Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan! Chapter 469 Identity of Yun Mo Kou Sky Pirate's Leader
Previously on Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan!...
Bai Zihan chose to continue his journey to the Bai Clan, convinced that no real danger awaited even if another ambush lay in wait.
No Top Clan or Sect could truly challenge him unless they threw everything into an all-out assault against him, given his current level of power.
Yet, no such threat emerged, and they arrived at the Bai Clan without incident shortly after.
The Flying ship landed gracefully on the primary docking area.
Once it came to a steady halt-
Bai Zihan disembarked.
"Greetings, Young Master!"
The guards on duty offered deep bows.
Bai Zihan skipped the formalities. "You!"
He indicated one of the servants close by.
"Locate Jin Yuanzhan and escort him here."
His voice stayed even.
Yet it allowed no postponement.
The servant jumped a bit in surprise.
"Yes, Young Master!"
The servant dashed away immediately.
A few minutes ticked by.
The courtyard stayed serene.
Suddenly-
Footsteps echoed along the stone path from the inner quarters.
Jin Yuanzhan hurried into view.
A young girl trailed behind him, her hair secured tidily with jade ornaments.
They halted a few meters distant.
Both offered bows.
"Jin Yuanzhan pays respects to Young Master Bai."
His tone carried respect, steady without haste or quiver.
At his side, the girl mirrored the gesture.
"Jin Yuelin pays respects to Young Master."
Bai Zihan observed them with composure.
His eyes paused just a moment extra on Jin Yuanzhan.
"It seems you've recovered fully,"
Bai Zihan remarked.
Jin Yuanzhan bowed once more, a spark of thrill crossing his features.
"All due to Young Master's kindness!"
Gratitude filled his words, ringing with true earnestness.
Bai Zihan's attention turned to the girl.
"You as well. It appears you're putting in great effort."
"Hehe... I wish to return the favor to Young Master soon."
Jin Yuelin responded, a touch of bashfulness in her voice.
Chu Ziyan shot a glance at Jin Yuelin, displeased by her demeanor around Bai Zihan.
Bai Zihan, though, picked up on no hidden tensions.
He advanced leisurely, pausing a few paces from Jin Yuanzhan.
"Straight to the point. I summoned you for this reason."
With those words, Bai Zihan raised his arm.
Space warped.
The atmosphere rippled as if tugged by an invisible weight through a hidden rift.
Then-
Thud!
A mangled corpse dropped onto the courtyard's smooth stone floor.
The Sky Pirate Leader.
Or whatever was left.
His arms and legs were chopped off. His meridians lay scorched and ruined. The formerly overwhelming aura of a Great Ascension Realm
had diminished to barely more than a weak, erratic glimmer.
Still-
His features remained whole.
Intentionally preserved.
Jin Yuanzhan's eyes narrowed sharply-but just for an instant.
"We faced an ambush on the return path by-"
His voice held steady.
"Sky Pirates."
Jin Yuanzhan's forehead creased.
"Sky Pirates...?"
He eyed the figure sprawled on the ground. The outcome of attempting to waylay Bai Zihan's Flying Ship was all too clear.
"This individual pushed his cultivation to half-step Immortal Realm in the
clash."
He stated it plainly.
"The method he employed..."
A brief hesitation.
"...bore a strong similarity to the one you displayed at the Dragon and Phoenix Competition."
The breeze grew still.
"I figured," Bai Zihan went on, "you might identify him."
Jin Yuanzhan held back his reply for the moment.
He moved closer.
He dropped to one knee next to the wrecked Sky Pirate Leader. With utmost caution, he raised the man's jaw.
He examined the visage.
The skeletal frame.
The spiritual traces hovering near the dantian.
His look shifted slowly from bewilderment...
To intense focus.
He pressed two fingers gently to the pirate's pulse.
Shut his eyes.
His spiritual sense probed inside.
As soon as it delved into the fractured meridians-
His breath hitched.
The design-
The scorch marks.
The sun-like crystalline remnants buried in the deepest channels.
His spirit dropped.
Sun Core Dao Stone.
Or closer to it-
A shard of Sun Dao merged straight into the cultivation base.
Precisely matching his own.
The framework teetered unstably and raged even fiercer than his.
Even the rebound wounds-
Matched nearly perfectly.
Jin Yuanzhan's eyes opened gradually.
His fingers shook subtly as he pulled them back.
He bowed low.
"Forgive me, Young Master. I don't know him."
His tone stayed firm, if softer now.
"Should he be a past elder or a familiar authority in the Azure Sun Holy Sect, I
would have known his appearance right away-particularly at Great Ascension Realm."
That being true, the Sky Pirate Leader likely had no ties to the Azure Sun Holy Sect, contrary to Bai Zihan's first suspicion.
Bai Zihan kept quiet.
Jin Yuanzhan pressed on, his demeanor growing weightier:
"That said..."
He glanced down at the shattered pirate again.
"It's unmistakable."
"This person endured the identical kind of compelled fusion trial as I did. Of that, I'm absolutely sure."
The term experiment hung heavily.
"The Sun Core Dao Stone-or to be exact, a piece of Sun Dao-got fused into his form."
His stare sharpened a touch.
"But differing from mine, his merging was far rougher. He depended solely on outside forces to stir it awake."
"That's why his meridians crumbled so catastrophically once the boost wore off."
Bai Zihan's face showed no change.
"Thus," Bai Zihan murmured gently, "the Azure Sun Holy Sect recognizes this man?"
Jin Yuanzhan dipped his head lower.
"Yes!"
After all, they alone could perform such trials, and they ought to spot anyone who had merged a Sun Dao Stone fragment successfully.
Yet knowing him didn't prove the Azure Sun Holy Sect orchestrated the strike on Bai Zihan-and Jin Yuanzhan understood that.
Nevertheless-
"The Azure Sun Holy Sect has caused me endless trouble. I believe it's time to resolve our conflicts with them."
Be it in the conflict against the Demonic Forces or their choice to align with the Li-Zhao Alliance, the Azure Sun Holy Sect had clearly decided to stand against him till the finish.
With this chance arising, he planned to seize it and address all outstanding issues.
"Jin Yuanzhan, prepare yourself! We're heading to the Azure Sun Holy Sect!"