Chapter 460

Chapter 460: This Old Man Is Almost a Ball
Yu Zhao kept her face calm, but in secret she sent a voice transmission to Ancestor Sui Bian: “They are watching us. To be exact, they are watching me.”

Since her strange encounter in Godsfall Land, Yu Zhao’s eyes had been able to see many things that other people could not.

The gazes of these people fell on her, both openly and in secret, the moment she appeared.

She felt like a piece of meat on a chopping board,

being stared at without the slightest restraint.

The meaning in those looks was very clear.

Greed. Shock. Desire.

Yu Zhao did not understand why they would look at her like that,

but she knew one thing.

They had to leave this place at once.

Ancestor Sui Bian was thinking the same thing as Yu Zhao.

The two exchanged a knowing glance.

Then they quickened their pace, walked down from the ship, and plunged straight into the sea of people.

Just as they moved, the cultivators who had been boarding ships at the dock all turned around and rushed in the direction the two of them had gone.

The crowd, which was already packed, instantly fell into chaos. Curses filled the air.

“Chase them, they ran that way!”

“Move, move, move, we can’t let them fall into someone else’s hands! The Tu Clan’s bounty is mine!”

“Why are you squeezing so hard, rushing to reincarnate or what!”

“…”

While they were pushing and shouting at each other, the now-disguised Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian hid in the crowd and looked at each other.

“The Tu Clan has issued a bounty notice. They’ve locked on to you.”

“It is that storage bracelet!”

From the pieces of their conversation, Yu Zhao quickly found the key to the problem.

Tu Xiao was not killed by her.

So the problem could not be Tu Xiao himself.

It could only be that storage bracelet.

Back then she had almost been hurt by the backlash from the storage bracelet.

It must have been when she used her divine sense to probe the storage bracelet that the person who set up the barrier formation sensed her face. After that, the bounty notice was published.

Luckily, that face had only been something Yu Zhao had transformed into. She carried a Tu Clan magical artifact on her that could easily change her appearance. Unless something special happened, there was no way she would ever…

“They are here!”

Yu Zhao was still turning the matter of the bounty notice over in her mind when a loud shout suddenly came from behind her.

She snapped back to herself and looked over, only to see a sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked man pointing at Ancestor Sui Bian and yelling in excitement.

“This old man is so fat he is almost a ball, I remembered him at a glance!”

Ancestor Sui Bian exploded with anger as soon as he heard that. He took three steps in two and rushed up to slap the man across the face.

“With a figure as handsome and dashing as Ancestor’s, you dare say I am as fat as a ball? You deserve a beating!”

The man was knocked out cold by that single slap, his cheek swelling up high with a very clear handprint on it.

But that slap also completely exposed the position of Ancestor Sui Bian and Yu Zhao.

More cultivators surged toward them.

If Sacred Wood Star Harbor had not forbidden fighting, the two of them would probably have already been surrounded by all kinds of spiritual light.

Even so, there were still people taking advantage of the chaos to strike in secret.

“Run!”

Ancestor Sui Bian wrapped Yu Zhao up with his spirit power and dragged her as he blink-stepped in the direction that looked less crowded.

But every time they landed, someone would immediately shout out their position. There was no way to shake these people off.

“Ancestor, let’s go to the teleportation array.”

As long as they used a teleportation array to leave Sacred Wood Star, then changed their appearances again, it would not be so easy for others to recognize them.

“Alright!”

However, when Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian finally managed to reach the place where people boarded the teleportation arrays, they found that every array was dim and dark. Beside them stood many cultivator wardens.

The moment they saw the two, the wardens rushed over in excitement,

as if they had been waiting for them to walk into the trap on their own.

“Why are there people everywhere! Just how much is the Tu Clan willing to pay!”

Ancestor Sui Bian was so frustrated he almost spat blood.

They had just escaped that damned place, Godsfall Land, and now they were being chased and blocked by so many people again. Were they not going to let Ancestor live at all!

Seeing the crowd grow thicker and thicker, Yu Zhao knew they could not stay here any longer. If they did, they would be captured sooner or later.

“Ancestor, to the docks!”

Ancestor Sui Bian did not even ask why. He turned around at once and took Yu Zhao back toward the docks.

At the edge of the docks, besides the giant starships that went back and forth to Godsfall Land, cultivators from different small worlds also docked their own starships here.

When Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian reached the docks, a starship just happened to be about to take off.

Ancestor Sui Bian did not even need Yu Zhao to remind him. He grabbed her and jumped straight onto the top of the starship.

An ear-piercing alarm sounded inside the starship.

“They are on the starship!”

“Stop that starship, quick!”

“Don’t let them get away! Attack!”

In an instant, countless streaks of light came crashing toward the starship.

Ancestor Sui Bian’s scalp tingled.

If so many attacks landed, would they not smash this old man into minced meat!

He gritted his teeth, pulled out every storage item he had on him, and then raised a spirit power shield, secretly cheering himself on.

But before those attacks even landed, they were blocked by the defensive shield that the starship had just activated.

Then, under everyone’s eyes, the starship let out a deep hum and shot straight up into the sky.

In the sunlight, a huge dark red pattern faintly appeared on the starship’s surface.

Someone recognized the symbol and shouted.

“That is the mark of the Nan Gong Clan! It is the Nan Gong Clan’s starship!”

The cultivators who had been planning to pilot their own starships and give chase instantly backed down.

The Nan Gong Clan was an even stronger family clan than the Tu Clan.

If they angered the people of the Nan Gong Clan, they might not only lose the bounty reward, but might not even live to leave this place.

All they could do was stand there, unwilling and helpless, and watch as the starship shrank to a tiny black dot, then slowly vanished from their sight.

“Whew, that was close.”

Ancestor Sui Bian wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He had thought that after barely escaping the wolf’s jaws, he was going to fall straight into the tiger’s den. Thankfully, his luck was good and his life was tough, and he had dodged this disaster.

“Yu Zhao, did you hear whose ship they said this was just now?”

Ancestor Sui Bian had only just asked when, in the very next instant, the floor beneath his feet suddenly opened up.

A voice that was neither truly familiar nor a complete stranger drifted out from below.

“Honored guests, please come inside so we can talk.”

Ancestor Sui Bian looked over at Yu Zhao in surprise.

Yu Zhao gave him a small nod.

He smoothed down his clothes, which had been tousled by the fierce wind, then leaped down into the starship.

After she saw him go in, Yu Zhao also jumped down into the starship.

“Many thanks, Fellow Daoist from the Nan Gong Clan, for your help. I am deeply grateful.”

Nan Gong Yin also cupped her hands to Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian.

“If not for the two of you, I would never have escaped from that dangerous place. Being able to help you now is Nan Gong Yin’s honor.”

“Fellow Daoist Nan Gong, you are too polite.”

Yu Zhao’s impression of Nan Gong Yin was still stuck on the way she had swiftly dealt with the man who tried to take advantage of her. She had thought Nan Gong Yin and Jin Yuan were both proud and fsheepoyant. Seeing Nan Gong Yin so serious right now gave her a different view.

Ancestor Sui Bian did not have as many concerns as Yu Zhao. They had saved Nan Gong Yin, and Nan Gong Yin had helped them in return. Their debts were even now, so no one owed anyone anything.

He found a comfortable spot to sit down and laughed: “Little disciple of the Nan Gong Clan, where are you headed? Would it be convenient to give us a ride?”