Chapter 495: Strange Disappearances
"Azhen, transplant all the mature herbs into the jade box. As for the immature ones, let’s take one of each type and leave the rest for future generations."
"Good." Yu Nianzhen said and nodded in agreement.
"Unfortunately, master, Hongzhu and other Cangxing alchemists don’t have a complete level six inheritance."
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen felt helpless.
During the challenge event, he faced thousands of opponents but never an alchemist.
As a result, he didn’t get any alchemy inheritance.
"At this rate, we may have to kill alchemists for their inheritance." Jiang Yue said in a depressed voice.
"Alchemists are rarely alone. Most importantly, awesome alchemists have a lot of friends. If we dare to kill one, we will make a lot of enemies."
"Don’t we already have many enemies?"
"That’s true. However, these alchemists haven’t done anything to provoke us. We can’t kill random people." Yu Nianzhen soothed.
"I know." Jiang Yue agreed and was about to give up when an image crossed his mind.
"There is an alchemist who has provoked me several times." He said.
"Tian Xiang?"
"That’s him." Jiang Yue immediately nodded.
"That guy not only has an alchemy inheritance but also has a heaven and earth fire. If we kill him, my primordial yin-yang flame can have a good meal."
"Okay. Let’s kill him if we get an opportunity."
After that, the two spent nine days transplanting most of the herbs into the jade box.
Simultaneously, they looked for the formation disks used to arrange the formations.
Unfortunately, even after nine days, the two found nothing.
"Maybe we are not destined." Jiang Yue said and frowned.
"You have an inheritance. Sooner or later, you will be able to arrange higher-level formations."
"Mmmmm." Jiang Yue agreed and led his lover out of the formation.
When they stepped out of the formation, the two appeared beside a small lake.
"I know this lake." Yu Nianzhen immediately said.
"It’s the territory of the Three-tailed water snake." Jiang Yue also recognised the lake.
"I will try to see if I can locate the formation."
"Be careful, don’t fall into the lake." Yu Nianzhen warned.
During their first trip to the Boundless Mountain range, the two accidentally disturbed the three-tailed water snake.
As a result, they barely escaped with their lives.
Although their strength had increased since then, Yu Nianzhen knew they were still not a match for the demonic beast.
Fortunately, the three-tailed water snake was a relatively peaceful creature.
Unless they disturbed it, it wouldn’t come out of the lake to deal with them.
"I will be careful." Jiang Yue promised and began to search for the herbs’ garden formation.
While Jiang Yue was searching, Yu Nianzhen took out a yellow stone from his storage ring.
The stone was an induction stone.
An induction stone was a commonly used method of keeping track of people in a team.
As long as Wei Ge and the rest of the team were not too far away, the induction would be able to guide Yu Nianzhen to their location.
"I don’t know if they are still around or they have moved to other places." He muttered and injected a strand of qi into the induction stone.
A moment later, the stone exuded a faint yellow light.
Seeing the light, Yu Nianzhen removed a communication jade from his storage ring and immediately messaged Wei Ge.
After that, he returned everything to his storage ring and walked towards Jiang Yue.
"Did you find anything?" He asked.
"Not yet." Jiang Yue said with some disappoint on his face.
"I will help you look."
"Okay."
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen’s involvement didn’t make a difference.
After searching for more than half a day, they still didn’t find anything.
"Let’s find the others." Jiang Yue finally decided.
"Are you sure?"
"I am sure." Jiang Yue said with a resolute look in his eyes.
Seeing this, Yu Nianzhen no longer asked.
Instead, he held his lover’s hand and the two walked away from the small lake.
"Where are fellow Daoist Wei and the others?’"
"About thirty kilometres to the East."
"Did they encounter any trouble?"
"No. We are the only ones who encountered trouble."
"Our trouble wasn’t too troublesome." Jiang Yue said and chuckled.
When he thought of the many herbs they got, he couldn’t help but be happy.
