Chapter 665: Dead Island
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
Dongfang Wang looked at Ye Mo's disappearing figure and felt that his hands were full of sweat. He was very smart and had strong instincts. He could really feel Ye Mo's killing intent in that instant when An Zhiqi said that his name was Dongfang Wang.
So Dongfang Wang said what he could to make Ye Mo understand that he had nothing to do with Dongfang Xi and Dongfang Tang.
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When Ye Mo asked Xu Yuehua about Dongfang Tang, she quickly gave a precise answer. She had already investigated Dongfang Tang.
From Xu Yuehua Ye Mo found out that the Blue Ray Corporation had been infighting a few months earlier. Ku You and Edward died due to the chaos, and the Blue Ray Corporation was broken apart. Meanwhile, Dongfang Tang and his men disappeared after the discord.
Hearing this, Ye Mo had a very bad feeling. He felt that whether it was the Special Forces' elites disappearing on Ice Helm Island or the incidents that happened to Luo Yue or even the actual war, all might have had something to do with Dongfang Tang. If all that had really been planned by someone, then their method was too similar to Dongfang Xi's past methods.
If it wasn't for Dongfang Xi being dead, he would be the first Ye Mo would suspect, but he was definitely dead, so Ye Mo's primary suspect was Dongfang Tang.
If the recent events had something to do with Dongfang Tang, then that meant he might've joined Northern Sand.
"How are things with the US and the UK?" Ye Mo asked.
Xu Yuehua said in a light tone, "Mr Rodd's wife and daughter spoke out on TV, and the meeting between the US and the UK became very short. There has been no official news about it yet, but the UK's Prime Minister left the US quickly, and there is no news from India either."
Xu Yuehua hesitated before saying, "But Mrs Rodd doesn't want to leave Luo Yue yet. She said she would be waiting for you to come back to discuss some things."
Hearing this, Ye Mo's head began to hurt. He knew there was some problem with this Mrs Rodd, but he had no clue what it could be. No matter what secret she had, Ye Mo didn't want to come in contact with such people. As long as she had no ill will towards Luo Yue, he just wanted her to leave as soon as possible.
But if she didn't want to leave, he couldn't really kick her away. Hence, Ye Mo said with annoyance, "I will go to Ice Helm Island now. Keep them in check."
"Don't you want to say something to Luo Ying and Ning Qingxue?" Xu Yuehua subconsciously asked. She was thinking how Ye Mo was going to go there. That was quite a long distance, yet Ye Mo didn't ask for any help.
Hearing this, Ye Mo said, "My phone is almost out of battery, I will talk to them when I'm back."
Xu Yuehua laughed, and Ye Mo quickly said, "Hey, don't misunderstand! Also, you need to keep Ye Xing and co. safe. We can release the restrictions on immigration, but if anyone tries to go near Luo Yue's research and scientist residence area, immediately apprehend them, throw them into jail and wait for me to deal with them."
After this war, Ye Mo felt that Luo Yue really had too little population. He believed that Luo Yue's population should be somewhere in between 5 and 10 million. Only then would Luo Yue not fear any single power or even everyone ganging up on them. But the latter wouldn't happen anyway. Despite Luo Yue's diplomacy not being the best, they wouldn't have no allies at all.
"By the way, investigate for me where Xi Tang is. It should be somewhere in China, but I've never heard about it before," Ye Mo said.
Ye Mo suddenly realized something. The three brothers were called Dongfang Xi, Dongfang Tang, and Dongfang Wang. If you put the last parts of their names together, you had Xi Tang Wang, meaning Xi Tang King.
"That should be just a coincidence, right?" Ye Mo frowned and muttered.
Dongfang Wang had told him all that to keep himself alive, fearing that Ye Mo would turn back to kill him. But Dongfang Wang had underestimated Ye Mo, as Ye Mo didn't even need to put in that effort if he wanted to kill someone.
Ye Mo could tell that although Dongfang Wang wasn't as experienced as Dongfang Xi and Dongfang Tang, his mind was very clear. If he weren't so bleak, and if he weren't from the Dongfang family, Ye Mo would really want to bring him to Luo Yue.
