Chapter 396: Backers
Just when Jiang Yue was getting ready to retort, a voice floated over from a distance.
"Is my apprentice someone you can casually doubt?" The voice said, startling Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
The two looked at each other and then turned to where the voice came from.
"Master..." Jiang Yue muttered with a complicated expression on his face.
Although he and Chen Qing weren’t close, Jiang Yue was a little happy to see her.
After everything that happened, he was happy she survived the war.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Qing and a group of people from the Sea Cloud sect landed beside Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
"Are the two of you okay?" She asked.
"Greetings to master/senior." Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen greeted simultaneously.
"Master, we are fine." Jiang Yue continued and Chen Qing nodded.
When she heard Jiang Yue call her ’master’, she couldn’t help but be happy.
Before Jiang Yue entered the Nine Treasures secret realm, their relationship was very tense.
At that time, Jiang Yue had stopped calling her ’master’ and had started calling her ’elder Chen’.
Now that the rest of her disciples were dead, Chen Qing didn’t think she would have the honour of being called ’master’ in the near future.
Fortunately, Jiang Yue was willing to give her a chance!
With that thought, a determined look hardened her eyes and she stared at Gui Xiong.
"Fellow Daoist Gui, is there something wrong with my disciple?" She questioned.
"Alchemist Chen has a good disciple but the disciple seems a little too good." Gui Xiong said with a mocking look in his eyes.
Although his words were not explicit, everyone understood.
"Junior Jiang is only a core formation realm cultivator and no one has ever seen him arrange a fifth-level formation." Someone muttered in a low voice.
"Who says that no one hasn’t?" Xuan Ke stood out.
"All the survivors of the Nine Treasures secret realm know his abilities."
"Junior Xuan and Junior Jiang seem to be good brothers. I don’t know if..."
"You..." Xuan Ke roared angrily.
"Why does it have to be so troublesome? Isn’t there an easy way to prove this matter?" Jiang Yue asked with a disdainful look in his eyes.
"Do you have a way?" Murong Feng asked.
"Didn’t I arrange a fifth-level formation around my portable cave? Formation master Gui is welcome to evaluate it."
"Who knows if someone else arranged it for you?" A member of the Ice Palace sect refuted.
"You are welcome to find the mysterious ’someone else’." Jiang Yue sneered.
When his backing hadn’t arrived, the others could have used various methods to keep him away from the formation.
However, now that his backing had arrived, Jiang Yue was not afraid.
No matter how the others struggled, they had no chance of keeping him away from the tomb.
If they were clever, it was best to take a step back and find another way to trip the Sea Cloud sect.
"This..."
"Let’s go." Gui Xiong said before the person could finish.
After the farce was over, everyone dispersed and returned to their camping sites.
"You two brats are quite capable of causing trouble." Yang Xu admonished but had a happy smile in his eyes.
Although they had been separated for less than a year, Yang Xu missed the two children.
Before he knew it, the two young people had become incomparably important in his heart.
"Master Yang, we miss you too." Jiang Yue said happily and Yang Xu almost rolled his eyes.
"Who said that I missed you? Isn’t it good to live in a peaceful world of two with my wife? Why would I miss the two of you?" Yang Xu snorted and Bing Lan couldn’t help but smile.
Only she knew how much Yang Xu missed the two people.
When he had nothing to do, Yang Xu would often go to Yu Nianzhen’s courtyard on Yang Mountain.
He said it was because he didn’t want the courtyard to fall apart but Bing Lan knew it was because her Taoist companion missed the two children.
’He is a duplicitous man.’ She thought but couldn’t help the love in her eyes.
"Master, Azhen and I prepared a camp for the Sea Cloud sect. Shall we go back?" Jiang Yue questioned.
This time, the Sea Cloud sect had thirty cultivators.
Among the thirty, there were three nascent soul realm cultivators, twenty core formation realm cultivators, and seven origin tempering realm cultivators.
