Chapter 856: Chapter 856: The Commandant Is Shocked, the Priest Is Terrified!

Boyang Prefecture, Prefectural City!

Prefectural Governor Mansion!

Prefectural Governor Li Jing was currently playing a game of go with an old man dressed in a Divine Robe. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The Qianyuan Empire governed the world with military law.

As the Prefectural Governor of Boyang Prefecture, Li Jing was a peerless expert at the Late Stage of Martial Saint!

Even among the Thirteen Prefectures of the Southern Territory, he was one of the renowned great powers.

At this moment, however, his brows were slightly furrowed with worry.

Pa-la!

Li Jing tossed a stone onto the board. "I’m done, I’m done. I didn’t expect your go skills to improve so quickly, Molu Sacrificer!"

"Hehe, it’s not that my go skills have improved, it’s that you can’t calm your mind, Prefectural Governor."

The Molu Sacrificer in the Divine Robe took no offense, smiling as he picked up the white stones from the board one by one.

Li Jing rose, personally poured a cup of tea for the Molu Sacrificer, then finally said, "I can’t calm down! I don’t believe you haven’t heard about it—the situation over in Qingfeng Prefecture has blown up!"

Qingfeng Prefecture bordered Boyang Prefecture. The two prefectures shared information, and any intel passed between them extremely quickly.

The Molu Sacrificer’s hand paused as he was picking up the stones. He chuckled and said, "A Magician died, and a Martial Saint died. Of course I know about this. I’m afraid, by now, the news has already reached the Holy Capital."

Li Jing stared into the Molu Sacrificer’s eyes and said gravely, "Molu Sacrificer, as one of the three High Priests of the Divine Temple, I don’t believe you’ve received no other information!"

"What information is Prefectural Governor referring to?" The Molu Sacrificer put the stones into the go box, looking genuinely puzzled.

Li Jing gave a bitter smile. "Molu Sacrificer, you watched me grow up. You’re still playing mind games with me at a time like this?"

"I’m not afraid to tell you, news from the Holy Capital says that the Meng Family’s Tianpeng Martial God has gone into seclusion!"

Within the Four Great Royal Clans, every Martial God held an immensely important position in the Qianyuan Empire.

Their every move was watched by countless people!

The fact that the Tianpeng Martial God and Mo Yun Sacrificer had rushed to Qingfeng Prefecture to deal with matters regarding the Nameless Minor World, and that afterward he returned to the Holy Capital and went into seclusion—such news could not be hidden from those who paid attention!

The Molu Sacrificer looked at Li Jing and frowned. "In times like these, I advise your Li Family not to act rashly."

He paused, worried Li Jing wouldn’t listen, and simply said it outright: "After Mo Yun Sacrificer returned to the Divine Temple, he also went into seclusion."

At those words, Li Jing was so shocked he almost spilled the tea in his hand!

"Mo Yun Sacrificer is injured as well?"

Li Jing found it hard to believe.

As one of the three High Priests of the Divine Temple, Mo Yun Sacrificer possessed a substitute Magic Artifact bestowed by the Heavenly Realm.

Let alone mere Barbarians from Another World—even the Human Emperor of the Qianyuan Empire, who hadn’t attended court for two thousand years, couldn’t injure Mo Yun Sacrificer with a single strike!

The injury of a Martial God had already left Li Jing shocked for a long time.

Now, even a Sacrificer who possessed a substitute Magic Artifact had been injured!

This made Li Jing realize that the Otherworld powerhouse currently being discussed heatedly throughout the Thirteen Prefectures of the Southern Territory was most likely even more troublesome than imagined!

Just as Li Jing was about to press the Molu Sacrificer for more secrets, his expression suddenly changed slightly!

"Heaven and earth mourn—a Martial Saint has fallen!"

The Molu Sacrificer abruptly rose as well, looking toward the east!

At any other time, the fall of a Martial Saint would not have made him lose composure like this.

But the nearby Qingfeng Prefecture had just seen a Martial God and a Sacrificer heavily injured, and now a Martial Saint in Boyang Prefecture had fallen. How could he not be on edge!

Right at this moment, Li Jing’s Sound Transmission Talisman suddenly trembled.

Li Jing only glanced at it, then his step faltered; the uncontrolled force under his foot shattered a patch of the marble floor!

"Half an hour ago, an Otherworld powerhouse appeared in Qianfang City. With one sword he split a mountain, cleaving open hundreds of miles of Qianfang Mountain! He called himself Invincible Palace’s Lin Mu!"

Li Jing cursed inwardly.