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Although the conditions were still very stringent, Luo Yue once again welcomed immigration. However, every person had to be checked before being able to come. There were all sorts of requirements, yet this didn't stop people from wanting to migrate to Luo Yue.
Due to the war, Luo Yue had gotten large amounts of compensation and had many facilities and organizations established. These facilities were all designed by Ye Xing and were all world class.
Compared to Luo Yue's rising prevalence, the US President wanted to puke blood. Someone had just made the perfect chance for him to attack Luo Yue, but it was crushed before he could use it. That Mrs Rodd was saved, and she had condemned the US on live TV.
That way, there was no way the UK could start a war.
Even though the US didn't have an excuse to start war anymore, the US wouldn't allow Luo Yue to choke their throat for their maritime route into the Indian Ocean. So they also had to negotiate with Luo Yue to get them to leave Jason Giambi Island.
Ye Mo knew he wasn't good at politics, and he didn't have time to deal with it either, so he left all matters completely to Xu Yuehua and co. He felt very confident in them.
His current target was clear: he would to go to Ice Helm Island and find Zhang Jue and Li Hu. Then, he would come back and get married with Luo Ying and Ning Qingxue. Afterwards, he would try to find spirit stones and try to enter the pocket world in one or two years.
To cover the distance from the South Pole to the North Pole, even with Ye Mo's power, he still had to use an essence chi pill. Ye Mo used the map Han Zaixin had given him and by the time he found the island, the sky was already gray. Ye Mo didn't know if it was day or night.
Ye Mo stood in the air above the island and looked at the barren rocks with snow here and there. This was an icy island, but it wasn't a glacier. Han Zaixin had said it looked like a helmet, but Ye Mo couldn't really tell.
Around the island were fleets with all kinds of flags, but none of those fleets neared the island.
"It would seem that something did happen indeed," Ye Mo murmured to himself, and he landed on the yellow rock. As soon as he stepped foot there, he noticed that the atmosphere had a very strange feeling to it. It was the feeling of death and silence.
Chapter 666: Stuck in a Desperate Situation
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
Ye Mo didn't know that at that very moment somewhere on a distant ship, three men and two women were watching a particular surveillance screen.
When Ye Mo's figure appeared on the screen, they all looked at each other in shock and didn't know what to say.
"He really does have the power to mysteriously go everywhere in the world. There's actually such a mutant power in this world! If I didn't seen it for myself, I wouldn't believe it," one woman said.
Another person broke the dense atmosphere and said, "No matter how strong he is, he'll be dead soon."
No one replied, because they all believed that was right. When Ye Mo entered the island, he would be dead for sure.
The other woman was shocked too. She didn't expect she would know the man on the screen. She thought Ye Mo was just an ancient martial arts master, but apparently he had the ability to go wherever he wanted without using any machine.
This woman was the advisor of the Hong Martial Gang's leader, Huang Mei. It could be said that the reason why the Hong Martial Gang had been able to attain its status in San Francisco was all due to her. Ever since she realized that Zhu Hongsheng couldn't achieve big things, though, she left the Hong Martial Gang.
She even looked for Ye Mo later on but never found him. Then somehow Northern Sand heard of her and invited her. Although she had been in gangs, she didn't really know much about Northern Sand. The only thing she knew was that Northern Sand was very powerful and that they had many scientific research bases. They proclaimed they were creating a peaceful world.
But after Huang Mei joined Northern Sand, she realized that this organization was set on destroying all the countries in the world and establishing a dictatorship. The way they did things and earned money didn't seem peaceful at all. It was full of slaughters and schemes.
Huang Mei long since wanted to leave Northern Sand, but she understood that Northern Sand was easy to join but hard to leave. This time she had come with the Northern Sand people to do a mission disguised as a Japanese fleet. She knew that this would be her only chance to escape, but she also knew that if she failed, she would be dead.
Huang Mei wanted to save Ye Mo and run away, but she knew that it was impossible to do that. Ye Mo was on the island, and she had no way to contact him.
