Chapter 1681 - 996: Treasure Seizure!

The location of Thousand Buddha’s lair had always been a mystery. Otherwise, as a typical "assassin organization" that would dare assassinate anyone as long as you paid, how could that kind of operation not earn hatred? Even within Ice Gleam District there was a huge pile of people wanting to wipe out this organization—but that was only wishful thinking. For now, no one had managed it, because they simply couldn’t find the lair. The members inside the organization were all experts at assassination and hiding, making it even harder to catch them all in one net. Thus, Thousand Buddha had always been a fishbone stuck in Ice Gleam Academy’s throat.

—After all, not everyone was like Sui Yi, holding Ye Zixu, this internal BUG, in her hand, and on top of that getting a Teleportation Array that was already built...

Buzz...

Teleportation Array destination....

Sui Yi’s eyes snapped open; first thing, she confirmed this place was sealed off.

Because there was no ventilation, and it was a vacuum zone.

A secret chamber?

Sui Yi flicked her fingertips, and several beams of light-flame shot out, igniting the wall lamps on the walls.

Light appeared, and Sui Yi saw an empty secret-chamber hall, with nine tunnels. Secret Script Mechanisms were carved into the patterns at every tunnel entrance. Step out and trigger the mechanism, and it would be nine deaths to one life.

Sui Yi tried to extend Magnetic Sensation, only to discover it was being blocked.

Blocked?

Sui Yi’s heart gave a jolt. Was this good or bad?

At the very least it proved there was something in this Thousand Buddha Forbidden Land that she needed.

But it also meant that thing wasn’t easy to take.

"This is probably the Forbidden Land’s treasure vault."

Sui Yi pushed her Magnetic Sensation outward and found that outside was actually an empty, desolate area, but a bit farther out there were hidden guards, each one around Cloud Ascendant Level Third Level.

A full ten of them.

Tight security, plus Nine Palaces Mechanisms laid down.

There was no way this wasn’t the vault.

Since Magnetic Sensation couldn’t be used, then....

Sui Yi traced her fingertips through the air, rapidly simulating the Secret Script on the nine tunnel mouths. Moments later, those Secret Script characters were like an unlocked password lock, transforming into an arrow pointing straight at the third tunnel.

Pressing her fingertips together, Sui Yi stowed away the characters, but she didn’t rush in. Instead, she inscribed a mid-link Teleportation Array in this hall, then layered three levels of concealing minor Formations on top, embedded a drop of her own Essence Blood, and set it to hidden-trigger state—she did this because the enemy was too strong. If their attack speed was too fast, they might interrupt her teleportation from the Flame Eagle’s side.

Setting up a small intermediate Teleportation Array was the more reliable method and could effectively shorten teleport time.

Once everything was in place, Sui Yi finally entered the tunnel. The instant she passed through The Gate, she sensed a series of Mechanism checkpoints.

Huh?

Already walked the correct path and they still set up this many mechanisms?

Fortunately, these were Elder Gu-era Secret Script Mechanisms, powered by Secret Script energy; once activated their lethality was terrifying. But it just so happened that what Sui Yi was best at was precisely this kind of "technical Formation."

She wasn’t in a hurry, slowly and steadily breaking each Mechanism one by one.

Of course, she avoided triggering any alarm mechanisms as much as possible.

Moreover, each time she broke a Mechanism, she would set up a two-way trap Formation in its place.

She cross-used Ice Snow Technique and witchcraft, making it hard for the enemy to break them technically; they could only smash through by brute force.

Even though she was continuously breaking Mechanisms and setting nine two-way trap Formations, Sui Yi’s true body consumption wasn’t large, because her consumption and recovery were stable.

Even so, her speed was quite fast. Before long she arrived

Arrived in front of a great gate.

"Hmm... Eighteen Purgatory Secret Script?"

When Sui Yi saw the Secret Script on The Gate, she froze for a second. This was...

Asura Script, right.

She paused for a brief moment, then deduced and unraveled the Secret Script. The great gate swung open, and inside was a massive Chi Zi—but what filled the Chi Zi wasn’t water, it was a huge quantity of Energy Bodies, so many they were almost viscous, solidifying. Such an enormous volume of Energy Bodies left Sui Yi momentarily stunned.

No wonder Thousand Buddha had made this vault so secret.

But above the energy Chi Zi, there was still a box floating.

"Is that a Qianyuan Treasure Box?"

Qianyuan Treasure Box was a type of Space Treasure Box. Inside, it could hold many secret treasures without being limited by space. Put in game terms, it was basically a piece of space storage equipment—extremely rare, not often seen anywhere in the whole universe.

She hadn’t expected to see one here.

Sui Yi closed The Gate, then inscribed a sealing Secret Script on it.

She walked up to the Chi Zi and carefully examined the box. Soon she discovered there was a layer of hidden contact Secret Script on the Qianyuan Treasure Box. Touch it, and you would trigger the sensor.

In other words, the moment it so much as moved a bit, it would draw in Thousand Buddha Masters.

She couldn’t move it yet!

But this energy, on the other hand...

This really was a pillow delivered right when she was sleepy. Sui Yi had been worrying that she wouldn’t be able to get energy ore from the resource-monopolizing top three tiers, which would make her energy level fall below that of many Cloud Ascendant Masters in this world....

Yi and Ye Zixu were almost the same situation. When Li Luo and the others came over later it would be the same story.

So.....

Sui Yi stepped into the energy Chi Zi.

Energy surged madly into her body.

She had just broken through to Cloud Ascendant Level not long ago. During this period she’d used the ten million Spirit Currency she had on hand to purchase a huge amount of energy ore to absorb. Her absorption efficiency was extremely high—basically, the moment she swallowed it, it would turn into energy, far higher than that of ordinary people—but even so, she’d still been stuck dead at the peak of Cloud Ascendant Level First Level. To break through, ten million Spirit Currency was nowhere near enough to settle it.

