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Chapter 897: Intuition
Chapter 897: Intuition
A few minutes later, Senior Zhu entered the underground cavern, where he found the Great Cultivator Yang Jian, aka the famous Emperor Wen of Sui, busily at work.
Emperor Wen of Sui, or Yang Jian, had been one of the founding emperors, which granted him the favor of the populace and allowed him to live to this day. However, his peak strength was only at the early Seventh Stage (Soul Fusion), and even before the war began, he had only managed to return to the peak of the Sixth Stage (Spirit Separation).
Now, he had reached the peak of the Sixth Stage once again, with little hope of advancing to the Seventh Stage. This is why he had taken the initiative to come to Skrull, to help Senior Zhu with the mounting pressure.
...
Seeing Senior Zhu arrive, the Great Cultivator Yang Jian smiled warmly. "Senior Zhu, what brings you here today?"
"It's this." Senior Zhu held up his phone, beaming. "I just received a message from Su Yu. He has killed six Sixth Stage Skrull cultivators, avenging our fallen comrades!"
"Really? That's wonderful!"
There were four other Great Cultivators working in the cavern, and they all looked pleasantly surprised upon hearing the good news.
"Su Yu is truly remarkable! To kill six of them in one go!"
The Great Cultivator Yang Jian added, "Senior Cao has also killed four of them. (Recently, Chancellor Cao has been trying to lure and kill Skrull cultivators, much like Su Yu. However, his disguise as a Blue Star player isn't as convincing, so he only managed to catch four.) This means the Skrulls have now lost a total of ten cultivators."
"Indeed." Senior Zhu nodded. "I'll inform the 'Tiger Riders' to spread the photos online, to stir up some momentum!"
After months of practice, Senior Zhu had become a master of manipulating public opinion on Skrull's network.
This was a good "bullet," and he intended to use it well.
"You've got a lot on your plate!" the Great Cultivator Yang Jian said.
But after a moment's thought, he suddenly added, "Senior Zhu, you didn't come here just to tell me this, did you? Is there something else you need to discuss?"
The Great Cultivator Yang Jian was different from other emperors. He possessed a very special ability—exceptional intuition.
Intuition was somewhat like luck, but not quite the same.
For example, in a maze, Little Tian could rely on his terrifying luck to navigate it easily, and the Great Cultivator Yang Jian could rely on his terrifying intuition to do the same.
However, in matters that had not yet occurred, intuition was often better than luck.
For instance, right now, the Great Cultivator Yang Jian had used his sharp intuition to deduce that Senior Zhu had more to say, something Little Tian would not have been able to do.
Hearing this, Senior Zhu laughed heartily. "Ha, I can't hide anything from your intuition. You're right; I did come here for another reason."
Senior Zhu's expression grew more serious.
He took a photo from his spatial ring and placed it in front of the Great Cultivator Yang Jian.
The photo showed a rather ordinary-looking female Skrull, dressed in ordinary clothes.
If Zhong Feng were here, he would immediately recognize this Skrull female as Lisa, the leader of the Tiger Riders in the Sun Emperor Capital.
Senior Zhu handed the photo to the Great Cultivator Yang Jian and then gave him a detailed description of the person.
Of course, he emphasized the fact that "Zhong Feng had discovered she was a Lunke spy."
Finally, Senior Zhu said earnestly, "Regarding Lisa, after Zhong Feng told me she was a spy, I considered eliminating her.
However, to observe the movements of the Lunke Alliance, I decided to keep her around and feed her a mix of true and false information, to see how the Lunke side would react."
Recently, it seems she’s planning something big.
According to her subordinates, she’s been leaving the intelligence base in the middle of the night, staying out for hours at a time. No one knows what she’s up to...
Listening to Senior Zhu, the Great Cultivator Yang Jian interrupted, “I get it. You want me to go to the Sun Emperor Capital and deal with this spy myself, right?”
“You guessed it!” Senior Zhu chuckled frankly. “That’s exactly what I had in mind. Are you willing to do it?”
“Hmm… I see.” Yang Jian pondered for a moment.
Going to the Sun Emperor Capital would be extremely dangerous. If there was one place on Skrull that posed the greatest threat to Earth humans, it would be the Sun Emperor Capital.
But what if he didn’t go?
If he refused, Senior Zhu wouldn’t force him.
However, as the saying goes, “No risk, no reward.” He decided that going himself was the best choice.
“Alright, I’ll go to the Sun Emperor Capital.”
...
...
An hour later, the Great Cultivator Yang Jian set off for the Sun City.
Meanwhile, images of ten Skrull Sixth-Stage cultivators’ corpses were spreading rapidly across the internet.
This incident caused a huge stir on Skrull’s network, with most netizens engaging in heated discussions.
Sixth-Stage cultivators weren’t as common as cabbages. The Skrulls only had around 700 Sixth-Stage cultivators in total, and now ten of them had died at once. Of course, this would cause a massive shock.
“We just killed three Earth humans, and they immediately retaliated by killing ten of us. This is…”
“And the way they died is exactly the same as the Earth humans. It’s truly gruesome.”
“That’s not right!” someone pointed out. “If it was a fight between peers, the bodies wouldn’t be in such perfect condition. The deaths would have been varied.
If I’m not mistaken, these must have been the work of Seventh-Stage experts. Only they could execute them so easily…”
“You’re right, the bodies are too uniform.”
“But that’s not right! Earth’s Seventh-Stage experts shouldn’t be able to intervene due to the constraints of the Holy Silver Federation, right? It couldn’t have been them, could it?”
“I’m not sure.”
“With Seventh-Stage experts involved… the Sixth-Stage cultivators involved in the manhunt should return as quickly as possible. Better to be safe than sorry.”
“The Emperor should cancel the arrest warrant. It’s too dangerous!”
“A 3-for-10 exchange, we’re losing big time.”
The online discussions about this incident grew more intense, and the images spread far and wide.
Gradually, almost every netizen became aware of the event.
The Anti-Union Organization didn’t miss this golden opportunity and immediately jumped in to accuse Emperor Manina XIII:
“If you hadn’t issued that ridiculous arrest warrant and instead negotiated prisoner exchanges with the Earth humans, would so many people have died?”
“This is truly a case of self-inflicted harm.”
“Restore the previous policy, but before you do, you need to take responsibility for the deaths of these ten Sixth-Stage cultivators.”
...
The vast majority of netizens stood with the Anti-Union Organization, criticizing the United Government, especially the arrest warrant issued by Manina.
However, Manina remained silent, pretending to be dead, hoping to let the issue blow over and be forgotten.
Faced with the United Government’s stalling tactics, the people were helpless.
They could only watch as the incident gradually cooled down and eventually disappeared from the internet.
(End of Chapter)
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