Chapter 1524: Chapter 1524

The Sect Master has three personal disciples, and Steven Brown had four people. The Master glanced with a sidelong look: "They just slandered this venerable one’s judgement of people, would you dare to execute my order and shut their mouths on my behalf?"

The four of Steven Brown were more grateful than ever, kneeling on one knee and saying, "The juniors are obliged to do so!"

The cultivation of the Sect Master’s three disciples was comparable to theirs, but they had been seriously injured by the Master just now, so how could they be their match? The four charged together, and after a few blockings, the three disciples were suppressed by the Magic Treasures and knelt on the ground. Steven Brown took the lead, rushed up and kicked a few times, then grabbed them by the neck, slapped them a few times, and instantly felt a clear mind and anger released!

What a satisfying word indeed!

The Master waved his hand slightly: "That’s enough, these ants are not worth our attention." The Master stretched out his five fingers and grabbed at the void—the Mini-world folded up, and the Sect Master of the Leaving Sky Sect and his followers disappeared without a trace.

The four of Steven Brown fell to the ground: "The elder’s divine power!"

Even though the noble family descendants have never eaten pork, they have seen pigs run, and the divine power they just saw was clearly the Seventh Stage Skyland! The Master turned out to be a Seventh Realm Supreme! Their expectation for this trip to Black Dragon Valley surged by thirty percent.

At the same time, the four were also quite ashamed: "Those three villains just now insulted the Master with their words, and we were too cowardly to step forward. We are ashamed of the elder’s regard..."

Suppressing the Tier-6 Six Merits fighters was just a trivial task for the Master. He shook his head at their guilt and said, "You did nothing wrong. It’s just to show you, that relying on family background is not enough, if you want to uphold justice and let all people dare not offend you, you still need to rely on your absolute strength."

This was actually the master’s teaching to the four of them. After recalling their experiences of the past few days, their feelings were incredibly deep: "The elder’s teachings are correct."

"Alright, don’t dwell on this matter." The Master slightly turned his head to listen, and said, "Wait a moment, I will look into their memories."

Suppressed in the Mini-world, the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect couldn’t perform any secret techniques to erase his own memory before his death.

After a while, the Master said with a smile: "The Leaving Sky Sect has a spy in Black Dragon Valley, who happens to be the commander of the local Reclamation Legion. We can pose as them and trick some information out of the spy."

The four immediately followed, without doubting that their "impersonation" would be exposed by the insider. If the Seventh Realm Supreme said it, then they definitely could do it.

Indeed, the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect had an agreement with Bentley. Bentley’s trusted subordinate was waiting in a place called "Moon Gorge" in Black Dragon Valley. The Master led the way, seemingly confident, but the master behind him was being extra cautious.

"The news Bentley gave to the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect may not be reliable, it’s hard to guarantee that Bentley doesn’t have any scheming." The master secretly calculated: "But there’s no need to be too cautious. Bentley is trying to ambush the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect, who is only a Tier-6 Six Merits, but now, there are three Seventh Realm people in this team who Bentley would never expect."

"Huh? I’m kind of looking forward to it. What if Bentley really does have a scheme, and then when he sees the three Seventh Realm people, he’ll be dumbfounded!"

The Moon Gorge is a crescent-shaped valley, about ninety miles from where the Master is. There were many Demon Beings along the way, but with the Master leading the way, there was no need to release aura, and those instinctively sensitive Demon Beasts obediently hibernate in their lairs.

Along the way, there’s a Sixth Realm Earth-embedded Beetle, about three hundred feet in size, with its backshell as rough as a rock. On regular days, it would lie motionless on the ground . The passing Demon Beasts and cultivators would become its meals if they walked over its back.

But today, as the Master took his people to pass by steadily, the Earth-embedded Beetle worked hard to remain motionless, hypnotizing itself: I am a big stone, I am just a big emotionless stone...

But when they arrived near Moon Gorge, both the Master and the Little Princess stopped, exchanging a suspicious look. The Master in the front also stopped accordingly.

The four young cultivators didn’t understand: "Elder..."

The Master made a gesture to the breeze in the air: "Do you smell it?" The four tried hard to smell, and finally caught a hint of blood in the air: "Something happened?"

