The Sacred Ruins

Chapter 786: You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours

Panda Novel

The cavalry criss-crossed across the battlefield, riding on the backs of many kinds of ferocious beasts, whizzing by, carrying out a long pursuit, vitality and yang like a surging torrent in the air.

Regardless of whom, be it pure lands members, Jin Lin, Ying Zhe the immortal, Yu Hua Godhead, or Shi Hong, everyone fled as fast as they could. A great flight from danger had started.

They had only been in this world for a few days, yet almost two thirds of their numbers had diminished. There was no possible way anyone could have imagined things would turn out so badly.

“Ah!”

Chu Feng had no trouble calmly dealing with this so called “Pu Lin young noble”. Telling him all those things as if they were complete truth.

Only Ouyang Feng knew that Chu Feng had told a mouthful of lies. From the start, not even a single sentence he muttered was true, even the names he said were made up.

Then, a team of cavalry rushed back, completely empty handed. They obtained nothing for their efforts.

“Reporting, young noble, this group of yin spirits were extremely ferocious. It was very difficult to bring any back alive, and in the end, they all blew themselves up. There are no longer any alive.”

“What?!” Pu Lin was shocked and devastated. These alien materials were all prepared for the purpose of being offered to the God Laboratory. How could they all self-detnoate like that?

“Collect their soul fragments.” Pu Lin commanded.

“We cannot do that. The beam mist is being prevented from leaving by many objects.” a cavalryman reported.

Chu Feng was surprised. He had already tried to block the beam mists before, but wasn’t able to do it. Only a black bell, transformed by the yin realm, could block them.

Now, it seemed that this seed had changed into an unusual weapon.

Pu Lin’s gazed fearfully, “Go out and fetch me some spirits, but don’t fight too fiercely. I need them alive. Got it? This is very important. Alien spirit bodies are the best sacrifice for the gods!”

“As you command!” The cavalryman quickly sped off to carry out Pu Lin’s order.

Chu Feng pressed the imprint in the magnet in his hand, flowing with spiritual energy. He saw firsthand the special ability that Pu Lin gave him.

Then he frowned, and let out a slight sigh.

“What’s the matter?” A cavalryman noticed Chu Feng’s expression.

“Ah, nothing.” Chu Feng shook his head.

“Go ahead and say. What’s wrong?” Pu Lin responded.

“This…” Chu Feng felt embarrassed; after some silence, he continued, “This special ability isn’t enough.”

Ouyang toad was speechless and he started to break out in a cold sweat. How he wished to say, “By my ancestors, Chu Keng, please don’t push this any further. It’s enough that we were able to fool him to give us a special ability. Do we really need to be picky?!”

The toad started to pray. If they could pull this swindle off, then it would be considered really lucky. They should leave as soon as possible.

Let alone being able to pilfer a special ability was nothing short of a miracle, a miracle that Chu Feng had such an uncanny ability to lie.

As soon as the army of cavalry and soldiers marched back, then heaven and earth would resonate from the exuberant vitality. Even the toad, a creature from the yin realm, wouldn’t be able to withstand it. He believed he would explode into pieces.

Pu Lin raised his eyebrows as soon as he heard Chu Feng’s request. His eyes gazed coldly. He felt that this Yin Spirit had no sense of honor. After receiving a special ability, he still acted dared to act coldly?!

The three cavalrymen next to him lowered their heads; one of them chided, “You’ve got some nerve. You, with such a small yin, dares to be so picky, turning down the special ability from this world. What insight could you possibly have?!”

Ouyang groaned internally. His forehead broke out in a cold sweat.

“Little noble, you all are mistaken,” Chu Feng explained to Pu Lin.

In a candid manner, he brought up his past experience with another group.

“That group possessed a special ability as well, and because of this, they were able to defeat a lot of people. This is what caused the failure of me and dao brother Luo Shirong at the verge of success. Sadly, Luo Shirong, heroic as he was, had his body refined into divine kernels. I’ve been cut off completely from him, a lamentable outcome.”

The toad: “….”

