Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 675 - 676: Returning to Yongning_1

Chapter 675: Chapter 676: Returning to Yongning_1

"What a hassle..."

Feng Yuan waved his sickle with some dissatisfaction. By now, he had left Yongning City and was on his way to Bei Ding City. After much deliberation, Mo Li couldn’t help but ask Feng Yuan to intervene with matters in Bei Ding, and Feng Yuan, having his own plans, readily agreed.

Ignoring the spies, Feng Yuan transformed into a pitch-black shadow, swiftly advancing through the forest.

"What, planning to stop me?"

Feng Yuan sneered at the person blocking his way. The person’s aura was clear—although they possessed legendary-level power, the Spirit Beast was not with them. Perhaps they were just a pawn? Feng Yuan casually speculated.

The dark Wolf Shadow quickly condensed behind Feng Yuan. The terrifying Wolf Shadow, emanating black mist, revealed sharp fangs and lunged at the panicked ’pawn.’

"How do you plan to explain this!"

In Wolf Mountain Hall, the Third Prince, seething with rage, roared at Feng Yuan, who glanced at the prince and yawned before responding,

"You can ask the Wolf God yourself. If indeed the Wolf God has lent him power, there’s nothing I can do. Have you ever heard of a Temple Envoy forcefully ordering around their own Divine Lord?"

"Do you think we’re fools!"

With a helpless expression, Feng Yuan spread his hands and said,

"There’s nothing I can do. If you want to play the fool, go ahead. Moreover, I’m more worried, you know? If that guy comes over, I’m afraid that if the Wolf God takes his side, then it’s over for me."

After a lengthy argument with Feng Yuan that led to no useful revelations, the Third Prince stormed out of Wolf Mountain Hall. The White Wolf Deity in the back courtyard yawned, seemingly uninterested in the events, and the prince, already irritated by the issues with the maritime trade, left Feng Yuan’s presence even more frustrated, contemplating whether to take direct action against Wolf Mountain Hall.

But knowing his father, the king, wouldn’t support him, the prince, despite his fury, had to forcefully contain himself. Glancing back at Wolf Mountain Hall, he made a mental note to seek retribution when the opportunity arose, and also...

Thinking of his father’s ambiguous attitude, a shadow fell over the Third Prince’s heart.

"Is our replacement ready?"

In the carriage, Feng Yuan asked Mo Li. Although he hadn’t arranged a substitute for himself in Yongning City when they left, it would be a different story upon returning—it wouldn’t do for two guards to suddenly vanish from the escort, would it?

Nodding, Mo Li responded,

"Everything is ready, but..."

"Don’t worry, I won’t show up."

Feng Yuan knew what Mo Li was worried about. Officially, Feng Yuan had left Yongning City. If he appeared there again, the Third Prince would surely find a way to have the King of Great Li move against Wolf Mountain Hall, as the prince had been humiliated by Feng Yuan several times before and would be eager for revenge.

"Sorry, you’ll need to hide for now, or we might run into trouble."

Seeing Mona Lia poke her head out from his robe, Feng Yuan spoke apologetically. Most of the Spirit Beasts were shrunk by the White Wolf Deity and hidden deep in a corner of the carriage. Mona Lia seemed to dislike that environment and, being small enough to hide in clothing without causing trouble, Feng Yuan didn’t insist.

To onlookers, it seemed as if the group was traveling without any Spirit Beasts, which wasn’t unusual. Among merchant caravans, only a person or two might have a Spirit Beast. Too many would actually be quite odd.

Mona Lia retracted her head back into the robe, cuddling with the fluffy Xiao Ji as if it was a large plush pillow. Hidden within Feng Yuan’s embrace, Xiao Ji carefully groomed Mona Lia’s petals with its small sharp beak. In order to avoid accidents, even Xiao Ji had to stay out of sight from strangers.

Silent, the passengers leaned against the carriage walls. Besides the weariness of travel, their silence was due to not knowing what to discuss. If they talked about the wrong things, the spies might become suspicious. Even though any discovery might not have a significant impact, they instinctively preferred to go unnoticed.

In the depths of the night in Yongning City, the merchant caravan’s carriage slowly entered the city and stopped at an inn for a short rest. Yawning spies surveyed their surroundings. This utterly ordinary caravan failed to attract their attention. After being "schooled" by Feng Yuan under the guise of sparring sessions from time to time, their espionage work had become problematic. Now with Feng Yuan gone, they hoped to seize this chance to gather some information.

