That night.
Late at night, everything was quiet and still.
The liberty temple's watch mages were feeling a bit drowsy.
Suddenly, a figure darted out of the liberty temple.
Immediately, an alarm blared through the night!
The watch mages instantly sobered up and shouted, "There's a thief! A thief has broken into the Shrine!"
Many Shrine mages rushed over upon hearing the news, but they found nothing; they didn't even see the thief's shadow.
However, they knew what was missing from the Shrine—
The dimension triangle mirror!
The liberty temple was thrown into chaos. The Shrine Master, Deng Bai, was furious and dispatched almost all of the Shrine mages to pursue the thief within the United States, while also issuing an international arrest warrant.
But they didn't even know who the thief was, so their pursuit was in vain.
In short, the liberty temple was in an uproar.
...
The day after the dimension triangle mirror was stolen.
One of the instigators was leisurely sweeping trash on a street near Free Island.
Pei Li's gaze was calm, completely unconcerned by his current perilous situation.
He only needed to create some chaos to confuse the public and attract the liberty temple's attention.
At that time, his accomplice would naturally deliver the dimension triangle mirror to Salang.
Salang had given him hope; this would be his most loyal gratitude to Salang!
Thinking of this, Pei Li's eyes finally lost their calm.
He didn't know that he was being used as a pawn by Leng Jue.
Once the dimension triangle mirror was sent out, Leng Jue would intercept it midway.
Only two people knew about this.
One was Leng Jue himself.
The other was Jiang Yuan, who was currently strolling in a park.
"Oi, there's trash here, come and sweep it!" Jiang Yuan casually tossed a water bottle and shouted at Pei Li, who was disguised as a sanitation worker.
Pei Li paused his movements, silently walked over, and swept the water bottle away.
"Plop."
Jiang Yuan threw another water bottle in front of him, with half a bottle of water sloshing inside.
Pei Li looked up, revealing a sharp chin, and silently stared at Jiang Yuan.
"What are you looking at? This bottle fell on the ground, I don't want it anymore, you sweep it up," Jiang Yuan said.
"The trash can is right next to us, why don't you throw it in the trash can?" Pei Li asked, pointing to a trash can only a step or two away from Jiang Yuan.
"Sorry, I didn't see the trash can," Jiang Yuan said with a smile, then threw down a ball of paper he pulled from somewhere, right in front of Pei Li.
"You!" Pei Li's sharp gaze pierced him, and the veins on his temples subtly bulged.
However, after only a few seconds, Pei Li lowered his head.
He still needed to create an opportunity for the dimension triangle mirror to be sent out.
Killing someone on the street now would be more trouble than it was worth.
Pei Li swept away the trash, and before Jiang Yuan could throw more, he tried to move away from the spot. He was truly afraid he wouldn't be able to resist lashing out.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yuan had no intention of letting him leave.
Invisible mind control sealed off the surrounding area.
Feeling the powerful spatial force, Pei Li turned back in shock.
"Who are you?!"
His first thought was that the Shrine mages had found him, but the Shrine mage mark of residual soul on the back of his hand told him that Jiang Yuan in front of him was not a Shrine mage.
Pei Li was once a member of the Shrine mages, and the mark on the back of his hand could sense the location of surrounding Shrine mages.
Even though he was no longer a Shrine mage and the mark had been branded with an expulsion mark, it was still usable.
"I know you are a Black Vatican member, and you hold the rank of Blue-robed Deacon, with the title Executioner. At the same time, you were once a Shrine mage. Is that right, Pei Li?" Jiang Yuan calmly stated Pei Li's deepest hidden identity.
The more Pei Li listened, the more alarmed he became, and his expression could no longer maintain its previous calm.
Why was his identity completely exposed?
Could it be that the Black Vatican was completely wiped out by the Magic Association?
That shouldn't be!
Pei Li remained silent, but his actions did not stop.
He activated his mind power, directly attacking Jiang Yuan's brain, intending to control Jiang Yuan.
Too bad.
Using mind power in front of Jiang Yuan was completely showing off his limited skills.
Jiang Yuan nodded slightly, and a mental barrier repelled Pei Li's mind power from his brain, then even followed it into Pei Li's brain.
After only a brief confrontation, Pei Li's eyes became vacant, and his entire being became Jiang Yuan's puppet.
Seeing his goal achieved, Jiang Yuan removed the spatial restrictions around them, allowing Pei Li to continue sweeping the street.
As for Jiang Yuan himself, he sat on a bench dozens of meters away, closing his eyes to rest.
Not long after, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy with purple eyes slowly walked out from the other end of the park, strolling leisurely.
"Haha, you've stirred up a storm in New York, and now you're leisurely sweeping the streets here. The liberty temple is right next door, I have to commend your courage!" the purple-eyed boy laughed.
"The more dangerous, the safer, isn't it?" Pei Li looked up and returned a smile.
The purple-eyed boy looked into his eyes, and a warning bell immediately rang in his heart. He said coldly, "You're not Pei Li, who are you?!"
To be able to detect something amiss just from the change in his eyes, it had to be said that Leng Jue becoming a Red-robed Cardinal truly showed his capabilities.
"I have a question."
Pei Li asked, "You're only fifteen or sixteen, how did you become a Red-robed Cardinal? Someone told me that you were 'bent over' by the Pope, that's why you chose to join the Black Vatican, is that true?"
This rumor, indeed, existed.
To take over Leng Jue's title at fifteen or sixteen and become a Red-robed Cardinal and God Listener of the Black Vatican, if there wasn't some special story behind it, Jiang Yuan wouldn't believe it.
However, being 'bent over' by the Pope was pure nonsense.
The Pope was a woman, how could she 'bend over' Leng Jue?
But using it to provoke Leng Jue now was quite effective.
Leng Jue's aura had already become very dangerous when those words were spoken, completely losing the previous sunny boy feeling.
"Who could you be? Which old geezer from the Forbidden Curse Association? Or Salang, Nine-Headed Serpent? No, no, none of them are right." Leng Jue guessed for a long time but couldn't figure out who was controlling Pei Li from behind.
"Stop guessing, your grandpa is here."
Jiang Yuan stood up from the bench, and only then did Leng Jue discover in horror that there were actually other people nearby!
"..." Leng Jue was speechless. He immediately sensed the power on Jiang Yuan, but what he felt was a vast ocean, incredibly profound!
This caused huge waves to rise in his heart.
Besides Forbidden Curse mages, no other mage had ever given him such a feeling!
But the person in front of him was at most in his twenties, how could he possess such profound cultivation like a Forbidden Curse mage?!
Absurd, too absurd!
"Alright, I won't talk to you anymore. I won't get anything by asking, I'll just extract it directly from your soul."
Jiang Yuan didn't plan to waste any more time with Leng Jue.
He was preparing to extract the soul of this culprit who would bring the Pyramid to China in the future, and from the soul, learn the list of Black Vatican members that Leng Jue knew.
At that time, after feeding all those Black Vatican members to the Twisted Undead, he could leave the United States.
It was just that the Twisted Undead, due to the limitations of the high-level Undead System, couldn't break through to the Monarch level, otherwise it would have advanced long ago.
What a pity.
Jiang Yuan sighed, and his aura suddenly changed, like a drawn sword, pointing directly at Leng Jue's heart!