Xu Lanyi squirmed around in Chen Wentian’s arm as they flew in the air. She was about the same height as him and it was hard to control her filing arms that were trying to push him away. She wasn’t quite as huggable like his other disciples, with a distinct ck of curves and ‘fun’ assets. Still she smelled great, a flowery fragrance filling his nose from her recent bath. The thought of the heavenly scene still fresh in his memory made him instantly hard again and he unconsciously hugged Xu Lanyi even tighter.

  “Hey, come on!” Xu Lanyi compined, “Let me go… I’ll get angry!”

  Chen Wentian ignored her, he was trying his best to resist to urge to simply take her then and there in midair…

  She finally gave up and calmed down a little. “Hmph, annoying master, why did you take me with you?” She asked, “I won’t be much help in a fight between immortals.”

  “I know. But I just wanted to talk to you. You looked pretty sad and dejected and I want to make sure you are okay. It was a tough situation for you and your sisters and I’m really sorry.”

  “Oh…” Xu Lanyi suddenly lost her voice.

  Up until now, even though she had many dual cultivation sessions with him, she still had not accepted this perverted and stingy master into her heart. She had always kept him at arm’s length unlike Song Wushuang or the twins. She was taken aback that Chen Wentian would actually take the time to talk to her one on one.

  “I shouldn’t have left you girls alone for so long and I want to make it up to you.” Chen Wentian said honestly.

  She was still speechless and he chuckled at her expression. “I know this is a bit of an abrupt change on my part, so take your time. We got some business to take care of first.”

  He said this as he descended quickly. Xu Lanyi looked around and realized they were back at the Gcier Pace camp. Evidence of the attack had been cleared away. Besides bodies of monsters and fresh dirt everywhere, there was nothing else.

  “Hmm,” Chen Wentian took a survey of the surroundings, “Divine Bzing Mountain cleaned up pretty well… Okay, let’s go.”

  He flew them into the air once again, heading in a direction he could sense a distinct fme aura coming from. This time though, Xu Lanyi was quiet and no longer struggled within his embrace.

  They arrived at the Divine Bzing Mountain camp a few minutes ter. Their camp also showed signs of battle against a monster horde, with bodies of rotten zombies scattered everywhere as well as bloody remains of some kind of huge beast with grey fur and massive cws. Bodies of dead disciples y in neat rows at the center of camp, each carefully covered by a red cloth. There were no signs of Gcier Pace women here, only men. Chen Wentian even scanned the horse-pulled carriages parked nearby but found nothing.

  But before they could get any closer, a fiery red meteor shot up to meet them.

  “I am Immortal Divine Bze Fen Jue. Well met, Immortal Blue Dragon Chen Wentian.” His words were courteous but his demeanor indicated he would not let him proceed further.

  Chen Wentian clicked his tongue in annoyance but returned the greeting. He then asked, “Fen Jue, I just came from the Gcier Pace camp. They also suffered a monster attack during the night but the disciples have completely disappeared. Do you know anything about it?”

  “No.” Fen Jue said simply.

  “Nothing? Your camp is quite close to theirs.”

  Fen Jue had an uncaring expression and refused to answer.

  “Have you seen Murong Aiyin anywhere?” Chen Wentian tried again.

  “…” Fen Jue’s face filled with anger, “Chen Wentian, many of my disciples died st night. I am still dealing with the aftermath. Do not bother me with stupid questions about another sect! Leave!”

  His fists clenched together and his spiritual cloak bzed to life, lit up with deep red fmes.

  “Fine, fine. Goodbye.” Chen Wentian muttered and took Xu Lanyi and flew off.

  “Master, he is lying!” Xu Lanyi compined as she watched the camp disappear.

  “I know, don’t worry. It was just a distraction to pce my spy down.”

  He expined to her that he didn’t expect to get anything out of Fen Jue and he didn’t want to get into a brawl with the old man here. The Immortal Association generally didn’t care about human immortals fighting each other. However, they could always poke their nose in if it got out of hand and it would then come down to who could make the compelling argument during mediation. He didn’t have enough evidence to start a fight just yet but his trusty shadow fox would take care of that!

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  Fen Jue stayed in the air for a long time making sure Chen Wentian was gone. He finally sighed with relief and flew back to the camp. He knew the little nosy bastard would come knocking and had prepared for it. It was still a gamble but it had paid off.

  Fen Jue nded at the center and several elders saluted.

  “The way is clear, gather them up.” He commanded, pointing to the bodies that were lined up neatly.

  His disciples immediately started to collect the bodies and pce them in the carriages. They were careful to wrap up each in the red cloth so that nothing was revealed. Once it was done, the entire troop headed out wordlessly.

  Unbeknownst to Fen Jue, a bck shadow sneaked aboard one of the st carriages. It was of course Chen Wentian in his shadow fox form. He looked around to find only ‘dead bodies’ so he drilled into the nearest bundle of red cloth. As expected, he was met with the sleeping face of a beautiful maiden. He grimaced and double checked all the other bodies in the carriage. They were all Gcier Pace disciples that had been knocked unconscious. There were ten in this carriage. Given the total number of carriages, all the women captured from the camp were here but Long Yifei, her troop, and the elders weren’t.

  ‘Fen Jue, you old dog. I’ll take care of you soon…’ Chen Wentian thought viciously as he id down beside one of the wrapped-up women and continued his spying mission.