Supreme Emperor of Swords

Chapter 1131 A Bizarre Thing

“We’re leaving so soon. I still want to have some fun with the white cat family.” The Demon King, Evil Moon, looked at the island that disappeared into the horizon and was still quite immersed. It said, “I also have happy memories here.”

Ding Hao was speechless.

“They are the white tigress family, okay? Do you think they are cats just because they look like you?” Ding Hao said with a darkened face, “Besides, isn’t it that you think you are a giant eagle?”

The white tigress family, which had left with Uncle Tianshu, lived a free and unfettered life on Heaven Island and became the divine beasts of the Muhuang family. They had a high status. However, Evil Moon insisted on taking them around to sponge them off. It was simply a cat relying on a tiger’s power to do harm to Heaven Island. They visited all the herb gardens and the spiritual beast gardens and got everything in chaos. Muhuang Tianshu’s face turned livid. If Ding Hao and Evil Moon didn’t leave now, he was afraid that the old profiteer would turn against him.

“This mischief-maker disgraces me wherever we go.”

They went all the way back.

When they were on the Divine Central Continent, Ding Hao passed by the territory of Mu Tianyang, the White-Robed King of the Wei Province.

Nowadays, Mu Tianyang was already the ruler of more than a dozen provinces on the Divine Central Continent. He held a large number of troops and had countless masters under his command. They were all wandering experts from various sects and some rogue cultivators. They were bound by a common hatred for the enemy and had high morale. Among them, there were some Semi God Realm Masters and God Realm Masters. When Ding Hao passed by these provinces, he observed the earth with the Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate and saw dozens of columns of smoke rising into the sky like pillars of heaven, each of which represented a God Realm Master.

Others might not be able to see those smoke columns, but with the help of his Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate to observe the Qi, he could easily detect the number of God Realm Masters in this area.

Nowadays, Mu Tianyang’s power was many times stronger than what he had when he was in the Tranquility Academy before.

However, nobody knew why Mu Tianyang no longer mentioned his identity as a disciple of Tranquility Academy again, nor did he have the slightest intention of reviving the academy. Except for a few people, almost no one knew his origin.

It was indeed easy to rise in troubled times. As long as one had enough strength, he could become a dominator. Just like Ding Hao, as long as he wanted to, he could rule the entire Northern Region in an instant. Even if he wanted to unify the Land of Infinity, it would only be a matter of time, as long as the five top divine halls and the five supreme masters of the Demon Clan did not oppose.

Ding Hao guessed that Mu Tianyang’s strength should have improved very quickly.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to suppress so many experts from other provinces, nor would he have been able to fight against those veteran top forces on the Divine Central Continent.

Nowadays, the Divine Central Continent, the most fertile and magnificent land on the Land of Infinity, had been divided into six major forces, separated from each other. In addition to Mu Tianyang’s White-Robed Army, there was the Divine Feathers Court founded by the Feather Clan, as well as other two forces supported by the Divine Grace power openly or secretly. These forces were similar in strength, so they could not launch a large-scale war at the moment.

Finally, Ding Hao passed by the White-Robed City of Wei Province.

This was the capital of the White-Robed Army.

Wei Province was originally a relatively rich province in the Divine Central Continent. After Mu Tianyang’s painstaking management, it was now heavily guarded. Invisible inscriptions were engraved all over the place, absorbing the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth to maintain and strengthen the tactical deployments. Almost within thousands of miles of Wei Province, it had become a highly secure forbidden place. Without a special pass token, no one would be able to pass it.

Of course, Ding Hao was an exception.

In the Land of Infinity, there were very few forces that could stop Ding Hao.

“Mu Tianyang is really something. He can actually set up such a tight tactical deployment.” The Sword Master in the Rusted Sword was also surprised. “This tactical deployment is full of ancient meaning and can be rarely seen at ordinary times. Once it is activated, I’m afraid… I’m afraid…” Speaking of this, the Sword Master’s voice suddenly changed with a little surprise. Soon, this surprise turned into an unprecedented seriousness as he stopped talking.

“I didn’t expect to see this tactical deployment appear again in my lifetime!” The Saber Master also spoke from the Devil Saber. Her tone was bleak, and it was also full of faint hatred and killing intent. Although she stopped right after that, Ding Hao’s intuition was so keen that he immediately perceived what she said.

“Could it be that there’s something special about this tactical deployment?”

An idea came to Ding Hao’s mind. He asked Evil Moon to stop and run the Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate to observe carefully.

Invisible beams of pupil radiance, like light threads, quietly flowed out of Ding Hao’s pupils and twined around the misty and invisible tactical deployment inscriptions in the void. After careful observation, Ding Hao saw through all the mysteries with the help of this magical pupil technique. He charily observed and carefully studied the inscriptions one by one. Gradually, his eyes became serious.

Because he found the dark power that was well hidden among the inscriptions.

“It’s actually the dark power!”

This was greatly beyond Ding Hao’s expectations.

