Chapter 108: What’s the Secret?
The air shivered, and waves of qi rippled around the valley.
Before anyone could react, a cracking sound was heard, and a slight wind blew from East to West.
"How is this possible?" Meng Zihua was surprised.
She looked towards the depths and saw three people running away from a tent.
At the same time, the person within the golden bell was startled.
’The anti-teleportation formation has been broken? Why?’
He had a bad feeling about it, and a chill crept up his spine.
In the original plan, the formation would only be broken after everything was achieved.
However, nothing was achieved now.
The guardian formation was yet to break, and the targets had not been dealt with.
Breaking the formation now meant failure.
It also meant that their last person within the BlueStar Treasure pavilion was now exposed.
"Don’t let any of them escape." Meng Zihua reacted quickly.
Jiang Yue and his group did not need to be told twice.
They initially planned to kill the majority and keep a few alive for questioning.
However, they couldn’t control too much now that the formation was broken.
If they didn’t act quickly, the enemies would teleport away and regroup to cause trouble.
Although they reacted quickly, the enemies were also quick.
A good number managed to activate their teleportation talismans and escape before attacks could land on them.
"Young miss..." A young lad called and looked at Meng Zihua.
He was the same person tasked with creating a trapping formation around the golden bell.
Unfortunately, the trap was unfinished when the formation restricting teleportation came down.
They had both watched the opponent disappear with the golden bell, and the young miss was unavoidably angry.
"Bei Chengling is now an enemy of our BlueStar Treasure pavilion." Meng Zihua shouted.
"He is to be captured on sight. If he can’t be captured; he is to be killed without mercy."
"We have received the orders of the young miss." All the cultivators from the BlueStar Treasure pavilion shouted.
"Bei Chengling..." Jiang Yue wondered.
"He is probably a traitor. The person who deactivated the anti-teleportation formation to let the enemies escape." Yu Nianzhen reasoned.
As he thought about this, a frown marred his face.
They knew the formation was set up by the BlueStar Treasure pavilion to facilitate trade in the valley.
However, they were under the impression the control of the formation had long fallen into the hands of the death flower ascension front.
’This means the BlueStar Treasure pavilion was the one keeping everyone in the valley. For what reason?’
His eyes narrowed, and he looked at Jiang Yue before they both turned to Meng Zihua.
"Bei Chengling is the second leader of the young generation of the BlueStar Treasure Pavilion. He is a powerful formation master." Bai Ruyue volunteered the information.
"It’s unfortunate he is on the side." Xuan Ke said, and the others had to agree.
If he was responsible for the anti-teleportation formation, his skill level was not low.
Such a person was a threat to everyone in the thousand herbs garden and needed to be caught before he could set up more formations.
"I would like to thank the fellow Daoists for lending a helping hand."
While they were talking, Meng Zihua, the cultivators from the BlueStar Treasure pavilion and the border guards walked toward them.
They bowed to express their gratitude, and the nine accepted graciously.
"Young miss Meng, why didn’t the BlueStar Treasure pavilion deactivate the formation earlier?"
Jiang Yue did not beat around the bush and asked the question that was on everyone’s mind.
If the formation was deactivated earlier, many people wouldn’t have died.
"About that..."
"This fellow Daoist, we are grateful for the help, but our BlueStar Treasure pavilion doesn’t need to explain ourselves." This was said by a man who stood beside Meng Zihua.
He looked to be in his late twenties and carried a sabre on his waist.
"I see." Jiang Yue sneered.
He looked at Meng Zihua and the person who looked to be in charge of the remaining border guards.
"Does the young miss think she doesn’t need to explain?" He asked and pointedly looked at the black box beside Yu Nianzhen.
His meaning was clear.
They were the ones to deal with the black-masked cultivators, and the box protected by guardian formation was theirs by right of conquest.
If the BlueStar Treasure pavilion wanted to be difficult, they could also be difficult.
"Are you going to steal from our BlueStar treasure pavilion?"
"God, no."
Jiang Yue looked horrified by the suggestion.
After all, the BlueStar treasure pavilion was a giant in the Cangxing world.
Although it didn’t have the same prestige as the border guards, it was present in most cities in the Cangxing world.
In terms of scale, not even the sixteen regions could compare.
When he thought about going against them, Jiang Yue couldn’t help but shiver a little.
However, he couldn’t back down.
He wanted to know why the BlueStar Treasure pavilion had tried to trap everyone in the valley.
After all, this had endangered their lives.
They could have died and not to mention the pink cloud.
Now that he thought about it, Jiang Yue turned his eyes upward.
In the previous fight, he had forgotten about the pink cloud, but it was coming back to him now.
’Thank god.’ He thought when he saw the pink cloud had disappeared.
No matter what was said, he still felt the cloud was dangerous.
He did not want a drop of rain from that cloud to fall on him and Yu Nianzhen.
"Young miss, are you really not willing to explain?" Jiang Yue asked.
His tone was pleasant enough, but no one missed the steel in it.
They all had a feeling he would act unreasonably if Meng Zihua did not explain herself.
"This fellow Daoist, we are willing to exchange treasures for the guardian box." Meng Zihua finally said.
However, this was the wrong thing to say.
The more she acted this way, the more curious Jiang Yue was.
First, what was in the guardian box?
From the look of things, the members of the death flower ascension front had foregone their targets in favour of the box.
This meant whatever was in the box was incredibly valuable.
Most importantly, the box was brought in from outside, which suggested it was somehow relevant to the secret realm.
When he thought of this, an image of the cloudy part of the inner region appeared in Jiang Yue’s mind.
’Could it be related?’ He wondered.
He knew he was speculating wildly, but this was the only thing that made sense.
The core region was the only remaining secret in the thousand herbs garden.
Jiang Yue looked at Yu Nianzhen, and the two held a silent conversation.
Both were agile thinkers, and they had arrived at the same conclusion.
However, they knew the guardian box couldn’t be kept.
They had nine people on their side, but the nine weren’t united as a group.
Other than themselves, the other seven may not want this trouble.
Most importantly, it wouldn’t matter even if all nine agreed to resist.
The other side had more people.
The only thing stopping their hand was that Jiang Yue hadn’t made any moves toward the box.
In this situation, they could only take a roundabout route to get what they wanted.
"What do you think?" He asked the others.
"Let’s give up the box." Bai Ruyue was the first to say.
The others agreed, and Jiang Yue turned to Yu Nianzhen. He raised an eyebrow in question, and the other stared blankly.
"I will follow your lead."
Jiang Yue chuckled and felt better.
This was to say that Yu Nianzhen would follow him to hell without asking questions.
"We will exchange the box for treasures." He said to Meng Zihua.
The man beside her snorted and glared at Jiang Yue.
However, Jiang Yue was not affected.
Instead, he smiled and looked at Meng Zihua, who was trying not to shiver.
She didn’t know why, but she felt this matter was not over.
The other may have given up, but she could tell he was retreating to advance.
He had decided that openly fighting them was not beneficial and had taken a step back to fight another day.
’Unfortunately, things aren’t so simple.’ She gritted her teeth and cursed Bei Chengling in her mind.
Now that she knew he was a traitor, it was easy to understand how the death flower ascension front had found out about the guardian box.
As if that was not enough, he had deactivated the formation and allowed everyone from the death flower ascension front to escape.
This meant her BlueStar treasure pavilion had sacrificed a lot without gaining anything.
Many people had died, and things were destroyed, but she gained nothing.
’It would have been worth it if I got the other half of the key.’ She lamented and then looked warily at Jiang Yue.
