Chapter 3844 — Winning Him Over and Making a Move
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
The reason the five Heavenly Rank islands had remained standing all this time was that the various sects had rendered an immeasurable service. They had established layers upon layers of protective formations throughout Cloud Stair Island, offsetting the shock waves produced whenever cultivators fought. Only then had Cloud Stair Island been able to endure and continue to exist to this day.
Take the protective formations established around the market district by the Threefold Pavilion. Because the market district drew crowds from every direction, was a place where dragons and snakes mingled, and gathered nearly every cultivator on the Northern Island rather than merely disciples of the Threefold Pavilion, all manner of conflicts were unavoidable each day. Without special precautions, the place would have been reduced to dust long ago.
The protective formations around the market district had always been the most tightly constructed, and their defensive power had always been the strongest. Even the full-force strike of an early Foundation Establishment expert could scarcely leave so much as a trace in the surrounding area.
To bring down several mountains around the market district with a single move, what kind of terrifying power would that require? Even an expert at the peak of late Foundation Establishment might not have been capable of such a feat.
"That is indeed the case. And from what this disciple observed, Lin Er himself did not seem capable of controlling such a powerful killing move. He could only hurl it out and be done with it, without any way to concentrate its destructive force and bring it to its maximum potential." Yu Jiang pondered for a moment before continuing.
By all rights, if Wei Zhao's killing move had been powerful enough to overwhelm the protective formations and bring down several mountains outright, then with even a little control and restraint, such immense force should have made killing Nan Tianyong, an expert at the peak of late Foundation Establishment, effortless.
Yet although Nan Tianyong had been caught off guard and grievously wounded, he had not died on the spot. Had Yu Jiang not succumbed to greed and killed him afterward, Nan Tianyong might well have recovered by now and be alive and vigorous.
Yu Jiang's deduction was entirely reasonable, and it was indeed just as he had surmised. Wei Zhao could not fully control the technique known as the true-qi bomb, especially not the supreme true-qi bomb he had spent an entire hour accumulating.
Nan Tianguan's smile deepened as he listened to Yu Jiang. "Interesting. Very interesting. To kill the Third Brother despite being unable to fully control a single killing move, this Lin Er you speak of has made me more and more curious."
Yu Jiang smiled inwardly. Curious was exactly what he wanted. Otherwise, if Nan Tianguan had not been interested in the slightest, how could he be expected to dig Lin Er out for him?
Sure enough, Nan Tianguan immediately took the initiative and asked, "Since this Lin Er is an unaffiliated cultivator, do you, Martial Nephew, know how we might track him down?"
A rootless unaffiliated cultivator was nothing like a disciple of a sect such as the Threefold Pavilion. Such people rarely possessed blessed cultivation abodes and were often without a fixed residence. Unless one knew them particularly well, finding them was harder than ascending to heaven.
"Reporting to Eldest Martial Uncle, this disciple has been searching for him all these days and has tried every method that came to mind, but I have never managed to dig him out. The only reason I encountered him in the market district this time was pure coincidence." Yu Jiang answered with utmost respect.
"This..." Nan Tianguan could not help frowning. "That does complicate matters." Even if the other party possessed a killing move capable of slaying Nan Tianyong in an instant, he would pose no threat at all if Nan Tianguan himself took action.