Chapter 396 - Taifu

Chapter 396: Chapter 395: TaifuThe team of artifact refiners and alchemists from the royal family of the Dayue Kingdom were all highly skilled individuals hired at a hefty cost by the royal family. Each one of them possessed exceptional prowess in either artifact refining or alchemy.

These alchemists and artifact refiners, held in high esteem, naturally were unwilling to follow the large army to the front line and suffer hardships.

Otherwise, what would happen if they came to the front line and the enemy state took them all in one fell swoop?

Moreover, only in the Imperial Capital, with the support of the Dayue Kingdom’s treasury, did they have enough materials for refining artifacts and alchemy.

Watching the man in the black armor leave, the Taifu laughed triumphantly, "It seems I’m a step closer to being crowned as a king. I believe that with the Moon Shooting Bow and Shockwave Arrow delivered to the front lines, within a month, Your Highness would be able to conquer the Shenwu Kingdom with the help of twenty-five City-Destroying Cannons."

"Moreover, it should be time for me to be conferred a king too."

The Taifu burst into laughter.

Suddenly, at that moment.

The man in black had just gotten to the door.

A beam of purple-blue light suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Who’s there?" The man in black armor exclaimed in surprise.

"A good guy."

The man, who suddenly descended, glinted cold light in his eyes.

Simultaneously, a surge of Sword Qi shot up, piercing his chest.

"Ahhh-"

The man in black let out a cry.

Immediately, Lin Bai struck a palm on the top of the man in black armor’s head, executed the Martial Soul Secret Skill, and scanned all the memories in his mind.

Upon the completion of the Soul Searching, Lin Bai slashed and killed the man.

Picking up the storage bag at the man in black armor’s waist, Lin Bai joyfully said, "So, the Dayue Kingdom also prepared the Moon Shooting Bow and Shockwave Arrow for Tuoba Feng."

Lin Bai opened up the storage bag and saw a bright bow inside, along with over thousand Shockwave Arrows and many other containers containing Healing Pills.

Lin Bai took out a jade bottle, glanced at the Healing Pills inside, and swallowed them all at once, refining them with the Devouring Sword Spirit.

Then, Lin Bai took out the Shockwave Arrows and the Moon Shooting Bow for a closer look.

"This is indeed a big gift they have sent me."

Lin Bai calmly smirked.

Just then, Lin Bai’s eyes narrowed, stared at the man in black armor on the ground whose blood kept flowing out.

"Devouring Sword Spirit!"

With a grip of his hand, Lin Bai unleashed the force of the Devouring Sword Spirit.

In an instant, the essence blood of the man in the black armor was extracted and refined by Lin Bai, turning into vital energy and infusing into his body.

"Too little."

After refining, Lin Bai shook his head and said.

The essence blood in the man in black armor was extremely scarce, even less than a tenth of that in a Demon Beast, making Lin Bai quite astonished.

However, refining this essence blood had advanced Lin Bai’s cultivation to some extent.

Then, Lin Bai put all the items from the storage bag of the man in black armor into his own, and walked towards the palace of Hejian City.

Lin Bai descended from the sky, deliberately concealing his figure, and quietly appeared before the soldier in black armor.

After killing the soldier in black armor, Lin Bai entered the City Lord Mansion without looking back.

At this moment, the Taifu had arranged everything, and the military supplies were ready to be transported to the frontline, so he was a little relaxed.

Having been busy all day, the Taifu was about to rest.

But just at that moment.

The Taifu’s face changed drastically as he turned around in surprise, yet he found no one behind him.

"Who’s there, do you know where you are?" The Taifu roared angrily.

"Sure. Hejian City, the city where the Dayue Kingdom stores its military supplies on its southern expansion route." A cold voice replied.

"Do you know who I am?" The Taifu sneered condescendingly.

"Taifu, the mentor of the Second Prince of the Dayue Kingdom, the current Taifu of the Dayue Kingdom." The voice replied.

"Knowing that I am the Taifu and that I am the mentor of the Second Prince, do you still dare to come here? Shouldn’t you leave quickly? Or are you looking to have your entire clan executed?" The Taifu roared.

"Heh, I specifically came for you, why would I leave?" The voice replied.

Ding!

Upon hearing that this person had specifically come for him, the Taifu became nervous.

Why?

The Taifu was puzzled; he didn’t have any enemies as far as he knew.

"Are you sent by the Crown Prince?" The Taifu asked nervously.

"No." The voice answered.

"Then who on earth are you? If you’ve guts, show yourself!" The Taifu roared.

"I am Lin Bai, a disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect of the Shenwu Kingdom."

Shush-

As Lin Bai revealed his identity, his figure changed to a flash of lightning and instantly entered the main hall door from outside.

If there were outsiders here, they would surely be frightened by such a mysterious tactic and scream out loud.

But the Taifu was different. This man with a cultivation level of the Heaven Martial Realm Ninth Layer and being the current Taifu, had seen all sorts of things and calmly watched Lin Bai.

The Taifu’s eyes narrowed while he stared at Lin Bai and said coldly, "Since you are a disciple of the Shenwu Kingdom, why are you looking for me? Don’t tell me you are here to beg for mercy?"

Lin Bai calmly said, "No, I am here to borrow something from you."

The Taifu spoke in a cold voice, "What do you want to borrow?"

"The head... on your neck!"

Lin Bai suddenly made a sword attack, his Qingge Sword emitted a cold Sword Qi, attacking the Taifu’s neck.

If this sword had hit, the Taifu’s head would have been decapitated.

With a gaze as sharp as lightning, the Taifu’s True Qi surged, and with a powerful palm strike, the Taifu repelled Lin Bai’s sword.

"You want to kill me? That’s too laughable. Do you know that Hejian City has an army of a million soldiers? Even if I give the command, do you have the ability to withstand it?" The Taifu sneered, his eyes full of contempt. As far as he was concerned, Lin Bai was here to die.