ATPnovel Chapter 48 The Defeat of Yue
Chapter 48 The Defeat of Yue
Mu Chunfeng coughed lightly.
Xin Ruyin and Qi Yunxiao were startled awake by his voice. Remembering that there were outsiders present, they blushed and reluctantly parted ways.
Mu Chunfeng remained calm and looked at Xin Ruyin, saying, "Miss Ruyin, I've reviewed the inheritance and insights; there are no problems. Now, it's time for me to repair the formation."
Mu Chunfeng took out the jade slip containing the pattern of an ancient teleportation array from his storage bag and placed it on the table. Xin Ruyin nodded, walked to the table, picked up the jade slip, and pressed it to her forehead.
In just a moment, Xin Ruyin withdrew her divine sense and opened her eyes, a look of surprise flashing in them.
Mu Chunfeng observed Xin Ruyin's expression from beginning to end and naturally noticed the unusualness, but he didn't say anything. After all, Han Li had also sought out Xin Ruyin to repair the ancient teleportation array, so it was natural for her to be surprised and suspicious when she saw Mu Chunfeng take out the same incomplete array.
After reading the jade slip, Xin Ruyin lowered her head and pondered for a moment. Then she looked up at Mu Chunfeng and said, "Senior Mu, I happen to have some knowledge of this formation, but I need a month to fully repair it."
Xin Ruyin had already obtained the diagram of the ancient teleportation array from Han Li, and her repair work was only a month away from completion. However, Xin Ruyin did not mention Han Li to Mu Chunfeng, nor did she inquire about the origin of the ancient teleportation array.
After hearing her affirmative answer, Mu Chunfeng nodded.
Subsequently, Mu Chunfeng purchased the repaired Inverted Five Elements Formation, Heavenly Wind Fierce Formation, and Illusory Heavenly Net Formation from Xin Ruyin.
However, since the two had already accepted three thousand-year-old spiritual herbs from Mu Chunfeng, they refused to accept any more spirit stones from him. After some refusals, Mu Chunfeng agreed to take all the materials needed to refine the three formations, and the two finally gave up.
And so, Mu Chunfeng stayed with them under the pretext of observing and learning how to refine formations.
Of course, his real purpose was to wait for Han Li to arrive, so that the two of them could go directly to the mine of the ancient teleportation array together.
In the past few days, Mu Chunfeng has occasionally gone to the surrounding markets to buy materials needed to refine the array. He also found an alchemist on behalf of Qi Yunxiao to refine the three thousand-year-old spiritual herbs into pills to alleviate Xin Ruyin's condition.
The alchemist was a friend of Qi Yunxiao and was indeed quite skilled in alchemy. He was quite surprised when he learned that Mu Chunfeng had commissioned Qi Yunxiao to refine the pills. He did not expect that Qi Yunxiao, a Qi Refining cultivator, would have a Foundation Establishment stage friend.
What surprised him even more was that Mu Chunfeng produced three thousand-year-old spiritual herbs at once. The alchemist wisely refrained from asking any further questions. As for the other auxiliary spiritual herbs needed for alchemy, they were all provided by Qi Yunxiao.
As for most of the other time, Mu Chunfeng stayed with Xin Ruyin and the other person to cultivate daily or ask Xin Ruyin about knowledge of formations.
During this time, through his contact with Xin Ruyin, Mu Chunfeng also subtly indicated that he could take the two of them away after the ancient teleportation array was repaired.
However, Xin Ruyin refused, saying that she didn't have much time left and only wanted to stay in her homeland with Qi Yunxiao before she died. Qi Yunxiao felt the same way and only wanted to stay in Yuanwu Kingdom to accompany Xin Ruyin on her final journey.
When the two first received the information about the ancient teleportation array from Han Li, they did consider taking advantage of him. However, due to Xin Ruyin's worsening condition, she had given up all hope for her health.
