Chapter 2604 — The Troubling Outcome
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"What is your name? And the person who went with you to the Wulonghaote Mountains—what is his name? Where is he now?" Xiao Yi asked.
"My name is Sun Jingyan. The person who went with me to the Wulonghaote Mountains is called Wei Zhao. He studies in the pharmaceutical program of the biology department at Donghai City Engineering University," Sun Jingyan answered woodenly.
"The pharmaceutical program of the biology department?" Xiao Yi's mouth twitched. That damned major again? It seemed this would be a bit troublesome. When he went to seize the man later, he would have to keep a low profile. So he continued: "Why did you go to the Wulonghaote Mountains? What was the great treasure you found there?"
"I went to the Wulonghaote Mountains because among the keepsakes my parents left me was a map—a treasure map to that great treasure," Sun Jingyan said truthfully. "The great treasure is the stone on the bed, the one that can be cultivated with."
Xiao Yi's brows drew tight at that. It seemed Sun Jingyan was not lying. So Little Six, Little Twelve, and Little Thirteen had died for nothing—thrown their lives away for such a useless trinket!
He had assumed this sect must be sitting on something fine—and the so-called great treasure turned out to be this?
"Did you have any other strokes of luck? Is this the only thing you brought back from the Wulonghaote Mountains?" Xiao Yi asked, unwilling to let it go.
"We also ran into the Great Fire Lions and the Spider Clan..." And with that, Sun Jingyan recounted what had happened in the Wulonghaote Mountains with the Great Fire Lions and the Spider Clan, and she also told him about the teleportation array that could open the way to the Heavenly Dao. Xiao Yi had been listening with mingled alarm and delight—but then, all at once, he heard that the array could be used only three times, that two uses were already spent, and that the Fire Lion Clan and the Spider Clan had both vanished. At that, Xiao Yi could not help but connect the dots to something deeply galling...
Had the Fire Lion Clan and the Spider Clan used up the final use of that teleportation array? If so, he was left speechless. The shortcut to the Heavenly Dao they had searched for so painstakingly—found at last, yet no longer usable. It was exactly like a starving man who spies a loaf of bread, is just rejoicing, and then discovers the bread is only a model...
As for Sun Jingyan, he no longer wished to ask her anything; even the thought of summoning Wei Zhao for questioning had faded. The matter was clear enough. That so-called great treasure was no great treasure at all in Xiao Yi's eyes. The true treasure was the Heavenly Dao teleportation array—only by now it was surely unusable.
"Draw me the map to that cave. Now—draw it!" Xiao Yi flicked out another steel bead, restoring Sun Jingyan's freedom of movement, then handed her a pen and a sheet of paper and told her to draw the map.
Sun Jingyan's memory was not that detailed, but she could still sketch the general bearings, and Xiao Yi and the others knew the map of the Wulonghaote Mountains like the backs of their hands. Rough as her drawing was, it was enough to pin down the cave's approximate location...
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At Donghai City Engineering University, Wei Zhao saw off the two Zhu brothers and then came to the school.
He had come this time having actually made an important decision: he intended to show Leader Bai the notebook of pill-refining insights he had found in the ancient tomb, written by Zhang Lifeng the alchemist.
Leader Bai had selflessly shared his own materials with Wei Zhao—had even let him use them to trade for good things with You Panhu—and Wei Zhao was deeply grateful. If the earlier materials had been ordinary enough, what came afterward amounted to Leader Bai's own secret lore, for his master had once left it to him.