Sword Shatters Stars

Chapter 80: When one regiment falls, thousands rise.
After setting off, Lin Xiufeng and his group did not dare to delay and traveled at full speed, with little time for idle chatter.

When they encountered some strangely shaped terrain, they would split up to search, and if they found nothing, they would regroup and continue on their way.

After searching for four days and covering 1,300 kilometers around Mirror Lake, they still found nothing.

With each passing day, my anxiety grew.

Within a month, Fang Yuan and Ren Xing must replenish their Heavenly Martial Power and return to Huan Shan Jing Hu to ensure that their Star Cave cultivation continues uninterrupted.

Fang Yuan sensed Lin Xiufeng and Zhao Youyue's anxiety and took the initiative to say:
"Actually, there's no need to rush. It's okay if the Star Cave is interrupted for a while. After all, the Dream Continent has been searched for more than two years by the Heavenly Martial Group, the three major organizations, as well as many unorganized Heavenly Martial practitioners and countless Heavenly Martial Souls. We can only do our best and leave the rest to fate."

"Yes, yes, I've been so lucky since I met you guys, there's nothing to rush now!"

They seem to have a very open-minded attitude towards being willful.

Her impatience and good patience were somewhat like the weather on Planet Sky Blue, unpredictable and changeable.

"To do one's best means to try every possible method... Or, try asking around in places with lots of people."

Lin Xiufeng had this idea for a long time.

Fang Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Does the leader mean—we're not going to try our luck? If we can't find the mutated beasts, we'll just use the Heavenly Warriors from the Heaven-Turning Organization?"

"Great!" she exclaimed, tossing her long hair in delight. "We should target those we have a grudge against!"

"The clone helped us escape the pursuit of the Overturning Heaven Organization, but was it appropriate to expose ourselves?"

Fang Yuan had considered it, but he kept quiet about it because of this concern.

"We were afraid of the Mirror Lake around the mountains being discovered, not that we were afraid of something terrible happening!"

Zhao Youyue was full of fighting spirit. In her mind, since she would join the Tianwu Group in the future anyway, Fantian was her enemy.

"Unanimously approved, let's go!" Lin Xiufeng led the way and turned towards the main road where they had seen a lot of people three hours earlier.

With clear goals and a particularly spirited and willful nature.

After traveling for more than two hours, the group climbed to the top of the mountain and found a mountain path.

Every now and then, groups of three to five Heavenly Martial Souls could be seen walking on the road.

Lin Xiufeng and his group ran quickly along the mountainside beside the road, and half an hour later, they saw a village.

The sign at the village entrance reads: "Second Elder City, Mainland Branch of the Dream of Overturning the World".

This place is built on a plain, and from a high vantage point, one can roughly estimate that there are more than a thousand residential wooden houses.

At such a scale, it's hard to imagine how people could settle down and stay.

The Second Elder City is located next to a river, which is about six or seven meters wide.

Lin Xiufeng and his group put on loose clothes and raincoats, then went onto the main road and headed towards the Second Elder City.

However, they discovered that many of the Heavenly Martial Souls along the way were quite strange...

The proportion of groups of four was significantly higher, consisting of two men and two women, two tall and two short.

"Is it fashionable to travel in groups of four now?" Zhao Youyue muttered to herself.

"Isn't it a bit like us?" Renxing said what Zhao Youyue was too embarrassed to say.

After all, they're a bit narcissistic. Why is it that in a group of four, two of the members are noticeably taller than them?
“There are four people standing and resting over there. Let’s go over and chat.”

Lin Xiufeng led the way, pretending to be tired, and rested by the roadside.

Zhao Youyue looked at the taller woman in the group and complimented her:

"Your raincoat is so nice, where did you buy it?"

"The Second Elder City has them, but they're a bit expensive, and you need a lot of food to exchange them."

As the woman spoke, she looked them over, and both women's gazes lingered on Lin Xiufeng's face for a few moments.

The eyes of the two men in the team lingered on Zhao Youyue's and Ren Xing's faces.

Zhao Youyue chatted with the woman for a few minutes, then saw a group of four pass by and remarked:
"There are so many groups of four these days."

"Where did you come from? Is this considered a lot? Not really! A few months ago, right after the incident, that was a lot! Back then, even the large groups specifically split into groups of four to operate together!"

