Inside the alchemical flying boat, one of the servants controlling the boat respectfully said, "Master, we have arrived at Snowstone Castle."
Xiang Pangyun, who had been sitting with his eyes closed, opened them. The four people beside him, including Fengmo, also began to get up.
"Brother, we're going down," Fengmo said with a smile.
"Alright," Xiang Pangyun nodded slightly.
Fengmo and the other four people quickly left the cabin and came to the deck. Among them, the white-haired mage held a purple staff and began to cast some spells.
Beams of light flew from the staff and landed on Fengmo and the other three people.
Several enhancement spells were cast in succession.
Fengmo and the others' auras were instantly completely isolated, an invisible barrier forming around them, even causing the light around them to distort. When Dongber Xueying and his group had infiltrated the Lu family castle, they were discovered upon arrival. In comparison, these assassins were clearly more skilled, as this was their profession!
"Let's go," Fengmo said.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The four people leaped simultaneously, jumping off the flying boat and falling downward.
As they fell, magical power surrounded them, slowing their descent. After a while, they quietly landed a few hundred meters down on a vacant lot beside the main building of the castle. The assassins knew that the main building was usually heavily guarded and might even have some magical arrays, making it easy to be discovered if they landed directly.
On the other hand, a vacant lot was generally free of obvious arrays.
"Third Brother will stay here, and the three of us will infiltrate," Fengmo instructed. "Be careful. If you encounter a guard array, you two retreat immediately, and I will complete the mission."
"Don't worry, Second Brother," the male and female Silver Moon Knights nodded, as they were very experienced.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The three of them quickly approached the main building. The spells surrounding their bodies made them hard to see even in the darkness, and in daylight, they would only appear as blurry figures.
...
In the study.
Dongber Xueying was reading a book, but his mind was not at ease, and he was just flipping through it casually.
"Hmm?" Dongber Xueying suddenly frowned.
As a master of the Unity of Heaven and Man, his mental power naturally resonated with the external world, and within a certain range, even the slightest movement would be detected! If his mental power was deliberately integrated with the world, he could sense everything within a few miles, including the alchemical flying boat in the sky! However, most people did not maintain this state of unity all the time.
This was because complete unity required a focused mental effort.
"Someone has come. The noble's revenge is really swift," Dongber Xueying's eyes turned cold. Since his parents were taken away when he was a child, no outsider had dared to invade Snowstone Castle for many years! The mysterious young noble had just died, and now someone was invading. Dongber Xueying did not believe it was unrelated to the noble's family.
Creak.
Dongber Xueying opened the door and walked out.
...
Fengmo quietly walked onto the corridor of the main building of the castle.
Suddenly,
Boom!
A terrifying force enveloped the area around the castle for hundreds of meters, suppressing the Silver Moon Mage waiting on the vacant lot, the other two knights, and Fengmo! The complete suppression and rejection made them all look terrified.
Once the Silver Moon Mage was suppressed, he could not mobilize the power of heaven and earth, and could not even cast a powerful spell, making him completely vulnerable!
"Damn, Dongber Xueying is only twenty-two years old, and he's a Unity of Heaven and Man titleholder?" The other two Silver Moon Knights were so scared that their legs turned weak. Their own strength was far from that of a titleholder, and being suppressed by the power of heaven and earth, they would be killed in an instant if Dongber Xueying decided to attack them.
They were panicked and weak-kneed.
"Run, run."
"Hope he doesn't come after us, go after Fengmo. Fengmo is strong enough to resist, and our leader will be here soon. Once our leader arrives, we'll be safe." The two Silver Moon Knights quickly retreated.
All three were in a state of panic.
Fengmo, though not afraid, was also stunned.
"Unity of Heaven and Man? How many years has it been since a twenty-two-year-old titleholder appeared in Anyang Province? Such a monstrous thing has actually happened." Fengmo was completely stunned by the power of heaven and earth, which was suppressing him. To reach the titleholder level at twenty-two was a monstrous feat, not just in Anyang Province, but even in the entire Dragon Mountain Empire.
