Chapter 1469: Chapter 1469 - 1454: An Unexpected Delight

"It’s me, don’t resist, come with me!"

Ye Zhen suddenly emerged from underground, startling Big Ears Nie Ting, who was cultivating. Just as he was about to resist, Ye Zhen’s voice echoed in his ears, and his vision plunged into darkness.

Ye Zhen slayed four guards of the Sky-reaching on Hailing Alley, which was already a major event. For some reason, the eastern part of Chaotic Sky Island erupted in flames, immediately escalating the situation.

Ye Zhen had barely entered the underground when thousands of guards on Chaotic Sky Island mobilized completely, sealing off the island and beginning a thorough search.

When Big Ears Nie Ting opened his eyes again, he was inside a cavern beneath the island in the underground currents.

On the way, Big Ears listened carefully to the changes on Chaotic Sky Island, becoming fully aware of what Ye Zhen was doing it for.

At this crucial moment of escape, being able to take him along, Big Ears Nie Ting felt that his master Ye Zhen wasn’t too bad.

He could sense that his master Ye Zhen’s skills in escaping were quite miraculous!

However, these weren’t what Nie Ting found most interesting. What fascinated Nie Ting the most was the Spirit Fruit Ye Zhen gave him before leaving.

Ye Zhen used slightly more than half a quarter-hour to return, and the medicinal power of the Spirit Fruit had only been refined by less than half a tenth by Nie Ting.

Yet, even half a tenth of the medicinal power brought Nie Ting obvious changes.

He felt that using his Innate Divine Ability became much easier, and what’s more, the maximum range of his difficult-to-improve Innate Divine Ability seemed to have increased significantly.

More importantly, in just this brief half-quarter hour, the sounds from all directions sounded different in his ears.

"Young Master, what fruit did you just give me? I feel the effect is amazing, I’ve only refined half a tenth of the medicinal power, and my Innate Divine Ability seems to have improved!" Big Ears Nie Ting asked with a curious face.

This statement surprised Nie Ting somewhat, not expecting the Spirit Void Fruit to significantly enhance Big Ears’ Innate Divine Ability.

In other words, the possibility that Big Ears Nie Ting might possess the Ancient Human Bloodline was greater.

Because the Spirit Void Fruit for ordinary humans also had wonderful uses, but the effect was limited to dramatically speeding up the comprehension of Dao Patterns and Heaven and Earth Laws.

Directly increasing Innate Divine Ability like consuming one Spirit Fruit only appeared in the Demon Race and Demon Clan.

Because the Spirit Void Fruit’s effect on the Demon Race and Demon Clan is essentially to boost their Bloodline; when the Bloodline increases, abilities naturally improve.

In this case, the enhancement of Innate Divine Ability in Big Ears, who consumed just one Spirit Fruit, indicates that the fruit’s effect on him was actually improving his Bloodline.

Ordinary humans, including Ye Zhen, can’t experience such an effect.

"Really!"

Ye Zhen smiled, "I never treat my subordinates poorly! As long as you’re loyal to me and do your job well, I will definitely not mistreat you!"

"Big Ears...." In the underground cavern, Yany Chi the Manager saw Nie Ting, shocked, he instantly associated many things.

"Young Master Di, if you want to know anything, go ahead and ask. I will tell you everything I know, I only ask Young Master Di to give me a way to live!" Yany Chi, left with only his Innate Divine Soul, hurriedly said.

At this point, he’s lost hope in others getting him out alive, only thinking of saving himself.

Even ants cling to life; although he’s already made arrangements, as long as there’s a chance, he still wants to live.

Unfortunately, Yany Chi’s cooperation and confession came too late.

At this point, how could Ye Zhen dare to believe the words of the cunning Yany Chi, not even half a word.

Leaving aside other things, if Ye Zhen asked Yany Chi whom else he had told this matter.

If Yany Chi falsely mentioned several notable figures, should Ye Zhen believe or not?

If not believed, if true, the bet cannot be won, and the loss is unbearable!

If believed, and Yany Chi randomly mentions several Realm King Realm presences, it makes it hard for Ye Zhen, risking more likely getting himself stuck there lightly.

By then, Yany Chi who tricked Ye Zhen might laugh even in death!

If asked, who knows where this cunning fellow might lead Ye Zhen astray?

So, having decided earlier, Ye Zhen simply shook his head, "Manager Yany, don’t you think it’s too late?"

The Four-colored Innate Soul Light burst forth, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power forcefully charged into Yany Chi’s Innate Divine Soul.

The next instant, Yany Chi screamed in agony, but amidst the scream, there was a trace of hope!

This hope wasn’t from himself, but from his previous arrangements!

That major patron behind the Sky-reaching, for the interests of the Sky-reaching, prepared many life-saving methods for him, like the fake tooth that can send out a warning made from an extremely rare Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, only he arranged more warning signals.

One of those signals was hanging around his brother-in-law Ma Shen’s neck.

Originally, that warning signal was prepared for a critical moment to deal with another situation, today it seems to have coincidentally worked out.

As long as his brother-in-law Ma Shen acts according to his prior arrangements, then his Bloodline can be preserved...

