Chapter 520: Two Theories
Hearing this, Jiang Yue fell silent and thought about it.
On one hand, he didn’t want to bring trouble to himself and Yu Nianzhen and on the other, he wanted to eliminate his guilt.
After a moment of thought, Jiang Yue sighed.
Although they were disguised and had suppressed their cultivation, he and cultivation were in the ninth level of the reincarnation realm.
If his actions led to trouble, he was confident they could handle it.
’Let’s do a good deed.’ He decided and immediately looked around before he spoke.
"I have extra pills." He shouted.
"Fellow Daoist, can you exchange them for my flame seed?" The handsome male cultivator asked as he moved towards Jiang Yue.
"I can give you ten bottles of ten pills, one hundred pills in total." Jiang Yue offered.
"One hundred pills..." The male cultivator was shocked but exhilarated.
Although one hundred pills were worth less than the flame seed of a heaven and earth fire, everything depended on the situation.
Now that they were in a position of not having pills, one hundred rejuvenation pills were more valuable than the flame seed.
"I want the pills." The handsome man said and eagerly looked at Jiang Yue.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue nodded and removed the pills from his storage ring.
Soon after, the two concluded the trade and both were satisfied.
However, as expected, everyone looked at Jiang Yue with a suspicious look in their eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, why do you have so many pills?" Wang Peng asked.
Like the rest, he was also suspicious.
After all, they were all robbed and only a few pills were left in their storage artefacts.
"The truth is..." Jiang Yue started and looked a little hesitant.
"The Zhao family missed one of my storage rings." He finally said.
"How is that possible?" Someone argued.
"They even took the storage ring I hid in my shoes." Another said.
"Me too. They took the one I hid in my hair."
"Fellow Daoist, where did you hide your storage ring?" Someone asked and everyone looked at Jiang Yue.
Even Yu Nianzhen was a little interested in the answer and couldn’t help but look at his lover.
"This..." Jiang Yue hesitated.
His face pinkened and his eyes dodged from left to right.
"YueYue?" Yu Nianzhen called and forcibly suppressed his amusement.
"ZhenZhen, before we left the mountain, sister Zhu asked me to trade some things for her. I was afraid we would encounter trouble so I hid the storage ring. I hid it there..." Jiang Yue said and intentionally looked at his front; the place between his legs.
Seeing this, Yu Nianzhen almost laughed but forcibly suppressed his laughter.
Instead, he pretended to be embarrassed and directly looked away.
"This..." he muttered but said nothing more.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, did you really hide it there?" Wang Peng asked and stared at Jiang Yue with an incredulous look on his face.
Seeing the man’s disbelief, Jiang Yue immediately became angry from embarrassment.
"What?" He roared and quickly continued.
"It’s a good thing I hid it there. Otherwise, we would all be in trouble now."
"Fellow Daoist Yu is right." A male cultivator suddenly said.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, how many pills do you have? Can I exchange with a weapon?"
However, Jiang Yue was not willing to change for weapons.
After all, he and Yu Nianzhen had already taken all the weapons that could be easily sold.
All the weapons that remained on other people’s bodies were unique and difficult to sell.
"You can trade my pills for flame seeds, information, or other treasures." Jiang Yue said.
"Information?" Someone asked.
"It can be information about anything. Tombs, ruins, treasures, people, past events, ..." Jiang Yue said and then continued.
"However, the information must be true to the best of your knowledge. Before any trade, we will both make an oath. I will swear not to cheat after receiving the information and the other party will swear to only provide true information."
After hearing this, several people fell silent and thought about it.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, I have information." A female cultivator suddenly said and walked towards Jiang Yue.
"Let’s go over there and talk about it." Jiang Yue pointed to a corner of the room.
Hearing this, the female cultivator nodded and followed Jiang Yue to the corner.
At the same time, Yu Nianzhen followed the two to protect Jiang Yue.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, other than pills, do you have other things?" A voice asked and Jiang Yue turned around.
"My sister Zhu is an alchemist so most of the things are pills. However, on our way here, we went to several markets and I exchanged some formation disks and talismans."
"Are you willing to trade the talismans and formation disks?" Someone asked.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue hesitated.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, we are all in this together. We won’t survive if we don’t work together." Someone urged and others quickly stepped in.
After an incense stick of time, Jiang Yue was ’convinced’ and agreed to sell some talismans and formation disks.
Soon after, Jiang Yue stationed at the corner and one by one, people went over to trade pills, formation disks, and talismans.
When the trading ended, almost everyone was satisfied.
However, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen were not naïve.
They knew several people were eyeing them and trouble would soon find them.
[Ignore them.] Yu Nianzhen transmitted.
[I know.] Jiang Yue said and smiled.
At the moment, he couldn’t be bothered to care about the troublemakers.
After the previous trades, he accumulated a lot of good information and also received a few flame seeds.
With the flame seeds, his primordial yin-yang flame could take a small step forward.
[If there is a chance, I will help you get more flame seeds.] Yu Nianzhen promised.
[Good.] Jiang Yue nodded and agreed.
"The fire sea has disappeared but there is still no exit. I wonder how we can leave." Someone observed and everyone became alert.
"We should investigate again. Maybe the fire changed something." Someone suggested.
"This fellow Daoist is right. The fire came out of the ceiling and may have affected the room. Let’s look around and see if we can find anything."
Unfortunately, everyone was soon disappointed.
Although they searched without missing a spot, everything was as before.
"What the hell is going on here?" Someone shouted and angrily kicked a wall.
"Will we be trapped to death?" Another complained.
"Damn the Zhao family." Yet another cursed.
"When we leave this place, I will definitely kill the Zhao family. I will rape their women and let the men watch." Someone shouted and several people couldn’t help but frown.
[Alas, I sold him pills.] Jiang Yue lamented.
[You just returned what was originally his.] Yu Nianzhen said and rubbed his lover’s hair.
However, he took note of the person.
Although the cultivation world was cruel, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue always maintained a bottom line.
In their eyes, it was okay to kill people.
After all, everyone was fighting against the heavens and resources were scarce.
However, things like rape were still unacceptable.
Maybe their bottom line was a pretentious righteousness but this was how they felt.
When they encountered rape and such things, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue were always unwilling to look the other way.
"Since we can’t leave, we can only wait. Maybe there will be a way later." Yu Nianzhen said and led Jiang Yue to sit down.
"Mmmm." Jiang Yue agreed and leaned on his lover’s shoulder.
Seeing this, the people dispersed, and some also sat down to wait for an exit to appear.
[Azhen, what do you think is going on?] Jiang Yue asked.
[I have two theories.]
[Tell me...]
[One, the time is not right. Maybe this room only opens at certain times of the year or something like that.]
[Makes sense.] Jiang Yue nodded and looked at his lover, waiting for the swordsman to present the second theory.
[Two, the number of people.]
[Number of people?]
[An exit may only appear after this room has a specific number of people.]
[I hope it’s the first theory.] Jiang Yue said with a solemn look on his face.
If it was the first option, they only needed to wait for the right time to come.
However, if it was the second theory, everything would become complicated.
After all, they didn’t know the specific number of people needed for the room to open.
If their current number was more than needed, some people would have to die.
However, the specific number of people who needed to die created a new problem
On the other hand, if their current number was less than necessary, they would have to wait for more people to arrive from outside.
Unfortunately, they were ignorant about everything outside the room and didn’t know if more people could or would enter.
[The solution could also be a combination of both theories.] Yu Nianzhen inadvertently stumbled on the right answer.
