Chapter 1068 - 894: Help!

The group of Nanshan people flying swiftly under the vast starlit sky caught up with the other teams tracing the source. Although the latter set off first, their exploratory advance was instead overtaken by the Nanshan group's full-speed pursuit.

After successively overtaking several groups, they immediately split up to pursue at full speed.

A member of the Nanshan team worriedly asked, "What should we do if they keep chasing us?"

Yu Yifu, however, was no longer concerned as before. He glanced back and said, "It doesn't matter anymore. Even if we stop, they'll find the place anyway. At this point, let's take them along and let them try that great array. It might not be a bad thing."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up. Having been trapped for half a year, letting the other teams experience this taste was indeed not a bad thing.

Only Li Hongjiu, who was being dragged back and forth, was preoccupied. The more he thought about how to contact Wu Jinliang under the noses of this group, the more puzzled he became. Previously, he wouldn't rack his brains over such things. Now, he felt as if he was becoming more like Shi Chun's gang, seemingly possessing some innate talent for it.

A phrase suddenly flashed in his mind—birds of a feather flock together!

Then he promptly also cursed himself secretly, realizing he and Shi Chun were not of the same ilk.

While lost in thought, the group suddenly landed. They had arrived, falling right before the Nanshan sentries.

The sentries were quite surprised they returned so quickly. Yu Yifu directly asked, "How is the situation?"

A cloaked figure responded, "The array barrier is still in place. Besides our own signs of entry and exit around the barrier, no other traces of people coming and going have been found."

Others might not understand what these so-called signs meant, but Yu Yifu immediately understood and hence was somewhat puzzled. What does it mean no signs of others coming or going?

Just then, everyone looked up and saw the figures of people successively flying in—it was the four other teams that had been tracking them.

Among the Nanshan sentries, someone asked in surprise, "What's going on?"

Yu Yifu said, "Come, let's go down and have a look."

He intended to lead the four other teams to the underground protective array anyway, feeling that it couldn't be hidden any longer, it would be better to go with the flow.

The group thus followed him down, and Li Hongjiu was contemplating what excuse to use to go down when, unexpectedly, his body swayed, and he was inadvertently taken underground.

The person leading him there had already gotten used to it, knowing the difficulty in losing someone and fearing accountability.

On the surface, the four pursuing teams also landed one after another, hesitating and not daring to go down rashly, fearing a trap awaiting them, and so they deliberated.

In the depths underground, Yu Yifu confirmed with the sentries again and again that no further incidents had occurred with the great array before daringly approaching it to inspect the array barrier.

None of them dared to attack the barrier now, fearing a backlash after being trapped for half a year and having learned a big lesson. They now hoped the four other households could be lured down to attack the barrier.

Li Hongjiu, being dragged around by the group, couldn't help but frown, unable to think of a good way to contact Wu Jinliang.

Fortunately, Wu Jinliang hiding within the barrier had been paying attention to the activities outside, or rather, waiting for news from Li Hongjiu, knowing well that as soon as Li Hongjiu met Shi Chun, Shi Chun would certainly instruct him to convey the subsequent plan.

Therefore, the return of the Nanshan group immediately caught his attention. Quickly approaching, he had San visually verify through the barrier.

Confirming Li Hongjiu had also returned, Wu Jinliang, from within the barrier, immediately began moving with the direction of the Nanshan group, biding his time.

Seeing opportunities elusive, Wu Jinliang realized these people were frightened by the erratic behavior of the great array and judging from past signs, they likely wouldn't stay for long, so he simply transformed into the appearance of Luo Yuanfeng. Luo Yuanfeng, who previously spent too much time studying the barrier, unwittingly became Wu Jinliang's point of reference.

Transformed into 'Luo Yuanfeng,' he boldly exited the barrier alone, forcibly blending into the group midway.

The group didn't notice there were two Luo Yuanfengs between the front and rear of the team.

When close to Li Hongjiu, a Jade Scroll was smoothly slipped into Li Hongjiu's hand.

Li Hongjiu was startled, not understanding the implication, casting a spell to investigate the contents, and saw that inside the Jade Scroll it read: Lord Jiu, it's me. Write down anything and throw it; I'll pick it up.

He was momentarily dazed, and by the time he looked back, the 'Luo Yuanfeng' who had just been beside him had somehow fallen behind and disappeared. This elusive skill truly amazed him; such skills acquired by Giant Wu, were they a blessing or a curse to others?

Having made contact with a communication method in place, things became easier.

Along the way, he removed the cloak he was wearing and inspected it, discovering a fist-sized hole torn in the cloak, which caught the monk restraining him for a few glances.

After flipping and fiddling with the cloak for a while, Li Hongjiu flung it away, and the cloak was immediately swallowed up by the sand layers behind.

Soon, the bundled cloak was taken into the barrier by Wu Jinliang, who reunited with Huang Yingying and San.

Huang Yingying and San were also moving along the barrier.

Upon opening the cloak package, Wu Jinliang was surprised to find a bunch of Qiankun Bags inside. Picking one to inspect, he found it filled with Sandalwood Gold, causing him to stand there in a daze, not knowing what to make of it.

San suddenly spoke up to remind him, "They are leaving, heading upward."

Wu Jinliang glanced in the direction it indicated and, unsurprisingly, found that the Nanshan group indeed dared not stay long. He was fortunate to have acted decisively.

No time to worry about those now, he continued searching and quickly found a Jade Scroll, applying magic to it, and the contents left him stunned.

Seeing no response from him for a long time, Huang Yingying tentatively asked, "Boss Wu, what's wrong?"

