136 Secrecy (1/2)
The journey to the Secluded Mountain Prefecture over the new year ended on a bad note.
Fang Yuan returned to Qinghe County completely unaffected by the sudden rise in tensions in the country.
To Fang Yuan, to be able to enter the dream world to practise martial arts, grow and cultivate his spiritual plants and to impart his teachings to his two disciples on a daily basis was a joyful way to live his life.
Furthermore, he had several precious treasures waiting for him to master and control. He did not have the time to bother about what was going on around him.
...
Within the dream world.
”Bang!”
The corpse of the Sect Head of the Five Ghosts Sect fell to the floor.
Ling Yin chuckled dryly and said, ”Congratulations on defeating such a great enemy senior. You need not live your life in worry in the future anymore!”
”This person is scheming and had inserted for a spy within my county. His objectives and intentions were not to be underestimated...Thankfully we made him expose them during this operation to hide the treasure map...”
Shi Yutong oozed with confidence. This was so unlike the pathetic state of her future self.
This scene was from the war over the treasure map in Lieyang County!
Furthermore, Fang Yuan was watching from a third person's perspective. Even though he was standing next to the two ladies and observing them, they were completely oblivious to his presence.
”I have a stronger control over Ling Yin's dream world now and I can already retrieve her memories...”
Even though this was in an imaginary realm, it was in fact Ling Yin's memories of what happened before.
To a dream master, nothing was a secret!
”The works of a dream master are simply so...”
As Fang Yuan immersed himself in the scene, he was equally awestruck. As long as a dream master was determined, nobody could hide their thoughts or secrets from him.
Even a person's life experiences, memories, wealth could be taken away in the dream world.
”How is this called a dream-building master? It should be called a dream-stealing master...even a pig could become a Wu Zong pig if it trained for many years in a Wu Zong's dream world!”
Fang Yuan guessed that as long as any dream master had the heart, he could become the top martial artist anywhere he went!
”Of course, I also have to consider the issue of natural talent and amount of effort put in...a dream master must focus on his cultivating path and spend less time on other useless aspects. To invest this way over the long term, might also bring about some negative impacts...but it is also too unfathomable!”
Whatever Fang Yuan was doing to Ling Yin was of another kind. He was not extracting her experience in alchemy. Instead, he was looking through her other secrets.
The bright moon illuminated the dark starless sky as a crow flew south.
The violent commotion from afar died down slowly.
It was obvious that those martial artists realised which side had already won and did not dare to take a second look before escaping swiftly.
As long as Shi Yutong and the head of the Five Ghosts Sect were not both seriously injured, there was no way for any of them to take action at all. It was the best time for them to get away while they still could.
Fang Yuan stood aside and watched silently.
”Treasure map?”
A spark flickered in Ling Yin's eyes.
As Fang Yuan was in control of her dream world, he could also sense the curiosity that popped up in Ling Yin.
”Why? Junior Ling Yin, you are from a rich family and have an alchemy master, why would you be interested in my little treasure?”
Shi Yutong forced a closed lip smile.
A spark flickered again in Ling Yin's eyes as she pressed further, ”Senior, you are making fun of me again. Tell me more about it...”
”I only just learnt about this!”
Shi Yutong continued, ”Do you know that the ancestors of the head of the Five Ghosts Sect were not from this country?”
”Hmm?” Ling Yin was taken aback and she continued to ask, ”Could it be they were immigrants? But there is nothing inappropriate about this!”
”It does not just end there!”
Shi Yutong shook her head, ”The ancestors of this person were from the Da Qian Empire!”
”What?”
Ling Yin shuddered.
”Now do you also find that something is wrong? Da Qian is situated so far away from here and the road here is incredibly perilous. His ancestors defied all odds to reach here. They had to be incredibly strong to pass through the many mountains and rivers to reach this place...Furthermore, these people picked a poor rural area like ours to settle down in. It is extremely suspicious!”
Shi Yutong spoke on slowly.
Ling Yin thought about it quickly and then replied, ”But...How do you know all this? Did you also plant spies within their sect?”
”I just returned the favour...”
Shi Yutong waved her hand. It was common for big powers to plant spies in each other's sects.
Even if the head of the Five Ghosts Sect did not plant the Guo family as spies in their county, she would have done the same. This was nothing to do with favours, it was most basic thing to do to a potential rival sect.
”The ancestors of the head of the Five Ghosts Sect were from Da Qian, could it be that the treasure map was his?”
Ling Yin's eyes lit up.
”Indeed!”
Shi Yutong nodded her head in admission and replied, ”It was rumoured that the particular ancestor was incredible power and unpredictable. However, he did not live a long life and died soon after he reached here. Apparently, he sustained a serious injury and before he died, he left a set of treasure maps split into three sets to be looked after by three of his disciples!”
”Three sets?”