Against The Heavens - 163 Slipping away.

Li Yang turned around and looked at the people bowing to him with cupped hands, hoping that he would join their organizations. But Li Yang only gave these people a quick glance before raising his head and locking eyes with Fang Ying and Zhao Feng, silently mouthing a few words to them. Zhao Feng rolled his eyes in exasperation in response but still stood up, Fang Ying giving the wolf at her side, Langshen, a few pats on the head while whispering to him.

Langshen lazily stood up from his resting position and gave his body a few shakes before letting out a subdued howl. The howl caused space around Fang Ying and Zhao Feng to ripple, both of them vanishing from the top of the wall and appearing at Li Yang’s side. Li Yang somewhat lazily stretched his waist when the two arrived, nonchalantly speaking and eliciting a swift retort from Zhao Feng.

“I’ll leave the rest to you, I’m really not suited to that kind of work.”

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“Yeah yeah, you don’t have to tell us, we’re used to having to fish us out of the deep shit you keep tossing us into. Just hand over the core before I smack you.”

Li Yang grinned and shrugged his shoulders while taking a step back, simultaneously integrating both Zhao Feng and Fang Ying into the array that he had drawn up using Jinwu and Shenlong. The two took over the spots of the Divine Beasts that had retreated, enabling them to draw upon the energy of the others connected to the array. They pooled their energies together and drew upon the remainders of Li Yang’s energy, working together to create a large cloud of pink mist that rapidly spread out to cover the entire area.

Every living being in the area ended up breathing in the pink mist, their eyes quickly glazing over as their bodies turned somewhat limp. An invisible ripple extended out from Zhao Feng’s body after the surrounding people turned limp and listless, piercing through everyone in the area and stabbing directly into their souls.

The cloud of poison worked together with Zhao Feng’s law of the soul, replicating what the two had done back when Li Yang and the others finished interrogating the first group they encountered in the ruins. The memories of everyone present became blurry, the features of Li Yang and the others, as well as the appearances of Jinwu and Shenlong, becoming indistinct and unrecognizable. In the end, the only thing that remained in their minds was the black hole that Li Yang had called forth, it was as if it had seared itself into their very being and erased everything else.

Li Yang was arrogant and had been acting unrestrainedly while fighting, but that didn’t mean that he had abandoned all concern and thought for the future. These people right here were nothing, but the other members of their sects, especially the sect leaders and elders, were a completely different story. Li Yang had no interest in those people coming for his Jinwu or Shenlong, so the best option was to turn the memories of these people blurry and focus them on something that was a lot harder to pin down and realize the nature of.

In the end, everyone present ended up being somewhat listless and dumb after having suffered the poison and soul attack, but Li Yang still decided that it would be better to add another layer of defense just in case. He walked up to the woman from the Earth Rendering Empire that had cupped her hands and bowed, Gang Lingqi.

“Alright, I, Song Lingzhi, will join your Earth Rendering Empire, send the message and let’s leave immediately.”

Li Yang was arrogant and could even be called reckless, but there were a few things that he would not risk in the slightest, and the lives of his friends and wife were at the very top of this list. As such, he didn’t place all his hopes on the poison and soul attack, adding another layer on top of it by fooling everyone present.

The woman seemingly snapped out of her daze, hurriedly nodding her head and pulling back her sleeve to reveal a vine-shaped jade construct coiling around her wrist. It lit up with a brown light when she put in some Qi and spoke a quick report of the situation into it, her words confident and sure but her memories so indistinct that she was unable to add most of the situation into the report.

She then quickly brought a few of her closest aides and took Li Yang and his group to the spatial array within the city. She felt like she understood why Li Yang was in such a rush, there was a chance that they might get attacked by the two other organizations. Neither of the three organizations wished to see the other two grow much stronger so they would do their best to undermine their strength, killing promising juniors was exactly one such way of doing so.

The group quickly left the rest of the dazed people, Li Yang swallowing a few energy restoring pills and erasing the array as the surrounding people were starting to shake off their daze. They entered the city and quickly arrived at the spatial array that the Earth Rendering Empire used, Gang Lingqi activating it by touching the center of the array with the vine-shaped construct around her wrist. But as the array was whirring to life and space around them started to twist, Langshen let out another subdued howl, causing the flow of space around them to turn turbulent.

The group ended up getting tossed through space, moving in the general direction that the array would take them but ending thrown out of the spatial tunnel quite a bit before they reached their goal. They landed in a rather dense pine forest, the ground beneath them strewn with the somewhat damp needle-like leaves. Gang Lingqi and her three close aides quickly turned to look at Li Yang the moment they arrived in the forest, but he had already slapped out by the time they turned their heads.

He delivered four lightning-quick slaps to them, the immense strength of his body causing the sides of their face to sink in and sent almost half of their teeth flying in a spurt of blood. He kicked off the ground and caught up with the people as they were tumbling to the side from the attack, delivering several more quick punches and kicks to their faces and abdomens. He didn’t use any of his laws, relying solely on his immense physical strength as he trashed the four people, quickly leaving them nearly unconscious on the ground.

Only Gang Lingqi was barely able to retain her consciousness, the main reason being that Li Yang needed her to be conscious for the next part. He turned his head, but Zhao Feng had already arrived at his side with a leisure gait, shaking his head in an exasperated manner as he crouched down.

“And again, you leave all the shit jobs to me. I swear, if we ever get a third life, I’m forcing you to learn the law of the soul just so that you can handle your own ass.”

Zhao Feng placed his hand on Gang Lingqi’s head and invaded her soul using his law of the soul, swiftly crushing any resistance that might remain within her. Once her last line of defense was crushed and her soul was laid bare, he gave her a very simple command.

“Report to your sect that your group has been ambushed and defeated, the targets you brought along were kidnapped by masked assailants who seemed to specialize in body cultivation.”

Gang Lingqi mindlessly complied with Zhao Feng’s words, once again speaking into the vine-shaped construct on her wrist to deliver the report. Li Yang kicked her in the face once she finished the report, sending her sliding backward and crashing into a tree before she fell unconscious. He dusted off his hands once the task was done, glancing at Gang Lingqi and the other unconscious people.

“I really do wonder what runs through the minds of these people whenever they try to recruit people into their sect, you’d think they’d be smart enough to know when to keep a distance from people stronger than them. I mean, I cut off the hand of someone that tried to touch one of those white hearts, normally they should get the message with just that. If not, they’ll just en…”

There was nothing wrong with trying to recruit others into your sect, but it was important to keep the other party in mind while doing so. Li Yang had clearly shown that he didn’t have the slightest care or respect for the great sects, it should be fairly obvious that he wouldn’t join any of them just because these people asked nicely and made some sweet promises. They had to join one of the three sects at one point, but it would certainly not be in such a public fashion. Fang Ying walked up to Li Yang as he was talking and used her hand to give the back of his head a quick chop, cutting him off before he could keep on ranting.

“Yes yes, you’re very strong and cool, they can’t hold a candle to you. Now let’s hurry up and dip before anyone comes to check on the area. We’ve also got a lot of places to explore, it would be a waste to come here and not check out any of the famous places. We also have to figure out which sect to join at a later date, after all, only they have access to the locations that are well-suite for easy traveling to other universes.”

Li Yang clicked his tongue slightly and puffed out his cheeks after he was cut off by Fang Ying, pretending to be pouting as she grabbed onto the collar of his robes and started dragging him away. Zhao Feng felt like gagging when he saw how they acted, sharing a quick exasperated glance with Langshen before they started trekking after Li Yang and Fang Ying.