Huang Mei didn't completely know the layout of the island, but she knew at least some things. She knew that it would be indeed very hard for Ye Mo to escape after going there. When these people had laid the traps, they had even calculated Ye Mo's character into them.
Even if she couldn't save Ye Mo, she didn't want to stay in Northern Sand anymore. And if she wanted to run, she had to grasp this opportunity. But other than her, there were four more people there. She needed to kill the other four as quickly as she could and leave, all the while not startling anyone else.
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Ye Mo had been to many islands, but he had never seen a place like this island which gave him a sense of death and emptiness. Even in Antarctica he could feel some life, but there was truly no life there.
He was sure that even if he found Zhang Jue and Li Hu there, they would be bodies and definitely not living people.
Ye Mo also felt that the island was very dangerous, but he couldn't tell why exactly.
Ye Mo walked along the rocks for half an hour and finally understood why Han Zaixin had said that the island was actually only a few thousand square kilometers. The island was linked to countless glaciers, but the actual land mass wasn't big.
After checking things, he realized that the proper island was at most 100 square kilometers.
It wasn't tiny, but Northern Sand would never build its base in such a place and let it be revealed. This was a trap. Although Ye Mo didn't know if it was for the special forces' elites or not, but he had a bad feeling.
Knowing that this was a glacier group, Ye Mo didn't go investigate the large patches of glaciers, because he felt that even if there were any secrets on the island, it wouldn't be on the glaciers. He needed to check the land.
100 sqkm wasn't small, but under Ye Mo's investigation everything was soon checked.
Ye Mo stopped in a particular valley. The place was a mess, and there were many buildings, but it was all lifeless.
At the end of the valley was a tunnel. Ye Mo let his spirit sense out and was ready to enter the tunnel, but just when his spirit sense reached the area right next to the tunnel, he found a half-eroded military knife.
Ye Mo walked up and studied it, and it seemed to have pierced into something before it rusted.
All those people might've disappeared down this tunnel. Ye Mo sighed, if they really did, then he didn't need to keep looking, because this place was also lifeless. But since he was there, he knew that he should go have a look.
Ye Mo was very careful, even though he was a dao cultivator.
He stood at the door to the tunnel and felt his heart shake. Even when he had been pointed at by a gun, he had never felt this feeling. It was just too strange and made him very uncomfortable. He thought of the danger he felt when he entered this island and felt even more uncomfortable.
When he thought for a bit however, he decided to go in nonetheless. If he didn't even have the courage to look around for a bit, that would be being too timid.
Before he went in, though, he put an essence chi pill and a lotus life pill in his mouth and wrapped them in chi to prevent them from melting. After making sure there was no danger nearby, he started walking in slowly.
Ten minutes later, Ye Mo reached the end of the tunnel, and there was nothing but a big hole.
This hole reached down, and there were stairs. It was exactly the same as the submarine tunnel on Bali.
Ye Mo sent his spirit sense down, and the tunnel seemed different from the one back then. After his spirit sense reached the end, there was a submarine as well, but Ye Mo's face immediately turned bad. It was filled with things Ye Mo had never seen before.
Ye Mo's first thought was that they must have done all that to target him and blow him up.
If that was the case, then they must've guessed some of his power and made this trap especially for him.
But that didn't make sense, how did they know he would come? And would they use such big means to take him out?
Ye Mo didn't understand and wanted to just leave immediately, because even he couldn't deal with that many explosions at the same time. Just when he wanted to turn around, however, he felt something wasn't right. If he didn't go in and their plan went to waste with just that, wouldn't that be a pretty bad plan? He thought of that Dongfang Xi, and if someone was targeting him, their plan wouldn't be that simple.
He thought for a moment and carefully scanned his spirit sense around.
When he understood what everything around him was, his face turned very bad. The rocks around him and the tunnel were all artificial and had only been disguised as normal rocks.
At this moment Ye Mo sweated. He wanted to turn around and run, but he stopped himself and calmed down. Although he didn't see any cameras, he was sure that he was being watched. If he turned, perhaps this place would explode immediately.
