Chapter 947: Chapter 947: Tongtong’s Master
Early the next morning, Liu Zixuan, Zhao Yi, and Tongtong drove straight to the Jade Maiden Sect.
"Big brother, how is Xiaolan doing?" Tongtong asked on the way.
Liu Zixuan smiled and said, "It’s fine, just needs a period of deep sleep to digest the inner alchemy."
Xiaolan was in a coma, and Doudou, feeling sorry, took it directly to his room. If it hadn’t gone into deep sleep, even as a young qilin, it would have kicked him out of Doudou’s room.
After Liu Zixuan’s examination, Xiaolan entered a deep sleep because it was merging with the inner alchemy. If his guess was correct, once the inner alchemy thoroughly merges with Xiaolan.
Xiaolan will awaken all the qilin’s traits; its appearance might change then!
He was also somewhat expectant; what a scene it would be for an ancient auspicious beast to appear in this camp!
The journey won’t be too long, as it’s not yet time to confront the Celestial Dao Alliance head-on. The real purpose is to reunite with some brothers and destroy the alliance’s peripheral forces.
In general, it’s about weakening the enemy’s powers and strengthening Liu Zixuan’s side!
The reason for going to the Jade Maiden Sect first is that it’s on the way, and it is not far from the Shi Family. Before dealing with the Zhong Family, Liu Zixuan wants to visit the Shi Family first. Although he is neither enemy nor friend with the patriarch of Shi Family now, he must clarify his stance. Otherwise, in a real battle, he would be a dangerous hidden threat.
After roughly three hours of driving, the group arrived at a small town.
Liu Zixuan turned to ask, "Tongtong, where is your Jade Maiden Sect?"
"Keep driving straight, and there’s a Biyu Garden ahead; it’s our sect’s publicly known tea garden. Through the tea garden, you can enter our sect," Tongtong replied.
With Tongtong guiding them, they quickly arrived at the entrance of Biyu Garden.
It was a small tea garden, but at this time, it appeared very messy.
The newly grown tea trees had been completely destroyed, the branches and leaves scattered on the ground, under a sight that was hard to bear.
Tongtong ran off the car with reddened eyes, tears flowing while looking at the desolate garden.
Cupping some tea twigs, she sobbed, "These have always been tended by Uncle Master alone, those bastards, not satisfied with destroying our sect, even worldly things were ruined!"
Liu Zixuan comforted her, saying, "Everything will get better. Quickly lead us to find your master; it’s been two days since you went to Lingxiu Village. Maybe if we hurry, we can still save your master."
"Okay!"
Tongtong put those tea twigs into her pocket, quickly leading Liu Zixuan and Zhao Yi inside.
Passing through the tea garden, they entered a wooden cabin. Tongtong operated several places on the rear wall of the cabin, and instantly, a passage appeared in front of them.
"Our Jade Maiden Sect usually doesn’t meddle with worldly affairs, hence it’s completely isolated. There’s only one chance for disciples to go down the mountain each month," Tongtong explained while leading them inside.
The passage widened the further they went, and soon they found themselves in a valley surrounded by familiar herbs and ordinary flowers.
After another ten minutes or so, they stopped before a giant rock.
On the rock were the bold characters written in seal script, "Jade Maiden Sect," with a large gate behind it. However, traces of an array were faintly visible on the gate, not easily accessible.
Tongtong clenched her fist: "I will use a secret technique to open the array, but it can’t be destroyed directly since my master used her body as the array base. After opening it, I’ll have to maintain the array’s operations outside; saving my master will depend on you, big brother."
"No problem," Liu Zixuan solemnly nodded.
Speaking, Tongtong sat beside the rock cross-legged, her hands performing sealing techniques. In no time, pure inner strength emerged from her jade hands, heading directly towards the array.
Slowly, a crack appeared in the array traces on the door. Tongtong shouted, "Hurry in; I can only sustain it for fifteen minutes!"
"You stay here and protect Tongtong. I’ll go in alone," Liu Zixuan said to Zhao Yi before swiftly entering the array.
The Jade Maiden Sect’s Door Protection Array was undeniably formidable. Despite Tongtong manipulating it from outside, once inside, Liu Zixuan felt a strange oppressive sensation, as if his realm was being suppressed.
Ignoring the leaden feeling in his legs, Liu Zixuan quickly activated X-ray Vision and his Perception to locate people still alive within the sect!
Keeping the X-ray Vision off was fine, but once activated, what Liu Zixuan saw around him was shocking.
Not far from him were corpses lying on the ground. Since two days had passed, those corpses had begun to rot, attracting swarms of flies, with the pungent smell permeating every corner.
The bloodstains on the ground were horrifyingly conspicuous, as if the scene of the Celestial Dao Alliance exterminating the Jade Maiden Sect disciples was replaying in Liu Zixuan’s mind.
Suppressing his anger at the Celestial Dao Alliance, Liu Zixuan focused on searching for Tongtong’s master.
Soon enough, from the northwest direction, he sensed the breath of a living person.
He quickly used the Shadow Body Technique to move towards the northwest direction.
In a moment, Liu Zixuan arrived there, only to find a middle-aged woman sitting cross-legged on the ground, with blood flowing from the seven apertures of her head, looking extremely frail.
Two Ghost Gate Needles suddenly appeared in his hand, puncturing the woman’s acupuncture points before he took out an elixir from his pocket and fed it to her!
"Who... who are you?" The woman woke up after a short while, but due to the blood flowing from her eyes, she couldn’t clearly see Liu Zixuan’s appearance.
"Senior, I’m Tongtong’s friend, Liu Zixuan. Now remove the array, and I’ll take you out," Liu Zixuan said in a deep voice.
"So you’re the big brother Tongtong spoke of," the middle-aged woman smiled weakly, enduring the pain as she got up, "Where’s Tongtong?"
"Outside."
"As long as she’s safe."
The middle-aged woman slightly moved her jade fingers, and the sect’s array traces vanished in an instant. Yet, at that moment, her long, black hair immediately turned extremely white, although her appearance didn’t change, the white hair seemed rather peculiar.
Liu Zixuan asked with a frown, "What’s happening to you?"
"I used my Dantian internal power to maintain the grand array, now it’s depleted, so my body naturally undergoes some changes. Not to laugh, my current strength is probably only one-tenth of what it was at its peak," the middle-aged woman smiled.
"You’re already very powerful. If it weren’t for you, Tongtong and the others wouldn’t have had the chance to leave. Now it’s alright, I’ll take you out," Liu Zixuan said, genuinely admiring Tongtong’s master from the bottom of his heart.
Her previous actions were undoubtedly burning her own life, a way that shows her love for Tongtong!
