Vol 2 Chapter 16 (1/2)
Volume 2, Chapter 16 – The Heaven Sends Great Dangers in the Tower Full of Ma.s.sacres (Part 1)
Ten days later, the diplomatic envoy to the Rainbow Stonefield Water State was ready to depart.
Including Zhang Yan, the envoy had more than 60 people, and was led by a Third Stage Radiant Qi Realm cultivator named Wu Zhen. The envoy would take the Flying Sunlight Tower to the Water State. The tower’s speed far surpa.s.sed ordinary flying s.h.i.+ps, and it would take less than a month to reach their destination.
The Alchemy Pavilion sent a total of 12 Alchemy Masters; including Dou Ming. Previously, he already withdrew from this a.s.signment, but he had never thought that Zhang Yan would pull him back. Moreover, he didn’t have the rights to manage anything and could only see Zhang Yan’s meaningful glance when Zhang Yan managed these duties. He didn’t even speak along the way, and somewhat lost face in front of everyone.
Zhang Yan also ignored him. But before he left, he received a letter with beautiful writings along with a jade pendant. From the characters’ writing style, he could see that it was the same person who had written the invitation letter to the full moon viewing party.
The letter said, “Because this lowly one has implicated Young Master willfully, this lowly one’s heart is very restless and disturbed. This lowly one could only offer this thing along with this letter to express regret and to apologize. Rough roads will be waiting for Young Master ahead, hope that Lord could treasure oneself.”
However, there was no name inscribed on the lower part of the letter.
Zhang Yan looked at the jade, and due to his books’ extensive reading, he immediately recognized the origin of this piece of jade. This jade was called “Self Moonheart Jade”, it was an auxiliary-type magical tool that could support one’s cultivation. It was said that under the moonlight, the person who was wearing this jade pendant would be able to stimulate his qi and make his speed and agility faster for several folds. This tool could also be considered as a treasure.
Zhang Yan then asked the female messenger who wrote the letter and sent him this jade as a gift, and he also asked as for how would he be “implicated” by her.
But the woman messenger seemed to have already been instructed and didn’t answer. Having sent her respectful blessing, she turned away and hurriedly left. Zhang Yan looked at her back and then let out a smile. Since he couldn’t guess this sender’s origin, then he wouldn’t give a care about it. On the cultivation path, to become immortal, one must follow his own resolution, so why would small matters have to make him anxious? If the heavens sent the opportunity to meet, everything would be revealed naturally.
He turned around, lifted his robe, and slowly strode into the tower.
When he entered the building, he was led by a warrior and headed straight to the arranged place for him beforehand. After going upstairs, he glanced around and he saw some familiar faces from the corner. His brows wrinkled as he couldn’t help but frown. That person was unmistakably Feng Ji!
How could this youth be here?
Zhang Yan immediately thought that this matter was a bit unusual.
He then looked around at the arrangement’s layout and found that his dwelling place was arranged on the fourth floor. This arrangement was very subtle, and when he glanced agai
n, there were two warriors guarding the entrances and exits to the floor, as their vision swept at him from time to time.
After everyone had entered the tower, Wu Zhen, from the uppermost floor, pinched the tower’s Token Seal. The Tower slightly shook and then flew in a straight line toward the eastern direction of the Water State.
Zhang Yan moved around the floor and looked around as if he was strolling. He found that the Tower was divided into 7 floors which could hold 100 people with hexagonal corners, red lacquered pillars, rounded doors and windows, hanged golden bell, and mythological beasts’ carvings. Hanging on top of a square spire was a copper gourd to gather qi. As the paG.o.da soared to the sky along the red clouds at the base, it gave off a brilliant and auspicious haze, making anyone who gazed at it dazzled and stunned.
But when he came down and strolled around, he sensed that something was not to his likings. He attentively pondered for a while and finally realized where the problem was!
Amongst this group of people, he also saw a lot of ancient families’ disciples. But these disciples were usually visiting women warriors. This time’s journey to the Rainbow Stonefield Water State would at least take more than a year to go to and back. So, having quite a lot of these women warriors was quite reasonable. However, seeing as to how these people took along these women and drowned themselves with them was quite unexpected and was somewhat out of sense.
Unless they simply didn’t think that they would go to a very far place!
Thinking about how Feng Ji was here, he couldn’t help but squint his eyes. As early before the departure, he had realized that someone would strike at him. However, he thought that they would at least endure until they reached the Rainbow Stonefield Water State’s boundary to begin. However, from the present situation, it seemed that some people even planned that he would not live to arrive there.
While carefully recalling the people that had entered the tower, Wu Zhen’s cultivation base, was without a doubt, the most powerful and would be the most difficult person to deal with. However, it didn’t mean that he could cast aside the other cultivators, so he must be fully prepared against them.
Had it been in the Sect, everyone would be forced under the Sect’s rules and regulations and could only scheme secretly. But now they were outside, everything was relying on one’s strength. The strong is strong and the weak is weak. Any machinations and conspiracies were not applicable here.
Zhang Yan’s eyes flashed. He returned back to his tower’s room and began to summon Luo Xiao.
With the Soulblood Contract in their body, even if they were separated by thousands of miles, they could feel each other’s position as well as able to sense each other’s situation and safety. As early as 10 days ago, he had also done this, but there was no response. And this time, shortly after he felt the throbbing in his heart, he couldn’t help but feel happy, since he knew that Luo Xiao at the moment was rapidly catching up with him.
He eased his mind and decided to seize the time to meditate and practice the breathing method, taking this period of time to refine a few Impure Yin spiritual qis again, which could also add more force to protect himself.
Having spent more than 10 days, he smoothly refined a strand of Impure Yin spiritual qi, and at the same time, he also sensed that Luo Xiao was getting closer.