Chapter 98: Pursuit

  The Tianwu Kingdom has five largest cities, namely Shengwu, Chi Yang, Heishi (invisible) Bianjiao, among which Shengwu City is the capital of Tianwu Kingdom. The four most famous Tiānshì cultivation forces in Tianwu Kingdom are: Huangshi Wujia, the seven major families of Ye Jia and Du Jia, and the six major sects of Tianxin Zong.

  The Du family, like the Ye family, has its own majestic mansion in Tianwu City, and is renowned not only among the top scholars in the world but also in the hearts of ordinary people. These two families are still the most powerful door-to-door families in Tianwu State, with a strong force that is second only to the imperial family and the Wu family.

  To the north of Blackstone City, a manor covering an area of one hundred hectares was one of the Du family's residences in Tianwu Country.

  The Du family is in charge of selling ferocious beasts. All the wild beasts in the most powerful Beastmaster Army of Tianwu Country are provided by the Du family.

  In the hundred-acre mansion, people from the Du family could be seen driving various ferocious beasts in and out of the market. After years of exploration and operation, the Du family had developed a method for raising and taming ferocious beasts. The ferocious beasts that came out of the Du family could be ridden and played various extraordinary roles in battle.

  Next, in that broken temple, there was only a ten-year-old boy with two-headed pythons and flying blood snakes, two cruel beasts by his side. Ji Changkong suspected he was from the Du family, but later when teaching him, she saw that the evil technique used by the young boy was vastly different from the Tian Shi secret techniques practiced by the Du family.

  Adding the fact that the two-headed python and the flying blood snake were ferocious beasts that could not be domesticated in large quantities, each with hundreds of years of age, made him think that the little boy was probably not a member of the Du family.

  The ferocious beasts raised by the Du family are generally like the Blood-striped Giant Crocodile and the Sword-toothed Rhinoceros, which are not spiritual. Only this kind of bear can be domesticated on a large scale and equipped to various armies. As for those with spirituality, such as the Poison Dragon Pool, which can even mobilize the heaven and earth's primordial energy, it is absolutely impossible to raise them on a large scale.

  In every mansion of the Du family, there are a large number of ferocious beasts, so around their mansions and gardens, a large area is covered with wild grasses and dirty feces of ferocious beasts.

  In a slightly cleaner patch of weeds, Ji Changkong gazed far into the distance at the Du family's mansion.

  His spiritual awareness extended, not yet close to the Du family's mansion, he was shocked in his heart and suddenly withdrew his spiritual awareness. Above the Du family's mansion, there was a weak original power fluctuation that covered most of the Du family. His spiritual awareness had not approached, but the yuan force wave that shrouded the Du family split out one strand, which actually came straight to his spiritual awareness. Several Heaven-stage cultivators with the Five Elements Heavenly Boundary walked out of the Du family's mansion, they seemed to have detected something unusual and looked around at the entrance of the mansion. He quietly retreated far away, seeing that those few Du family Heaven-stage cultivators didn't seem to have any intention of searching, he emerged from the thicket again, gazing at the Du family's mansion from a distance, this time without using his spiritual awareness to spy.

  The Du family was so vigilant that even a separate mansion had a ban on sensing and exploring spiritual awareness, which made Ji Changkong even more cautious.

  The Du family's base is not in the Tianwu Five Cities, but rather in a mountain range on the outskirts of the city near the rear corner. That place has a rich concentration of heaven and earth's primal energy, and the best location is Yindragon Spring. That was originally the ancestral land of the Ji family...

  Two days later, a team of fierce beasts consisting of sword-toothed rhinos, single-horned pythons, and golden cupped centipedes, driven by Du Jia Tian Shi, emerged from a manor in the distance, heading towards the North Gate of Black Stone City. Ji Chang Kong quietly followed behind them.

  The northern gate, the city guards of the Black Stone City seemed to have received Ye Tian's order and hung up Ji Changkong's portrait after his disguise on the city wall. The passing city guards were vigilant one by one, strictly checking the travelers coming and going.

  When Du's family drove over a hundred ferocious beasts, the pedestrians and travelers who came and went also avoided them one after another. Even those who were military guards had smiles all over their faces and no longer strictly checked the travelers who came and went, but instead welcomed them from afar.

  In the Tianwu Kingdom, the Du family was as powerful as the Ye family. Moreover, every year, the Du family would send all sorts of ferocious beasts to the Tianwu Kingdom's army, so these soldiers were all trying to curry favor with the Du family and their attitude towards the Du family was even more fawning than towards the Ye family. They naturally didn't dare to investigate the Du family's troops.

