Chapter 372: Cause and Consequence
Five days after the council meeting, Yu Nianzhen finally recovered.
At the same time, several allies including Meng Zihua and Wei Ge arrived in the camp.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yue had no time to spend with his Taoist companion because he was busy engraving teleportation formations.
With nothing to do, Yu Nianzhen found Yang Xu and registered for the vanguard team
"Master, have you been checking the Cangxing list?" Yu Nianzhen suddenly asked with a solemn look in his eyes.
When he was recovering from his injuries, he used his free time to study the Cangxing list.
At first, he only wanted to keep up with the situation in the Nine Treasures secret realm.
However, he found himself studying the entire Cangxing list.
"What’s the matter?" Yang Xu asked.
"The situation in the secret realm is relatively better than that outside. I am afraid we may encounter a difficult situation when we get out."
When Yang Xu heard that, he only sighed and without commenting on the matter.
After all, they were in the secret realm.
Even if he cared about the outside situation, there was nothing he could do.
At the moment, his priority was to eliminate the enemies within the secret realm as fast as possible.
After that, everyone would get a chance to enjoy the spiritual pools to improve their strength.
Only by improving their strength would they have a chance of survival when they left the secret realm.
"How is Jiang Yue doing with the formation disks?" He asked.
"He managed to collect twenty-one fifth-level demonic bones."
"The first two he tried to engrave were scraped and could no longer be used. After that, he got the hang of it and has already engraved four."
"He will need a few more days to engrave the remaining bones."
"Nineteen teleportation formation disks..." Yang Xu muttered and frowned.
If each vanguard team had two or three disks, there would still be enough for everyone else in the camp.
However, teleportation formation disks were consumable goods.
Since no one knew what would happen in the coming war, it was always better to have more ways to escape.
As Yu Nianzhen and Yang Xu were talking, they heard a commotion outside the camp.
With a quick glance at each other, they exited the meeting tent and rushed to the edge of the camp.
"What’s going on?" A female cultivator asked but no one stopped to answer her.
However, as Yu Nianzhen and Yang Xu neared the edge of the camp, they overheard many conversations.
From what they gathered; a scouting group had captured a live enemy.
They brought the enemy to the camp but the sentry guards didn’t let them enter the camp which caused the commotion.
By the time, Yu Nianzhen and Yang Xu got to the camp entrance, several council members had already arrived.
"Junior Mo, what’s the situation?" Yang Xu asked and looked at Mo Tianxing.
"Our scouts brought two live enemies but we have to be careful." Mo Tianxing said and Yang Xu understood the unspoken words.
In the council meeting, they talked about implanting gu worms and controlling the captured disciples of the Death Flower Ascension Front.
However, this idea was not exclusive to their side.
It wasn’t impossible for the enemy to come up with similar strategies.
"How were the enemies captured?" Someone asked.
"The scouts caught the two spying on our camp and they brought them here for interrogation."
When Yu Nianzhen heard the explanation, he was conflicted.
On one hand, he worried it was a trap and on the other, he felt it was the opportunity they had been waiting for.
"Master, should we set up a defence formation outside the camp formation? We can interrogate them there." Yu Nianzhen suggested and some others immediately agreed.
Without delay, a group stepped out of the camp and walked a distance of one hundred metres before stopping.
After they stopped, Yu Nianzhen activated two fourth-level formations and each enemy was placed in one.
"The formations are not enough to contain the self-explosion of origin tempering realm cultivators but they are enough to block most of the damage." Yu Nianzhen said and the others quickly thanked him.
"We put them to sleep using the third-level turtle sleeping pill and blocked their qi while they were sleeping. They should wake up in one hour." One of the scouts explained.
While the group was waiting for the two enemies to wake up, many council members rushed out of the camp.
By the time the first enemy woke up, a lot of preparations had already been made and half the council members had arrived.
The first enemy was an old man.
He had a stooped back and long white hair.
His demeanour hinted at decline but he had sharp shifty eyes that said otherwise.
"Has this day come?" He muttered and sighed in resignation.
"Old man He." Someone called and the old man turned to look at a young man.
Seeing the young man, the old one chuckled in self-derision.
"I was an origin tempering realm cultivator when you were born." Old man He said and a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
Like everyone in the Cangxing world, He Mingyang started to cultivate when he was thirteen.
Back then, he cultivated smoothly and even awakened several heaven meridians.
In less than one hundred years, he broke through to the origin tempering realm and cultivated to the ninth level.
In those days, He Mingyang was righteous.
He fought injustice whenever he came across it and always lent a helping hand.
Unfortunately, his fate was cruel.
When he was overcoming the tribulation to break through to the core formation realm, He Mingyang was attacked.
His attacker was the son of his sect’s elder.
The son was used to being arrogant and disliked that He Mingyang was better than him.
Because of the attack, He Mingyang failed the tribulation and his newly formed golden core collapsed.
Originally, He Mingyang blamed the arrogant son but did not blame the sect.
However, the righteous sect did not stand by He Mingyang.
Instead, the sect did not want to punish the arrogant son and alienate his powerful clan.
In the end, black was turned to white and He Mingyang was accused of practicing a forbidden technique.
It turned out that the technique was so evil that the heavens crippled He Mingyang.
At that time, although He Mingyang had failed the tribulation, his cultivation had only regressed to the seventh level of the origin tempering realm.
However, the sect secretly crippled him so that the reality would fit the rhetoric.
Unfortunately, He Mingyang’s background was poor and he didn’t have a backer.
Without an option, he went down the mountain and lived an ordinary life for five years.
One day, he came across a mysterious herb and He Mingyang was reborn.
At this time, the idea of vengeance was born.
He wanted to avenge himself and kill all the people who had wronged him in the past.
With such thoughts in mind, He Mingyang worked hard.
Since he had the memory of his previous practice, he avoided many problems and broke through to the origin tempering realm in less than thirty years.
After breaking through, he stayed close to his previous sect and waited for an opportunity.
This opportunity came seven years when He Mingyang was already at the fifth level of the origin tempering realm.
At that time, the arrogant son brought some friends to play in the city’s brothel and He Mingyang followed him.
He waited for his chance and finally killed the enemy he had thought about for half a decade.
Unfortunately, killing the enemy turned out to be the beginning of his real hell...
As it turned out, the arrogant son had recently raped and killed a young female cultivator.
He did so because the girl was a casual cultivator and had no backing.
However, that couldn’t have been further from the truth.
Soon after He Mingyang killed his enemy, a powerful nascent soul appeared in the sect.
The nascent soul was the girl’s grandfather and he massacred the sect in anger.
As the person who killed the arrogant son, He Mingyang was also involved.
The nascent soul cultivator felt that He Mingyang had denied him his vengeance by killing the arrogant son.
In this way, He Mingyang was involved in an unreasonable disaster and his foundation was damaged.
Since then, He Mingyang fell into madness.
He couldn’t accept the tragedies in his life and couldn’t accept the lucky people in the world.
When the Death Flower Ascension Front found him, He Mingyang had long become infamous in the Cangxing world.
He killed everyone he felt was not pleasing to the eyes and often hunted young talents from prominent families.
In a way, he was a perfect choice to join the Death Flower Ascension Front and he didn’t resist when he was recruited.
"I know why you brought me here." Old man He suddenly said and laughed madly.