The tactical deployment set up within a radius of 500 kilometers around Wei Province looked very ancient and belonged to the power of the five elements. Although it was extremely brilliant, there was no trace of gloominess in it. If one observed each inscription carefully, one would find that the dim dark power was hidden in the inscriptions. Ordinary people could not see it at all. If Ding Hao did not have the magical power of the Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate, he would not have discovered it.

This tactical deployment should have been set up by Mu Tianyang, but Ding Hao didn’t know why it contained the dark power.

“Is Mu Tianyang practicing the Dark Cultivation Method? Or does he have any relationship with Hades True Immortal who is hiding in the mysterious place?”

Ding Hao thought of a lot of things.

No wonder Mu Tianyang’s strength had grown so fast. If it weren’t for Ding Hao, Mu Tianyang would definitely be a second-to-none peerless genius from ancient times to the present. His improvement was far beyond reasonable speed. It turned out that there was such a reason behind it. The dark power could indeed help one make rapid progress, and it could cultivate masters with strong attack power in a short time. However, such masters would often be controlled and have no independent power, and they would pay a price, such as their lifespan.

Therefore, it was absolutely possible that Mu Tianyang had been depraved.

However, Ding Hao was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion. Instead, he thought of more.

Judging from Mu Tianyang’s style of doing things, he did not seem to belong to the dark power. With such a powerful force under his control, he had many elite soldiers and combative generals as well as the assistance of a wise man like the Military Counselor Qing Long. None of the masters and experts who were now under his command possessed the dark power. In the entire territory ruled by the White-Robed Army, no dark power was found.

Moreover, the dark power that appeared in this inscription tactical deployment was so hidden that even if the Sect Master of the Blue Cloud Sect and others came, they might not be able to discover it. Maybe even Mu Tianyang himself did not know about it.

But who else could do this except for Mu Tianyang?

Ding Hao felt that there were a lot of mysteries within.

But there was one thing that was certain. No matter who set up such a hidden tactical deployment here, they must have some ulterior motive, and it was probably not a small one.

“I’ll teach you a method to dissolve the dark power here without being detected,” the Sword Master suddenly said. “Let’s quietly dissolve the dark power here first. Don’t alarm that kind of person. Just wait slowly, and you will know it in the future. At that time, when the truth comes out… Haha, there may be a wonderful story.”

The old monster’s words had a hidden meaning.

Ding Hao did not ask any more questions and silently remembered the method taught by the Sword Master.

This was an extremely obscure method of controlling Divine Senses. Ding Hao keenly found that some parts of it were not perfect. He realized that this might be a method created by the Sword Master himself, and it had never been used before. After a little practice, he had some enlightenment. Then, he carefully tried to activate his Divine Senses and the Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate to dissolve the darkness in the inscription tactical deployment.

It took Ding Hao three days and three nights to completely resolve all the dark power.

The method taught by the Sword Master was a little insidious. After being dissolved, the dark power seemed to still exist. If the person who set up the tactical deployment observed it, he would definitely not find anything unusual, but in fact, the dark power had lost its vitality and had killing intent hidden within. As long as that person activated the hidden dark power in the tactical deployment, it would cause energy to rage in an instant and he would be backfired.

“If the mysterious man who set up the formation doesn’t show up, we won’t be able to find him for the time being. If we forcibly search him, we will alert the enemy. It is better to observe in secret.”

Ding Hao listened to the advice of the Saber Master.

He left Wei Province on the fourth day.

Ding Hao returned to the Swordsmanship-seeking Mountain in the Northern Region on the tenth day.

The first thing he did after returning to the mountain was to secretly come to the Tranquility Academy for Ji Yingqi.

Nowadays, Ji Yingqi was already a well-known wise woman of the Northern Region Martial Alliance. Although she did not practice martial arts, no one dared to look down on her. It was rumored that she had read countless martial arts books. As long as she wanted to, she could bring up a large number of masters with a few pointers. Moreover, she was also proficient in all kinds of mechanisms and escape techniques. She was proficient in inscriptions and tactical deployments, and she was great at scheming. Even a Saint-level expert would be killed if he was tricked by her.

Kong Yiru, the previous Confucian sage, had stood down. Now, the Tranquility Academy was in the charge of this female sage.

Only a few people knew about the relationship between Ji Yingqi and Ding Hao.

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Ding Hao secretly came to Ji Yingqi and told her in detail what had happened in Wei Province.

After listening to Ding Hao’s narration and understanding his intention, the female sage smiled and said, “Leave this matter to me.”

Ding Hao nodded.

He was indeed relieved to leave this matter to Ji Yingqi.

After Ding Hao left, Ji Yingqi secretly selected ten elite and shrewd superiors. Their origins and family backgrounds were well hidden and they did not have much to do with the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. The martial arts schools were not sword sects. After Li Yingqi gave them a little training, they were sent to the Divine Central Continent and asked to find a way to join the White-Robed Army while secretly observing all the movements in Wei Province.

These ten people were all in the Martial Sage Realm and did not know each other. Even if Mu Tianyang spotted one or two of them, they would not all be killed.