Master Yu, I'm Here Again

Chen Yi carried the Dragonman by its tail, taking him toward the ancient pagoda within the Scarlet Heart Sect.

The Dragonman had the throat of his destiny choked by Chen Yi. No matter what tricks he used, he could not break free from Chen Yi's large hand.

"What is your background! This is too bizarre!"

Chen Yi glanced at him, summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and threw him directly inside.

"I know you're a tough nut to crack, but life is precious, so don't self-destruct. Xiao Wan, arrange for him to sit at the same table as Feng Yucheng."

Inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the Dragonman was quite surprised to see Feng Yucheng.

"Why is a Demon Seed here??"

Feng Yucheng kept his guard up cautiously, his expression complex.

The Dragonman continued to yell.

"Hey! Human! Let me out! Do you know who you've captured? Do you know you're playing with fire!"

Chen Yi ignored him.

Keeping Feng Yucheng and this Dragonman today, Chen Yi actually didn't know if they would be useful later.

It seemed that in the fourth simulation, Feng Yucheng's soul had been useless all along and eventually exploded along with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

But just in case he obtained an ability like the Soul Searching Art one day, keeping them would prove useful.

Chen Yi staked out near the ancient pagoda, waiting for Sect Leader Yu to take the bait.

This guy surnamed Yu was often absent from the sect, and who knew what he was busy with outside every day.

"Buddy! What are we doing here?"

It hadn't been many days before the Ten Thousand Souls Banner lost its patience.

"Why should I, Chen Yi, explain my actions to you? What's wrong, want to go find an earth vein?"

"Yeah! With low-tier bone roots like yours, if you rely on your own cultivation, you'll be like this for the rest of your life!"

"Being a Martial King for a lifetime is pretty good too."

"I forgot about that... Don't you want to go a step further and become a Martial Saint? A Martial God?!"

"I do."

"Then that's right! Let's go! Go find an earth vein! Let me help you break through!"

"Definitely next time."

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner really couldn't do anything about you.

"He's here."

Finally, you managed to catch Sect Leader Yu; he had at last returned to the sect.

As soon as Sect Leader Yu returned, he headed straight for the ancient pagoda within the Scarlet Heart Sect.

"Without my orders, no one is allowed to come in and disturb my secluded cultivation, understand?"

He claimed to the public that the ancient pagoda was his place for secluded cultivation, so every time he entered, he would say this to his subordinates.

Sect Leader Yu sneaked into the ancient pagoda, closed the main doors tightly, and even locked it from the inside.

Then, he took out a pen and paper and started writing something.

At this moment, Chen Yi was floating right above Sect Leader Yu's head.

This old Yu simply could not imagine that a Martial King realm expert would ambush him, so it never occurred to him to look up.

Chen Yi concealed all his aura, his eyes fixed on the letter paper in Sect Leader Yu's hands, clearly seeing what he was writing.

"The Eastern Wasteland stronghold has been established. The location is at Wave Valley, as indicated by the red dot on the map."

Sect Leader Yu began to draw a map.

He drew a bird's-eye view of the Eastern Wasteland, then marked a red dot on it.

Chen Yi took a look.

It was drawn quite well.

It could even be used directly as a map.

Looking closely.

The location marked by this red dot seemed not far from the position of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.

Since he could now fly through the air, making it convenient to go anywhere, why not fetch the Nine Provinces Cauldron in passing while destroying the Dragonman race's stronghold?

"Sect Leader Yu truly has many skills. You are quite adept at drawing maps as well."

In the quiet ancient pagoda, such a voice suddenly popped up out of nowhere, almost scaring Sect Leader Yu's soul out of his body.

"Who is it?!"

Sect Leader Yu looked up, and Chen Yi raised his palm, pinning him to the ground with a Burning Cloud Palm, rendering him unable to move.

"Ah!! It's on fire! It's on fire!"

The two subordinates standing guard outside the pagoda vaguely heard something.

"The Sect Leader seems to be saying something about fire? Did something happen? Should we go in and take a look?"

