Less than an hour later, Ning Beichen appeared overseas. He had flown directly across the Pacific. The strength of a Celestial Venerable was such that even modern radar and satellites could not detect him.
Even if a satellite happened to be monitoring that location, it would only register the passage of a small bird.
Ning Beichen materialized in a certain district where the person he was looking for resided.
Even Ning Beichen hadn't expected that this individual, instead of heading to the ancient Eastern land, had chosen to hide here and prosper, even becoming a renowned underground emperor with a considerable number of subordinates.
"Halt, you're not allowed in here."
As Ning Beichen approached, several men blocked his path.
"I want to see your boss," Ning Beichen stated.
"Leave immediately. Our boss doesn't see strangers," the men replied unceremoniously.
"That's not up to him."
Ning Beichen gave a gentle push, sending the men flying. What else could a Celestial Venerable do but deal with petty thugs?
"Stop!"
Soon, a group of people rushed out, guns pointed at Ning Beichen.
"Who the hell are you to dare cause trouble here? Get on your knees!" a man with curly hair, looking fierce, demanded as he stepped up to Ning Beichen.
"I am your ancestor."
Ning Beichen punched him away directly, without wasting words.
"Open fire, open fire…"
Seeing their boss struck down, the men immediately opened fire on Ning Beichen.
"Rat-a-tat-a-tat…"
Countless bullets flew towards Ning Beichen, even at close range.
Smoke billowed, and the firing continued for nearly a minute. It was enough to turn not just a person, but even an elephant, into a sieve.
"He must be dead by now, right?"
The men lowered their empty magazines, waiting for the smoke to clear.
"Bad, he's gone."
After a short while, the smoke dissipated. However, where Ning Beichen had stood, there was no corpse, not even a drop of blood.
"Careful, he's behind you!"
Someone immediately spotted Ning Beichen behind one of his companions and shouted a warning.
However, all of this was futile against a Celestial Venerable.
Soon, Ning Beichen's figure flickered incessantly, like a ghost. In less than a minute, all the men present lay on the ground.
Ning Beichen then vanished from the scene and appeared inside a building.
He then kicked the building with a powerful force.
*Bang!*
The building shuddered.
"Yu Jie, get out here, don't force me to kill all your men."
Ning Beichen's voice echoed within the building.
Shortly after, a胖 man in a suit with slicked-back hair appeared before Ning Beichen.
"Who are you?"
This fat man was Yu Jie, one of the two who had escaped with Ya Daier.
However, he lacked Ya Daier's ambition. Upon arriving here, he had immediately set himself up as a local king, indulging in a life of debauchery.
"Ya Daier, do you know her?" Ning Beichen asked him.
"Are you sent by Ya Daier?" Yu Jie asked, suddenly surprised.
"Heh, I'm not sent by her. It was she who gave you away. Yu Jie, this is not your territory. I'll give you two choices: either leave this world, or… die!" Ning Beichen said without any pleasantries.
"Absurd! Even Ya Daier wouldn't dare speak to me like that."
Yu Jie didn't take Ning Beichen seriously. He couldn't perceive Ning Beichen's strength.
Furthermore, he hadn't encountered any worthy opponents since arriving here. He had also discovered that the cultivators in this world were very weak, which had inflated his ego.
"I'll take you down first, then I'll go settle the score with that woman, Ya Daier."
Yu Jie lunged at Ning Beichen with a claw-like strike.
However, the next second, his claw was caught in Ning Beichen's hand.
"It seems you've chosen the second path."
Ning Beichen spoke, then with a flick of his wrist, Yu Jie fell apart like a rag doll. Before he could beg for mercy, Ning Beichen had already grabbed him by the neck and left.
About an hour later, Ning Beichen tossed the dismembered Yu Jie before Ya Daier.
Initially, Ning Beichen had intended to kill him, but upon second thought, he decided to bring him back first.
Seeing Yu Jie reduced to a pulp, Ya Daier turned pale with fear.
She hadn't expected that even Yu Jie had fallen into the hands of this devil.
"Speak, where is the other person?" After they had exchanged a few words, Ning Beichen sat on the sofa, crossing his legs, and asked.
"I… I don't know. After we separated, I never saw him again." Yu Jie was already terrified. He had learned of Ning Beichen's methods from Ya Daier, and his arrogance had completely vanished.
"Do you truly not know, or are you pretending?" Ning Beichen's gaze was like a blade as he stared at him.
"I really don't know," Yu Jie shook his head in panic.
"I… I can confirm he's not lying." At this moment, Ya Daier, with a hint of fear, spoke up for Yu Jie.
"You're sure? You vouch for him?" Ning Beichen glanced at her. This woman had been quite compliant lately, which was why Ning Beichen hadn't been harsh with her.
"I… I can vouch for him. Mo Xiu was very low-key and mysterious in our original world. We didn't know much about him," Ya Daier explained.
Yu Jie, still like a pile of mud, nodded eagerly in agreement.
Among the three of them, Mo Xiu was the strongest and the most mysterious. He had little interaction with them, so they genuinely didn't know his whereabouts. Unless Mo Xiu chose to find them, even they couldn't locate him.
Ning Beichen eventually believed their words and, instead of killing Yu Jie, confined him with Ya Daier.
Ning Beichen had already decided how to handle them. He wouldn't kill them, but if he were to leave, he would take all three of them with him. Then, he could also visit their world.
After all, sometimes, blind slaughter was not the right path.
However, if what they said was true, finding Mo Xiu would not be easy.
Ning Beichen had mobilized all his connections to search exhaustively for him, but there was still no trace of him, as if he never existed.
Moreover, searching for one person worldwide was more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.
As long as Mo Xiu changed his identity and hid in some obscure corner, as long as he didn't cause trouble, he would be impossible to find.
Therefore, Ning Beichen made a bold decision.
"If I can't find you, I'll force you to find me."
Ning Beichen then placed a message worldwide, using the names of Ya Daier and Yu Jie.
Within the message, he also embedded some coded text that only they would understand, indicating they had made a significant discovery and hoped Mo Xiu would come to research it with them.