Chapter 961: Hunting (1)
"Great Commander, you are awesome!"
In the turbulent flow of stars and rocks, a small warship no more than a hundred feet long was speeding at full speed. In the small cabin, several men wearing the robes of important officials in the heaven stood in front of a handsome young man with bleak faces, looking at him helplessly with a slightly bitter smile.
"I underestimated him." The young man sat on the chair, tapping his fingers lightly on the armrests, reviewing bit by bit the entire process of this sudden thunderclap and his hasty escape with a few trusted friends.
"I really underestimated him." The young man's eyes narrowed, and the picture in his mind finally froze on the hideous shot of the commander-in-chief holding a bloody head and striding towards the Taichu Chengyuan Palace.
How could he not know the owner of that head?
The commander-in-chief’s favorite youngest son, his illegitimate son, his good friend, and a senior member of the organization.
The commander-in-chief somehow got hold of this clue and killed his own son with a single blow. He then took his head and went straight to Taichu Chengyuan Palace to show his loyalty... The young man realized that something was wrong and immediately activated the most emergency plan.
Even so, the invisible net he had woven inside the Heavenly Palace was torn to pieces in just one day and three hours. Seeing that the commander-in-chief's butcher knife was about to fall on him, the young man could only resolutely cut off some exposed clues and escape from the Heavenly Palace with several trusted confidants whose identities were exposed and could not be saved.
"They killed their own sons!" the young man muttered, "Isn't this the difference between us and these old guys? At least, I can't kill my own sons... Although I don't have a son yet, I can't kill him."
"If his own son is like this, what about my nephew?" The young man shuddered, a layer of cold sweat seeping out of his forehead: "I ran fast enough, I hope I can attract enough attention and not involve those people!"
The young man's name was Yuan Hua, and he was the nephew of the Great Emperor Taichu. His father was the Great Emperor Taichu's younger brother, and he was once a trusted general of the Great Emperor Taichu's expeditions. However, he was unlucky and died in a demonic catastrophe on the eve of the establishment of the Heavenly Court. Since then, Yuan Hua was treated as the Great Emperor Taichu's own son and raised by his side. His salary, privileges, and other treatments were much better than those of his own son.
When Yuan Fu was in the Heavenly Palace, he was simply called "Little Prince" by a group of fawning civil and military officials!
Relying on his special identity, Yuan Fu made friends with the children and relatives of some important civil and military officials in Heaven, such as the son of the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Forbidden Guards, the distant nephew of Laojun of the Heavenly Book, the nephew of Laojun of the Heavenly Supervisory Palace, and so on... When these children of the top dignitaries in Heaven collude with each other, their influence is terrifying.
As for what they have done over the years... there are many things that only Yuan Fu himself knows.
If some things were known by Emperor Taichu, even his own nephew would be tortured to pieces. Yuan Fu had no doubt about this. In fact, some things Yuan Fu himself found unbelievable when he recalled them - how could he have the courage to make a decision and do such a thing?
I won’t talk about corruption, abuse of power, and litigation-monopolizing and the like.
Buying and selling official positions, selling official positions and titles, etc., are all trivial matters.
Murder, silencing witnesses, corruption and abuse of power are daily practices.
There are also some sensational ones, such as framing and putting the blame on some of the loyal, truly loyal, and stubborn ministers of the Great Emperor Taichu, and exterminating their entire families; for example, the daughters and granddaughters of some of the loyal ministers of the Great Emperor Taichu were directly abducted and trained to be the most humble prostitutes; for example, some of the Emperor Taichu's royal treasures were secretly taken out from the Tianshu Secret Pavilion to do some shameful things...
Even back then, several of the rather plump concubines in the harem of the Great Emperor Taichu disappeared...
The flowers in your own back garden, Emperor Taichu, do not receive rain and dew often. As your filial nephew, I have the physical strength to help you loosen the soil and apply fertilizer, and help your uncle to comfort your aunt... This is also a kind of filial piety, isn't it?
