Chapter 286 Induction
The sea view on Lihuo Island is indeed beautiful, but no matter how beautiful a place is, you will get tired of seeing it every day. For some people who don’t gamble, the competition for the Divine Fire Alliance is really boring.
Not to mention Lan Qiaoyan and her daughter, even Gong Shaoci, who issued the invitation, felt bored.
So we made an appointment to come back and watch it after the conference was over.
Upon hearing the news, Master Nan came in person to see him off, and couldn't help mentioning that "Brother Miao" in his words.
After watching the "family of three" fly away, Young Master Nan sighed and shook his head, muttering to himself, "Brother Shichun, I am really sorry for you."
He knew very well that ruining the good fortune of Shi Chun and Miao Yilan would be equivalent to destroying Shi Chun's future. With a father-in-law who was one of the six cardinals of Bowang Tower, his future would certainly be a brighter one.
The reason why he was willing to help Shi Chun was that Shi Chun helped him make a fortune at the Tianyu Meteor Conference, but the more important reason was that after helping him make money, he turned against Shi Chun and ruined his marriage and future, which led to guilt.
In fact, many people left because they felt bored.
There are also many people guarding here, such as Master Nan himself, who wants to keep an eye on it.
Another example is Mulan Qingqing. When she opens the window of her room, she can see the lotus lantern in the sky. She would occasionally open the window to take a look and had no intention of leaving. She booked a long-term stay at the inn, which was very expensive.
There was also Duan Xiangmei, who, apart from resting, would sit under the same tree, and most of the time she would stare at the floating lotus lanterns.
Xiang Lan'er and Feng Chi were naturally still there. They were in the guest room when the door was suddenly pushed open, which scared them.
When they saw that the person who came in was the disguised man in green, the two of them felt relieved.
The man in green walked up to Feng Chi, stared into her eyes and said, "Don't give up the first plan for now, and continue with the second plan, but it will be postponed until the Divine Fire Domain is opened."
Feng Chi heaved a sigh of relief. She had been worried these past two days. She immediately bowed and said, "Thank you, Master Qing, for your help."
The man in green said, "Don't forget your guarantee. The higher-ups can't see the result of your guarantee. You know what the consequences are."
Feng Chi suddenly showed a forced smile, nodded and said: "I know, Master Qing doesn't need to do it when the time comes, I will do it myself."
Xiang Lan'er pursed her lips and said nothing. She clearly remembered what Feng Chi said to her last time: if she didn't see hope, she would not live.
The man in blue said nothing more and turned away...
The vast starry sky is shining.
It was a vast and desolate gravel area. Seen from the air, there were many tall circles on the ground, with a deep pit in the middle of the circles.
In some seemingly flat places, there would occasionally be a bang, and then white whistling gas would rush up into the sky and continue to spray for a while. After the gas stopped, circular pits would be left on the ground.
Walking in this gravel area, you can occasionally hear the sound of gravel clanging or falling into the pit. Some sporadic falling sounds can even create a wonderful sense of music.
The gritty world under the moon is dotted with sporadic sparkling flashes.
Walking on the gravel, there was a rustling sound of footsteps. It was the footsteps of Xu Anchang and his group of four.
Nine out of the twenty people died, leaving two at the exit and five tracking. Now there are only four of them left.
Several people were walking and chatting.
"Brother, do you think there is a divine fire here?"
"Who knows, but night is the best time to find the sacred fire. It's easy to spot the light."
"Brother, there are only a few of us left now. Can we still find the sacred fire?"
"Well, let's do our best. We are lucky to have escaped the pursuit. Those bastards will definitely avenge our master when we leave the Divine Fire Region in the future."
"According to the ten elders guarding the exit, those bastards seem to have found seven or eight sacred flames."
"Combining what the elders said at the exit with what we experienced, it's not hard to guess the methods of those thieves. They don't go looking for the sacred fire themselves, but focus on other sects. Once a sect finds clues about the sacred fire, a traitor will notify them.
They would immediately send one or two people who had absorbed the divine fire to run to other places, drive out the divine fire, and run away with the divine fire, deliberately letting people be discovered, pretending to have found the divine fire in the place where others were searching for it, and then those who were searching for the divine fire would snatch it away and kill them.
They brought the sacred fire to the exit and landed in front of the ten elders. The pursuing sects were helpless when they caught up with them, as they could not snatch it in front of the ten elders.
The pursuers mistakenly believe that the sacred fire in the search area has been found, so they will not return to the original search area. Then the thieves can save time and effort in the place where others have worked hard, and naturally find it easier than others. "
"Brother, we can actually try to imitate other people's methods."
"There are only a few of us left. How can we try? Their method requires spies in other sects."
"Alas, Senior Brother, I never thought that Junior Brother Wang would betray us just to absorb a divine fire."
"Didn't he say before he died that even if we found the divine fire, it wouldn't be his turn to absorb it. Those bastards bribed him with promises of a lot of benefits..."
The group chatted farther and farther away in this desolate place.
In a pit they passed while chatting, a group of women in coarse clothes were hiding, listening attentively to the noise that was gradually fading away.
