Congyang was a small county town on the border of the Marquisate of Haiyuan. The Zhenhai Army was now camped on a wooded hill with water nearby within the county's territory.
Ten thousand meters above the hill, Dongyang Lige, ancestor of the Dongyang Family and the Ancestral God Hall's newly promoted Sacred Priest, coldly watched the Zhenhai Army camp below.
Even from ten thousand meters in the air, the command tent at one side of the Zhenhai Army camp stood out in his eyes as clearly as a star.
A faint, almost imperceptible spiritual sense had silently settled upon Ye Zhen, who sat cross-legged inside the command tent.
Heavenly Patrol Generals belonging to the Zhenhai Army constantly flashed through the surrounding void, and divine senses swept across the area from time to time, yet not one of them discovered Sacred Priest Dongyang Lige floating there.
At that moment, Dongyang Lige seemed as though he were transparent.
With his cultivation as a Creation Realm Divine Being, could ordinary World King Realm Heavenly Patrol Generals possibly discover him?
That was simply a dream!
Dongyang Lige had followed Ye Zhen from the moment the Zhenhai Army set out. He had trailed the army for three days before finally finding an opportunity to strike.
Whether because Ye Zhen now controlled the Fire Spirit Hall, which the Dongyang Family had schemed over for hundreds or even thousands of years, or because of the ancestral decree handed down by ancestor Si Chen, Dongyang Lige had every reason to kill Ye Zhen.
Of course, in terms of importance, the latter mattered more.
After all, Ye Zhen might possess an inheritance capable of transforming the entire Dongyang Family!
Now that he had found an opportunity, the reason Dongyang Lige continued to hold back was that he was still