The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 1060 - 412: Monarch in the Flames_2

After a short while, just as he was about to exit the grand doors, he found the perfect opportunity and merged with the shadow in an instant.

"Rustle rustle rustle..."

GuaGua, posing as Ye Hanjun, instantly took over his clothing.

And Ye Yin, was still laughing and chatting jovially with the captain of the soldiers.

"Very well, thank you for your kindness, boss. Let’s meet again if destiny allows!"

"If you have any more fine goods to sell, come to the Hai Xiong Clan, we’ll ensure your satisfaction!"

On the borderline of the Verdant Clouds, the pair, one Gua and one human, left one after another.

They rode on a carriage, traveling upon the clouds, free and at ease.

At that time, within a dark corner intertwined within the Verdant Clouds,

A mass of shadow slowly writhed, shifting to another spot in gaps almost imperceptible to others.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

A Glorious Perfection "Dusk Spider" stared with its eighteen compound eyes, eternally full of vigor.

Suddenly, a demonic shadow rose from the darkness beside it, and Ye Hanjun burst out, accompanied by Aegifura’s simultaneous appearance.

"Swoosh!!"

In Aegifura’s pupils, eight purple Magatama spun wildly.

At the same time, she waved her whip, lashing the buttocks of the Dusk Spider viciously.

With a loud smack, the spider, startled out of its wits, suddenly froze with all eighteen eyes staring vacantly, appearing completely disheartened and mentally invaded.

"Speak, how much information do you have on the remnants of Nether Lantern?"

Aegifura’s seduction was successful in one go, but she didn’t enslave the creature to fight for her—instead, she eroded its will, squeezing out its informational value.

"I don’t know... Old Spider knows nothing..."

After a few questions, the repeated response was the same. With a huff from Aegifura, the Dusk Spider promptly rolled its eyes back and fainted.

"Forget us, and in one minute, wake up and continue your duties!"

Aegifura issued a subtle mental suggestion, a tactic infallibly successful against lower-ranked creatures, boasting an extremely high success rate.

Afterward, she returned to the Contract Space, remaining on standby.

Meanwhile, Ye Hanjun once again slipped into the shadows, dodging prying eyes while seeking out isolated guards.

"Hey, bro, want some?"

"Get lost, I only smoke cigars that are over a thousand years old; don’t bother me with your cheap stuff..."

Ye Hanjun spotted from afar two patrolling individuals of Saint rank, riding their respective Holy Beasts.

Surely they knew critical information at their level.

But Aegifura was only at Glorious Perfection; with her means, the difficulty of beguiling humans was immense.

Forcing the issue might spark an uproar and if word that someone infiltrated the Hai Xiong Clan got out, it would spread everywhere instantly.

"No, the risk is too great, keep looking."

"Everything else can be ignored, but we must extract the location where Ye Mochou is detained..."

Ye Hanjun tread on thin ice, always maintaining the utmost vigilance.

After the Dusk Spider, he successively caught isolated soldiers, girls from the Beastmen races, and a Dwarf craftsman sound asleep...

But the Hai Xiong Clan’s secrecy was too exacting; these miscellaneous individuals, at most, had heard Ye Mochou’s name. As to where she was held, her current state, and such information, their minds were blank.

"Remnants of Nether Lantern? I... I overheard by chance, he is imprisoned in the dungeon..."

Finally, Ye Hanjun apprehended an adult Cat Woman with injuries all over her body, having just endured inhumane torture.

With tears in the corners of her eyes, after being forcibly charmed by Aegifura, she said innocently:

"The master spoke of him during a conversation with our tribesmen..."

"He is held in the deepest part of the dungeon, a place shrouded in light, where all darkness is stripped away, forced into freezing..."

"Where is this dungeon? How does one enter?" asked Aegifura coldly.

"Below... the very bottom..."

The adult Cat Girl, clutching her chest in fear, whispered:

"I was once wrongfully detained there as well..."

"That place isn’t fit for humans, too lonely, too hollow, it drives people insane..."

"As for how to get in... I don’t know..."

"But I guess, it seems only the members of the Hai Xiong Clan have the qualifications to come and go, not even the Steward..."

"Good."

With a snap of her fingers, Aegifura caused the Cat Girl to faint immediately:

"You passed out because you were exhausted from the brutality of beasts."

"When you wake up, forget us, and return to your predestined life."

"Ooh..."

The fainting Cat Girl, biting her lips, unconsciously altered her subconscious in silence.

Ye Hanjun receded Aegifura and began to search for the passages leading to the dungeon.

To his surprise, this process took three whole days.

To avoid the more numerous and densely distributed guards, Ye Hanjun sometimes had to wait in a corner, silently, for a long time.

On the fourth day, someone who seemed to be from the core Hai Xiong family caught his eye.

Ye Hanjun followed him, watching as he emerged from a sealed Formation, dragging a nearly dead Holy Beast, guessing in his heart that the entrance to the dungeon might be there.

"A Formation based on bloodline, only the core family members holding the Authority ’Hai Xiong Warrior’ have the privilege to enter?"

Ye Hanjun observed for half a day, finding the situation increasingly difficult.

The Formation was formidable; even getting close could expose his presence.

Faking the oscillations of Authority was also out of the question.

What to do? Could it be that at this stage, there was no choice but to abandon the idea of a stealthy rescue and opt for a more direct assault instead?

"Boom boom boom!!"

As the thought twirled in his mind, an earth-shattering explosion rang out, shaking the entire floor violently.

The previously quiet corridor instantly lit up with countless Formation patterns, all the defense systems activated in a flash.

"Damn it," Ye Hanjun thought to himself, narrowly managing to hide under the shadow of a large rat, moving along with its shadow while concealing his own aura.