A huge ship, puffing out thick white smoke and blaring its whistle, slowly approached the Shiliupu Pier in Shanghai. This is the only terminal in Shanghai that can accommodate ships of over 10,000 tons.
At this time, the large cruise ship from the Western Continent that docked at Shiliupu was named Queen Mary.
The Queen Mary cruise ship, owned by the royal family of the Ingiri Empire, is the largest, most luxurious and one of the fastest passenger ships that travels between the east and west continents.
The Queen Mary cruise ship departed from the foggy city of the Yinjili Empire twenty-five days ago, bypassed the southernmost tip of the continent, and crossed the vast ocean. After nearly a month, it finally arrived at Shencheng, the largest city in the Eastern Continent. .
When the cruise ship stopped at the dock and three or four gangways were lowered from the deck, the passengers who had been drifting on the sea for nearly a month rushed off the ship in a rush.
Although the Queen Mary is a very luxurious cruise ship, it can even be said to be a luxury cruise ship. Each guest room on the ship has its own bathroom. There are restaurants with various delicacies from the Eastern and Western continents, cinemas, dance halls, casino bars, etc. With various entertainment facilities, your days on board will never be boring.
But after all, humans are creatures on land. After wandering on the sea for a long time, most ordinary people long for returning to land.
Among the passengers who rushed off the Queen Mary, some were Chinese travelers who had lived in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun for many years, or were overseas students from well-off families who had returned from studying in the Western Continent. In addition to their eagerness for land, these people were impatient. The joy of returning to the homeland.
Some of them are speculators from the Western Continent who have long heard the name of Shencheng, the largest adventurer's paradise in the Eastern Continent, and dreamed of coming here to find opportunities to make money.
Of course, more of them are businessmen traveling between the two continents.
The passengers disembarked from the ship in a hurry, but Deng Zongnan was not in a hurry. After most people got off the ship, he walked down the gangway leisurely with his suitcase.
After all, it had only been more than two months since he left Shanghai. In fact, deep down in his heart, he did not want to return to Dahua so early. He was very happy to stay in Hollywood, the holy land of the world's film industry. There is something about being happy and reluctant to miss Shu.
There are just some things that are more important than your own personal hobbies.
Deng Zongnan straightened his hat, and when he walked up the gangway, he turned back and glanced at the deck.
He wasn't the only passenger in no rush to get off the ship.
At this time, there were several passengers standing on the deck, who seemed to be less anxious than him.
There are seven people in total.
Standing in the middle of the group of people was a middle-aged priest from the Tian'en Sect in the Western Continent.
The middle-aged priest wore a dark black robe, but his robe was a little different from the robes worn by ordinary Tian'en priests. The middle-aged priest's robe had a gold tattoo on the chest. Crossed staff and sword pattern.
Deng Zongnan, who had already learned a lot about some things in the Western Continent, knew that it was a unique robe belonging to the Inquisition, a very special department within the Tian'en Sect.
The middle-aged priest is thin and has brown hair. His face is pale, as if he has not been exposed to the sun all year round. His eyes are as cold as two balls of fire, but there is a strange sense of trance, without any focus, as if his eyes are cold. His eyes didn't fall on anyone or anything in front of him, or in other words, he didn't fall on the human world at all.
Alkeshend Kani, the name of this middle-aged priest flashed through Deng Zongnan's mind.
According to the information he obtained, this Alxhend Kani is a ruling bishop in the Inquisition directly under the Pope of Tian'en Church. It is said that he is also the most favored ruling bishop of Tian'en Church's Pope. His meticulous thinking, powerful strength, and cruel and ruthless methods are famous throughout the Western Continent. There are tens of thousands of practitioners and mortals who were condemned as heretics and eventually executed at his hands.
There were several other people beside the bishop who was the judge of the Inquisition.
One is a young man wearing a suit with a slender and straight figure. Although this young man does not look very tall and strong, every muscle line under the clothes gives people an explosive sense of strength. His appearance and facial features are As sharp as an ax or a chisel, his eyes were as calm and deep as the sea, giving people the feeling that nothing could break his tranquility.
Gustavo Torres, the most talented warrior of the generation in the Western Continent War Temple, is in his early thirties and is already a Warmaster-level warrior, known as the guardian of the plateau.
This young man's information flashed through Deng Zongnan's mind.
On the right side of Gustavo Torres, stood a woman about his age, wearing a veil, with flying purple hair, a graceful figure, beautiful appearance, noble and mysterious temperament, holding a A magic wand encrusted with gems.
Melissa Cobb, an equally talented great magician from the Western Continent Magician Association.
On the other side of Bishop Carney, there were three more people.
One is a blond middle-aged man wearing a gorgeous evening gown, with an equally gorgeous and charming appearance, an elegant and mature temperament, and his skin is like frost under the moonlight, coldly white. If Bishop Carney is said to be the kind of pale person who has not seen the sun all year round, That, this young man's white color is as lustrous as jade, and his pupils are as bright as the stars in the night sky, but in that brightness, there is a hint of Bloody light.
