Chapter 491 - 301: Piercing Insight and Contention (Part 2)

Chapter 491: Chapter 301: Piercing Insight and Contention (Part 2)

"No comment!"

There was nothing for it. Zhao Tianhen could only stonewall him with a cold expression.

"Oh? If you don’t talk, I’ll kill you with one slash of my sword~"

On the mental network, it seemed as though that terrifying Great Sun Sword Shadow could appear before him at any moment.

This was a little trick of the Pupil Technique of Soul Capturing. Normally, power couldn’t manifest on the mental network, making it impossible to threaten someone this way. But Zhao Tianhen had just been suppressed by Yu Fei’s Soul Capturing and Thunder Tiger Celestial Sound. The residual power hadn’t yet been cleared away, so it was easily triggered by Yu Fei.

Feeling the scalp-numbing threat of death, Zhao Tianhen could only keep a straight face and remain silent. He didn’t know what had gone wrong. He had only intended to casually test the kid’s strength—after all, they were both combat class monitors in the Celestial Pride Class, and he was the senior. He was just curious. He never expected to be so thoroughly exposed the moment they met.

"Not talking? Think I don’t have the guts to do it?"

Yu Fei continued his intimidation.

On the mental network, Zhao Tianhen’s voice was laced with bitterness. "I’m no match for you. I admit defeat. But I have no comment on anything else. Kill me or torture me, do as you please!"

"Sheesh..."

Yu Fei didn’t really have a good way to handle this. This guy was definitely one of the old man’s people, and he was certainly a senior. Although he’d been a bit of a troublemaker, he had paid the price for it. If the guy was truly ready to die rather than submit, there was nothing he could do.

"Fine. You have your loyalties. But you were the one who started this today. You can be the one to explain things to Mr. Meng!"

Zhao Tianhen breathed a sigh of relief. He had been terrified that Yu Fei wouldn’t let it go. If this blew up, he would be the one to lose face.

The exchange on the mental network was instantaneous. To Meng Jun, who was standing to the side, it looked as if Zhao Tianhen suddenly broke into a hearty laugh, though it seemed forced no matter how you looked at it.

"Junior Brother, long time no see! Your strength has improved again. Congratulations, congratulations!"

Yu Fei also put on a friendly face. "That’s only because Senior Brother was holding back. I got a little carried away, my apologies!"

Seeing the two, who had been at daggers drawn just a moment ago, become so friendly in the blink of an eye, Meng Jun was stunned.

’Those two rascals. A second ago, it looked like a life-or-death struggle. Now they’re acting like long-lost friends?’

Meng Jun didn’t care about the details. As long as things looked good on the surface, he immediately chimed in.

"So you two know each other! Oh, I almost forgot, you’re both from Shenhan. In that case, Yu Fei, you can collect these supplies first. Tianhen, you come with me. There’s another secret storeroom of supplies that needs to be moved over. This needs to be done discreetly, so it’ll just be the two of us!"

After speaking, Meng Jun pulled Zhao Tianhen away, leaving Yu Fei alone.

He proceeded to transfer all the supplies in the warehouse into his storage space. The range he could collect at once depended on the range of his Divine Sense.

Currently, Yu Fei’s Divine Sense had a radius of a full fifty zhang, making collection extremely convenient.

Zhao Tianhen followed Meng Jun into a secret storeroom, though this one contained fewer items.

Meng Jun found a rail transport cart and instructed Zhao Tianhen to start loading the supplies.

"Mr. Meng, wouldn’t it be easier to just have Yu Fei come over and collect them? Why do we have to load them onto a cart and send them over?"

Meng Jun said earnestly, "Yu Fei is here helping us out. How could we have the nerve to order him around? Let’s get to it. We need to be quick."

With that, he took the lead and moved a box.

"Why is this so heavy?" Zhao Tianhen’s internal injuries were not light. This amount of weight would normally be nothing for him, but now it was aggravating his injuries, making him feel somewhat encumbered.

"These are experimental materials needed by Her Excellency. Naturally, they’re a bit heavy! You start moving them. I just remembered I have some documents to give to Yu Fei. I’ll leave you to it."

With that, he turned and left.

"FUCK!"

Zhao Tianhen stared at the long rail cart and the warehouse full of goods, and his heart sank.

’He’s doing this on purpose!’

After Yu Fei finished collecting all the supplies, he went to deliver them to Zhuo Feiming. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to see her this time; Luu Yuxin was the one who received him.

"Her Excellency has a very important experiment recently and can’t spare the time!"

"Alright!"

He placed the large batch of supplies in the location Luu Yuxin indicated. He couldn’t help but sigh inwardly; his spatial ability was the perfect cheat for an interdimensional merchant. Too bad he wasn’t short on money.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhuo Feiming came out to see him personally.

