Chapter 1669 - : The bird clan gets involved (1/2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Sima Zhi Yuan looked at the item inside and asked with surprise, “Child, where did you get this? It is the Hundred Changing Door’s lost treasure!”
“Lingyu gave it to me.” Sima You Yue siad, “I already gave a copy to the Hundred Changing Doors.”
“Then, if we use it, will they make trouble for us?”
“Probably not. This item was something that Lingyu originally found and I already gave them a copy so they probably shouldn’t make any trouble for us. We just have to make sure the others don’t spread this information.”
“Alright then. Men, come.” Sima Zhi Yuan shouted outside. A guard entered and he instructed him, “Go and invite Third Elder.”
The guard left after receiving the instruction and Sima You Yue stood up and said, “I’m going to take a look at our Clan’s protection array. I’ll see if I can do anything about it.”
“Wait a moment. Let Third Elder take you there. The protection array is so huge, it would be better if someone could take you there. Third Elder has always been in charge of matters concerning arrays, so he would be clearest on anything involving arrays.” Sima He Shun said.
“Alright then.” Sima You Yue sat back down.
When Third Elder came over and heard about the origins of the tablet rubbing that Sima Zhi Yuan told him about, he was incredibly surprised. He immediately wanted to take it and study it, but Sima Zhi Yuan got him to take Sima You Yue over to the protective array.
Although Sima You Yue was just a junior to him, everybody knew her standing in the clan. That was why, although his heart itched, he had no choice but to control it and take her over to the protective array.
He initially thought that he would just have to go through the motions. Although she was quite accomplished in the area of alchemy, she probably wasn’t as proficient with arrays. However, he didn’t expect that after she had understood the workings of the protective array, she merely made a few small changes to result in a huge boost in the quality of their protective array.
“Third Elder, does the outer clan also use this protective array?” Sima You Yue asked.
“That’s right. It’s just a smaller version.” The Third Elder only took it seriously now as he had a bit more respect for Sima You Yue.
“Then you should have understood what I did just now. Just send them the instructions and get them to strengthen their protective array as well.”
“Alright.”
In order to make sure things went as planned, Third Elder brought the array masters from the clan over to take a look at the protective array. Then, he explained how Sima You Yue had changed it and got them to pass the message down to the outside clans after memorising it so that they could strengthen their protective arrays. It was only after those array masters returned that he gave them the array guide that Sima You Yue had given him and studied it together.
The rest of the days were relatively peaceful. The Sima Clan prepared one Sima Zhi Yuan’s one thousand and two hundredth birthday celebration and also invited a few relatively close people to participate.
However, the peace was broken before the celebration.
On this day, Sima You Yue was currently discussing something with Sima Liu Xuan about seeker spirits when An Lei came in from the outside. With a bow, she said, “Young Miss, something has happened.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I heard word outside and, of those people who have come to participate in the celebrations, quite a few have been attacked by some unknown people.” Fan Lei replied, “I heard that a few people even died.”
“Has the clan sent men to investigate?” Sima Liu Xuan asked.
“They have. However, we received the news pretty late, so the situation is still rather dire now.” An Lei answered.
“I’ll go and take a look.” Sima Liu Xuan nodded at Sima You Yue before getting up to leave.