710 Cooperation (1/2)

Jin Yao was a resourceful man. He had taken a series of measures to conceal the spirit of the Psychic Jade Talisman before he ran away from the Cumulus Star. Just when he thought he was finally off the hook, he bumped into the practitioners who had sold him those celestial devices on this planet. What a small world!

However, though Jin Yao recognized them, they did not recognize him. That was because he had changed his appearance to avoid being tracked down by the Jia Family. But anyway, they probably would not remember what he looked like at all. No one would bother to remember the appearance of a shop owner unless they were going to do business with him on a long-term basis, which those practitioners were certainly not planning to do so.

When he saw those practitioners, Jin Yao's mind started working rapidly. The reason why he fled from the Cumulus Star was that he feared being hunted down by the Jia Family. But if he managed to arrest some of those practitioners and had them hauled before the Jia Family, the whole thing could be explained clearly. Frankly, he was quite unwilling to give up his estates on the Cumulus Star. Thus, to achieve this goal, he secretly followed this bunch of practitioners only to discover an astonishing fact.

It turned out that they had not lied about the origins of those celestial devices they sold to him—the did discover a Hidden Treasure, but they were not the only ones who found it. Jia Qinghua, the unlucky direct descendant of the Jia Family, who had hoped to succeed the post of Family Head, together with his maids and guards, had also found out about this Hidden Treasure.

Sadly, those practitioners killed Jia Qinghua and his subordinates and took away his Psychic Jade Talisman.

Since those practitioners did not have high-level cultivations, they merely accessed the first level of this Hidden Treasure and obtained some inferior celestial devices. They failed to enter the second level and were trying to find a way.

After he obtained the information, he managed to figure out the specific location of the Hidden Treasure. Jin Yao immediately swallowed a Three Body Divine Elixir and came to this Remote Red Star to find an old friend of his.

What was this Three Body Divine Elixir?

It was an antidote for the Soul Searching practice. As the old saying went, everything had its vanquisher. This Three Body Divine Elixir was an elixir specializing in preventing others from doing Soul Searching on the one who had consumed it. When you took this medicine, once someone started searching your soul, the Three Body Divine Elixir would automatically destroy your spirit, leaving nothing to be found by the person doing the Soul Searching.

Of course, ordinary people would not take this rather bizarre medicine. Usually, the effects of this medicine would last for one year. Since it directly affected the spirit, it was harmful to a practitioner's spirit. Accordingly, no practitioner would take it unless out of absolute necessity or in desperate circumstances.

After taking this medicine, Jin Yao went straight to the Remote Red Star and searched for his old friend. Why did he do that? Because this old friend had some connections with the Jia Family.

His plan was quite simple: First, he will take the Three Body Divine Elixir to block out any information the Jia Family might discover through the Soul Searching. Next, he would ask his friend to introduce him to a member of the Jia Family and return the Psychic Jade Talisman, together with the truthful explanation about the whole thing. Then, he would lead the Jia Family to the Hidden Treasure and arrest the murderers who had killed Jia Qinghua. In this way, not only would he account for his innocence, but he might acquire huge benefits from the Hidden Treasure. Although the Jia Family was powerful, if his plan was carried out with care, it was possible for him to have a share of the Hidden Treasure. But in order to achieve that, it was crucial for him to find his old friend first. However, to his dismay, that old friend had already left the Remote Red Star to travel around, rendering his plan inviable.

Of course, he could also go straight to the Jia Family on his own. But without anyone's introduction, the treatment he faced would be totally different. Even his life might be endangered. Thus, faced with this hopeless situation, he had to keep looking for traces of his old friend.

Who could tell where a practitioner would be when he started traveling? How much useful information could one possibly find in his original residence?

Only God would have the answers.

Hence, after several days' of fruitless searching, Jin Yao was quite dejected. He went to this tavern to drown his worries in liquor, and ran into Zhou Bao, who was also drowning his sorrow in drinks. He recognized Zhou Bao at once as the prodigy from a branch of the Jia Family, who had stepped into the limelight over 10 years ago. That was how he came up with a new plan.

Although Jia Qingping was merely from a branch of the Jia Family and had no influence on the direct descendants of the Jia Family, he was a talent that any family would attach great importance to. Anyway, he was not asking much from Zhou Bao, what he needed was just an introduction by this young genius of the Jia Family. This would have the same effect as being introduced by his old friend. However, after talking to Zhou Bao, he changed his mind. He noticed that Jia Qingping was quite a powerful practitioner. Despite that the spirit emitted by this Jia Qingping was merely showing a strength at Level Two of the Individual Immortal, the air of his comportment was telling him this young man was not that weak. Above all, those practitioners who had sold the goods to him were not very powerful, only at Level One or Level Two of the Individual Immortal. Besides, they were now fully focused on tracking the Hidden Treasure and would not be wary of others finding out their secret. At this point, if he could drag Zhou Bao into this team and call in several friends, they could take down those practitioners with their combined strength and take advantage of all the benefits in the Hidden Treasure. All in all, his gains would not be less than that of cooperating with the Jia Family.