Yuan Kun nodded. “Otherwise, given that little woman’s domineering personality, it would be difficult to get our hands on the Alpha Spiritium in this mini domain.”
He looked at Zhou Yuan and said, “What? What is Brother Zhou Yuan thinking? I won’t blame you if you don’t want to offend Jiu Gong. That little woman is so arrogant, but because of the Xuanji Region’s special status, nobody in Hunyuan Heaven will dare to mess with them.”
Zhou Yuan could tell that Yuan Kun was trying to spur him to cooperate with him from his tone of voice. He smiled. “Brother Yuan Kun, you don’t need to do this. We all came to the nine regions tournament for Alpha Spiritium. Jiu Gong may be well known, but to me, she can’t be compared to Alpha Spiritium.
“If she wants to stop me from getting Alpha Spiritium, she’s my enemy.”
Yuan Kun’s eyes lit up. “Your words are music to my ear. Then, when our teams finish collecting Spiritium in this mini domain, will we take action?”
Zhou Yuan naturally had no objection and nodded with a smile.
He was indeed a little curious about the girl who was second only to Wu Yao and Su Youwei among the Divine Dwelling stage experts within Hunyuan heaven. But if she wanted to take all the Alpha Spiritium, she would have to ask whether or not his Tianyuan brush agrees or not.
In front of Alpha Spiritium...what was a beauty?
Zhou Yuan and Yuan Kun both issued an order, and the two teams collecting strands of Spiritium hastened. After half a day, they finished collecting all the Spiritium in the mountains.
Then, Yuan Kun led the way with his team, and Zhou Yuan closely followed with the Tianyuan Region’s team.
The two groups of people skimmed across the sky in a mighty manner, heading directly southwest.
....
The southwest area.
Compared with the rest of the space, the southwest area was very different. It was bitterly cold, and the icy wind felt as if it could lash one’s skin.
The snow-capped mountains were endless, and in the deepest location, numerous mountains of ice stood tall.
At this moment, rays of dazzling golden light shrouded the tallest ice mountain, making it difficult for people to see through it. The flashing golden light was extremely mysterious, and even the raging icy wind couldn’t penetrate it.
A whistle of wind sounded from the distance.
A large number of black shadows streaked across the air and landed outside the ice mountain flashing with golden light.
Fierce and imposing.
It was Yuan Kun and Zhou Yuan.
“Is this it?” Zhou Yuan’s eyes flickered with surprise when he saw the ice mountain shrouded in golden light. In his eyes, it wasn’t golden light but countless Genesis Runes.
The boundary was quite strange in that it was a combination of Genesis Rune and Genesis Qi.
“I've long heard that the Xuanji Region’s mastery of Genesis Runes is second only to the Shengwen Region. Now that I’ve seen it, it is indeed a well-deserved reputation.” Zhou Yuan marveled.
Yuan Kun stroked his greasy face and said in an irritated tone, “If it were a real fight with spears and swords, I wouldn’t be afraid of Jiu Gong. But after she set up this boundary, there wasn’t anything I could do.”
Zhou Yuan nodded. “Get someone to send in a message. Let’s try a peaceful method before resorting to force. Otherwise, people would say we were bullying a woman.”
Yuan Kun nodded in agreement and ordered someone to send in the message.
.....
When Zhou Yuan, Yuan Kun and their teams arrived, the many people inside the ice mountain were aware of their presence.
One of them scanned them and chuckled contemptuously, “I wondered who it was. It turned out to be the chief pavilion master of the Tianyuan Region.”
This person was the captain of the Zixiao Region team, Xue Jingtao.
Behind Xue Jingtao was a female disciple. After some hesitation, she said, “Zhou Yuan and senior sister Su Youwei are acquainted with each other. We shouldn’t make things difficult for him, right?”
Xue Jingtao frowned. “You are overthinking. How would junior sister Su Youwei know a peasant like him? Even if they are acquainted, their friendship wouldn’t be as deep as you think.
“Besides, everybody in the nine region tournaments are enemies. Since we ran into each other, how can we hold back?
“Besides, it's not us who are in charge. It’s Miss Jiu Gong.”
He waved his hand dismissively and didn’t let the female disciple say anything more. “I’ll inform Miss Jiu Gong and see what she decides.”