The Master said, "Wait here. I’ll go check it out." The Master’s figure faded and disappeared in the wind. The four young cultivators didn’t see what concealment technique the Master had used.

A wispy dark Primordial Spirit drifted up the ridges of the mountain, slipping into the valley, shielded by the dense foliage, after crossing the mountain peak. The place was tranquil, with only the hums of flies buzzing in the air. The Primordial Spirit followed the flies to a camp located in a dense forest within the valley.

Broken limbs were scattered everywhere! Blood splattered throughout the shrubbery, with many internal organs and bloody chunks hanging off branches, still dripping with thick, sticky blood!

The corpses were dressed in the uniforms of Douglas Country. At a glance, the Primordial Spirit assembled the pieces of mutilated corpses in sight and estimated around three hundred corpses — which matched the number of soldiers Bentley had sent to rendezvous with him, according to the memories of the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect.

"But how were these people completely massacred on their own turf? And the attacker seemed extremely ruthless; there aren’t even any intact bodies left on the scene!"

Cautiously, the Primordial Spirit made its way to a tent at the centre of the camp. The tent was held up by freshly chopped wood, and more than half of the felt cloth had been ripped away, revealing a corpse within, garbed in a military officer’s Battle Armor, missing a leg.

Around the corpse were scattered shards of a Magic Treasure, appearing to be a Shield, a heavy sword, and a Battle Hammer.

After a brief surrounding scan, the Primordial Spirit focused its attention to the ground beneath the corpse. It reached out towards the ground and gave a virtual tug, pulling out a terrified and weak soul. The soul emitted a shrill cry "Ahhh...."

"It’s me. Bentley sent me here to meet you; how did this happen?" the Primordial Spirit questioned, blowing out a waft of ethereal mist.

"Leave quickly! That thing... it could return at any moment..." the frail soul cried out, using its last remaining energy as it gripped the ’Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect’s’ arm tighter. It was on the verge of dissipating any moment, yet in its eyes, the figure in front of it indeed appeared to be the Sect Master of Leaving Sky Sect.

"What is ’that thing’? What is it exactly?"

"The Divine Beast Azure Dragon!" The soul began to fade, "The Divine Beast has turned demonic! It will slaughter everyone who enters Black Dragon Valley..."

The Primordial Spirit wanted to ask more, but the soul had already dissipated into a misty smoke, completely annihilated. The Primordial Spirit glanced around warily, feeling that at any moment, the "demonic Divine Beast" might lunge out from any direction.

After re-examining the camp, the Primordial Spirit determined that a portion of the bodies was missing, and apart from the officer’s soul buried beneath the ground, there were no remaining souls of the deceased Reclamation Legion cultivator soldiers.

"They must have been devoured." Master Sun understood. He quickly retreated from the valley controlling his Primordial Spirit.

The scenery changed before the eyes of the four Logan Hardy. Master had returned. As they were about to approach and inquire, they saw a severe expression on Master’s face, "Quickly, run!" He stretched out his hand and covered six people with a spell; at an incredibly fast speed, he took them and flew away.

Doubts flooded Master Sun’s mind: "Did the officer mistake other Demon Beasts for the Divine Beast Azure Dragon?"

"Not likely — Bentley must have truly seen the Divine Beast Azure Dragon. His trusted subordinates would not have mistaken it."

"But why would a Divine Beast start a massacre? And why would it devour corpses and spirits? A Divine Beast is not a Demon Beast. Although it’s not a major fault for a Divine Beast to do so, it does diminish its virtues."

Suddenly, an idea popped into Master Sun’s head: "Could it be... both the Ghost Corpse Sect and Bentley were right, the Divine Beast Azure Dragon really has fallen, becoming a Divine corpse. But someone got there before the Ghost Corpse Sect and refined the Divine corpse!"

"Was it the Protectors who entered first and the Seventh Level?" Master Sun immediately dismissed this theory. "If it was these existences why would they massacre their own Reclamation Legion?"

"And if they already controlled the body of the Divine Beast, they could surely acquire the Divine Beast Eggs. They should have announced this news to the world, not allowing the cultivators from the Central State to gather inside the border of Douglas Country. With so many cultivators, there is an enormous security risk..."

Master Sun was at a loss. A sense of crisis spiked in his heart as he recalled the officer’s soul’s words: It will slaughter everyone who enters the Black Dragon Valley!