"The guardians on the left and right, five elders, twenty-five deacons, and 600 elites from the princely realm were ambushing near the endless marsh.
Did the head of the Zhan family and the Supreme Elder participate in this operation?"
Chu Tianchen asked again in a cold tone.
Zhan Yunhai endured the humiliation and guilt of betraying the Chu family, and replied in a low voice intermittently: "Yes!
However... after we entered the Qiushan Domain, the family head and the Supreme Elder were separated from us.
I don’t know where they went or what they were doing...
What I said is true, even if you kill me, it will be useless."
Of course Chu Tianchen understood that the left and right guardians and several elders of the Zhan family, along with 600 elites, were just to hunt down the Wuji Palace disciples and weaken the Wuji Palace's strength.
The real trump card should be the head of the Zhan family and the Supreme Elder.
After pondering for a moment, he continued to ask: "Although the Zhan family's strong men have come out in force, it is just a fool's dream to destroy the Wuji Palace with just you guys.
The Zhan family must have accomplices... Which force is helping the Zhan family?"
Zhan Yunhai fell silent immediately. He hesitated for a long time, but could not give an answer.
This time, Chu Tianchen did not use the sword to torture, but waved his palm to shoot out a golden flame, which was injected into Zhan Yunhai's body.
The light flames turned into hundreds of golden needles and dispersed into Zhan Yunhai's meridians and bones, constantly stabbing and cutting.
The pain was more terrifying than Ling Chi's, causing Zhan Yunhai to lose his voice in pain, and his whole body twitched but he could not make a sound.
In fact, he only lasted three breaths before he fainted from the pain.
Naturally, Chu Tianchen would not give him a chance to breathe, and used the power of his soul to shock his soul, forcing him to wake up.
Zhan Yunhai, who was in pain, roared with a cry in his voice: "Kill me! Give me a happy life!
I don’t know, I really don’t know!”
"Do you not know that the Zhan family has accomplices, or do you not know which force the accomplices belong to?" Chu Tianchen asked.
Zhan Yunhai shouted at the top of his lungs: "I don't know which force they are from, I don't even know where they come from, and I have never been in contact with them!
All I know is that they also have hundreds of strong men, those who ambushed Wuji Palace near Wuji Daze, and those who came to support Wuji Palace..."
Chu Tianchen changed to two more types of torture and performed them twice in turn, torturing Zhan Yunhai until he fell into coma several times.
He pressed the question several times and got the same answer without any discrepancy.
Only in this way can it be proved that Zhan Yunhai did not lie and did not understand the situation.
So, Chu Tianchen held the sword and pointed it at Zhan Yunhai's forehead.
"Since you are in so much pain and don't want to live anymore, I will help you."
Hearing these words, Zhan Yunhai was stunned.
After he came to his senses, he roared like crazy: "You dishonest bastard! I have already confessed, and you still want to kill me?"
Chu Tianchen said in an indifferent tone: "I have not promised that if you confess, I will let you live.
From the moment you took the children of the Zhan family to participate in the operation and attacked and killed the people in Wuji Palace, you were destined to perish!"
After saying that, he stabbed hard with the sword in his hand and pierced Zhan Yunhai's forehead.
Zhan Yunhai stared angrily, his blood-stained face filled with resentment and unwillingness.
But his soul was shattered and he died on the spot.
After dealing with Zhan Yunhai, Chu Tianchen let go of his sword and took out Zhan Yunhai's ring.
Zhan Yunhai is dead, and Najie's soul imprint has dissipated, becoming an ownerless thing.
Chu Tianchen's spiritual sense rummaged through Najie for a while and found many useful things.
There are a large number of cultivation resources piled in Najie, including all kinds of elixirs, weapons and equipment, materials and gems.
In addition, Chu Tianchen found Zhan Yunhai's identity token and more than forty jade slips for communication.
Some of the messenger slips had been used before, and contained information exchanged between the two parties.
Chu Tianchen picked out those jade slips and listened to them one after another.
Most of the contents in the dozen or so jade slips come from the head of the Zhan family and several elders.
Basically, they are some short commands and exchange of information.
These contents also corroborated Zhan Yunhai's words and confirmed the Zhan family's action plan.
However, the whereabouts and plans of the head of the Zhan family, the Supreme Elder, are still a mystery.
Chu Tianchen's only gain was that he remembered the voice of the head of the Zhan family.
It was a very magnetic, deep, majestic and domineering voice of a middle-aged man.
Chu Tianchen accepted Zhan Yunhai's Najie, waved his palm and shot out a stream of spiritual fire, covering Zhan Yunhai's body.
The spiritual fire burned blazingly, and within a moment, Zhan Yunhai was reduced to ashes.
Chu Tianchen drifted away, entered the hiding state again, and continued to search in the endless swamp.
Two hours later, he searched along the edge of the endless swamp and sensed an unusual spiritual energy fluctuation in the mountains on the left.
He quickly flew over and locked onto a mountain range with a radius of a hundred miles.
After searching this mountain range for a quarter of an hour and searching all five peaks, he found the results he wanted.
The abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations come from the interior of a thousand-foot mountain.