There are other things that are extremely terrifying when you think about them carefully. Yuan Fu usually suppresses the core of his soul with secret methods and dares not easily have related thoughts... I won’t talk about those things. Just for the things mentioned above, Emperor Taichu personally took him to the Tianxingtai and killed him one hundred and eight thousand times. It was not unfair even once.
So, run away!
Run away quickly!
If he didn't escape, it would be all over... Yuan Fu didn't care about the beauties and handsome boys in his mansion, his maids and thugs, or the many things in the mansion that were both presentable and shameful... In short, after saying hello, he took his closest, most loyal, and most desperate confidants with him over the years, paid a huge sacrifice, and finally escaped from the Heavenly Palace.
The turbulent flow of stars and rocks outside was dark and chaotic, just like Yuan Fu's mood at the moment.
"I just find it strange, Commander-in-Chief, how did he find out?" Yuan Fu scratched his forehead hard and muttered to himself frantically, "I haven't heard anything from him these days? In the Tianshu Secret Pavilion incident, so many people were killed, but didn't the clues get cut off during the investigation?"
"How did he do it?"
Luo Buyu, one of the five great gods of thunder fighting in the Heavenly Palace, looked at Yuan Fu pitifully and said softly, "Little Prince, where are we going?"
Luo Buyu's head was buzzing. Until now, he still hadn't figured out what had happened.
In short, he, who had been living a peaceful life, suddenly turned from a powerful official in Heaven into a rebel, evil demon, rebel, and traitor. He abandoned his wife like a stray dog and fled from Heaven in a panic with Yuan Fu.
His wife, his concubine, his son, his daughter, his grandson, his grandson, so many relatives and clansmen, all were left behind... Only he, Luo Buyu, escaped in a panic with three or five trusted subordinates.
He admitted that he had been very close to Yuan Fu over the years and that he had helped Yuan Fu do many shameful things.
As for the gods of thunder, some of them have the privilege of exercising heavenly punishment and penalty. Sometimes, when Yuan Fu dislikes someone, he would give a little instruction and then Luo Buyu would take a group of gods of thunder to the person's house and kill the whole family with thunder, and also rob some property and take away some beautiful women and handsome boys for their enjoyment. This kind of thing would happen three or four times a year.
But for such a small matter, if there are so many palaces, departments, palaces, and cabinets in the Heavenly Palace, and all the major government offices with some power, who wouldn't do this? Who wouldn't do this? For such a small matter, if you say it violates the rules, it does make you feel a little guilty; but if you say how much it violates the Heavenly Rules, they are all doing things according to the Heavenly Rules, it's really not that serious!
Is this a small matter, is it worth it for the commander-in-chief to personally take action at the risk of his own son's head?
Is it worthy for Emperor Taichu to personally order a thorough investigation?
Is it worth it for Luo Buyu to give up everything and escape?
"Old Luo, this time, I am sorry for you." Yuan Fu looked at Luo Buyu with deep eyes: "There are some things that you don't know... But you must remember one thing, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If I can't get well, you can't escape either... Some of the things you did for me may seem unimportant, but in fact, they are very important, with a huge impact and extremely destructive... Of course, I mean that you have destroyed the interests of my uncle!"
"So, if the matter is exposed, either you run away or you die."
"Relatives and clansmen, you will feel heartbroken when I die. I know, I understand, I comprehend... I feel bad too." Yuan Fu sighed, "But as the saying goes, the old must go before the new can come. When the old wife dies, there will be a new one; when the concubines die, there will be a prettier one; when sons and daughters die, a real man will never worry about not having a wife? Why should he worry about not having children?"
"With a steel knife in hand, you have power."
"With power comes wealth and honor!" Yuan Fu smiled and said, "Don't you think this is the truth?"
"This time, it was just a small mistake. My friends and I, those truly core friends... you haven't touched upon our power yet. The identities of some of them will definitely surprise you. You would never have thought in your dreams that they would actually be my people!"
