Ye Mo, however, sneered and continued, “You don’t need to say that you are leaving Ling Island now, even if you come to me now, you are still under the sight of others.”
Meng Qi had calmed down and she understood that what Ye Mo said was true. She stood up and her face once again returned to its usual appearance, only looking even more wooden.
“Thank you, Senior Brother Ye, for clearing up my confusion, Meng Qi bids farewell.” Meng Qi gave a blessing to Ye Mo once again and said somewhat sadly.
Ye Mo, however, smiled slightly and waved his hand, “When going to the Luoqu Eighteen Pan Competition, how far away must cultivators who are over a hundred years old be from the Luoqu Eighteen Pan Island so that they won’t be affected?”
Meng Qi didn’t know what Ye Mo meant by asking this, but she still answered, “The Luo Qu Eighteen Pan is in the middle of the island, and I’ve heard that usually every time there’s a competition, the experts from the three seas are at the edge of the island, and there’s a range of dozens of miles from the outermost pan. If they were any closer, they would be affected. It’s at the edge of the island because there’s a huge white stone tablet at the edge of Luo Qu’s eighteen plates that can record the progress of the contestants.”
“Then can a cultivator’s divine sense enter the Luo Qu Eighteen Pan in the centre of the island?” When Ye Mo asked this, even his tone trembled a little, this was the thing he was most concerned about.
In his mind, since the Luo Qu Eighteen Pan had formations to keep cultivators outside of a hundred years old from approaching, then it should similarly shield divine sense. And the most crucial part of his plan was whether this Luo Qu Eighteen Discs could shield divine sense, if not, it would be difficult for him to escape even if he reached the top of the Eighteen Discs.
Meng Qi looked at Ye Mo in confusion, then shook his head and said, “No. As long as the participating cultivators enter the eighteen plates, they will all disappear from the divine sense of the people outside. If a participant crosses the first tray, there is a stone tablet at the place where he enters the second tray, and the participant only needs to carve his name into the tablet. Once the participating cultivator carves his name into the stone tablet at the junction of the first and second plates, the huge white stone tablet at the edge of the island will also display the name of the participant and show that the participant has crossed the first plate and entered the second plate.”
Ye Mo was overjoyed in his heart and immediately asked again, “What if I don’t engrave the name or if the contestant falls during the match?”
Meng Qi immediately replied, “If you don’t engrave your name, the stone tablet will not record your result. But it has no effect on the participants. Once a contestant is teleported out in the tournament, his name immediately turns blue, and once a contestant falls in the eighteenth plate, his name turns red. And it stays at the location where his name was engraved before he fell.”
Ye Mo breathed out, that would be good. Now all he needed to worry about was whether he could make it to the top at the Luo Qu Eighteen Plates, even if he couldn’t, he still had to make it to the top, he was different from the other contestants.
Ye Mo nodded and said, “You don’t need to worry about it, wait until the day of the competition, maybe I have a way to help you.”
“Really?” Meng Qi’s eyes immediately lit up, and his face, which was somewhat wooden just now, immediately took on a sense of movement that was hard to describe.
Ye Mo smiled faintly, “I’m not sure, and you can see my situation. There is not much difference with you. You are being feted by someone’s brother, I am being feted by someone’s sister. But these two fancying are still different, people are after my life.”
Although Meng Qi wanted to laugh a little at Ye Mo’s words, but once she thought of that Yong Wu Zi, she was no longer in a half-hearted mood.
“You should go back first. It’s not right to stay here with me for a long time.” Ye Mo said to Meng Qi, no one was paying attention to him yet, once they found out that he and Meng Qi were hooking up, they might pay more attention to him. That would be more than worth the loss.
At this point, Meng Qi got the possibility to escape and completely regained his composure, bowed to Ye Mo and thanked him, and quickly left Ye Mo’s residence.
For the next few days, Ye Mo did not go out, apart from carefully studying the jade slip given by Meng Hanan, he spent the extra time just staying inside his room to study formations. He was a level eight formation master, and according to his prediction, the formation on the eighteenth plate of that Luoqu Eighteen Plate was definitely not simple. Ye Mo knew that the final formation would definitely be more than level eight, and he could only hope that the formation would not be beyond level nine.
Even if Ye Mo knows that his formation level will not improve much in just a few days, but it is not fast enough to sharpen the spear at the end of the day.
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The six days pa*sed in a flash, these days Ye Mo did not go out, and no one came to him. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.
On the last day, Ye Mo suddenly thought of something that might happen in his mind and broke out in a cold sweat. Without even thinking about it, he took out an empty storage ring. Then he set a dozen explosive formations inside the storage ring, then set a few top-level prohibitions on this storage ring, and then put it on his hand to replace the original storage ring, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
The next day, Ye Mo had just opened the ban on his room when Wang Huainan came over.
Ye Mo knew that it should be time to participate in the competition, so he cupped his fist to Wang Huainan and said, “Steward Wang, is it time for the competition already?”
Wang Huainan nodded and smiled, “Yes, Senior Brother Ye please just come with me.”
Ye Mo froze for a moment and immediately understood what Wang Huainan meant, he represented the Sea Cultivation Union, Wang Huainan could not address him so rudely. Thinking of this, he also smiled faintly, “Good, Senior Brother Wang please lead the way.”
Wang Huainan nodded his head
, obviously satisfied with Ye Mo’s upward mobility, he said to Ye Mo as he walked, “Senior Brother Ye, I am really impressed with your refining, although I can refine lower grade true weapons, but I feel that your refining skills are so much better than mine, Senior Brother.”
