Chapter 2356 A Black Fin Islands Member
The drop made a swizzling sound as soon as it made contact with the fish skin patch. The colorless fluid turned green before turning dark grey while releasing a foul smell. Seeing this, Crown Princess Shang's eyes narrowed and she spoke.
"I didn't expect them to be involved this far." She said before looking at Crown Prince Feng Shun. "This Fish skin… it has the traces of the poison that the Black Fin Islands' people use." She revealed.
Hearing that, the Crown Prince was stunned before a deep frown appeared on his face.
"Looks like there is a ninety-nine percent involvement of Yao Changying in this then." Crown Prince Feng Shun stated having known just how deep the involvement between the two parties went.
The Black Fin Islands were a vassal state of the Holy Topaz Dynasty and Yao Changying had made use of their people to interfere in the tournament. They had been using poison to weaken opponents so that the latter fights would be easier for their people.
But other than that, their motives were quite unclear.
They also used to be the 'hidden knife' of the Holy Topaz Dynasty in the past, but had long since been 'abandoned'. These assassins which had lost their purpose had now been brought back into the service by Yao Changying, using her authority as the niece of the Holy Topaz Emperor.
"It really is them?" Lin Mu hadn't expected that he would be encountering them all the way in the Spatial Plane now. "Didn't they all leave or disappeared before Yao Changying even became wanted?" he asked.
"Perhaps Yao Changying had given them orders beforehand to leave or what to do if things went south. Considering she hadn't been caught all this time, and we are now seeing these traces of her powers and people here, it's safe to assume that she managed to get out of the Dao Wind Continent." Crown Prince Feng Shun replied.
"How would she leave though?" Daoist Chu asked. "She didn't just have the Empire behind her, but also the Temple of the Four Guardian beasts." He added.
In response to this, Crown Prince Feng Shun looked at Qiao De.
"That one way teleportation array you used… do you have any information about others that might still be active?" Crown Prince Feng Shun questioned.
"That is hard to tell." Qiao De answered. "While I don't know where they are, it is almost a guarantee there are more. There were sales of a couple of such arrays over a decade ago. I do not have proper information on them since they happened in the Black Candle Pavillion's Holy Topaz Dynasty branch, but we may as well think they are the same." He explained.
With such signs in front of them, Lin Mu and the Crown Prince were pretty much convinced about Yao Changying's involvement here.
"If we consider that she's here… and has more people with her, how do you think she entered?" Lin Mu questioned. "Or rather… what is her goal?" "Isn't it the Celestial's treasure?" Elder Hu stated as a matter of fact. "With how many valuable and legendary items are present as a reward, it makes sense that she would want something from here." "Additionally, those strange and dangerous techniques she uses seem to be highly compatible with the environment here." Monk Hushu gave his observation. "It could also be possible that she's here for that and the Death Qi." He added.
Both these options seemed to be highly probably though it could also be a case where multiple answers were correct.
"Whatever might be the case, one thing is sure…. We cannot let Yao Changying be." Crown Princess Shang said, her old grudge visible in her eyes. "I will not let that bitch live." She cursed through her teeth.
Both these options seemed to be highly probably though it could also be a case where multiple answers were correct.
"Whatever might be the case, one thing is sure…. We cannot let Yao Changying be." Crown Princess Shang said, her old grudge visible in her eyes. "I will not let that bitch live." She cursed through her teeth.
"She is far too dangerous to be left alive, for sure." Crown Prince Feng Shun was in an agreement.
With this, a new goal had now been added to the group's objectives, and it was to find Yao Changying and eliminate her.
"First things, first, we need to figure out how she got in." Ziran streamlined the conversation. "Since she didn't enter from the trials as we did, there's definitely a secondary entrance or a flaw that was exploited." He hypothesized.
"Will you be able to detect something like this, Daoist Mu Lin?" Lady Kang asked, looking over with some expectation.
"As long as I'm near the location, I should be able to sense it." Lin Mu answered, much to their pleasure. "With the level of arrays that this place has, I'm sure there would be a major disturbance that I might be able to make out." He added.
"Good, looks like we'll just have to look out for that, then." Crown Prince Feng Shun said before turning to the west. "And I have a hunch that we might be in the right direction." "You think they might have come from the west?" Lin Mu could see what the Crown Prince was hinting at.
So far, they had been getting new clues the further they went west, thus the assumption was not too far off.
"Yes. The Offering Hall with an incomplete barrier, the remains of a Black Fin Islands member on the Chimeric Beast, then the camp we discovered wit the Yin Nascent Soul Maggot and finally the Second Offering hall with the Cyclopean Chimeric Beast guarding it far in the east… doesn't it seem like a progression of some kind?" Crown Prince Feng Shun elaborated.
"Now that you put it like that… it does seem awfully like they had been adapting to this place." Ziran could see it all happening. "The age of the remains also matches the time line somewhat. This is the oldest clue we've obtained so far." He added.
"Then we should head further west. Perhaps we might find more clues to it all… maybe even the entrance they took." Lady Kang spurred them on.
"Very well." Lin Mu said as he jumped onto Little Shrubby's back.