Chu Tianchen quietly sneaked into the mountain, passed through the hard and thick rock formations, and finally arrived at the heart of the mountain.
Then he discovered that there was a man-made cave in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by a large formation.
The grand formation is also an imperial-level formation, and has the effect of blocking spiritual power fluctuations and isolating spiritual consciousness exploration.
He could probably guess that the abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations before were probably the spiritual energy fluctuations leaked when people came in and out of the cave and activated the formation.
When this happens, there are only two possibilities.
First, he was unlucky. He happened to encounter people coming in and out of the cave and was able to catch the weak spiritual energy fluctuations.
Second, people in caves come in and out more frequently.
But no matter what the situation was, he could conclude that the sneaky people lurking in the cave must be the enemies of Wuji Palace.
Therefore, he used the Jianzhen Spiritual Eye to secretly observe the hidden formation.
After a while, he found the weak point of the formation and began to observe and deduce how to break it.
After a full hour, Chu Tianchen deduced the method to break the formation, and then cast a spell to break the formation.
It took another half an hour before he successfully cracked the concealment formation and opened a gap in the colorful light mask.
"This hidden formation does not have much in common with the formation set up by Zhan Yunhai.
Moreover, the level and power of this formation are higher than those set up by Zhan Yunhai.
Could it be that...the people hiding in this cave are not descendants of the Zhan family?"
This thought flashed through Chu Tianchen's mind, and he analyzed: "The Zhan family sent two guardians and five elders to ambush the people of Wuji Palace around Wuji Daze.
In addition to Zhan Hongsheng, Zhan Yunchi and Zhan Yunhai who have been killed, there is still one guardian and three elders.
Those four strong men and their five hundred elites will most likely be distributed in the west, south and north, and they cannot be so close to the sea of war clouds.
In this case, the people in this cave are most likely an accomplice of the Zhan family!"
Full of expectations, Chu Tianchen passed through the gap in the formation and quietly sneaked into the cave.
I saw that in the empty cave with a radius of fifty feet, the walls were inlaid with many luminous pearls and gems, emitting a dim light.
In the dark cave, there are hundreds of powerful princes in black clothes, hats and veils, meditating quietly and regulating their breath.
There are several huge rocks in the innermost part of the cave, on which sit a strong man at the seventh level of the Emperor Realm and five strong men at the peak of the Prince Realm.
Except for the emperor-level warrior who wore silver armor, the other five warriors also wore black clothes and hats.
"Wear black like the Zhan family members, but wear a hat and a veil?
It seems that he must be an accomplice of the Zhan family."
Thinking of this, Chu Tianchen's lips curled into a sneer, and he immediately took out the God-killing Sword and the golden flying knife, and launched an attack.
"Boohoo!"
He first waved the God-killing Sword, stabbing out dozens of swords in one breath, killing the black-clothed warriors on the ground.
At the same time, he used his mind to control the flying knife, which struck like golden lightning at the emperor-level warrior wearing silver armor.
The colorful sword light immediately illuminated the dark cave, bursting out with countless killing sword intentions.
Before more than a dozen warriors in black could react, the sharp sword light pierced through their heads, hearts and necks, killing them on the spot and falling to the ground.
The flying knife struck in front of the Emperor Realm's powerful man, and the other party reacted and subconsciously raised his arms to block it in front of him.
"Chichi..."
As two soft sounds were heard, the armguards and armor of the powerful emperor were pierced by golden flying knives, and a large amount of blood splashed out.
Although he didn't block the flying knife, he got a chance to survive and dodged in time.
So, after the golden flying knife pierced his arms, it passed through his left shoulder.
He was lucky enough to escape, and immediately retreated to the corner of the cave, holding a long spear in his hand.
This man had extremely rich combat experience. He held a spear in front of him with both hands and immediately used his spiritual sense to search for Chu Tianchen.
At the same time, he also presented an octagonal bronze shield, which circled around him to resist Chu Tianchen's attack.
The sudden change woke up all the black-clothed warriors.
Everyone reacted very quickly. They jumped up almost at the same time, drew their swords in unison, and formed a battle formation with tacit understanding.
However, the same scene happened again.
The black-clothed warriors were as vigilant as cats with fried fur, but could not find any trace of Chu Tianchen.
For a moment, the warriors in black felt guilty and didn't know how to deal with it.
The four black-clothed warriors at the peak of the Prince Realm all looked at the Emperor Realm strongman in silver armor, and sent a message to ask: "Fourth Elder, what's going on?"
The burly fourth elder could not sense Chu Tianchen's aura, his face was very solemn, and his brows were furrowed.
"Be on full alert to prevent enemy sneak attacks."
The fourth elder had no choice but to warn everyone like this.
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Tianchen took action again.
The God-killing Sword still sprayed out sword light all over the sky, like a downpour, hitting the black-clothed warriors head and face.
At the same time, the golden flying knife turned into dazzling lightning and attacked and killed the four elders.
There are also countless threads of killing sword intent, which are condensed into chopstick-long bloody sword light, flying criss-cross in the cave, strangling those black-clothed warriors.
Seeing this scene, the fourth elder's eyes suddenly widened and he exclaimed.
"Sword intent materialized? This is a strong man in the Sword Emperor realm!"