Vol 2 Chapter 19 (1/2)
Volume 2, Chapter 19 – Su Yiang Submitted, He Fang Perished
Zhang Yan went out to the railing and saw that a scarlet light was trailing behind the tower. It was clearly a Profound Light Realm cultivator. Moreover, judging from the golden light that was emitted once in awhile from the red light that was repeatedly slamming against the tower’s restrictive seal, he could see that it was a superior-grade magical weapon. In a few hits, the extraordinary l.u.s.ter the tower previously had was slightly dimmed by several points. It was obvious that if it were to continue, it wouldn’t even take 2 hours for the restrictive seal to thoroughly collapse.
Zhang Yan let out a sneer and spoke, “I originally wanted to let Luo Xiao handle this, but it seems you are the one who came knocking to do the duty instead, but nevertheless, it doesn’t bug me though!” He took the tower’s Token Seal and controlled the tower to fly toward a direction with his will and didn’t pay any attention to this person’s action.
If some people were maintaining this tower’s restriction seal, even if that man had magical weapons, it wasn’t necessarily true that he would be able to break the seal. However, Zhang Yan was afraid that if this man realized that he couldn’t break the seal, he would go back and call for reinforcement. If that happened, he might not be able to resist them and survive.
Dealing with one man was better than dealing with a group of people. So he only needed to entice this person and allow him to break layer upon layer of restrictive seal divine lights without even taking any action.
The cultivator’s eyes could clearly see this tower’s interiors from dozens of miles away. Upon seeing that the tower’s direction suddenly changed, He Fang, who was gradually approaching it, suspected that there should be some problems in the tower as he then flew forward to catch up.
However, since he was in the middle of flying, it was inconvenient for him to speak and could only repeatedly use his hammer to probe. When he saw that the tower not only not stopped but instead changed direction and continued to fly elsewhere, he became more certain of his own judgments before.
It was because there was Su Yihong’s younger brother in the tower, and this task from Su Yihong could be regarded as his first “heavy responsibility”, causing him to be unwilling to mess this up. He became impatient and was unable not restrain himself again as he then used the hammer to ram the qi gathering bottle gourd on the peak of the tower with all of his might. If this bottle gourd was damaged, then half of the tower’s restrictive seal would also vanish.
Zhang Yan calmly returned back to the tower with a composed expression. He searched the Universe Pouch again and again and took out a lot of things conveniently. He also tried to search Su Yiang’s headless corpse. In a short while, he found a piece of rounded jade.
He secretly mused, “Could it be that this is the thing that consecutively blocked the Divine Shuttle and the Fate Decree Pen?”
He looked at it several times and found that its l.u.s.ter was quite dim and similar to a layer of fog. It could be seen that this magical tool was not damaged from the fight before, and became like this because the master of this treasure had died, so the original blood’s essence had vanished. When he was still looking at it, he suddenly thought of something and quickly reached his sleeve, taking the bronze mirror and started examined it. He couldn’t help but nod afterward.
Every magical tool and weapon had its own spiritual imprint after it was refined by its master’s blood essence. It also must be enclosed with his spiritual qi in or
der to be able to be controlled freely. Su Yiang seemed to have obtained this treasure recently and had yet to refine it. Otherwise, the fight before couldn’t have been ended easily.
At this time, Zhang Yan unintentionally glanced toward a spot. He showed a faint smile. Taking out a fine jade from his Universe Pouch, he threw it to the ground and spoke, “Junior Brother Su, don’t hide. If you don’t want your soul to scatter, your Primordial Soul can enter this fine jade.”
It didn’t take long after he finished speaking, as a transparent and sparkling Primordial Soul fluttered from the corner and flew toward the fine jade and drilled into it.This was Su Yiang’s Primordial Soul. Zhang Yan only chased down and killed Wu Zhen and was unable to thoroughly extinguish Su Yiang. However, at present, this person actually still had some uses. He took the fine jade in his hand and he could see that this man was unlikely to be a nasty and vile character. But Su Yiang’s appearance was actually without any change. The only thing was that at the moment, he looked at him with an incomparably apprehensive expression. Zhang Yan smiled and took this piece of jade and walked toward the tower’s railing. He pointed upwards and spoke, “I want to ask you, do you know who this person is? If you lie even half a word, I will directly erase your soul.”
Su Yiang had lost his mortal body, and if there was no sustenance of energy to his Primordial Soul, even if he was a cultivator, he could only last for 7 or 8 days. Much less that the person in front of him could erase his presence in this world at any time. Therefore, he glanced over and then honestly replied, “I don’t know well about that man. But looking at his facial features, he has a splitting resemblance to my eldest brother’s subordinate—He Guo. Then he should be his younger brother—He Fang. I heard that this man is at the First Stage of Profound Light Realm. But I don’t know about his actual cultivation base right now.”
Zhang Yan pointed at the line of golden light that unceasingly bombarded the tower and asked, “What is that magical weapon?”
Su Yiang replied, “It should the Purple Heart Core Hammer. This treasure belongs to He Fang’s eldest brother. It’s specifically used to destroy flying swords.”
Zhang Yan glanced at him and suddenly said, “Suppose that I use your soul for hostage and ask this person to retreat, do you think he would agree?”
Su Yiang was suddenly panicked and frightened, “You must not! You must absolutely not do it!”
It’s just like in his earlier expectation… Zhang Yan faintly smiled, “Oh? Why?”
“It’s because of me. He Fang is someone who’s unable to make good decisions. He will return back to tell my eldest brother. But once my eldest brother finds out that only my Primordial Soul survived, not only will he have compa.s.sion for my demise, but he will surely have the idea to throw me into a death trap. One thing in his mind is that my Su Family’s secrets must not be leaked. And since I have failed the a.s.signment for this major plan, according to the clan’s custom, I must be exterminated.”
Su Yiang kowtowed again and again in the jade as he begged, “Now, I’m already in the Primordial Soul state, a remnant soul. I hope that Senior Brother gives me leeway. If Senior Brother has any questions, I will honestly tell you the truth.”
Although his cultivation base was higher than Zhang Yan’s, but he was sober and clear-headed, and clearly understood what situation he was in. Had it been for others, they could have impatiently declared their useful values. Moreover, he also didn’t think that Zhang Yan would put him back since it was without a doubt only a fool’s dream.
Zhang Yan laughed heartily and said, “So to say, should I die now, then you couldn’t live also?”
Su Yiang thought a second and replied in dejected expression, “Exactly.”
Zhang Yan nodded and s.h.i.+fted the subject, “What kind of jade pendant was attached to your body?”
Su Yiang quickly replied, “That is the ‘Fate Guardian Jade Tablet’. It’s a gift from my eldest brother, it can resist any magical treasures for three times. After being used for three times, it needs to be painstakingly refined again using one’s soul and blood essence into jade essence liquid for 81 days before it can be used again.”
Zhang Yan only let out an “Oh!” and didn’t say anything afterward.
A while after, Su Yiang secretly glanced at Zhang Yan and carefully spoke, “There is something that I think would need Senior Brother’s insight.”
Zhang Yan looked at him and said, “Tell me.”
Su Yiang carefully picked his words and put on a very humble att.i.tude, “Although He Fang is still following me this time, but if he suddenly turns around and returns back to report to my eldest brother impulsively, it would be a perilous situation for you, Senior Brother.”
Feeling that he must be useful to Zhang Yan, he might as well better show his value right now and not after being used to then to be removed later.