493 Important Letter From Family (1/2)

On that day, Ouyang Shang received a letter which made him quite curious.

In the Savage Land, correspondences were rarely seen, because the special geographical condition here made it difficult for many communication spells to come into effect. As for letter carried by flying sword, it seemed safe, but it can easily be intercepted by the monsters in the surrounding area. In the past few months, they rarely received letters from their Master and Elders, making this group of management trainees almost isolated from the outside world. Nevertheless, they still had a way of communicating with each other. As long as they could form a link with the feng shui line of spiritual energy of the Savage Land, they could transmit information by drawing support from the earth.

However, if they wanted to draw support from the feng shui line of spiritual energy, they needed to set up the corresponding method altar, which was not just a day's work. The resources needed to be invested were also quite a lot, especially in a place like Savage Land. When they set off from Spirit Sword Mountain, each of them carried their own construction material, but the quantity was not much—the sect's economic situation was, after all, quite difficult. If they didn't find a place with good feng shui, no one would be willing to invest in the construction of the method altar. Ouyang Shang's team, not so long ago, in order to better clear the Blessed Fountain from the flood dragon, had few people gather resources to build a fortification on top of the mountain, including the method altar for communication.

Ouyang Shang thought that the area clearing progress was fast. In the entire eastern part of the Savage Land, the great magnificent mountain could be considered as a place with precious feng shui line, and buried under the Blessed Fountain was a node with pretty good quality, which was suitable for Jindan Stage cultivators to cultivate. Since they could occupy the place completely in four or five months, they invested their resources in the construction. Moreover, their base had also just been built.

The other teams of Junior Brothers and Sisters shouldn't be this fast or did they have difficulties in clearing up their part of the Savage Land and had to build their base in an inappropriate place?

With many doubts in mind, Ouyang Shang opened the letter. He only glanced at it twice and his complexion immediately changed.

This was a 'call for help' letter. The content of the letter was very simple: Junior Brother Liu Sandao lost contact in the desert area, earnestly requesting help from Big Brother.

The letter came from Feng Yin, a Junior Brother who had earned his trust. The qualification of this Feng Yin was excellent. Although for a variety of reason, his strength was not among the top in the golden generation, but he had mature temperament and is able to bear heavy responsibilities. This time the golden generation was divided into several teams, among which, the team leader in the northernmost area was Feng Yin.

Ouyang Shang knew that Feng Yin was a person who strove to excel. Even if he were in trouble, he would try his best to solve it himself and not to bother others. But at this time, he even wrote a letter calling for help for Ouyang Shang, it seemed that the situation was not as simple as losing contact.

As for Junior Brother Liu Sandao, he also knew him very well. He was one of the few outer court disciples within the golden generation.

The title of outer court disciple actually had a story behind it. His Master was one of the Elders of Heavenly Sword Hall who could be regarded as a person with a good family background. However, he himself did not come from good family background. Before he entered the sect, he was a well-known fierce bandit in the mortal world, killing people like scything flax. By chance coincidence, under the guide of a Heavenly Sword Hall Elder, he achieved enlightenment, and set foot on the path of immortality. It was just that, after entering Spirit Sword Sect, Liu Sandao still had the remnant aura of bandit in him, which caused his interaction with his fellow disciples rather bumpy. After that, he became increasingly reclusive, so much so that people started jokingly calling him as external court disciple of Spirit Sword Sect.

The disciple who grew up in this kind of environment had a proud character and tended to be a lone wolf. Long before the management trainee program, he had ventured deep into dangerous situation many times, and everyone had long been accustomed to it. At the beginning, when he was organized into Feng Yin's team, some people worried that Feng Yin would not be able to handle him. Now it seemed that there was indeed a problem!

Lost contact in the desert area... Tsk, it's like the old saying ”good swimmer usually drowned.”

Ouyang Shang folded back the letter into the envelope. In his mind, he already had a general idea.

It must be that Liu Sandao, feeling confident of his earth element Heavenly Spirit Root and the many years of bitter hardship in training earth element spells, believed that he could act freely in the desert area, even more than the native creatures of the area. Then he left behind his team to penetrate deep in that area like a lone army, to establish a base in the desert by himself alone. As a result, he didn't expect that within the desert area hid enormous crisis.

Of course, all the disciples of Spirit Sword Sect were of the same branches. No matter how his relations with other disciples were, they could never stand idly while he was in dangerous situation. But for Feng Yin to write a letter to request for reinforcement...

”This idiot. Even if it's so urgent, at least write down what he wants me to do. But he just vaguely asks for help, who knows what kind of help he wants from me? Does he want my help to burn incense for Liu Sandao?”

From another point of view, even if there would always be oversight in how Feng Yin conduct himself, it would unlikely go so far as to be this rough. The most likely thing to happen was that, when he wrote the letter, the surrounding situation was already very unfavorable, it was too late to write a long letter. The last sentence of earnestly requesting for help might not mean asking for help to search for Liu Sandao, but rather to help them get out of trouble.

As for the location from where the letter was sent, it was not difficult to trace it back along the remaining magical power of the letter. The problem was...

Right now, on his side, he really somewhat couldn't leave his team. In the leveling plan, he was the most important part. While Wang Lu was recuperating, he was the only one that could pin down the flood dragon directly. Once he left the team, no matter how hard the struggle of others in the fight, there was no way for them to make up the huge strength gap with the flood dragon.

As for giving up flood dragon and Blessed Fountain, it wasn't impossible, after all, lives are the most important. However, even giving up Blessed Fountain was not a simple matter. If he walked away just like that, they definitely wouldn't be able to preserve their base—that flood dragon previously had even spat out his dragon ball, meaning that he obviously didn't hesitate to stake it all in the fight against human. He would never cling tenaciously to Blessed Fountain anymore. Once Ouyang Shang left, the flood dragon would immediately rush out of the water and rush here. By then, all his Junior Brothers and Sisters who had yet to mature would absolutely not be able to resist.

If you can't hold on, you can only run. But where would you run? In the Savage Land where there were great dangers every step of the way? You couldn't just run around randomly. Moreover, from the beginning, taking the plunge at Blessed Fountain was already a risky move. The surrounding monster density was generally high. Without his leadership, how could other people withdraw unschated to the safe area?

However, if he waited until he brought back everyone to safety, then Feng Yin would probably have been wiped out by that time.

Alas, multitasking is indeed impossible. However, fortunately, he currently had someone that he could use. No, more accurately, it should be someone that was even more useful than him.

It was just that, he was still unclear about that person's injury situation. Three months ago, that person suffered a direct hit by a dragon ball, which caused him to almost die of serious injury. The problem was whether he could recover in just three months time.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Shang immediately suffered even more headache.