Chu Feng sighed, “Brother Luo heroically died a martyr. How unfortunate.”

Ouyang Feng was speechless, using all of his will to keep his mouth shut and remain silent. He didn’t dare speak anything for fear of revealing Chu Feng’s true intentions.

“Those people who also possessed a special ability. How did they obtain it?” one of the cavalrymen beside Pulin exclaimed.

Chu Feng replied, “It’s said that they met with the attendant of the moon goddess disciple. Their leader received a special ability. He wanted him to use it to bring everyone to join him. Even I was able to steal a bit of knowledge of it.”

Then he spread the working of the special ability to the public.

In fact, Chu Feng was purposely playing down the special ability that Pu Lin had bestowed upon him. Compared to the ability Chu Feng had encountered before, it was actually better. Chu Feng had only mentioned one part of the story, and he left out that they had later procured an even stronger special ability.

His actions could be considered reckless, demanding an even more powerful special ability.

“It certainly was a special ability from the moon goddess.” Pu Lin’s expression cooled.

According to Pu Lin young noble, those people didn’t want to make themselves known because the land outside of the plateau of the beasts was controlled by the war god.

The moon goddess could only prepare those spirit bodies to save themselves and couldn’t personally come and save them.

Chu Feng was surprised. It turned out this was the war god’s territory. The spirit bodies and tyrants from the plateau of the beasts each belonged to their own corresponding territory.

Then more bad news came. It was proving to be very difficult to capture spirit bodies alive. The spirit bodies were extremely unyielding and constantly self-detonating.

Upon hearing this, Pu Lin became furious. He ordered them to muster up a big force of soldiers and come back. How could they come back without successfully carrying out his orders?

Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng naturally knew the reason for this. It was because after they self-detonated, they could still return to their original universe, but if they were captured, they would be sent to the God’s laboratory. They would be better off dead than living like that, never being able to return.

Pu Lin glanced at Chu Feng and said, “Did the men following you and Luo Shirong all die in battle?”

“Many died in battle, but more defected to the other side. They believed that the power of joining forces with Luo Shirong dao brother couldn’t compare to joining the moon goddess. They willingly spread the special ability. This information was compelling enough to make them want to join.”

Chu Feng seriously and patiently said, “Unfortunately, with the powerful power that their leader possessed, he was able to entice others and show the might of the forces of the moon goddess. This made the neutral people join him.”

“There really isn’t a problem with the special ability, our deity is the god of war, there is no need to doubt his power. It doesn’t matter if his special ability is considered the most powerful. If I may ask, by what means was he able to make people defect to his side?”

“That’s easy. You must be delicate when casting your net. If not, they will be compelled to self-detonate. You have to appease them, wait for the right time. If I’m trying to sell something, of course, first I need to get rid of their leaders, for example Shi Hong, Jin Lin, Winged Godhead, and so on.”

“That makes sense. I didn’t realize some people were so resolute, willing to cause such disorder indiscriminately like that. How infuriating.” Pu Lin nodded his head.

Then lastly, he took another look at Chu Feng and said, “I never treat my workers unfairly. You said that their special ability was quite strong. Then I will pass to you today the God of War’s sole ability. I will let you experience what one of the strongest special abilities looks like…”

“Thank you very much young noble!” Chu Feng cupped his hands in a salute.

“Young noble, this… are you sure this is okay? You can’t just pass down this ability to anyone,” one of the cavalrymen at his side reminded him quietly.

Pu Lin replied dully, “It doesn’t matter. Even if this is a mid-tier special ability, it’s already been passed on to the army. It’s not really a secret. Besides, if it were a high-level ability, I wouldn’t have it, even my father has only encountered a few high-level ones.”

Then, he threw a divine magnet to Chu Feng, written in the middle of it was the special ability. Surprisingly, this ability was much more powerful than the one he had gotten from the cave-dwelling of the moon goddess and more complex than the one Pu Lin had given him earlier.

After Chu Feng recorded it, he passed the divine magnet to Ouyang Feng.

