Chapter 235 - - 233 If you can’t beat them, join them_1

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After carving out a hole large enough for a person to pass through,

Duge gave Dan Cong a slight smile and pretended to crawl into the study.

Dan Cong's complexion changed drastically, and with a slap of the word "fly" on himself, he flew out the window directly towards the supervisory envoy in the sky, "Supervisory envoy, save me..."

But Duge was faster.

Swinging a brick to swat away the flying sword aimed at his neck, he flashed behind Dan Cong in an instant, gripping his throat with one hand while hitting and slapping his body with the other, extracting clumps and clumps of ink and incidentally stripping his clothes completely off.

Duge's attributes far exceeded those of Dan Cong, and with the help of a cultivation level at the Divinity Transformation Realm, even Dan Cong's increase in agility couldn't match Duge's speed.

In a moment of desperation,

Dan Cong struck back at Duge.

But without the enhancement of text, he was just a common man with high attribute values.

Duge's hand skillfully grazed his arm, easily dislocating it.

"Thief, how dare you?" The supervisory envoy from the Void Refinement Realm was completely shocked, and all the flying swords besieging Li Yao were redirected at Duge.

Duge moved his hand to Dan Cong's throat.

The flying swords behind him came to an abrupt halt.

"Release him, or I'll make sure you have no place to be buried," the supervisory envoy said with an ashen face.

"I certainly won't let go." Feeling the Spirit Power Source continuously flowing into Dan Cong's body, Duge glanced at the supervisory envoy in the sky and called back, "Fellow brothers, wrap up the bricks on the ground and let's go. We've got the hostage, that supervisory envoy won't dare do anything to us!"

With a thought, the supervisory envoy's flying swords closed in on Duge again.

Duge tightened his grip on Dan Cong's throat.

The flying swords stopped yet again.

"Don't make any sudden moves, Supervisor Sir. Before your flying swords can kill me, he'll already be dismembered," Duge said with a smile, threatening, "Keeping him alive, you might still have a chance to save him. Just one word can summon a black dragon - such formidable divine skills, you wouldn't want him to die, would you..."

"I advise you to release him. You three are merely at the Divinity Transformation Realm level. If you hurt him, not a single one of you will get away," the supervisory envoy said coldly.

"If I'm to release him, we need to get out of Capital City's bounds!" Duge chuckled, "I'll give you a chance. Follow us to a safe place, let us go, and I'll return a living person to you. We were entrusted to kill this fellow. If we knew it would be this difficult, we should have asked for more in the beginning..."

Dan Cong didn't say a word.

He certainly knew Duge's details, but there was no point in revealing more under the hope of survival -- it wouldn't benefit him.

Duge wanted to live, and he wanted to live too.

So the likelihood of Duge killing him was not high.

Alien Warriors never trade life for life.

Li Anjiang and Yao Liang each held about a dozen bricks, steering their flying swords and standing beside Duge, nodding at him.

Duge stuffed the arm he had just torn off back into Dan Cong's hands, still gripping his throat, and called out to the others, "Let's go. Lord Supervisory Envoy, we're not dealing with this single trade. Be sensible and follow us yourself, or we're ready to tear the ticket and fight you to the death."

The supervisory envoy watched Duge coldly, not uttering a word, seemingly considering how to rescue Dan Cong intact from Duge's hands...

Duge and his companions mounted their flying swords, whizzing beneath the supervisory envoy's feet, and in an instant, they flew out of Capital City.

After about five miles, the feeling of restriction disappeared, and the flow of Spiritual Energy returned to normal.

The supervisory envoy didn't ride a flying sword but floated in the air, following them unhurriedly and casually, always maintaining a five-mile distance. He knew the range of his Spiritual Energy's suppression and didn't pressure Duge excessively.

"Junior brother, what do we do?" Li Anjiang looked back at the supervisory envoy from time to time, anxious in his heart, "I never knew the Void Refinement Realm was so powerful, no matter whether we kill him or let him go, he won't let us off."

"Face the enemy with the enemy, counter the water with the earth, first we leave Capital City," Duge said, "If it's just him alone, it's still manageable, but if other Void Refinement Realms are alarmed, or that Integration Realm old monster steps in, that's truly the end. It's not so bad right now..."

Feeling the Spiritual Power constantly pouring into Dan Cong's body, Duge sensed his own Spiritual Power plummeting, but at that moment, he couldn't afford to care about that.

"I can hold him off for you," Dan Cong said, "I'll make sure he doesn't chase you."

"As if we'd believe you," Yao Liang glared at him.

"I'm serious," Dan Cong said, "I have to fight for a way out for myself. By the way, what is this energy you're channeling into my body through your hand? Is it Spiritual Power? I feel it gathering inside me continuously, as if it's being compressed together..."

"Why do you care so much?" Duge interrupted him irritably, "You just said you were willing to cooperate, is that true?"

"Do you believe me?" Dan Cong chuckled, "In this situation, keeping me is the best solution. I don't know what you were thinking, coming to kill me after just two months. Can't you wait? Now we're stuck with a tiger by the tail. Let me ask you, do you regret it?"

"One less to kill," Duge grinned, "Old Dan, I really appreciate your abilities, I think we can truly cooperate..."

