Chapter 675: Eighty Years Later
Eighty years passed in the blink of an eye.
During that time, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue travelled all over the Cangxing world, searching for foreign devils and the hidden formations.
As a result, they found fifty-seven formations, killed seventy or so devils, but they still couldn’t see the big picture, no matter how much they tried.
On this day, the two were having tea at a popular restaurant when Jiang Yue suddenly sighed.
"The foreign devils haven’t used the teleportation stones." He said with a thoughtful expression.
"Mmh." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Thirty years ago, he and Jiang Yue found an island in the East Sea.
The island was small and remote, but suitable for arranging a killing formation.
After arranging the formation, they left the teleportation stones there, but fifty years had passed, and none of the stones had been activated.
"Maybe it’s not time yet." The swordsman said and quickly continued.
"Xiaoyue, I think we should enter the battlefield." He said, and Jiang Yue raised an eyebrow.
"What are you thinking?" He asked.
"We have tried but still can’t figure out the pattern behind the hidden formations." He started.
"Xiaolan and Ao Tian have inherited memories and may know the pattern."
Hearing this, Jiang Yue nodded with an excited expression.
"You are right. They may know something." He said.
After finishing their tea, the two left the restaurant and used their border guard token to teleport to the Foreign Devils battlefield.
The battlefield wasn’t much different from their last visit.
However, the people were less gloomy, and their eyes had a Tiane of hope hidden within.
"Master, second master." A voice sounded, and the two turned to see Xiaolan behind them.
"Xiaolan, it’s been more than eighty years. How are you doing?" Jiang Yue asked, looking at the little butterfly.
"Ao Tian and I are doing fine." Xiaolan said as she flew towards them.
"How about master? How is he doing?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"Master Yang is also doing well." The butterfly said, and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
After that, the three left the area and went to find Ao Tian and the others.
When they found them, Ao Tian, Yang Xu, Wei Ling, and several others were studying a map in one of the rooms at headquarters.
"Using this route may lead to an ambush here." Yang Xu said and pointed at the map.
"It’s possible to ambush from there, but the risk is not high." Someone argued.
"The terrain is not good, so the devils can’t do much even if they ambush us from there." Another added.
"I..." Yang Xu started but stopped when he saw Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
"Nianzhen, Yue’er, you are back." He said, his lips curled in a happy smile.
"Immortal king Yu, Immortal king Jiang." Wei Ling and the border guard elders greeted.
"You have finally remembered us." Ao Tian said, walking towards Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
"Is everything okay?" Jiang Yue asked, looking at the map.
Seeing the look, Ao Tian nodded and began explaining.
"We are planning to reclaim one of the territories and can’t decide which route to use during the attack." He said, and Jiang Yue nodded.
However, he didn’t offer insights because he and Yu Nianzhen didn’t understand the situation and couldn’t be of much help.
"Is it urgent?" He asked, and Ao Tian narrowed his eyes before shaking his head.
At the same time, Wei Ling looked at the elders and signalled everyone to leave the room.
"We still have some things to do. The immortal seniors can use the room without worry." She said and left with the others.
After Wei Ling and her group left, Yang Xu looked at Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen with a solemn expression.
"Is something wrong?" He asked.
However, neither Jiang Yue nor Yu Nianzhen answered.
Instead, Yu Nianzhen sealed the room and invited the others to sit around a table.
"Azhen and I have been searching for the Foreign Devils for almost one hundred years." Jiang Yue started and quickly continued.
"We mostly couldn’t find them because they keep changing their appearance, but we found some and killed them."
"That’s good news." Yang Xu said, but Jiang Yue sighed.
"The Foreign Devils have been arranging formations in our Cangxing world." He said and removed a batch of jade slips from his storage ring.
"I have copied the array maps, but all the formations are incomplete, and I can’t tell what kind of formation they are arranging."
Hearing this, Yang Xu, Ao Tian, and Xiaolan each reached for a jade slip and began studying the formation maps.
However, even after looking at all the jade slips, not even Xiaolan and Ao Tian could decipher the truth of the incomplete formations.
"I don’t have these formations in my inherited memories." Xiaolan said and turned to Ao Tian.
"I don’t know why but..." Ao Tian started, frowned, and shook his head as if to dispel the fog in his mind.
However, the shake didn’t clear his mind, and he could only frown with a frustrated expression.
"Forget the incomplete formations for the time being." Jiang Yue said and placed a map on the table.
"What’s going on with this map?" Yang Xu asked, looking at the various markings on the Cangxing world map.
"The markings show the location of each incomplete formation that we have uncovered." Jiang Yue said and soon continued.
"The formations are all over the place: in forests, in houses, at the bottom of a lake, at a small clan’s forbidden grounds, ..." He said, and Yang Xu couldn’t help but frown.
"The locations are not random." He said, and Yu Nianzhen nodded before speaking.
"We figured as much, but we can’t decipher the pattern. Otherwise, we would be able to get ahead of the Foreign Devils instead of doing catch-up." He said.
"I feel like I have seen this pattern somewhere." Xiaolan said, but frowned with a confused expression.
"I know what it is." Ao Tian said in a voice that couldn’t completely conceal his fear.