The toad didn’t know what to say. His expression gleamed in admiration. As lowly as Chu Feng had acted, he was really good at trickery. Unexpectedly, his pickiness turned out successful, and he was able to exchange it for a more powerful special ability.

“That is my order. Don’t force them to die again. Since they’re unable to run away in this world, there’s no need to rush. After a few days, let Chuang Luo try it.”

One of the cavalrymen nearby subtly chimed in, “Little noble, are you sure it’s a good idea to give these two the special ability? Are they able to bring more people?”

Pu Lin replied back to him secretly, “Desperate times call for desperate measures. As far as these two go, if we don’t make use of them, then it’s going to be a missed opportunity. Could a small yin spirit cause a lot of trouble anyway?”

Then Ouyang Feng also secretly said something to Chu Feng, “How about we do something big? Let’s get rid of this damn little noble and loot all of his things. Who knows if we will get another special ability as powerful as this later.

“Yeah. Let me think of what to do next. Be ready to strike at any moment!” Chu Feng agreed. They should be able to suddenly murder Pu Lin and his three cavalrymen.

Then, Pu Lin’s words suddenly broke Chu Feng’s train of thought. He suddenly thought of restraining themselves.

“Do you see? These blood-colored mountain peaks are stained red from the blood of divine animals. This is one of the medicines the god of war is growing.”

These blood-colored mountain peaks belong to the god of war?

“This is nothing. The god of war has some even bigger medicine gardens. These are just small mountaintops, they aren’t really medicine gardens,” a cavalryman replied.

Likewise, these troops were responsible for patrols, usually going everywhere and inspecting each medicine plantation.

Because this area was too far away and desolate, and a powerful realm had been set up, ordinary days were very few.

“The weak spirits are unable to climb the mountains, the powerful ones all know this place is the god of war’s medicine mountain. They don’t dare offend his might,” Pu Lin said.

“So it turns out all of these things have an owner.” Ouyang Feng sighed.

“Little noble, I heard a few days back a few divine animals entered deep into the plateau of the beasts and wanted to battle the god of war. What was the outcome of that?” Chu Feng seized the opportunity to ask.

“What do you think happened? It doesn’t matter if they were divine animals. Those self-proclaimed divine animals barely avoided death, spilling a lot of their own blood, ultimately using magic to escape,” Pu Lin plainly replied, “in a few days, I’ll be responsible for sending a barrel of mythological animal blood to irrigate the sacred medicine here. If your performance is a bit better, it’s possible I can give a few drops to you. This sacred animal blood is certain to be filled with yang and contain law fragments and more. It’s enough to clean off the vast amount of yang accumulated on your body and purify your soul like you’ve been reborn.”

As soon as Chu Feng heard this, he became enraptured.

This was surely divine animal blood, containing a large volume of yang. It was a valuable medicine capable of purifying their soul.

Even Ouyang Feng could barely contain himself. He was a divine animal, known to contain divine blood, but ever since he arrived in this world, he quickly knew that he could also be considered a yang divine animal or a demon animal. The most important thing in his blood and the substance contained in this world’s divine animals was incomparable.

“Little noble, you don’t really want to use divine animal blood to encourage them, do you?” a cavalryman said.

Pu Lin replied, “How is that possible? If we have the chance, leaving them a little shouldn’t be a problem. We’re just making the most of what we killed.”

Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng started to secretly discuss a plan together.

“What a waste. They’re using divine animal blood to irrigate the medicine. If we don’t steal from them, then who should we steal from? Let’s not run away!” Ouyang Feng clamored.

“Yes. So now we shouldn’t be in a rush to make any moves. Let’s wait until we can see the divine animal blood and then overthrow them!” Chu Feng nodded his head. Then he reminded Ouyang Feng, “Don’t tell anyone of our plan. This little noble is far from virtuous.”

Ouyang Feng subtly nodded his head. “I already could tell he isn’t a good person. After using us, I guarantee he’ll try to dispose of us. But is it really worth killing him? Wait until he’s weeping and then finish him off!”