Chapter 194: Leaving the Small Secret Realm
One hour before the secret realm closed, Jiang Yue opened his eyes.
For a moment, his eyes were coloured with a profound meaning that suppressed everything around him.
However, this feeling only lasted a moment before his eyes returned to normal.
"Azhen, I have finally caught up with you." He said, and a beautiful smile curled his lips.
At that moment, all he wanted was to see his lover.
He wanted to tell him about everything that happened and proudly declare that he was also enlightened.
Unfortunately, there was still one year before Nianzhen’s planned time to leave the abyss.
"I will wait for you." He said and chuckled.
After standing from what he now called the enlightenment mat, Jiang Yue sighed forlornly.
He didn’t know the experience of others, but he felt he would never learn everything, even if he cultivated on the mat for the rest of his life.
’It’s unfortunate...’ He thought and was about to turn around.
However, before he could, he felt a strange pull from the mat.
Jiang Yue had long suspected that the mat had some spirituality, and he felt it more keenly at this time.
He felt like something was calling him, and he uncontrollably bent down to touch the mat.
When his hand touched it, he felt the mat’s spirituality.
However, he also felt that the mat’s spirit wasn’t willing to communicate with him other than at the most basic level.
"Can I take you back?" He asked and tried desperately to suppress his excitement.
In his opinion, this mat was among the top five of the greatest treasures he had come across.
If he could take it back, he and Yu Nianzhen would have an easier time comprehending the dao in the future.
"Can I take you back?" He asked again.
This time, Jiang Yue felt something brush against his fingers and ecstasy filled his heart.
"Thank you."
Without delay, he grabbed the mat and found that he could move it, unlike the previous attempt.
’As I thought, my luck is exceptional.’
After placing the mat in a room on the second floor of the ancient palace, Jiang Yue settled down and waited for time to pass.
However, as he was waiting, something occurred to him, and his face changed.
’Just in case...’ He thought and removed everything he got from the Lu family clansmen.
He then used his divine sense to examine the items and frowned at the result.
"It’s good that I thought about it before leaving the secret realm." He muttered and separated a few items from the pile.
These items had divine sense markings on them.
Even if Jiang Yue didn’t have the blood marks of the Lu family on his body, he would still be found if he left the marked items on him.
Now that he discovered the marked items, he examined them again.
While doing so, he removed the marks he could and gave up the remaining items.
"This shows there are core formation realm cultivators in the Lu family." He frowned as he looked at the three items that still had marks.
Although Jiang Yue was at the peak of the qi transformation realm, his soul power was beyond his cultivation level.
This meant that his divine sense was stronger than other cultivators at the peak of the qi transformation realm.
At the moment, his divine sense was equivalent to that of a cultivator at the peak of the origin tempering realm.
If he couldn’t remove a mark, it meant the mark was left by a cultivator above the peak of the origin tempering realm.
However, Jiang Yue could tell that the divine senses were not in the nascent soul realm.
’Thank the tao for small mercies.’ He thought and collected the unmarked things.
Just after he did this, a strong force wrapped around him, and he was once again squeezed into a narrow tube.
A moment later, he appeared in the Lu family back mountain with the others.
However, he felt that something was wrong as soon as he returned.
When they entered the secret realm, they were accompanied by four elders to the back mountain.
At this time, there were more than a dozen elders, and all had grim faces.
’They should know that a lot of their descendants are dead.’ Jiang Yue thought and sighed.
All big families had a method to keep track of their descendants, and the Lu family was no exception.
Several months ago, the soul cups of thirteen descendants had suddenly shattered, which alarmed these elders.
When the secret realm opened, they rushed to the back mountain to catch the murderer.
However, none of those who came out had the blood marks of the Lu family. Even more bizarre, they couldn’t detect the divine sense marks left on some weapons.
[Eldest brother, what should we do?] One of the elders transmitted a voice to the other elders.
The eldest brother frowned and didn’t speak.
[Let’s bring them all and interrogate them.] The fifth elder spoke.
One of the dead was his beloved disciple, and his mood was incomparably bad.
[We can’t do this.] The third elder reasoned.
[Third elder brother, your disciple is also dead. Are you going to let the murderer go?]
[Fifth brother, don’t get me wrong. I want to catch the murderer, but we can’t be reckless.]
When they heard that, most of the other elders understood the concerns of the third elder.
Although their family was the sky in Black Wind city, they couldn’t do whatever they wanted.
Black wind city was still within the Sea Cloud sect’s territory. Some of those who entered the secret realm came from the sect and other prominent families.
If the Lu family was reckless and offended someone that shouldn’t be offended, they would attract disaster to themselves.
[If we can’t catch them, what should we do?] The fifth elder spoke sourly.
[Let’s search their storage bags and storage rings. They should still have the things our Lu family.] The sixth elder suggested.
[I agree.]
[I also agree.]
[I am afraid this will cause trouble. Who is willing to show the content of their storage rings to others?]
[I think the second elder is right. No one would want to expose the content of their storage rings.]
The others quieted down when they heard that.
In fact, they knew that asking others to expose their storage rings was unreasonable.
However, thirteen descendants of the Lu family were dead.
No matter what, they couldn’t let the murderer go.
[Let’s have them swear by their heart demons.]The eldest brother spoke.
While this discussion was going on, Jiang Yue kept an eye on his surroundings. He didn’t want to be caught off guard and miss the best time to escape if things came to that.
’Before that...’ He thought and swallowed a pill.
The pill he took was a disguise pill that could last one day.
By doing this, his true face would not be exposed even if his mask was removed.
"Fourth uncle, did something happen?" Lu Xuanrui stepped forward and asked.
Several Lu family children also looked at the elders in inquiry.
"Thirteen children from our Lu family are dead." An elder answered, and the Lu family children were stunned.
Righteous indignation coloured their faces, and they glared at those who didn’t belong to the Lu family.
However, everyone knew this was a farce.
In a big family like the Lu clan, family affection and unity were dispensable.
The current show was because of face, but under this indignation, the survivors were happy.
With so many deaths, they would have more resources in the future.
Those who didn’t have a master would even have a chance of getting one.
"How can our Lu family be killed so easily?" One of the Lu family said indignantly.
"The ninth brother is right, we can’t let the murderer escape."
"Confess quickly and accept a lighter punishment." Someone glared at the outsiders, and Jiang Yue almost rolled his eyes.
It wasn’t just the Lu family cultivators that died in the secret realm. More outsiders were dead, but no one was speaking about them.
’It’s always about the one with the bigger fist.’ He sneered.
Unfortunately, Lu Xuanrui saw this sneer, and her eyes narrowed.
She had long disliked Yeying because of Qi Shuo, and she saw the current situation as an opportunity.
If she could get rid of Yeying, wouldn’t Qi Shuo like her?
She knew young master Qi first and liked him first. Yeying was just a slut that appeared to get in her way. It was only right for him to become her stepping stone.
’Obediently die to make way for me.’ She thought, and her eyes filled with murderous intent.
This thought flashed in her mind and immediately took root.
With a sneer, she looked at him, and Jiang Yue felt cold.
From that sneer, he knew things would turn bad, and Lu Xuanrui did not disappoint.