With that, he vanished in the blink of an eye.
At the top of the ice mountain, Xue Jingtao's figure appeared, looking ahead where a beautiful woman scrunched her brows in a frown. She was dressed in a loose robe, but that couldn’t hide her curvaceous figure.
In truth, she wasn’t in the slightest inferior to Wu Yao and Su Youwei based purely on appearance. Each had their strong points. If Wu Yao was strong and tough, then Su Youwei was gentle and tenacious, and Jiu Gong was icily arrogant, which was charming to some people.
As Xue Jingtao faced a woman like her, his heart inevitably fluttered, but he didn’t dare to show it. He gave a cupped fist salute and reported, “Miss Jiu Gong, Yuan Kun is back and brought a team to help him.”
“They sent a message to tell Miss Jiu Gong to open the Golden Light Boundary and share the Alpha Spiritium.”
Jiu Gong raised her slender and long eyebrows. “Who's the helper he brought?”
“Zhou Yuan from the Tianyuan Region.”
“Oh? So it’s him.”
A smile broke out on Jiu Gong’s beautiful face. “Has Yuan Kun gone crazy? He thinks he can break my Meridian Golden Light Boundary with the help of someone ranked ninth on the Divine Dwelling List?”
She tilted her head and said after a thought, “Send a message back that if they want to share the Alpha Spiritium, they should talk to me once they break the Meridian Golden Light Boundary. If they don’t have the ability, tell them to leave....”
If Yuan Kun had found help from the main force of one of the other regions, she might have considered his request, but he had brought the Tianyuan Region’s chief pavilion master.
Watching Xue Jingtao leave, she cast her gaze to the mountain in the distance and muttered, “I would like to see what ability you have to make Su Youwei favor you like so.”
Chapter 954 Deduction
“Hey, it looks like they still won't give us face.”
At the foot of the ice mountain, Yuan Kun didn’t look too pleased when he saw Xue Jingtao, and he turned to speak to Zhou Yuan beside him.
“How would that be the case, senior brother Yuan Kun? It’s not that Miss Jiu Gong isn’t giving you face, but that she got here first and took the opportunity.” Xue Jingtao smiled.
He swept a glance over Zhou Yuan and said nonchalantly, “Miss Jiu Gong said that her Meridian Golden Light Boundary couldn’t be broken by someone senior brother Yuan Kun had casually found.”
Zhou Yuan's line of sight shifted from the ice mountain surrounded by golden light to Xue Jingtao. How could he not feel the other party’s malice? “You’re from the Zixiao Region?” he asked.
“I am Xue Jingtao from the Zixiao Region. What advice does chief pavilion master Zhou Yuan have for me?” Xue Jingtao said with a smile.
“What are you doing here?”
“The number of people required for the golden boundary isn’t small. Without our team, there is no way Miss Jiu Gong could have set up the boundary. So it was Miss Jiu Gong who sincerely invited us to help,” Xue Jingtao explained.
He spoke proudly as if the golden boundary was also his masterpiece.
Zhou Yuan said indifferently, “Out of respect for Su Youwei, I advise you to leave and not get involved in this. You aren’t qualified to participate in a battle of this level. It would be too late to regret it when you’re injured.”
Xue Jingt
ao’s face darkened. He glared at Zhou Yuan and sneered, “Chief pavilion master Zhou Yuan, even if you can’t break the Meridian Golden Light Boundary, is there a need to play a trick like this?”
“Are you trying to persuade us to leave and make the Golden Light Boundary break by itself?” Zhou Yuan said contemptuously.
“Naturally, since Miss Jiu Gong trusts us, we will stand firmly on her side. If you have the ability, why don’t you break the Golden Light Boundary first? If you can’t, get lost, and don’t waste time here!”
As his vehement voice faded, Xue Jingtao turned around and left.
Zhou Yuan’s expression was calm and without a ripple of emotion as he watched him leave.
He only spoke out of respect for Su Youwei because he had learned from his previous observation of the Golden Light Boundary that the nodes controlled by the Zixiao Region team were particularly dangerous. Once they encountered an enemy, they would become a target.
Jiu Gong had evidently planned this.
