Chapter 508: Escape
[What do you have in mind?] Zhen Yuan asked.
[Wu Ziyan is the young city lord of Tianji City. Isn’t she in a perfect position to help us with the auction?] The double asked, and Zhen Yuan smiled.
[She is.] He said.
If possible, neither Shen Xu nor Zhen Yuan wanted the hustle of dealing with an auction.
Realising that their new acquaintance could make things easier, they immediately put thoughts into words and began negotiating the terms.
Half an hour later, a profit-sharing agreement was drawn, and both sides smiled in satisfaction.
After that, Zhen Yuan took out a teleportation box and gave it to Wu Ziyan.
"We will use this box to transfer the goods and spirit stones." He said, and Wu Ziyan nodded.
"It’s convenient." She said.
After that, Zhen Yuan activated a teleportation disk, and his group disappeared from the private box.
Seeing this, Wu Ziyan shook her head with a self-mocking smile.
"They have escaped, but the mess hasn’t disappeared." She said.
"We..." Lu Yang started, but before he could say more, they heard a tap on the door.
Hearing this, they exchanged a glance, and Lu Yang opened the door with a resigned face.
"Fellow Daoist Lu." A female voice sounded, and Lu Yang nodded before speaking.
"Fellow Daoist Bing." He greeted.
"Several fellow daoists want to have a good talk with the six lucky friends." Bing Xiaoman said, but Lu Yang didn’t budge.
"I am afraid that’s not possible." He said, and Bing Xiaoman narrowed her eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, does your Lu family want to monopolise the benefits?" She asked with a mocking face, but Lu Yang remained expressionless.
"Fellow Daoist Bing is a little late." A voice sounded from the private box, and Wu Ziyan walked to stand beside Lu Yang.
"Young city lord Wu." Bing Xiaoman greeted, and Wu Ziyan nodded before speaking.
"The six friends have already left. Fellow Daoist Bing will have to look elsewhere if she wants to talk to them." Wu Ziyan said, and Bing Xiaoman couldn’t help but be shocked.
"How is that possible?" She asked.
After all, they had been monitoring the doors and gates but hadn’t seen the six leave the Orchid Pavilion.
"They used a teleportation formation disk." Wu Ziyan didn’t hide the truth because this matter was easy to uncover.
"The formations around Tianji city prevent teleportation." Bing Xiaoman stated, and Wu Ziyan nodded.
This was true!
However, her master had temporarily deactivated the formations just when the group was ready to leave. Otherwise, Zhen Yuan and the rest would have had to leave the city to use the formation disk.
After all, Zhen Yuan’s teleportation formation disk was level eight while the city’s arrays were quasi-immortal.
"This..." Bing Xiaoman muttered with a complicated expression.
Seeing this, Wu Ziyan sighed, and her face turned solemn.
"Fellow Daoist Bing..." She called and quickly continued.
"It’s easy to ’talk’ to unlucky people, but ’talking’ to extraordinarily lucky cultivators could easily lead to a tragic end. Fellow Daoist Bing should take this outcome as a blessing and turn back before it’s too late." She advised, and Bing Xiaoman clenched her hands.
She naturally understood what Wu Ziyan meant.
However, she felt uneasy when she thought about the invaluable treasures that the six had taken away from the wishing stone.
"Thank you for the advice, fellow Daoist Wu." Bing Xiaoman bowed and hurried away to inform her compatriots.
"Do you think that she will turn back?" Lu Yang asked, looking at the retreating figure.
"I know that she won’t." Wu Ziyan said and sighed.
However, this had nothing to do with her.
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After leaving Tianji city, the group teleported five times before entering the space.
"That was smoother than expected." Shen Xu said, and Zhen Yuan smiled.
"We would have had to fight our way out if the city lord didn’t temporarily close the formations." He said.
"City lord Gu has always been mysterious and often does incomprehensible things." Feng Xue said, and everyone turned to look at her.
"Isn’t it normal since he is a divination master?" Yin Shi asked, and Feng Xue shook her head.
"He is not the only tribulation transcending realm divination master in the Tianxuan continent. However, he is the only one who seems to have already seen through the world and doesn’t go out of his way to aid the powerful." She said and quickly continued.
"Sect master Xuanyuan once told me that he suspected that city lord Gu was a visitor from the immortal realm."
"It’s not impossible." Zhen Yuan said and began explaining.
"Wu Ziyan and Lu Yang paid to follow us, but there was no mention of city lord Gu. This implies that he will not enter the Xuanwu secret realm." He said.
"Ayuan is right." Shen Xu said.
After all, finding them meant that city lord Gu acknowledged that their luck was extraordinary. If he intended to enter the Xuanwu secret realm, wouldn’t he secure a place for himself, too?
"Let’s forget about that for the time being." Shen Xu said and hurriedly took out a box from his storage ring.
"I want to check the gifts first." He said.
Hearing this, the atmosphere shifted, and everyone excitedly took out their boxes.
"I almost want to go into seclusion again." Feng Xue said, caressing her box.
"I didn’t expect the wishing stone to be so generous." Yin Shi said with a beaming smile.
She had always felt a little inferior because her bloodline was not pure.
Now that she had the primordial blood grass, she couldn’t wait to refine it so that she could transform into a true primordial monster.
"Wenqiang, we can’t use the metal element sacred stone until our cultivation is much higher." Shen Xu suddenly said, and Li Wenqiang nodded.
"I know, but there is no rush. It won’t be too late to refine it when we ascend to the immortal realm." He said.
Shen Xu nodded when he heard this.
However, he still felt a little impatient when he thought of the few treasures that they couldn’t use because their cultivation was not enough.
