Chapter Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight – Cutting One’s Flesh, and Inspiration (1/2)

Chapter Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight – Cutting One’s Flesh, and Inspiration

Zuo Mo carefully inspected the corpses on the ground.

“They aren’t bad.” Wei Sheng’s words rang an alarm for Zuo Mo. Those that could be called not bad by Wei Sheng Shixiong were definitely not weak.

“It is Heart Leaf Dhyana Sect,” a guard carefully reported. Daren rarely had a dark expression like this.

“Heart Leaf Dhyana Sect?” Zuo Mo’s eyes flashed with a cold light.

“Yes! These people are not wearing shen equipment but they cultivate heart leaf shen power. Daren, take a look.” Finishing, the subordinate forced open the hand of a corpse. There was the mark of a tree branch with a leaf on the palm.

“Daren, this is the mark of heart leaf shen power. They have reached the level of one branch one leaf.”

“One branch one leaf?” Zuo Mo asked.

“When heart leaf shen power reaches a new level, their mark will grow and add another leaf,” the person said respectfully.

“You know a lot.” Zuo Mo asked in surprise, “What’s your name?”

“This subordinate is Jin De Wei,” the guard was slightly embarrassed. “This one’s duty is to inspect the merchant caravans that travel through here, and I have heard some things in the process.”

“Oh, then speak, what other information is there on Heart Leaf Dhyana Sect?” Zuo Mo stood and asked interestedly.

Jin De Wei had a hesitant expression.

Zuo Mo smiled and said, “It’s just chatter, and I’m just listening.”

Jin De Wei finally spoke, “This subordinate coincidentally heard the manager of a merchant caravan mention that Heart Leaf Dhyana Sect secretly consorts with Tian Huan. This subordinate felt they were slightly suspicious and paid attention to them secretly. I heard this from their members.”

“Why did you find them suspicious?” Zuo Mo seemed to be more interested in Jin De Wei.

“This subordinate found that they were going around and asking questions, especially about shen equipment and shen power. They also asked about the general location of Golden Crow Island. The range of items they brought was wide, they bought a few of everything but not many of any particular item, they did not seem like business people,” Jin De Wei explained.

The admiration in Zuo Mo’s eyes grew. This person did not have an attention-catching appearance, but he was perceptive and he was a careful person. This was a talent.

He then asked, “What do you think of this matter?”

Jin De Wei knew that Daren was testing him and immediately focused. After a moment of thought, he said gravely, “They are very familiar with the jinzhi and probably have come before to study them. There were not many people in this attack, just twenty, they did not have any reinforcements. It seems more like a probing mission.”

After he said this, Jin De Wei’s expression turned ashen. He was frightened by his own conclusion.

Zuo Mo’s expression turned dark.

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“There are about ninety eight transportation formations to the outside world, in twenty or so jie, these outer border jie have been labeled.” There was a jie map in front of Gongsun Cha. Almost all of out the outermost jie were labeled in red.

Because Mo Cloud Sea’s connection to the outside was almost completely reliant on the transportation formations. Ninety eight transportation formations, twenty two of the outermost jie, on average, each jie had more than four transportation formations connected to the outside.

“Of these ninety eight transportation formations that go to different jie, forty two of them are to xiuzhe jie that are not connected to Tian Huan and Kun Lun. These forty two jie are mostly from the Nine Great Dhyana Sects and some smaller powers. These factions are easy to infiltrate and the transportation formations have become a fatal weakness for us right now.”

Gongsun Cha raised his head to look around. “The most secure method right now is to relocate the transportation formations. The best option is to gather the transportation formations, and designate specific business jie where we will station troops to guarantee their safety. However, there are also problems with this plan. The expenses in setting up new transportation formations will be huge, and this way, the cost of many of products will increase as well as reduce our offensive abilities.”

Zuo Mo had a grimace. Gongsun Cha’s method was possible, but just as he had said, the investment would be enormous.

Transportation formations that could move large volumes for long distances were expensive. Even with Zuo Mo’s wealth, he had only accumulated these ninety eight transportation formations after seven years of development. If he had to rebuild so many transportation formations, the amount of money he had to spend was a great sum.

This was a relatively safe plan but it was too expensive.

“The price is too great!” Zuo Mo shook his head. “We do not have the capital.”

Everyone nodded. This plan cost too much. In their view, even if they took over all these jie, they didn’t need to spend so many jingshi.

Gongsun Cha also knew that this plan was not realistic and continued, “We do not need to guess what will happen next. Kun Lun and Tian Huan will use our weakness by infiltrating the other powers and harass our transportation formations, even destroying them to destroy our connections to the outside world.”

Inhales sounded in the conference room. Those with the slightest bit of knowledge understood how great a blow it would be to Mo Cloud Sea if the situation came to that step!

“The problem is that even though we know what they will do next, we do not have many solutions.”

Lil’ Miss’ expression was black. He had originally thought that they built Mo Cloud Sea to be impenetrable and hadn’t expected that they had left such a fatal weakness.

At this time, a paper crane suddenly appeared in Zuo Mo’s hand. After Zuo Mo unfolded it and read through, he said coolly, “Three transportation formations were attacked at once, and one was destroyed.”

The conference room was deathly silent. Everyone had black expressions.

Zuo Mo knew that Mo Cloud Sea was in a dangerous situation. At this time, he had to make a decision.