Chapter 1531 - 591: Bodyguards in the Shadows
"Who are those people?"
The two women quickened their pace and walked to the front.
Four or five people lay crookedly ahead.
"It’s the Half-Beast Demon Hunters from Liu Guang Team."
Luo Qianche looked shocked. The members from Liu Guang were quite strong and left a deep impression.
But unexpectedly, they suddenly died here.
There were no signs of demon beasts around, and the storage bags on the Demon Hunters were still intact, but everyone’s pupils were dilated, and they had stopped breathing.
Ye Lingyue checked and found that these people had died only a few hours ago, around dawn.
The person who did this must be very powerful, as most of them were killed with one strike.
Ye Lingyue and Luo Qianche became vigilant.
The ability to kill these Half-Beast Demon Hunters, who had taken the Soul-breaking Elixir, in such a short time is terrifying.
Could it be that an even more powerful adversary has infiltrated this task?
"Look quickly, they have a lot of storage bags on them."
Out of habit, Ye Lingyue opened the clothing of the Liu Guang members and was surprised to find that they had many storage bags.
These storage bags clearly belonged to different people, and some even had bloodstains on them.
"Dongfang Liuli, that woman, was prepared for betrayal, how despicable."
From these storage bags, Luo Qianche not only found Demon Cores but also some tokens, proving that these dozen storage bags belonged to different teams participating in this task.
Apparently, Dongfang Liuli wasn’t satisfied with just going after the Azure Dragon Crocodile; she secretly ordered her Half-Beast subordinates to ambush other teams.
As soon as they obtained Demon Cores, they would kill and take their storage bags, especially targeting those who once opposed Liu Guang Pavilion.
"Like the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, we have become the oriole this time. But who in the world killed these Half-Beasts?"
The two women quickly took all the storage bags from the unfortunate victims, still puzzled.
In the next three or four days, Ye Lingyue and Luo Qianche continued to encounter similar fortune, such as bumping into unconscious Demon Hunters or finding seriously injured, dying demon beasts.
Throughout their journey, the two didn’t even need to make a move, as picking up these spoils alone had filled their bags.
By the third day, without doing much, Ye Lingyue and Luo Qianche’s storage bags were filled with hundreds of Demon Cores, equivalent to tens of thousands of Merit Points.
The two women didn’t know this was thanks to Guangzi’s two Hidden Guards.
Though confused, they couldn’t think too much further as they were closing in on the Tiger-faced Leopard King’s lair.
Meanwhile, in the opposite direction, along the River Valley, Dongfang Liuli and Tang Tiansong had been lingering near the river for three days.
Tang Tiansong and Dongfang Liuli both sent their team members out to hunt other demon beasts, keeping only themselves by the river to search for the Azure Dragon Crocodile.
Since taking the Soul-breaking Elixir, the Azure Dragon Crocodile’s demonic power grew tremendously, becoming even more cunning.
Perhaps knowing it was being hunted, the Azure Dragon Crocodile hadn’t appeared.
Despite being strong, Tang Tiansong and Dongfang Liuli were cautious and didn’t dare dive into the river but feared missing the Azure Dragon Crocodile there.
Thus, aside from eating and relieving themselves, they stayed by the river for 24 hours a day, waiting for the Azure Dragon Crocodile to appear.
"The ones sent to kill Ye Lingyue disappeared?"
Dongfang Liuli heard from her subordinates that the plan to assassinate Ye Lingyue failed, and no bodies were found.
Dongfang Liuli bit her lip. This was impossible. The Half-Beast Demon Hunters she selected were top experiment candidates, much stronger than the Ordinary Half-Beasts of Xuanwu City, how did they fail? Could Ye Lingyue have killed them?
This thought passed quickly.
Dongfang Liuli immediately dismissed it. It couldn’t be possible; Ye Lingyue might handle one Half-Beast Demon Hunter, but against several, it would be a dead end.
"Not only that, the Demon Cores they got earlier were also gone."
Dongfang Liuli listened, angered.
"Everyone is a failure, humph, leave Ye Lingyue’s matter aside. Once I kill the Azure Dragon Crocodile, Liu Guang Team will be first, and then we’ll find a way to handle Ye Lingyue."
Dongfang Liuli stared at the water’s surface, as if the Azure Dragon Crocodile might emerge any moment.
On the other side of River Valley, Tang Tiansong accompanied by two or three subordinates continued searching for the Azure Dragon Crocodile.
Neither Tang Tiansong nor Dongfang Liuli could find a trace of it, as if the Azure Dragon Crocodile vanished from the mortal world.
The enraged beast’s roars echoed through the forest.
Panic-stricken Demon Hunters ran out from the forest.
"Demon beast! Run! The demon beast is furious."
Before the Demon Hunters could run far, a ghostly shadow shot out from the bushes.
Claw wind fell, and brains splattered.
In just a few months, the Tiger-faced Leopard King’s demonic power grew even stronger.
Its barbed tongue tore through a Demon Hunter’s throat, accompanied by terrifying swallowing sounds, devouring a hunter alive.
The sky suddenly had a steel net falling down.
The steel net closed tightly around the Tiger-faced Leopard King.
This was a specially made steel net, filled with poisonous thorn-like spikes. The more the Tiger-faced Leopard King struggled, the tighter it got, piercing its skin and entering its bloodstream.
To deal with this fierce Tiger-faced Leopard, narcotics were smeared on the thorns.
The Tiger-faced Leopard King curled up, seemingly poisoned.
"Caught it!"
From behind the bushes, several Demon Hunter teams emerged at once.
To catch the Tiger-faced Leopard King, they staked out for two or three days, using team members as bait.
"Let’s get one thing straight, this steel net was refined by our ’Feng Qiu’ team, so we deserve at least half the Merit Points for the Tiger-faced Leopard King."
"Who says? It was our idea to unite for capture, so naturally, we deserve the most credit, and therefore half the points."
"The merits should belong to us because the poison on the net came from Liu Guang Pavilion."
Once they captured the Tiger-faced Leopard King, the Demon Hunters began arguing over Merit Points.
Unnoticed, as they bickered, the Tiger-faced Leopard King’s eyes suddenly opened.