"If you want to die, don't drag me down with you. Last time someone barged in without the Sect Leader's orders, they were chopped into minced meat on the spot and thrown to the back mountain to feed the dogs."

This Sect Leader Yu was exactly the same as in the simulation.

A super spineless coward.

Chen Yi only slightly displayed a bit of his Martial King realm strength, and he immediately stopped resisting, begging for mercy non-stop, willing to exchange everything for his life.

"Sect Leader Yu, you don't need to be nervous. I look down on that scrap metal on your body, as well as this tiny sect of yours. You just need to honestly answer a few questions of mine, and I naturally won't make things difficult for you."

If you were still in the Golden Body realm right now, saying these words would carry the suspicion of bragging.

But you are a noble Martial King!

If you say you look down on it, Sect Leader Yu believes it ten thousand times over!

Sect Leader Yu nodded like pounding garlic.

"Understood! Understood! Senior, please ask!"

Actually, the intelligence that needed to be extracted from this guy had already been asked by Chen Yi in the simulation.

It was just that at the time, he didn't try to understand exactly what strongholds the Dragonman race had in the human realm and where they were located.

This time, of course, he only asked about things related to the Dragonman race.

"What were you writing just now?"

"Location information situated in the Eastern Wasteland."

"Why are you writing this? Who are you giving it to?"

"Actually, I have a cooperation with the Demon race. They asked me to find some inconspicuous places within the Five Regions and, according to their requirements, just send some things over."

The Demon race from Sect Leader Yu's mouth was the Dragonman race; he confused the two, not knowing they were two different races.

"What things?"

"Crystal stones, and some materials."

In other words, the Dragonman race was having Sect Leader Yu help find locations and complete the preliminary construction of the strongholds.

The Dragonman race relied on these hidden strongholds to complete their early intelligence gathering in the human realm, as well as other preparation work for their invasion.

"Besides this Wave Valley in the Eastern Wasteland, what other places have you helped them find to build strongholds?"

"There is also the Cold Maple Temple in Western Liang. The abbot there is an old friend of mine. The conditions offered by the Demon race were quite good. After I repeatedly persuaded him, the abbot finally agreed to join in."

Scarlet Heart Sect, Cold Maple Temple, Wave Valley.

Not bad, that's already three.

Chen Yi continued to press his questions.

"Are there any other strongholds you know of?"

Sect Leader Yu shook his head repeatedly.

"No more."

"You truly don't know anymore?"

"I wouldn't dare deceive you, Senior. I have only been cooperating with this group of Demons for five years. Over these years, I have been running around outside, using up all my old favors, and only managed to set up these two strongholds for them. There really are no more."

Chen Yi felt a bit of a headache.

It wasn't enough.

The mission stated that he had to destroy six.

Suddenly, Chen Yi noticed the strange patterns beneath his feet.

He remembered!

In the third simulation, Chen Yi had eavesdropped on a conversation between two Dragonmen.

One of them mentioned that this seven-story ancient pagoda of the Scarlet Heart Sect actually had a Demon Bridge Array on every floor, allowing the Dragonman race to travel back and forth between various strongholds.

In other words, this Demon Bridge Pagoda was the teleportation hub for the Dragonman race's various early strongholds!

By using this ancient pagoda, couldn't he go to all the different strongholds?

But...

He couldn't understand the Dragonman race's arrays at all.

After asking this Sect Leader Yu, he said he didn't know how to activate it.

Eh?

Wasn't there a native-born Dragonman right inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?

Chen Yi released the Dragonman he had just captured a while ago.

Seeing Sect Leader Yu kneeling in front of Chen Yi, the Dragonman immediately became furious and used some kind of secret technique to allow Sect Leader Yu to hear his voice.

"Yu Qian, you fence-sitter! How dare you betray us! I will definitely make sure you die without an intact corpse! Just you wait and see! Bah!!"

The Dragonkin's voice echoed within the ancient tower.

The sound was clearly booming, loud enough for the two guards outside to catch practically every word, yet they simply refused to step inside.

Not that coming in would have done them any good anyway.