Chapter 1785 - 1770: The Truth Behind Surviving the Crisis

"Say it, what exactly about the Demon Clan?" Under Ye Zhen’s overwhelming Killing Qi, he also drew on a bit of the Illusion Technique power from Ling Qianbi’s All Living Beings Hundred Illusion Divine Ability, intending to use this chance to make Weis Gang expose a flaw.

But this Weis Gang was far more alert than Ye Zhen had imagined.

With a light stomp, a Killing Qi no weaker than Ye Zhen’s suddenly blasted Ye Zhen’s Killing Qi apart, and his eyes were already filled with gloom and chill.

"What else could it be?

Our West Patrol also sent out a large number of men to search, but we never found any traces of a Demon Clan army. Besides, your Second Route Wind Patrol Envoy is under our West Patrol’s jurisdiction. After discovering traces of the Demon Clan, you actually didn’t report to our West Patrol Office—what is your intention?"

Weis Gang smoothly rounded off the previous words and turned them into a question aimed straight at Ye Zhen.

"What Lord Weis Staff Officer says isn’t wrong. However, this time, the order I received was the Grand Celestial Official’s Military Order. I am only required to report back to the Grand Celestial Official; that is as it should be." Ye Zhen replied, neither humble nor overbearing.

Weis Gang, however, had just narrowly and fearfully passed through the crisis of almost giving himself away.

"In the Military Order Receipt it says your Second Route Wind Patrol Envoy already annihilated that invading Demon Clan army. I want to see the battlefield where you fought, and also those Demon Clan corpses." The West Patrol Inspector’s eyes were still full of suspicion.

"What I submitted was the Military Order. If Inspector Xio wants to verify it, you can go to the Heavenly Patrol Department Headquarters to check. If you want to inspect the battlefield and learn the details, bring the Grand Celestial Official’s writ here. At that time, I will hold nothing back and say all I know!" Ye Zhen said.

"You..."

Running into a soft but immovable nail, Xio Qiangu almost choked on his own anger.

He wanted to say more, but Weis Gang lightly tugged at his sleeve, and Xio Qiangu understood what he meant.

A few breaths later, Xio Qiangu stomped his foot viciously in rage. "We’re leaving!" Then he took his whole group of men and left the Earl of North Sea’s Mansion even faster than they had come.

The many commoners who had been watching the situation at the Earl of North Sea’s Mansion saw that the huge group who had just charged in came out again without doing anything.

A few breaths later, a familiar guard spread the news that Ye Zhen had completed the Military Order and was fine.

In an instant, a wave of cheers erupted from the crowd.

"Old Li, let’s go, we’re drinking!"

"Old Wang, brothers, how about a few rounds together?"

"Come on, we’re not going home until we’re drunk tonight!"

...

At the same time, Xio Qiangu of the West Patrol, who had just left the Earl’s Mansion, was practically jumping with rage.

This was what it meant to come in high spirits and go back crestfallen!

What they had just experienced was exactly coming in high spirits and going back crestfallen!

"Weis Gang, what kind of mess did you make of this? Didn’t you already clean everything up? How did you still let them find traces of the Demon Clan and complete the Military Order?

How exactly did you screw this up?"

Once they reached a deserted place, Xio Qiangu cast a Silent Barrier, and then, furious and flustered, he unleashed a fierce tongue-lashing on Weis Gang.

Xio Qiangu was livid.

They had planned this for a long time and had chosen the best possible timing.

But in the end, it still failed at the last step.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that his trusted aide Weis Gang handled everything from start to finish, playing the role of guide.

In order to carry out this plan to uproot Ye Zhen completely, Inspector Xio Qiangu of the West Patrol had not only schemed for a long time, but had also invested a massive amount of resources.

First, in terms of favors: to deal with Ye Zhen this time, Xio Qiangu owed someone on the Human-Demon Battlefield a colossal favor.

In addition, to connect with that Demon Clan army and ultimately make them disappear from the human world, the Spirit Stones Xio Qiangu invested upfront totaled as high as a million.

Later, in order to guarantee that Demon Clan army’s corpses were completely destroyed without the slightest loose end, he used fifteen thousand pieces of High Grade Attribute Fire Spirit Stone.

Their value was astronomical—equivalent to fifteen million High Grade Spiritual Stones—and that was nearly one-third of the Xio Family’s Fire Attribute Spirit Stone reserves.

All in all, not counting the favor, the total expenditure exceeded twenty million High Grade Spiritual Stones!

This price could not be called anything but enormous.

Yet the problem was that now Ye Zhen was walking around like nothing had happened.

