Lake of Thorns, River Lank, Cebuana.
Because of the huge bounty offered by the Suyuan Star River, countless cultivators have flocked to the Thorntooth Lake. At this moment, cultivators can be found in any corner of the Spiny Tooth Lake.
The toughest thing about starry sky cultivation is the cultivation resources, and this bounty from the Ratchet Tooth Lake can simply make ordinary cultivators choke with excitement*. Plus, even if they fail to complete the mission, they can still get some resources at the Ratchet-Tooth Lake, so those casual cultivators are naturally flocking to it.
In a stone room deep in the Thorny Tooth Lake, Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue were each sitting in a corner. Yan Ji had been healing his wounds, while Nalan Ru Xue and Yan Ji had little in common, so they simply closed their eyes and cultivated.
“You use a teleportation talisman every time you enter or leave this place?” Yan Ji, who was healing, suddenly opened his eyes and asked abruptly. After so many days of healing, her injuries were already much better.
Nalan Ruxue opened her eyes and shook her head, “No, I usually have a very concealed exit when I go out. This exit has a very high level of concealment formation, and no matter how many times I go in and out, I can’t find this exit every time I come back. So, I usually come in with a teleportation talisman and only go out through that exit.”
“I’m leaving.” Yan Ji said with a sigh.
Nalan Ruxue frowned, “If you go out now, you’re just looking for death. There are many rooms here. You don’t want to cultivate with me. You can go find a quiet room to cultivate on your own.”
Yan Ji said calmly. “It’s not that, it’s because if I stay here, we’ll both be dead.”
Nalan Ruxue said in a light voice, “Don’t worry, I know where that Shangguan Man’er comes from, her father Shangguan Xiang is the Star River King of the Suyuan Star River. With a Star River King, she still can’t find this place, I’m sure.”
Yan Ji stood up. Shaking his head, “You only know that Shangguan Xiang is the Star River King of the Suiyuan Star River, do you know who Shangguan Xiang’s brother is?”
Seeing Nalan Ru Xue look at himself in confusion, Yan Ji explained, “Shangguan Xiang’s brother is called Shangguan Fei, he is the Star Emperor of the Nine Jia Star River. If I hadn’t killed Shangguan Man’er, I wouldn’t have known about this.”
Nalan Ru Xue was stunned by Yan Ji’s words and did not utter a single word for a long time. The Starry Sky Emperor was clearly a legendary Eternal Realm powerhouse, and although this place of hers was hidden, an Eternal Realm powerhouse had come. Could they still hide? Yan Ji was right, if the two continued to hide here. It was likely that both would be dead.
“You tell me where the exit is.” Seeing that Nalan Ruxue was stunned, Yan Ji asked directly.
Nalan Ruxue did not answer Yan Ji’s words, she also stood up and hurriedly walked out of the house.
Seeing this, Yan Ji also followed Nalan Ruxue out. Nalan Ruxue turned around seven times before entering a larger room again.
On the stone wall in the middle of this room, there was a huge formation display, and as Nalan Ruxue looked at this formation resembling screen, her mouth muttered, “Even if I were to leave, I wouldn’t be able to get away.”
Yan Ji also stared blankly at this formation display, which was showing exactly the movement in the Spiny Tooth Lake. At this moment, the formation display was filled with shifting figures. Even if there were no Eternal Realm powerhouses coming here, it was just like what Nalan Ruxue had said, there was no way to get away.
“Do you still want to leave now?” Nalan Ruxue looked at Yan Ji and asked again.
Yan Ji fell silent, she knew that it was one thing to leave or not. If she went out and could let Nalan Ruxue escape, she was willing to go out. And now, once she went out, someone would immediately search her soul, and Nalan Ruxue’s stay here would be exposed.
“I’m sorry, I’ve caused you.” Yan Ji said with an apologetic tone.
Nalan Ruxue shook her head, “There’s nothing to harm or not to harm.”
After a moment’s hesitation, she added, “Yan Ji, have you seen him since you came to the Starry Sky?”
Yan Ji had more than a little despondency in her eyes, she had been trying to find Ning Cheng since she had entered the Heavenly Continent, but she had never found him. Her personality was a little different from Nalan Ruxue’s, if she liked it, she liked it, if she didn’t like it, she didn’t like it, she wouldn’t make too many twists and turns.
“Boom ……” A booming sound rang out outside, followed by a violent vibration, which was felt even by Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue.
The two of them were clear that sooner or later, someone would find this place. The reason why no one was looking for them now was simply because of the concealment formation. Once there was an Eternal Realm powerhouse coming here, as Yan Ji had said, I was afraid that the concealment formation would be useless.
The roaring sounds became more and more intense, and Nalan Ru Xue sighed, “There is actually another teleportation formation here, but unfortunately this one cannot be inspired at all.”
Yan Ji hurriedly asked, “Where is the teleportation formation?”
Nalan Ru Xue walked behind the huge array display and pressed a button. The formation display cracked open from the middle, and a stone door that only one person could enter revealed itself.
Yan Ji followed Nalan Ruxue into it, and the formation display closed up again, and the place they entered was a room about ten feet in circumference. Nalan Ruxue took out an ancient-looking formation flag and raised it, and a teleportation array suddenly appeared in the middle of the clearly empty room.