After the people left, the group of women flew out of the pit and landed on a pile of gravel outside the cave, looking in the direction where the passers-by disappeared.
The leading woman was pretty, but her biggest flaw was that she was missing a pair of ears, so her hair was hanging down on both sides to cover them. Occasionally, when the wind blew her hair away, she could see them. This woman was called Wu Shanshan, and she was the leader of the Forgetful Valley team attending the meeting.
Wangqing Valley, there must be a reason why the weapon-refining sect chose this name.
It is said that there are few women in the weapon refining industry, but Forget Love Valley is a rare anomaly. There is not a single man in the entire sect, only women. No male disciples are accepted, and those who enter this sect are not allowed to have any romantic relationships for the rest of their lives. Violators will be severely punished according to the sect rules.
When one enters the sect, there is a very cruel ritual called "severing emotions", which is performed by the master who accepts the person into the sect, by cutting off some body parts from the person's body and disfiguring the person.
Some had their ears cut off, some were missing fingers, some were missing toes, and the ruthless masters would directly help chop off an arm, and there were even worse cases.
In short, what kind of punishment one receives upon initiation depends entirely on the master's mood at the time.
Therefore, among Wu Shanshan's fellow disciples, many had hideous scars on their faces, but none of them were missing limbs. After all, they were here to do important things, and they couldn't be without flexible hands and feet.
People also emerged from some pits in the distance one after another, and the total number was exactly twenty.
"Senior Sister, did you hear that? We have only been here for two or three days, and someone has found seven or eight sacred fires." said the woman named Jin Hao.
He must have looked pretty good originally, except for the obvious scar on his face and his little finger was missing.
Wu Shanshan's eyes flickered, as if she didn't hear what she said.
A woman with a hole in her nose said, "Sister Wizard, did you hear what those people said about finding the divine fire? We happen to have people in some sects, so we don't need to spend energy to bribe anyone."
Her name is Lin Yuefang.
"Seven or eight sacred fires in such a short time, what does that mean? If we get the clues to the sacred fire, can we find it?" Wu Shanshan muttered to herself, with a thoughtful look on her face, and glanced at the vast world, "We did find the clues to the sacred fire here, why can't we find it?"
Lin Yuefang: "They cast their net over a wide area and have choices. It's definitely better than us focusing on one place."
Wu Shanshan retracted her gaze and fell on her face, "First we have to find a sacred fire!"
Lin Yuefang said: "We can do it simultaneously. Let's prepare our people lurking in various factions first."
Wu Shanshan: "You go and do this."
"Okay." Lin Yuefang took the order and left, and asked a few people to go with him.
Wu Shanshan looked around at the rest of the people and said, "Find it, find that divine fire as soon as possible. I don't believe it can disappear out of thin air!"
In the distance, several figures descended from the sky and stopped Xu Anchang and his three companions. They were Shi Chun and others.
"It's time to move on to another one." Shi Chun said happily.
Xu Anchang: "Is that all?"
Shi Chun nodded. He used his right eye's special ability to personally survey the route and observed the aftereffects from high in the sky, so he could naturally confirm it.
Xu Anchang: "Then let's go."
Shi Chun immediately said to a disciple of the Four Ding Sect, "I'm going to take Fang Zicheng away. I'll leave the matter of following the undercover agent to you alone."
The other party temporarily changed the plan from tracking the sect with an undercover agent to tracking the people in Wangqing Valley, which was also done by Fang Zicheng.
Fang Zicheng had to go back to report the news, and it was unrealistic and impossible for the remaining person to fight two sects at the same time.
So before Fang Zicheng went back to look for Shi Chunqian, he asked the disciples of the Siding Sect who were traveling with him to help him track the people from Wangqing Valley.
It’s okay if you don’t follow the undercover sect for the time being. After all, the undercover will leave signposts, so you can still follow them later.
Hearing this, the disciple from the Four Ding Sect did not answer but looked at Xu Anchang.
Xu Anchang answered for him, "It's all my own business. There's nothing I can ask for help."
The group immediately flew away...
A land full of canyon cracks looks eerie in the night.
There are many cracks in the canyon, some are deep and some are shallow. The deep ones are very deep, like a bottomless abyss. Looking from the sky, those cracks on the ground look like they were cut by swords. Any trace can be dozens of miles long and is still clearly visible after countless years.
At the edge of a crack, stood a row of Qianyan Sect disciples dressed in blue. In the middle stood a thin man with a sinister face. He was the leader of the group, named Gong Shixi.
A group of people were stretching their heads and looking down.
Pah, suddenly a stone flew over and hit me.
This was an alarm. Ling Gong Shixi whistled softly, "Go down."
Then the whole group of people turned over and jumped into the abyss, hanging on the dark cliff wall, concentrating and calming their minds.
Seeing a flash of light in the sky as a reminder, Xu Anchang, You Mu and others who were flying over stopped again. While walking on the cliff, they were sighing with frustration, which was similar to what they said in Wangqing Valley, and they gradually talked away...
(End of this chapter)