Even thousand-year-old elixirs could only provide slight relief for her condition. If there were a cure, wouldn't it require ten-thousand-year-old elixirs? Or something even more precious than ten-thousand-year-old elixirs, which is simply beyond the reach of the two of them.
After learning of their wishes, Mu Chunfeng did not insist. He had originally planned to persuade them not to stay in Yuanwu Kingdom, but to go south to the territory of the Nine Kingdoms Alliance to avoid the chaos. However, after thinking about it, he realized that the area near the Mulan Grassland was not particularly peaceful, so he gave up on that idea.
In addition, Xin Ruyin's body is extremely weak now. Even when she is repairing the formation, she will turn pale and become breathless if she is slightly tired. She is not able to concentrate on deduction for a long time, let alone leave Yuanwu Kingdom to go to other places to avoid the chaos.
Mu Chunfeng put aside all her thoughts and quietly stayed in this place.
Until one day, news of the Yue Kingdom's crushing defeat at the front spread like wildfire throughout the entire Yuanwu Kingdom.
Following this came news of the demonic forces occupying the Yue Kingdom.
The crushing defeat at the front not only led to the Yue Kingdom being occupied by the demonic forces, but also resulted in the deaths of cultivators sent by the Yuanwu Kingdom and the Zijin Kingdom to support the Yue Kingdom.
For a time, the people of Yuanwu Kingdom were in a state of panic. Everyone thought that the two sides had reached a stalemate and the war would continue for some time. Unexpectedly, Yue Kingdom was breached by the demonic forces in the blink of an eye.
Mu Chunfeng was walking on the streets of Tianxing Sect Market. Due to the impact of the war, the number of people in the market had not decreased, but rather increased significantly.
Many cultivators are dumping all the things they don't need and snapping up the magical artifacts and resources they do need.
He also took this opportunity to start picking up bargains, buying up things he might need, including rare materials, talismans, Taoist books, pill formulas, cultivation techniques, and even occasionally thousand-year-old spiritual herbs that would appear on the market.
Mu Chunfeng naturally accepted all comers, and in just a few days he spent more than 10,000 spirit stones.
Most of them are resources and materials that can help his current cultivation, and some are things that he may need in the future.
One afternoon, as Mu Chunfeng was quietly watching Xin Ruyin deduce the array patterns inside the bamboo house, a sound transmission talisman flew in from outside and came to Xin Ruyin.
A hint of doubt appeared on her face, but she still reached out and took the communication talisman. With a flick of her finger, she channeled her spiritual energy, and Han Li's familiar voice came through.
Mu Chunfeng was almost asleep when she heard Han Li's voice and her expression immediately brightened.
After confirming that it was Han Li, Xin Ruyin immediately took out the array plate and walked towards the door to prepare to control the array to open a gap.
But Mu Chunfeng stopped her: "Miss Ruyin, you stay in the room. Leave this to me."
Without waiting for Xin Ruyin's reply, he took the array plate and then flashed to the entrance of the bamboo forest outside the house.
Before long, Han Li slowly flew in on his Divine Wind Boat. Behind him stood a man with an ugly face. But when his gaze swept over the figure in front of the bamboo house, he froze, his face showing disbelief, and blurted out, "Senior Brother Mu! What are you doing here?"
Mu Chunfeng looked at Han Li, a faint smile playing on her lips, and said casually, "What a coincidence, Junior Brother Han is here too. I've been staying here for a while, and I didn't expect to run into you."
Xin Ruyin had already come out of the house at this moment. When she heard the conversation between the two, she was also very surprised: "You two seniors actually know each other?"
Han Li composed himself and looked at Xin Ruyin: "Miss Xin, Senior Brother Mu and I are from the same sect. I didn't expect to see him here."
"I didn't expect you to be here either."
Mu Chunfeng's voice followed, and Xin Ruyin, after hearing their conversation, understood their relationship and invited Han Li into the house.
After she brewed tea for Mu Chunfeng and the other man, she turned and went to another room to call Qi Yunxiao over. Han Li took the opportunity to chat with Mu Chunfeng.