That one checkpoint was firmly unmoving.

Until now... the energy in the Chi Zi surged into her body, easily toppling that checkpoint and rapidly filling every meridian in Sui Yi’s dual Physique!

Second Level, terminal point, peak!

Push again!

Third Level!

All the way to the peak of Third Level.

Sui Yi noticed that the energy level of the Chi Zi had fallen a bit—the waterline dropped slightly. It wasn’t very obvious, but it revealed the carved patterns on the Chi Zi wall beneath!

Not good, that’s the warning line!

Sui Yi made a snap decision, mobilized all her will, and swept up a huge handful of energy...

Boom!

Fourth Level! Break!

At the moment her body broke through, Sui Yi suddenly felt that the Mechanisms outside had already been activated!

Break break break!

Smashing through like bamboo!

Sui Yi leaped out of the Chi Zi, her right hand grabbing toward the Qianyuan Treasure Box, her left hand forming Hand seals!

"Witchcraft, condense!"

A huge mass of energy condensed into an energy crystal the size of a watermelon

which was swallowed into her palm, while the Qianyuan Treasure Box was still clutched in her right hand....

Activate teleportation!

Boom!

The Secret Script Lock on The Gate was blasted open, and a vast, absolutely supreme power covered the entire area.

As if with just a single thought he could kill her!

Starfall Thousand Buddha!

When Thousand Buddha blasted open The Gate, the will-attack had already slammed down... at the critical instant, Sui Yi happened to teleport away, leaving only a faint afterimage....

Thousand Buddhas Qi surged like a tidal wave, already locking onto Sui Yi’s aura outside.

Swish!

He charged out along the original path... only to trigger the inner side of the two-way trap...

With a flip of his hand, a beam of annihilating thunderlight bloomed in his palm.....

Buzz....

He swept through and tore apart nine traps...

In the blink of an eye he was right in front of Sui Yi.....

Boom!

The Formation was blasted apart.

Thousand Buddha appeared in the hall, seeing only a few lingering ashes of the Formation.

The person was gone.

Thousand Buddhas Face was expressionless, the aura around his body growing stronger and stronger, until he finally roared in fury.

"Kill!!"

Rumble!

The Thousand Buddha headquarters base was like the Thunder God descending; all the powerful Assassins were anxious and restless.

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Swish!

Sui Yi appeared in the Underground Teleportation Array, her face a bit pale, but her condition still okay. Flame Eagle saw Sui Yi appear and immediately got up from the ground.

"Master, I just sounded it out a bit; Seo Qingfeng and the others are still up there."

Sui Yi glanced at the cages, and said calmly, "The Ice Master will be coming soon. When that happens, that hidden passage won’t escape his notice... but since he’s neither Dawning’s nor Hawk’s man, then he has to be Thousand Buddha’s..."

She’d just messed with the treasure vault on the Ice Master’s side, so he’d definitely be able to sound out a few things from here.... maybe, things can be shifted.....

"Contact your Hawk people, get this Formation transferred in time, but don’t worry about these ordinary folks; just get yourselves out clean... that’ll count as making up for your mistake, and try not to let your side get suspicious."

If there’s not even a tiny mistake, that instead makes the other side suspicious...

...

Yan Zhi understood that as well, and he was crafty to begin with. Even without Sui Yi reminding him, he knew exactly what he should do.

After giving her instructions, Sui Yi activated the substitute she’d set up at home, then left.

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The Ice Spirit Guard no longer had monitoring on Sui Yi these days, probably because they were wary after the Ice Venerable’s "under the covers, purely chatting" incident.

But Sui Yi still cautiously set up a substitute, and once it was activated....

At the campus infirmary, many people had already been sent back to the dorm buildings. With both the Ice Spirit Guard and the enforcement team providing protection, naturally nothing else would happen. The whole Ice Gleam Academy was lit up all night, and the infirmary actually wasn’t that crowded anymore. After all, most people had only been knocked out by the gas; once they drank the antidote they were fine, and hanging around there wasn’t much of a point.

Yi took Green Bean home, since her house was right next to Ice Gleam Academy, by a river. Living on campus or off campus didn’t make much difference, and with the newly-awakened Green Bean insisting, Yi took Green Bean back...

But the two of them couldn’t shake off the people insisting on escorting them...

"We’re here, thanks."

At the door, Yi turned around and thanked Han Feigong and Seo Xinyan.

The subtext being: you can get lost now.

The two didn’t insist, but when their gazes met, suspicion rose in both their hearts—why does it feel like this Yi seems to...

Click, the door opened.

Someone stood in the doorway, gaze soft and languid, wearing a simple, loose pale sleepwear. Her eyes swept over them, calm and unruffled: "Something happened?"

Yi was snickering inside, but she was still a childhood friend, the tacit understanding perfect: "Yeah, we got attacked... it’s dealt with. These two brought us back..."

Sui Yi didn’t ask much more. She looked at the two, smiled slightly, and said politely, "Thank you... would you like to come in and sit for a bit?"

In truth, the two of them were still in a state of shock.

Yi and Green Bean live together with Sui Yi?

Actually, the Ice Spirit Guard could look up that detail, but they wouldn’t tell people like Han Feigong, and Han Feigong and Seo Xinyan had never bothered to pay attention to Sui Yi before; they’d only heard a bit of her reputation. So right now they were stunned.

Unexpectedly, Seo Xinyan had a reaction that no one saw coming: "Sure, then I’ll impose."

Sui Yi: "....."

She’d just been making a casual offer....