[Audience Expectation +3]
"You... dare to trick me?!?"
Yan Xicai's back was already damp with cold sweat. He regained his senses, feeling utterly enraged!
He thought he had been on the brink of death, only to find out that it was just a joke Chen Yifei played on him... In that instant, his life and death had been toyed with by Chen Yifei.
"You dare to trick me! How could you..." Yan Xicai staggered to rise, his eyes filled with blood vessels, and he furiously exclaimed:
"Kill them for me!!"
Swipe——
The next moment, the numerous law enforcers surrounding Yan Xicai simultaneously drew their guns, with over ten gun barrels surrounding Chen Yifei and Number 8 in the center.
"A group of rural dogs!! Dare to trick me?" Yan Xicai snatched the gun from one of the law enforcers beside him and violently pressed the barrel against Chen Yifei's forehead, "What do you have to fight me with? With my command, half the people on this ship will come to kill you!"
"And you!"
He suddenly turned the gun barrel towards Number 8 beside him, "Yes, I was just born lucky! With one word from me, I can send you, these rural dogs from the third district, to be reborn! Not satisfied?"
Number 8: ???
Number 8 was completely dragged into this by Chen Yifei... He had already started cursing inwardly.
He had laboriously brought several Fire Manipulators and stolen the identities of law enforcers from three major districts, hiding their identities all the way here, just to avoid trouble and infiltrate the Ancient Treasures of Warfare... But the appearance of Chen Yifei had directly put them in the spotlight.
Number 8 had never imagined things would escalate like this.
"Young Master Yan, do you really want to shoot?" Seeing Yan Xicai almost driven to madness, one of the law enforcers from Aurora City who was still calm cautiously spoke up.
"What's there to fear? Can't I handle killing two rural dogs? Everyone, shoot..."
"Hold on!"
Just as Yan Xicai was about to give the order, three figures wearing black windbreakers hurriedly arrived.
The three law enforcers were originally in the cabin for a meeting, discussing the next route, but when they heard the commotion outside and went out to check, they realized that things had already escalated.
"Put your guns down! Don't you all want to enter the ancient treasures?" The five-stripe law enforcer spoke in a cold voice.
Everyone exchanged glances and silently lowered their weapons.
"Officer Li, what do you mean by this?" Yan Xicai's brows were tightly knit, "They provoked me first; I was just defending myself."
Yan Xicai emphasized the words "defending myself."
"Young Master Yan, please don't make things difficult for us... If someone dies on this ship before entering the Ancient Treasures of Warfare, we must return according to the regulations and undergo an investigation by the Aurora City Law Enforcement Headquarters."
Upon hearing this, the anger in Yan Xicai's eyes subsided slightly.
This was indeed a regulation issued by the Law Enforcement Headquarters. If it were elsewhere, he would have killed without hesitation, but this ship heading to the Ancient Treasures of Warfare held extraordinary significance for the Aurora Territory.
However, even so, Yan Xicai was still unwilling to accept it in his heart. He glared at Chen Yifei and the other person, with a glint of coldness in his eyes.
Seeing this, one of the four-stripe law enforcers leaned in and whispered to him:
"Young Master Yan, please be patient. It's not too late to act after we enter the ancient treasures. It's common for one or two people to perish in the Ancient Treasures of Warfare every year. Causing a death on this ship is something we all cannot bear..."
Yan Xicai glanced at him, and his anger subsided considerably. He glanced at Chen Yifei and the other person:
"Alright, I'll deal with them after we enter the ancient treasures."
Seeing that Yan Xicai did not continue to make things difficult, the Fire Manipulators finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, they could foresee that their plan might not go so smoothly after entering the Ancient Treasures of Warfare...
Number 8 looked deeply at Chen Yifei, who raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a harmless smile.
For some reason, seeing this smile, Number 8 felt a chill in his heart...
As the ship gradually cut through the blue sea, massive chunks of ice began to appear around them. The piercing cold seemed to penetrate their bones. Even though everyone was wearing thick clothes, it was difficult to withstand this bitter cold.
At the same time, at the end of the sea level, a black sky gradually emerged.
Even though it was still afternoon, the sunlight above the frozen sea had begun to dim. The dark seawater, carrying thick layers of ice, flowed past the ship... This world was visibly falling into darkness.
Standing on the deck, everyone looked up at the sky. Most of them had never seen such a scene, and Chen Yifei was no exception.
Was there a black sky above the frozen sea?
This was the second time Chen Yifei had seen a massive supernatural phenomenon since coming to this era... The first was the aurora.
However, even the omnipresent aurora within the aurora realm failed to extend into this black sky, as if there was an invisible barrier in this world that isolated all auroras.
"What is this..." The young law enforcement officers looked at each other in confusion.
"The realm of the War God Path," the four-stripe law enforcement officer slowly spoke. "Since the birth of humanity, there has been a history of tens of thousands of years. From the moment we began to live in groups, human civilization was born... From the earliest activities of cutting firewood, making fires, and hunting, to the many detailed divisions of labor after the prosperity of civilization, the concept of 'profession' has permeated throughout human civilization.
"Book, Medicine, War, Yellow, Green, Ingenious, Chess, Puppetry, Witchcraft, Strength, Divination, Thievery, Prostitution... These fourteen paths to enlightenment are the embodiment of the 'divinity' of some professions in the long river of human civilization;
"And the Ancient Relics of the Divine Paths are the concretization of the 'divinity' of the divine paths in the human world. They contain all the accumulations of humanity in a certain path over the past tens of thousands of years... The Ancient Relic of the War Path is the carrier of all killings and wars since the emergence of humanity.
"Do you see that sword?"
Following his finger, everyone looked up and saw a black giant sword piercing through the heavens and the earth, standing tall like a mountain in the central area of the black sky.
The sword seemed to come from the sky, piercing through the human world, pointing directly at the center of the earth... Even standing on the deck and looking up, they could only see half of the sword's body. The other half of the handle had disappeared into the black sky above, invisible to the naked eye.
"Below that sword is the 'Ancient Relic of the War Path'."
"Are we... going under that sword?"
"Yes, but only to the outermost area... The range of the Ancient Relic of the War Path is extremely large, and only a small area can be opened to you." The law enforcement officer paused for a moment,
"The War God Path uses killings to prove its way. You won't have the opportunity to kill within the aurora realm, but in the ancient battlefield manifested by the Ancient Relic of the War Path, you can fight freely... When you find resonance in blood and fire, and gather enough murderous aura through slaughter, you will have the opportunity to attract the foundation of the War God Path and be granted the qualification to embark on the divine path."
Everyone stared at the sky giant sword that was gradually approaching, feeling extremely shocked and amazed...
The ship hummed, the cold wind whistled, and the hems of everyone's clothes on the deck were lifted by the strong wind, fluttering loudly.