Shim Dracula is a vampire duke from the Dracula family, the largest vampire family in the Western Continent.
Then next to him was a man with an unusually tall and majestic figure, wearing a leather jacket, tight pants, and high riding boots. The hair on his face and arms was unusually thick. The man had a rough appearance, and his whole body was filled with a kind of wild aura that was terrifying. , especially when he laughs, it always reminds people of a beast in front of its prey.
Aji, a werewolf with only a first name but no surname.
In the Western Continent, the werewolf Aji is a being whose evil reputation has been spread in the mortal world for hundreds of years. The most frightening legend is that he once slaughtered all 50,000 people in a small town on a full moon night.
Regardless of whether they are vampires or werewolves, they are actually heretics in the Western Continent’s cultivation world. Just like the evil heretics in the Dahua cultivation world, they have always been incompatible with mainstream cultivators such as Tian’en Sect, War Temple, and Magician Association. of enemies.
But this time, the vampires and werewolves of the Western Continent came to Dahua together with the leader of the Tian'en Sect and the ruling bishop of the Inquisition who had previously dealt with them.
The cultivation world in the Western Continent seems to have formed an alliance because of something, and these people are the representatives of that alliance.
In addition to the six people above, there was an old man in the group. The old man was wearing a brown corduroy suit, a blue shirt underneath, and a peaked cap. He is a professor in the university, and he is also a not-so-famous university professor.
This is also the only person among this group of people who Deng Zongnan did not know his name and identity.
But although this old man looks like an ordinary person, he got on the ship with Bishop Carney and the others. During the twenty days they were on the ship, they often appeared together, so even if he is an ordinary person, he must be a very extraordinary person. Ordinary people.
The old man was standing next to the side of the deck, not talking to the practitioners. He was looking at Shencheng in the early morning through the guardrail, his eyes were deep and thoughtful, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.
Deng Zongnan glanced at the group of practitioners as if inadvertently, then turned and walked down the gangway.
"Hi, Mr. Deng, you said that when you come to Shanghai, you want to invite me to taste the authentic Dahua cuisine. I hope you can remember this promise."
A white, blond, middle-aged man who had just gotten off the boat laughed and said this to Deng Zongnan in blunt Mandarin.
"Counsellor Chavez, there is an old saying in Dahua that a gentleman's words are hard to follow. Please rest assured that I will come to visit you in a few days and invite you to taste the authentic Shanghai cuisine."
Deng Zongnan also smiled and said something to the white middle-aged man, then turned and walked into the crowded crowd.
...Let's go find that Shu Xingyun first...
He thought so.
The Western Continent cultivators on the deck did not pay attention to the handsome man who had just disembarked.
In fact, they have investigated the identity of every passenger on the Queen Mary.
They knew that the Chinese man named Deng Zongnan seemed to be a very famous film director in the country.
As for Deng Zongnan, he was actually a practitioner like them. They had been on the same boat for twenty-five days, but they had never discovered this.
It can only be said that Qianmen's technique of concentrating and hiding breath is also extremely magical, and it is almost impossible to see through it in the fairyland.
After all the passengers on the deck had disembarked, Bishop Carney slowly turned around and glanced at the companions behind him.
"Shencheng has arrived."
Bishop Carney's voice was cold and dry, like a gust of wind blowing from hell.
"As for the purpose of coming to our city of Shen, everyone is very clear about it, which is to find the person who killed Capone and Irene. This is a task assigned to us by the gods."
"A war general and a magician. How could the killing of two little people like this alarm the gods? Why do we need to come all the way here to investigate?"
The vampire Duke Shim from the Dracula family seemed to complain with some dissatisfaction.
For vampires, the most annoying thing is long-distance travel. They prefer to stay in their own castles, enjoy the delicious blood provided by their blood slaves every day, and then sleep happily in their coffins.
"Their deaths have no importance at all. What matters is who killed them. This is what the gods care about."
"So we have to find the person who killed Capone and Irene. Haha, who killed them is not that important. What is important is whether that person has anything to do with the Great China Seven Immortals Alliance. If so, Then the gods will have a reason to go to war.”
"What if it doesn't matter?"
"Then kill that person and let him have anything to do with the Seven Immortals Alliance."
"Okay, let's get off the boat."
"Mr. Rob, please go first."
Bishop Carney turned towards the old man who looked like a frustrated university professor, bent down and said with a smile.
In fact, what he knew about this old man was just one more name than that of Deng Zongnan who had just disembarked from the ship. As for his identity and origin, Bishop Carney also knew nothing about it.
This Mr. Rob came to them when they were boarding the ship in Wudu, holding a letter from the Pope of Tian'en Sect. In the letter from the Pope, he did not introduce the identity of this person, but only ordered Carney to The bishop kept the old man with him.
However, although the identity of this old man is not known, if the Pope can personally write a letter for him, then Bishop Carney will never neglect this old man.
He has great ambitions to one day be in charge of the Inquisition.
…
"A bowl of miso ramen, a plate of natto, and a piece of tempura."
