??Chapter 80: Chapter 0080: Can’t Help But to ddle
Chapter 80: Chapter 0080: Can’t Help But to ddle
New Year’s Eve, wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
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Bai YuJie escorted Qi Tian, partly because he was wary of offending him and partly because he feared Qi Tian might cause more trouble. In front of him, Qi Tian killed Wu Jin Xiu with two fists; there seed nothing this young tyrant could not do. The offense was a flagrant violation of Guchuan City’s laws. If Qi Tian hadn’t produced evidences of Wu Jin Xiu’s wrongdoing and offered a wealth of rewards, Bai YuJie would have apprehended him long ago. Now, all he could do was keep an eye on Qi Tian and hope he would restrain himself.
Bai YuJie wanted to use this opportunity to probe Qi Tian, to figure out which notable sect or family he was a disciple of, out for training? Given Qi Tian’s skills, it could be said that he was at the top among his peers in the Lianying Realm, and such a person could not have an ordinary background.
However, Bai YuJie found that Qi Tian was tight-lipped. He was extrely courteous, never showing any inadequacy. But no matter how much Bai YuJie tried to pry, Qi Tian gave away nothing. Just as Bai YuJie was about to interrogate Qi Tian directly about his origin, a cultivator who had just gone into the Mount Store ca rushing out.
“Captain, we found it, we really found it. There really is a secret room in there.”
“Let’s go and have a look,” Bai YuJie hurriedly said.
Qi Tian spoke, “Senior Bai, the Mount Store is now Guchuan City’s property, and since you are about to excavate a secret room, it’s not appropriate for
to go in. Can I leave for now? I have so matters to attend to, and staying here is quite ti-consuming. By the way, this is Wu Jin Xiu’s Storage Bag. As I said earlier, we should split it evenly. If you don’t trust , you can hold onto the bag for now.”
At these words, Bai YuJie chuckled, “Junior brother, there is no need to rush off. There might be so traps in Wu Jin Xiu’s secret room. With your extensive knowledge, you could be of great help. Why not co with us and have a look?”
Qi Tian knew that Bai YuJie would not easily let him go. He smiled, did not refuse and followed Bai YuJie into the Mount Store. They first visited the backyard. In a corner of the yard, the beast cage that was originally placed there had been removed. Qi Tian had a deep mory of this place. The Red-eyed Magic Wolf suspected to have Scarlet Sun Black Star pupils by Wu Jin Xiu used to reside here. This very wolf had aroused Wu Jin Xiu’s greed to capture Qi Tian alive as a slave.
Qi Tian glanced and found that the Red-eyed Magic Wolf had been killed and dumped not far away, lying in a pool of blood. He shook his head, another little life gone.
Qi Tian redirected his attention to the corner of the yard. Several cultivators were plotting on the wall, seed to be confirming the location. Once the location was confird, a cultivator stood before the wall, tapping his hands on it. Suddenly, several golden bright spots appeared on the wall, then fine golden lines connected these spots, soon followed by the appearance of runes. A bright golden Rune Gate erged before everyone’s eyes.
“There really is a secret room,” Bai YuJie expressed his surprise. He asked, “Did you report to the City Lord yet?”
“We have, the City Lord is on his way over.”
Suddenly, a salutation rang from official outside, “Greetings to the City Lord.”
Turning around, they saw a man in his thirties striding over. He was of dium build, slightly overweight, constantly smiling, making him seem approachable to everyone.
Bai YuJie quickly rushed over, lowered his voice, looking at Qi Tian, and began to report to the City Lord quietly.
The City Lord nodded, ca over, glanced at Qi Tian, and asked, “I am Zhuang Yanran, the City Lord of Guchuan City. May I ask your na, young man, and where you co from?”
Zhuang Yanran, a ninth-degree Qi Cultivator, and the City Lord of Guchuan City, was a significant person in the Lianying Realm. There were few people or forces in the entire Lianying Realm that he feared or respected. Bai YuJie felt stressed facing Qi Tian, but Zhuang Yanran was not.
Qi Tian knew that he couldn’t evade this ti. He chuckled, “My na is Qi Tian, I am from Daqi Village. My master is a mysterious hermit with great power. I’m afraid if I ntion his na given my low level of cultivation, it would disgrace him.”
Zhuang Yanran didn’t anticipate Qi Tian would evade in front of him, but given his status, he didn’t feel the need to humiliate a junior like Qi Tian. He laughed, “Since you are reluctant to tell, then I won’t press. We will look at the secret room first and then talk.”
The area around the Rune Gate was now clear, with more than a dozen cultivators guarding it. The cultivator who had activated the Rune Gate looked worried.
“Huang Zhong, how is it?” Zhuang Yanran walked over and asked.