No matter how fast he was, he wouldn't be able to escape that.
Chapter 667: How To Leave
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
The reason why they hadn't detonated the bomb was not because they didn't want to, but because they didn't know what trump cards he might have. They wanted to wait until he entered that hole and they would have greater confidence to kill him.
Thinking about this, Ye Mo became even calmer. Ever since he'd embarked upon the path of cultivation, he had faced too many dangers and unknowns, but never had he been surrounded like today.
Ye Mo knew that if everything around him exploded, then even if he were at the foundation establishment state, he might not be able to survive such an explosion. The person who buried the bomb had actually overestimated him and wanted to wait until he went into the black hole before blowing the place up.
Understanding that, Ye Mo could only carefully walk into the black hole.
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Watching the screen, Huang Mei's face changed. She also saw that the man holding the controller wanted to detonate it immediately.
"Qi Huan, he went in, you can do it," that woman immediately said as she saw Ye Mo go in.
Even though Ye Mo was completely surrounded by bombs, they still weren't sure whether they would kill him.
The man called Qi Huan stared at the screen and said, "Wait a bit longer. Once he's completely in, I will press it ten seconds later. By then, no matter how strong he is, he will be dead for sure."
Huang Mei stood at the back and carefully touched the knife in her pocket. Although she had a gun too, she knew she only ranked third in power there.
The black hole was Northern Sand's trap for that untraceable man. The man who made Northern Sand unable to rest easy.
The two Extreme Energy Stones had disappeared and not long ago, the eerie scene on the auction ship happened, and the Black Sun Empire's gold reserves suddenly disappeared. Moreover, America's gold reserves were also robbed. This all showed that someone had the ability to appear and disappear out of nowhere.
Lu Lin had been suspected the most for the Extreme Energy Stones, but that was proven to have been nonsense.
Many guessed that it was Ye Mo but many thought it impossible too.
When she finally saw Ye Mo's figure, she realized that it was indeed Ye Mo who was behind all of that. At this moment, Huang Mei was shocked at the advisor who had guessed it. Only he had guessed it and set up a series of plans against Ye Mo and Luo Yue.
According to the advisor, not only should Ye Mo be a part of Luo Yue, but he was probably also one of the City Lords, if not the actual highest in command. So, everything the advisor did was to force out that mysterious master.
She didn't have the status to receive all that information, but she was smart and had guessed it from her conversations with other people and taking into account all that had happened.
If Ye Mo was really the commander of Luo Yue, then he must not die and his identity as the mysterious master mustn't be revealed.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to go to Luo Yue and expand her ambitions. If someone like that died, it would be a heavy blow to Luo Yue. And if the US knew that Luo Yue had stolen their gold they would think of any way possible to wage war with Luo Yue.
Huang Mei was calculating when the best moment to make her move would be. Once Ye Mo completely entered the black hole, that would be when the guy with the controller would be the most focused on the screen. That would be the best time to attack.
That time quickly came - when Ye Mo completely disappeared into the black hole, Huang Mei immediately pulled out her dagger and gun.
Huang Mei's actions were quick but the others weren't slow either. The moment she shot out her knife and pulled out her gun, the woman next to her felt something wasn't right and also quickly pulled out her gun.
Huang Mei knew that it was best to kill the person next to her and then kill the guy controlling the remote.
She knew that if she wasted even a little time, the bomb would go off.
The moment Huang Mei's knife struck the man controlling the remote, her gun also went off. She killed two people as quickly as she could as she took them by surprise.
Huang Mei knew that her actions would be noticed. She couldn't dodge bullets, but her wits saved her again. The instant she fired, she slanted her body to the left and shot at the woman next to her.
As Huang Mei moved aside, there was a clear bang, and a bullet passed by Huang Mei's waist at the same time as Huang Mei's bullet pierced the woman's chest.
Immediately three dead and one injured. That last man didn't know why they were fighting each other, but he reacted when Huang Mei fired the second shot.
He didn't have a gun, and his first reaction wasn't to find a gun but to charge to the dead man to press the remote.
