Chapter 735 - 734: Tang Jiesheng’s Treasure! You Thought I Wouldn’t Recognize You Just Because You Changed Your Appearance?

Huang Mao and Rat lay on the ground, their Divine Souls growing weaker and weaker as the Soul-Collecting Butterflies drained them.

Seeing Tang Jiesheng assume a desperate, do-or-die stance, they were moved to tears.

"To follow such a righteous boss... it’s worth dying for!"

Huang Mao gritted his teeth, his expression one of tragic heroism.

"Yeah! In our next lives, we’ll still follow Boss Tang!"

Rat chimed in, feeling he had followed the right man.

The moment the words left their mouths, they saw Tang Jiesheng unleash his Thunder Divine Domain.

Flashes of lightning filled the sky, obscuring their vision.

But the next second...

...the figure within the lightning didn’t charge forward. Instead, he turned and bolted toward the edge of the forest.

Faster than a rabbit!!!

The two men froze for a moment before it instantly dawned on them.

Tang Jiesheng never had any intention of saving them!

That whole do-or-die act was just a facade, a cover for his escape!

"I must have been blind to follow a heartless bastard of a boss like you!"

"Tang Jiesheng, fuck your ancestors!!"

Huang Mao and Rat screamed curses, their voices filled with venomous resentment.

Watching as their Divine Souls were about to be completely drained by the Soul-Collecting Butterflies, Huang Mao and Rat scrambled to kneel and beg Gu Yuexi for mercy.

"Lady, we were wrong."

"We beg you, be the bigger person and spare us!"

"Tang Jiesheng put us up to this! We were bewitched to even think of targeting you."

"We swear we’ll never dare to cause you trouble again!"

"Rest assured, if we ever see you again, we’ll give you a wide berth. We won’t even dare to look you in the eye!"

Snot and tears streamed down their faces as they spoke with all the sincerity they could muster.

Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng didn’t even bat an eye at their pleas, completely ignoring them.

’These kinds of highway-robbing Loose Cultivators would only harm others if I let them go.’

’Killing them is the simplest solution.’

Seeing that begging was useless, Huang Mao and Rat quickly played their final card.

"Wait! Lady, we know where Tang Jiesheng keeps his treasure!"

"If you spare us, we’ll tell you where it is!"

"All the treasures inside will be yours!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuexi’s gaze finally fell upon them.

Huang Mao and Rat thought Gu Yuexi was tempted and immediately broke into fawning smiles.

They were just about to describe the treasury in detail to save their own lives.

But Gu Yuexi gave them no chance to speak, walking straight up to the two of them.

She drew the Godslaying Ruins Sword.

The fawning smiles on their faces instantly froze.

A flash of sword light, and two heads rolled to the ground.

Their Divine Souls already on the verge of dissipating, the two men died on the spot.

"I don’t need you to lead the way. This Empress can find it herself."

Gu Yuexi sheathed her sword and said coolly.

She extended her hands, placing them above Huang Mao’s and Rat’s heads as a faint glow appeared at her fingertips.

Soul Summoning Technique!

Gu Yuexi had used this move on an enemy back in the Ancient Sunken Star Vein.

It could directly read desired information from the fragments of a dead person’s Divine Soul.

Before long, Gu Yuexi withdrew her hands.

She had already extracted all the information about Tang Jiesheng’s treasury.

"Done."

Gu Yuexi looked up at Chu Sheng beside her.

"Let’s go. Back to the city."

Tang Jiesheng had escaped.

Huang Mao and Rat were dead.

The thirty-six Soul-Collecting Butterflies they had caught were enough to complete their task and exchange for Spirit Stones.

It was indeed time to return to the city.

But Chu Sheng waved his front legs.

"Not so fast."

He flapped his wings and landed on Gu Yuexi’s shoulder.

"One got away. We haven’t settled the score yet."

With that said, he didn’t wait for Gu Yuexi to ask any more questions.

He unfurled his [Boundless Wings], and with a WHOOSH, he and Gu Yuexi vanished from the spot.

