Mo Ling finally panicked this time.
Previously, he had relied on the backing of the Tian Yin Pavilion and had significant value to Ye Feng. Therefore, no matter his attitude towards Xia Minglan, she wouldn't kill him.
But now, he had messed up the mission Ye Feng had given him...
His value in Ye Feng's eyes was now the same as the value those few异士 had in his eyes just now!
Failure to complete the mission meant death!
Xia Minglan was absolutely loyal to Ye Feng, her code of conduct comparable to a mechanical program!
Mo Ling knew that with such a rigid person, if he made a mistake, no matter what he said, Xia Minglan would show no mercy!
"You, you, don't get agitated, there must be a mistake somewhere!"
Mo Ling quickly stabilized Xia Minglan, then scurried to the altar and injected his spiritual energy into the Snow Dragon Jade.
"No, impossible... Feng Ke hasn't found the pseudo-mother jade I buried yet, she couldn't have left the Ginza Plaza!"
"It must be this jade that has a problem!"
Mo Ling said frantically, then took out another Snow Dragon Jade from his pocket, pried out the one on the altar, and replaced it with the one in his hand.
The altar restarted, and Mo Ling injected his spiritual energy into the Snow Dragon Jade, once again checking Feng Ke's location.
The range of the mother-child jade was within a kilometer, barely covering the Ginza Plaza.
Mo Ling was confident that Feng Ke would persist in searching for the Snow Dragon Jade's mother jade, which was why he was so sure and didn't worry about failing his mission.
So, he had mostly slacked off in the preceding days, wanting to wait until the matter of Long Dao Mountain was over before making his move.
But who would have thought that Feng Ke, that stubborn person, would directly leave the Ginza Plaza after discovering she was being followed!
This abnormal behavior had disrupted his entire plan!
This was a huge mess!
"Master supported you to become the Pavilion Master of Tian Yin Pavilion, bestowed top-tier cultivation techniques upon you, provided you with countless cultivation resources, and even prepared a pseudo-mother jade to lure Feng Ke..."
Xia Minglan held her sword and walked towards Mo Ling step by step, "But even so, you still failed Master's expectations and messed this up..."
"Wait, wait... things definitely aren't like this!"
Mo Ling turned to look at Xia Minglan, backing away tremblingly, his eyes filled with fear.
"Ye Ling... yes, it must be Ye Ling!"
"He just disrupted Master's plan at Long Dao Mountain, and he will definitely continue to target Master!"
"Even someone who isn't a half-step Red Dust Immortal is no match for Ye Ling. If he intervenes to save Feng Ke, I can't do anything!"
Mo Ling shouted loudly, looking at Xia Minglan with a face full of terror, casually shifting the blame to Ye Ling.
It was likely that no matter how he tried, he would never have imagined that his casual blame would actually hit the truth.
Ye Ling was now hiding with Feng Ke in a corner of the secret chamber, calmly watching Xia Minglan approach Mo Ling...
"Ye Feng can even command half-step Red Dust Immortals, so his own cultivation must be at least half-step Red Dust Immortal, or even Red Dust Immortal."
"In just a hundred years, Ye Feng has been able to advance from a low-level异士 to a Red Dust Immortal on Earth, where spiritual energy is scarce... this rate of cultivation advancement is truly terrifying!"
Given Earth's current environment, Ye Feng breaking through to Red Dust Immortal in a hundred years would be equivalent to breaking through to the Emperor realm in ten thousand years in the East Xuan Continent!
It was known that the most astonishing genius in the history of the East Xuan Continent only took ten thousand years to break through to the Emperor realm!
In the East Xuan Continent, countless cultivators spent tens of thousands of years and were still stuck in the Saint realm.
"This guy..."
Ye Ling lowered his eyelids, his estimation of Ye Feng rising a few notches.
*Thump!*
At this moment, Mo Ling knelt before Xia Minglan, kowtowing repeatedly, and exclaimed, "I have Tian Yin Pavilion behind me, and I can do many things for Master! Keeping me is more useful than killing me!"
"Please beg Master for mercy, please give me another chance!"
When truly facing death, Mo Ling realized what fear was.
The fear of death was enough to make him abandon all his dignity!
Xia Minglan looked at Mo Ling calmly and said lightly, "Master said he doesn't need waste."
"Tian Yin Pavilion also doesn't need a waste like you."
As her words fell, sword light flashed.
Feng Ke instinctively closed her eyes. When she opened them again, Mo Ling's terrified head had already slid from his neck.
The headless corpse slowly collapsed to the ground, soaked in blood.
"We..."
Seeing Mo Ling dead, Feng Ke looked at Ye Ling, as if asking what to do next.
With the main target dead and a strange woman appearing, whether to attack or not became a question.
"Let's wait a bit longer and see what Xia Minglan does next."
Ye Ling was not surprised by Mo Ling's death. After all, judging by Xia Minglan's behavior of cutting off Mo Ling's finger without a word, she clearly didn't take Mo Ling seriously. Killing Mo Ling was like crushing an insect to her.
And someone who could be crushed like an insect was essentially a minor character, possessing no useful intelligence value. Whether he lived or died made no difference.
Thus, Ye Ling naturally didn't care about Mo Ling's life or death.
After killing Mo Ling, Xia Minglan bent down to retrieve the Snow Dragon Jade from the altar.
The vicious dogs outside the secret door, having smelled the blood, pounced into the secret door and began to tear at the corpse of their former master.
The dimly lit secret chamber suddenly became noisy.
Xia Minglan's brow furrowed as she saw the dogs fighting over food. After drawing her sword and cutting down all the dogs, she sheathed her sword and left.
"Let's follow her."
Seeing Xia Minglan leave, Ye Ling did not hesitate and followed with Feng Ke.
As for the corpses in the secret chamber, Ye Ling had no intention of cleaning up the scene.
After all, these were not his doing, and even if they were exposed, the trouble wouldn't find him.
Whoever it concerned would have to deal with it.
After Ye Ling and Feng Ke left, the smell of blood in the secret chamber grew even stronger, even seeping into the rooms of the escape room game.
Several young men and women playing the escape room, upon smelling the blood, mistook it for a game prop and followed the scent.
After they solved the mechanism Mo Ling had set up in the escape room and entered the secret chamber, they witnessed a scene comparable to hell...
A major news story, with the reporting of the greatly frightened young men and women, once again shook society!
However, as the Dragon Department intervened and ruled it an 异士 case, the online buzz completely disappeared, just as the sudden collapse of the back mountain of Long Dao Mountain had, with no one mentioning it online.
Ye Ling and Feng Ke no longer cared about what happened subsequently at Ginza Plaza.
After following Xia Minglan out of the Ginza Building, they headed northwest.
The two soon followed Xia Minglan out of Dao City and stopped outside a废弃工厂 (abandoned factory) on the outskirts of Dao City.
Ye Ling had initially thought the abandoned factory was one of Xia Minglan's hideouts, but he never expected...
He actually felt an extremely familiar aura in the abandoned factory!
Ye Ling's body trembled violently, and he became extremely excited!
"Xiao You's aura?"