Although he didn’t know what the herbs were, he knew they weren’t worthless.
Most importantly, their ages weren’t low.
No matter which pills they refined, the grade and effect wouldn’t be low.
"We made a profit this time." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"I hope we will find more things over the years." Jiang Yue said with an expectant look in his eyes.
"Our luck has always been good."
Less than an incense stick later, the two reunited with Wei Ge and others.
"How are things?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"Everything is fine. We haven’t encountered any trouble." Wei Ge answered and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"Ayue, where did you go?" Chen Qing asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Master, Nianzhen and I are fine. Nianzhen landed in the cave of a monster and I teleported into a formation. It took a while to meet up and come here."
"Are the both of you okay?" She asked.
"We are fine." Jiang Yue emphasised.
"It’s good if you are not injured."
"What’s the situation?" Yu Nianzhen questioned Wei Ge.
"Mountain master, our group has just hunted a pair of grey rabbits. We plan to rest for awhile and then go to other places."
"Okay. Let’s follow your plan."
With that, the team sat under a group of trees and rested.
After several people recovered their strength, Yu Nianzhen led everyone to look for monsters.
When they found a demonic beast, one or two people would go up to fight it.
In this way, eighty years passed.
During this time, they encountered other Cangxing cultivators and their group grew from seven to sixteen.
Similarly, they also encountered enemies.
Some of the enemies discovered their identities and wanted to rob them while others were just opportunistic treasure hunters.
However, all the enemies were treated the same.
No matter who, everyone who attacked their group was killed without hesitation.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue still did not find an alchemy inheritance.
On this day, the group of sixteen had just killed a pack of wolves and were about to rest when they heard voices from a distance.
"Is what you said true?" Someone asked in an incredulous voice.
"I swear everything I said is true." Another said.
"I want to go and see."
"What to see? Are you an alchemist?"
"This...."
Hearing the voices, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue looked at each other.
"Fellow Daoist Wei, please handle everything here. XiaoYue and I will go to find out what is going on."
"Yes, mountain master."
After that, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue left the group and walked towards the voices.
Less than an incense stick later, they encountered two male cultivators.
"Fellow Daoists, is something the matter?" One of the cultivators asked with a wary look in his eyes.
"Fellow Daoists, there is no need to be wary." Jiang Yue said.
However, his reassurance only made the two warier.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue touched rubbed his nose helplessly and then sighed.
"Fellow daoists, I want to ask about what you were talking about?"
"What does the fellow Daoist mean?"
"You were talking about something regarding alchemists." Jiang Yue said.
Hearing this, the two male cultivators fell silent.
A moment later, one looked at Jiang Yue with a cautious look in his eyes.
"Fellow Daoist, in fact, we don’t know much." The person said.
"Anything you can tell us is okay." Jiang Yue said and gave the person ten thousand low-grade reincarnation stones.
After that, everything was easy.
According to the person, something strange was happening in the Burial Province.
Since five months ago, several people who entered the Burial Province mysteriously disappeared.
At first, no one knew what was going on.
However, after three months, someone noticed a trend.
Unexpectedly, all those who disappeared were alchemists.
"Fellow Daoist, has any of those who disappeared reappeared?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I haven’t heard of anyone who has reappeared." The male cultivator shrugged.
"Initially, everyone thought that someone was abducting alchemists for one reason or another."
"What about now?"
"Now, everyone thinks there is an alchemy inheritance in the Burial Province."
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be excited.
However, their expressions remained the same and they forced themselves to calm down.
"Why does everyone think this?"
"Alchemists have been disappearing as soon as they step into the Burial Province. Most importantly, the place of disappearance is not the same. If someone was abducting alchemists, they wouldn’t be able to do it so neatly and efficiently."
"What you say makes sense." Jiang Yue nodded and bowed to the person.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist."
"It’s what I should do."
After that, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue returned to the group.
