Chapter 489 - 300: Schemes and Vigilance, Part 2

Chapter 489: Chapter 300: Schemes and Vigilance, Part 2

"Wangyuan, that is my teacher. Even if his ideas are a bit antiquated, he is still my teacher. You must be more respectful toward him!"

Yang Jingxuan’s voice was clear and distant. It held no inflection, yet it made Su Wangyuan’s heart tremble.

He immediately spoke more cautiously, "We’ve found him. Your teacher’s new student is named Yu Fei. They likely established their master-student relationship last year."

"Yu Fei, Class of 838. Place of birth unknown, personal history unknown. We could only find some information after his enrollment, but we have made some guesses and confirmations about his abilities...

Gang Qi Realm... cultivates the Melt Gold Jade Body Skill, has mastered an extremely powerful Sword Qi technique, and his cultivation technique is speculated to be the Vast Sea Infinite Skill, the All Heaven Star River Scripture, or the All Things Return to Origin Scripture.

He has displayed Spatial Teleportation abilities in combat and is also suspected of having a spatial storage ability..."

As the agent continued his description, the profile of Yu Fei grew more complete. He rarely took action in public, but for some reason, many details had been pieced together—from the early military exercises, to the later battle in the Abyss, the treasure hunt in the Red Sun Realm, and his training in the Desolate Beast Forest.

The corners of Yang Jingxuan’s mouth curled up, a sign of immense interest.

"Are you certain this Yu Fei has spatial abilities?"

Su Wangyuan pondered for a moment before affirming, "There’s a greater than ninety percent chance. And his storage space must be quite large. According to the latest intelligence, Yu Fei provided a large quantity of food supplies to the Shenxiao Corps in the City of the End. Without a storage space, no other method could have prevented the ingredients from mutating under the super-powered radiation!"

"Interesting! Continue your observations."

Seeing that the noble Lord of the Divine Court had no intention of speaking further, Su Wangyuan immediately and slowly withdrew.

A moment later, Yang Jingxuan produced a talismanic decree.

"Someone, deliver this decree to Xuanming Hall!"

A Golden Armor Guard, holding a halberd, knelt below the high platform. "As you command!"

With that, he leaped up and flew down the mountain.

This guard was clearly only at the Gang Qi Realm, yet for some unknown reason, he could fly.

At this moment, Yu Fei, far away in the Red Sun Realm, suddenly opened his eyes, a look of shocked suspicion on his face.

Just now, his "Path of Destiny" talent had suddenly been triggered. According to the feedback from the talent, someone was plotting against him, and with malicious intent!

’Who is it?’

Yu Fei was utterly bewildered. He always tried to be kind and kept a low profile. Who would be targeting him?

He considered it internally. ’It shouldn’t be Ye Shuping. The old man’s scheme against me hasn’t even come to fruition yet; there’s no need for him to make another move.’

After pondering for a long time without any answers, Yu Fei gave up. No matter who it was, he would surely sense them when they finally appeared before him.

’In the end, my strength is still lacking!’

If he had the power of a Martial Saint right now, who would dare to move against him so easily?

Looking inward, his Qi Sea had already changed its appearance.

Cultivation in the Gang Qi Realm depended on the foundation laid in the Divine Realm. Yu Fei had purified over two thousand streams of intent, finally adding the True Intent of the Great Sun to create his Returning Ruins Realm Sword. It was an unprecedentedly powerful technique, the likes of which had never been seen. Even if the great founder were here, he might not be Yu Fei’s match at the Gang Qi Realm.

Because of this, his Inner Qi was transforming at an incredible speed, with almost thirty percent having already converted to Gang Qi.

He estimated that in another two months, he would reach Gang Qi Perfection. With no further progress possible in that realm, he would have to find a way to advance to Grandmaster.

According to Ye Shuping’s prediction, once he became a Grandmaster, perhaps not even a Martial Saint could stop him. He might not be able to win a fight, but if he wanted to escape using Spatial Teleportation, they would have no way to stop him.

At that point, the world would be his to roam!

After devouring the Great Sun Golden Flame, Yu Fei left the Red Sun Realm. Every time he cultivated by devouring the Great Sun Golden Flame, he needed to give his body enough time to recover.

He returned to the Geometric Pyramid Realm to blow off some steam with Li Mengyao, after which he planned to head to the Shenxiao Corps’ garrison. He needed to pick up some resources from Meng Jun and, while he was there, check on Yan Sea and Su Yue.

The Shenxiao Corps’ garrison on their home planet was located at the Guihong Military Base, of which he had only seen a small part during the Celestial Pride Positioning Competition.

