God of Pets

Chapter 417 Thorns Ahead
A white light emanated from Yang Huai's body, as if an angel had descended upon him.

The body, which had been severely injured, was rapidly healing itself within that light.

There are many types of secret treasures, including not only attack-type treasures but also healing-type treasures.

Yang Huai got up and tried to escape, but Xiu Jieming had already arrived in front of him, also using his hidden power. The powerful aura of the Supreme Demon Lord who could fight against heaven and earth enveloped Xiu Jieming's body.

Xiu Jieming slapped out with his large palm, transforming it into supreme destructive power, crushing towards Yang Huai like the sky collapsing and the earth sinking.

Yang Huai felt the surrounding space was so oppressive that he could hardly breathe, and with nowhere to escape, he roared and unleashed his hidden power once more. Ten thousand sword beams burst forth from his body and pierced towards Xiu Jieming's giant handprint.

boom!
The sword light shattered, and Yang Huai's body was also smashed into a bloody mist under the giant handprint, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.

"Even the secret treasures vary in strength," Chen Guan couldn't help but sigh. When he turned to look at Hu Quan, he saw a phantom of a crane appear on Hu Quan's body. In an instant, Hu Quan transformed into a streak of light and soared into the sky, disappearing into the village in the blink of an eye.

"He got away." Chen Guan wanted to chase after him, but found that he couldn't catch up at all. The secret technique Hu Quan used was a speed-type secret technique, and the speed it unleashed was too fast.

“He can’t escape.” Xiu Jieming said calmly, “The legacy is in this village, he can’t leave this village.”

Chen Guan nodded and looked at Xiu Jieming, asking, "Do you also possess those secret knowledge?"

“Yes.” Xiu Jieming thought for a moment and said, “If I’m not mistaken, those secret consciousnesses originally belonged to the villagers of this Ancient Well Village.”

"Why do you say that?" Chen Guan asked, slightly surprised.

If those secret knowledges are the manifestations of villagers after their deaths, then the villagers here are all practitioners of the Three Awakenings.

Would a practitioner who has reached the third level of enlightenment die from dehydration? That is clearly unlikely.

Even without a pet or mount, a cultivator at the third level of enlightenment can run at least 800 miles a day, if not a thousand miles, simply by running on two legs. This is not a difficult task.

With that kind of speed and endurance, is it really that hard to survive in a different place?
Xiu Jieming explained, "These secret consciousnesses are merely a trace of awareness relying on the secret treasure. They have almost no memory or thinking ability, and survive entirely on a wisp of obsession."

"At first, I thought that this wisp of obsession contained such deep hatred because their secret consciousness had been extracted. But after arriving at this Ancient Well Village, I could deeply sense that this obsession and the hatred within it had become even stronger."

"I see." Chen Guan felt that Xiu Jieming's speculation was correct.

"Have you discovered the inheritance of the Netherworld Emperor?" Chen Guan asked again.

"We still have no leads. We had only been searching for a short while when we heard the commotion here and came looking for us," Xiu Jieming said, shaking his head.

"Then let's deal with that person from the inspection department first, and then we can look for him slowly." Chen Guan said as he walked in the direction Hu Quan had fled.

Fu Tianji followed Chen Guan at a leisurely pace, like an eight-armed guardian deity.

Xiu Jieming glanced at Fu Tianji, then walked alongside Chen Guan and asked, "This person wasn't sent by Ji Nanhong, was he?"

"No," Chen Guan answered truthfully.

"Could you introduce us?" Xiu Jieming was captivated by Fu Tianji's combat prowess and wanted to meet such a powerful figure and find an opportunity to spar. However, since Fu Tianji was Chen Guan's man, he wanted to obtain Chen Guan's permission first to show that he had no other intentions.

“It’s no use getting to know him. His consciousness is malfunctioning. In a way, he’s similar to those mystical consciousnesses. They all rely on a wisp of obsession to exist in the world. The difference is that he has a body, while those mystical consciousnesses don’t,” Chen Guan said.

"Such a thing actually happened? Who could have turned such a powerful person into this state?" Xiu Jieming exclaimed in surprise as he looked at Fu Tianji.

He had noticed something was off about Fu Tianji earlier, but he just thought he was being eccentric. He never expected it to be like this.

"Me," Chen Guan said, shrugging.

Xiu Jieming's expression immediately turned strange as he looked at Chen Guan and said, "You've done this to him, and he's still following you. Could it be that his obsession is to kill you?"

"Pretty much, a little more terrifying than killing me. He wants to make me wish I were dead." Chen Guan had no intention of hiding anything from Xiu Jieming.

He now realizes that it will not be easy for either Ji Nanhong or the Xiu family to control the Heavenly Army.

The judge will not allow the Heavenly Army to use someone else's name again. A single Commander Ji has controlled the Heavenly Army for eight hundred years. The judge has probably had enough and will never allow such a thing to happen again.

The Xiu family must have realized this long ago, which is why they were so eager to form a marriage alliance with Ji Nan Hong, hoping to leverage the power of both families to continue taking control of the Heavenly Court Army.

The current situation is that, regardless of whether Ji Nanhong is willing to marry into the Xiu family, as long as she wants to control the Heavenly Army, she must obtain the Xiu family's support. Otherwise, after Commander Ji's death, she and Chen Guan alone will probably not be able to control the Heavenly Army, and they will have to fight the Xiu family to the death.

Even if the Xiu family is defeated, the Heavenly Court Army will suffer a great loss of strength. Wouldn't that be like depleting ourselves? At that time, the Chief Justice can easily take back the military power of the Heavenly Court Army.

The Heavenly Court Army's strength has been weakened, a situation that is unacceptable to the Ji and Xiu families, as well as the Court Chief.

Therefore, if Ji Nanhong wants to fight the Xiu family to the death, she will be the first person to be kicked out, and even the judge will not tolerate her.

The reason the supervisory department targeted Chen Guan was because they could not allow things to develop in that direction.

Chen Guan had figured it out: if Ji Nanhong wanted to control the Heavenly Court Army, she had to cooperate with the Xiu family. Even if she couldn't bring them under her wing, she had to form a unified alliance.

It all depends on the judge's intentions. If he is determined to suppress both the Xiu and Ji families at all costs, then both families will face great difficulties in the future. In the end, all three parties may suffer heavy losses, and the Heavenly Army may never recover its former glory. This is probably not the outcome the judge desires.

If the presiding judge is unwilling to escalate the situation to that point and can accept the mutual checks and balances between the Xiu and Ji families in jointly managing the Heavenly Army, that might be the best outcome for Ji Nanhong.

If one wants to control the Heavenly Army alone, there are only two paths: one is to become the Chief Justice's dog completely, and even then, it depends on whether the Chief Justice is willing to accept him.

The other option is to lead the Heavenly Army to establish their own independent entity, but this path is almost a dead end.

If Chen Guan can enter the Great Cave Heaven and complete the nine awakenings before the Third Army Commander dies, he can still try his luck; otherwise, he shouldn't even think about it.

"You really are a talent." Xiu Jieming's words were not sarcastic, but sincere.

To be able to turn someone like Fu Tianji into this state is something that no ordinary person could do.

(End of this chapter)