  Ji Changkong, who was worried about how to leave Heishi City, suddenly had an idea. When a dozen or so sword-toothed rhinos turned a corner, he shot out like lightning, like a ghostly shadow, and in an instant appeared among a group of sword-toothed rhinos, hanging under the belly of one of them.

  Hiding under the body of a saber-toothed rhino, Ji Changkong frowned without listening to Du Jiatianshi's words. These Du Jiatianshi, most of whom were collected by the Du family using their family's strong capital from various places, relied on the Du family's large tree and used the Du family's yuan stone and various Tian Shi secret books to serve the Du family.

  On the way, what these people talked about most was him. As a dazzling figure who killed Du Jia's young master Du Shao Feng, he had already become the most talked-about person in the Du family for some time. Whenever those heavenly masters mentioned him, they were all gritting their teeth and gnashing their teeth, wishing to peel off his skin and cut his flesh.

  After listening for a while, Ji Changkong's face looked somewhat unsightly. Although he had resentment in his heart towards his parents whom he had never met before, when he found out that their disappearance was related to the Du family, the resentment in his heart dissipated a lot.

  It was only natural that he shifted the cause of his hardships in his youth to the Du family, thinking that if it weren't for their existence, he might have had a happy and fulfilling childhood like others.

  In a rage, his breath became somewhat unstable. Once his mood was disrupted, the hidden state of "what person" was immediately broken. A loud shout came from Du Yun Song's mouth at the front of the team.

  With the cultivation of Liu Tian's boundary, Du Yun Song is a figure of Du Shao Feng's uncle generation. As the leader of this line, he has always been silent and vigilant. The Du family has many enemies, and these well-behaved fierce beasts are also a big piece of fat meat. Even within the borders of Tianwu Country, there are often bold and unscrupulous people who come to rob them.

  His face changed, and he hid in the sword-toothed rhinoceros's care, Chī Chángkōng, before Dù Shǎoyún came chasing after him. He hastily ran out and rushed towards the ancient tree cluster.

  "Looking for death!" Du Yun Song coldly snorted, five Flowing Star Hammers, shining with rainbow light, truly seemed like shooting stars flying in from afar.

  A massive Yuan Qi field suddenly burst out from the five Flowing Star Hammers, and wherever they passed, thick trees as wide as a person were snapped in two. Peng! One of the Flowing Star Hammers smashed down, creating a deep crater on the ground, sending dust flying everywhere, and a burst of Yuan Qi shot out. Ji Changkong's back was hit by the shockwave from the explosion caused by the Flowing Star Hammer's descent.

  A sharp pain shot through her back, and Ji Changkong's body stumbled, crashing headfirst into the dense foliage of several large trees. Not daring to stay, she endured the severe pain and frantically searched for a place to hide, her eyes shining brightly as she scoured her surroundings.

  A patch of muddy ground appeared before his eyes, and with a flash of inspiration, Ji Changkong hastily buried himself in the mud, submerging his entire body in its center. He immediately began to calm his mind and return to the state of having no self. This was a wondrous state indeed.

  After repeated testing, he found that whether in the realm of self or non-self, as long as he did not actively mobilize the yuan force within his body and secretly concealed the aura on his body, he could quickly merge with the surrounding environment, all functions on his body would stop, and he would not be detected by others.

  One after another, the Tian Shi of the Du family walked by from beside the muddy pond. Several Tian Shi who had already formed their divine souls used their divine souls to sense the surrounding yuan force and fluctuations in life, but not a single one discovered Ji Changkong right beside their feet.

  After a while, Du Yun Song, who had the cultivation of Liu Tian's boundary, also walked over. He sensed it with his divine soul and still couldn't find anything unusual. "Forget about it and go back," he said impatiently. "It was just an insignificant guy, probably killed by the bright light emitted from my Flowing Star Hammer. That's why there wasn't any fluctuation. Don't bother searching." "Yes, under the residual power of your divine weapon, ordinary small fries can't escape death," a Tian Shi flattered.

  Those who chased after, the Du family's heavenly warriors, one by one, heavily and fiercely marched forward, Du Yun Song was the first to leave, soon, only the last heavenly warrior returned from afar, with a leap, he prepared to cross over the muddy terrain under the feet of the National Beauty.

  A hand suddenly emerged from the muddy waters, accurately grasping his ankle, a torrent of power surged into his body from his ankle, rendering him speechless.

  He was pulled into the mud, his face terrified, but unable to cry out, slowly sinking into the mud. The Heavenly Master in front had already walked far away and didn't notice the change behind him at all.

  After a while, Ji Changkong, covered in mud, crawled out, wiped his face and calmly chased after the Du family's team. Today was the first test, he finally knew that as long as he didn't use his divine soul, ordinary heavenly masters couldn't detect him. With this reliance, as long as he was careful, in the Mantiang Forest, he was simply like a person without a shadow.

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