"The Judgment Council of Elders will not let you go!"
In a dense mountain forest, a middle-aged man with blood on the corner of his mouth looked angrily at an old man in gray robe who had seriously injured him in a sneak attack.
The gray-robed old man was with a group of ninjas from the Sakura Kingdom, and they were surrounding him.
"Haha! The Judgment Council of Elders are all a bunch of old antiques who should have died long ago!"
"Today I will send you on your way first, and then I will send your master, the Right Protector, to accompany you later."
The old man in gray robe chuckled, not afraid at all of what the middle-aged man said about the ruling group of elders.
"Kill..."
After the gray-robed old man finished speaking, dozens of ninjas rushed towards the middle-aged man and surrounded him.
A middle-aged man named Zhang Yuanhua was a spiritual master in the early stage of the Spiritual King Realm. Because the Right Protector had been kind to him, Zhang Yuanhua volunteered to become his trusted advisor.
This time, the Right Protector and Tang Haotian, the leader of the Eastern War Zone of the Spiritual Imperial Master Alliance, went into a dangerous place to investigate.
After the two were in danger, Zhang Yuanhua, who was waiting in the outside world, received the message from the sound transmission stone and immediately rushed back to Zhendong City to recruit people for rescue. Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by the ninjas of Sakura Country.
If it weren't for his strong cultivation, it would be difficult for him to escape from Zhendong City, but he had the misfortune to meet the 16th Elder on the way. He thought he would be his savior, but he didn't expect that he was in the same den with the ninja snake rat from Sakura Kingdom.
Zhang Yuanhua, who was seriously injured, became more and more seriously injured after being attacked by dozens of ninjas.
Among the dozens of ninjas who besieged him, there were several who were in the middle and late stages of the Spiritual General Realm. Zhang Yuanhua, who had exhausted a large amount of forbidden energy, felt like a tiger falling flat and being bullied by a dog.
"boom!"
"puff!"
While he was struggling to resist the siege, the sixteen elders who were watching the excitement suddenly attacked and wounded him again.
Zhang Yuanhua spurted out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards, smashing a big tree in an instant. When he took a breath of cold air and struggled to get up, a long knife had already fallen towards his head.
"Protector Li Puppet! I'm sorry!"
Zhang Yuanhua, who had no time to avoid it, cried out in grief and could only wait for the long knife that pierced the air to split him in half.
"call out!"
"Clang!"
"ah!"
At this moment, a piercing sword light flashed through the air. Not only was the falling sword knocked away, the sword light also penetrated the head of the sixteen elders.
The poor Sixteenth Elder died tragically on the spot without even seeing the face of the enemy, making many ninjas in the battlefield look at each other in shock.
Zhang Yuanhua, who was originally waiting for death, couldn't help but look surprised when he saw the sudden appearance of a young man.
"call out!"
"careful!"
"Run away!"
"ah......"
With a flash of blood, everyone on the battlefield except Zhang Yuanhua fell into a pool of blood.
Soon, that bloody light appeared in front of Zhang Yuanhua again, causing his slightly changed expression to be astonished.
"Zhou, Zhou Fan?"
A suspicious voice sounded, making Zhou Fan stunned as he appeared.
"I am Zhang Yuanhua! A member of the staff of your brother-in-law Right Protector!"
Before Zhou Fan could ask, Zhang Yuanhua took the lead in explaining.
"I have seen your photo before, so I know you. If you haven't seen me, you probably don't know me."
Zhang Yuanhua explained again, which finally made Zhou Fan feel sorry for himself.
He was just passing by, hearing the sound of fighting and lurking in the distance to watch the fight suspiciously. After hearing the name of the right protector, he finally chose to save people.
"Let's get out of here first!"
"You seem to be seriously injured!"
Zhou Fan took out a bottle of healing elixir and handed it to Zhang Yuanhua, reminded him and then headed out of the dense forest.
Although Zhang Yuanhua was seriously injured, it did not affect his physical activities.
He did not hesitate to swallow all the healing pills given by Zhou Fan, and then immediately chased Zhou Fan out of the dense forest.
In the evening, Zhou Fan and Zhang Yuanhua came to a bamboo forest outside Zhendong City.
"Are you sure that the Right Protector has found the whereabouts of my cousin's soul?"
After Zhou Fan rescued Zhang Yuanhua, he originally didn't want to continue to meddle in other people's affairs.
But after hearing that Protector You was in danger because he was searching for the whereabouts of his cousin's soul, I asked him specifically about what happened to him.
"I don't know the specifics, but when I was in Zhendong City, I heard from the right protector that I had learned about the whereabouts of Ye Lin's soul."
"He was worried that he would encounter danger, so he asked the ASEAN leader to go with him."
"The two of them have a fairly close friendship, so the ASEAN leader did not refuse."
Zhang Yuanhua explained!
Before Zhou Fan could speak, he continued: "The right protector and the others are very powerful. Even if they are in danger, their lives should not be in danger within a short period of time."
"Zhendong City is in chaos right now. Ninjas from the Sakura Kingdom are sneaking into the city to massacre people to collect blood. We can't sit idly by and watch."
Although Zhang Yuanhua is not a nosy person, if Zhendong City is in chaos or reduced to ruins, the Right Protector may not be able to explain to the ASEAN leader, so he begged Zhou Fan to let him help.
Zhou Fan didn't expect to go to a stall halfway and cause trouble, but it was definitely not appropriate to leave now.
With the whereabouts of his cousin's soul, Zhou Fan couldn't really just sit back and watch.
"Let's go into the city first and check out the situation!"
"If the enemy is too strong, we can only retreat first and find a way to find the Right Protector and others!"