"It's just a small mistake, it won't affect the overall situation." Yuan Fu said softly, "As long as we can escape this wave of pursuit, we will be safe. The world is big, we can roam freely. I swear, what you will enjoy next will definitely be more and richer than what you enjoy in heaven, and it will be freer and more arbitrary."
Luo Buyu smiled bitterly and said, "Now that things have come to this, we can only follow you, little prince, down the same path until the end. But, the huge Supreme Primordial Heaven..."
Luo Buyu wanted to say, how could such a huge Supreme Taichu Heaven escape the pursuit of the Heavenly Court?
Yuan Fu looked at Luo Buyu with a half-smile: "In such a huge Supreme Primordial Heaven, is there really no place that can protect us?"
Luo Buyu's eyes suddenly lit up.
Yuan Chu took out a half-foot long pitch-black needle. He touched the thin needle with his finger and a low beast roar was heard faintly. A ray of pale white light spurted out from the pitch-black needle, circling around Yuan Chu's palm, and then condensed into a hazy, giant phantom with wings on its back. It suddenly raised its head and let out a long howl towards the sky.
"Well, the contact person is not far away. I hope..."
Behind the small warship, a large area of star rocks with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles suddenly shattered, and countless terrifying innate five elements magnetic divine lights swept across the void, completely evaporating the large area of star rocks, revealing a bright and pure vacuum.
A young man wearing golden chain mail, two long pheasant feathers on his head, holding a Fang Tian painted halberd, and wearing a very long blood-red cloak, as handsome and majestic as a god, stepped on the colorful magnetic divine light and rushed over as fast as lightning. The long halberd in his hand tore through the void and slashed at the small warship head-on.
"You guilty minister Yuan Fu, you disregarded the emperor's grace and were rebellious... Now that you have failed, where can you escape?" The young man in golden armor shouted harshly, his eyes opened straight between his brows, and his face was full of smugness as he looked around.
Yuan Fu smiled bitterly.
Luo Buyu gritted his teeth and roared.
In addition to the Five Military Offices, a permanent violent military organization in Heaven, there are also powerful government offices such as the Thunder Department, Lightning Department, Wind Department, and Rain Department, as well as permanent palaces such as the Five Elements Fighting Department.
Among them, the top leaders of the Five Elements Fighting Department each have a set of the "common" innate Five Elements Yuanci Divine Light great magical power - the innate and acquired five elements avenue, which is one of the great avenues of heaven and earth that is completely controlled by the Heavenly Court. The top leaders of the Five Elements Fighting Department have unique favorable conditions to practice this great magical power.
Basically, even if it is a pig, with the long-term immersion in the innate five elements, it will not take more than a few years for it to cultivate this great magical power to the peak state and burst out with terrifying killing power.
The innate five elements' magnetic divine light can break almost everything and can destroy everything. The innate and acquired five elements' instruments between heaven and earth are all restrained by it... But among the thunder methods, there are many thunder methods that are not included in the five elements and are not affected by the five elements' life and death... Often, when there is friction between the top leaders of the Five Elements Fighting Department and the top leaders of the Thunder Department, it is often the people of the Five Elements Fighting Department who suffer!
Over the years, the conflict between the two sides has become increasingly intense.
However, it must be acknowledged that the Thunder Department holds privileges and is half a level higher in status than the Five Elements Fighting Department.
In the past, Luo Buyu, as the 'Dragon Head Holding Bell Great Lord', was one of the five great fighting gods of the Thunder Department, and his status far exceeded that of the young man in golden armor who was chasing him from behind. When everyone met the Great Emperor Taichu in the Taichu Chengyuan Hall, Luo Buyu's position in the team was also above that of the other party.
But now, the other party is a soldier and I am a thief!
