Chapter 437: Chapter 148: A Demonic Servant Falls at the Thousand-Ren Cliff, Baili’s Icy Blade Warns of a Deadly Peril

"No! Don’t misunderstand!"

Seeing their reaction, the woman grew frantic with worry. She waved her hands repeatedly and explained in a rush, "The Medicine King Valley never intended to blacklist the Seven Stars Gang!"

"The refusal to trade with you was orchestrated by the Zhang Family’s young lady, Zhang Ling’Er. She privately instructed the Medicine King Pavilion’s manager, Ye Chang’an. The matter has nothing to do with the Medicine King Valley!"

"I was on my way back to the valley to report this very matter when I was hunted down. I barely escaped with my life and made it back to Qing Province City!"

"I was looking for Chu Fan because... because someone wants to kill him! The person hunting me, his next target is Chu Fan! Their power is utterly terrifying!"

What?!

Cao Feng and the others were all stunned by her words.

Things had taken such a sudden turn that they could hardly process it.

But judging by Baili Bing’s expression, it didn’t seem like she was lying.

"Where is Fan now?" Cao Feng immediately demanded.

"He should be at home cultivating... He’s barely left the house these past few days, focusing entirely on his training!" Chen Xuan answered quickly.

"Quick! Take her there!"

With no time to waste, the group immediately surrounded Baili Bing and rushed frantically toward Chu Fan’s residence.

However, when they arrived at Chu Fan’s home, they only saw Zhao Tianxing practicing in the Martial Arts Arena. Chu Fan was nowhere to be found!

"Tianxing, where’s Fan?" Cao Feng’s heart sank.

Zhao Tianxing, unaware of the situation, hurriedly said, "He left the city early this morning..."

"He told me last night that the Wind Spirit in Qing Province City is too sparse, making it impossible to practice a certain Martial Art, so he was going to head outside the city."

He left the city!

Those words struck like a bolt from the blue, causing everyone’s hearts to plummet.

"This is bad!" Baili Bing’s face turned deathly pale as she cried out in alarm. "My pursuer has a tracking Secret Technique! The moment Chu Fan left the city, he would have known!"

She made a snap decision and whirled around, dashing outside. "I’m going to the Demon Suppression Bureau right now!"

Before her voice had even faded, her figure flickered. Baili Bing had transformed into a streak of cyan lightning and shot out of the Seven Stars Gang Headquarters.

Her Body Technique was so fast that she left only a faint Residual Image in her wake.

"The rest of you, stay here at the gang headquarters! Old Wang, Old Chen, come with me to the Demon Suppression Bureau!" Cao Feng roared, hurrying after her.

But the gap in their power was too vast. The three of them could only watch helplessly as Baili Bing’s figure flickered a few times down the street before vanishing from sight.

Fortunately, the Demon Suppression Bureau wasn’t too far from the Seven Stars Gang.

By the time Cao Feng and the others arrived, panting, before the grim and solemn black building, Baili Bing had already been led inside.

"Master Cao, there’s no need to panic," a Demon Suppression Captain in Black Armor with a stern demeanor said reassuringly.

"Captain Li!" Cao Feng was frantic. "Chu Fan is in danger! Please, have the Demon Suppression Bureau send men out of the city to rescue him immediately!"

This Demon Suppression Captain was none other than Li Mubai.

He frowned slightly and said, "I am already aware of the situation. But do you know where Brother Chu Fan went? The mountain ranges outside Qing Province City are vast. Without a direction, it’s impossible to even consider a rescue."

Everyone was at a loss for words, frantic with worry but completely helpless.

Inside the main hall, Li Mubai looked at the deathly pale Baili Bing and said in a low voice, "Lord Leng is not in Qing Province City at the moment. You’d best explain the entire situation clearly, without hiding a single detail!"

Baili Bing took a deep breath, suppressing her injuries.

She concealed the fact that she had been hunting Chu Fan in the Gangfeng Forbidden Land, saying only that the two had met by chance in the forest and joined forces against a bizarre skeleton monster.

"...That skeleton monster was a Demon Puppet belonging to a powerful Demon Dao expert. After we worked together to destroy it, we were unaware that the Demon Dao expert had cast a spell from afar, using the vicious Blood Curse Skill to silently place a mark on both of us."

"That’s why, as soon as I left the city yesterday afternoon, my pursuer immediately caught up to me."

"I fought him... but I was no match at all! If I didn’t have an Exotic Treasure from my sect for protection, I’m afraid I would have never made it back to Qing Province City!"

The few Demon Suppression Bureau experts standing beside Li Mubai listened with heart-pounding fear.

"What is that person’s Cultivation Realm?" Li Mubai pressed, his expression becoming extremely grave.

A bone-deep terror appeared in Baili Bing’s eyes as she said, word by word, "At the very least, he’s at the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm! And... he has two Demon Puppets with him, both of which are also comparable to the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm!"

"The Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm!"

Those words seemed to weigh a thousand tons, crashing down on everyone’s hearts!

Everyone present, including Li Mubai, looked utterly horrified.

Above the Divine Power Realm was the Acupoint Realm.

The gap between each minor realm was like an insurmountable chasm!

An expert at the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm, plus two Demon Puppets of the same level—that was equivalent to three masters at the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm!

"Lord Li!" Cao Feng grabbed Li Mubai’s arm, his voice trembling. "Fan is one of your Demon Suppression Bureau’s people! He’s a Demon Suppression Guard! You have to save him!"

Li Mubai’s face was ashen, and he was just as frantic with worry.

’Save him?’

’How could they save him?’

No one knew where Chu Fan had gone!

They all knew Chu Fan was immensely powerful, having slain multiple Divine Power Realm experts in Cyan Yang Ancient City and even having the brilliant achievement of killing a cultivator at the Late Stage of the Divine Power Realm.

But this time, the enemy was at the Acupoint Realm!

And it was the combined might of three cultivators at the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm!

This... This was an utterly impossible situation!

And the Demon Suppression Bureau’s strongest backer, Demon Suppression Envoy Lord Leng Qingqiu, was not in Qing Province City.

For a moment, a deathly silence fell over the entire hall of the Demon Suppression Bureau. An atmosphere of what could only be called "despair" settled over everyone’s hearts.