Chapter 1345

The battle ended very quickly.

After the sixth stratum of Dao Querying assassin died, the middle-aged woman and the youth did not escape either.

Of the five Dao Querying cultivators, only the Umbra Beast leader survived. However, he was sealed by Tyrant Words Zhen Suo.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Many of the bandits saw that they could not do anything and wanted to escape.

However, they had seen Gu Chen's true strength. How could Gu Chen let them leave so easily?

Without Gu Chen saying anything, Wu Li madly surrounded the remaining bandits. After losing their Dao Querying cultivators, they could not withstand a single blow. The scene was just a bloody massacre.

The shadow guard who survived saw five emperors die in a short amount of time with his own eyes. He felt a great shock, but he was more happy to have survived.

He helped clean up the battlefield until the entire galaxy was silent. Other than the corpses on the ground, only he, Gu Chen, Wu Li, and the captive Umbra Beast leader remained.

"Many thanks to Lord Gu for saving my life!"

After the battle, the shadow guard immediately bowed to Gu Chen. He was very uneasy.

Before today, his impression of this Lord Gu stopped at "defeated and imprisoned on Prison Star", "a stray dog", and so on.

Because of these, to be honest, he had looked down on Gu Chen before.

However, the battle just now completely overturned his original imagination. It made him, who had developed an outstanding sense of smell in the shadow department, realize that this Lord Gu had been hiding his strength!

Because Lord Gu had hidden his strength, he had luckily escaped today. However, because he had seen through Lord Gu's true strength, his heart was pounding. Would this Lord Gu kill him to silence him?

Besides, even if Lord Gu did not kill him, his heart was very heavy when he thought of the person who arranged this assassination. He felt his future was bleak.

"There will be an ambush on the way. You guys already knew, right?"

Gu Chen looked at the shadow guard and asked coldly.

In this short period of time, he had already sorted out his thoughts. However, he needed to verify it.

"We were worried, but we did not expect that Lord Peng Fu would dare to kill Lord Gu and be so ruthless."

The shadow guard was surprised and then answered truthfully with a bitter smile.

"Lord Gu, this person is most likely a spy sent by Peng Fu."

At this moment, Wu Li walked over with an unfriendly gaze.

The route back to Xing County was arranged by Peng Fu, and this Shadow Guard was Peng Fu's man. Even though a few of his companions had died in the explosion, it could not prove his innocence.

"No, Lord Gu, I was also persecuted!"

The shadow guard sensed Wu Li's murderous aura and panicked.

Gu Chen waved his hand, signaling him to shut up. "Whether you are innocent or not, I have my own opinion. Just answer my questions honestly."

The Shadow Guard instantly shut his mouth as his heart was filled with unease.

"Why does Peng Fu want to kill you?" Gu Chen asked first.

Previously, when he was still in the Star Sea Forest, he had noticed that a few Shadow Guards were uneasy, as if they had a premonition.

When the spaceship exploded, his Divine Sense also noticed that the source of the explosion was another Shadow Guard.

That Shadow Guard had been poisoned by someone. His body exploded on the way, directly implicating the entire spaceship.

The person in front of him had reacted quickly enough and his cultivation was not bad, so he had luckily escaped.

Because he had seen the other person escape death with his own eyes, Gu Chen did not think that everything earlier was an act. He was Peng Fu's spy.

Therefore, the crux of the problem was, why did Peng Fu want to kill him and the Shadow Guards together?

The Shadow Guard heard that Gu Chen's tone seemed to trust him and felt much more at ease. At this moment, he hated Peng Fu to the bone, so he could not help but tell him everything in detail.

"We did not do anything wrong. If we did something wrong, it was because we knew too much."

"Lord Gu was sent to rescue Lord Peng, so you must know about Lord Peng's disappearance. Actually, we were captured together with Lord Peng."

Gu Chen's eyes narrowed. The information given to him by the Shadow Department only said that Peng Fu had disappeared, but did not mention the other Shadow Guards.

Perhaps the Shadow Department felt that the Shadow Guards' ranks were too low and insignificant, or perhaps they did not know that the Shadow Guards were with Peng Fu at that time, so they did not investigate their whereabouts in detail.

"Who captured the great Sky Shadow?" Wu Li, who was at the side, frowned.

"It was that World Suppressing Black Tortoise. When Lord Peng passed by this Longevity Realm, he sensed something and called us to investigate the whereabouts of that World Suppressing Black Tortoise."

"Unexpectedly, that Black Tortoise was very cunning and actually discovered this matter. It set up a trap to capture us and Lord Peng, imprisoning us in the Star Sea Forest."

"After that, we were imprisoned for several months. That Black Tortoise did not kill us and often chatted with Lord Peng in private."

"Until not long ago, all of us were suddenly released. We privately guessed that Lord Peng had made some kind of deal with that Black Tortoise."

Gu Chen listened carefully and finally knew where Peng Fu had been during this period of time.

"After we were released, we quickly received news from the headquarters that Lord Gu was sent over. After Lord Peng found out, he was rather displeased and sent us to the Shadow Department's branch in the Longevity Realm. "

"Lord Peng asked us to keep our mouths shut about our previous imprisonment. He also asked us to pass on a message to Lord Gu to hand over the mission and return to Xing County."

"Apart from that, he also wanted us to cut off all of Lord Gu's information channels."

"We did not dare to disobey and did as Lord Peng instructed. However, we still had many doubts in our hearts."

"Lord Peng's various actions became more and more strange. Just a few days ago, he even asked us to destroy all connections between the branch and the headquarters."

"These actions all violated the rules of the Shadow Department's headquarters. We had some guesses in our hearts, so when Lord Peng asked us to escort Lord Gu back to Xing County, we felt extremely uneasy."

When the Shadow Guard said this, hatred flashed through his eyes. "We originally thought that with Lord Gu around, Lord Peng would not take things to the extreme. As long as we left the Longevity Realm, we should be safe."

"Who would have thought that he had already secretly made a move and wanted to kill all of us!"

The people who had died were all his brothers who had gone through fire and water with him. Therefore, the Shadow Guard who had survived could not help but hate Peng Fu to the bone.

Although he tried his best to conceal his hatred, Gu Chen was still keenly aware of it.

After listening to the entire story, Wu Li asked Gu Chen in shock and uncertainty. "Lord Gu, has Peng Fu already betrayed Xing County?"

Gu Chen fell silent, but he was already certain of this answer.

"I don't understand why Lord Peng would do this. Could it be that he was threatened by that World Suppressing Black Tortoise?"

The Shadow Guard said through gritted teeth. Xing County was a huge organization and Peng Fu was one of the Shadow Department's Heavenly Shadows. He had a high status and authority. There was no reason for him to betray them.