Huang Mei didn't want to let him do that, and she shot the man in the head instantaneously but still couldn't stop the explosion.
Seeing the scene on the screen explode in fire and turn black, Huang Mei sighed and said to herself, "I tried to help you however I could, but I couldn't do it completely. Sorry, but I need to run too."
Huang Mei patched her waist up with some bandages and then cleaned the scene and wiped the cameras before leaving the room.
She knew that not the sneak attack but the moment when you wanted to run away was the hardest part.
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Ye Mo had a purpose when he entered the black hole - when his body was completely inside, he immediately turned invisible and flew out as quickly as he could. His flying sword turned into a chi shield to protect himself.
He used his fastest speed and needed only ten seconds to get out.
Just when he was near the entrance to the tunnel, the explosion happened, and it roaringly pushed him out with all the rubble and earth.
At the same time, Ye Mo ate the two pills. Even though he wanted to stop his body from flying out like the rubble, the force of the explosion was too powerful, and Ye Mo was ended up heavily injured.
The instant the explosion went off, Ye Mo used all his chi to protect himself. When the chi barrier as well as the flying sword's defenses were broken, his meridians were shattered. If he hadn't prepared the two pills beforehand, his organs would have been shattered too.
Rumble rumble-
The fire and ice mixed together like fireworks blasting into the sky.
Chapter 668: Chaos
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
Under that huge explosion, the glaciers started to shatter and countless pieces broke off from the island and started to float away.
Ye Mo fell onto one glacier with a large gust of earth and ice, and it also started to drift away from the island.
The explosion immediately caught the attention of the fleets surveilling the area. The fleets started to close in on the island to find out what happened.
A small boat left the mass of fleets, and it soon mixed with all the glaciers and became indiscernible.
Huang Mei didn't expect she would be able to escape so easily. It was because the explosion caught everyone's attention and because the forest of glaciers became her best hiding spot.
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"What? The island suddenly exploded and the huge glacier turned into countless smaller ones?" When Han Zaixin heard the news, he was speechless. If the island exploded, how could Zhang Jue and Li Hu still be alive?
"Ye Mo, you don't need to go anymore," Han Zaixin murmured to himself and wanted to call Ye Mo, but the call wouldn't go through. Han Zaixin sighed and put the phone down. It was normal that Ye Mo's phone couldn't be reached. He didn't seem used to using such things.
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On an island near the Bailing Sea was the real base of Northern Sand. Ye Mo had guessed right, Northern Sand's HQ was there.
At this moment, in the most core meeting room, a man was yelling, "Since the island has exploded, why is there no news being sent back? Who is responsible for this?"
"We were using the Japanese ships and other people's power too. I suppose they fear that nearby countries might catch the signal. Qi Huan is responsible for this, and he's very careful. I don't think he would make a mistake. And that Huang Mei we sent always has a good overview of the broader picture, so even if Qi Huan made a mistake, she would point it out," a sharp voice replied.
"Hold on, at this moment, any country is sending messages back and forth, so there's no way Qi Huan and co. wouldn't send any news back. Unless they're in a special emergency, something must have happened to them," a hoarse voice sounded again.
The man who had been first to speak said, "Try to contact them. I want to know immediately what result we got after spending so much resources and effort on this. Make them send back the video recording immediately."
"Yes!" a voice replied.
"Brother Dongfang, do you think this explosion was due to Ye Mo? Although you said it's him, I'm still doubtful. I got news that he appeared in Antarctica just now, and a base there had to self-destruct due to him. He can't appear in the North Pole this quickly, right? But if it wasn't Ye Mo, then who would it be?" the man asked.
After a long time, that hoarse voice sounded again, "I do think that that person was Ye Mo. He's very mysterious. I'm sure he's one of the leaders of Luo Yue. As for why he can appear at the South Pole when he was at the North Pole a moment earlier, I think this is his mutant power. But if this explosion was due to him, we may never get the chance to research this power of his."
"That's a pity," the middle-aged man also sighed.
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At the White House, the President held a meeting as soon as he got news of the explosion.
