Yan Hua delivered his speech with impassioned fervor, setting the Jiangnan Township disciples' hearts ablaze, as though their elder would ascend tomorrow and they too would rise to heaven along with his chickens and dogs.
Yet Jiang Yantai frowned and boldly stepped forward.
"But Uncle, even if High Person Longyan really hid the Dragon Scale here, if he left restrictive wards and traps, I'm afraid you couldn't unravel them with your current Qi Refining cultivation."
Having said that, Jiang Yantai lowered her head and braced herself for a scolding.
Unpleasant as those words were, Jiang Yantai did not want to follow Yan Hua into a pit of fire.
Not even if he was her eldest maternal uncle.
Paying lip service was one thing, but who would gamble their life on following him without any guarantees?
After hearing her words, Yan Hua neither raged nor bristled. He shook his head with a smile. "That is precisely why you will never find the second Dragon Scale if you think along those lines."
"Think carefully. If High Person Longyan really laid down some profound Array Formation and restrictive wards to hide the Dragon Scale, wouldn't someone have detected the spiritual power fluctuations long ago?"
"So the cleverest way to hide it was to leave it completely unprotected, set up no Array Formations, and simply bury the Dragon Scale deep underground. No Array Formation means no spiritual power fluctuations, and no spiritual power fluctuations means no cultivator can determine its approximate location with a cursory sweep of their divine sense. Without a rough location marked out by divine sense, who could turn over every inch of soil in the Secret Realm?"
"The chances of finding the Dragon Scale are actually much lower than if he had set up an Array Formation. This is what