233: Chapter 217_2 233: Chapter 217_2 He couldn’t imagine his grandson would die, and dared not believe this outcome.
Family Head Huang watched as his enemies had already left Immortal Venerable City, and at this moment, his only target was Jiang Family Head and his group.
The four of them laid ambush around Jiang Family Head’s shop, waiting for nightfall to sneak inside and kill.
Even though Jiang Tang had promised to protect him and he was extremely cautious while walking, Jiang Family Head, having obtained so many superior pills, could still feel countless eyes watching him.
Returning to his shop, he put up a ‘Closed for Business’ sign, instructed the shop’s staff to stay vigilant, and entered the underground chamber inside the room with three Elders.
“Did the Family Head manage to buy them?” the Great Elder asked.
The other Elders also looked on with eager anticipation.
Jiang Family Head gestured to them to remain silent, tossing each of them two bottles.
The matters he discussed with Jiang Tang, he decided to speak of only after becoming stronger, fearful that even in this covert underground chamber, they might still be overheard.
The underground chamber had an Array activated, but that didn’t mean the elders couldn’t investigate it.
“Good, this is very good,” the three Elders said upon glancing at the pills in their hands, nearly delirious with joy.
“Let’s not talk further, start cultivating now.
I feel that we are already being watched,” Jiang Family Head ordered the three Elders.
“Hmm,”
The three Elders obediently sat cross-legged on the spot, swallowing a superior pill each, and began to circulate their cultivation techniques.
Jiang Family Head did not hesitate to consume the medicinal pills and practice, desperate to become stronger.
Family Head Huang’s group laid in wait around the Zhejiang shop, observing the change from open for business to closed, and knew there must be a reason inside.
Using his Divine Sense to explore, he found that even this ordinary shop had an Array, which he could not investigate with the Array activated given his current cultivation level.
“What should we do, Family Head?
We have no idea what’s going on inside the shop,” Elder Sann asked urgently through voice transmission.
Family Head Huang sensed a stronger Divine Sense probing them and the shop.
“We can only try to raid.
The law and order of Immortal Venerable City are so weak; it’s been compromised by terrorists before.
Even with current precautions and repairs, if we operate underground, we might successfully launch a surprise attack.
“Our abilities are all similar now.
If we let them enhance their cultivations, we’ll be suppressed by them, and all our plans will be for naught,” he said.
“Alright, let’s do as the Family Head says,” Elder Sann agreed.
The other Elders nodded in agreement.
Family Head Huang didn’t drill through the ground on the main street but led the Elders to his own shop.
In the courtyard of his shop, he cast a circle of light around himself and led the way into the underground sewer.
The city had wide sewers for wastewater disposal, so there was no need to drill through the ground.
The streets of Immortal Venerable City were lined with shops, all of which were conspicuous.
Every shop had its own Formation.
Only sewers were overlooked when it came to installing Formations.
Once inside the sewer, Huang could walk through it bent over.
It was connected to the street level.
He cast a spell and was surrounded by a protective circle of light, impervious to the sewage and the foul smell.
The other three Elders did the same, following the Family Head’s lead.
After determining the direction beforehand, Family Head Huang arrived at the sewer right in front of the Jiang family’s shop and they stopped at the sewers accessing the courtyard of the shop.
Family Head Huang felt for any activated Formations above in the rooms.
He discovered that this shop had its own Formation, just like his.
Family Head Huang, not being very advanced in cultivation, but decent in Formation study, used his Divine Sense to pinpoint the main Formation’s location.
Then, he took out several Burst Talismans from his person, cast them at the floor where the room’s Formation was located, and quickly evacuated the area with the other Elders.
“Boom boom boom”
The Burst Talismans were powerful, creating a hole in the hard ground.
It even caused an earthquake-like tremor at the location of the shop.
Such a commotion instantly attracted the scrutiny of both the eyes and Divine Senses of people in the other shops and streets towards the shop.
