Chapter 318 - More Than Unlikely (1/2)

Yu Jin, or, well Leng Jin Yu watched Jing Yi stand up and look around. He himself had long since observed their surroundings. This part of the secret realm didn't look much different from outside. There was a meadow surrounded by a forest with mountains towering in the distance. The spiritual energy inside was much purer though. This place was actually very suitable for cultivating.

If Leng Jin Yu didn't do something to impede Jing Yi's progress, then he would probably improve by leaps and bounds while staying here. Then, after his return, there definitely wouldn't be any reason for the Yun Zou Sect to refuse to take him into the inner sect and the wedding with the dragon king was only a question of time. As for his ascension … Well, that would still depend on his aptitude to a large degree.

”Senior Martial Brother Yu, what happened? Where are the others?”

Leng Jin Yu sighed. ”The question should be where we are. You remember the explosion?”

”Explosion?” Jing Yi knitted his eyebrows.

Actually, he couldn't remember anything like that or maybe it was more accurate to say that he had never seen the explosion in the first place. Being thrown to the ground by an ascended deity in a hurried manner while said deity still threw an attack at someone close by had actually knocked him out for good. He hadn't been conscious anymore when the Jade Gathering Beast exploded and the gap to the secret realm opened. The last thing he remembered was Yu Jin slamming into him. After that everything was engulfed by darkness.

Leng Jin Yu nodded. ”I don't know if you noticed but a creature called a Jade Gathering Beast had latched onto you.”

”Jade Gathering Beast?” Jing Yi thought of the stone-like thing Qiguan Cheng Da had given him. It had seemed like it was made out of jade. So that was probably what was called a Jade Gathering Beast? ”Oh, yes. Senior martial brother Qiguan gave it to me.”

Leng Jin Yu paused. Qiguan Cheng Da? How had he gotten his hands on a Jade Gathering Beast? Not to talk about the fact that not even one had been seen for several hundreds of years already, even before that they had been quite rare. And Qiguan Cheng Da hadn't left the Yun Zou Sect often. How should he have found one? It seemed someone had used him to try and hurt the Son of Heaven. This was … dangerous.

”Did he say anything about it?”

”Just that it was something used for cultivation and that his cultivation level was already too high to use it.”

”I see.” Leng Jin Yu didn't say anything else to that.

Jing Yi also kept quiet for a while. He didn't understand though and finally couldn't take the wait any longer. ”Senior Martial Brother, what does this have to do with the others vanishing?”

”A Jade Gathering Beast might be used for cultivation. It can't be used in the vicinity of large quantities of spiritual energy though. Especially a place where a secret realm emerges isn't suitable. It will cause the Jade Gathering Beast to explode and might even harm the owner in the process. In fact, the one that had latched onto you was about to explode. Luckily, I noticed in time and managed to separate it from you and destroy it. Otherwise …”