Shu Guan sat in a Xuri Chinese breakfast restaurant and ordered breakfast for himself in proficient Xuri Mandarin.
Although he hates the people of the Rising Sun Kingdom, he does not hate the food of the Rising Sun Kingdom.
Shu Guan feels that these are completely two different things.
Of course, even if Shu Guan felt that the delicacies of the Rising Sun Country were worth tasting, he would not go to the Rising Sun Country Concession to have a Rising Sun Country-style breakfast early in the morning.
Eating breakfast is incidental, doing some cleaning is the main purpose.
While Shu Guan lowered his head to eat the ramen, he looked at the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun diagonally across from the corner of his eye.
His disgust for the practitioners of the Black Dragon Society in Japan made him come here the next day after he learned that someone from the Black Dragon Society might come to Shencheng again. He didn't want these disgusting things to stay in Shencheng for a long time.
Shuguan finished his ramen, a plate of natto, and the crispy tempura, then got up and left the shop.
However, he walked towards the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun diagonally across the street, and instead turned around and left the street.
When turning around, Shu Guan sighed softly.
He could feel the spiritual energy fluctuations of many practitioners in the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun. It was true that another practitioner from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun had come here.
It's a pity that there are two groups of spiritual energy fluctuations that are extremely powerful.
It was a spiritual energy fluctuation at the level of a terrestrial god.
This time, among the practitioners from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, there were two land gods!
Maybe it’s because I’ve already come here to kill two rounds, and the Kingdom of the Rising Sun doesn’t dare to send any more ordinary practitioners here.
Just two land gods!
With his current strength, there is really no way he can just fight his way in.
Then we can only wait.
Just when he walked to the street, Shu Guan's heart moved for no reason, then he stretched out his palm and took a look, frowning.
…
When Shu Guan left the intersection of the street where the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun was located, in the garden full of Kingdom of the Rising Sun style behind the consulate, and next to the small pool filled with blood where Shu Guan once killed, there were two men from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun. Sitting opposite each other.
A man from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, in his forties, was wearing a snow-white priest uniform from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun. He had slender eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and an elegant appearance.
A man from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun is in his sixties. His hair on his temples is already gray, but there is no sign of aging on his body. His back is as straight as a mountain, his eyes are as bright as lightning, and he is wearing a kimono with his legs crossed. Sitting on the ground, he looked very dignified, with a sword nearly two meters long lying across his knees.
At this time, the eyes of the old man in kimono fell on the fingers of the handsome middle-aged man dressed as a priest opposite.
The handsome middle-aged man's fingers were as long and fair as jade. At this time, there was something between the fingers of both hands. There was a blood-stained paper swallow between the fingers of one hand, and between the fingers of the other hand, Holding a white paper figure about three inches long.
When they arrived here the day before yesterday, they had already discovered these paper puppets hidden in the garden.
Although the method of arranging paper puppets is quite clever, it is still impossible to hide it from them. It can only be said that the grade of this paper puppet technique itself is quite good, but the cultivation level of the person who performs the technique is too low. Some.
So they found it easily. All paper figures.
And naturally they would not destroy these paper puppets directly, but just cut off their connection with the person who cast the spell.
As for the blood-stained paper swallow, it has been kept in the consulate.
"Hanyu Omiyaji, have you found that person?"
The imposing man in kimono said this in a condensed voice.
"Your Excellency Nakatomi, this one was not found."
The handsome middle-aged priest known as Hanyu Omiyaji first shook the blood-stained paper swallow.
Then he shook his fingers holding the three-inch blank paper, smiled slightly and said:
"This one has been found. He has not escaped my soul-seeking technique. He is a young practitioner in the Dahua First Consciousness Realm. He is an old man, and he is also a killer. His name is Bai Zhiweng."
"First acquaintance realm? Then of course he didn't kill the warriors of the empire here, and he couldn't be that 'Swallow' either!"
"Of course not. Since that 'Swallow' can kill Tantai Yu, he must be a practitioner of the terrestrial fairy realm, but that white paper man must be related to 'Swallow'."
"Has the person been captured?"
"I didn't touch him, I just sent a high-ranking ninja to keep an eye on him secretly. Your Excellency Nakatomi, Dahua's Taoism has a long history and is all-encompassing. I'm not sure if the 'Swallow' has left any tricks on Paper Old Man. So much so that if we attack Paper Old Man, he will notice it immediately."
"So we can't alert the snake. For the time being, we can only wait for the contact between Paper Man and the 'Swallow'."
"If we can't wait, or if we have to wait for a long time, we won't be able to stay in Shanghai for too long. There are too many places in the empire that need us."
"Haha, you must know that the entire Shencheng is looking for that 'Yanzi' now, and Bai Zhiweng's side is just a way to find 'Yanzi', because I have already contacted him..."
It's just that Hanyu Omiyaji didn't say who "he" was in the end. When he said this, his expression suddenly changed, and his handsome face turned livid.
"Hanyu Omiyaji, what happened?"
"...The tall ninja I arranged to keep an eye on the white paper man was just killed."
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