Chapter 324: Chapter 41 Earth Escape on the Run
Regarding Miss Shi’s judgment, Luo Yan also reluctantly believed it.
Although this young miss was not very reliable on a regular basis, she indeed had an extraordinary destiny and had never failed before.
Of course, while she could persuade Luo Yan, she couldn’t convince Water Lian, the real person leading the team.
Now it seemed the only option was to head to Moon Island first, and then play it by ear and run if things went awry.
When the group reached the vicinity of Moon Island, they saw that the island off in the distance was not very large; its landmass looked like a crescent moon on the water, with sparse trees growing on it.
A few cultivators rose into the air on their Flying Swords from the island, shouting in their direction:
“The territory of Moon Island is ahead; loose cultivators, stop!”
No sooner had the words left their mouth than the cultivators from Yuqing View commanded their magical treasures and Flying Swords to wildly attack those few cultivators.
The opposing cultivators immediately counterattacked using Five Elements Techniques and fought as they retreated, rapidly falling back to the Sect Residence on the island.
Luo Yan and Shi Liuli watched silently from behind, thinking that calling this a fight would be an insult to even the most ineffectual combatants.
Water Lian, the real person, ordered a pursuit, and everyone quickly descended in a flurry of Sword Light, landing on the ground.
Miss Shi was a bit puzzled and quietly asked Luo Yan:
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“Aren’t we capable of Sword Control? Why do we have to land on the ground?”
“In the air, there’s no cover, making it all too easy to be targeted and concentrated fire by cultivators on the ground,” explained Luo Yan.
“But isn’t the view better from the air?” Shi Liuli asked, confused.
Luo Yan didn’t answer, thinking that if they were at Shushan, he would definitely have left some people to guard the skies, to prevent any cultivators from escaping into the air.
However, considering the average level of the cultivators from the East Sea, he couldn’t expect too much.
The group landed on Moon Island and quickly stormed into the residence.
Luo Yan and Shi Liuli, having been ordered by Water Lian, the real person, purposefully lagged behind, staying away from the conflict at the front.
“I have a bad feeling,” Shi Liuli suddenly said.
Luo Yan immediately halted his steps, looking around for a few minutes, when suddenly, a vast expanse of yellow light burst forth in the distance.
The brilliance was so dazzling that Luo Yan couldn’t help but be reminded of his own Five Elements Divine Light… red, green, yellow, white, black, with the yellow belonging to the earth element being of this color. However, judging by the intensity of the light, it seemed that the one in the distance was even superior.
Hmm?
He suddenly jolted with a start.
If there was a hidden Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivator on Moon Island in possession of the Postnatal Five Elements Great Extermination Divine Light, lying in ambush within the Sect Residence and directly sweeping them with the Divine Light, how could Water Lian and the others possibly withstand it?
Even if their numbers were increased tenfold, they wouldn’t be able to hold on!
“Let’s go!” he quickly whispered to Shi Liuli.
“Are we making a run for it?” Shi Liuli almost jumped up in surprise.
In other words, was the situation with Water Lian already leaning towards the worst?
Luo Yan had no time to explain and quickly extended his Divine Sense into the Heavenly Palace Treasure Bag to seek help:
“We’re going to die, urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent!”
The Heavenly Palace Treasure Bag quickly popped out two objects, which Luo Yan and Shi Liuli grabbed respectively.
Shi Liuli found herself holding an object shaped like a shuttle; Luo Yan just gave it one glance and immediately exclaimed happily:
“This is the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle! For using Earth Escape to run away, there’s nothing better!”
“Then what’s in your hand?” Shi Liuli asked with a hint of joy, upon hearing this.
Luo Yan got an Elixir Bottle, and after opening it and taking a whiff for a moment, his face immediately darkened.
Nima, another Meditative Pill…
He didn’t have time to quibble with the Heavenly Work Spirit, urging Miss Shi to activate the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle, swallowing them both before turning around and plunging downward, burrowing into the soil and vanishing in an instant.
After a moment more had passed, a large group of Moon Island cultivators arrived at the site.
“There should have been two people here just now,” a cultivator said. “When the Earth-Collapsing Mountain Formation was activated, we sensed two outsiders here, but by the time those Yuqing View cultivators were killed, those two had disappeared.”
