Chapter 998: Wuji Base

Chi Tong fell into deep thought.

Chen Ling was right. The defensive strength of the cathedral was too weak right now. Relying solely on him, a Thief Saint, and a batch of Fire-Tamperers, they would basically have no resistance if they encountered a frontal assault from the [Ks], and the return of the Adjudicator Proxies would also take time...

Rather than that, it would be better to let Hongxiu, the highest combat power currently in the domain, sit in the cathedral and send the other Fire-Tamperers out to search for the whereabouts of the Twilight Society.

*BOOM—!!*

Just as Chi Tong was hesitating, several more earth-shattering explosions came from the distance. This time, it wasn't from Hongxiu’s direction, but from various factories... Raging flames mixed with black smoke surged into the sky, as if smoke of war was rising everywhere. The entire Wuji Domain had completely fallen into chaos!

Seeing this scene, Chi Tong no longer hesitated and gave the order directly:

"Have Hongxiu return, and have the others continue to engage the Twilight Society!"

"Understood!"

The Fire-Tamperers hurried out of the office.

Chi Tong looked back out the window, his expression extremely grave as he watched the thick smoke rising everywhere; behind him, Chen Ling, who was also "panicked and worried," curled his mouth into a faint smile...

……

"Mr. Fang, did we pour too much oil this time?"

Looking at the raging flames rising into the sky before him, Cao Jun couldn't help but take two steps back.

"...No, this is the effect we wanted." Fang Liangye looked toward the cathedral. "The Fire-Tamperers will be here soon. Clean up the scene and leave here as soon as possible."

"Understood!"

Several workers began to quickly extinguish the flames in the oil drums, then used hammers to smash the drums to pieces, performing a "destruction of evidence" before leaving behind only a baffling explosion scene.

Just as everyone was retreating, Jian Changsheng arrived from the distance with Jiang Xiaohua and the other.

"Was the explosion just now your doing?"

Sun Bumian opened his mouth in surprise as he saw the scene before him. "I thought the Twilight Society had attacked..."

"That’s exactly the effect I wanted. Right now, not just you, but the entire city thinks the Twilight Society has launched an attack." Jian Changsheng pointed at Fang Liangye and said, "This is Fang Liangye. In a sense, he is also Heart 6 right now... All of this is his plan."

Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua both began to size Fang Liangye up carefully. Upon discovering that he was just an ordinary person, deep astonishment appeared in their eyes...

"By the way, didn't Hongxiu get into a fight with someone just now?" Jian Changsheng asked Fang Liangye, as if remembering something. "Who was she fighting?"

"The air."

“？”

Fang Liangye spoke calmly, "The Heart in the church has already seen through my intentions. He is letting Hongxiu cooperate with my actions... To create something out of nothing, someone has to enter the scene first."

"Two Heart 6s, one inside and one outside, directing the same play... deceiving everyone in the Wuji Domain."

Sun Bumian’s eyes gradually brightened, and his gaze toward Fang Liangye was filled with anticipation.

Before arriving, Sun Bumian hadn't actually believed Jian Changsheng’s talk of "toying with the Fire-Usurpers," but seeing the scene before him, he was now full of confidence in Heart 6. He solemnly patted Fang Liangye on the shoulder.

"Well done! Play it even harder, and toy those shameless Fire-Usurpers to death!"

Just as they were speaking, a flying knife condensed from killing intent whistled through the air, piercing into the ground in front of Fang Liangye before Jian Changsheng and the others could even react!

The pupils of Jian Changsheng and the others contracted sharply.

They looked in the direction the knife came from in astonishment. Amidst the ruins several kilometers away, a red-haired figure in black glanced casually toward them, and the next moment, like a ghost, vanished from the spot.

The speed of that flying knife was too fast. If its target had been any one of them, they would have been instantly pierced, with no power to resist... In front of an Eighth-Order [Asura], the Fourth-Order Jian Changsheng and the others were almost no different from the powerless Fang Liangye.

"It’s Hongxiu... What is she doing??" Jian Changsheng’s brows were locked in a frown.

At the same time, Fang Liangye slowly crouched down and picked up a piece of paper hanging from the end of the killing-intent knife.

Fang Liangye swept his gaze over the paper, and a look of realization appeared on his face.

"...She came to deliver a letter."

"Whose letter?"

"The letter from that Heart in the church, of course."

"Did he tell you what to do next?"

"No. As for what to do next, he and I should both have the answer in our hearts; there's no need to send someone to deliver a letter." Fang Liangye put away the paper, a faint glimmer flickering in his eyes. "He wants me to help him investigate something."

Fang Liangye didn't explain to Jian Changsheng and the others what was written on the letter, and Jian Changsheng didn't ask. After all, that flying knife had been aimed straight at Fang Liangye.

"Wait for me a moment, I have something to take care of." Fang Liangye turned and walked toward the warehouse.

There was no one left in the warehouse now; everyone had gone to various factories to manufacture the illusion of explosions in the same way... Fortunately, Wu Duo was still standing by the window, her gaze toward the outside filled with worry.

"Miss Wu." Fang Liangye walked to her side.

"I told you, there's no need to be so formal..." Wu Duo looked at him with some helplessness. "Is something the matter?"

"You were part of the Witchcraft Association before, right?"

"Yes."

"Then how much do you know about... the Wuji Base?"

"Wuji Base?" Wu Duo was startled. "What are you looking for that for?"

"Someone asked me to investigate some information... If that information exists, it would likely be stored in the Wuji Base."

Wu Duo’s brows furrowed, as if she were thinking about how to explain it to Fang Liangye. "Strictly speaking, the Wuji Domain is different from other domains... There is no such thing as a Wuji Base at all."

"There isn't...?" Fang Liangye’s eyes were full of confusion. "That’s impossible. Aren't the nine great domains all evolved from nine bases?"

"You’re right, but the Wuji Domain is quite special."

"During the Great Cataclysm, there were actually only eight bases in the true sense. It was only after the disaster descended that the Wuji Lord directly used his power to transform a mountain into a base to accommodate the remaining refugees and foreign evacuees. That is how the name 'Wuji Base' came to be."

"The Wuji Base was not man-made; it was a part of the Wuji Lord himself. Later, after the Wuji Lord’s domain expanded and the Wuji Domain was formed, the residents moved to the outside world, and that base turned back into a mountain..."

"Now, if you want to find the Wuji Base, you won't be able to find it anymore."

Fang Liangye’s brows furrowed. "Then where did the information inside go?"

"After the Wuji Lord fell into a deep slumber, the Witchcraft Association took over the affairs within the domain. The information originally in the base was also transferred and preserved by the Association... It’s just that there was too much of it, and most of it was paper and easily damaged. After internal discussions within the Association at the time, they chose to preserve it in another form..."