Ye Mo laughed, he didn’t understand what Wang Huainan meant and could only say modestly, “Senior brother Wang is too polite.”
However, Wang Huainan said with a straight face, “I’m not being polite, I really admire Senior Brother Ye’s skill in refining weapons. I didn’t dare to disturb Senior Brother Ye these few days because of Sister Meng’s instructions. When this competition is over, I will definitely ask Senior Brother Ye for advice.”
Ye Mo snorted, “Good talk, good talk.” But in his heart, he said, “After the competition, if I can’t escape, I will be dead. How can I still have the chance to talk to you about the way of smithing?
What’s more, he didn’t believe that Wang Huanneng didn’t understand the power of Yong Yu’er. If Wang Huanneng knew how Yong Yu’er was and how arrogant she was, the purpose of saying such things was to stabilise himself. Ye Mo didn’t care much either, all he asked for was for Meng Han’an to be able to send him into the Luoqu 18 Pan competition. Although Meng Han’an couldn’t protect him, she had called him here, so she should be able to do that, right?
That Yong Yu’er was such a domineering character, as long as she went to Luo Mountain Eighteen Pan Island, then she would definitely look for trouble with him. Moreover, Ye Mo believed that the kind of person that Yong Yu’er was, if she met something like the Luo Mountain Eighteen Pan Competition, she would want to keep her from going. That would simply be impossible.
Ye Mo and Wang Huaneng both quickly arrived at the square in front of the Sea Cultivation Union’s headquarters, there was a huge teleportation array at the edge of the square, and at this moment, there were already cultivators standing next to the teleportation array. Ye Mo didn’t use his divine sense to sweep it, he just casually looked at it. He found that there were at least three True Transformation cultivators and nearly ten Robbery Transformation cultivators. This was completely stronger than an ordinary nine-star sect, no wonder the Sea Cultivation Alliance could gain a foothold here. This was only the strength on the surface, who knew what other powerful figures the Sea Cultivation Alliance had on the secret side?
At the same time, Ye Mo saw Meng Han’an and Meng Qi at a glance, Meng Qi was standing beside Meng Han’an, the same way Ye Mo saw her at first glance, very serene.
When Meng Han’an saw Ye Mo, a smile immediately appeared on her face and she said to a middle-aged male cultivator beside her, “This is the cultivator I recommended, called Ye Mo. Very good, not too old. Yet he is already at the late stage of Body Condensation. What’s more, he’s also a rank six formation master.”
The male cultivator nodded his head and swept his gaze towards Ye Mo, who immediately had some uncomfortable feelings.
When Meng Hanan finished, he waved at Ye Mo again and said, “Ye Mo. This is the alliance master of my Sea Cultivation Alliance, Wang Cang, you come and meet him.”
This Wang Cang had a slightly long face, just like a knife cut, with sunken cheeks. However, the aura on his body was amazing. Ye Mo, however, had long since seen this man’s cultivation level, and he was already a cultivator at the seventh level of Transformation Truth, so he could not help but be secretly surprised.
After Ye Mo had greeted him, Wang Cang nodded slightly and said, “Not bad, not bad, you are already a level 6 formation master at a young age, and the rare thing is that you are also so good at refining weapons. The future is boundless, do well, my Sea Cultivation Alliance will not let you suffer.”
Ye Mo hastily clasped his fist and said, “Many thanks, Master Wang Cang.”
Immediately after that Wang Cang said that, he said to the rest of the people, “Our Sea Cultivation Alliance has come last three times in a row, this time I hope that the person you all pick won’t let me down.”
After saying that, he turned to the seven or eight cultivators standing next to the teleportation array and said, “It’s all up to you this time, as long as you can make progress in ranking, each of you can make one request. Even if you want a top grade true weapon, I can get it for you. And on top of that, everyone who participates is a key target for my Sea Cultivation Alliance to train you.”
“Yes, Alliance Master, we will definitely do our best.” Those few people immediately said in unison.
Ye Mo, however, heard something wrong, he heard from this Wang Cang’s words that it seemed that the cultivators who participated in the Panquan Eighteen Pan Competition were not selected by himself, but by the rest of his men. No wonder Meng Han’an had the right to let himself participate, I guess the water of power struggle within the top echelon of the Sea Cultivation Union was not shallow.
Perhaps the vice-masters of the Sea Cultivation Alliance and the heads below them all have their own industries, just like Meng Han’an’s ‘True Treasure Union’. It was true that where there were people, there would be struggles, and that was really true.
“Good.” Wang Cang nodded in satisfaction, then waved his hand and said, “Go to Luo Qu Eighteen Pan now.”
Ye Mo followed Wang Huaneng as he stood behind Meng Hanan and entered the teleportation formation together. The teleportation array was really huge, and with over a hundred people standing on it, it didn’t seem crowded at all.
As the spirit stones were embedded into the array slots of the array, a white circle of light lit up around the array and the people were transported away at the same time.
Ye Mo thought that there were only a hundred people in this teleportation array, so there must not be many people in that Luo Qu 18 Pan, at most, there would not be more than five hundred people. But after he and the crowd came down from this side of the teleportation formation, he realised that he was very wrong. The place was surprisingly already crowded with cultivators, even ten to twenty thousand people.
Wang Huainan could see Ye Mo’s surprise and casually explained, “Those spectator cultivators had moved to this side ten or so days ago, so it’s not unusual to see so many people.”
However, Ye Mo was not in the mood to answer Wang Huainan’s words because he saw that big-breasted wavy-haired Yong Yu’er, and at the same time the other party also saw him.
