What is the real purpose?
Baiyu frowned, as if she had thought of something, but Murong looked puzzled.
She couldn't understand. If Chen Qing's purpose wasn't these terrifying monsters, then what else could he be here for?
Baiyu Yu stared at Ziyue's hand, the pure energy spreading gently, like dye spreading in water, soft and beautiful, like a beautiful starry sky in the darkness.
But she knew that the power of the Ziyue was extremely domineering and uncontrollable; how could it be so gentle within this giant, icy surface?
Could it be...?
" Ziyue, what is that?"
Ziyue didn't look at Baiyu, but stared intently at Chen Qing, clearly very wary of Chen Qing's actions.
He quickly explained the situation, "What's sealing the monsters on both sides isn't glass or ice, it's jade!"
"Jade?"
Neither Murong nor the straw man reacted, but Ziyue didn't expect anything from them either. While keeping an eye on Chen Qing, she subtly gestured to Baiyu!
Among them, Baiyu was the most cunning and the one who could most easily understand his meaning.
Sure enough, upon hearing the word "jade," Baiyu understood the meaning almost immediately. Following Ziyue's gesture, she walked to another corner of Chen Qing, locking down any possible escape route for him!
Murong didn't react immediately, but she had one advantage: in emergencies, she never asked why; she would just go wherever Baiyu told her to.
Almost without hesitation, Murong cooperated with Baiyu to lock down another location.
What exactly is going on?
The one who asked the question was the straw figure in Ziyue's arms. He was genuinely baffled; they had been cooperating just a moment ago, so how could the situation have turned sour so suddenly?
He doesn't mind turning hostile, but is this the right place to do so?
Just thinking about those things it saw when the light came on makes Magic City feel like it's having nightmares.
Surely none of them still have the energy to fight here?
"What exactly is going on?" Murong frowned as he looked at the silent Chen Qing.
She wasn't particularly bright, but she knew that this was clearly not a suitable place to take action.
"Jade!" Baiyu pointed around. " Ziyue means that what's sealing off the monster here is jade!"
"Jadeite?" Murong was stunned upon hearing this, her beautiful face filled with disbelief!
This enormous, transparent wall, like a frozen ice sheet on the seabed, must have been tens of thousands of feet long.
She wouldn't believe it was ice if it was so huge, but then she was told it was jade?
Are you kidding me?
This place is so full that even if you dug up all the jade mines in the world, you still couldn't fill it up.
But in the next instant, she roughly understood what was going on!
In Chen Qing's sphere of influence, the most valuable currency right now is jade.
This thing used to be just an ordinary decorative gemstone, a boring luxury invented by mortals. But in Chen Qing's hands, this originally boring luxury has become a strategic resource.
The runic power circulating within the Jiangnan Academy has given these jade stones the ability to store magical energy. It's almost a given that these items will become a point of contention among various factions in the future.
They were even planning that after swallowing up Chen Qing's forces, they should first occupy the East Sea and the Southern Barbarians, which had the largest reserves of jade, and seize a large amount of resources before other forces realized the importance of jade.
And here, there are such an exaggerated number?
Chen Qing's initial goal wasn't some so-called biological weapon or inheritance; he simply came to devour this massive amount of jade!
"But how come I've never seen this kind of transparent jade before?" Baiyu couldn't help but ask.
"I've never seen anything like it before..." Ziyue's gaze remained fixed on Chen Qing as she coldly stated, "But the quality of these jadeite pieces is extremely high!"
"After the Jiangnan Rune Technique came out, I had Xiaoli find a few pieces of jade for me to test. The results were the same as those from the Jiangnan Academy's research: the better the quality of the jade, the better it was at storing energy. But even the best imperial green jade in Jiangnan would often leak out or even explode when storing my star energy."
"But as you just saw, the effect of my magic on these two jade pieces..."
Murong realized it immediately this time...
The power of the Ziyue is the most domineering and also the most uncontrollable.
After the Rune Stone appeared in Liuzhou, they tried to store Ziyue's energy in jade, but her power was too special and more difficult to control than their own wind energy.
Without the help of the Earth Academy sorcerers, they are currently unable to seal Ziyue's magical abilities.
Just now, this huge jade stone sealed the energy of the Ziyue without any hindrance, without the help of any runic spells!
Although she wasn't a sorcerer from the Earth Academy of the Liuzhou Academy, she understood that the higher the quality of jade, the lower the requirements for rune magic. What kind of quality was this jade that could seal the Ziyue energy without any rune magic?
And this enormous number!
Now she realized that she and her group weren't just standing in the middle of a bunch of terrifying monsters, but were standing in front of a huge treasure trove!
Chen Qing's goal is jade, a resource he can easily monopolize. Why would he be willing to bring them along?
His previous claims were complete lies; he clearly had ulterior motives for bringing them along!
"This is really troublesome..." Chen Qing shook his head helplessly. "With such abilities as Senior Ziyue, it's truly unexpected that she's also so clever and willing to remain behind the scenes as a court sorcerer."
"What's wrong with that?" Ziyue said calmly, "Court sorcerers have good pay and great power, it's stable and there's not much work to do. If it weren't for you bunch of troublemakers, I'd like to continue living a peaceful life for another hundred years."
Chen Qing was taken aback. His thoughts were strikingly similar to those of those pessimistic young people in her past life who wanted to quit and settle down.
" Lord Chen, perhaps you should explain the current situation?" Ziyue said coldly. "Such a vast treasure trove, it's not fair of you, Lord Chen, to keep it from us like this."
"Why should I be kind to you?" Chen Qing said with a laugh. "You killed my men and seized my territory while I was away, and you expect me to be kind? Do I look like an honest person who repays evil with kindness?"
"So Lord Chen came with a heart full of revenge from the very beginning?" Ziyue asked with a smile.
"I suppose so..." Chen Qing replied with a smile.
"Now that Lord Chen's plan has been discovered, what should we do?"
"Let's run..."
Ziyue was stunned. She thought she had misheard, but as soon as the other person finished speaking, it seemed that they really intended to do it.
Suddenly, the figure crackled with lightning, whipping up a massive cloud of water vapor, and charged directly toward Baiyu!
"Really running?"
Murong was taken aback. The surrounding water vapor, which had been stirred up, suddenly swirled into a storm, and it seemed that the other party really intended to use this force to escape.
But... isn't this taking them too lightly?
That's it? You think you can run away?
A sinister smile flashed across Murong's face, and her whole body shone with a blue light. Compressed wind energy swept her body and she almost instantly blocked Baiyu's path!
Chen Qing frowned. The title of Wind King was truly well-deserved. To be able to use wind magic to this extent in this kind of environment, his speed was probably only something that could be kept up with by activating the Ghost Child.
However, it's not usable yet.
Without hesitation, Chen Qing swerved and bumped into someone on the side!
This action stunned not only Murong, but also Ziyue, who was chasing after them.
Because Chen Qing bumped into the jade stone on the left!
That's the location of those terrifying creatures!