Coming to his senses, Wu Jinliang hurriedly counted the number of Qiankun Bags, and after verifying each bag was full to the brim with Sandalwood Gold, he seemed to hold his breath, slowly turning back to look at San with an extremely complex expression.

The conflicted gaze made the proud San feel somewhat uneasy.

Curious, Huang Yingying asked again, "What's wrong?"

Wu Jinliang did not answer, took out the 'Ice Sheep,' and slowly inhaled, his entire being plunged into thought.

Li Hongjiu has done things quite steadily; the information in the Jade Scrolls was very detailed, not only including Shi Chun's entrustment but also the situation at the entry-exit point, and the fact that they were being watched by several groups.

The key lies in Shi Chun's entrustment of these twenty bags of Sandalwood Gold, nearly six trillion, left in his hands. At a glance, he knew what was going on.

This means Chun Tian wants to spend six trillion to secure the position of Southern Commander of the Heavenly Domain. The question is, is that position worth that much money? With so much money, couldn't one do something more rewarding?

That's secondary. Once this money is publicly used to secure that position, it would mean...

He turned back to look at San. Chun Tian actually wants to give up on San!

This was something he hadn't expected.

Such a good San, possessing such Innate Divine Ability, where could one find another like him? He couldn't get it even if he wished for it, yet Chun Tian wants to give him up.

This made him very uncomfortable. On one hand, he was reluctant to part with San, and on the other, he felt it might be due to his greed, feeling regret, even though Chun Tian had clearly instructed him not to be too greedy.

Although uncomfortable, he knew that if Chun Tian made such a decision, he must have his reasons.

In these moments, he didn't have many choices, mostly just resolute execution.

Because he knew, at certain critical moments, Shi Chun was the one capable of making crucial decisions.

"What's wrong?" Huang Yingying asked again.

Taking a breath, and then taking a deep breath while holding 'Ice Sheep', Wu Jinliang let go. While hanging those Qiankun Bags on himself one by one, he sighed and said, "Master has already decided to terminate this exploration and excavation, the crisis will soon be over."

Huang Yingying asked puzzled, "Wasn't digging allowed for three years? It's just been over half a year, stopping now seems a bit wasteful."

Wu Jinliang shook his head, not wanting to say more, not in the mood, "Ask him yourself later."

A couple of hours later, people from the other four families finally came down to investigate, discovered the barrier, and quickly went back to report.

A day later, Murong Wuai, Xie Lingao, You Ben, and Lu Xun each led their troops here, under Yu Yifu's intentional guidance, the leaders no longer guarded Shi Chun at the exit.

Seeing all sides leading their troops underground to explore, Yu Yifu's eyes twitched, hoping these guys would follow in his footsteps.

Seeing the large number of troops, Wu Jinliang hid behind the barrier to spy.

Seeing the West Niu group of demon cultivators attacking the barrier, he didn't care.

Seeing Wei Mo and Bian Weiyin appear in a group of troops, he knew which side they were on, didn't care.

Seeing Situ Zhen appear in a group of troops, he also didn't care.

From this, he confirmed Murong Wuai's group's identity, pinpointing the position, suddenly stormed to the barrier, cleared the sand before the barrier, as if behind a glass window, using magic to shout wildly, "Help!"

The shouting was quite woeful.

This sudden act startled Huang Yingying and San next to him.

Yet Murong Wuai's group inspecting the barrier did not hear.

This was unexpected for Wu Jinliang, as he previously could hear the Southern clan's magic talk, but hadn't thought that shouting magic inside the array couldn't be heard outside.

Fortunately, although they didn't hear, they weren't blind, someone urgently shouted, "It's Wu Jinliang."

He hadn't seen Wu Jinliang either, but had heard about Wu Jinliang's height.

The group swiftly turned to look behind the transparent sand window, first inspecting Wu Jinliang, then focusing on San, who had been their original target.

As for Huang Yingying, they directly ignored him.

The returning Murong Wuai personally approached to confirm, "Are you Wu Jinliang?"

Inside, Wu Jinliang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, it's the younger generation."

Someone quickly reacted from his mouth movements, "He can hear us speak, but outside seems to not hear him."

Wu Jinliang inside was taken aback upon hearing this, it was his first time realizing this situation.

Murong Wuai immediately waved to beckon, "Come out quickly."

Here they seemed more refined with this large formation, didn't attack or test it, after all, such formation was set up by their own faction.

Wu Jinliang promptly gestured for them to wait, turned and disappeared from their sight along with Huang Yingying and San.

Didn't do anything else, returned to the central position of the array, pulled out a golden Command Arrow and cast magic to directly retract the 'Beidou Refusal Array.'

Once the array was retracted, he immediately let San guide the way, leading Huang Yingying to escape upwards, intentionally making a commotion along the way.

Seeing the array gone, the groups inspecting around immediately fell into chaos, rushed in to search, hearing noises of attack, quickly divided people to pursue.

Utilizing San's precision in bursting through the ground, Wu Jinliang and Huang Yingying had already mounted San, directly took to the skies, fled fast, with the ground's Southern clan firstly howling in pursuit, followed by others breaking through ground with bursts in chaos.

Murong Wuai surfaced and angrily shouted seeing this, "Who dares!"

No one paid attention, it was entirely a scenario of first come, first served.

Experts are indeed experts, even with San's current speed, Yu Yifu and others rapidly closed the distance.

At this moment, Wu Jinliang, occasionally looking back, suddenly shouted tearfully using magic, "Senior Murong, save me, my mount can find mineral veins, Senior Murong save me, my mount can find Sandalwood Gold veins, can dig lots and lots of money, Senior Murong, help..."