Zhou Fan didn't do everything. After all, he dared to lead a large group of ninjas to sneak attack an important city where the ASEAN leader was stationed and guarded. His courage was not ordinary, and he was probably led by the most powerful person.
Although he wanted to save people, he didn't want to lose his life in vain. If things couldn't be done, he would definitely escape as soon as possible.
"good!"
Zhang Yuanhua didn't have any objections, after all, if the enemy was too strong and hot-headed and rushed towards him, he would only be killed.
After reaching a consensus, the two sneaked into Zhendong City quietly at night, and saw many ninjas on guard in the streets and alleys.
The city had obviously been bloodbathed, and there was an extremely strong smell of blood.
Almost all the senior spiritual masters in Zhendong City were killed, and the weaker spiritual masters and police officers may have been imprisoned.
The two of them sneaked into the city without taking action directly, but when passing through some alleys, Zhang Yuanhua, who was at the peak of the Spiritual General Realm, couldn't help but launch sneak attacks and killed many ninjas.
The two of them finally put on ninja costumes and headed to a castle in the center of the city.
This castle is the liaison place for the Eastern Alliance of Spiritual Imperial Masters. It is not only the residence of the ASEAN Lords, but also the headquarters of the Eastern Alliance. It is home to many high-ranking Spiritual Imperial Masters.
However, the castle was now stained with blood, and the two people who entered the castle smelled a pungent smell of blood when they came outside the castle.
"Send the order! All valuable things in the city must be moved away!"
"All the men in the city will be drained of their energy and blood and turned into corpse puppets, while the young women will transfer them all away."
An old man with a snake-headed cane led a group of men in black out of the castle and gave them orders.
As for Zhou Fan and Zhang Yuanhua, who were hiding in the dark and wanted to sneak into the castle, their expressions changed slightly when they heard this.
"Shh!"
Zhang Yuanhua immediately made a booing gesture, and then quietly retreated into the alleyway with Zhou Fan.
"That's the Great Elder! I didn't expect that he actually betrayed the alliance and became a lackey of Sakura Country!"
Zhang Yuanhua, with a gloomy face, said in a deep voice!
Zhou Fan was a little surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect to encounter a big boss as soon as he entered the city.
"The alliance doesn't check their identities?"
"Why do elders betray you from time to time? Isn't this too unreliable?"
Zhou Fan couldn't help but complain, which made Zhang Yuanhua on the side couldn't help but twitch his cheeks slightly when he heard the words.
How could the official alliance not find out the identity of those elders? In fact, there is no problem with their identities, but they themselves are the problem.
Sometimes, if you stay in a high position for too long, you will inevitably have selfish motives. When selfishness arises, all kinds of desires will sprout.
In the end, he gradually got lost in various desires and rebelled against the conventional wisdom, becoming selfish and naturally no longer loyal to the organization.
Under normal circumstances, they would definitely not dare to betray openly.
But now that Longxia Kingdom is besieged on all sides, those who have different intentions towards the alliance are naturally ready to take action.
"What should we do now?"
"With the Great Elder here, we are definitely no match. He is a strong man in the early stage of the Spiritual Realm!"
Zhang Yuanhua frowned and asked Zhou Fan for his opinion!
"I'll find a way to hold him back!"
"With your cultivation combined with my bone whip and green lantern, you should be able to kill the ninjas in the city as soon as possible."
"If you meet a strong man, find a way to escape from the city and wait for me in the dense forest we encountered earlier."
After Zhou Fan pondered for a while, he finally chose not to leave.
Although it was a bit risky, he was sure to drag the great elder who was in the early stage of the spiritual realm and escape unscathed. If he left, all the people in the city would suffer.
His cultivation has reached the peak of the Spirit King Realm, and he can temporarily separate the forbidden weapon at this moment.
As long as enough forbidden energy is injected into the forbidden weapon, the forbidden weapon can already fight alone after leaving the body.
The bone whip only has spirituality, and Zhou Fan can only transfer some simple will to it.
Because Qing Deng has a poem about the lamp spirit, Zhou Fan only needs to explain a few sentences, and Qing Deng can be completely controlled by Xiao Shi. Even the bone whip can be controlled by Xiao Shi.
As for Zhang Yuanhua, although Zhou Fan saved his life, he didn't know much about him and didn't dare to trust him completely.
"Are you sure you will escape unscathed?"
Zhang Yuanhua was a little worried when he heard this. He didn't want to lose Zhou Fan, a powerful helper.
After all, in his mind, rescuing the people at the city gate was just incidental, the most important thing was to rescue the trapped Right Protector and ASEAN Leader.
Now that the official alliance is too busy taking care of itself, it definitely doesn't have time to take care of them.
Even if we send out manpower, I am afraid that the fire far away will not be able to save the fire nearby.
Zhang Yuanhua had previously sent a message asking for help to the official alliance, but he failed to receive a reply.
The communication facilities in the Zhendong City area seem to have suffered a certain degree of damage, causing communications to be affected and signals to be blocked.
"Stop whining! Time waits for no one!"
"Try your best to clear out all the ninjas in the city, then clean up the guards at the city gate and inform the people in the city. Whether they can escape can only depend on their own luck."
Seeing Zhang Yuanhua distracted, Zhou Fan couldn't help but remind him and urge him.
He handed him the green lantern and bone whip filled with forbidden energy, and then turned into an afterimage and disappeared in an instant.
Zhang Yuanhua opened his mouth to call Zhou Fan back, but in the end he swallowed the words forcefully.
It's not that he figured it out, it's that Zhou Fan was so fast that he almost disappeared in the blink of an eye.