Even if Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue could not understand it and did not know how powerful the dao rhyme was, they knew that this was an ancient teleportation formation that was not simple.
At the four corners of the array were four huge recesses, and Yan Ji knew at first glance that these recesses were places to place spirit stones and the like.
“Why is this teleportation array not working? Is it broken?” Yan Ji asked in a hurry.
Nalan Ruxue shook her head and said, “I guess this teleportation array is not broken, I am afraid that the grade of the starry sky crystals used for teleportation is too high, and I do not have such things. I have tried using the Eternal Hope Pill and also the top grade Starry Sky Crystals, but neither of them can drive this teleportation array. If I’m not wrong, this teleportation array is either driven by a top grade starry sky crystal stone. Either that or it’s driven with pure Everlasting Hope Pills.”
“Constant Yuan Dan?” Yan Ji’s heart twitched. Then he asked it out.
Hearing Yan Ji’s tone seemed a little excited. Nalan Ru Xue hurriedly said, “Could it be that you have a Heng Yuan Dan?”
Heng Yuan Dan was indeed very difficult for ordinary cultivators to obtain. Usually Heng Yuan Dan was only available to cultivators above the Heavenly Position realm, and was used for cultivation or trading. Ordinary cultivators, even if they could get it, were only a few.
“I do have some Heng Yuan Dan.” Yan Ji nodded, she had obtained Shangguan Man’er’s ring, and Shangguan Man’er’s ring contained a large amount of Heng Yuan Dan and Yong Wang Dan.
“But ……” Nalan Ru Xue looked at the four huge recesses with some hesitation. Even if the Everlasting Hope Pills could be used, at least tens of thousands of Everlasting Hope Pills would have to be placed in these four alcoves. Could Yan Ji have so many Heng Yuan Dan?
The “boom boom” sound grew louder and louder, seemingly turning the entire underground upside down.
Yan Ji walked up to the teleportation formation and said to Nalan Ruxue, “You too, come up.”
After Nalan Ruxue got onto the teleportation formation, Yan Ji raised his hand and waved out several Dan shadows, and the four recesses were soon filled with Heng Yuan Dan.
When the “click ……” sound came down from outside, the Constant Element Dan in the four grooves of the Teleportation Formation spun violently, and four streams of pure Starry Sky Spirit Qi rushed out and then seeped under the Teleportation Formation.
Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue, who were standing on the transmission formation, could clearly feel it. An even more violent power swept up from the ground, and the two of them looked at each other in horror. Subconsciously, they clenched their hands with each other. This kind of violent power was definitely not something that the tens of thousands of Heng Yuan Pills that Yan Ji had taken out could achieve.
At this moment, both of them understood that the Heng Yuan Pills in the four recesses were, at best, just stimulating the starry sky spirit veins under this transmission array.
“Buzz ……” A piercing sound came out, and Yan Ji and Nalan Ru Xue were wrapped up in white light, followed by a burst of dizziness, and the two instantly fainted, no longer half conscious.
After the two were teleported away, the teleportation array in this room only regained its calmness once again, and was soon completely hidden by the concealment formation.
It was not known how long it took before Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue woke up at the same time. Nalan Ruxue rolled over and stood up, her divine sense sweeping out, and after just a few breaths, she said, “This isn’t the Spiny Tooth Lake, we’ve been teleported away, I just don’t know where this is?”
Yan Ji also stood up, she looked at the stone house the two of them were in, listened for a moment and then said, “If I’m not wrong, this should be water.”
“So what now?” Nalan Ruxue asked subconsciously, coming back from the dead and feeling much better than before.
Yan Ji looked at the teleportation array, “The first thing we need to do now is to dismantle a few major parts of this teleportation array.”
Nalan Ruxue quickly understood that Yan Ji was right. Only after dismantling this teleportation array could they consider what to do next.
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Qian Ming Xing Qing Hong City, which was the main city of the Su Yuan Xing River.
At this moment, a young cultivator in blue with a light beard walked into Qinghong City’s guild, and as soon as he entered the guild, he saw the first eye-catching bounty order on the huge quest screen, with Yan Ji’s image clearly visible.
In his anger, the blue-clothed cultivator threw a punch, and the huge task screen of the guild was blown to pieces by his punch. If he hadn’t still had his sanity, this punch would have destroyed even this starry sky city. Just as all the people were shocked, the blue-clothed cultivator said in a furious voice, “Whoever dares to touch a hair on Yan Ji’s head, I will kill them.”
After saying this, the blue-clothed cultivator disappeared without a trace with a flash of his body. Only then did the entire guild wake up, someone had dared to break through the guild’s mission formation screen! When a few Guild Deacons rushed out, the cultivator who had blasted through the mission formation screen had long since disappeared. How could they ask someone to seek death when they couldn’t even see a human shadow?
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The young blue-clothed cultivator was naturally Ning Cheng, who had just arrived at the Su Yuan Xing He, and when he saw that it was really Yan Ji who he was looking for in the guild mission, he immediately became angry. With this kind of wanted intensity, even if Yan Ji was hiding, there was no way out. After he blasted through the guild’s mission formation screen, he frantically vanish towards the Spiny Tooth Lake, he must not let anything happen to Yan Ji.