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Chapter 6022 Uncaught
Yu Wuji immediately shouted, “The murderers! Protect the messenger! Close the treasury! Catch the thief!”
He directed the guards who rushed to the scene, seemingly cooperating fully to catch the killer, but a strange, almost imperceptible glint appeared in his eyes.
David’s figure moved like a ghost through the palaces, corridors, gardens, and intricate stonework of the Jade God Palace.
He was not fleeing aimlessly; rather, he was deliberately using the terrain and formations within the palace to constantly disrupt the vision and perception of Yun Ting’s envoys who were relentlessly pursuing him.
The power of chaos gave him near-perfect stealth abilities. If not for the Cloud Lightning Envoy using a divine secret technique to lock onto the faintest traces of his remaining aura, he would have already escaped from it.
After several near misses, David even deliberately provoked Yun Ting’s envoy’s attack to affect some unimportant warehouses and gardens, thus creating even greater chaos.
In the end, like a slippery eel, he barely escaped back to the Jade Serenade Pavilion before the Thunder Cloud Envoy’s powerful sword energy could strike.
At that moment, the guards who had seemingly let their guard down around Xiuge Pavilion had been alerted and were now tensely preparing their defenses.
However, David slipped in like a puff of smoke through a small gap in their defenses and went straight back to the attic.
He quickly changed out of his slightly damaged outer clothes, let down his hair, and pretended to have just come out of the meditation room to study the formation.
Almost as soon as he finished doing all this, hurried footsteps and shouts were heard from outside.
Yu Wuji, with a shocked and angry expression on his face, followed by Yun Ting, whose face was pale and whose breathing was irregular, as well as a large number of guards on high alert, surrounded Xiuge.
“Search! Don’t miss a single corner! The killer must have escaped to this area!”
Yu Wuji gave his command in a stern voice, his gaze sweeping across the pavilion. He locked eyes with David, who had just emerged from the room after hearing the commotion. A complex, indescribable emotion flashed across his eyes.
The guards stormed Xiuge Pavilion like wolves and tigers, ransacking the place, even Yu Ranran’s bedroom and private room.
Yu Ranran was also startled by the commotion outside. She emerged from the quiet room and was both shocked and angry when she saw the scene: “Dad! What are you doing?! This is my place!”
“Ranran, an assassin has infiltrated the treasury and attacked the Yunting Messenger. He may have escaped here. Your father is looking for him.”
Yu Wuji calmed him down while secretly observing David’s reaction.
David’s face showed a natural look of shock and concern: “An assassin? Attacking the messenger? Sir, is the messenger injured?”
Envoy Yun Ting held his chest, where the wound was still throbbing from the erosion of the chaotic power, his face looked extremely gloomy.
His sharp gaze swept across David like a knife, then across the entire Xiuge Pavilion.
This young man looked weak, and his aura was indeed only around the eighth rank of the Immortal God Realm, very different from the cruel and unpredictable killer before.
But… for some reason, he felt something was wrong.
The guards searched the pavilion for a full half hour, ransacking it, but of course found nothing.
“My lord, no trace of the assassin was found,” reported the captain of the guard, forcing himself to be brave.
“waste!”
Yu Wuji pretended to be angry, “Continue the search! Expand the search area! Seal off the entire inner palace, don’t let a single one fly out!”
Yun Ting’s messenger raised his hand, stopping Yu Wuji’s appearance.
He stared coldly at Yu Wuji, his voice filled with suppressed anger: “Master Yu, I was attacked in the heart of your residence. The killer moved freely within your residence and then disappeared without a trace near your daughter’s residence… Shouldn’t you give me a reasonable explanation?”
The atmospheric temperature immediately plummeted to freezing point.
All the guards fell silent, and even Yu Ranran felt a suffocating pressure.
Yu Wuji took a deep breath, a helpless expression appearing on his face: “Envoy, please calm down. This matter… is truly embarrassing to reveal. These past few years, there have always been some… cultivators who are restless and dissatisfied with the Divine Race, and many complain about my Jade Immortal Palace’s dependence on the Divine Race.”
“They don’t dare to confront us directly, so they often make trouble secretly, either by spreading rumors, stealing supplies, or even… like this time, they dared to attack the envoy, with the intention of ruining the relationship between our palace and the god race, and putting our palace in an unfair position!”
His words were earnest, directing his criticism at the cultivators who rebelled against the gods.
“When I was attacked, the killer used a strange and unheard-of power, which was definitely not the power of an ordinary cultivator.”
Yun Ting’s envoy stared at Yu Wuji, pressing him relentlessly, “Master Yu, your treasury is heavily guarded. How did that assassin manage to infiltrate it? And how did he manage to pinpoint my location so accurately and ambush me in front of the Xuanbing Chamber?”
“This……”
Yu Wuji looked uneasy. “The treasury has complex restrictions, so the assassin is probably a formation expert. As for their whereabouts… the envoy’s arrival was quite grand, so perhaps someone with ulterior motives is secretly spying on them.”
“This is all my fault for lax governance and negligence in prevention, which allowed the thief to take advantage of the situation! I’ve ordered a citywide curfew and closed all roads. I will definitely find the killer and hand him over to the envoy for punishment!”
He was respectful and responsible, while reiterating that he would do his best to investigate.
Yun Ting’s eyes flickered, clearly not fully believing Yu Wuji’s words.
The possibility of the Jade God Palace pulling a trick under his nose was far greater than any attempt by a renegade cultivator to infiltrate and commit assassination.
But now, he had ventured alone into the heart of the Jade God Palace. Although he had brought several bodyguards with him, if he truly broke off relations with Yu Wuji, he might not emerge on good terms.
Besides, he was also slightly injured, and that strange gray power made him quite alert.
After a moment of hesitation, Envoy Yun Ting snorted coldly, “Alright, I’ll believe you this time. Lord Yu, I hope you can provide a satisfactory explanation to the Divine Punishment Hall as soon as possible.”
“Regarding the Soul Crystal… since it’s not finished yet, I won’t linger any longer. Now that the offering has been submitted, I’ll return immediately to report. Master Yu, please take care!”
He stared deeply at Yu Wuji, then glanced at the innocent-looking David and the annoyed Yu Ranran beside him. He turned around and, along with the Divine Clan guards, left Yu Xian Palace with a gloomy face amidst Yu Wuji’s “respectful send-off.”
He needed to collect offerings elsewhere as soon as possible, and then immediately return to the Divine Punishment Hall to report today’s events, especially Yu Wuji’s unusual behavior and the situation of the mysterious assassin, to His Majesty.
As he watched Yun Ting’s messenger carriage disappear into the horizon, the respect and sadness on Yu Wuji’s face slowly faded, replaced by a deep calm.
He dismissed the guards on his left and right sides, leaving only a few trusted men to guard the outer perimeter of Xiuge Pavilion.