These were America's hardest times ever, on one hand ther was the rise of Luo Yue, and Luo Yue had even taken over Jason Giambi Island, and on the other hand was their gold reserves. Most importantly, their schemes for Luo Yue always ended in failure.
The President was furious, but he knew anger wouldn't solve any problems. He needed to stay calm. Although this meeting was held partially to discuss the island, it was mainly to think of a right tactic for Luo Yue.
No matter how strong Northern Sand was, it was just an organization. The US could take them on anytime. Their real enemy now was Luo Yue and not Northern Sand. The President knew clearly that even if Northern Sand really had that terrifying weapon called the Space Flower, the US wouldn't be the only country facing it.
The President looked at all the Senators and his Cabinet and stood up, "Today, everyone sitting here must still be thinking that America is the strongest country in the world both economically and militarily, but I regret to inform you that we are no longer the strongest country. Our gold reserves have gone missing. I won't name who took it, but everyone can guess the identity of the thief."
Looking at everyone's reaction, the President continued with satisfaction, "Luo Yue only had a year to establish themselves, yet they accomplished what we did in half a century. They have used every means necessary and threatened the world with their nuclear power. Perhaps while we're still drinking Champagne to celebrate our title of the strongest military power, they've already succeeded us in both technology and military.
Now, they have taken Jason Giambi Island too. If this continues, our navy will become irrelevant in the Indian Ocean. I fear that if this continues, our navy can go hide in a ravine in the Pacific and only continue bluffing our own citizens. Perhaps then, not only Luo Yue, but also Russia and China might slowly reach out their heads above us."
The President then sat down, and judging by the atmosphere of the room, he knew he had reached his goal. Everyone knew that the President wanted to attack Luo Yue, but they also knew that it wasn't going to be easy.
Howard, like the President, also had a strong attitude, and he wasn't happy that they were getting beaten down by Luo Yue.
Hence he said, "We actually do have a way to bring down Luo Yue."
Everyone looked at him, so Howard gathered his thoughts and said, "Which one do you think is more important: the Russian navy entering the Southern and Northern straits or Luo Yue's rise?"
"I think Luo Yue's rise would threaten us more. They act like madmen," someone answered.
Howard nodded, "I believe so too. The reason why we used another excuse than them having nukes to take action against Luo Yue was because we know that if we used nukes as the excuse, Russia would vote against it. But now, things are different. Luo Yue taking Jason Giambi Island clearly means that they're interested in the Malacca Strait. The Malacca Strait is the passage the Russians wish to use to return to their Northern Vietnamese base. If we support Russia and allow them to go back there, don't you think Russia would stand on our side?"
Although it would be a huge loss for the US to let Russia enter the Northern Vietnamese base, that was nothing compared to the destruction of Luo Yue. If Luo Yue was gone, then Sai Na would return to the US too.
Seeing everyone nod, Howard continued, "Now we just need to join up with Russia for the moment and attack Luo Yue together. Also, Luo Yue has detonated a nuke in the South Pole, which violates the Antarctic Treaty. That's enough of a reason to judge them. As long as Russia doesn't vote no, we can use the Union to judge Luo Yue again."
"What if China votes no?" someone asked.
Howard smiled, "Unless we admit that we are secretly allowing the Russian navy back to their Vietnamese base, China won't do that."
Chapter 669: Don’t Know if Good or Bad Fortune
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
When Ye Mo woke up, it was already dark. He sat up immediately and checked his status.
He was very badly injured. Luckily, he still had a lotus life pill in his mouth, so his wounds had started recovering immediately. Otherwise, he might have not been awake at that moment. Although his meridians had been truly shattered, with the lotus life pill, recovery would only be a matter of time.
As for the external injuries, they didn't even count as injuries for Ye Mo. Only the Dan Tian and Meridian injuries were actually concerning for him.
Ye Mo took out other two lotus life pills and took them before checking his surroundings. Ye Mo realized that he was on a glacier and there was sea water all around him - nothing else. The explosion must have shattered the glaciers, so he had floated away.
Ye Mo felt he was lucky. If he had still been on the ice helmet island, even if he hadn't been dead, he would've been caught.