"So, did you see your teacher?"

The person Zhuo Feiming was referring to was, of course, Yan Sea.

"No, unfortunately. They’re on leave!"

"On leave? You can’t contact them?"

Yu Fei nodded. "Yeah, they’re probably in some border realm."

Human communication methods became useless once you left the home planet. The Elemental Energy Communicator that Ren Feng had given him only worked in the border realms.

"I, for one, suspect Yan Sea just couldn’t let it go and ran off to investigate that deadbeat master of his again!"

Zhuo Feiming’s words were very direct, showing no consideration for the fact that Yan Sea’s master was also Yu Fei’s grand-master. Her strength was not considered weak even among Martial Saints, so there were few things in this world that required her to choose her words carefully.

Yu Fei’s gaze sharpened. His senior sister’s words had given him an idea. He knew for a fact that Ye Shuping was definitely aware of and had participated in Sima Hong’s death.

If Ye Shuping had Zhao Tianhen drop some clues for Mr. Yan, with Mr. Yan’s simple-minded personality, he would definitely fall for it, and his wife, Su Yue, would be absolutely unable to stop him.

’It’s confirmed. That must be what happened.’

Yu Fei let out a long sigh.

"Sigh! What a mess!"

Zhuo Feiming was confused. "What? Don’t you like my assessment of Sima Hong?"

Her face was full of teasing. She was very curious to see what Yu Fei thought of Sima Hong.

Yu Fei shook his head and told Zhuo Feiming the truth:

"Sima Hong was not a good person. My teacher was deceived by him!"

Zhuo Feiming was astonished. Yu Fei had clearly never met the man, and he was even cultivating the technique Sima Hong had left behind. Logically, he should feel indebted to the man, so how could he have such an impression?

"Senior Sister, I’m not just spouting nonsense. I’ve actually never told anyone about this, but the Tribulation Sword cultivation method left by Sima Hong contains a hidden, malicious intent!"

He then explained the hidden traps Sima Hong had left behind in the Primordial Qi Sword Lotus Seed, which were revealed when he advanced to the Inner Qi realm. He also contrasted this with the demonic cultivation technique, Frenzied Blood Spirit, that Yan Sea practiced.

"So, the reason Sima Hong took in ordinary Martial Artists and taught them the Tribulation Sea Formless Sword Manual was to find puppets he could control. Back then, Mr. Yan was already a third-realm Martial Artist, which is how he managed to escape this fate."

"Something like that actually happened!"

Zhuo Feiming exclaimed in surprise. "I’ve always disliked that guy for spouting his heretical theories everywhere, causing emotional rifts among many ordinary Martial Artists. I felt his motives were impure, but I never expected him to be a demonic cultivator through and through!"

"Senior Sister, have you ever thought about where Sima Hong got his demonic cultivation techniques? I later looked through ancient records, and things like that were supposed to have been collected and destroyed after the New Calendar. Only Yuqing has some of the original, sole-surviving copies."

Yu Fei voiced his own question.

Zhuo Feiming frowned, then said dismissively, "Who cares? Anyway, that guy died a long time ago. Good riddance!"

"But does that simpleton Yan Sea know the truth about all this?"

Yu Fei was a bit helpless. "I didn’t tell Mr. Yan. I was afraid he wouldn’t be able to take the blow. Mr. Yan’s entire foundation is based on demonic cultivation techniques, and he has always regarded Sima Hong as his savior. I was afraid something bad would happen to him if he learned the truth, so I kept it from him. I didn’t expect him to still be unable to let it go!"

Yu Fei was a bit speechless. What a mess Ye Shuping had made, creating all these convoluted plots.

’But looking at my senior sister’s carefree attitude, she probably doesn’t know anything.’

’One of her subordinates is the old man’s hidden agent, and she probably hasn’t even noticed.’

’Sigh, the old man is really too much!’

"By the way, Senior Sister, I’d like to ask you for a small favor!"

"Oh? What is it? Tell me!"

Zhuo Feiming looked at him with great interest.

Yu Fei said frankly, "I’d like to ask you, Senior Sister, to order some supplies for me in the name of the Shenxiao Corps. I’ll store them in my space for future use."

Hearing Yu Fei’s request, Zhuo Feiming lost interest. "Go on, how much do you need?"

"Around ten billion contribution points’ worth!"

"Ten billion?"

Zhuo Feiming’s eyes went wide. "Just how big is that storage space of yours?"

"Haven’t I mentioned it? It’s about as big as the City of the End!"

"The City of the End?"

Hearing this, Zhuo Feiming carefully looked at the borders of the city, then looked back at Yu Fei.

"Speak! Are you a transmigrator like the Great Ancestor? Hand over your cheat!"