The moment he was knocked down by the headless corpse, Tao Tiancheng’s world completely collapsed.
His living companions, Zhou Yuanguang and Wang Anye, turned into corpses in an instant.
No, one was chunks of flesh, the roasted kind, and there were several pieces under Tao Tiancheng’s feet.
The other one was a body, still spurting blood from the neck.
Tao Tiancheng’s lips trembled unconsciously, his teeth chattering!
He had seen blood, he had killed people.
In theory, he shouldn’t be so afraid!
But he was shaking all over with fear.
The reason was simple, no matter who he had killed before, he himself had never faced a life-and-death threat!
But at this moment, everything was telling him that he was on the brink of life and death, facing death itself!
The next instant, he might become a corpse!
This was extreme fear coming from deep within the heart!
"What’s your name?" Xu Jin asked.
"Tao... Tao Tiancheng... don’t kill me, I’ll do anything you want!"
Xu Jin bent down and smirked, scaring Tao Tiancheng with a shudder.
Just as Tao Tiancheng was nodding fiercely, he suddenly felt an intense pain in the back of his neck, and everything went black as he fainted.
The next moment, Xu Jin activated his Warm Dream Star Pattern, pulling the unconscious Tao Tiancheng into a deep sleep, and then he began to directly interrogate him with questions he needed answers to.
Tao Tiancheng’s dreamy voice began to echo.
A prisoner whose spirit and will had been completely destroyed was all too easy to interrogate with the Warm Dream Star Pattern.
There was no need to even enter a dream.
After putting him to sleep, a direct interrogation with Warm Dream would suffice.
This was much more convenient than a normal interrogation.
Although Tao Tiancheng had already said he would confess everything, direct interrogation still required Xu Jin to discern what was true and what was false; it was a hassle.
Now, under this state, whatever was asked was the truth.
After asking a few questions, Xu Jin understood the whole cause and effect.
It was indeed a plan they had laid out, but a last-minute one.
Tao Tiancheng and his people had encountered a squad of the alien race army searching for invaders and immediately showed the purple broken feather bearing the scent of their king, gaining the cooperation of this alien race army straight away.
They also received a lot of information.
For instance, Zhang Shuo and He Yulan had entered the Royal Court of the Purple Winged Alien Race, and they had already instructed them to help search for their fellow disciples.
If they encountered fellow disciples, they were to gather at the Royal City.
They were originally heading to the Royal City because, although they had previously located the position of Ying Ge and her group of five, they were not certain of capturing them.
Now encountering the alien race army searching for invaders, they seized the opportunity and used this alien force as their vanguard.
The order of this alien race army was indeed to search for intruders.
Under the guidance of Tao Tiancheng and his people, they quickly found Ying Ge and others, and with deliberate coordination, they led Ying Ge’s group into an ambush.
Tao Tiancheng and the others just wanted to reap the benefits.
After all, they were the five geniuses from the Da Chen National Taoist School.
If there were those willing to fight desperately at the last moment, there would indeed be injuries to bear.
They were waiting for Ying Ge and her five to be worn down, and when they were at their most exhausted, they would take them down effortlessly.
Unfortunately, they encountered Xu Jin.
Later, Xu Jin obtained an important piece of information from Tao Tiancheng.
The purple broken feathers were different.
The two top-grade Star Casting geniuses from Star Hall had the tips of the feathers, a tier higher than the ones they possessed.
The normal Star Hall geniuses like them had only one use for their purple broken feathers—to show them at critical moments so that the Purple Wing Clan wouldn’t attack them.
But the two top-grade Star Casting geniuses from Star Hall who held the purple broken feathers could represent the two great Star Halls to some extent.
In other words, the purple broken feathers held by Tian Lie and Zhang Shuo granted them the ability to cooperate with the Purple Winged Alien Race.
At this point, Xu Jin thoroughly understood why Tian Lie could cooperate with Zi Yang, the Fourth-Tier, Seventh-Layer City Lord of Fire Wood City.
It wasn’t just the precious Pills and promised rewards, there was also the commitment of Star Hall behind them.
Suddenly, Xu Jin’s pupils contracted, and his expression changed.
So, what would Zhang Shuo, the top-grade genius from Cangming Star Hall, do at the Royal Court of the Purple Wing Clan?
From this piece of intelligence, Xu Jin instantly thought of numerous possibilities!
The greatest possibility was to invite the Purple Wing Royal Family to form an alliance with them against their own.
Just as Tian Lie had previously done.
It was easy for Tian Lie to accomplish, and it wouldn’t be difficult for Zhang Shuo either!
What’s more fatal was that Tian Lie had only collaborated with a Fourth-Tier, Seventh-Layer City Lord, with limited forces at his disposal.
But Zhang Shuo was seeking out the king of the Purple Wing Clan.
He was a Fourth-Tier, Ninth-Layer City Lord himself, and the key was, the amount of force he could mobilize was terrifying!
Zi Yang, the City Lord, could only mobilize a few Star Condensing Realm experts.
But the king of the Purple Wing Clan could mobilize all the Star Condensing Realm experts from the entire Third-Tier Purple Wind Star Domain.
Would Xu Jin and the others have any chance of survival then?
If it were only Star Condensing Realm experts from the Purple Wing Clan chasing them, then with flexible tactics and constant movement, Xu Jin’s group of seven still had a chance of survival.
But if the Star Hall disciples joined in.
They could receive updates on Xu Jin and the others’ location every two hours, and with the speed of the Star Condensing Realm’s Mid to Late Period experts, especially the ones from the Purple Wing Royal Family who practiced Thunder Star Skills and were incredibly fast.
There was a possibility of total annihilation!
Upon this thought, Xu Jin’s face became exceedingly grim, his brows furrowed into a frown.
This tactic from Cangming Star Hall was too treacherous!
Basically, as long as it was deployed, they could wipe out the entire group of disciples from the Da Chen National Daoist School.