Luo Buyu screamed loudly, and he turned into a giant thunder in the shape of a dragon with bared fangs and claws, rushed out of the small warship, and punched the young man in golden armor in the face: "Nan Yunfei, you are really brave today, you dare to be so presumptuous in front of me!"
The lightning was like the sea and the tide, surging and mighty, accompanied by a deafening roar. In just two or three hits, it blasted the five-colored magnetic divine light on the halberd in Nan Yunfei's hand into pieces. In just two or three hits, it made Nan Yunfei spit out blood, and the blood-colored cloak behind him was also blasted into pieces. He fled backwards in a panic.
In terms of cultivation, Luo Buyu is still far superior to Nan Yunfei!
There were some colorful magnetic lights floating in the back.
The innate five elements magnetic divine light is used to travel, and its speed is incredibly fast. At first, those few colorful divine lights were still hundreds of millions of miles away. After a burst of vibrations in the void magnetic field, the few points of divine light quickly arrived in front of them. They were none other than several other great celestial monarchs from the Five Elements Fighting Department, who had the same status as Nan Yunfei.
They rushed forward with various weapons in their hands, passed Nan Yunfei who was retreating with blood spitting out, and attacked Luo Buyu fiercely.
A bearded man holding a long mace blasted out an extremely soft Guishui Miaoyin Xuanlei with his backhand, which made Luo Buyu stagger with a "bang". He laughed triumphantly and said, "Old Luo, you have committed a capital crime... Hehe, the commander-in-chief is personally supervising the battle, where can you escape to?"
"Why not just follow your brothers back obediently?"
"For the sake of our friendship in the past when we drank and fought together, we will give you a happy ending. We promise to chop off your head with one knife, so that you won't have to suffer the pain of broken pieces. How about that?"
Luo Buyu roared towards the sky, and the thunder in the sky became more and more deafening, causing several great kings of the Five Elements Fighting Department to change their expressions slightly. They walked around Luo Buyu like a revolving lantern, and no one was willing to fight him head-on!
The innate five elements' magnetic divine light continued to fall, colliding and rubbing violently with the golden thunder in the sky, making a loud noise like the collapse of heaven and earth.
The stalemate lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, and the small boat in front sped away in the void for an unknown distance. Suddenly, the deafening thunder... disappeared!
Luo Buyu was shocked and suddenly looked down at his body.
His magic power was exhausted.
He subconsciously activated the seal of the God of Thunder hanging on his waist, trying to mobilize the Dao rhyme and spiritual inspiration that he could clearly sense in the void, hoping that they could flow into his body freely and flexibly as usual and replenish his consumption in the blink of an eye!
This is the special authority of the gods in heaven, especially the high-level gods in heaven!
They had seals and talismans hanging around their waists, and the Dao rhyme and spiritual inspiration in the void were at their disposal. During the battle, no matter how much they consumed, they could replenish it at any time, without even spending a single imperial coin!
Over time, Luo Buyu even ignored the special cultivation rules of this world!
Having just fought with several great celestial monarchs of the same rank, Luo Buyu habitually used all his strength.
Every strike was delivered with all one's strength, and every strike consumed a huge amount of energy.
As one of the five gods of thunder in heaven, Luo Buyu has opened up nearly 100 million acupoints... A huge amount of mana is stored in each acupoint, which is enough to support his crazy burning for a short period of time!
But in such an intense battle, his magic power always has its limits.
At this moment, all the nearly 100 million acupoints in his body were clean and there was not a drop left!
He silently practiced his profound skills and displayed his supernatural powers with all his might, frantically sensing the Dao rhyme and spiritual inspiration that he could normally use with ease... The great Dao of heaven and earth was right in front of him, and the rich spiritual inspiration was beside him, clear and distinct. He could see it, touch it, smell it, and touch it... However, he was unable to mobilize even a little bit of it. There was not even a trace of Dao rhyme and spiritual inspiration flowing into his body to replenish the consumption!
And Emperor Money...
Emperor's money...
With Luo Buyu's identity and status, why would he carry any imperial coins with him when he goes out?