"Something happened? What happened? We just arrived in this area. We got lost in the wilderness and just found our way out." Zhao Youyue asked, feigning surprise, while taking some dried tiger-dragon meat and distributing it to them.

The people opposite initially didn't dislike Zhao Youyue because she was pretty and spoke nicely.

Since I'm being treated like a guest, I'll feel obligated to help, so we'll have an even more enjoyable conversation.

They even had four mouths complementing each other, vying to speak.

"You didn't know? That's a huge deal! A few months ago, a group of four named You Lin Feiyue appeared in the central region of Dream Continent. All four of them were Heavenly Warriors!"

"A group of four Heavenly Warriors! That's incredible!" Zhao Youyue exclaimed in shock, as if she couldn't believe it.

This coordination made the four people even more interested in talking.

"That's right! One unorganized Heavenly Warrior is already formidable, but four of them together are truly extraordinary!"

What did that group of people do?

Zhao Youyue was in high spirits, seemingly intrigued by their words.

But in reality, she was genuinely curious about what the four clones had actually done.

"They wiped out the fourth, fifth, and sixth villages of Fantian, killed Elder Meilin, one of the ten elders of Fantian, and also killed General Lü Zirui, one of the top fifty in Fantian..."

"How could the Heavenly Emperor ever lose face like this? Those days, whenever I went out and ran into people who defied or rebelled against the Heavenly Emperor, they would all laugh at me for this..."

"A massive, all-out effort was launched, laying out a colossal search area spanning thousands of miles, meticulously searching for You Linfeiyue..."

"Suddenly one day, four Heavenly Martial Artists from Youlin Feiyue took the initiative to show themselves, leading the Fantian search team around like monkeys..."

"They defeated more than a dozen Heavenly Warriors from the Heaven-Turning Organization in succession, which angered the Heaven-Turning Commander so much that he personally summoned more than fifty Heavenly Warriors from the Heaven-Turning Organization..."

"Alas! It was also due to You Linfei's carelessness. They went to Fantian City to launch a sneak attack on the Fantian Commander, but ended up falling into a trap..."

"A great battle took place in Fantian City, and many houses were demolished, including the large wooden villa of the Fantian Commander."

"In the end, they were outnumbered and outmatched..."

"What a pity! I don't know why, none of the four heroes ran away, they insisted on fighting to the death."

"What else could it be? It's to let everyone know, to let the arrogant Tian Tian know, that there are fearless Tian Wu warriors who would rather die than fight them to the death!"

"Where there's life, there's hope! If you spot a trap, you should leave."

"Don't use your own assumptions to speculate about Youlin Feiyue's four heroes! The Blood Hand Puppet even used its ultimate move to pounce on and bite the Heaven-Turning Commander's ear. That was the spirit of 'better to die than live in dishonor'!"

"Speaking of which, I feel it's a pity. If only Gao Zhiyong, the commander of Youlin Feiyue, had kicked the Heavenly Commander in the balls before he died!"

"It was no use. The peerless sword saint pierced the eyes of the Heaven-Turning Commander in the end, but he still recovered later."

"The most regrettable thing is Viper! He took a fatal blow for Bloodhand Puppet and bought him a chance. He was originally a master of sneak attacks. If he had kicked the Heavenly Commander's balls, they would have been smashed to pieces!"

The four of them talked for a while, argued for a bit, and then sighed with regret.

Lin Xiufeng and the other three were completely bewildered...

What others see as their business is actually completely unknown to them.

However, they understood: in short, the four clones executed the command beyond expectations.

They began mobilizing search teams away from Huan Shan Jing Hu, and then went to attack the Tianwu warriors of the Fantian organization.

The so-called "stepping into the trap" was clearly the clone knowing the enemy had gathered and there was no chance for them to attack and surround them again, so it carried out the final order—

The warriors, who had exhausted all their strength to inflict devastating wounds, ultimately died in battle, and were determined not to be captured alive.

Lin Xiufeng felt secretly ashamed; he had actually doubted it back then.
Did his clone lead the team away and run away?

They completed the task so well!

Lin Xiufeng thought of his clone, who was still in Mirror Lake World, cultivating his star acupoints and making armor, and couldn't help but feel guilty for three seconds.

Three seconds later, Lin Xiufeng understood.

Since the clone being armored isn't a clone that has tragically died, there's no need to feel guilty.

(End of this chapter)