Chapter 1692: Aihe General

Leveraging the power of the sealed space, Zhang Xuan concealed himself and swiftly flew forward.

Before long, he saw the military camp of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe appear in his sight. He paused for a moment, and his entire skeleton made crisp cracking sounds. In moments, his body had grown a foot taller, and his appearance had also changed; he had successfully disguised himself as a member of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe.

His aura was not as pure as King Greenleaf's, only resembling that of an ordinary soldier. After doing all this, he landed on the ground, circled past rows of soldiers, and found an isolated member of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe. With a light tap of his finger, he silently killed the soldier and placed the body into his storage ring. A moment later, he had completely disguised himself to be identical to the soldier, even having swapped clothes.

Revealing himself, Zhang Xuan, clad in armor and holding a long spear, slowly walked towards the back of the main camp.

The fortifications of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe were extremely elaborate. It was clear at a glance that the various formations were the work of powerful individuals. It was fortunate that Sword Saint Xing hadn't led his people to charge in; otherwise, if the Zhang clan's disciples were to fall into these formations, even with their strong combat power derived from their bloodline, at least more than half of them would have been lost.

"These formations are quite different from those of the Formation Master Guild. They are constructed with the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe's characters as their core. Entering them would cause one to be assaulted by an aura of slaughter, leading to mental confusion..." As he carefully observed each formation, Zhang Xuan felt a silent sense of vigilance. He had encountered such formations when he first entered the underground cavern, but those were relatively crude and paled significantly in comparison to these. The ones before him were powerful enough to cause even peak Saint 9-dan experts to feel dizzy if they suddenly fell into them, let alone those of lower cultivation. Yet, the members of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe remained unaffected.

As he advanced, he deduced the structure of the formations and the locations of their cores. Zhang Xuan quietly concealed his zhenqi within them, but he was not in a hurry to destroy them. He was currently there to gather intelligence; if he tampered with the formations, it would be easy to expose himself, making the effort counterproductive.

The weakest of these Otherworldly Demonic Tribe members had reached Saint 3-dan, while the strongest had even reached Saint 9-dan. As for Great Saint realm cultivators, they were likely in deeper areas and had not yet been discovered.

"That so-called Qingtian lineage is far too inferior compared to this..." Zhang Xuan couldn't help but shake his head. The Emperor of the Qingtian lineage only possessed cultivation around the Saint 6-dan Dimension realm, and its several Kings hadn't even reached the Primordial Spirit realm. Compared to these, the disparity was simply too great. It seemed that the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe, like the Empire Alliance and the Kingdom Alliance, might also have "Emperors" that varied greatly in actual power. Unfortunately, the 'Fierce One' was not awake at the moment; otherwise, having assimilated the sternum, he would certainly have recovered a significant portion of his memories, and Zhang Xuan could then inquire about the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe in detail to prepare accordingly.

"Your duty is to patrol and check for any hidden dangers. What are you doing here?" After walking for a while, a sharp voice suddenly rang out. He hastily turned his head and saw a member of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe in black armor approaching, with displeasure etched on his brow.

This fellow's cultivation had reached Saint 8-dan; it was clear at a glance that he was a significant leader. He spoke pure Otherworldly Demonic Tribe language, which Zhang Xuan had learned when he first entered the underground palace. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to deceive King Goldleaf and King Greenleaf into fighting each other.

"We just completed a shift change, allowing me to return to rest first!" Zhang Xuan hastily bowed and replied. When he arrived, he had just seen a wave of troops undergoing a shift change; otherwise, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to find an isolated member of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe.

"Don't rush to rest! Come with me; I happen to have something for you to do!" The black-armored Otherworldly Demonic Tribe member grunted and waved his hand. "Yes, sir!" Knowing that it wasn't the time to expose himself, Zhang Xuan dared not object and followed closely behind him.

After pressing Zhang Xuan into service, the black-armored Otherworldly Demonic Tribe member successively found over a dozen more. All of them were similar to the person Zhang Xuan had disguised himself as: around Saint 3-dan, the lowest-ranking soldiers.

"What does General Aihe want us to do?" As they walked behind, one Otherworldly Demonic Tribe soldier couldn't hold back and quietly asked. "I don't know either. Probably to construct some kind of fortification!" A soldier next to him shook his head and replied. "Construct fortifications? Haven't they already been completed?" "Don't try to understand. Just do whatever the General tells us to do. Don't ask too many questions or talk too much, or you won't even know how you died!" The second soldier grunted and fell silent.

"So this fellow is called General Aihe?" Zhang Xuan mentally noted the name. The other party hadn't used any martial arts, so he couldn't figure out who he specifically was. For now, he'd remember the name to avoid being completely clueless later.

"Stop!" After walking for a while, they arrived in front of a peculiar building. General Aihe, in black armor, waved his hand and was the first to push the door open and enter. Inside the room, it was empty, with only a few colossal boxes scattered about. Each box was taller than a person, and their placement seemed very regular, roughly ten meters apart. Zhang Xuan glanced at them; they were neither formations nor seals, and showed no energy fluctuations whatsoever.

"Move these boxes over there!" General Aihe commanded. "Move boxes?" Zhang Xuan frowned. The other soldiers also seemed utterly bewildered. With their cultivation level, almost everyone possessed a storage ring; they could simply scan an item with their consciousness, put it inside, and transport it anywhere they wished. What did it mean to call a group of soldiers to manually move them?

"Move quickly!" Seeing everyone dazed, General Aihe's face darkened: "Whatever orders I give you, just execute them. You don't need to know why!" "Yes, sir!" No one dared to say more. They immediately went to the boxes, each carrying one, and walked out. The boxes were not heavy. Zhang Xuan extended his spiritual perception, wanting to see what was inside them, but unfortunately, something had been applied to their surfaces, preventing his spiritual perception from penetrating.

The Library of Heaven's Path couldn't analyze them through the boxes either, so he had no choice but to give up for now. He followed closely behind the others, continuing forward.

"Maintain the original spacing of these boxes and don't move!" After exiting the room, General Aihe turned around. All the soldiers were Saint 3-dan cultivators with astonishing memory, and they hastily arranged themselves according to the previous positions of the boxes. "Hmm!" General Aihe glanced at them after they had arranged themselves, then nodded in satisfaction and continued forward. Maintaining the distance, Zhang Xuan followed closely behind.

"What's the meaning of making these boxes advance while maintaining this spacing?" Frowning, Zhang Xuan was utterly perplexed. If these boxes were formation flags or other such items, maintaining fixed positions would be understandable, but these things had absolutely no relation to formation flags, so why be so particular? Most importantly, why couldn't they be stored in storage rings?

"Huh?" Doubts in his mind, his Eye of Insight spun, and he carefully looked around. Upon seeing it, his eyebrows couldn't help but twitch, and his body tensed up. "This feeling is... like entering the Heavenly Divination Master Guild. This is... a concealment of heavenly secrets?"