Chapter 2847: Peeping

The Wind Rises in Kyushu

Given that the soul power difference was not significant, forcibly prying into the secrets of a spirit was naturally impossible.

However, Lu Ye had other plans.

With them in close proximity, and the power of the Dao surging around him, Lu Ye's eyes suddenly turned blood-red, displaying countless intricate patterns within them.

Manyu's struggle momentarily paused. In his vision, everything vanished, leaving only those blood-red pupils.

Everything around him shifted and distorted, as the blood-red pupils rapidly moved closer to each other, then merged.

It resembled a blood-red moon, or a colossal blood-colored eye, hanging high in the sky, coldly overseeing everything in the world.

Blood Eye Dao Mark!

This Dao Mark possessed an extremely potent hallucinatory effect. When unleashed by Lu Ye's current cultivation level, even a Harmonization Realm expert like Manyu found it difficult to resist.

Under the blood-red moon, Manyu felt only emptiness around him, his own insignificance, and a deep sense of dread and panic.

The moment his mind faltered, another Dao Mark had already been constructed by Lu Ye.

Soul Control!

This was a type of Divine Mark, requiring soul power to activate. Its primary purpose was to forcibly plant a brand in another's Sea of Consciousness, thereby subjugating them for one's own use.

For an ordinary Harmonization Realm expert, under the Soul Control Dao Mark, there would likely be no room for resistance.

However, Manyu's foundation was ultimately profound. Although the Soul Control Divine Mark was successfully constructed, Lu Ye clearly felt that the Dao Mark showed signs of instability, and Manyu was fiercely resisting.

In this process, it caused immense damage to his soul.

Lu Ye immediately understood that this Dao Mark was insufficient to subdue a powerful expert like Manyu. Ultimately, the difference in their soul power was not significant enough.

He did not force the issue, but instead immersed himself, and using the power of Soul Control, began to delve into Manyu's memories.

A Universe-level City Lord would have lived for at least tens of thousands of years, accumulating an incredibly vast array of memories. Lu Ye was not looking for Manyu's entire past, but rather recent developments on the Senluo City side, primarily intelligence regarding Zong Shenliang.

Countless memories flooded into Lu Ye's mind, causing his head to throb, and his face gradually turned pale.

Fu Wei stood by, seeing this sight, secretly anxious, yet powerless to help.

After a full incense stick's time, Manyu suddenly let out a fierce roar, and his aura surged. Lu Ye involuntarily released his large hand that had been gripping Manyu's neck, and staggered back two steps.

Fu Wei quickly stepped forward to support him, and asked with concern, "Senior Brother!"

Lu Ye's face was as pale as paper at this moment, his temples throbbing violently, and his head felt as if it would split open. It took him a while to recover before he finally regained his composure and slowly waved his hand.

Many years ago, when he first used the Soul Control Divine Mark, he had secretly sworn never to use it again easily unless absolutely necessary.

Because the complex memories of others flooding into his mind in such a short time placed an immense burden on him. If given the choice, no one would want to experience it a second time.

However, at this moment, besides using this Dao Mark, there was no other way to extract information from Manyu.

After recovering for a bit longer, Lu Ye finally looked up at Manyu. The seventh Deputy City Lord of Senluo City lay quietly on the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices, devoid of life, a truly tragic sight.

He was not killed by Lu Ye, but rather, in the process of Lu Ye prying into his soul sea memories, he forcefully resisted, leading to the shattering of his soul.

This also prevented Lu Ye from accessing all of his memories.

However, the current intelligence was temporarily sufficient.

After recovering for a few more moments where he stood, Lu Ye's eyes gradually brightened.

He had always been worried that if the changes in Desolation City were to spread, it would provoke a large-scale invasion from Senluo City. Furthermore, even if this didn't happen, Senluo City must have already known about the existence of the Radiant World and the situation with the Star Abyss Gate within it.

Since Zong Shenliang had already sent his clone, it was hard to guarantee that his true body wouldn't suddenly decide to investigate.

If that happened, it would undoubtedly be a disaster for the starry sky.

However, the current situation was clearly much better than Lu Ye had anticipated, because Zong Shenliang was actually not in the Star Abyss!

No wonder things had been peaceful here for so long. Under normal circumstances, if Zong Shenliang had dispatched a clone and received no response from it for an extended period, he would certainly become suspicious and would try to establish contact with the clone regardless.

"Help me summon Patriarch Hun Que," Lu Ye instructed.

Fu Wei quickly assented and flashed away.

While waiting, Lu Ye immersed his mind, connecting to the Dragon Scroll in his Sea of Consciousness, and sent a message: "Dragon Venerable!"

Just two breaths later, he received a response from Dragon Venerable: "Lu Ye, when will you return?"

A few days prior, when Lu Ye had just returned to the Radiant World, Dragon Venerable had contacted him via the Dragon Scroll, asking him to return to Dragon City as soon as he had leisure, as there seemed to be an important matter for which he needed help.

Lu Ye naturally agreed immediately, but the trouble in the starry sky had not yet been resolved, and the crisis remained unlifted, preventing him from leaving.

This was why Dragon Venerable asked this question now.

"If all goes smoothly, it shouldn't be much longer," Lu Ye said, "But before that, I need to ask Dragon Venerable and Phoenix Lord for a favor."

"Speak."

"I ask that Dragon Venerable and Phoenix Lord dispatch troops to attack Senluo City!"

