the mountain, and it would be next to impossible to capture them in the vast mountain range.
"I’ve already arranged the personnel, and once you make a move, I’ll seal off all exits nearby. There will be people arranged in the mountain too, but the area is too large, so completely blocking the escape routes is very difficult," Captain Zheng said.
Captain Zheng’s words were sincere, showing his stance clearly. He still hoped Yang Xiao could eliminate all these evil cultivators in the sanatorium. However, if a few escape, he wouldn’t blame Yang Xiao.
Initially, Captain Zheng proposed a joint action with Yang Xiao, but Yang Xiao refused. After all, the people he brought this time couldn’t be exposed.
"Captain Yang, I suggest waiting a bit. There’s a forecast for heavy rain tonight, and roughly an hour later, we can wait until the rain stops to take action," Captain Zheng suggested.
"Are all your people in position?" Yang Xiao asked.
"They’re all ready." Captain Zheng nodded.
"Then let’s not wait. I’ll take my people and set off now. Roughly estimating, by the time we reach the location, the heavy rain will have started. We’ll act under the rain curtain, swift and decisive." Yang Xiao liked rainy days, particularly those when the night was pitch black, unable to see your hand in front of your face—a perfect night for action.
After finalizing the action details, Yang Xiao returned to the car, which took them to a place not far from the mountain road. After Yang Xiao and his team of five got off the car, they climbed the almost pitch-black mountain road, barely using any lighting tools along the way.
The Trickster took the lead, shaking a piece of cloth a few times, and then its shape changed. The Trickster reached inside, and pulled out a paper monkey made of yellow ritual paper.
The paper monkey was less than 20 centimeters tall, and quite roughly made. As the Trickster threw the paper monkey to the ground, it seemed to be endowed with intelligence, starting to climb using all its limbs.
The paper monkey’s movements were a bit clumsy, but its speed wasn’t slow. More crucially, even in the dark environment, everyone could clearly see this paper monkey and the mountain road within about a meter’s distance.
This was the first time Yang Xiao had seen such a thing and couldn’t help but find it intriguing. The Trickster’s methods were indeed marvelous, and suddenly Yang Xiao realized it might be related to the Trickster’s background. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
The Trickster hailed from Qimen, one of the Ten Great Sects, whose members are renowned for their mysterious and unique techniques, making them almost impossible to guard against. The sect also gathers a host of extraordinary and unusual figures from the martial arts world.
It’s said that the current Sect Leader of Qimen is a master among masters, holding a high reputation in the martial arts world. During a sect ceremony, he supposedly plucked the luminous moon from the sky and dropped it into his wine cup, drinking it in one gulp.
And for the whole night, the people in the city didn’t see the moon again, the night was frighteningly dark, but the scent of wine drifted through the endless night.
Yang Xiao respects science, he doesn’t believe the Sect Leader plucked the moon, evidenced by this: He learned in elementary school that the average distance from the Earth to the moon is about 384,400 kilometers, and its mass is about 7350 billion billion tons, which is absolutely beyond human capability.
In Yang Xiao’s view, the Sect Leader simply used an illusion technique. However, his strength was formidable, bolstered by sharp magic artifacts, the illusion range could affect an entire city. In a certain sense, claiming he had the ability to manipulate celestial bodies wasn’t entirely groundless.
As Yang Xiao’s understanding of these evil cultivators deepened bit by bit, he gradually came to realize one thing: those with proper inheritance were distinctly different, the most evident manifestations being in their magic artifact setups.
Those with a sect all had very decent magic artifact setups. Firstly, the artifacts were highly compatible with themselves. Secondly, the combination of several artifacts was comprehensive, enabling both offensive and defensive capabilities.
The strength aspect was the same. Among the survivors of the current team, the strongest few were Ku Daoist, One-eyed Monk, Night Watchman, and the Trickster.
Even though Chen Nang’s strength wasn’t necessarily lesser than theirs, having luck like Chen Nang’s is still too rare for loose cultivators. They have no backing and survive in the martial arts world on their own; if they die, they just die.
Chen Nang actually had relatively good luck. If not for the Patrol Defense Office looking out for him, he would have been killed by the Chamber of Commerce people long ago. This time, though he faced disaster, he received a gift from Chief Zhou.
This gift was ineffective for Yang Xiao, but there are only a few anomalies like him. This gift perfectly compensated for Chen Nang’s shortcomings, granting him enough time to employ curse techniques.
On a lesser degree, if he couldn’t fight, he could still escape, and pairing it with that Western Sword was quite decent too.
This is the benefit of having someone backing you. Even if you don’t understand, there will be experts in the sect to guide you, so the improvement in strength naturally becomes twice as effective with half the effort.
In a sense, it’s also the same for Yang Xiao; his true mentor should be the Opera Robe Ghost, although Yang Xiao thinks her motives are impure. For one thing, she has a vengeful mentality from being backstabbed in her previous life; for another, she covets his beauty and robust physique.
In his previous life, his good sister had such a notorious reputation that calling it notorious wouldn’t be an exaggeration; who knows how many talented young folks were forced into despair.
