Azure Robes Bleed at the Bone Excavation Group

Azure Robes Bleed · Bone Excavation Group

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After they left, Lin Feng handed the jade pendant to Lin Yu, his brow tightly furrowed. "Uncle, there's something wrong with Marcus. He said Karano never came back, so how did this jade pendant end up in this arena? It was clearly the Lin Family token Karano took with him!"

Lin Yu took the half piece of jade, stained with blood yet still glimmering faintly. His fingertip rubbed over the fracture, and the crimson light in his eyes was like congealed blood.

The corner of his mouth lifted coldly, without the slightest warmth in that smile, and he said indifferently, "Mm. That's why paying with just one leg was already letting him off cheap."

"This jade pendant appearing here is ironclad proof. Karano not only came back, he very likely left traces behind, and may even have... brought the person somewhere near here."

"Marcus either knew and kept quiet, or he was stupid enough to let someone make a move right under his nose without realizing it."

The chilling killing intent in his words seemed to make the stench of blood around the ruins grow even heavier.

Lin Yu put the jade pendant away. "Let's go. Pi Kaiding of the Gray Rat Gang! Pry open his mouth and drag out Black Tongue. I want to see exactly which thing doesn't know whether it's dead or alive!"

However, when they arrived at the Gray Rat Gang's lair, which had been encircled and smashed to pieces, the sight before them made their hearts sink.

Pi Kaiding, the slippery "rat" Marcus had spoken of, was now lying in a pool of blood, his breath weak, his life like a candle in the wind, rapidly going out.

Lin Yu signaled for the others to step back. The pressure brought by his towering figure made the dying Pi Kaiding twitch instinctively.

Lin Yu bent down, his icy gaze locking onto that face, pale and ashen from excessive blood loss. "Pi Kaiding, who told you to find Karano? Who gave him the thing? Who's behind this?!"

Pi Kaiding's unfocused pupils barely gathered a trace of focus. There was no clear consciousness in them, only fragments of images left after being crushed by immense terror.

A leaking "hah, hah" sound came from his throat. Thick bloody foam kept surging from the corners of his mouth, and his broken mutters were like groans in a nightmare:

"Blood... so much... such black blood... dragged away... the one in azure robes... like... like a rag... was... was dragged away... toward the 'Old Pit'... below... deeper... Waste Abyss... no roads... places with no maps..."

His body convulsed violently, and his unfocused pupils suddenly widened, as if the scene in his muttering was even more terrifying than the death closing in before his eyes, tearing the last shred of clarity from his soul completely apart.

Terror froze on his face, becoming his final epitaph.

In the end, his head tilted to one side, his last breath cut off, and he completely breathed his last.

All around them was deathly silent.

Lin Feng's palms went faintly cold. "Uncle... he said 'the one in azure robes'..."

Lin Yu slowly straightened, a storm of unprecedented brutality churning in his crimson eyes.

Every word of Pi Kaiding's dying mutters was like a poisoned ice spike, driving viciously into his heart.

Such black blood—how similar was that to the "evil, sweet, bloody clots" Marcus had mentioned!

The one in azure robes being dragged away like a rag—this was clearly the terrifying image of his father gravely injured or abducted!

"Old Pit," "Waste Abyss," "places with no roads and no maps"—they pointed toward an extremely hidden and dangerous unknown region!

Pi Kaiding was dead, and not only had the clues failed to become clear, they had instead grown even more confusing amid the bloodshed, full of peril.

"Black Tongue..." Lin Yu squeezed the name out through his teeth. "Looks like I'll have to personally go deep into 'Rust Alley' and meet this 'Old Ghost' hiding in the sewers. Feng'er, get ready. We're going to break into that 'Waste Abyss'!"

Lin Feng's heart tightened. He knew that the words "Waste Abyss" represented a perilous place so dangerous that even the Lin Family records spoke of it only vaguely.

The crimson in his uncle's eyes, almost as if it would burn everything to ash, foretold that a storm far more terrifying than the Bone Arena was about to descend.

The joint operation plan proposed by Chen Zhang received the approval of Yang Jingxue and Ximen Wenlan, the two Titled Douluo of the Three Great Clans.

Yang Jingxue had always trusted the Chen Clan's strategic vision, while Ximen Wenlan had newly advanced to Titled Douluo and was even more full of drive, precisely needing real combat like this to consolidate her reputation and expand her family's influence.

Xi Men Wenming's reaction was even more enthusiastic. As the chief steward of Soul Fighting City, he knew well the value of the underground network, and he also saw the opportunity to raise his right to speak through this. The Chen Clan's proposal was simply a pillow delivered to a sleepy man.

He made the decision on the spot. "Good! A-Zhang's plan is excellent! Soul Fighting City should use this favorable wind to drive a foot hard into this underground dark domain! I fully support it!"

The news spread quickly.

Zhu Yanfeng and Xia Yun split up to visit old allies such as the Xue Family, Chen Family, and Long Family, as well as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Branch.

Sure enough, just as Chen Zhang had expected, in the face of this heaven-sent chance for the underground structure to undergo a drastic change, no Elder family would remain unmoved.

Aside from channels, intelligence, territory, and the like, the Underground Dark City also had some rare mineral resources and soul beast materials.

Soul Fighting City was in Huading District 9, while the residences of its ten Elder families and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Branch were intentionally placed in the nearby Huagai District 10 and Huaguang District 8.

After discussion, with the influence and strength of the Soul Fighting City Alliance, swallowing the Underground Dark City across these three districts was just about right.

Though this area made up only a small part of the vast underground network, its location was crucial. It connected the three prosperous districts aboveground, and several underground forces that had occupied it for many years had already managed it like independent kingdoms.

After a brief discussion and exchange of interests, the Three Great Clans, Ma Family, and Li family would deal with Huagai District.

The intelligence showed four main thorns: the Bone Excavation Group (armed mercenaries and bandits), the Shadow Sisterhood (intelligence/assassination/escape), the Rust Belt Brotherhood (crazed thugs), and the Underground Sincerity Merchant Association (profiteers).

And the "Bone Excavation Group" was the martial core of this underground force and its largest "local tyrant."

They occupied the depths of Huagai District's complicated abandoned mine tunnels like vultures. With "Iron Jaw" Barton as their leader, they had great numbers, a full two to three thousand people, and they were well-equipped, extraordinarily fierce and brave.

More importantly, they firmly controlled an underground market—this was the economic lifeline and intelligence hub of the underground network in the three districts. Countless small forces that depended on the Bone Excavation Group or lived at its mercy, unaffiliated soul masters, and black-market merchants gathered here.

Nominally, they were dealing with the Bone Excavation Group, but in reality, they needed to dismantle the entire interest group centered around Barton.

So the Chen Clan's decision was: to catch the bandits, first catch their king!

They would concentrate their strength and charge straight to the heart with thunderous force, destroying the Bone Excavation Group's core resistance and killing or capturing the leader, "Iron Jaw" Barton!

As long as this central pillar fell, the attached forces would be left leaderless. The Shadow Sisterhood, the Rust Belt Brotherhood, and the Underground Sincerity Merchant Association would either submit at the first sign of trouble or no longer be worth worrying about.