“Perhaps!” Dan Cong said with a noncommittal smile. “Brother, what do you think of my earlier proposition?”

“Not much!” Duge shook his head. “I’ve come up with a better idea that could ensure both of us survive.”

“What?” Dan Cong asked.

He conversed with Duge as if they were old friends, seemingly unconcerned that Duge was still clutching his throat.

Moreover.

Flying naked through the sky to enter the Alien Battlefield, his resolve had long been tempered to extraordinary strength.

As long as he could survive to the end, he was willing to do anything.

“I’m planning to join the Supervisory Academy with you,” Duge said with a smile. “That’s the best solution for both of us to survive, and besides, we could collaborate.”

“…” Dan Cong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed, “Alright, it indeed seems like the best solution, better than my previous one.”

“If you can’t beat them, join them. Is there anything more sensible than that?” Duge said.

“But if you’re planning to join, why don’t you stop now?” Dan Cong asked. “Joining is just one of your options, right?”

“Dan Cong, being too clever isn’t a good thing,” Duge shook his head.

“Alright.” Dan Cong laughed. “I will say no more, but you have to promise that both of us will get out of this alive. Otherwise, I don’t mind throwing a wrench in the works before I die.”

“Of course, it’s not just you and me, everyone will survive,” Duge assured with a smile.

A group pursued and another fled, and by the time the first light of dawn started to appear, they had already flown out over three thousand li, arriving at a desolate range of high mountains and steep hills.

Suddenly, Duge stopped.

Li Anjiang and Yao Liang also came to a halt.

The supervisory envoy watched the group from afar, maintaining his earlier indifference: “Let go of Dan Cong, and you may leave.”

“Older brothers, go ahead!” Duge looked at the supervisory envoy and then turned to Li Anjiang. “I will hold him off.”

“Younger brother, if anyone should go, it should be you. I will hold him off,” Li Anjiang said. “You are more important to our… sect.”

“Brother, if you stay, then indeed no one will be able to leave,” Duge shook his head and smiled. “Don’t forget, I am the one who has understood the essence of the Dao. Even this chaos-bringer is so hard to kill, how could I die easily?”

“Chaos-bringer?” Dan Cong heard this new term and couldn’t help chuckling.

“Supervisory Envoy, I will stay as a hostage in exchange for my two older brothers to leave,” Duge said without waiting for Li Anjiang to reply, looking firmly at the supervisory envoy.

“Agreeable.” The supervisory envoy nodded indifferently; he was only interested in Dan Cong, not Duge and the others. In his view, sacrificing one to save two was a correct move on Duge’s part.

“Go on!” Duge urged Li Yao.

“Little brother, be careful. If you really can’t escape, just join the Supervisory Academy as you said,” Li Anjiang and Yao Liang exchanged glances, gave Duge a few words of advice, and resolutely turned to leave. Duge had always been one to create miracles, and they believed he could pull off another one this time.

After confronting the supervisory envoy for a quarter of an hour, waiting until Li Yao were out of sight, Duge then landed on a large boulder at the summit of a mountain with Dan Cong.

He shouted to the supervisory envoy who was closely following from above: “Supervisory Envoy, don’t be so tense. I’m not so heroically selfless to trade my life for my brothers’ chance to escape, otherwise, I would have killed him just now. Why bother landing here? Let’s have a proper talk instead! Let’s talk about how we all can survive…”

“Let go of Dan Cong, and I will let you leave. My word is my bond,” the supervisory envoy descended slightly, coming even closer to Duge. He stared intently at Duge’s hand around Dan Cong’s neck, ready to act at any moment.

“Supervisory Envoy, are you aware of the black dragon that Dan Cong summoned yesterday?” Duge, not bothered by the approaching supervisory envoy, smiled and said, “I was the one who took care of that dragon. My skills are actually greater than Dan Cong’s and in some ways, they even counter his.

“What do you think? Is it possible for me to join the Supervisory Academy just like him? His Divine Skills are too strong. If you can’t hold him, keeping me could keep him in check. After all, I’m still young, just eighteen years old. I don’t want to die so young, and, an eighteen-year-old in the Divinity Transformation Realm should be considered a genius, right?”

The supervisory envoy’s heart stirred, glancing at Duge instinctively and said, “Possible.”

“Really?” Duge’s tone was full of surprise.

“I never lie,” the supervisory envoy frowned. “And I certainly wouldn’t deceive a child like you.”

“You agreed too quickly; I’m concerned. Besides, I have committed such a serious crime,” Duge looked up at the supervisory envoy in the sky. “Supervisory Envoy, how about this compromise? I will still hold Dan Cong while you hold me from behind. If you try to kill me, I will kill Dan Cong. If you don’t kill me, I won’t harm him. That way, we can both be reassured.

“Then we’ll head back to the Supervisory Academy together.

“I want to hear from the head of the Supervisory Academy himself that I can join without facing punishment. Even better if the emperor issues a decree to affirm my status. Only then will I release Dan Cong; otherwise, I would rather crush him to death…”

Dan Cong frowned slightly, suddenly unsure of what Duge was planning. Allowing a Void Refinement Realm practitioner to grab him was to hand over his life!

Could it be that Duge had some other capability?

Suddenly, he remembered the energy that had involuntarily flowed into him, that strange Spiritual Power?

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