Secular Immortal of the Nine Realms Chapter 239: Grasping the Initiative

“E-everyone… I have already told you everything I know. There is no falsehood in my words, and you have caught up with that fellow too… Please, spare our lives and allow us to leave,” the captain said with a tearful face.

Shortly after parting ways with Fang Chen, the captain and the other passengers were captured by the Sea Dragon Sect’s cultivators. They didn’t want to make an enemy out of the Sea Dragon Sect, but neither did they want to offend Fang Chen too. They simply wanted to stay out of it.

“That fellow is right on that boat. I’m sure you can easily suppress him with your means. There’s no reason for us to stay here.”

“I-I’m going to visit a friend in the Beast Spirit Valley. Please let me go on his account…”

The captain and the other passengers desperately pleaded for mercy. In contrast, a middle-aged man and a little girl were relatively quieter in the crowd, but it was also for that reason that no cultivators noticed them.

“You’re visiting a friend in the Beast Spirit Valley?” The twelfth stage Ki Refinement cultivator who lost an eye laughed. “Do you think that our Sea Dragon Sect would be intimidated by the Beast Spirit Valley? It might be a top sect in your Infernoblaze, but it’s nothing in our eyes.”

“Of course, of course! The Beast Spirit Valley can’t possibly measure up to the Sea Dragon Sect. I have spoken out of place,” the cultivator immediately caved in.

The complexion of the one-eyed cultivator alleviated. “We won’t make things difficult for you as long as you have nothing to do with our young sect master’s death. However, words are empty. You need to wait for us to apprehend the culprit, and only then can we prove your innocence.”

Fear flickered across the eyes of the captain and the passengers.

In the end, they were still going to be implicated in this. Some of them hated Fang Chen for dragging them into this mess. If not for him, they could have safely reached Infernoblaze instead of being imprisoned and treated like criminals for two whole months!

Meanwhile, many of the cultivators by the

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