After all, her cooperation with Xue Jingtao wasn’t equal. Jiu Gong was part of a main team, and she felt that Xue Jingtao wasn’t qualified to be on equal terms with her. If Su Youwei were here, she wouldn’t have played such tricks. Unfortunately, Xue Jingtao was not qualified, and he didn’t understand this. He even regarded himself as very important…
If that was the case, he couldn’t blame Zhou Yuan.
“That woman doesn’t know what’s good for her.” Yuan Kun fumed. “Brother Zhou, since negotiation didn’t work, let’s just charge through. I don’t believe that our two teams can’t break through the boundary!”
Zhou Yuan hurriedly stopped him. “If we do that, we will have to pay a price even though we might destroy the boundary. There is no need to be so reckless!”
Yuan Kun frowned. “Then what do we do?”
Zhou Yuan helplessly pointed to the golden light that enveloped the ice mountain. “There is a method to break through the golden light boundary. If we investigate and attack it bit by bit, it will collapse itself.
“Brother Yuan Kun, do you see the countless Genesis Runes flowing inside the golden light?”
Yuan Kun squinted his eyes, staring at it for a good while until tears streamed out. He said in embarrassment, “Brother Zhou Yuan, I don’t know anything about Genesis Runes. I don’t understand it.”
In his view, it was nothing but golden light. Although the fluctuation of Genesis Qi inside was somewhat strange, it was impossible for him to see the Genesis Runes, Genesis Marks and their trajectories.
The corners of Zhou Yuan’s mouth twitched. He felt as if he was playing a lute to a cow.
It was no wonder that Yuan Kun couldn’t do anything about the golden light boundary. It turned out his mastery in Genesis Runes was atrocious.
Seeing Zhou Yuan’s expression, Yuan Kun suddenly blushed with embarrassment and said resentfully, “Since brother Zhou Yuan understands Genesis Runes, then you should investigate it. I am ready to cooperate with you at any time, but I have to remind you that the Xuanji Region is skilled in combining Genesis Runes and Genesis Qi. Also, Jiu Gong is an outstanding talent, which means the golden light boundary she set up isn’t a simple Genesis Rune Boundary.”
Zhou Yuan nodded with a smile and then made a slight movement and appeared outside the tremendous golden light boundary.
Light constantly flashed in his eyes. It was at this moment that the golden light boundary changed in front of him. Numerous Genesis Runes flowed like fish, but as he continued to observe, his face lit up with surprise.
He found that the golden light boundary was indeed not a simple Genesis Rune. It had multiple Genesis Qi nodes.
The combination of the two allowed the golden light to bloom dazzlingly. Once one stepped inside, the illumination of the golden light would confuse the Spirit and make it easy to control.
“It is indeed a little bizarre.”
After Zhou Yuan scrutinized the boundary for a full hour, he suddenly couldn’t help but nod. This Xuanji Region technique was indeed impressive. It was much more tricky to deal with a combination of Genesis Runes and Genesis Qi than an ordinary Genesis Rune Boundary.
This boundary really piqued his curiosity.
.....
Inside the ice mountain.
Standing on a cliff, Xue Jingtao disdainfully peered at the outside world. His gaze penetrated the golden light boundary, and he saw Zhou Yuan, who had been walking around for an hour.
“Haha, chief pavilion master Zhou Yuan really thinks he found a way to break the boundary after a little investigation?” Xue Jingtao snorted as he turned his head to look at one of his senior brothers.
Everyone burst into laughter.
“What a fool. Yuan Kun had tried to break the boundary for half a day, but we had ultimately driven him away.”
“Even Yuan Kun failed. Zhou Yuan’s ranking isn’t as high as his, but he thinks he can break the golden light boundary?”
Xue Jingtao smiled, his eyes filled with contempt. “Send an order to tell everyone to stay close to the nodes and operate the golden light boundary with all their strength. Don’t let them have any chance of breaking through.”
Someone behind him drew back and quickly turned to pass on the order.
With one hand clasped behind him, Xue Jingtao coldly fixed his eyes on the figure outside the golden light boundary. “Zhou Yuan, this time I am going to embarrass you to the point that you won’t dare to appear in front of junior sister Youwei ever again.”
.....
Outside the golden light boundary.