The next second, the woman and the mosquito appeared in a deeper part of the North Suburban Forest.

"Why did we come here?"

Gu Yuexi scanned the surroundings with her Divine Thought.

Aside from lush trees and a crystal-clear stream, there was nothing.

"Tang Jiesheng is here."

Chu Sheng’s voice was certain.

Gu Yuexi paused.

She released her Divine Thought again, searching carefully this time.

Only then did she notice something was off about the stream before her.

The stream’s current seemed natural, but it held an extremely faint fluctuation of Space Law.

Gu Yuexi understood at once.

The stream was Tang Jiesheng!

Without another word, Gu Yuexi raised her Godslaying Ruins Sword and viciously slashed down at the stream.

Golden Sword Qi tore through the air, striking precisely in the middle of the stream.

"AHHH!!!"

A bloodcurdling scream rang out.

The stream instantly vanished, reverting to Tang Jiesheng’s form.

One of his arms had been severed at the shoulder by the Sword Qi. It fell to the ground beside him as blood spurted from the wound.

Tang Jiesheng clutched the wound on his arm, staggering back a few steps, his face a mask of shock and disbelief.

"How did you find me?"

Everyone thought his specialty was the Law of Thunder.

Even Huang Mao and Rat, who had followed him for centuries, believed this.

In reality, Tang Jiesheng’s greatest strength was Space Law.

He was especially skilled at using his surroundings to conceal himself; his Disguise Technique was masterful.

After realizing he couldn’t defeat Chu Sheng, he had immediately planned his escape route.

First, he put on a show of fighting to the death to draw their attention.

Then, he sent a clone running toward the edge of the North Suburban Forest, creating the illusion that he was trying to escape the forest.

Meanwhile, his true body did the opposite, running deeper into the North Suburban Forest.

He found a secluded spot, transformed into a stream, and hid.

As long as Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng chased his clone outward, they would completely lose his trail.

He would be able to escape this pursuit and re-emerge after the heat died down.

He had used this method many times.

Even when he had encountered True God Realm experts, he had never been seen through.

But he never could have imagined...

...that Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng hadn’t chased outward at all.

Instead, they came directly to the depths of the forest and, with a single slash, cut him out of his disguise.

And to make matters worse, the one who found him was a mosquito!

No matter how hard Tang Jiesheng thought, he couldn’t figure out how a mosquito could possibly see through his spatial disguise.

"Playing with clones?"

"Lord Mosquito is your ancestor in that game!"

Chu Sheng retorted casually.

With a thought, he released all thirty-six Soul-Collecting Butterflies from the Chaos Nest.

Tang Jiesheng was already heavily injured and had lost an arm.

Wave after wave of Divine Soul Attacks washed over him.

He didn’t even have the strength to resist.

His aura quickly withered, and soon he was left with just a breath of life, paralyzed and unable to move on the ground.

Beside them, Gu Yuexi was also very curious.

How exactly had Chu Sheng located Tang Jiesheng so precisely?

She hadn’t discovered Tang Jiesheng during her first scan.

But that didn’t mean her Power of Law was weak.

On the contrary, after inheriting Immortal Venerable Shi Xi’s legacy, her Comprehension of Space Law was far superior to Tang Jiesheng’s.

It was just that her first search had been rushed, and she hadn’t considered the stream carefully, which was why she missed him.

But the question was... how did Chu Sheng lock onto his position at a glance?

’Could it be... that the mosquito’s Comprehension of Space Law has already far surpassed my own?’

Gu Yuexi shook her head inwardly, immediately dismissing the thought.

’Impossible!’

’I inherited the Law insights of Immortal Venerable Shi Xi from ten thousand years ago, which is the only reason my Comprehension of Space Law is so high.’

’He’s only been in Cultivation for two years!’

’How could he possibly be stronger than me!’

Unable to figure it out, Gu Yuexi decided to just ask him directly.

"Mosquito, how on earth did you find Tang Jiesheng?"

"It’s simple!"

Chu Sheng looked at Gu Yuexi as if she were an idiot, his tone self-evident.

"Didn’t I just tell you? He only used a clone."