Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1224: Chapter 1220: Verification

”Is it really that impressive?” Xiao Lu asked curiously.

She knew that Chu Zhiyuan wouldn’t give her an ordinary secret technique.

It must be far superior to the usual secret techniques, even surpassing those within Guanghan Palace.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, ”Senior Sister can try practicing it, it’s useful for hiding one’s aura, especially for ambushes, and it pairs well with your Qinggong.”

Lu Xiaolu immediately lit up with joy, chuckling, ”Is it really that amazing?”

Chu Zhiyuan smiled, ”Once you try it, you’ll know, Senior Sister.”

Lu Xiaolu finished flipping through the thin booklet and closed her bright eyes to start channeling her aura.

She was a prodigy, even among disciples with exceptionally high qualifications in Guanghan Palace, she stood out.

This secret technique for concealing one’s aura wasn’t difficult, and soon, her aura began to change.

A little while later, her aura became even more restrained.

With each rotation of the secret technique, her proficiency grew, and the effect became stronger.

After an hour, when night had fully fallen and the Bright Moon was high in the sky, she completely vanished into the night.

Though she was physically standing there, her aura had seamlessly merged with the darkness.

She was the night, and the night was her, indistinguishable.

Chu Zhiyuan showed a smile.

A true prodigy, to practice such a secret technique and master it instantly.

Now she had truly entered the realm, capable of utilizing it excellently.

”How is it?” Lu Xiaolu opened her bright eyes and asked softly.

She immediately noticed the change in her voice.

Her voice had become deep and serene, as if coming from a distant place.

Chu Zhiyuan nodded with a smile.

”Let me try it out.” She said, full of excitement, fluttering away lightly.

Chu Zhiyuan watched her leave without following, hands behind his back, strolling.

He was pondering the news from the Evil Suppressing Abyss.

It seemed that the rare creature beneath the Evil Suppressing Abyss was undying, and his assistance would be futile.

But why did Guan Zhengying and Hu Qixuan still want his help?

Being in the Evil Suppressing Abyss, they couldn’t be unaware of the creature’s might, they should know it’s undying.

Requesting his help, either the creature had already transformed, offering hope to kill it, or perhaps they’ve developed a method.

Excitement welled in his heart, eager to try.

What kind of rare creature was it?

The world’s wonders exceeded imagination, he originally thought it was situated between the Little Heaven Beyond and the Outer Heaven, lacking a Grotto Heaven and a Secret Realm, seemingly without exploration potential.

But now it seemed that wasn’t the case.

...

He circled a few times, and suddenly a white shadow flashed before his eyes.

In a flash he disappeared, reappearing behind Lu Xiaolu the next moment.

Lu Xiaolu was sneaking up beside him, reaching out her delicate hand to tap his shoulder.

But she vanished suddenly, and she hurriedly shrank back and shifted aside, simultaneously turning around.

Chu Zhiyuan was standing behind her, reaching to tap her shoulder.

Lu Xiaolu laughed, ”You can sense me?”

Chu Zhiyuan smiled slightly, ”I just feel a bit more accurately.”

”This secret technique is really good, it not only deceives Senior Sisters,” Lu Xiaolu said, ”but also tricks the City Guards and the experts of the Evil Extermination Department, even the masters of your Heavenly Sword Branch.”

She discovered that whether entering the back of the City Guard’s Government Office, or the back of Guanghan Palace Villa, or the Heavenly Sword Branch, she went unnoticed.

This was something she couldn’t do before.

With such skill at concealing one’s aura, paired with her Qinggong, combined with Swordsmanship, the power would be absolutely amazing.

Thinking here, she excitedly said, ”Junior Brother, let’s go out for a walk.”

”To kill Evil Demons?” Chu Zhiyuan asked.

Lu Xiaolu excitedly said, ”Let me test out the power of this secret technique.”

”Then let’s go.” Chu Zhiyuan said with a smile.

The two floated out of the small courtyard, first returning to Guanghan Palace Villa, entering silently without alerting the masters.

She changed into a set of green robes, then alongside Chu Zhiyuan they swept over the towering city walls.

Not only were the city walls towering, but they also had the power to suppress evil, greatly consuming True Yuan.

Ordinary masters almost impossible to surmount these city walls.

The two silently over the walls, landing outside the South City Gate.