In fact, the Blood Blade Tavern only suspected, and the Dragon Mountain Tower had more information, but they had not seen the battle and were also unsure if the battle traces in the Lu family castle were due to other reasons. They only thought there was a fifty percent chance that Dongber Xueying was a titleholder. Even if Dongber Xueying really had the strength of a titleholder, they were more inclined to believe he had obtained powerful alchemical armor.
They found it hard to believe that a twenty-two-year-old titleholder would be born in a remote place like Yishui City! To achieve the titleholder level by one's own strength was extremely difficult.
Unity of Heaven and Man? Very difficult!
Awakening of ancient bloodline? Equally difficult!
Even the royal family of the Dragon Mountain Empire, even the most powerful and extraordinary beings, found it extremely difficult to cultivate a twenty-two-year-old titleholder.
"I have practiced for so many years and still haven't achieved Unity of Heaven and Man! It was only after my body was modified and I received alchemical treasures from my leader that I gained the strength of a titleholder," Fengmo was shocked. "But Dongber Xueying can actually achieve Unity of Heaven and Man by his own strength?"
Many people reached the titleholder level with some external help.
Like Dongber Xueying's enemy, Moyang Chenbai, and Fengmo himself!
However, Fengmo was ruthless to himself, his body modified by an alchemical master, and he had alchemical treasures. Combined with long-term training in life and death, his strength was stronger than Moyang Chenbai's. In a fight with a true titleholder, he was almost on par.
"Whoosh, whoosh~"
The power of heaven and earth pressed down, distorting the air. Under the light of the fire crystal lamps, a young man in black appeared on the corridor.
Fengmo looked at the person in front of him.
The distorted air made the person's face somewhat blurry, but Fengmo could see that the person was young and recognized him as Dongber Xueying!
"Who sent you?" The young man in black walked toward him.
"Run."
Fengmo did not want to fight.
Because he did not have the ability to kill a true titleholder! If he could just buy some time, his leader would arrive.
"Hmm?" The young man in black saw that the other person was trying to escape and gave a faint cold snort.
"If you don't say, then die."
Swish.
A long spear appeared in the young man's hand, and it moved in a strange, powerful arc. The arc was so strong that even the spear itself bent, showing the immense force.
"So fast!" Fengmo was startled and turned to block with the two curved swords in his hands. He had no confidence in blocking, and purely out of instinct, he used both swords to defend.
"Clang!"
The terrifying force and rotational power contained in the spear's tip made Fengmo's hands feel numb, and he was involuntarily pushed back, revealing a look of fear.
Indeed.
Although he had only achieved Unity of Heaven and Man for a short time, he had been continuously absorbing the power of heaven and earth to strengthen himself. Hisζζ° (martial qi) had already reached the Silver Moon level, and his physical strength and speed had increased by fifty percent! With the suppression of Unity of Heaven and Man and the mastery of the second level of the Mystic Ice Spear Technique, "Blood Rain," his normal combat strength was on par with the power and bloodline burst during his last battle with the divine envoy!
This strength had even killed the rather extraordinary divine envoy after using a forbidden technique.
How could Fengmo withstand it?
"Too strong, how can it be so...?" Fengmo's two swords desperately blocked the second spear.
The first spear, he had blocked, but was pushed back.
The second spear, he managed to block by luck, but his arms were completely numb, and his hands holding the curved swords were deformed.
The third spear...
"Puff!"
Faster than lightning, the spear passed through the panicked and clearly slow curved swords and instantly pierced Fengmo's throat, then withdrew as if it had kissed it.
"I, I..." Fengmo clutched his throat, trying to stop the blood from flowing, trying to cling to life.
He really did not expect that even encountering a titleholder, he would be killed so quickly!
Dongber Xueying looked at the masked assassin who was slowly falling to the ground, clutching his neck: "He could barely block two spears, so he must have the strength of a titleholder."
"There are still three little ants." Under the power of heaven and earth, the other three assassins' every move was under his observation, and he could crush them at any time.