Chapter 1181: Midnight Operation
In fact, he was the biggest victim. The second young master not only didn't comfort him but also scolded him, making him really want to rebel.
"What! That kid is actually in Husler Capital?"
Zhao Hong was incredibly surprised. Earlier, he had inadvertently overheard the Elders in the family discussing Lin Yifan's recent activities.
Not only had Lin Yifan not been killed by the pursuit of the major Sects, but he had also become even more powerful, now able to defeat powerhouses in the early stage of the Divine Transformation Forth Realm.
Moreover, he had heard that disciples from the Wudang Sect and the Kunlun Sect were all searching for Lin Yifan's whereabouts, seeming to harbor great hatred towards him.
He felt that Lin Yifan might have been hunted down and thus had hidden in Husler Capital.
This was a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, so he immediately contacted people from the Mu Family in the Capital City and the Zhang Family in the Capital City, informing them of Lin Yifan's whereabouts, urging them to send disciples from the Sects backing them to Husler Capital to eliminate Lin Yifan.
The phone was connected quickly and in just a few minutes, the Elders from the Mu Family and the Zhang Family learned that Lin Yifan was in Husler Capital.
Thus, they immediately called the disciples of their backing Sects in Ulysses, informing them of Lin Yifan's current whereabouts.
At this time, disciples from the Wudang Sect and the Kunlun Sect were disheartened.
Because after entering the underground Cave Mansion, they found nothing; everything had been taken by Lin Yifan.
The Kunlun Sect disciples believed that the items they had been seeking must have been taken by Lin Yifan, hence they were filled with regret and hatred.
The Wudang Sect's disciples felt the same way. The great treasures had been stolen by Lin Yifan, the thief, and their hearts felt like they were bleeding.
Just when everyone thought there was no hope, a phone call came, reviving their spirits.
The call was made by one of their agents in the Secular World, who had just received news that Lin Yifan had appeared in Husler Capital, urging them to quickly capture Lin Yifan.
Lin Yifan did not return to the Medicinal Saint Valley but instead went to the provincial capital of Mengnei Province, Husler Capital, leaving them puzzled.
Hadn't Lin Yifan already obtained the treasures? Why hadn't he returned to the Medicinal Saint Valley? Could it be that his relations with the Medicinal Saint Valley had soured? Or perhaps he hadn't found the real treasures, only clues to their whereabouts?
The Kunlun Sect disciples could conclude that this was definitely not the Desert Dynasty, because the Desert Dynasty wouldn't be confined to just one Cave Mansion; they thought Lin Yifan might have found clues to the Desert Dynasty's whereabouts, which explained why he didn't hurry back to the Medicinal Saint Valley and instead went to Mengnei Province.
This speculation made logical sense and was highly plausible.
So they traveled while transmitting the information back to the Sect to let the Elders and the Sect Leader decide.
The Elders and the Sect Leader of the Kunlun Sect were greatly shocked upon hearing this speculation; previously, they had suspected the Desert Dynasty might be in Mengnei Province.
They had such a suspicion because their Scripture Pavilion contained an ancient book with a record of the Desert Dynasty's whereabouts, a short phrase containing a critical location.
Unfortunately, the writing of this location was too blurry for them to decipher, so they had never known the Desert Dynasty's whereabouts, only that it was hidden within the desert.
However, with some modern technological processing, they managed to glimpse the outlines of some of these characters, drew them out, and started matching them with the existing ancient characters to see if any matched.
In the end, they found many ancient characters whose outlines matched, resulting in over a thousand potential locations, leaving them clueless about which was the true one.
Among these thousand potential locations, one was situated in the current Mengnei Province.
Mengnei Province had a desert, leading them to once believe the Desert Dynasty was in Mengnei Province, but after onsite investigations, they found nothing.
In their later research, they discovered that a large part of these thousand potential locations appeared in the current northwestern provinces, where the largest Sarata Great Desert was located. Additionally, their Thirteenth Elder seemed to have obtained something from the Sarata Great Desert that was suspected to be from the Desert Dynasty, so they unanimously believed that the Desert Dynasty was most likely hidden somewhere in the northwestern provinces.
To this day, they haven't been able to refute this speculation.
Actually, if the Thirteenth Elder could have brought that item back, they might have found the Desert Dynasty's whereabouts and the Green Immortal Ring long ago.
Unfortunately, without that possibility, the Thirteenth Elder went missing on the way back, and his whereabouts remain unknown. They worry about the Thirteenth Elder every day.
Now, upon learning that Lin Yifan of the Medicinal Saint Valley, who was also the kid who took the Orange Immortal Ring from Beixuan Palace, making countless people envious, might have obtained clues to the Desert Dynasty's location, and had appeared in the provincial capital of Mengnei Province, they were in a state of panic and felt things had taken a turn for the worse.
The reason they hadn't found the Desert Dynasty's whereabouts might be because they had guessed the wrong location; if Lin Yifan got there first and obtained the Green Immortal Ring, then the Medicinal Saint Valley might possess three Immortal Rings.
This was extremely bad news because if the Medicinal Saint gathered all seven Immortal Rings, only the Medicinal Saint or the disciples of the Medicinal Saint Valley would be able to enter the Realm of Longevity.
None of them wanted to die; they all wanted to live forever and pursue higher Realms, so no matter what, they had to enter the Realm of Longevity.
As such, they immediately mobilized their agents in the Secular World—the Zhang Family of the Capital City—to head to Mengnei Province, keeping a close watch on Lin Yifan.
Husler Capital and Yanjing weren't far apart; by plane, it would take less than an hour, and since it was nighttime, Lin Yifan was likely resting, making this a golden opportunity to capture Lin Yifan.
They instructed the Zhang Family not to alert Lin Yifan prematurely before they arrived, as they had heard from the disciples on a mission in Ulysses that Lin Yifan possessed numerous Instant Teleport Charms, allowing him to teleport instantly and indefinitely.
The Zhang Family's members were ordinary cultivators without even a single Instant Teleport Charm, so even if the head of the Zhang Family was stronger than Lin Yifan, he couldn't catch Lin Yifan stealthily.
As long as Lin Yifan had a second to react, he could escape.
The head of the Zhang Family in the Capital City hadn't expected the higher-ups to take this matter so seriously, which indicated that Lin Yifan must have obtained something extremely precious, or vital clues.
Although Lin Yifan had limitless potential, they had the Kunlun Sect backing them, so even if they faced annihilation, they had a fallback; so he immediately carried out the task assigned by the Sect Leader, gathering all cultivators above the Divine Transformation Forth Realm and setting out for Husler Capital.
On the way, he contacted the manager of the hotel where Lin Yifan was staying, asking him to have someone covertly monitor Lin Yifan's room 24/7.
If there was any movement, they were to notify them immediately.