25 Leaving the Group

Ting Hu observed that Shen Xue is behaving very closely with Xia Tian, he already thought that Shen Xue belongs to him, and is confident in wooing her in this trip, now seeing that Xia Tian became very close with her, Tingu Hu became wary of Xia Tian and somehow wanted to drive him away from the group.

Xia Tian followed the group to other empty building on the periphery of the city. While walking Xia Tian again extended his soul consciousness towards the artifact in his dantian to contact Chi Mu.

"Master, master, let me see the outside world, its been many years since I saw the outside world," Chi Mu voice sounded out even before Xia Tian asked him any questions.

"you said, you are not able to see what's happening in the outside world" Xia Tian questioned Chi Mu.

"I am only able to sense and see the outside world only when I am in contact with your soul consciousness from your point of view that too only with your permission, I am also, only able to speak with you when your soul consciousness contacts me and I don't have any other way to contact you."

Xia Tian nodded his head in surprise and gave permission to Chi Mu to see and sense the outside world through him.

They reached an empty building and Shen Xue began to discuss what to do next. She said solemnly, " Red wolf bandits are very cruel and vicious, I don't think they trapped all of us in the ruins to rob us but they found something in the ruins and waiting for their higher-ups to come here, they certainly blocked us to not leak the information about the ruins, we will be killed once their higher-ups come here, we have to think of something to get out of this place as quickly as possible."

"they can block all of us here, what about the people from outside who come to the ruins in search of red moon lily and other purposes, they will definitely be found out and someone will come to rescue us," said Niu Bing.

Shen Xue shook her head and said, "Did you forget about the red wolf bandits we have faced outside when we are coming here, I think they completely surrounded the ancient ruins and they will prevent anyone from nearing it, it will at least take two to three months for the army of the kingdom to prepare and come here after finding out the situation. By then the Red wolf bandits will complete their work and would have fled from here."

All the team members nodded their head seriously and thinking hard to find the solution.

"master, let us go to the city center, I know the way to the underground treasure, you may find something in the treasure hall to escape from here" Chi Mu voice sounded out in Xia Tian head.

Xia Tian thought about it and said to the team, "let's go to city lord palace at the center of the city, we may find something in the treasury there which is able to help us to get out of here."

Seeing the chance Ting Hu loudly scolded Xia Tian saying, "Xia Tian are you trying to kill us, the city lord palace is already occupied by the spirit realm martial cultivators from red wolf bandits, we don't have zero percent chance to enter the city lord palace, not even say treasury."

Xia Tian knitted his brows and said, "I am saying we may find why red wolf bandits are stalling for time and it will be better for us to plan our escape that way than to blindly thinking of escape."

Ting Hu determined to drive away Xia Tian from the team using this reason, so he raised his voice and said, " if you want to go you can go, don't bring the whole team to death because of your curiosity."

Xia Tian is not in any mood to bicker with Tingu Hu, he did not reply to him and asked Shen Xue to come to the side to talk privately, "Shen Xue, I will go and check what is the situation inside the city lord palace, you search for an escape here, I will return within five days."

Shen Xue also want to go with Xia Tian to explore the city lord palace, but it is her responsibility for the protection of team as she was the one who brought them here on this mission, she nodded her head and said, "be careful and don't take unnecessary actions."

Xia Tian nodded his head and left the group disappearing into the darkness. Ting Hu felt very happy as Xia Tian left the group as he is thinking that Xia Tian left the group because of his provocation.

Xia Tian is steadily approaching the center of the city according to the directions on the map, "master if my memory is correct and if you are able to reach the underground treasury, I am sure I will give you a big surprise."

"tell me what it is," Xia Tian asked curiously.

"Ah, if I say to you now, how that can be a surprise, wait till we get there, I am sure it will increase your cultivation speed in a way it is not possible for you to imagine."

Xia Tian became a lot more curious expecting the surprise from Chi Mu.

The city lord palace is being tightly guarded by the spirit realm cultivators of the red wolf bandit group. It is difficult for Xia Tian to sneak into the city lord palace without killing the guards. With his strength, he is sure that he can easily kill the seventh level of spirit realm cultivator, but if he killed the guards it will create a commotion attracting other groups in the city to come here and his exploration of city lord palace will not be peaceful.

While he is thinking of ways to sneak into the city lord palace, Chi Mu voice sounded out in Xia Tian head, " master, you can switch off the crystal lamp and sneak into the city lord palace without causing any suspicion. I can also see the surroundings in darkness, I will guide you inside into the city lord palace."