Nan Yunfei laughed wildly and flew back spitting out blood. The five-colored magnetic divine light turned into a five-colored giant hand and slammed down. With just one blow, Luo Buyu, who had no magic power left in his body, had his chest collapsed, his internal organs shattered like tofu dregs, blood gushed out of his seven orifices, and he flew backwards involuntarily.
“Luo Buyu, you are now a rebel and an evil demon… The Great Emperor has issued an imperial edict to suspend all your authority over heaven and earth… Do you think you are still the tyrannical and arrogant God of Thunder in Heaven?” Nan Yunfei shouted majestically: “A thief is a thief… There must be thieves…”
With a "puff" sound.
A low roar of an animal was heard from afar, and a sharp Santing machete came through the air, splitting Nan Yunfei in two. The giant machete, which was about three feet long, swung gently, bringing dozens of light blade lights as light as snowflakes, and chopped several other great celestial monarchs of the Five Elements Fighting Department into meat paste as easily as chopping melons and vegetables.
"A minion is a minion. You must be prepared to be a minion!"
A deep voice sounded in the turbulent flow of stars and stones: "Hey, isn't this the little prince Yuan Fu of the Heavenly Palace? Wow, so embarrassed? It's really rare, really rare..."
Yuan Fu crawled out of the cabin and bowed to the Santing machete in a panic: "Stop joking. This time, I am the one who is in trouble... Hey, can you hold on here? If not, help me delay for a while, I will go somewhere else."
The deep voice greeted Yuan Chu's uncle in a very straightforward manner. The wording was so crude that Luo Buyu and several other important officials of the Heavenly Court who followed Yuan Chu in defecting couldn't help but feel their faces twisted and their hearts almost jumped out of their throats.
"You, are you looking down on me?"
"Well, you're so cunning, are you trying to take advantage of me? Hey, if I can't protect you, why are you running to me?"
"Don't worry. Unless the Heavenly Court and my father go to war, no one can touch you."
"Hey, who is this? The commander-in-chief? Hey, he's alive!"
"Yuan Fu, take your men and go first. I'll take care of him!"
Hearing the words "Grand Commander", Yuan Fu and Luo Buyu's bodies shuddered suddenly. Luo Buyu hurriedly fell back onto the deck, while Yuan Fu urged the small warship to speed up again and sank into the turbulent flow of stars and rocks in a flash.
The place where the corpses of Nan Yunfei and others were flying was covered by thick thunderclouds. He was wearing full-coverage heavy armor, more than ten feet tall, with a layer of blazing plasma about a foot thick on the armor, and his whole body was burning with lightning that was impossible to look directly at, like a commander-in-chief of a thunder creature who emerged silently through the air.
The lightning flows silently.
The thunderclouds rolled silently.
A bunch of long hair hung on the left wrist of the commander-in-chief. The head of his youngest son, who was killed by his own hands, was like a delicate rosary, hanging on his wrist. There were also drops of blood dripping from the smooth fracture.
This seemed to be some kind of proof, some kind of silent declaration - if he could even kill his own son, who would dare to stand in the way of today's commander-in-chief?
The owner of that Santaing machete dares!
A flash of cold light swirled on the white blade, and a low beast roar sounded. A big man over three meters tall, with a waist circumference of more than ten meters and covered with black hair emerged from the side of the big knife. There were also several fist-sized poisonous bees around him, with stingers on their buttocks that were three inches long. They flew around him like crazy, and from time to time they used their poison pools to pierce his flesh fiercely.
But this big guy, with his thick skin and strong flesh, didn't care at all.
He held the long knife in his right hand and in his left hand was a plump, huge honeycomb with some bee pupae wriggling inside. He swallowed the rich and fragrant honey with a "slurp", enjoying it very much. The sticky honey kept flowing down his chin, making the black hair on his neck and chest wet and messy.
This guy actually has a bear head!
