The Chaos Dragon Prince

Chapter 896 Manhunt

Hian causally shrugged, waving off the concerns. "Even as those three can probably face Heavenly Venerates if we overestimate them, do you truly think any of them has the means to truly suppress an Early Stage Heavenly Venerate, much less make them talk? Not even a Demi-God can control the divine soul of a Heavenly Venerate. We're safe on that front since we're working through so many people. And those rewards if those three are captured? I can tell that the Core Region will soon want those three heads and they are giving out fantastic rewards. You still haven't recovered your blood essence, right? And you're Inner World is cracked. I just barely managed to recover my blood essence at an unfathomable cost and my Inner World is still cracked. Peak Stage Heavenly Venerate will barely be our limit if we can even reach that far. Are you really just content with wasting away while those three become gods of the Heavens? It may be our time to become that god of the Heavens." 

Guo went silent for a long while. With each passing second, he slowly became more convinced. Unwilling to have his once bright future just stripped away like that, the buried feelings of revenge began to frantically rise up. 

A terrifying cold glint sparked within Guo's eyes as he said, "And if this plan does fail, the one who will get exposed would just be Yan Kui. She can possibly die from this...though, it will just mean one less person to worry about." 

"Now you're getting it." Hian coldly chuckled. "Alright, apparently where Yan Kui is taking them is a place only the Heavenly Venerates know about. So use that spy of yours to make him aware of the situation." 

"...Alright, fine. Let's take the risk." Guo finally made up his mind. 

He surged the deepest part of his soul, spewing out waves of soul essence energy to condense a unique contact ring into his palm. Nobody, not even the Heavenly Venerates would be able to detect this ring within deep Guo's soul. He specifically constructed a ring to fuse deep into his soul at the cost of weakening his soul power.

But in doing so, unless one destroys his soul, the contact ring would be safely hidden. 

Guo linked his soul energy to the contact ring. A small lapse of silence followed. It lasted for a few moments until beautiful flashes began to glimmer out of the contact ring. 

Dao lights majestically spewed, exuding an unfathomable suppression within the entire realm. The white Dao light couldn't take a true form. 

But a supreme voice still rippled out. "Hm? Guo boy? This better be good. Times have been chaotic as you can probably time." 

"Elder Shen." Guo's voice was filled with respect. "I will make this quick. Basically, we got intel from Yan Kui's close friend, Kui, that she is bringing the demon trio to your ancient god temple to smuggle them into the Core Region unnoticed by everyone else. We can't verify the truth of her words with actual evidence, but given that Yui follows Yan Kui practically everywhere, it's safe to assume her words are more than likely factual. Even then, it would not hurt to keep an eye out for that area." 

"Is that so? That brat is possibly behind this?" Elder Shen's deathly cold voice still caused the Supreme Emperor to violently tremble. 

Just a sliver of killing intent can completely crush entire mortal planets. These Supreme Emperors were reminded of the monumental difference between a half-step Heavenly Venerate and a true Heavenly Venerate! 

After a few tense-filled moments, Elder Shen calmly said, "Alright. I will stand patrol over the temple to see if anything suspicious happens. Naturally, it will be done in secret to increase our chances." 

With that said, Elder Shen cut off the connection, causing the light to vanish. Hian and Guo sighed with slight relief. 

For the first time in quite some time, they finally felt some hope flowing through them when thinking about finally triumphing over the monstrous trio. 

At this point, Hian was already walking out of the cave. But before he left, he turned his head over, a lazy smile curling his lips as he said, "Oh, and more one thing. That Lian boy says that the three of the Grand Four Sects are rushing over here to kill the trio and destroy us. They just finished crossing over God Death Sea. Given Divine Time Frost and Supreme Soul Void's more benevolent personality, we can get away, but at a steep cost. So be prepared for that."

"What?!" Guo instantly shot to his feet, but Hian had already left his cave with a small chuckle.

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The outside region of the Ancestral Star Region's main city had a variety of landscapes. Various desserts with a blazing sun to torch mortal worlds, poisonous swamps filled with a horrific mist to corrode even the gods, and endless stretches of grass plains that seemingly extended on with endless depth. 

These days, numerous groups of cultivators were intently searching these lands for Cain, Kali, and Luo Na. The best trackers were on the case, hoping to find even the slightest detection of the trio. 

The task should've been simple since the trio has battle recording rings to study the specific aura sensations of their Law powers. But even that seemingly great edge provided zero help in finding a slight trace of Cain's group. 

Many just had to be thorough in their search, hoping to be the lucky ones to come across them. 

Inside one of the ominous divine forests of the region, various dark caves were situated all around. Search teams of course explored these caves but to little results. 

One particular search team walked out of a dark cave with tired expressions. 

A peak Primal Sovereign on the team clicked his teeth, cursing out loud, "Seriously, this is just too freakish. Escaping from a Heavenly Venerate grasp and even numerous Heavenly Venerates' divine senses? It's too outrageous! I'm starting to think we should just call it quit and let others fumble around for so long." 

"Oh, come on brother Hao!" A cheery maiden in their group began to pump up her fist. "Don't lose hope so quickly. Even if those three can hide forever, their cultivation will never advance in these conditions. They're bound to one day make some kind of mistake." 

"Yea...maybe..." The grandmaster shrugged with indifference. 

The leader of their team honestly was losing hope as well. But he kept his expression calm as he said, "Come on. Let's just take to another spot." 

As he spoke, the team flashed into the sky as rays of light. 

Several seconds passed. 

When the silence settled deep, a faint shimmer of green shattered apart the void space. 

Three divine figures many were desperately searching for appeared in the ominous atmosphere of the death woods. 

Cain, Kali, and Luo Na all wore masks with their auras completely suppressed by Chaotic Concealment. Naturally, to be able to escape the detections of thousands, even the perception of Heavenly Venerates' divine senses were all because of the fantastical ways of Chaos Energy. 

The only way for the trio to get caught now was if Cain simply decided to let themselves get caught by the others. 

Although, the constant manhunt for them did make the trio feel a never-ending sense of tension. Danger was all around them. Even the slightest of wrong moves can lead them to a road of death. 

One thing is for sure, the trio inscribed this experience deep into their souls. They already marked the higher-ups of the Space Fire, Boundless Sword, and Soul Spear for death. 

For now, the trio silently walked over to one inconspicuous tree no different from everything else. 

When getting close, Cain's eyes faintly glimmered an arc of black lightning. A faint Dragon marking appeared at the center of his forehead. 

Cain was using the perception enhancement ability of his God Tribulation Lightning essence to see through the divine secrets of this tree.

He regularly uses this ability whenever he cultivates any other time. But rarely would Cain use this ability in other ways, such as the creation of weapons, medical resources, spirit formations, or other professions. 

There was a time when Cain wanted to hone his World Spirit Master powers, but the triple-way cultivation took too much of his time. And his affinity towards Spirit Energy wasn't anywhere close to Amber's. 

He could possibly force his God Tribulation Lightning enhancement to make his way on the World Spirit Master path, but there simply wasn't any time to discover this possibility. 

Cain only needed to search the tree for a few seconds until he found a set of strange Dao rune patterns covered by a layer of mist. 

This mist had Dao principles equaling to half-step Heavenly Venerates, possibly matching a genuine Heavenly Venerate!