86 Tracking the Eighteen Touches Clue (1/2)
“In short, for various reasons, our wise and great Sister Ling decided to join our team to subjugate the Seven Stars Sect.”
Outside the inn, Wang Lu introduced their new teammate to Wen Bao, who seemed to have expected this to happen.
The illegitimate daughter of the Spirit Sword Sect’s Sect Leader, the Lady Boss of the Ru Family Inn in the Spirit Creek Town, and top martial arts grandmaster, Miss Feng Ling!
With a disinterested face, Lady Boss commented, “Okay, okay, let’s stop playing, quickly finish this up, or I am going back to sleep… Now that I think your team is complete, what are we going to do next, do you have a plan?”
“Of course, our next step is to directly crash the Seven Stars main base, grab their Sect Leader and bring him back to the Wang Family Village to explain everything to the villagers. And then… whatever they want to think after that, that’s not my problem anymore.”
“... Do you know where their main base is?”
“How should I know?”
“Damn! Since you don’t even know that, why are we talking about it then!? I’m going back to sleep!”
“Don’t be anxious. Even if I don’t know, we can always find out.” Wang Lu sneered. “By following the clues, we can easily track their main base.”
“Where’s the clue?”
“Of course, at the previous place, the Wang Family Village.”
The Lady Boss was surprised. “Didn’t you already chase their people out of the village…?”
“Old feelings remain even after a severed relationship [1].”
“Where did the old feelings… forget it. Wang Family Village, right? It’s not far from here, yes? Remember, my ability is only effective in the Blue River Region, so…”
“I know; it’s because of the spiritual energy node in the Blue River Region, right? Rest assured, I’m bringing you with me to add to our attacking power, not to hold us back. The Seven Stars Sect is just a trash level sect, so its main base would not be too far away from the Wang Family Village.”
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Wang Lu’s so-called “old feelings remain” after a severed relationship quickly broadened the Lady Boss’s horizon.
Four days later, the group had rushed to the Wang Family Village. That night, under Wang Lu’s command, the honest business owner, the Lady Boss, has done a despicable business—sneaking into the village to kidnap a villager.
Moreover, in accordance with Wang Lu’s instruction, she even tied the kidnapped villager with the coarse hemp rope, until the person looked like a dumpling. The rope was tied so tight that the person turned purple-red like a roasted lobster.
“... Hey, I think this tying method might kill him.”
She had put the hostage on her shoulder and rushed out of the village towards the summit of the Dog Ear Mountain. The Lady Boss didn’t understand Wang Lu’s intention, so she just made a simple reminder.
Wang Lu didn’t explain. He just walked straight up to the kidnapped person, took the cleaning rag from that person's mouth, and then...
Smack!
A slap directly landed on that person’s cheek, and then, Wang Lu gloomily said, “If you don’t do stupid things, you won’t suffer the consequences. Remembering that we’re fellow villagers, I really don’t want to kill you, Xiaohu.”
Wang Xiaohu, who was being tied so tight that he looked like a roasted lobster, went into a panic. He even needed some time before he could recognize Wang Lu’s voice.
“Brother Wang Lu, don’t kill me.”
His voice trembled and very weak.
Wang Lu humphed. “I want to ask you a few questions, after that, I will send you back.”
“... Okay.”
“Do you know where is the main base of the Seven Stars Sect?”
“I, I don’t know. Only my Master… and other four stars emissary have the qualification to know the location of the main base.”
“Who is your master?”
“It’s He Tan… The cultivator that you killed that day.”
“Apart from you master, do you know anyone else from the Seven Stars Sect?”
“Zhou Mingrui… the Publicity Envoy that you killed.”
“Besides them?”
“I’m still new to the sect, so… I don’t know much.” Speaking to this, Wang Xiaohu began to tremble in fear. He was afraid that since he couldn’t give useful information, Wang Lu would vent his anger by killing him.
However, when he looked up, he found out that Wang Lu’s eyes were as cold as the moon—his emotion didn’t fluctuate in the slightest.
“These few days, are there people from the Seven Stars Sect that came to look for you?”
“Ah, yes!”
“Who?”
“One of them was a two stars disciple. I didn’t recognize the other. He found me on his own initiative and presented me with a letter from the sect.”
“And then?”
“He wants me not to act rashly. The sect doesn’t want to make you an enemy, but rather, they want me to keep an eye on the situation and to inform him once there’s change.”
“Did you report to him yet?”
“I report nothing… I even tried to discourage some of the villagers that proposed to look for trouble on your dad, I…”
“Enough, where’s that contact person?”
“He said these days he would be hiding outside the village practicing. If you want to look for him, you must use a special magical tool… I hid it in my home; only I know where it is.”
With that, Wang Xiaohu looked up at Wang Lu with anticipation; he wanted to use this opportunity so that Wang Lu would let him free.
The Lady Boss asked, “You want me to look?”
Wang Lu shook his head. “No need. Moreover, it would be difficult for you to find him with your intelligence.”
“…”
Then, Wang Lu took a long breath. The two hundred and six sword bones trembled under the shining light of Emperor Bone and burst out an unusually powerful suction force.
His strength on absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy in his current low-level Qi Cultivating Stage was far more powerful than that of a few months ago. The surrounding spiritual energy was pulled by the huge suction force, frantically gathering and forming an invisible storm.
To little Ling’Er, this was nothing—she didn’t even feel it. But the other two cultivators near Wang Lu were horror-stricken.
“Senior Brother Wang Lu, this is…!?”
In cultivating Immortal Cultivation Method, Wen Bao could also be considered as great. However, in breathing the surrounding spiritual energy, the affected spiritual energy was at most ten meters away from him, and in addition, the repelling force from surrounding spiritual energy was also great; in that ten-meter radius, if he could suck ten percent of the spiritual energy, it could already be counted as a good achievement.