"What? Mr. Yan and his wife Su Yue aren’t here?"

Meng Jun smiled. Times had changed. Back then, Yu Fei had been a rookie participating in the competition. Now, setting aside his strength, the mere fact that he was running errands for the Corps Commander was enough to prove how extraordinary he was.

"That’s right. Mr. Yan and Commander Su both took leave recently. They said they had some personal matters to attend to."

Yu Fei’s brows furrowed. "Then may I ask when they will be back?"

Meng Jun shook his head. "I don’t know. Their leave request was in accordance with corps regulations, and we’re generally very lenient about these things during peacetime."

"Alright then!"

Yu Fei felt a bit helpless, but on second thought, it was too coincidental. The two of them had just happened to return to Guihong Military Base to recuperate, and then they had just happened to take leave. If it weren’t for the feedback from his Path of Destiny talent, he wouldn’t have been suspicious. But with all these coincidences piling up, it was obvious this was all arranged.

’Since this whole setup was orchestrated by Ye Shuping, it’s probably not my turn to get on stage yet. I’ll just have to take it one step at a time.’

"Then I’ll have to trouble you, Mr. Meng. Shall we get down to business?"

Meng Jun naturally had no objections.

"Please!"

"Oh, right, there’s something else I don’t understand. I was hoping you could clear it up for me, if it’s convenient?"

"You’re too kind. As long as it doesn’t involve Shenxiao secrets, I’ll tell you anything you want to know!"

In just three short years, Meng Jun could no longer see through this young man. He was a true monster.

He was a Grandmaster of many years. To put it nicely, he was "experienced." In reality, it just meant his potential was exhausted.

As long as a celestial pride like Yu Fei didn’t fall midway, he was destined to become someone Meng Jun could only dream of looking up to.

"I heard you mention just now that my teacher is a captain and his wife is a commander. Why don’t they have formal military ranks? Like a regiment commander or division commander?"

Yu Fei’s question was a bit presumptuous, but he genuinely didn’t understand.

"Haha..."

Meng Jun replied with a wry smile, "Within our Shenxiao Army, there are actually two types of formations. The first is the ordinary divisions and regiments, responsible for garrison duties or low-intensity combat missions. The true elites of the Shenxiao Army are the powerful Martial Artists at the Gang Qi level and above, who are personally led by His Excellency to handle the real assault operations!"

"Just like the recent mission to the Tiangong Ruined Domain, His Excellency personally led his guards to handle it!"

Only then did Yu Fei realize his question had been inappropriate. Meng Jun had always served as a division commander in an ordinary corps, so his combat power probably didn’t rank very high within the Shenxiao Army. Even Luu Yuxin had been transferred to the personal guard.

He immediately tried to smooth things over:

"Actually, I think it’s much harder to find people who can command a division in battle. People with command talent are few and far between. The fact that you, Mr. Meng, have always been leading a division clearly shows you are held in high regard! Otherwise, His Excellency wouldn’t have specifically sent me to you. You must have His Excellency’s trust."

"Oh, you flatter me. His Excellency is just kind enough to tolerate this old man and let me handle some simple tasks..."

Although he said this, he was quite pleased by Yu Fei’s words. At his level, trust was more important than ability.

The Shenxiao Corps was full of talent, with over a thousand Grandmasters, many of whom were former celestial prides with astonishing combat power.

But there were only six ordinary divisions, and the fact that Meng Jun was stationed at the main base proved he was no slouch.

"We’re here. This is the place!"

Yu Fei followed Meng Jun through layer after layer of security, entering a deep underground storehouse.

He had discovered a pattern: in the world of martial arts, everyone liked to build their secret warehouses deep underground.

In truth, they had no choice. The celestial prides of the Seven Greats all possessed sensory Secret Techniques. If a secret storehouse were built on the surface, it would likely be easily detected.

Only a space hundreds or even thousands of meters underground could naturally block most methods of detection. But against someone like Yu Fei, who had X-ray vision and could teleport, there was no stopping him if he decided to become a master thief in today’s martial arts world.

Meng Jun personally switched on the lights. In the ten-thousand-square-meter underground vault, supplies of all types were arranged in neat rows.

Half of it consisted of high-grade food and medicinal fluid supplements, as well as various healing potions, weapons, ammunition, and so on.

Although Yu Fei was shocked by the sight, his gaze fell upon another person waiting there.

’Interesting!’

On the surface, this person was at the Gang Qi Realm, but in reality, he was a Grandmaster!