Huang Zhong, the cultivator that activated the Rune Gate, was the best rune master and array master in Guchuan City. He quickly saluted Zhuang Yanran, “City Lord, I’ve studied it. This Rune Gate is very high level. It requires the owner’s Essence Blood and a specific thod to unlock it. The thod is relatively easy to solve. However, the owner’s Essence Blood could be troubleso.”
“What about Wu Jin Xiu? Bring so of his blood here,” instructed the City Lord.
Bai YuJie quickly ordered soone to draw so blood from Wu Jin Xiu’s corpse. Wu Jin Xiu had not been dead long, his blood had not yet had the chance to congeal, it was still pulsing with vitality and essence.
Before long, Wu Jin Xiu’s blood was drawn. Huang Zhong imdiately mixed Wu Jin Xiu’s blood with so special ingredients, creating a small bowl of bloody paste. He took a handful and sprinkled it onto the Rune Gate, yet the Rune Gate remained still without any reaction.
Huang Zhong’s expression changed, he said, “It’s wrong. This Rune Gate wasn’t made through blood sacrifice of Wu Jin Xiu’s blood, his blood is useless.”
Everyone was stunned. If it wasn’t Wu Jin Xiu’s blood, then whose could it be? It couldn’t be the blood of other employees or guards, right? That would greatly widen the scope.
Zhuang Yanran was also a bit silent; He too didn’t have a good solution at the mont.
Qi Tian said, “City Lord, you can order soone to interrogate the employees of the Mount Store. Ask them if any of them ever had blood drawn over ti? Also, find out if Wu Jin Xiu had been regularly drawing blood from a particular beast?”
Zhuang Yanran gestured, and soone imdiately went to take care of this matter.
Soon, a guard brought an employee. The employee, with the typical timid, and fearful deanor of a minor person eting a higher-up, stuttered, “City Lord, I saw the shopkeeper drawing blood from a Red-eyed Demon Wolf more than once.”
“Which Red-Eyed Demon Wolf?” Bai YuJie asked, as Mount Stores had no shortage of the most common mounts like Red-eyed Demon Wolves.
“The Scarlet Sun Black Star Red-Eyed Demon Wolf that was previously kept here.” The worker hurriedly replied.
Everyone sucked in a breath in shock, many people turned towards the Red-eyed Demon Wolf lying in a pool of blood. The cultivator, who had foolishly killed the Red-eyed Demon Wolf earlier, was so frightened that he promptly knelt and repeatedly kowtowed in request for rcy. “City Lord, spare my life, City Lord, spare my life.”
The City Lord did not respond to him but turned to the Array Master Huang Zhong.
Huang Zhong walked over to the now blood-drained Red-eyed Demon Wolf and took so blood that had not completely congealed. The blood had been exposed to the air, and the vitality and essence within it would dissipate rapidly. He was completely unsure whether it could be used to open the Rune Gate.
Huang Zhong soon prepared the blood paste and sprinkled it onto the Rune Gate. Unlike before, the Rune Gate reacted this ti, with multiple runes on the gate beginning to rotate, floating like dandelions in the wind – it was a beautiful sight.
However, before everyone had the chance to rejoice, the previously moving runes stopped again, as though the prior movent had been an illusion.
Huang Zhong sighed, “The blood from the Red-eyed Demon Wolf was exposed to the open air for too long and is basically useless now. It’s impossible to open this Rune Gate by conventional thods. Now, there is only one option – to break it forcefully. This is the only way.”
Zhuang Yanran’s eyes narrowed, he pointed at the cultivator who was still kneeling and begging, and a guard dragged him away. The man’s fate was sealed: even if he wasn’t killed, he was as good as dead.
Then, Zhuang Yanran asked, “How can it be broken?”
Huang Zhong said, “Just like how you can break down a door if you lose the key. The sa can be done for a Rune Gate. However, forcibly breaking open a Rune Gate requires precise power. It can’t be too low, but it can’t be too high either. If it’s too low, it won’t break open, but if its too high, the Rune Gate will explode, potentially causing damage to the items stored inside.”
Zhuang Yanran asked once again, “What if we try to dig a hole from the side instead of breaking open the Rune Gate?”
Huang Zhong shook his head imdiately, responded: “That won’t work with this particular Rune Gate. I’ve observed that it has several space runes. I don’t fully understand these space runes, but I can theorize that the chamber isn’t in our world but in a folded space. Unless soone can decipher the aning of those space runes, no matter how much we dig here, we won’t be able to reach the folded space.”
Zhuang Yanran’s face grew uglier. He resolved to deal with his subordinates appropriately. Things would not be this complicated if that fool hadn’t killed the Red-eyed Demon Wolf. He took a deep breath and asked, “So, how do we break it?”
Huang Zhong said, “From my understanding of Rune Gates, and my observation and speculation of this Rune Gate, I estimate that to force break it requires at least nine thousand pounds of force. This force can’t be gradually built up; it has to be applied all at once.”
Upon hearing this, everyone gasped in surprise.
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