Somewhere in the Star Abyss, in front of a Star Abyss Gate, a strange expression appeared on Dragon Venerable's face.

After the inner and outer realms merged, many Star Abyss Gates appeared. Powerful figures like Dragon Venerable naturally wished to enter the starry sky to acquire supreme treasures.

It could be said that currently, not only was Senluo City taking action, but all ten Harmonization Realm Cities in the Star Abyss were active, including many Harmonization Realm experts who deemed themselves strong enough.

Just looking at Ni Chil煉's situation was enough to know; she had already breached the starry sky through a Star Abyss Gate, let alone the other ten City Lords.

Many Star Abyss Gates also appeared in the Holy Dragon City's domain, but Star Abyss Gates varied in size. Not every Star Abyss Gate allowed Harmonization Realm experts to pass through.

The Star Abyss Gate in front of Dragon Venerable was the largest one in Dragon City's domain.

Yet even so, only Dao Fusion Realm cultivators could pass through currently. Thus, although Dragon Venerable was present, he could only watch eagerly, unable to enter the starry sky on the other side.

In such a situation, he could only wait, until one day, this Star Abyss Gate would allow Harmonization Realm experts to pass, only then could he enter.

Beside him was the Phoenix Lord, who, noticing his unusual expression, asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Dragon Venerable tilted his head and said, "Lu Ye contacted me, asking us to dispatch troops to attack Senluo City!"

The Phoenix Lord's delicate brows rose, her face showing anger and surging killing intent. "Did Zong Shenliang bully him?"

She had always highly regarded Lu Ye. After the awakening of the Primordial Parasol Tree, she valued him even more. At this point, it was no exaggeration to call Lu Ye the Phoenix Clan's treasure.

If anyone in this world dared to bully Lu Ye, she would go beat them up!

"I don't know the exact situation," Dragon Venerable shook his head.

"What do you say?" the Phoenix Lord asked.

Dragon Venerable chuckled, "What else is there to say? Anyway, we have nothing to do. Since Lu Ye has a request, of course we agree."

The Phoenix Clan now regarded Lu Ye as a treasure, but the Dragon Clan had long considered him one. In fact, Dragon Venerable's current regard for Lu Ye surpassed his previous estimation.

"Has the star map exploration been completed?" the Phoenix Lord asked.

The merger of the inner and outer realms had its greatest impact on the Star Abyss in the form of various territorial changes, which also rendered many previous star maps inaccurate.

Therefore, all factions had recently been dispatching personnel to explore new star maps.

With numerous cultivators under Holy Dragon City's command, such a task was naturally not too difficult.

"No," Dragon Venerable replied, "but coincidentally, Senluo City's domain location has been scouted."

Meanwhile, in Desolation City, Lu Ye slowly let out a breath.

It was certainly easier to get things done with support. If he alone were to lead the starry sky against Senluo City, it would undoubtedly be overly ambitious. But with the assistance of Dragon City and Phoenix Nest, it was different.

With the two Harmonization Realm Cities joining forces, once they launched an attack on Senluo City, Senluo City would have no remaining resources to pay attention to the Star Abyss Gate here.

Lu Ye could also more conveniently carry out his plan.

What made him feel grateful was that Dragon Venerable had no unnecessary words; as soon as he finished speaking, Dragon Venerable immediately agreed.

This showed that Dragon Venerable truly regarded him as one of his own. Otherwise, attacking another one of the Ten Harmonization Realm Cities in such a manner would surely involve asking for a reason.

"Senior Brother!" Fu Wei's voice came.

"Lu Ye, are you looking for me?" Hun Que followed behind Fu Wei.

Lu Ye nodded: "Patriarch, come with me."

Hun Que glanced at the corpse on the ground and vaguely understood something. His current strength was of no help to Lu Ye, but the secret arts of the Soul Clan allowed him to control corpses.

The one on the ground was the seventh Deputy City Lord of Senluo City. Since Lu Ye wanted him to follow, it was clear he had some plans for Senluo City.

Fu Wei undoubtedly also thought of this, and immediately said, "Senior Brother, I'll go too."

Lu Ye shook his head and said, "I need you to stay here and guard this place. Although Senluo City shouldn't send anyone else over in the short term, there are always exceptions. Your strength is reassuring. Besides you, I can't find any other suitable person."

Fu Wei couldn't help but worry, "But if you're going to attack Senluo City, you'll be too dangerous alone."

Lu Ye looked puzzled. "Who said I was going to attack Senluo City?"

He'd have to be out of his mind to single-handedly attack Senluo City.

"Then why are you taking Patriarch Hun Que..."

"I'm going to do something else," Lu Ye casually explained. Dragon City and Phoenix Nest would handle Senluo City. What he needed to do was kill Zong Shenliang!

Even if he couldn't kill him, he couldn't allow him to return to Senluo City to take command. Only then would Dragon City and Phoenix Nest have a chance to succeed.

"Are you hiding something from me?" Lu Ye suddenly asked again.

"Huh?" Fu Wei was startled, his eyes darting around. "No... not at all."

Lu Ye stared at him steadily, remaining silent.

When he saw Fu Wei today, he had distinctly felt that the man had hesitated to speak several times, as if he wanted to tell him something but couldn't bring himself to do it.

Under the pressure of Lu Ye's gaze, Fu Wei finally crumbled and dejectedly said, "It's nothing much. It's just that City Lord Yuan Xi contacted me earlier, asking if anything happened on your side."