With small ears, small eyes, a mouth full of fangs and a silly look on his face, he somehow makes people feel that he is somewhat cute. He doesn't look like the evil spirit who .
"Commander-in-chief? What a great reputation!" Black Bear tilted his head, chewing honey and mumbling vaguely: "Is the one hanging on your wrist your son? Your biological son? Oh, people say that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, which shows that you are worse than an animal !"
These words were undoubtedly a provocation.
The commander's face was covered by a thick mask, so no one could see his expression. Thunderclouds danced around him, and lightning surged on his body, moving silently and majestically.
He said coldly: "This is my loyalty to Your Majesty. Although he is my son, if he does something wrong, he must be punished."
With a sneer, the commander-in-chief murmured, "But you are right. He is my son after all. He has paid the price with his life. So, those bandits who led him astray must be punished one by one. Even if he is the nephew of the emperor, he must be punished!"
Behind the commander-in-chief, warships were speeding towards him, spewing black smoke and flames.
One after another, they came rushing in from all directions.
There were also the righteous gods, celestial officials and so on from various departments, offices, palaces and halls of the Heavenly Court, who either displayed their magical powers or controlled their treasures and used various means to rush over from afar.
The nephew of Emperor Taichu defected, and among them was a high-ranking official in Heaven who was similar to one of the five great gods of the Thunder Department... This had never happened since the establishment of Heaven.
The Great Emperor Taichu was furious, and the commander-in-chief personally led people to hunt him down. Not only the Sky Patrol Divine Guards, but anyone who could be involved in this was involved - if you don't behave yourself at this time, could it be that you are Yuan Fu's accomplice?
There are more and more warships, and more and more heavenly officials, gods, heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals are gathering.
Various colors of divine light shone together, and in just a short breath, more than a million warships and hundreds of millions of people from the heavenly court gathered here. The divine light on their bodies intertwined together, almost turning into a scorching sun, illuminating the surrounding void for hundreds of millions of miles.
The black bear watched coldly as more and more people gathered behind the commander. He just ate the honey in big mouthfuls. After he had eaten up the large piece of honeycomb in his hand, he casually reached into the void and grabbed out another large piece of honeycomb dripping with honey. He continued to gnaw on it happily with a "smacking" sound.
The commander-in-chief finally took action.
"I have given you, Yunchaling, enough face." said the commander-in-chief.
"Does Yunchaling need your respect?" The black bear tried his best to open his eyes wide, but his natural racial characteristics were there. No matter how hard he tried, his two eyeballs were still the size of raisins, and he only looked more silly and cute: "Ah, so you gave me face... Well, thank you, thank you so much!"
After swallowing a big mouthful of honey, Black Bear laughed and said, "You've given me face, and I've thanked you. Now, why don't you take the people back? Look, your son's head is shaking, it's so scary. Are you sure you don't want to invite some monks to build a temple for him?"
The commander-in-chief let out a long roar.
As a result, the entire world turned into a minefield.
The sky was full of flashes of lightning, the ground was full of lightning, countless thunderclouds and lightning rolled like boiling water, and the surging thunder road was raging. Thunder and lightning enveloped everything, covered everything, submerged everything, and replaced everything.
The lightning blinded the eyes of countless people in heaven, and the thunder caused severe pain in their heads, and they could no longer hear any other sound.
The commander-in-chief himself did not move at all, while the lightning in the sky condensed into 108 thunder clones, which suddenly appeared beside the black bear, blocking all the black bear's escape routes from all directions, from the sky and the ground.
Swords, spears, halberds, and weapons condensed from various colors of lightning all bombarded the black bear's vital parts!
The black bear roared, "Tsk tsk, so powerful, so powerful. It really scared the bear to death!"
Shouting "scared the bear to death", the black bear stood still. One hundred and eight lightning clones hit him at the same time, and the weapons condensed by lightning were shattered, while only thousands of black hairs on his body were broken, and the skin under the black hair was not even a white mark!