Chapter 134: Being Hunted Down

What? Stealing takeout?

Yun Muchen stared at the man in front of him, his vision momentarily darkening.

This guy was clearly not Yun Luo Xian.

So, you’re telling me that this prison, built like the supervillain containment from a superhero movie, is holding a petty thief who just stole takeout?!

“Sir, the tenacious criminal you seek is right here.”

The Azure Dragon Mentor bowed slightly with a flawless gesture of invitation—his etiquette was absolutely perfect, beyond reproach.

No one could possibly get angry in the face of such a courteous smile.

“He’s not the one I’m looking for.” Yun Muchen ground his teeth. “You know exactly who I’m after.”

“Ah?” The Azure Dragon Mentor’s expression was one of shock. “You’ve brought a large number of Sian Office experts—enough to lay waste to a city… With such a grand mobilization, surely you’re here to capture a major criminal?”

“I am here to catch a criminal, but not this one.”

“Not this one?” The Azure Dragon Mentor grew even more astonished. “Is there another criminal at the school that even I don’t know about? Impossible. This kid is the worst offender we have at the school.”

“The one I want is Yun. Luo. Xian!” Yun Muchen growled. “Mr. Azure Dragon, I advise you not to pretend you don’t understand!”

“I’m not pretending; I’m genuinely confused.” Despite being head of the school’s Strategy Department, his face was full of puzzlement and innocence. “What crime did Yun Luo Xian commit?”

“Treason against the Association. She betrayed the Donghuang Immortal Spirit Association. She has forsaken the land that bore her. She is a traitor to Donghuang.”

“Trea—sorry, sir, could you please explain exactly what Yun Luo Xian did to betray Donghuang? Was it leaking secrets? Murder?”

“She…” Yun Muchen paused for a moment before coldly stating, “She destroyed Donghuang’s unity and shattered commercial order.”

“How did she destroy it? Forgive me, as Yun Luo Xian’s instructor, I need a detailed account before I can publicly criticize her at school. Something like this—”

He raised his phone and announced over the school intercom: “A certain student in our school has repeatedly stolen takeout… aabbccaabb…”

The Azure Dragon Mentor took at least half a minute to make this report. Afterward, he looked back at Yun Muchen. “You understand now, right? So I need to know the full story.”

Yun Muchen’s fists clenched so tightly they cracked audibly.

This guy was stalling—definitely stalling!

What a sly old fox!

“Get lost!” Yun Muchen had no patience left to argue with the Azure Dragon Mentor. It was just a lousy school, and he wasn’t convinced they couldn’t find the person.

His subordinates had split up upon entering the school, searching for Yun Luo Xian separately. Surely by now, they must have found her.

“Where is she?” Yun Muchen opened his walkie-talkie to ask.

“zzZZZZ——”

Only a steady, harmonious snoring came through the radio.

They actually slacked off and fell asleep?!

Lazy pigs… no, that couldn’t be right. Could it be hypnosis? That tentacle monster did have hypnotic abilities.

“Track their positions immediately!”

It took another five minutes to lock down their locations.

Finally!

Yun Muchen found out where Yun Luo Xian was.

Just then…

The celestial phenomenon in the sky suddenly thinned.

The entire sky’s iridescence fell toward the earth, converging in the same direction.

Eventually, all the celestial signs returned to normal and vanished without a trace.

I opened my eyes and immediately pocketed the Dan medicine.

Looking around at the sleeping scouts scattered everywhere, I decisively drew my blade, taking each one down silently.

“Uh…” Nearby students were a bit shocked.

This was the school, after all, full of people.

And Yun Luo Xian actually dared to kill public security officers in broad daylight—killing more than a dozen at once!

Cluru also looked puzzled. “People are watching…”

“These are all Mu Family doglegs, Yun Muchen’s ironclad loyalists. None of them are clean. Better to deal with them quickly before they cause trouble later.”

“But if we do this, there’s no turning back…”

“There hasn’t been a turning back for a long time. They won’t spare me.”

I put my arm around Cluru’s shoulder and silently formed a hand seal to teleport:

“Either we become kings, or we become outlaws.”

By now, right and wrong, crime or innocence, no longer mattered.

