Chapter 197: Engraving Formation Disks
In the end, none of those who returned from the secret realm confessed to killing the descendants of the Lu family.
With that, the Lu family had no choice but to invite everyone to the banquet.
However, no one was looking forward to it.
All understood that the matter was not simple and things would turn out badly for some.
"Come this way." A servant said and opened a door for Jiang Yue.
"You will stay in this courtyard until the banquet. The young master will call me if there is something."
"I understand."
Jiang Yue entered the door and looked around.
Although the courtyard was small, it was well maintained.
It consisted of a small house and a lawn where a winter plum tree grew.
"Does the young master need anything?"
"Nothing for the time being."
After that, the servant left the courtyard, and Jiang Yue sneered.
He could sense several cultivators around the courtyard and knew that leaving wouldn’t be easy.
However, he wasn’t worried.
He still had the golden talisman, which could teleport him to Yu Nianzhen. Otherwise, he could teleport to the place they designated as common ground on the golden teleportation talisman.
After breaking through to the qi transformation realm, the two thought about designating the place introduced by senior Niu as the common ground.
However, they couldn’t use it for some reason.
Since they couldn’t use the place, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzen bought a hut on their way to the Black Wind Abyss.
The hut was in a remote mortal village and looked nothing but ordinary.
After paying a villager to take care of the land surrounding the hut, they pretended to retreat and left the village without anyone’s notice.
"Take a bath first." Jiang Yue muttered and entered the courtyard.
He walked into one of the rooms and removed a wooden bathtub from his storage ring.
Although there was a bathtub in the courtyard, Jiang Yue liked to use his own things.
After setting up the bathtub, he poured water from a gourd and dropped a firestone into the tub.
Soon after, the water began to boil and steam spiralled upwards, filling the small room.
However, Jiang Yue didn’t immediately enter the bathtub.
Instead, he removed another gourd and poured about five litres of water into the bathtub.
Instantaneously, the water stopped boiling but still released a vapour filled with spiritual energy.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue smiled and hurriedly removed his clothes before entering the bathtub.
"So comfortable." He said as he laid back.
When searching for treasures to sell at the auction house, one of the things they found was a universe gourd.
This gourd had a world inside it and could carry an ocean without being full.
Although it could have sold for many spirit stones, the two decided not to sell it.
The main reason was that Yu Nianzhen wanted Jiang Yue to have it. With it, Jiang Yue could carry large amounts of the jade box’s spiritual water.
The spiritual water was not only useful for replenishing qi, it was also good for relieving fatigue and healing injuries.
With the water, Yu Nianzhen was more relieved of Jiang Yue’s condition when they were not together.
"I wonder how Azhen is doing." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
It was more than six years since he saw his husband, and he missed him terribly. He wanted to see him desperately, but their meeting wasn’t until a year later.
’You must have gotten a lot stronger.’ He thought, and his eyes filled with determination.
He allowed the bath water to soothe his body while his pores greedily absorbed the spiritual energy.
When all the energy was absorbed, Jiang Yue stepped out of the tub and dressed before cleaning everything.
’There are still some hours before the banquet.’ He thought, and a light flashed in his eyes.
He thought about cultivating on the enlightenment mat, but he didn’t dare.
Although he didn’t know if the Lu family had a way to detect treasures taken from the secret realm, Jiang Yue didn’t want to risk himself.
With such thoughts, he removed a jade tablet from his storage ring and planned to engrave a formation.
Other than his compensation as Yeying, Jiang Yue also made spirit stones by selling formation disks.
Now that he was a third-level formation master, he could engrave third-level formation disks, which would sell for more spirit stones.
However, Jiang Yue didn’t have enough material.
The materials he brought into the secret realm were all for second-level formations and couldn’t support third-level formations.
Fortunately, this was not a big problem.
Although he couldn’t engrave third-level formations, he could use the chance to exhaust all his materials.
Once he left the Lu family residence, he would sell the formation disks and buy material for third-level formations.
At the same time, he would look for formation inheritance.
When he enlightened on the mat, Jiang Yue comprehended some third-level formations based on their second-level versions.
However, he could only do this for common formations like the flame-killing array, and the protective formation.
As for more complex formations, Jiang Yue was still at a loss and needed to find an inheritance.
If he couldn’t find it, he would have to wait until they returned to the sect to redeem from the martial hall.
’What a bother.’ He thought and sighed.
However, he didn’t dwell on it because his mind was soon preoccupied with engraving the formation disk.
This time, he wanted to engrave a peak grade level two ten thousand swords formation.
The ten thousand swords formation was one of the most powerful attack formations, but it was also among the most difficult to arrange or engrave.
Fortunately, Jiang Yue had a swordsman as a lover.
Although this did not help him master the formation, he was reluctant to fail in anything sword related.
As such, he spent a lot of time mastering the formation and over time, it became one of the formations he was most proficient at.
Since he was now a third-level master, engraving a second-level formation disk was easier than before he entered the secret realm.
Back then, he needed at least an hour to engrave a second-level formation disk, but he could now do it in the time taken for a cup of tea.
In this way, Jiang Yue engraved twenty formation disks before a servant came to remind him about the banquet.
"The first elder has asked this slave to escort the young master to the banquet hall." The servant said, and Jiang Yue sighed.
He had already put away the formation disks and the remaining materials.
However, he didn’t follow the servant right away.
Instead, he locked himself in one of the rooms and checked his stash of pills.
Since the Lu family planned a hongmen banquet, Jiang Yue didn’t expect they would fight him one on one.
In that case, they would put something in his food or drinks.
Fortunately, he had many detoxification pills after their trip to the thousand herbs garden.
If that was not enough, he had enough spiritual water and twelve leaves of the tree of life.
"I should not die." He muttered and gave a wry smile.
At this moment, the servant knocked on the door urgently, and Jiang Yue rolled his eyes.
’Is he afraid that I will escape?’ He wondered and sneered.
Although Jiang Yue hadn’t left the courtyard, he understood his position.
Even if he managed to evade the half dozen cultivators stationed around, the small courtyard was almost at the centre of the Lu residence.
If he wanted to leave, there was a lot of ground to cover from the courtyard to the main gate.
Also, when he first came to the Lu residence, Jiang Yue noticed that the clan area was enclosed in a defensive formation.
One of the features of the formation was anti-teleportation, and ordinary teleportation methods would not work.
’It’s a good thing I have the golden teleportation talisman.’ He thought and exited the room.
When he saw him, the servant sighed in relief but turned sympathetic eyes at him.
"Young master Yeying, please follow me to the banquet hall."
"Good."
Soon after, the two left the courtyard, but the guards were not assured. They followed behind and made sure that he didn’t escape.
"Young master Yeying can consider joining the Lu family." The servant advised as the two walked.
He once saw Yeying’s performance when he accompanied his young master to the Black Wind teahouse.
When he thought about that now, he felt it was a pity for Yeying to encounter an accident.
"Is the Lu family good?" Jiang Yue asked and looked at the servant.
The servant was taken aback and didn’t know how to answer.
His family had always served the Lu family, and he knew no other life.
However, he had heard some family retainers complaining about their treatment.
At that time, they complained that they had to die for the descendants of the Lu family but only received a few spirit stones in a year.