“There are traces of Earth Escape on the ground,” another cultivator inspected the ground briefly and said with a frown, “Only Earth Escape could have gotten them out of the Earth-Collapsing Mountain Formation.”
“Was it a spell?”
“It might have been an Earth Escape magical treasure.”
The surroundings instantly fell quiet for a moment, as if only the sound of the tide churning remained in the world.
“Lianshan Treasure Vault!” Suddenly, someone exclaimed.
This cry woke everyone as if from a dream, almost every Moon Island cultivator’s complexion altered drastically, and they hastily flew at full speed on their swords towards the distance.
Lianshan Treasure Vault, rumored to be the creation of a great figure from ancient times, known as the Central Heavenly Monarch, who resided in Yangzhou’s Mojiao Mountain and later underwent Feather Transformation to ascend to immortality, shattering the void and departing. It was said that he left the world two treasure vaults named “Lianshan” and “Gui Xu.”
What was unknown was that approximately a year ago, the Lianshan Treasure Vault was discovered by Moon Island cultivators beneath the seafloor in the nearby maritime territory.
If Moon Island continued to submit to Penglai and informed them of this intelligence, given the domineering style of Yuqing View cultivators, they would definitely claim the Lianshan Treasure Vault for themselves, not allowing Moon Island cultivators to share in the spoils.
Therefore, on the night the Lianshan Treasure Vault was discovered, an internal struggle erupted within Moon Island, completely sealing the information at the cost of all the high-level doves being killed.
Due to the mechanisms within the Lianshan Treasure Vault, there was no possibility of it being emptied in one fell swoop. Hence, the Moon Island cultivators planned to evacuate to the Southern Sea after rebelling in the East Sea and erase all traces of the Lianshan Treasure Vault, temporarily sealing it off for the future.
But if Yuqing View cultivators discovered it, there would be no future to hope for. From then on, Moon Island could forget about touching the Lianshan Treasure Vault again!
Just as the Moon Island cultivators were rushing on their swords to the entrance of the Lianshan Treasure Vault, Shi Liuli had already piloted the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle with Luo Yan down into the depths of the sea.
“Eh?” Inside the Divine Shuttle, Shi Liuli suddenly said, “Why can’t it drill any further?”
“Drill down a little more, once you’re under the seabed, you can level the direction,” Luo Yan was somewhat puzzled as he directed, “Earth Escape can’t touch water, so you must ensure that the Divine Shuttle is under the seabed, not in the sea.”
“It’s not that,” Shi Liuli replied. “I was just controlling the Divine Shuttle to keep going downwards when it suddenly couldn’t drill any further.”
“Could it be that we hit some ore deposit on the seabed?” Luo Yan was also a bit perplexed. “Earth Escape can’t penetrate metal ore deposits either.”
“Don’t know, I’ll try changing direction,” Shi Liuli said.
“It’s the restrictions, not the ore deposits,” the Kunlun Mirror suddenly spoke up from inside his Sea of Consciousness. “That’s the spatial restriction separating the secret realm from the outside world.”
Luo Yan: !!!
“Could it be the outer layer of restrictions of the secret realm?” He put on an incredulous expression as he exclaimed.
Shi Liuli also paused for a moment, then her face lit up with immense excitement.
“A secret realm, is it? Keep drilling!” She injected all her True Yuan into the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle and urged it forward with all her might.
Naturally, it had no effect.
“Sister, this most likely is a spatial restriction,” Luo Yan reminded her, “relying on Earth Escape, it’s quite unlikely we can break through it.”
“Is that so?” Miss Shi also recalled. The so-called spatial restrictions could only be bypassed by finding the entrance left by the senior who set up the restrictions, or by forcefully breaking through with a similarly space-related magical treasure.
“So, do we need to go and look for the entrance?” She asked eagerly.
“No need,” Luo Yan reached into his Storage Bag and also pulled out a shuttle-shaped magical treasure.
It was the overwhelmingly named Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle that he had obtained from the Gui Xu Pavilion last time, capable of short-range spatial teleportation.
He tossed the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle into the air, and it replaced the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle, enveloping them both inside.
Afterward, the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle trembled slightly and in an instant, disappeared without a trace.