Chapter 52 Deploying a Chess Piece!
Although these three did not recognize Lin Xuan's appearance, they recognized the Golden Sun Robe.
How could the Holy Son of the mighty Nine Heavens Holy Land have burst in from outside? Connecting this to Elder Wang Song's peril and other signs, it could only mean one thing: even they, as inner sect disciples, had been exposed as demon race spies.
"I... I do not know why the Holy Son has graced this humble hall with his presence!?"
The demon spy with the fair complexion asked, forcefully suppressing the panic in his heart.
Before he could say anything more, Lin Xuan did not waste time with them. He directly summoned the Sun and Moon Golden Wheel, which he had just refined with a drop of his blood. Locking onto the three with his spiritual sense, the golden wheel instantly transformed into a dark green remnant shadow, cleaving the three in half before flying back without a trace of blood.
At the same time, Lin Xuan flicked a finger, and an image-recording talisman flew out from his storage ring, leaving a shadow behind. With his current status as Holy Son, this was sufficient.
...
At the same time.
In the icy plains of the Northern Continent.
Within the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Inside a palace that was entirely dark red.
The hall was filled with rows of black bookshelves, and upon the shelves were placed the life crystals of every demon race spy.
Within the dark red life crystals, one could faintly see a glimmer of spiritual light.
That glimmer was a wisp of the refined soul of each demon race spy. If a demon race spy died, or was facing a certain-death situation, this life crystal could shatter.
Suddenly.
In the silent great hall, the sound of a crystal shattering was heard.
The bull demon guarding the life crystals, who was resting on a stone chair, slowly opened his eyes upon hearing the sound.
But when he saw that on the first row of shelves, which held only six life crystals, one of them had already cracked.
"How is this possible!"
The bull demon instantly stood up from the stone chair, vigorously rubbed his eyes, and walked with quick steps to the side of the life crystals.
"Hiss, it's really shattered!"
The bull demon trembled, a look of astonishment appearing in his eyes.
He knew very well that the life crystals placed on the first row all belonged to personnel who had infiltrated the upper echelons of the human race.
These six high-level personnel had not had a single accident in the hundreds of years he had been on duty.
At the same time.
Before the bull demon could report upwards, the life crystals of some lower-ranking demon race spies on the shelves below began to shatter continuously. The crisp and pleasant sounds were incessant. With each life crystal that shattered, the bull demon's face grew paler.
"What is going on today!"
A look of bitterness appeared in the bull demon's eyes.
Merely sacrificing one high-level infiltrator could get him reprimanded, but he never expected that a long string of demon spies would be killed right after.
"Could it be that a power has found a way to confirm the identities of our demon race spies!"
The bull demon thought of a possibility that made him tremble all over. If a human power had truly found such a method, then all the demon race spies currently infiltrating human territory would now be in a perilous situation.
The bull demon suddenly raised its head, looking at the life crystals of more than five thousand demon race spies within this great hall.
However, the bull demon was only in a supervisory role. If any accident occurred, it only needed to briefly explain the reason for the shattered life crystals and submit them.
Immediately after.
The bull demon placed all the shattered crystals into a storage bag. It released a Wind Demon Eagle raised by the Heavenly Demon Palace, which carried the storage bag in its beak and flew out of the hall. In the span of a single breath, the Wind Demon Eagle disappeared into the vast, gray mist.
Among the many majestic giant peaks, there was a palace in the sky.
The Wind Demon Eagle carrying the message flew all the way to this location.
And successfully delivered the storage bag to the Palace Master of the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Inside a secluded house in the southeastern corner of the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Yu Zhenlong, clad in a black silver dragon robe, casually took the storage bag tied to the Wind Demon Eagle into his hand.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense.
The dozens of shattered life crystals all floated before him.
"Wang Song of the Nine Heavens Holy Land, how could even he..."
When Yu Zhenlong sensed the information on one of the life crystals, his body stiffened, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
For so many years, Wang Song had been acting as their informant in the Heavenly Demon Palace, allowing them to make numerous arrangements within the territory of the Nine Heavens Holy Land based on his intelligence.
Given that Wang Song had successfully entered the core echelon of the Nine Heavens Holy Land, there should have been no possibility of exposure.
But now, he had encountered peril.
Furthermore, judging from the life crystals, these dozens of crystals were all problematic within the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
It seemed that within the Nine Heavens Holy Land, someone had perhaps found a method to identify our demon race identities.
"Now that no message has been sent out for so long, it is very likely that the Nine Heavens Holy Land has activated a formation to block transmissions. This won't do. If the people of the Nine Heavens Holy Land promote this method to the other Holy Lands, then they will be completely blind within those several Holy Lands!"
A ruthless glint flashed in Yu Zhenlong's eyes.
Next.
Yu Zhenlong then took out a two-way communication talisman from his personal storage bag.
This was a chess piece Yu Zhenlong had placed in the Eastern Continent. At such a critical moment, it was time to use this chess piece.
Next, he slowly infused his own demonic energy into it, and the two-way communication talisman suddenly established a connection.
The instant the communication talisman's connection was established, in a mountain cave three thousand li away from the Nine Heavens Holy Land in the Eastern Continent, a black-robed figure entwined in vines, who was usually like a corpse, suddenly raised his head.
His ferocious, ghost-like face, and a pair of empty eyes instantly ignited with two clusters of faint blue soul fire.
Before this black-robed figure floated a communication talisman.
The vivid illusion projected from the talisman was none other than Yu Zhenlong, the Palace Master of the Heavenly Demon Palace.
"Master!"
Upon seeing Yu Zhenlong's illusion, this black-robed figure, Qin An, who resembled a skeleton monster, immediately knelt respectfully on one knee, lowering his head and waiting for Yu Zhenlong's command.
"Qin An, I want you to find a way to infiltrate the Nine Heavens Holy Land, obtain the method for identifying our demon race identities within the Nine Heavens Holy Land, and get to the bottom of this matter..."
Yu Zhenlong ordered Qin An.
Qin An had been transformed by Yu Zhenlong into an undead creature, like a puppet. After such a transformation, this chess piece could be placed in the Eastern Continent permanently.
Of course, being transformed into an undead creature also had its flaws: one's cultivation level would permanently drop by a major realm, and one's body would become a skin-and-bones skeleton, turning into something neither human nor ghost!
Qin An was previously a first-heaven Integration Realm expert, but after being transformed by Yu Zhenlong, his realm had fallen to the first-heaven Void Refinement Realm, and it was permanently stuck at this level.
After a long while.
From within this natural cave, the black-robed Qin An suddenly flew out, transforming into a faint, ethereal gray remnant shadow. He sped in the direction of the Nine Heavens Holy Land and soon disappeared without a trace.
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