Chapter 769 - 714: Trash Heavenly Interence Sect

Chapter 769: Chapter 714: Trash Heavenly Interence Sect

Outside the Thundercloud Floating Island Group occupied by Jiang Yuebai and the others, two mid-stage Nascent Soul male cultivators, disguising their identities and movements, silently stepped onto a small island on the outskirts of the Floating Island Group, peeping towards the lightning-struck main island.

"The lightning on this island is quite fierce; whoever occupies it must be formidable," said the slightly chubby one in a humming voice.

The shrewd-looking male cultivator beside him surveyed several spots, then took out a palm-sized mirror to check, and several places used for arraying revealed Copper Cauldrons.

"They might not necessarily be formidable. This is the southeastern corner of the Qingyun Realm, a rather remote place. Just by looking at this arraying technique, it’s ordinary."

The shrewd male cultivator pulled up his mask, stealthily creeping to one of the Copper Cauldrons. He took out an artifact used for breaking arrays and dismantled the Copper Cauldron with swift precision and quiet ease.

Crack!

Thunder roared, and silver light pierced his eyes. The shrewd male rubbed his eyes, dispelling the white spots left by the bright light.

"Hurry, let’s sneak in and have a look."

The shrewd male cultivator urged the squinting, lightning-resisting chubby cultivator behind him, and the two squeezed through the small hole they had opened.

Amidst the flashing lightning, everything before them was dark. They cautiously traversed a wasteland of black sand, and not far along, they suddenly saw two heavily injured cultivators, sitting and healing, with only one early-stage Nascent Soul nervously on guard.

No other traces of people were found around.

"Why haven’t they come back yet? If they don’t return soon, I won’t be able to hold on."

The early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator was so nervous he was almost in tears.

The shrewd male cultivator and the chubby one exchanged a glance, not wanting to miss the opportunity, and decisively decided to attack.

Clang clang clang!

After a fierce battle, the chubby cultivator was slightly injured, watching the three gradually disappear, he panted, "Didn’t expect... Didn’t expect that person to be quite strong!"

The shrewd male cultivator also gasped for breath, thoroughly searched around, and picked up a token from the ground, sneering.

"Heavenly Interence Sect? Never heard of them. What a trash sect, let’s go, there’s nothing to fear here!"

The two took out arraying devices, setting traps at several spots in the array, awaiting others to fall into them without bloodshed.

After setting up the traps, the two left cheerfully, marking a half-star on their exploration map, indicating that this place was nothing to worry about.

Little did they know, at the true center of the island, Li Shenzhi was holding down Hongye with all his might, earnestly comforting her.

"Don’t be mad, don’t be mad, there’s nothing worth getting angry about, right? Not only did we protect the island, but we didn’t expend any resources or manpower."

"And besides, they even left us with some things."

Li Shenzhi collected the items left behind by the two who set the traps, placing them in front of the fuming, fiery Hongye.

"No loss, we haven’t lost anything at all. You don’t understand, sometimes people are very petty. The more they can’t win, the more they want to fight. If I didn’t let them break in, they might have just kept on breaking, and I would have had to accompany them. Isn’t that annoying?"

"It’s better to let them think I’m useless, that I’m easy to defeat, so they’ll leave happily and not think about coming back, wouldn’t that be great?"

As Hongye listened, she surprisingly began to find some logic in his words, calming her fiery temper and sitting back down.

Li Shenzhi breathed a sigh of relief. Activating the great array took energy, and solving problems with an illusion array avoided other costs. His resources weren’t just picked up from the wind.

Moreover, that illusion array was one of his most precious treasures, and luckily those two fools left him some things; otherwise, he would have truly found it a loss.

Besides, Jiang Yuebai only tasked him to guard the island, not to kill. He wouldn’t do unnecessary things. Isn’t it better to be leisurely and reliable?

"Oh, this little mechanism is quite exquisite. Profit, profit! A few more fools like them would be nice."

Li Shenzhi continued to guard the island leisurely, humming a little tune.

*

Northwest of the Qingyun Realm.

The trash Heavenly Interence Sect disciple, Jiang Yuebai, marked with a half-star, and her group had been pillaging on their way, exploring a hundred miles around and probing thirty-one inhabited floating islands, killing over a dozen people and seizing three different Jade Tokens.

During a break while waiting for others in a desolate place, Jiang Yuebai toyed with the piece of deer horn given to her by Luling.

"You made it so that I killed joyfully along the way without encountering anyone formidable, just ordinary sects, ordinary families, and ordinary loose cultivators. That’s really nice."

"But why can’t you bring me some more luck, so I can directly snatch the other half of the Tiger Head Token? Then I could head back home and wait for the first round to end."

If the deer horn could speak, it would probably scold Jiang Yuebai for being insatiable, benefitting while feigning dissatisfaction.

Once everyone was ready to set off again, Jiang Yuebai hung the deer horn on a string around her neck and tucked it into her clothes.

Onward they went, having already scouted a huge Floating Island Group ahead, with balanced Five Elements, lush mountains and forests, cascading waterfalls, and splendid scenery.

Jiang Yuebai and Ge Yuchan were entirely invisible, leading at the front, followed by Fang Yuxing and Yuu Qiuqi.

As the two got closer, Ge Yuchan suddenly exclaimed lightly, rubbing her eyes.

"I actually saw nothing! There are no people on the Floating Island? And no trace of arraying, which is impossible."

"Don’t worry, let me take a look."

Jiang Yuebai extended her Divine Sense, simultaneously shedding a few strands of hair, which floated to the edge of the Floating Island, connecting with the island’s trees through the White Vine.

The Divine Sense inspection yielded the same result as Ge Yuchan’s: no Great Array Barrier, and no signs of life.

However, through the plant root system, White Vine detected human presence in the island’s center.

These people had quite the skill in arraying, having secured the ground so well that Jiang Yuebai couldn’t see them clearly, only catching a vague sense of the presence of four people on the island. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"You stay here, I’ll go take a look."

Jiang Yuebai stealthily approached the edge of the Floating Island, clutching the Michen Seal as she calculated the distance to activate it.

With a flicker of her form, she was suddenly blocked by an invisible force, rebounding back.

Jiang Yuebai was stunned, even the Space Power could be blocked. That impressive?

The island’s residents, alerted by the commotion, started approaching, and Jiang Yuebai quickly shifted her position, discreetly releasing Jixiang.

Jixiang raised its nose, carefully sniffing, it searched for the edge of the Great Array Barrier, and bit down on seemingly thin air.

Crack!

A breaking sound echoed, Jiang Yuebai watched as a tortoise-shell pattern flashed under Jixiang’s jaws, its two mouse teeth were caught and broke with a sound.

Looking bewildered, Jixiang turned towards Jiang Yuebai with its teeth missing, blood trickling down both corners of its mouth.

After a moment, it finally realized that its proud teeth were gone!

Squeak!

Jixiang cried out in pain, and with swift reflexes, Jiang Yuebai stuffed Jixiang back into the Golden Cicada Pendant at her waist, hurriedly retreating away.

The people inside were undoubtedly significant; since the Michen Seal and Jixiang were ineffective, she would need to conceive another way to investigate.