Dragon's Origin

Chapter 569: Ambush and Counter-Ambush (Part 1)

Obviously, Wang Sheng isn't the only smart person in the world. Any leader or high-ranking member in control of a family isn't a fool.

Wang Sheng can have the Emperor send out the three Grand Guardians to do some sabotage and frame others, and he can bribe the Divine Might Prison to attack the Xia family. Other forces can do the same.

Anyway, at this time, if any family's experts have trouble, it's a pile of unsolvable mysteries. No one knows who did it. Such a good opportunity for chaos, wouldn't those smart people seize it?

Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu leaving the city alone is obviously a great opportunity. Especially when their destination is almost certainly the Old Lord Temple, it creates excellent conditions for a group of experts to ambush them on the road.

In particular, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu deliberately slowed down for Mei'er's sake, discussing things slowly on the road, which gave these experts plenty of time to set up an ambush, allowing them to intercept the two before they reached the Old Lord Temple, when they were still dozens of miles away.

Old Daoist Ling Xu is an expert, that's right, but how high can his skill be? He's just at the peak of the Legendary realm. Of course, he must be a true peak-level Legendary expert, capable of fighting ten opponents alone, but so what? Does only the Old Lord Temple have peak-level Legendary experts? Don't other forces have them too?!

As for Wang Sheng, he only has a cultivation level of the seventh or eighth realm. No matter how powerful he is, against a true peak-level Legendary expert, he can only be crushed without any surprises.

As for whether killing Wang Sheng would prevent the secrets of the Thousand Absolutes Land from being unlocked, this isn't a problem for the decision-makers. As long as Wang Sheng doesn't die, that's all that matters, right? Kill Old Daoist Ling Xu, capture Wang Sheng alive, what kind of information can't be obtained? What kind of secrets can't be extracted through interrogation?

To deal with Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu, the ambush party sent out a full forty-plus people, ambushing Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu on their inevitable path in advance.

Of course, lookouts are essential. If they can't discover Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu in advance, how can they prepare the ambushing experts?

What Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu discovered were the lookouts. However, at this distance, Wang Sheng could rely on his keen sense of smell and hearing to discover the opponent, and Old Daoist Ling Xu could rely on his powerful cultivation to discover the opponent, but the lookouts couldn't discover Wang Sheng and the Old Daoist in advance.

This place isn't flat, nor is it empty without any cover. The two are walking on the official road, and there are some bushes and shrubs on both sides of the official road. Not only that, but the road also has a bend, so the people lying in ambush and keeping watch obviously can't see or detect the two.

After looking at each other, Wang Sheng and the Old Daoist nodded tacitly. Wang Sheng pointed to the bushes next to him, and the Old Daoist knowingly slipped into them.

In terms of this kind of counter-ambush special operations, Wang Sheng is an absolute expert. In ordinary battles, the Old Daoist and Wang Sheng are always commanded by Wang Sheng. This is even more so at this time.

The person responsible for monitoring the lookout was also a Legendary expert, usually a spy with rich experience. This time, he came out with his companions to ambush Wang Sheng, and he was already eager to try. Wang Sheng's constant fleecing of various families was attracting hatred to himself. Some family experts were already dissatisfied.

Now that he finally had a chance to deal a heavy blow to Wang Sheng, the spy hid in the dark, concealed his figure, and kept staring at the road, waiting for Wang Sheng and the Old Daoist to appear, then he would send a signal to notify his ambushing companions.

Someone had followed Wang Sheng and the Old Daoist before. As long as they went to the Old Lord Temple, these two had never taken any other route, and basically just walked on the official road, never deviating. This time was obviously no exception. He just waited for when he saw them.

As a scout, he had enough patience and experience to wait for Wang Sheng and the Old Daoist to appear in his sight. According to the time calculation, Wang Sheng and the others should appear at this time, and the error shouldn't exceed a quarter of an hour before or after.

Suddenly, the scout felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to take action, his mouth was covered by a hand, and then his head was suddenly twisted.

The strength of those hands was so great that no matter how hard the Legendary realm scout resisted, he couldn't resist that powerful force. The scout only heard an extremely close cracking sound, and then his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness.

The scout's last thought was a mind full of disbelief. Who was it? He had sneaked behind him without a sound. Not only was there no sound, but he hadn't even detected any aura. He was a Legendary expert, after all. What kind of expert had ambushed him from behind? Could it be Old Ancestor Ling Xu?

From beginning to end, he hadn't thought it was Wang Sheng. Everyone thought that Wang Sheng's cultivation was only at the seventh or eighth realm, so how could he hide from the senses and aura detection of a peak-level Legendary expert? Even when he was lurking, he hadn't relaxed his vigilance! Why was this? Had Old Daoist Ling Xu become so powerful?

It was Wang Sheng who made the move. The golden patterns brought to Wang Sheng by the Suanni Transformation meant that even standing face to face with Old Daoist Ling Xu, the Old Daoist couldn't hear Wang Sheng's voice or feel Wang Sheng's aura, let alone this Legendary realm scout.

Just now, the move that snapped the scout's neck used the familiar moves from the military's combat techniques. Wang Sheng's strength was already close to 100,000 pounds, and adding the spiritual energy usage skills recorded in the Military Combat Techniques scroll, the force almost doubled. Not to mention just a fragile cervical vertebra, Wang Sheng could break a steel bar twice as thick as that guy's neck.

As for the dozens of people lying in ambush, they couldn't escape Wang Sheng's hearing and sense of smell, and naturally, they couldn't hide from the Old Daoist. Gently putting down the scout's body, Wang Sheng made a few gestures to the Old Daoist, and the Old Daoist understood and took out a pair of crystal-polished goggles from his storage ring, and also took out a mouth and nose cover and put it on his head.

Both the goggles and the mouth and nose cover were made by Wang Sheng according to the style of equipment he brought from Earth. The mouth and nose cover, except for the lack of a compressed air bag, even had an activated carbon filter layer.

Wang Sheng himself also put on the equipment, and he and the Old Daoist, one on the left and one on the right, quietly approached the area where a large number of experts were ambushing.

The experts lying in ambush were also staring at the road, but their vigilance was obviously not as high as that scout. After all, they were still waiting for news from their scout companion, so they didn't need to keep their nerves so tight all the time. Some even closed their eyes, quietly breathing and cultivating, looking very calm and poised, with the demeanor of experts.

Boom boom boom boom, just when everyone was waiting calmly, suddenly, a series of explosions rang out from the surroundings. Countless black smoke rose into the air, and with the help of the shock waves of the explosion, quickly enveloped their area from several directions.