Who Was the Hunter, After All?
Zhang Yang stared at Ba Qingyan.
Ba Qingyan's answer determined how he would treat Ba Qingyan afterwards.
Ba Qingyan frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "We can only remain neutral... It's not that we're heartless, but if we help you, we probably won't fare any better."
Although you few are strong, there are simply too many of them.
The best way, of course, is to organize them now, otherwise it will be more troublesome later."
Zhang Yang nodded slightly and said to Ba Qingyan, "I understand what you mean. Thank you for the reminder. From now on, we all need to be careful."
Ba Qingyan nodded, gave Zhang Yang a deep look, put on his mask, and entered the Lost-Trace Forest.
"Eldest Senior Brother, we really should be careful," Situ Mingyue said earnestly.
Zhang Yang said with a smile, "Didn't I already remind you to be on guard? From now on, we'll just act as guides and won't steal anything. Our mission is to lead them to other strongholds to show that we've arrived."
"The task of breaching the strongholds of the various major sects is now up to them."
"Then we'll lose all our benefits and end up taking the blame?" Situ Mingyue said with a wry smile.
Zhang Yang shook his head. "The major sects have long wanted to deal with us. Regardless of whether we take the blame or not, they will definitely make a move. Since that's the case, we don't need to worry about anything. Moreover, this time I deliberately sent a signal to those major sects that our Azure Cloud Sect has joined forces with some other sects."
When they want to deal with us, they have to consider this situation. Once they have a clear understanding of the situation, our Azure Cloud Sect will have more time to develop."
He paused, a mysterious smile spreading across his face, and continued, "As for our benefits... if this rabble doesn't covet us, they deserve what they get; but if they do have ulterior motives, then wouldn't we be rich? Someone will collect the loot for us, and then we can wipe them all out in one fell swoop—isn't that great?"
Zi Yan looked at Zhang Yang in surprise and asked, "Are you confident you can handle so many people?"
That's dozens of the Nascent Soul Realm!
Zhang Yang looked at Qingxu, and Qingxu looked back at him. The two smiled at each other.
The Qingxu Pagoda was already capable of unleashing the power of the Primordial Spirit Realm, and after the modification, its power has been further enhanced.
Especially now that Zhang Yang has entered the Nascent Soul Realm, he has even more profound spiritual power to support the Qingxu Pagoda, so they really have nothing to worry about.
Besides, didn't they prepare a whole bunch of Talisman?
These things are all deadly weapons!
At worst, they can just carve more Talisman while others are scrambling for heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Then, the five of them also entered the Lost-Trace Forest.
Under the onslaught of more than seventy Nascent Soul, the illusion array set up around the Myriad Spirits Sect had long been destroyed.
However, at this moment, many Nascent Soul Nascent Soul had already fallen into another formation of the Myriad Spirits Sect.
When Zhang Yang and his group arrived, they saw more than seventy Nascent Soul fighting each other in a chaotic melee, using Law Technique against each other, which looked quite bizarre.
"It's still an illusion array!" Zhang Yang said slowly. "The array that Li Fangzhou set up back then does seem to have some power. Especially the closer you get to the interior of the Myriad Spirits Sect, the stronger the illusion array becomes."
"How did these people from the Myriad Spirits Sect manage to enter Lost-Trace Forest?" Situ Mingyue asked curiously.
Such a powerful illusion array should affect everyone.
Zhang Yang didn't understand this point either.
Such a powerful illusion array permeates the Lost-Trace Forest; are all the disciples of the Myriad Spirits Sect thoroughly familiar with its formations?
He looked at Zi Yan and asked, "You..."
He stopped talking as soon as he opened his mouth.
Because Zi Yan has already forgotten all of these memories.
Zhang Yang was somewhat speechless; there was clearly a guide, yet there wasn't one anymore.
Zhang Yang studied the illusion array for a long time, then took out the Qingxu Pagoda and unleashed several bolts of lightning at a few trees, each as thick as a person's embrace, inside the Lost-Trace Forest.
Under the lightning bolts from the Qingxu Pagoda, the trees were shattered, and the illusion array collapsed. The dozens of the Nascent Soul Realm who were engaged in the chaotic battle instantly regained their senses and realized that they had been attacked by their own people all along.
But even if you discover they're all "one of us," what then?
In that short period of time, there have already been casualties.
Those who suffered losses glared angrily at their opponents.
Zhang Yang hurriedly reminded everyone, "The Myriad Spirits Sect's stronghold hasn't been breached yet, and we haven't obtained the countless rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures inside. Let's not delay any longer and charge in!"
At his prompting, the group, having suffered a loss, suppressed their anger, seized the heavenly materials and earthly treasures from their own dead comrades, and then rushed into the depths of the Lost-Trace Forest.
Zhang Yang looked at the corpses on the ground and counted them. One illusion array had lost eleven Nascent Soul, leaving only sixty-four Nascent Soul.
He retrieved the masks and, like a rear guard, followed behind the group to the very center of the Lost-Trace Forest.
The central area of Lost-Trace Forest has been cleared out by the Myriad Spirits Sect to create a camp.
At this moment, twenty or thirty disciples of the Myriad Spirits Sect were relying on a large formation to resist the attack of the crowd.
The people of the Myriad Spirits Sect were furious. Who were these masked people? How dare they besiege their Myriad Spirits Sect?
Upon seeing Zhang Yang and his group appear, the Myriad Spirits Sect Nascent Soul Realm roared, "Does your Azure Cloud Sect want to die? You should be grateful we didn't cause you any trouble, yet you still came to besiege us! And Zi Yan, you traitor... Your master and the others have all defected to our Myriad Spirits Sect, and you actually mingled with the Azure Cloud Sect! When we get back, wipe out everyone from your Heavenly Profound Sect!"
Zi Yan said coldly, "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Fine! Fine!" The leading Nascent Soul Realm was furious, "After I return to the sect, I'll start by taking care of your master!"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Zi Yan replied coldly.
She had long forgotten all those related memories.
In her heart, only her grandmaster Heavenly Profound Daoist, remained!
Zhang Yang glanced at Zi Yan, somewhat surprised that this woman had forgotten all those memories.
He looked at the Nascent Soul Nascent Soul leading the Myriad Spirits Sect and said with a smile, "Stop talking nonsense. This isn't the first time I've beaten up your Myriad Spirits Sect. Last time, I beat up Zhou Hao, but you still don't remember and still want to scheme against us. Since that's the case, then let's destroy your stronghold too. Also, go back and tell my traitorous senior brother Zheng Qianqiu that I will teach him a lesson one day."
"You think you can deal with Uncle Zheng?" The Nascent Soul cultivator from the Myriad Spirits Sect Nascent Soul Realm sneered. "And you bunch of fools, you think you can take us down by following the Azure Cloud Sect? Our Lost-Trace Forest has the formations set up by Elder Li back then. Over the years, every time we come in, we've followed Elder Li's instructions to strengthen the formations. Now the formations are already indestructible. You think you can break them?"
Many of the Nascent Soul wearing masks turned around to look at Zhang Yang.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang, can this formation be broken?" someone asked.
They can't solve it anyway.
Zhang Yang examined the formation for a while before saying indifferently, "It's just a simple Azure Wood Formation. What's so difficult about it? Although the Azure Wood Formation is more powerful in the Lost-Trace Forest, it's still nothing special."
"Everyone, listen to my command! Ten fellow Daoists, attack the third spirit tree on the left front. After one breath, the other ten fellow Daoists will attack the seventh spirit tree on the right front. After a two-breath pause, everyone will unleash their full power and bombard the ground at the location where this is located."