Xia Tian is very happy that he contracted Chi Mu, as he is being very helpful in critical situations. He promptly turned off the crystal lamp in his hand and by following the instruction of Chi Mu he neared the entrance of the palace. The entrance of the palace is being guarded by three red wolf members who are at the fourth level of the spirit realm.

Xia Tian used the ordinary technique of distraction by throwing a stone at the opposite direction, two guards stood up and by shouting, "who's there?" they walked in that direction to inspect. Xia Tian by using the supreme heaven overwhelming glide technique bypassed the only guard at the entrance by using the darkness without being noticed.

In the same way by following Chi Mu directions Xia Tian reached a stone wall similar to the one in the pyramid, but a smaller version of the wall. There are four level six spirit realm red wolf members, guarding the entrance leading to the stone wall.

Xia Tian neared them and listened to what they are speaking to get some useful information from their conversation. One of the guards is speaking with the other guard, " its been already one month, in another ten days the water reserves will be depleted and a war will start among the people trapped here, the food we stored here also reaching its end, how many more days do you think we will have to guard here."

"according to the information provided before closing the tunnel, the vice president will arrive here in next ten days, he is at the late stage of the fulfillment realm and can definitely break this energy barrier. I also heard president also will reach here from the divine dragon continent but it will take him at least fifteen days."

The third guard said, "we can also go out before ten days, my brother who is stationed outside told me that grandson of the vice president who is at the ninth level of spirit realm may arrive before the vice president, as it takes time to dig the tunnel again."

"yes, there is no one in this ruins who are stronger than the seventh level of spirit realm or else we will be dead already, it will easy to take care of the remaining people once the young master Tian Guo comes here," Laughed the fourth guard.

"what do you think will be inside after we break this wall," one of the guards asked others.

"it is a time waste to think about that, anyway we don't get anything, all will be taken up and divided among the higher-ups."

"I am not interested about the treasure inside here, the reward is given by the higher-ups for guarding here is enough for me, I am thinking about the beautiful females trapped here, once the killing order is received I will select few beautiful women as slaves without killing them." Laughed another guard obscenely.

"it would be better if the woman is from a reputed family, their bodies are smooth and they use different products to look beautiful and some are arrogant too, this daddy here likes to tame the arrogant ones under my crotch."

One of the guards laughed and said, "you tried like this before also, but almost made eunuch by a captive."

The other guard harrumphed and said, "it's a pity that I killed her when she tried to harm me, I did not even enjoy her before her death, she had it very easy."

"this time you use the bone-chilling powder we acquired, that way your target won't have any movements and you can happily enjoy her without fearing about her attacks"

"it won't be good, I will get aroused only when the target struggles what is the difference between a dead body and her if she doesn't even move"

Xia Tian who is listening in the side got enraged by their words, he is able to imagine what happened to the captives under their control, he killed many magical beasts in the training but some barrier existed in his mind towards killing people because the ones who he will kill will also have their families to take care and other responsibilities but by listening to their conversation Xia Tian let go of his mental barrier as he did not feel they are humane in nature anyway.

He jumped out of the darkness and swiftly slashed his dagger at the throat of one of the guard easily beheading him. The guard who is still laughing when his head beheaded did not even know that he was killed. When Xia Tian saw the smiling face of the beheaded guard, he thought he went to easy on him and decide to torture the other three guards to his heart content before killing.

The other guards became alert and drew their swords surrounding Xia Tian. One of the guards furiously asked, "who are you and why did you kill him?"

Xia Tian gave a slanting look at the guard who spoke, which made the guard frightened, Xia Tian tried to make an evil grin and said, " I want to kill you because I was disgusted with you." Xia Tian only able to come with this weak dialogue after much thought, He first thought not to say anything and directly kill them off, but he felt he should use some dialogue like in movies to have a better effect before killing but it became a disaster for him.

Xia Tian felt the dialogue was somewhat weak and without bothering to say other things he quickly broke the jaws of the other three, preventing them from calling for help.

Xia Tian is new to torture and basically, don't know anything about torturing techniques, his knowledge all came from some movies. He took the spear and pierced their thighs and arms and wanted to do the torture similar to in movies where they remove the nails or pierce a pin inside their nails but he does not have much time, they all saw Xia Tian like a maniac as he did not even ask them what he wanted to know before torturing them. At first, Xia Tian felt some aversion by seeing their blood flowing from their limbs but soon he got used to it, after repeating the piercing process two to three times he stopped doing it.