Not only was Xio Qiangu furious, Weis Gang’s heart felt as though a bucket of ice water had been poured over him, chilling him from head to toe.

Originally, once Ye Zhen was taken care of, his son could have used this opportunity to establish another extraordinary merit. Forget being granted the title of Marquis; he might even have obtained a fiefdom like North Sea County as ancestral capital!

You had to know that when he went to the Earl’s Mansion to seize Ye Zhen, Weis Gang had already regarded North Sea County as the fiefdom of the Weis Family.

But now, all their efforts were like drawing water with a bamboo basket—absolutely nothing to show for it, a daytime fantasy.

Let alone a fiefdom, even the great merit his son was supposed to earn was now in jeopardy.

"My lord, I truly did make that Demon Clan army disappear completely! As for this, the other ten house guards all witnessed it with their own eyes." Weis Gang explained, sweat pouring down his forehead.

If he lost Xio Qiangu’s trust, he would be truly finished.

"Don’t worry, I’m not doubting you." Xio Qiangu soothed Weis Gang with a sentence.

The house guards he had sent to assist Weis Gang were all controlled by Xio Qiangu with a Secret Technique; they would never betray him.

When they had just come out, Xio Qiangu had already questioned those ten men carefully, and Weis Gang had indeed cleaned up that Demon Clan army thoroughly.

The problem was: where did Ye Zhen get those more than a thousand Demon Clan heads?

That was written clearly in the Military Order Receipt from the Grand Celestial Official’s Mansion. Those who participated in the verification were not only from the Grand Celestial Official’s Mansion, but also from the Military Department and the Ministry of Justice. They were genuine, freshly harvested Demon Clan heads.

So the question was: where did Ye Zhen’s more than a thousand Demon Clan heads come from?

"This... your subordinate doesn’t know yet either! But since they’ve passed the verification of the Military Department, the Grand Celestial Official’s Mansion, and the Ministry of Justice, they’re absolutely real.

On this matter, even that Nine-Five Supreme himself couldn’t fake it!"

At this point, Weis Gang’s expression paused. "Your subordinate suspects that this Ye Zhen might have some sort of connection with the Demon Clan as well."

"Oh?"

"It seems we’ve underestimated this brat."

"Investigate!"

"No matter the cost, we must uncover intel in this regard."

"I don’t believe it—for someone like me, how could I fail to deal with a snot-nosed kid like this?" As he spoke, Xio Qiangu’s nose was practically bent out of shape from anger.

...

Inside the Earl of North Sea’s Mansion, Gu Tieqi, Liuu Feng, Fengg Jiumo, Niu Er, Qiao Hong, Tang Biao, and the others all gathered around Ye Zhen, asking him the same question.

That was how Ye Zhen had, in just one day, found that invading Demon Clan army of over a thousand troops and then silently wiped them all out, thereby completing the Grand Celestial Official’s Military Order?

Ye Zhen’s answer was only one sentence: for this matter, he had paid an immense price to invite a powerful existence proficient in Prediction Skill to make a move, and only then had he located that invading Demon Clan army and encircled and annihilated them.

As for that powerful existence proficient in Prediction Skill, he was unwilling for Ye Zhen to reveal his name.

With Ye Zhen saying this, no matter how curious Liuu Feng, Gu Tieqi, and the others were, they could only drop the matter.

Of course, the truth was not like that.

The real reason was that the truth of this matter could not be spoken, so Ye Zhen could only fabricate such an explanation for his subordinates.

However, there was one person whose questioning Ye Zhen could not brush off so perfunctorily.

"Brother Ye, just tell me, okay? How exactly did you get those more than a thousand Demon Clan heads?" Princess Changle tugged on Ye Zhen’s sleeve, pressing him for an answer.

"And you’re not allowed to fob me off with the same answer you gave Gu Tieqi and the others just now." Princess Changle added.

"Uh..."

"Brother Ye, you don’t even trust me..." Princess Changle’s eyes were brimming with tears. "Don’t worry, I absolutely won’t tell anyone."

"Alright, you win."

Ye Zhen cast an extremely wary glance around them, but did not speak aloud. Instead, he used Divine Soul Telecommunication to tell Princess Changle the truth of how he had survived this ordeal.

"Changle, do you still remember those two Demon Clan experts we subdued in the Demon Clan Territory?" Ye Zhen said.

Princess Changle’s expression changed slightly in surprise. "Brother Ye, you mean Great Demon Master Yue Dao of the Moon Demon Clan, and Lord Longnu of the Bull Demon Clan? It was their help?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhen nodded. "Exactly."

"But they’re so far away—how did those two help?" Princess Changle was still full of confusion.