Chapter 210: Gossip
From the gate to the entrance to the forbidden area, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue only met the couple.
However, they didn’t relax their vigilance.
Although they didn’t encounter others, they were worried about being discovered by the divine sense of core formation realm cultivators.
The invisibility talismans they were using were high-grade spirit rank talismans. They could isolate the divine sense of origin tempering realm cultivators but were fallible against core formation realm cultivators.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue were only at the peak of the qi transformation realm.
With their soul power and qi, they could barely activate the high-grade spirit rank invisibility talismans.
If they wanted to activate peak-grade talismans, they needed to at least be in the origin tempering realm. Nevertheless, the high-grade talismans were not useless against core formation realm cultivators.
As long as the two did not encounter the divine sense of late-stage or peak-stage core formation realm cultivators, they would not be discovered.
"The entrance of the secret realm is there." Jiang Yue whispered and pointed to a place.
"There are no guards." Yu Nianzhen observed.
"The secret realm can only be opened once a year. I suppose the Lu family doesn’t see the need for guards."
"You are right."
"Let’s go."
The two walked toward the inner region of the forbidden area, and their nerves grew tenser as they walked.
They felt they were walking on a tightrope, but this feeling was expected.
Although they weren’t worried about their life, they were still worried about being discovered.
After all, their plans would go to waste if they were discovered before they robbed the Lu family’s treasure house.
At that time, they would have to escape, which was quite inconvenient. Not only would they need to find another way of earning spirit stones, but they would also waste a lot of time.
This was because the village they set up as a teleportation point was far from Black Wind city and other big cities.
If they escaped there, they would waste several weeks on travel.
’We have to be careful.’ Jiang Yue thought and reflexively suppressed his aura.
After walking for half an hour, the two saw the patrol team.
As expected, the patrol team was made up of three origin tempering realm cultivators.
The leader was at the late stage of the origin tempering realm, and the remaining two were at the early and mid stages.
"If our ancestor can enter the top ten of the core formation realm ranking on the Cangxing list, he will be able to break through to the nascent soul realm." One of the patrolmen said.
"You are thinking too much. How many core formation realm cultivators are there in our Cangxing world? It won’t be the turn of our ancestor to enter the top ten."
"Our ancestor has been at the peak of the core formation realm for more than a hundred years. He already has one foot in the nascent soul realm. I don’t believe he can’t make the top ten."
"You underestimate..." The debate continued, but Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen didn’t hear the rest because the team walked further away.
"We must be careful not to alarm the Lu family’s ancestor." Jiang Yue whispered.
"I know." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Let’s continue before the patrol team turns around."
After that, the two continued walking and soon came to where the medicinal pool was located.
The pool was enclosed in a formation, and two core formation realm elders guarded opposite sides.
Without speaking, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen stopped just beyond the formation.
Jiang Yue gestured to Yu Nianzhen and opened his illusion eyes to look at the array.
’It’s not one formation.’ He thought as soon as he saw the formation.
Initially, he thought the medicinal pool was only protected by a defence formation.
However, after looking carefully, he saw there were three formations.
The outermost array was a high-grade level three defence formation. Without his illusion eyes, Jiang Yue could break it after some time, but with illusion eyes, he could do it easily.
After the defence formation was a killing formation and a trapping formation.
If an intruder managed to pass through the defence formation, they would fall into the killing formation.
This formation was a ten-thousand-sword formation that was difficult to handle and required a lot of effort to break.
After spending a lot of energy on the killing formation, the intruder would fall into the trapping formation.
By this point, very few cultivators would still have enough energy to break the formation, and they would be trapped without a way out.
’It’s a good arrangement. Unfortunately, ...’ Jiang Yue grinned in schadenfreude.
Unfortunately, the Lu family encountered him.
With his illusion eyes, he didn’t need to break the formations.
He could find the best path to enter the medicinal pool without alarming the Lu family.
His only worry was the two elders. He worried they were too close to the formation and would not notice something when he made his move.
However, this didn’t discourage him.
Since they had set out to rob the Lu family, Jiang Yue wanted to do a thorough job.
’This medicine pool..., we will surely grab it.’ He thought and took Yu Nianzhen’s hand.
They walked away from the pool area and didn’t talk until they were far enough.
"How is it?" Yu Nianzhen whispered.
"I can handle it." Jiang Yue said excitedly.
Originally, he wanted to grab the medicine pool but wasn’t too invested in it.
However, he was now invested.
Other than the medicine pool, he wanted to take some time to study the formations.
Since he didn’t have an inheritance, he could only improve his formation skills by studying other formations.
In this way, every formation he came across was a learning opportunity, and he didn’t want to let go of any.
This time, he was interested in how the formation master integrated the three formations. If he could learn that, Jiang Yue believed he would be able to arrange more intricate formations.
"The patrol is here again." Yu Nianzhen whispered and slunk into the dark.
A moment later, the three patrolmen appeared, and they were still talking amongst themselves.
This time, the conversation had shifted from the family’s ancestor to Yeying. Even after one year, talking about Yeying was still very common in the Lu family.
"He is still staying in a rented courtyard in Black Wind city." One of the patrolmen said.
"His Taoist companion seems to have arrived. I heard that he also wears a mask."
A patrolman snorted and spoke, "who are they pretending to be mysterious for? If it were not for Yeying’s uncle, can our Lu family tolerate them in Black Wind city?"
"Just yesterday, I overheard the fourth elder talking to the fifth elder." One of the patrolmen whispered.
"What did you hear? Tell us quickly."
"This matter...." The speaker hesitated.
"Don’t worry, we will not tell anyone."
"It’s good if you know what to do and what not to do." He warned before continuing.
"The elders spent spirit stones to buy news from the border guard arena."
"What did they find?"
"They know that the Taoist companion was in the Black Wind Abyss before he appeared in Black Wind city."
"Black Wind Abyss? His cultivation level should be in the origin tempering realm or above." One of the patrolmen said and frowned.
"He entered the Abyss seven years ago, and his cultivation was at the peak of the qi transformation realm. I don’t know his current cultivation realm."
"What else did the border guards find? What is Yeying’s identity?"
From their position, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue tensed.
At this time, they realised they were too careless.
Although they wore masks, they used their usual weapons and rode the same bullock.
If someone was diligent, it was not difficult to get a clue and follow their identity to the Sea Cloud sect.
After that, it was easy to find out that the sect was looking for them concerning the Beast region matter.
However, after thinking about it, the two realised there was no helping it.
Their purpose for coming to the Black Wind Abyss was training.
For that purpose, Jiang Yue had to use his pipa to train his illusion technique and there was no way around it.
Even if someone figured out their identities, he didn’t regret it.
After all, strength was the most important and keeping their identity hidden was only a bonus.
"That’s the strange thing." The speaker said.
"Say it all at once."
"Alright, alright, don’t get angry."
"There is no news before they arrived in the Black Wind Abyss. There is also no information about where they came from or who they are."
When they heard that, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen looked at each other. They couldn’t figure out how that was possible.
Even if the border guards couldn’t figure out their identity, they should be able to trace their way to where they first appeared.
’What’s happening?’ Jiang Yue wondered and looked at his husband.
Yu Nianzhen looked at him and shrugged. He also didn’t know what was happening.
