Chapter 1363: Chapter 1350: The Demon Shadow Appears, Leading to the Desolate Wilderness _1 Chapter 1363: Chapter 1350: The Demon Shadow Appears, Leading to the Desolate Wilderness _1 “”After the feast, it was almost midnight. As I was leaving the palace through a side door, I happened to witness a bizarre sky phenomenon and saw a child falling from the sky.”
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“You just said a child fell from the sky? Where is he now?”
A thick, black demonic aura surged from underground, and a ghostly figure appeared out of thin air, transforming into a burly man with a chokehold on the speaker's neck.
“Cough, cough, I don't know.”
The butcher struggled to breathe, his greasy cheeks turning beet red.
“Don't know? Die!”
The man's fingers tightened, and the sound of cracking bones could be heard.
“I don't know where he is, I only saw…”
The butcher struggled desperately, his eyes bulging.
“What did you see?”
The man loosened his grip slightly, his eyes deadly cold: “Speak up.”
“He was taken away by the divine woman, Your Majesty.”
The butcher gasped for breath, his survival instinct forcing him to reveal everything.
“The divine woman, Your Majesty?”
A gloomy light flashed in the man's eyes, and he tightened his grip, crushing the butcher's neck. Then, he turned into a thick, black demonic aura and disappeared underground.
“Murderer, it's a monster committing murder!”
The peddler who had witnessed the butcher's death was terrified and screamed as he ran in all directions.
“There's demonic aura!”
Two flashes of light appeared in response, as Shitou and Feng Yi held Demonic Energy Detectors and searched for traces of the demonic aura.
“It's underground.”
The detector's needle quivered nonstop, and Feng Yi's sharp eyes caught a strange shadow silently moving along the stone-paved path.
“There are members of the Demon Race causing chaos in Capital City. We must report this to His Majesty.”
Shitou rolled his eyes, concocting a plan, and gave Feng Yi a knowing look.
“His Majesty is in the Barbaric Wilderness.”
Feng Yi pretended to be troubled, rubbing his temples with a headache: “What should we do in the meantime?”
“We must report it even if he can't come back.”
Shitou glanced at the shadow on the ground, looking worried: “Our meager mana is no match for the Demon Race.”
Feng Yi feigned anger: “It's all because of that Demon Race child. If it weren't for him, His Majesty wouldn't have gone to the Barbaric Wilderness.”
“Hush, lower your voice.”
Shitou pretended to be cautious, placed his finger to his lips, and made a silencing gesture: “People here have loose tongues, and information could leak easily. You return and report to the Regent, while I go to the Barbaric Wilderness to find His Majesty.”
“Alright, let's split up.”
Feng Yi exchanged a solemn nod with him.
“I'm off.”
Shitou glanced at the shadow underground and summoned the Black-Scaled Eagle from his Spirit Beast Pouch. He jumped onto the eagle's back, circled around the backstreet a couple of times, and then flew away at high speed.
Feng Yi rode his sword into the sky, flying toward the Imperial Palace.
Shortly after they left, the strange shadow moved rapidly underground, making its way to the Imperial Palace. After a search throughout the palace, the shadow found no trace of the child and silently left.
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Ten days later, Western Region Wildlands.
The Black-Scaled Eagle entered the swampy wilderness and lost its sense of direction in an instant, aimlessly circling the mountains.
Little Kingfisher chirped crisply, guiding the Black-Scaled Eagle.
“Yin'er, I finally found you all.”
Standing on the eagle's back, Shitou heard the bird's song, and he howled like he had reunited with long-lost relatives, sending shivers down Tianhuo and Tianlei's spines.
Tianhuo rubbed his ears and muttered: “Uncle Shitou is the least reliable. Why is he the one who came?”
Tianlei crossed his arms, looking calm and composed: “He has the Black-Scaled Eagle, so he's the most suitable for guiding us.”
“How come I don't see any Demon Race scouts?”
Tianhuo didn't sense any demonic aura and pouted unhappily: “Did they lose him?”
Chapter end
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