Ebook 5: Chapter 49: The Most Dependable Senior Brother

A number of hours in the past:

Lu Ri let loose a breath because the final demon fell and silence as soon as extra returned to the world. His Qi reserves had been depleted a lot lower than anticipated because of Miss Yuanlin’s help. The protections round First Den have been certainly formidable; Lu Ri may have destroyed ten instances this quantity with out pressure.

The chilly winter wind blew over the darkish land, the sky heavy with clouds and devoid of stars.

“Appears to be like like that is all of them,” Miss Yuanlin declared, touchdown on the bottom beside him. Her blades have been slick with demonic blood. She had confirmed once more to be a dependable comrade.

“The diviner’s imaginative and prescient was surprisingly clear,” Lu Ri replied. “The extent of this enemy was not a risk, per her description of their types.” Their quantity was mildly regarding, however an elephant didn’t discover the distinction between one ant and 100 when it stepped on them.

Nonetheless, there was clearly one thing—or somebody—controlling all these demons. Their intelligence was low, far too low for what demons have been usually able to.

A thriller for now.

“What is the plan?” Miss Yuanlin requested.

“We conduct reconnaissance. Miss Yuanlin, if I may ask you to take the lead on this matter? We should divine our enemy’s presence. I shall full my duties right here and dispose of those corpses,” Lu Ri answered, tapping his storage ring. A stack of talismans and sealwork popped out. “The Honoured Founders have been very clear on process following a demonic assault.”

The fox lady paused and appeared confused. “Is cleansing up actually that pressing?” She requested.

“With this stage of demon, no, not particularly, however it’s nonetheless finest practise. No one desires one other Demon’s Grave Ravine, and leaving these to fester exterior this holy web site is unconscionable.”

Miss Yuanlin smiled at him and nodded. With a blur of pace she was gone, her physique disappearing into wisps of smoke.

Thus started some small tedium, however like all issues value doing, it was value doing nicely. The corpses have been collected, rigorously purged, rendered into their element elements, and saved.

Upon additional research, Lu Ri found they weren’t true demons, however mutated people. Synthetic Demons.

The Honoured Founders of the Cloudy Sword Sect had by no means truly encountered these beings; the primary reference to those foul creations having been gone these august students’ time.

Nevertheless, via cautious research of their work, later masters inferred what their ideas may need been on this matter. These speculations have been recorded in appendices advisable to all who sought to deepen their understanding of the Nice Enemy, in order to extra successfully struggle them.

In most appendices, consultants typically disagreed on what the Founders’ views can be, however when it got here to demons, there was no dissent: all synthetic demons deployed in fight have been to be eradicated, and the method of their creation studied, with hopes of reversing it. In any case, demonic cultivators not often used prepared topics for disposable troops like these.

Totally barbaric. Turning one’s personal individuals into senseless shock troops was the act of these with out honor.

Lu Ri felt a form of contempt rising in his soul for the savages that had violated these individuals so.

Lu Ri gave them what funerary rites he may, as outlined in Acceptable Procedures for Fallen Unwilling Enemy Combatants.

After that, he tried to make use of his transmission stone to contact each Jin and Hong Yaowu.

There was no response from both location.

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It took roughly an hour and a half for Miss Yuanlin to return.

“There are not any different enemy troops that I may discover, however these are undoubtedly half of a bigger power. I discovered some extent the place a number of tracks converge—some form of hidden base. They tried to hide it, however the tracks vanishing so abruptly is as suspicious because the tracks themselves. Two units of tracks handed there across the similar time. One got here from the northeast, one departed southeast. The final set comes this fashion.”

Lu Ri thought-about Miss Yuanlin’s phrases. The tracks departing southeast meant that they have been heading away from Jin’s residence and Hong Yaowu.

There was a alternative right here. Stay defensive… or attempt to regain the initiative.

Miss Yuanlan, by her personal phrases, was somewhat an skilled on breaking into safe areas.

“I shall be there shortly,” Lu Ri knowledgeable him.

There was a short pause on the opposite finish of the stone, then Jin spoke once more. “…Senior Brother, may I ask you to do one thing else?”

“What do you want?” Lu Ri requested.

“They’re damaged and reeling, however we’re too tapped out to provide chase.”

“You want me to finish the rout?“

“Discover out the place they got here from, please.” Jin’s voice was heavy with intent.

“A clever plan of action,” Lu Ri replied. “Concern not Junior Brother. Not a soul shall escape.”

Lu Ri flipped in midair, landed on a mountaintop, and reversed his course. The tracks led northeast, to the place a probable extra substantial base was.

“Could Heaven be type to you, Lu Ri,” was the very last thing Jin mentioned earlier than the transmission light. The identical phrases he had mentioned three years in the past when he had left the Sect.

His Junior was egg. The small smile of aid light, nevertheless, as Lu Ri saved his tempo again north.

As a substitute, fury and grim resolve stuffed his coronary heart.

He apologised to Miss Yuanlin for leaving her behind after they met again up an hour later; She understood, however requested that he serve her tea in recompense.

Then, as soon as extra, they headed north. They adopted the tracks right into a mountain within the Sea of Snow.

And similar to the final base… there was solely a skeleton crew.

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Lu Ri had simply completed dispatching the final of the operators when the transmission stone array buzzed.

He checked out it for a second, earlier than he pressed his hand to it and spoke.

“Receiving,” Lu Ri said, his voice delicate and subservient.

“That is Heavenly Demon Yulong! Precedence message! Get this to Huian and Chixia! Retreat instantly! We’re compromised, Code White! Blow the rails on the completion of this message!” The person’s voice was terse, apprehensive.

A small smile unfold throughout Lu Ri’s face.

This base was vital.

“Your shall be performed, Heavenly Demon,” Lu Ri replied, and the “Heavenly Demon” sighed with aid earlier than the transmission was reduce.

The formations have been rigorously deactivated. The roof of the tunnel was collapsed simply previous the explosive crystals, to make it appear like ‘Heavenly Demon” Yulong’s final order had been carried out.

The Shadow of the plum blossom fell over the bottom… all its secrets and techniques can be laid naked.

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