As Zhou Yuan hovered in mid-air for a good while, his eyes constantly flashed with light. He was performing the ultimate deduction method. Following the trajectory of the Genesis Runes, he gradually figured out the location of the boundary’s many nodes.
The light in his eyes gradually faded, and the corners of his lips tugged upwards in a slight smile.
He had finally made some progress.
Jiu Gong is remarkable...but unfortunately for her, she had run into me.
Chapter 955 Break Through Formation
At the foot of the ice mountain.
Yuan Kun stared at Zhou Yuan as he circled the Golden Light Boundary and repeatedly rubbed away the beads of sweat on his round face with his sleeve. There was a look of worry in his narrow and small eyes.
Although his grasp in Genesis Runes was extremely poor, he had good vision and judgment. After personally experiencing the power of the Meridian Golden Light Boundary, he knew that once caught in it, even for someone with his strength, his Spirit would fall into a trance-like state, and if it weren’t for his abundant and powerful Genesis Qi, he really would have been trapped.
The boundary was Jiu Gong’s proud work.
This was why Yuan Kun wasn’t sure whether Zhou Yuan could really break the golden light boundary.
If he couldn’t, they would have to try to charge through.
“Hmph, that woman Jiu Gong has gone too far!” Yuan Kun couldn’t help but curse aloud.
A shadow descended from the sky. It was Zhou Yuan.
“Brother Zhou Yuan, how was it?”
Zhou Yuan smiled. “I have some confidence. Let’s give it a try first.”
Yuan Kun’s face lit up with joy, and he gave him a thumbs up. “Brother Zhou Yuan is so reliable.”
Although he didn’t know how confident Zhou Yuan was, it was better than standing there not knowing what to do.
“Let me make some preparations first,” Zhou Yuan said, sitting down cross-legged. He flicked his sleeve and took out many jade bamboo slips. At the same time, he clasped the Tianyuan brush and swung the brush with the tip facing down, bringing out multiple Genesis Runes that integrated with the bamboo slips.
Yuan Kun looked at him blankly. To an idiot in Genesis Runes, Zhou Yuan’s actions felt peculiar. He simply nodded and said to the people of the Yushou Region, “So professional.”
After half an hour, Zhou Yuan had readied everything
.
He and Yuan Kun gathered the teams of both sides.
“Send the elites of each team out and form groups of ten. They will follow me into the golden light boundary.”
When his voice faded, there was a little commotion from the two teams of people. Very soon, figures stepped forward one after another, quickly forming teams.
Zhou Yuan flung his sleeve, and the previously prepared bamboo slips floated out and hovered in front of each team.
“Hold the bamboo slips, and after you enter the boundary, immediately seal your Spirit. Otherwise, the golden light will strike your Spirit and control it,” Zhou Yuan warned.
Hearing this, the elites exchanged glances with one another and uttered hesitantly, “If our Spirit is sealed, our perception of the outside world will become weak. It will be difficult to detect a sneak attack.”
Zhou Yuan waved his hand. “It will be alright. Just listen to my command, and all will be fine.”
The Tianyuan Region people naturally nodded without the slightest objection. After all, Zhou Yuan had enough prestige in their hearts. But the Yushou Region elites seemed hesitant to leave their lives to someone they didn’t know.
Yuan Kun felt a little uncomfortable seeing the look of hesitation on his people’s faces. He shot a fierce look at them and persuaded, “Although Jiu Gong is only relying on a tortoiseshell and there is nothing we could do to her, she doesn’t really want to offend us. If we just stay here and don’t leave, her team won’t be able to go anywhere.”
What he meant to say was that everyone of the Yushou Region shouldn’t worry too much because this was just a battle to break the formation. She wouldn’t dare to go too far, so her methods wouldn’t be too sinister.
After being reprimanded by Yuan Kun, the elites of the Yushou Region gave an embarrassed smile and didn’t dare say anything else.
Zhou Yuan smiled at Yuan Kun and thanked him for trusting him.
“Don't you need me to go in, too?” Yuan Kun asked.
Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment and said, “You just said that this is just a battle to break through the formation and not really a fight with Jiu Gong. If you go in, there won’t be much you could do. Instead, it might make Jiu Gong feel that we only managed to break through because of the number of people we have, and she won’t admit defeat.”
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