Gai Fengyan Was Definitely Suspicious

In a dim basement on the edge of the city.

A strange and intricate Formation Array was carved into the dusty floor, with foul-smelling, grotesque tentacles burrowing into it.

The tentacles came from an old man sitting upright at the center of the array.

The old man's upper body was covered in blood-red threads.

The farther each thread extended, the thicker and more grotesque it became.

Unlike before, these tentacles were writhing ceaselessly, pumping blood into the old man.

Like a network of tubes, they fed a continuous stream of blood collected at their other ends into his body.

As the blood entered his body, his shriveled frame began to swell, and his hoary white hair turned black again.

Meanwhile, his own blood flowed ceaselessly from his wounds, congealing into tentacles that burrowed into the array!

The old man was actually replacing his own blood in this manner!

At that moment, he murmured to himself.

"Divine Blood, how wonderful..."

"Only by transcending the Sequences can we find salvation!"

The old man closed his eyes and tilted his head toward the ceiling, his face full of bliss as he toyed with the Black Jade in his hand.

It had once been a Soul-Reaping Bureau identity token, but the characters on its face had been viciously scratched out with a blade.

On the back of the Black Jade were several other lines of small characters.

[The dead have crawled out of their graves, throwing cause and effect into disarray.]

[In the clash between Deities, we may find our salvation.]

[There is no need to search for me! At the boundary between light and darkness, at the birthplace of blood and song, at the destruction of the old order and the birth of the new, I shall reveal myself!]

[—Death-Chant Monastic Order]

Su Yang raced through the city.

He ran for his life, sprinting harder than he ever had before.

The occasional cries of anguish and flashes of fire in the distance, along with the tentacles growing out of the ground, shook him to his core.

He knew that Ren Yexue had caused all of this to bring him back to life.

Was it worth it? He didn't know.

All he knew was that if he didn't reach Ren Yexue in time, he would regret it for the rest of his life!

As he ran, a feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

It was like having a severed arm reattached, like a paralyzed person standing up from a wheelchair again.

Su Yang could manifest the Black Longsword again!

His right hand shot out and drew from the void, and a Black Longsword appeared in his grasp.

Looking down at the Black Longsword, Su Yang saw drops of blood and fine scratches on its surface.

"God War..."

Heng Hong had previously told Su Yang that Ren Yexue had shared her Authority with him.

In other words, the Sequence Ability Su Yang had awakened was actually the same as Ren Yexue's.

The reason he hadn't been able to manifest the Black Longsword before was that Ren Yexue had been using it.

And now that Su Yang could manifest the Black Longsword again, it had to mean that Ren Yexue's battle was over!

At that thought, Su Yang picked up his pace again.

The Authority Heng Hong had shared with Su Yang also came into play at that moment.

Soft whispers kept sounding in Su Yang's ears, telling him which direction to run in to avoid fatal harm.

"There is a third-tier First Sequence Ability wielder on the left. He is tearing into an old man's flesh..."

Hearing the whisper in his ear, Su Yang's gaze turned cold.

What a beast!

He was a Sequence Ability wielder, yet he actually attacked an ordinary old man!

Su Yang twisted his body to the right, changing direction.

A third-tier First Sequence wielder was beyond his current strength. He had to avoid a direct confrontation!

Besides, his most urgent priority was to find Ren Yexue, so Su Yang had no intention of stopping the man.

"There is a peak fifth-tier Sword Envoy ahead. There is no danger; you may proceed."

A Sword Envoy?

Why was there a Sword Envoy ahead?

Su Yang was puzzled.

As he remembered it, whether in Ren Yexue's Divine Kingdom or in the real world, the Soul-Reaping Bureau had no Sword Envoy in this jurisdiction.

Much less a peak fifth-tier Sword Envoy who was about to become a Demigod.

If a Sword Envoy really was here, they must have come to Ren Yexue's Divine Kingdom from another Soul-Reaping Bureau jurisdiction.

They hadn't come early or late, but at precisely the moment when they could carve up the God of Fate and Reason's Authority. It was hard not to suspect the Soul-Reaping Bureau's intentions!

But he chose to trust the whisper in his ear and ran ahead.

A few breaths later, Su Yang saw the Sword Envoy the whisper had spoken of.

It was Gai Fengyan.

Gai Fengyan was holding an Ancient Emerald Longsword, and before him stood a humanoid monster that was pitch-black from head to toe.

The monster had no facial features except for a single enormous black eye.

Su Yang came to a stop.

A soft whisper sounded in his ear, briefly explaining the creature's origins.

"A Spirit, a creature outside the Sequences. Its power is comparable to that of a fourth-tier Sword Envoy."

A Spirit? Was that the name of this creature, or a name unique to this monster? Its power was actually comparable to that of a fourth-tier Sword Envoy.

"God says, this sword can cleave all things."

"God says, this sword cannot be evaded."

After softly chanting those two lines, Gai Fengyan's figure flashed, and he thrust fiercely at the monster in front of Su Yang.

The monster stood there and tried to dodge, but its feet were stuck fast to the ground, unable to move.

With no other choice, he could only use his pitch-black hands to block Gai Fengyan's sword.

The sword slashed through.

The monster was cut in two, along with the two office buildings behind him.

The office buildings, dozens of stories tall, were sliced in half and crashed to the ground, kicking up dust and fierce winds.

Su Yang froze. Was Gai Fengyan really that strong?

As expected of someone at the peak of the fifth tier.

After Gai Fengyan cut down the "Spirit," he saw Su Yang standing in the distance and said in surprise,

"Su Yang? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be at the Northern Suburb Cemetery?"

"Heng Hong just let you out like that?"

Gai Fengyan's words startled Su Yang.

How did Gai Fengyan know that Heng Hong had taken him to the Northern Suburb Cemetery?

Wait!

Su Yang suddenly remembered something!

Back at the Northern Suburb Cemetery, Gai Fengyan had been the one to give Su Yang the Soul-Reaping Bureau's Black Jade!

There was something wrong with Gai Fengyan!

He also knew that the God of Fate and Reason had brought Su Yang back to life!

Because Gai Fengyan had not always stayed at the Soul-Reaping Bureau in the Nineteenth Jurisdiction, the God of Fate and Reason had not created a second Gai Fengyan!

So Gai Fengyan, who should have been outside Ren Yexue's Divine Kingdom, wouldn't have thought that Su Yang had yet to join the Soul-Reaping Bureau!

In his memory, Su Yang should have joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau two years ago!

Heng Hong had also said earlier that the Su Yang who had died had advanced three tiers in rapid succession, even outshining Gai Fengyan.

So how could Gai Fengyan have said those things to Su Yang back then?!

About how Su Yang's parents had left him those words five years ago.

About how other matters had kept him from finding Su Yang throughout those five years.

About how Su Yang could find clues left by his parents in the Soul-Reaping Bureau.

Gai Fengyan was definitely suspicious!!!