Under Ye Zhen’s skilled soul-searching technique, Yany Chi’s divine soul turned into a shadow, twisting entirely. Bits of three-colored soul light started to dissipate from Ye Zhen’s fingertips.

With his eyes tightly closed, Ye Zhen’s divine soul worked like lightning, filtering through every piece of information obtained from Yany Chi’s divine soul. This time, Ye Zhen was exceedingly cautious in his soul search, while previously, it didn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete.

This time, Ye Zhen spent a full hour before concluding the soul search.

At the moment the soul search ended, Yany Chi’s innate divine soul collapsed under the strain of Ye Zhen’s soul search, which was several times more meticulous than usual, and utterly disintegrated into oblivion.

A moment later, Ye Zhen slowly opened his eyes, his expression not looking too good.

According to Ye Zhen’s estimation, the information he obtained from Yany Chi’s divine soul with all his soul-searching efforts should be around seventy percent.

This was because Ye Zhen used the War Soul Blood Flag to replenish Yany Chi with a thread of divine soul power, enabling it to last longer.

In other words, Ye Zhen lost thirty percent of Yany Chi’s memories.

But unfortunately, according to Big Ears Nie Ting, Yany Chi’s brother-in-law Ma Shen must know about this matter. However, the missing memories of Yany Chi happen to not include anything about informing Ma Shen.

Ye Zhen couldn’t tell if Yany Chi deliberately used the Divine Soul Prohibition Technique on this part of the memory or if he was just unlucky.

Since there was no memory regarding Ma Shen, even if Yany Shen conveyed the news to others, Ye Zhen might very likely miss it.

However, since it’s missed, there’s no way to retrieve it.

Currently, Ye Zhen can only focus all his efforts on eliminating the other informed person, Ma Shen.

"Big Ears, let me know where Ma Shen is! Also, find out what the situation is with the big fire at Chaotic Sky Island!" Ye Zhen instructed.

After giving the instructions, Ye Zhen began sorting through the many useful memories he obtained from Yany Chi.

To be honest, while soul-searching Yany Chi, there was a surprisingly pleasant surprise for Ye Zhen.

Yany Chi’s divine soul was filled with a substantial amount of commercial memories. Ye Zhen originally thought Yany Chi might have applied the Divine Soul Prohibition Technique to the business secrets regarding the Sky-reaching Trading Post, but unexpectedly, he obtained them easily.

It seems this should be related to the frequent application of these commercial secrets.

The most valuable aspect of Yany Chi’s commercial secrets was the client information for tens of thousands of patrons of the Sky-reaching Trading Post.

The preferences, affiliations, types of goods traded, minimum transaction prices, transaction volumes, and frequency for these tens of thousands of clients were all there.

Among these client records, close to three hundred major clients regularly ordered Red Yin Grass from the Sky-reaching Trading Post.

The value of these nearly three hundred records was immense.

Simply incalculable!

If Ye Zhen were to open an account and establish his sales channels, these three hundred customers with significant demand for Red Yin Grass would help Ye Zhen swiftly establish a substantial sales network.

With this client information, the difficulty in Ye Zhen establishing his sales channels would significantly decrease, with his consideration mainly on corresponding strength.

In addition, Ye Zhen also learned about the monopolistic business tactics of the Sky-reaching Trading Post.

A major client wants to purchase ten thousand stocks of Red Yin Grass from the Sky-reaching Trading Post. However, if they cannot purchase other goods worth ten times more within the Sky-reaching Trading Post, they will not obtain the Red Yin Grass.

Under such monopolistic behavior, the customer loyalty at the Sky-reaching Trading Post is evident.

This instills even greater confidence in Ye Zhen for developing his own sales channels.

"Young Master, I have listened to the situation almost completely!" Big Ears Nie Ting suddenly spoke.

"Speak!"

"A sudden fire broke out in the eastern part of Chaotic Sky Island, and over a hundred businesses on the street where the Sky-reaching Trading Post is located were burnt by the fire. However, with experts overseeing, the losses were not substantial.

The biggest loss was at the Sky-reaching Trading Post, whose internal accountant room was hit by the fire, even the archived jade scrolls were burned and blasted.

The situation has already caused quite a turmoil within the Sky-reaching Trading Post, and the death of Store Manager Yany Chi has further thrown their internal affairs into chaos."

"The accountant room? Archived jade scrolls?" Ye Zhen frowned tightly, this was too coincidental!

He had just dealt with Yany Chi from the Sky-reaching Trading Post, and now someone set fire to their accountant room. Was it a coincidence, or was someone taking advantage of the situation to cause trouble?

"What about Ma Shen, Yany Chi’s brother-in-law Ma Shen? Where is he?" Ye Zhen asked.

"He is in the residence, with his sister, who is Yany Chi’s main wife. However, the situation in the residence is a bit peculiar!" Nie Ting said.

"What do you mean by peculiar?" Ye Zhen asked.

"In the residence, experts are gathered!"

"In Ma Shen’s residence, there are currently at least two hundred martial artists of the Dark Palace Realm, and two powerful figures of the Realm King Realm! Moreover, wherever Ma Shen goes, there will always be a powerful figure of the Realm King Realm alongside ten martial artists of the Dark Palace Realm following closely behind him!" Big Ears said.

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen’s expression suddenly changed, "So cautious, does he know?"