Master of Strange Dao

Ye Jiuyuan didn't mind, but someone else did.

This news wasn't a secret, especially given the current state of the Shadow Department; it simply couldn't be concealed...

A few days later, a man wearing a metallic mask arrived at the dark and damp cave.

He walked to the end of the cave, bypassed the pretending array, and saw that the entrance was still intact, which slightly furrowed his brow.

There were no traces around, nor any signs of damage.

He didn't know how Qing Ziyu had managed to escape.

But what needed to be done now was to ensure that Qing Ziyu wouldn't come out and cause trouble.

Moreover, trapping and potentially killing Qing Ziyu was also a probe against Jinlan Mountain.

For this long, Jinlan Mountain had only Qing Ziyu and two hungry ghosts capable of assuming human forms moving outside.

They wanted to tentatively check whether Jinlan Mountain indeed harbored any experts.

This was crucial for their plans going forward.

Not killing directly but trapping ensured some leeway, just in case Jinlan Mountain really had some Great Divine Power that could provoke big trouble.

He carefully checked for a while and indeed found no problem with the formation.

After thinking it over, having come all this way, it was still better to see for himself.

He stepped through the entrance.

Once inside, he saw a large booth floating in mid-air, complete with tables arrayed with snacks from pastries to peanuts.

Yu Ziqing was lying there playing dead, while Cece was brewing tea beside him.

They didn't seem trapped at all; rather, they looked like they were picnicking.

"Yo, you've come? It hasn't even been a year yet. What's up? Ready to let me out?"

"Hmph." The man in the metallic mask snorted coldly, said nothing, and turned to leave.

However, after taking a step, his figure returned to its original spot, having not exited the array at all.

His expression changed slightly, and he immediately realized he had been trapped.

He didn't know how Yu Ziqing had done it, but now it was certain that the news of Yu Ziqing appearing in Almsgiving Town was true.

Yu Ziqing was still here, that was also true.

This guy had managed to move in and out freely without breaking the trapping array?!

This Eight-direction Sand Sea Array was only despised because it couldn't trap powerful cultivators and was of no use to weaker ones, but it was absolutely effective against any cultivator below the Ninth Tier.

Apart from forcibly breaking it, only the person who set up the array could come and go at will.

He turned around, reached out to grab something, only to see Yu Ziqing waving at him, disappearing into the array with Cece.

The Big Handprint he formed only managed to crush the residue of tables and miscellaneous items left by Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing and Cece appeared in the Abyssal Rift, Yu Ziqing bursting into hearty laughter.

"Quick, let's go, back home."

Flying out from the Abyssal Rift, Yu Ziqing concealed his form and headed straight for Jinlan Mountain.

"How long can he hold him?"

"A few days should be no problem, after all, he's the one who set up the array, and the cliff Abyss hasn't fully integrated the Big Array yet."

"That's good, let's hurry."

Yu Ziqing in the Eight-direction Sand Sea Array, was nearly setting fire from cracking too many seeds, and had drunk a bellyful of water by the time someone came.

And it indeed turned out to be that fellow wearing the metallic mask who came in person.

It seems their concept of confidentiality was very strong; they hadn't dared to send someone to check.

Perfect, the trap was set, and they had finally snagged this big fish.

Yu Ziqing dashed back to Jinlan Mountain, burst out of the locust forest, and after a brief sensing, found the village chief training Er Han, and quickly grabbed him.

"Village Chief, put Er Han aside for now. I've found you an opponent from outside to practice with. His realm is slightly higher than yours, a Qi Refining cultivator, so he shouldn't be your match. Don't beat him to death; I have some questions to ask him."

"What's going on?"

The village chief looked puzzled, and Yang also arrived, riding an auspicious cloud from afar.

"You brought someone back?"

"It's not that I brought him back, remember the Eight-direction Sand Sea Array? I had Cece's Despair Abyss swallow it up, it's now integrating. The one who set up the array, trying to trap me to death, got trapped by his own array, but it won't hold him for long.

He's probably a Seventh or Eighth Tier Cave Void cultivator, definitely not reaching Ninth Tier.

I was thinking it's been so long since the village chief had an outsider as an opponent, and this one seemed appropriate. So, I rushed back first for the village chief to have some practice."

"Trap you to death? What's the situation?" The village chief twisted his eyebrows, catching the key phrase.

"We'll talk about that later. That Eight-direction Sand Sea Array is quite restraining to Body Cultivators; he might still be able to control a bit of the array's power, so be careful when you go in."

"I'll go in and have a look too." Old Yang added.

Yu Ziqing gave Cece a look, and instantly, everyone disappeared from the spot.

They were pulled by Cece into the Despair Abyss, entering the Eight-direction Sand Sea Array.

The moment they entered, sandstorms like dragons rolled in from several directions.

The village chief's form flickered, vanishing from the spot. With one punch, he shattered the sand dragon, turning it back into a sky full of falling sand.

The man in the metallic mask, seeing the newcomers, immediately sunk toward the sand bottom.

The village chief's expression was as calm as water, standing on the sandy ground as if treading on flat land, not sinking at all.

His figure turned into an afterimage, his whole Qi-Blood suddenly ignited, and with a palm strike on the ground, the already burning Qi-Blood in his body surged tenfold.