#597 - Chapter 597: You Will Take Your Own Risk

"Order Shi Rongchang's unit and Rad Adan's unit to move towards the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and lie in ambush. If they land from the southern coast, let them pass for now," the Sect Leader ordered.

"Yes!" the two elders replied in unison.

"Fu Huai, contact the Ulan Neutral Zone and demand they immediately withdraw from Modo territory," the Sect Leader instructed.

"Yes!" An elder bowed and left.

"Commander, the Modo side requests communication," Xiaolin reported.

"Connect it," Dongfang Chen replied.

"Mr. Dongfang, your country's warships have entered our territory without reason. Please provide an explanation," the person on the other end wore a mask, their identity unknown.

"Who are you?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"Fu Huai, from Modo's Deceitful Arts Hall," the other party replied.

The Modo Great Mani Sect has five major departments below its main headquarters: War Department, Beast Department, Law Department, Arts Department, and Secret Department.

These five major departments currently have 108 Elder Halls, each with its own name.

The second character in the Elder Hall's name is fixed, used to distinguish which department it belongs to.

For example, Fu Huai's Deceitful Arts Hall, the second character is 'Arts,' so it can be seen from the name that it belongs to the Arts Department.

While Ling Yue, Ling Luo, and Ling Wu's Elder Hall is the Beast Controlling Hall, belonging to the Beast Department.

Ling Tian and Ling Su's Elder Hall is the Swift Beast Hall, also belonging to the Beast Department.

This is also why Ling Yue and his fellow disciples do not know Ling Tian and Ling Su, because they belong to different Elder Halls.

Putian Xiaoyezi's Elder Hall is the Yi War Hall, belonging to the War Department.

Each Elder Hall has a Hall Master Elder and several Guest Elders.

The direct disciples of the Elders are collectively called Holy Venerables, and there are also several subordinates assisting the Holy Venerables, collectively called Venerable Envoys.

Holy Venerables have the right to recruit and train several Holy Sons, while Venerable Envoys do not have this right.

However, Dongfang Chen is not yet aware of these details.

"Deceitful Arts Hall? What department is that? Never heard of it," Dongfang Chen said, not giving any face.

"Mr. Dongfang, since you claim to be a neutral zone, yet you secretly enter another country's territory, isn't this crossing the line?" Fu Huai's tone was very firm.

In his heart, he held no hope that Dongfang Chen would withdraw his troops.

He was merely performing his duty of notification.

"If I remember correctly, when the Ulan Neutral Zone was first established, you didn't express any support, did you? I thought you didn't recognize our legitimacy," Dongfang Chen picked at the flaws in his words.

"Enough nonsense, I give you 24 hours to withdraw, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war against Modo!" Fu Huai said.

"Can you represent the official opinion of Modo?" Dongfang Chen didn't take the bait.

"This is the official opinion," Fu Huai replied.

"How can you prove it?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"The message has been delivered. If you do not withdraw, you will bear the consequences!" Fu Huai said no more and cut off the communication.

Dongfang Chen directly ignored his warning.

It was now 10 a.m., and the battle had been going on for 4 hours.

Currently, the Ok-Hungarian warships on both routes had converged and were retreating north towards the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.

The Egla-Maya Allied Fleet had already left Modo and was currently located in the central region of the Caspian Sea.

In order to prevent the Ok-Hungarian warships from secretly escaping, Dongfang Chen had no choice but to abandon attacking the Modo warships stationed on the southern coast and instead sailed south.

He wanted to clear a passage to the east for the Ok-Hungarian side, guiding them towards the hinterland.

If the Ok-Hungarian warships escaped from Modo, they would definitely never return. How could that be allowed?

These were all side tasks. His main mission was to find Modo's altar.

The most difficult point was not knowing what form Modo's sacrificial ceremony took, whether the altar existed at all, or what it looked like.

The Queen Bee, hidden in the communication tunnel, used the remaining crystal core energy to create a large number of miniature probe robots, which had already begun a large-scale search of Modo's ground, but so far without success.

"It seems I have to use a trick to lure the snake out of its hole," Dongfang Chen decided to test the waters.

He planned to have Putian Xiaoyezi lead the way to find their Elder Hall first.

Putian Xiaoyezi didn't know that Dongfang Chen had the ability to monitor him, so his vigilance was naturally not very strong.

But the problem now was that he couldn't contact him directly.

Because once he contacted him, it would expose his ability to communicate.

So now he could only use the warships within Modo's territory to contact him indirectly.

"Mr. Putian Xiaoyezi, I have been entrusted by Mr. Dongfang to convey an order to you. Please reply upon receipt," Dongfang Chen sent a message through one of the three warships on the western route.

After receiving the message, Putian Xiaoyezi was somewhat embarrassed.

Now he could choose to play dumb and pretend that Dongfang Chen couldn't possibly know.

However, doing so might mean missing the opportunity to obtain new information.

Weighing the pros and cons, he didn't know how to balance them for a moment.

So, naturally, he reported it to the Elder Hall.

The Elder Hall's reply was:

He could reply and find out their next plan.