Only strength could decide the fate of Cluru and me.

“Let’s go, time to enter seclusion.”

“Where? The school isn’t safe anymore. They have the arrest warrant. The school can no longer openly help us.”

Wherever human civilization exists, the Association’s eyes are watching.

To evade their surveillance, we must leave human settlements.

I thought for a moment and looked east.

At the edge of the sea, there seemed to be a towering wall, casting a dark, profound shadow over the white clouds.

“Hopefully Senior Kun won’t send us a cease-and-desist letter.”

Long-distance Blink was a very dangerous form of Flash Step.

Because the blink distance exceeded the range of spiritual perception, you had no idea what the landing point was like.

It was easy to phase through objects.

But it was different over the ocean.

There were no dense buildings or trees on the sea, so you could blink freely.

After a Blink, Cluru and I fell into the water.

So I carried Cluru and performed a second ultra-long-distance Blink.

This time, we blinked into a pool of murky liquid with no air around.

The surroundings were filled with blood-red root-like veins.

Behind us stood a convex lens taller than a skyscraper.

“Uru (damn)! Urula (an eye)!”

We accidentally blinked into the eye of a Kun.

I hurriedly Blinked a third time, landing at a high place.

Cluru and I finally hit the hard ground.

This place looked like a rocky beach, covered with hard barnacles and coral corpses, prickly to the touch.

I took out bedding and spread it on a patch of open ground, sitting down with Cluru.

“The Great Kun probably doesn’t care about two little ants like us. To it, we’re probably no different from these barnacles and coral on its back… so we’re safe for now. We should be able to break through to the Golden Core stage here.” I took out the Dan medicine.

Cluru pouted unhappily. “How long will the breakthrough take? It can’t be ten or twenty years, right? They bullied you so much—I don’t want to wait even a minute.”

“What are you thinking? It’s just a minor Golden Core breakthrough, takes a few minutes. Once we’re done, we’ll beat those shark-finned trash out!”

“That’s good~” Cluru’s face instantly lit up with joy.

“Alright, for safety we’ll break through separately. I’ll go first; you protect me.”

“Ah-hm~”

Cluru immediately went back into alert mode.

Yun Muchen’s face was ashen as he looked at the pile of corpses.

They were all his loyal doglegs who had run errands for him over the years—there was some camaraderie among them, like snakes and rats working together.

But now, all of them were corpses.

“Judging from the spatial fluctuations of the Blink, the person you’re looking for headed east,” a researcher-like man said after scanning the surrounding energy.

“East? The east is the sea…” Yun Muchen muttered.

“It’s an ultra-long-distance Blink,” the researcher said with awe. “Whoever this person is, their understanding of space must be extraordinary to blink hundreds of kilometers…”

“Hundreds of kilometers?” Yun Muchen’s eyes sharpened as he instantly figured out their target.

Kun!

Right, the Association had imposed a Forbidden Zone Order around the Kun.

For them, the Kun’s back was the safest place in the world!

“I really want to know who this Blink user is,” the researcher looked expectantly at Yun Muchen. “Sir, could you share some information? I’d love to collaborate with her on some research someday…”

“A criminal. A traitor.”

With that, Yun Muchen left the researcher behind.

Only the researcher remained, looking around in bewilderment.

He wanted to ask surrounding students or professors about the person’s identity but was met only with contemptuous glances.

“An unworthy Academician.”

“We at Egg University look down on you. Please leave quickly.”

“Lackey, ugh!”

What?

What was going on at Egg University?

He wasn’t even part of Egg University—he’d only been invited by Yun Muchen as a consultant and was just doing his job.

Why did it feel like he’d done something stupid?

“This is bad.” The Azure Dragon Mentor folded his fan, his expression grave.

With his intelligence, he could vaguely guess that Yun Luo Xian and Cluru were planning something big.

They probably needed a safe place to unleash their ultimate move and reverse the situation.

But… they likely didn’t expect Yun Muchen to lock down their location so quickly.

Yun Muchen had brought three dojo-level experts along, far beyond what they could handle.

“Sigh—” The Azure Dragon Mentor sighed mournfully. “A tiny spark, in the end, is just a tiny spark…”