As for the coming and going personnel? They simply couldn’t muster interest in this matter when there were more important affairs at hand, and with so many caravans passing through daily, they were too understaffed to care about all of them.

"An invisibility charm?"

Mo Li examined the object in her hands with surprise. Noticing her thoughts, Feng Yuan hurriedly said,

"This object relies on the White Wolf Deity’s power. Don’t think about misusing it. Besides, if you use it too frequently, they will definitely start taking precautions."

"Understood."

Mo Li nodded to Feng Yuan, having intended to revert to their original identities at the inn. However, upon reaching the inn, they learned that the spies were closely watching the general’s residence. It would be difficult not to arouse suspicion if those spies came to the inn. Fortunately, Feng Yuan took out invisibility charms for Mo Li and others. For Guo Huai and Yao Yin, disguising their identities posed less of a problem.

The doppelgangers produced by Feng Yuan’s Doppelganger Technique could even be exchanged with them silently, but Mo Li and the others couldn’t manage that; the others were real people who simply couldn’t be messed with.

After seeing off Mo Li and the others, Guo Huai glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"So where are you planning to switch back to my identity?"

"Right here, isn’t this where you guys live?"

"Besides, they’re not particularly focused on you guys."

Feng Yuan said casually. He certainly couldn’t appear directly in front of everyone at this moment, but as it happened, he also had things to do, so he wasn’t too bothered by this.

Guo Huai, as if remembering something, looked at Feng Yuan and said,

"What about you? I don’t believe you’d stay put here for so long."

"I need to get back to modern times, school is starting."

Reminded by Feng Yuan, Guo Huai stared at him and said,

"You plan to sneak back by yourself?"

"Otherwise...hehe, I almost forgot about you~"

Feng Yuan felt a bit guilty when he met Guo Huai’s somewhat plaintive gaze, and after glancing at Yao Yin, he asked,

"What about you? Are you coming back to modern times with us?"

After thinking it over, Yao Yin declined,

"Forget it, I’m fine staying here, it’s not going to follow you guys back, right?"

Yao Yin pointed at the White Wolf Deity behind her, and nodding Feng Yuan said,

"As you wish, if you want to come back with me, you don’t need to switch identities."

"Nonsense! Otherwise, wouldn’t I just disappear suddenly?"

Guo Huai said irritably, glancing at Feng Yuan; suddenly, Yao Yin spoke up,

"You must be quite unaccustomed, right?"

"What?"

Feng Yuan felt somewhat baffled and didn’t understand why Yao Yin would suddenly bring this up. After thinking, Yao Yin shook her head and said,

"Never mind, just pretend I suddenly spoke nonsense."

Taking advantage of the temporary invisibility granted by Feng Yuan, Guo Huai slipped back to his guest room to leave the things he brought back from the trip. Although he wanted to take the souvenirs with him, he thought it might be troublesome and didn’t bring it up with Feng Yuan. As Guo Huai was putting away his things, his doppelganger also returned to the room.

Seeing ’himself’ lying directly on the bed, Guo Huai’s expression turned odd, and he hastened the actions of his hands; he didn’t think this was Feng Yuan playing tricks, after all, at this time of the day, he would usually have been resting already.

Just then, Yao Yin pushed the door open and came in. She looked at Guo Huai, seemed like she wanted to speak but stopped, and after thinking, glanced at ’Guo Huai’ on the bed. Yao Yin pulled the real Guo Huai putting away his things to the side, waved her hand to cast a Barrier, turned her back to ’Guo Huai’ on the bed, and whispered to Guo Huai,

"How is your relationship with him?"

"What do you mean?"

Guo Huai looked at Yao Yin somewhat puzzled. He didn’t think she was up to something. Not to mention she wasn’t from this world, just Feng Yuan himself was someone she couldn’t handle, at least he had never seen Yao Yin beat Feng Yuan.

"Your relationship with him...how is it?"

Hearing Yao Yin say this, Guo Huai was utterly confused. If he didn’t know she had a boyfriend she truly liked, he would have suspected that Yao Yin had taken a liking to Feng Yuan.