"Let’s go." Chen Qing agreed and everyone followed Jiang Yue to the prepared camp.
"Brother Jiang, Brother Yu, I will go back to my group." Xuan Ke suddenly said.
"Okay, we will see you later." Jiang Yue nodded and said.
"Message us if there is anything." Yu Nianzhen said with a meaningful look in his eyes.
When they were conflicting with Gui Xiong, Xuan Ke stood up for Jiang Yue.
Although he was only telling the truth, this matter related to the interests of the Ice Palace sect and the Thunder God Temple.
Knowing this, Yu Nianzhen was worried that Xuan Ke would suffer after he returned to the camping place of the Thunder God Temple.
"Don’t worry brother Yu. I will be fine." Xuan Ke said and after the three said a few more words, the monk left.
Soon after, Jiang Yue opened the fifth level formation and thirty people entered within.
"You can set up your portable caves wherever you want." Jiang Yue said and pointed to the large space beside the ancient palace.
"Two juniors, can you tell us the situation?" The third nascent soul realm cultivator asked.
Looking at the person, Jiang Yue recognised him as the fat elder he saw when he and Yu Nianzhen first joined the sect.
’If I remember correctly, his name should be Song Ming. Elder Song of one of the seven peaks.’ Jiang Yue thought but couldn’t remember which peak the elder was in charge of.
"Elder Song, please follow us inside and we will tell you everything." Jiang Yue said and bowed to the man.
After that, the core formation realm cultivators and origin tempering realm cultivators went to arrange their dwellings while the nascent souls followed the two into the mansion.
"Please sit down." Jiang Yue led them to the sitting room and offered tea before they started talking.
"Nianzhen and I were in Frozen Lake City when we overheard a conversation between eleven cultivators..." Jiang Yue started and told everything that happened.
"Demonic qi..." Song Ming said and frowned.
"Ayue, is the demonic qi controlled by the formation or something else?" Yang Xu asked.
"I don’t know this but..."
Jiang Yue stopped for a moment and his brows creased in a frown
Originally, he thought the formation was evil.
However, after many days of studying it, he began to feel that his previous understanding was wrong.
Unfortunately, his understanding was superficial and he really couldn’t make up his mind.
"How long will it take to break the formation?" Song Ming asked.
"Elder Song, it’s unknown whether we can break the formation. Even if we can, it will take a while."
"For the time being, breaking the formation is secondary. The most important thing is the demonic qi. If we can’t solve the matter of the demonic qi, we don’t have to think about the tomb." Chen Qi said and everyone nodded.
"Fifth-level isolation talismans should be of some help." Yu Nianzhen suddenly said.
After he spoke, everyone fell silent before Chen Qing spoke.
"There are three fifth-level talisman masters in the Cangxing world."
"One is Jin Bai, the ancestor of the Jin family in the Great Artisan city. The second is He Meng, the ancestor of the Blood refining sect and the last one is a guardian of the BlueStar Treasures Pavilion." Chen Qing analysed.
"Working with He Meng is out of the question. Our only choice is Jin Bai or Meng Wang." Yang Xu said.
"Working with the Jin family is not impossible but we should be prepared to lose three layers of skin." Chen Qing warned with a frown on her face.
As a sect elder, she often dealt with people from the Great Artisan region.
Considering the current situation, she knew the sect would be in a passive position if they cooperated with the Jin family.
"What about Elder Meng of the BlueStar Treasures Pavillion?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Elder Meng has just become a fifth-level talisman master. His success rate is not high and his inheritance is not complete."
"Is that so?" Jiang Yue frowned.
However, he still wanted to give it a try so he took out his communication talisman.
"We have some friendship with the young leader of the BlueStar Treasure Pavilion. If it’s okay with the elders, I would like to contact her." He said.
"If there is a way to cooperate with the BlueStar Treasure Pavillion, it’s best to choose them." Chen Qing immediately agreed.
After Chen Qing finished speaking, Yu Nianzhen suddenly stood up.