Chu Zhiyuan pointed southeast.

Lu Xiaolu’s eyes sparkled, speeding towards that direction, her graceful figure blending with the night.

Chu Zhiyuan followed closely after.

Thirty or so miles forward, Lu Xiaolu’s pace suddenly slowed, slipping silently into a woods.

Inside the woods, a group of men were sitting beside a blazing bonfire.

On the bonfire, a row of beast meat was roasting, drizzling fat, causing the flames to dance, the bonfire thriving, aroma spreading.

They each grabbed meat with one hand, a wine jar with the other, occasionally drinking deeply.

”Damn, so frustrating!” A young man wiped his mouth corner’s wine stain harshly with his sleeve, ”Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect are also undeserved in their fame, they’re all talk!”

Another young man sighed, ”They really shouldn’t have been so defeated.”

These men saw with their own eyes how the experts from the two sects suffered a crushing defeat.

Hundreds of experts being slaughtered by the City Guards, less than one in ten survived.

This was a rare debacle in recent years.

Evil Sect masters seldom ventured out in large numbers, usually acting in small groups or solo, sneaking attacks.

This large-scale assembly by Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect, attacking fiercely and wildly, was truly rare.

But whenever they did, it often produced miraculous results, astonishing power.

Yet this time, the City Guard seemed well-prepared, and had mobilized numerous elite experts to strike a heavy blow on the sects’ masters.

”Actually, you can’t say Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect are cowardly, undeserved in fame,” a middle-aged man said in a deep voice, ”In the City Guards, experts from the Evil Extermination Department were mixed in, I recognized a few!”

Someone asked, ”Isn’t there bad blood between the Evil Extermination Department and the City Guard?!”

”Indeed there is, didn’t you see wrongly?”

”I definitely couldn’t see wrong, they were indeed experts from the Evil Extermination Department!”

”They actually cooperated?”

”This complicates things, before they opposed each other, making it smooth for us, putting pressure on the City Guards.”

”I don’t believe they can keep cooperating!... After this great victory, they will surely compete for credit and clash again!”

”Right, their old grudges run deep, they can’t continually cooperate, they’ll definitely act independently, we still have a chance!”

”Can we really make it into the city?”

”We can!”

...

Chu Zhiyuan glances at Lu Xiaolu.

Lu Xiaolu lightly furrows her brows, her bright eyes flash with cold light, turning to look at him.

Chu Zhiyuan nods.

He bends down, picks up a stone, and throws it towards the bonfire.

”Bang!”

The bonfire suddenly explodes, instantly shooting in all directions, aiming at the surrounding Evil Demons.

”Who’s there!”

Amid shouts, the Evil Demons quickly countered with palms, blades, or swords, guarding against the sparks.

But the aura contained within the sparks was unusual, they discovered they couldn’t block it.

”Ah!”

”Who?!”

”An ambush!”

”Damn it!”

...

Shouts, roars, screams, forming chaos.

The bonfire had extinguished, the woods dense, branches and leaves blocking the moonlight.

In the darkness, some fell one after another.

Chu Zhiyuan and Lu Xiaolu’s figures flashed, wherever they went, another Evil Demon fell.

After a quarter hour, those trying to escape the woods fell, without exception.

Chu Zhiyuan and Lu Xiaolu stood where the bonfire originally was, the ground still warm, the aroma of roasted meat lingered.

A ground full of dead Evil Demons, yet without a stench, their wounds frozen, without bleeding.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Senior Sister, want to continue?”

”There are more?” Lu Xiaolu’s eyes burned, filled with excitement.

Stealthily lurking in the darkness, striking suddenly, killing in one hit, the feeling was too thrilling.

”There are.” Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

”Then let’s continue!” Lu Xiaolu said eagerly.

”Let’s go.” Chu Zhiyuan leads the way, the two start another sweep.

...

By the next morning, the two appeared outside the South City Gate.

Ding Huanchun saw them, hastily approached with a smile.

Chu Zhiyuan waved, ”Brother Ding, too tired, let’s talk another day.”

After a night of slaying Evil Demons, Lu Xiaolu finally relished to her heart’s content.

Ding Huanchun curiously looked at Lu Xiaolu.

Lu Xiaolu in a cyan robe, looked radiant, without any trace of Chu Zhiyuan’s fatigue.