It seemed his quick reaction in the tunnel had been right. If he had turned around at the time, then the explosion probably would have went off a second or two later and he might have died.
Instead, he had chosen to go into the black hole and run away turning invisible. This gave him at least 13 seconds or so - the time he needed to survive.
This incident made Ye Mo understand better that during danger it was very important to stay cool-headed. Although it had been extremely dangerous, he would treasure it. Sometimes, certain things can't be understood.
Still, he had been able to make it out due to his pills and the flying sword. Ye Mo suddenly remember his flying sword. Had it fallen in the ocean?
Luckily, he found it really quickly. It was next to him laying on the ground, but it had lost all of its spiritual properties. It couldn't fly anymore.
Ye Mo picked it up and considered himself lucky. If it weren't for his flying sword, he wouldn't be sitting there without any part of his body missing. Although the flying sword had been heavily damaged, he still had a Five Element Rock so he could reforge it. Now that he was at stage five middle stage, reforging the sword would only make it stronger.
No matter what, Ye Mo knew that the most important thing to do then was to heal himself. He didn't know how long he had been there for sure, but it shouldn't have been too long.
The injuries made Ye Mo want to go into the small dimension even more. He wanted to get stronger outside, but no matter how hard he worked, it was useless without spirit chi and herbs.
Ye Mo thought about this incident. It was clear that it had been a plan targeted at him.
Who would do this? Who would lay out such a huge trap on an island? If from Luo Yue's outlets being smashed to the Bali tourists disappearing, they had all been targeted towards him, then his enemy was too dangerous.
He got the same feeling that Dongfang Xi used to give him. The first person he thought of was Dongfang Tang. The first time he had come to Luo Yue to negotiate with Shana, he was unable to control his emotions. Later on, he found out that he had done it in front of his partner. From that time, Ye Mo learned that Dongfang Tang was no simple man. If he really was the mastermind, the guy was too scary.
At least, he knew that he was one of the higher-ups of Luo Yue. He knew more about him than Han Zaixin.
He was sure that the tunnel in Bali had been prepared by Northern Sand. Luo Yue's army had just happened to encounter it. He didn't know why Northern Sand would dig a tunnel there, but there was one thing he was certain: Northern Sand had many more of those.
"Northern Sand," Ye Mo said coldly and he closed his eyes to heal up.
The broken meridians started to weld together. Although it was a slow process, it was just a matter of time.
As time went by, he noticed that it was much slower to recover than before. However, the strange thing was that despite it recovering slowly, it got much thicker after it healed.
Ye Mo knew that the thicker the meridians, the better it was for cultivation. Usually, meridians would only change a lot at foundation establishment state. Even if you reached a higher level in chi gathering state, it would only become more durable, not thicker.
He realized that this near death experience had excavated some of his potential.
Ye Mo took out another lotus life pill and the only spirit stone he had. The expansion of his meridians meant that he had a stronger potential. With the same resources, he could reach a higher state.
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Luo Yue.
The smell of war reached them once again. The reason was simple: Luo Yue had violated the Antarctic Treaty. The US requested the Union to attack Luo Yue City for the second time.
When voting, Russia contradicted all expectations and agreed. China didn't vote as usual, but this time the UK also didn't vote.
Yet still, it had been decided to attack Luo Yue for the second time. The reason was that Luo Yue was being a chaotic factor in the world and had detonated nukes in Antarctica. They threatened peaceful countries, such as Indonesia, with nukes and forced them to sign unfair treaties. They demanded Luo Yue to immediately give back Sai Na to the people.
Looking at such request, Luo Yue rejected it without thinking. Hence, war was inevitable again.
The Union sent 630k troops this time, but 99% of this peacekeeping army was made up of US soldiers. When it was the other countries' turn to send troops, they only sent a few symbolically.
"These bastards!" Huang Yinian cursed at the Luo Yue's meeting.
Everyone knew that despite it still being the Union attacking Luo Yue, it was just one country, the US. As for why the US was in a rush to attack Luo Yue, the answer was crystal clear.