bestfiction Chapter 200 The Yan Family: A chill ran down the back of my neck.
Chapter 200 The Yan Family: A chill ran down the back of my neck.
After bidding farewell to his master, Zhong Ming composed himself and returned to the stronghold.
He immediately found Su Longshan and Xueyan, who had just finished talking with the new recruits about their experience and were preparing to leave.
"Instructor Xueyan, Instructor Su, I'm back."
"Okay." Xueyan nodded to him, signaling him to return to the team.
Su Longshan was quite "enthusiastic," teasingly saying, "Oh, isn't this the great hero? You're back?"
"Instructor Su, there are some things I'd like to discuss with you privately."
"What, did your master bring me local specialties too?" Su Longshan had no airs of a drill instructor at all. He put his arm around Zhong Ming's shoulder like a good buddy and swaggered forward with him.
"Perfect timing, I'm bored too. Xueyan, are you a good drinker, new recruit? Can I borrow you for a bit?" She grabbed him and headed towards the tavern.
Zhong Ming's injuries were not serious, but they were mostly superficial. He would feel pain when he exerted himself and was no match for Su Longshan.
He only released the "mummy" after the two turned a corner and were out of Xueyan's sight.
"What do you want?" Su Longshan seemed like a different person, like a veteran who had just returned from the battlefield after killing his enemy. He was imposing without being angry and completely suppressed his smile.
Startled, Zhong Ming realized that his relationship with Su Longshan didn't seem to be that close.
However, he appeared even more mysterious.
"Would you like to have a private talk?"
"Do you have this qualification?"
"No, what I want to say is true."
“Okay,” Su Longshan nodded, adding, “Whether it’s there or not isn’t up to you. If it meets the requirements, I’ll pay for the military merits needed to open the secret room; otherwise, you pay.”
Secret rooms are expensive. The problem with Sky Outpost is that it doesn't have any cheap secret rooms. Each secret room has an extremely high level of security and confidentiality. They are made of anti-divine soul materials and anti-spiritual energy materials, so the possibility of leakage is extremely small.
It was also Zhong Ming's first time to have a conversation in the secret room. Su Longshan led him through a maze of twists and turns into a tunnel. Along the way, he handed over a huge amount of military merit points, the number of which made Zhong Ming's eyelids twitch.
No...no need, right? A thousand military merit points? How many life-threatening missions would I have to complete to earn that?
Doesn't this mean he has to take on ten opponents at once and wipe them all out?
He was like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, looking left and right, and almost got arrested as a spy.
Upon entering the secret chamber, which seemed to be a unified whole, it was a complete Soul-Binding Stone. Somehow, a hole had been constructed inside, allowing entry through a miniature teleportation array.
"Alright, say whatever you want."
Su Longshan sat on the ground, but he did not appear relaxed; he sat upright.
Zhong Ming handed over the storage bag containing the corpse and calmly said, "This is the person, or rather one of the people, who triggered the beast tide during this secret realm trial."
After a moment of silence, Su Longshan took the storage bag, his eyes fixed on Zhong Ming, his gaze conveying all the warnings: 'If you're lying, even a death without a burial place would be good news.'
He took it, glanced at it, and saw it was just a corpse.
Zhong Ming then took out several storage bags and spirit pet bags from the inner shell of the tortoise. There was no way to put the storage bags inside another storage bag.
“I haven’t moved anything. I’ve been using a small amount of spiritual energy to maintain the spiritual patterns on my inner armor. I shouldn’t have been discovered.”
The inner armor is made of tortoise shell, which has strong defensive capabilities, but also contains some incomplete hidden spirit patterns, which is one of the places where the crafting failed.
"Tell me the specifics."
After some explanation, Zhong Ming pointed out the two most crucial points: "They said they were looking for something called the Myriad Souls Blood Jade Flower, and the Yan family is highly suspected."
"Because of your rat?"
"Yes, mole, there's a good chance."
"I understand. You don't need to worry about this. In the coming days, don't go out. Stay inside the stronghold. I'll tell Xueyan that this is a serious matter. I'll go report first. Be careful, someone might summon you."
Su Longshan immediately turned around to activate the formation and leave, but before leaving, he thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry too much. You're lucky. You're just a nobody."
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An hour later, Su Longshan spent a huge sum of money to teleport to another stronghold. Each stronghold has a large teleportation array, but it is very expensive. It is used when other strongholds teleport to support a stronghold that is under attack. Normally, people use flying boats, which is not much slower.
But this time, we can't afford to waste any time.
Half an incense stick later, after exiting the teleportation array at Su Long Mountain, they arrived at Yuan Xuzi's cultivation "cave".
Yuan Xuzi was clearly displeased at being disturbed, and his first words upon meeting me were: "According to the rules, you are not qualified to see me."
"There is information personally entrusted to me, and also some breaking news."
"Let me start with the breaking news."
Yuan Xuzi knew the importance of things; the sudden events were far more important than what he had calmly explained.
After a short while, Yuan Xuzi realized that the matter was... not so serious.
The Yan family? Are they hard to beat? They've managed to get close to a Nascent Soul cultivator. In the military, no family dares to say they've gotten close to a Divine Transformation cultivator; being able to befriend a Nascent Soul cultivator is already a huge achievement.
Could the entire Yan family, young and old, defeat him? And could the person behind the Yan family defeat General Mu?
"I remember most of the Yan family members are still in the military in Yunzhou."
"I haven't had time to investigate yet, but as far as I know, most of them are in the logistics of the Flame Wolf Army."
"Hmph, you're nothing but a chicken and a dog." Yuan Xuzi waved his sleeve lightly and instantly appeared in front of Su Longshan's face. His high nose bridge was like a sharp sword piercing through, stopping just in front of Su Longshan's cheek.
Now it is my face, but when necessary, it can also be my sword.
"Are you sure your subordinates aren't hoarding the Myriad Souls Blood Jade Flower?"
"This is the second thing I want to report." Su Longshan saluted again. "Before seeing me, he first saw his master. That person claimed to be an avatar of Daoist Tianfeng. I judged that he was probably between the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core realms. But for such an important matter, he saw his master first and then came to me. It is very likely that he did not know the importance of the Myriad Souls Blood Jade Flower. After seeing his master, Daoist Tianfeng told him about it, which made him decide to come to me."
Yuan Xuzi twitched the corner of his mouth. The matter of Tianfeng Daoist's realm was meaningless. Su Longshan's realm was too low. The realm he saw was only what others wanted him to see. No one knew the truth.
"It's alright," he said, his words implying that Daoist Tianfeng might have taken the Myriad Souls Blood Jade Flower, and if he had, then they would be safe. "I will contact my superiors, but this evidence is not enough. We must not alert them. If we want to bring down a family, we must plan carefully and not miss a single person."
"Your subordinate, if I may be so bold as to ask, what reward should be given for the information provided by Cuihong?"
"Here's a quota of 10,000 military merit points. Think about it yourself."
"Ten thousand? Isn't that too much?"
"The Yan family has a lot of assets."