Against The Heavens 145 The Demon In Plain Sight.

Tian Zheng's eyes darted around the area as he was moving around with Zhao Feng, both of them looking for any traces that might lead them to any of the escaped Void Born. Tian Zheng's eyes weren't darting around just because of the fact that they were looking for Void Born, they were also darting around because he was slightly worried that Zhao Feng might find out that he was currently in contact with one of his men that had remained in the clan.

"s.h.i.+ng Yatyu, I need you to head to the clan archives, head directly for the sealed off sections in the deepest part. Don't worry about the guardian, I will give you the authority to enter the sealed off parts. Once inside, look for anything about someone known as the Thunder Monarch, I need to hear about everything you find."

Tian Zheng made sure to memorize the name that Li Yang had mentioned while they searched the previous dungeon, the Thunder Monarch. If he could find anything about him, he should be able to learn the truth behind Li Yang's strength and his relations.h.i.+p with Fang Ying.

As for the sealed-off section of the archive that Tian Zheng wanted his junior disciple to search, it didn't just contain the oldest books that the clan had, it also contained any books or texts that they had acquired from other planets or from the top five danger zones on the planet. Each grand clan and sect had one such section, but as the Tian clan was among the oldest of the clans, they had the largest archive among the various sects and clans.
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He received an affirmative reply from his junior disciple almost instantly and then quickly sent over directions to the sealed-off section of the archive. He then sent a quick message to the clan head to inform him about s.h.i.+ng Yatyu's task and then even went as far as to send a message to the guardian of the archive, the Demonic beast partner that had followed their founder. Once he finished everything on his end, he put all his focus on searching for Void Born while waiting for a reply from s.h.i.+ng Yatyu.

He received a few questions about why he was looking for information about someone known as the Thunder Monarch, but Tian Zheng felt a nagging sense that the fewer people knew about it the better, so he made up a quick excuse for himself. Zhao Feng glanced over at Tian Zheng while they were walking, starting some idle conversation to chase away some of his boredom.

"Must suck for you to have to look at Brother Yang and Sister Ying flirting like that all the time, you were probably really eager to make her your wife. Believe me or now, but I know how it feels, there was a time where I was just like you. Best advice I can give you is to do your best to get over it and find someone else, if you're as lucky as me, you'll end up finding the one for you after a while. Oh, and I probably don't have to say this, but give up any thought towards Sister Ying. Depending on what you do to her, it might not be just you that gets dragged to h.e.l.l, your entire clan might just follow suit if you're foolish."

Few people knew Li Yang as well as Zhao Feng did, should there come a day where he became truly enraged, he would turn into a true demon that even the universe itself would have to fear. For a split second, Tian Zheng wanted to wave away Zhao Feng's words as an exaggeration, but remembering the horrifying dread he felt when Li Yang glanced at him while they were inspecting the prison, he couldn't completely toss it aside.

The two of them continued their search for Void Born, occasionally contacting Fang Ying or one of the other future clan leaders to make sure that everyone was constantly caught up on the situation. The first Void Born they encountered they managed to catch off guard while she was feeding on a large Demonic beast, ambus.h.i.+ng her and wounding her enough to make sure that the battle ended quickly.

The second one was a bit more troublesome, they found his tracks but he had also discovered them, so he started hiding and fleeing. Luckily, he ended up fleeing into the territory of a somewhat strong Demonic beast and was forced to engage in a battle with it, giving them enough time to catch up and kill him.

They didn't find any new Void Born before receiving the report that Li Yang had finished his cultivation, so they settled down and sent Fang Ying their current location, Tian Zheng making up a fire to send up some smoke so that it would be even easier for them to find their location. The two didn't sit down after making up the fire, vigilantly keeping an eye on their surroundings. The fire didn't just allow Li Yang and Fang Ying to know their locations, it also let anyone else in the area know where they were.

But it seemed like luck was on their side, nothing attacked them while they were waiting for Li Yang and Fang Ying to catch up with them. But when they finally heard the sound of Li Yang and Fang Ying's footsteps getting closer, Tian Zheng's breath caught in his throat, his heart skipping a beat. He finally received a report from s.h.i.+ng Yatyu.

"Senior Brother Zheng, I've acquired a scroll that mentions someone known as the Thunder Monarch! It didn't come from the clan's archive, it was the archive guardian himself who gave it to me, it comes from his personal collection, he apparently received it while out adventuring on a rather distant planet. The t.i.tle is 'Fall of the Fang clan, rise of the Thunder Monarch.'"

s.h.i.+ng Yatyu quickly started to read the book, Tian Zheng doing his best to still his drumming heart. He could excuse some of the earlier parts as coincidence, being named Li Yang and Fang Ying and using lightning and poison. But then the name Zhao Feng was added, the fact that the Zhao Feng in the story liked Fang Ying, the golden thunder and pink poison, the golden sword, the skill with arrays. When too many coincidences were stacked on top of each other, they stopped being coincidences.

The scroll ended with the death of Fang Ying and Li Yang, but who was to say that they hadn't found a way to reincarnate themselves? Zhao Feng was t.i.tled the Soul King and his wife had excellent control over time, the chances weren't exactly zero. If Tian Zheng's current guess was correct, it would also explain the relations.h.i.+p between Li Yang and Fang Ying, as well as their freakish strength, it made all the pieces fit together nicely.

And it was because of how perfectly the pieces fit together that Tian Zheng struggled to get his breathing under control as Li Yang and Fang Ying entered the clearing that he and Zhao Feng had created. He was now certain that Zhao Feng's earlier words were correct, his entire clan might vanish if he was careless or foolish, swallowed up by this demon that was hiding in plain sight.