That damned Barbarian from Another World—not staying in Qingfeng Prefecture and instead coming to Boyang Prefecture to stir up trouble, what for!

"One sword to cleave through hundreds of miles of green mountains? Even a Ten-Thousand-Man General couldn’t accomplish that, could he? No wonder he could kill a Martial Saint!"

The Molu Sacrificer suddenly understood. Then a flash of light appeared in his hand, and a massive Array appeared beneath his and Li Jing’s feet!

Whoosh!

The Array flashed, and the two disappeared.

When they appeared again, they were already at the place where the Martial Saint Yama had just fallen.

"This..."

Seeing the wound on Martial Saint Yama’s forehead, the Molu Sacrificer’s brows drew together.

He briefly examined the surrounding terrain, and his expression grew serious.

"Molu, what have you discovered?"

Seeing how grave the Molu Sacrificer looked, Li Jing also felt uneasy.

The Molu Sacrificer pointed at the shattered traces not far away and said, "If I’m not mistaken, over there should be the footprints left by a Person from Another World at about Thousand-man General level, formed by using a special Cultivation Technique!"

"However, though this person’s Cultivation Technique is special, his strength is still inferior to Martial Saint Yama’s, so he was being toyed with in the palm of Martial Saint Yama’s hand!"

The direction the Molu Sacrificer pointed was precisely where Li Kunlun had previously used One Step, Rivers Shatter and left his marks.

Apart from misjudging Li Kunlun’s identity as a Divine Child, there was no error at all!

Li Jing nodded silently.

As expected of a Temple Priest of the Divine Temple; his eye for detail was truly vicious.

"And here, this is another person, using the same Cultivation Technique, who killed two Thousand-man Generals and several thousand members of the Black Armor Hunting Team!"

"It’s just that this person...I can’t quite see through."

The Molu Sacrificer examined the traces left by Lin Mu’s One Step, Rivers Shatter again and again, yet his brows remained tightly furrowed.

"You can’t see through it?"

Li Jing was puzzled. A Temple Priest of the Divine Temple was equivalent to a Martial God-level expert of the Empire!

They stood at the very peak of combat power in the Qianyuan Empire!

The Molu Sacrificer was even the oldest among the three High Priests, rich in experience and widely knowledgeable.

And he was saying he couldn’t see through it?

The Molu Sacrificer frowned deeply. "Judging from the traces left behind, at first glance this person seems to be at Centurion level, but his control over power is extremely subtle. Using only the strength of a Centurion, he managed to kill two Thousand-man Generals and several thousand members of the Black Armor Hunting Team!"

"What astonished me just now, however, was still the death of Martial Saint Yama!"

"From the traces at the scene, Martial Saint Yama seems to have had no power to resist and was killed in a single blow. This flies in the face of common sense!"

"Martial Saint Yama was killed in one strike?" Li Jing shuddered in shock.

Martial Saint Yama was a Mid-Stage Martial Saint, only one minor realm lower than himself!

If that Person from Another World could kill Martial Saint Yama in a single strike, then he would not be a match either!

"Could it be that the Tianpeng Martial God and Mo Yun Sacrificer were really injured by the Person from Another World from that Nameless Minor World?"

Li Jing suddenly thought of a possibility that made his scalp go numb!

Before this, even knowing that the Tianpeng Martial God and Mo Yun Sacrificer were injured, he had only assumed the two were ambushed by other people within the Empire, or even Members of the Bai Family.

He had never considered the Barbarians from Another World!

If a Martial God-level expert could emerge from it, could that still be called a minor world?

Even that Bai Qi from the Bai Family, no matter how bold he was, wouldn’t dare recklessly attack a world that possessed a Martial God-level expert!

But now that Martial Saint Yama had been killed in a single blow, he had no choice but to suspect the strength of that Barbarian from Another World who had escaped from the Nameless Minor World!

Martial God!

Thinking of a Martial God-level Barbarian from Another World roaming freely within his Boyang Prefecture, Li Jing’s breathing began to quicken.

"That is precisely the part I cannot understand!"

"When that Person from Another World killed Martial Saint Yama, the power he released was only at the peak of Ten-Thousand-Man General level, at most at the early stage of Martial Saint!"

"I cannot figure out how such a feeble level of power could leave Martial Saint Yama with no ability to fight back..."

At this point, the Molu Sacrificer’s expression suddenly changed dramatically. He cried out, "This is bad! Li Jing, immediately send word to the Holy Capital and invite the Four Great Royal Clans to dispatch at least four Martial Gods to Boyang Prefecture!"

"That Person from Another World is very likely a Divine Child who has received the blessing of heaven and earth!"