After the previous terrifying incident, hearing such a sound, without saying that people were in panic, those who heard the noise all kept their distance, fearing that it was a terrorist again, spreading poison or bombing the shops on the street.
After the Burst Talisman’s power had subsided, Family Head Huang and the Elders used their Divine Sense to investigate and discovered a strange phenomenon: with such a commotion in the shop, everyone outside was paying attention, yet there was no movement inside.
Family Head Huang and the Elders discussed the situation, not sure if the enemy had set a trap for them.
The lack of activity could mean a hidden defense, and if they showed up, the people inside would attack them like beating a dog in the water.
The other party didn’t know they had appeared at this location by the ditch, and another interpretation of the silence was that they might be waiting for them to make the first move.
Family Head Huang and the others consulted and decided on a plan of internal and external collaboration, letting one Elder wait outside to prevent the enemy from wiping them all out in one go.
Family Head Huang, along with three Elders, arrived at the hole created by the Burst Talisman’s explosion.
The area was filled with dust, and a hole was broken from which many pieces of dirt had fallen.
Family Head Huang flew towards the hole in the ground, but as he nearly reached it, a ring of light blocked his path to the ground.
He used his own spells to attack the light ring “bang bang bang,” and as the sound of spells struck the ring of light, they were deflected back at him, forcing him to dodge, narrowly avoiding being hit by his own power.
“What is this…” the Elders were stunned, realizing that the opponent’s cultivation was higher than theirs.
Family Head Huang, unwilling to give up, clenched his teeth and said,
“We’re going all out, Old Mr.
Jiang’s cultivation is not much different from ours; perhaps it’s a light ring created by the combined strength of their four people.
We’ll use all our power to attack.”
“We’re going all out…”
The three Elders and the Family Head, in perfect sync, unleashed their spells to attack together.
“Bang bang bang”
The power of the four struck the light ring, only for the light ring to rebound the attacks once again.
“Ah!”
The four did not manage to dodge in time and were all struck by their own rebounding power, sustaining minor injuries.
“What kind of spell is this?” the disappointment and reluctance in Family Head Huang’s voice were palpable.
“This person is of higher cultivation than us.
Jiang Family supposedly doesn’t have such a figure.
Could it be that we’ve mistaken the target, attacking a formation designed by a powerful expert instead?” Elder Er was somewhat disheartened.
“We’re not mistaken, it’s possible that Jiang Family spent a fortune to have a powerful expert design the Formation.
We can’t give up on the supreme Pills,” said Family Head Huang, his words causing the other Elders to nod in agreement.
This time, forewarned by their injuries, when they attacked the light ring again, they released their spells and immediately drifted away.
This method proved useful.
Although they could not break the light ring, they were spared from injury.
“Bang bang bang”
These sounds continued without any other disturbances, and those who were on guard outside thought it was just noise generated by the shop doing something.
Patrolling people also came to investigate and, without any distress signal from the shop’s owner, assumed it was Cultivation practitioners practicing their skills.
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Jiang Tang and Xuanyuan Mengting were on the flying arrow; he had sent out a Divine Sense to cover Jiang Family Head after someone in Jiang Family Head’s home had released a Burst Talisman.
Jiang Tang’s Divine Sense turned into a light ring, enveloping the room where Jiang Family Head and three Elders were present.
This light ring, imbued with the Mana of Jiang Tang’s Ocean Wheel, was unbreakable even by multiple opponents at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
The power rebounding from the light ring would also cause the enemy to be injured by their own attacks.
Jiang Tang sensed that Jiang Family Head might be tracked and targeted for assassination and theft, so he dispatched an Avatar to Immortal Venerable City to protect the members of the Saint Sect; nothing must go amiss with this group from Jiang Family Head’s entourage.
The Avatar quickly realized that the opponents were merely small-time thieves at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and Jiang Tang instructed his Avatar to ensure that Jiang Family Head’s group didn’t encounter any mishaps during their cultivation.
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Jiang Family Head and the three Elders were cultivating in a room, which was also a precaution in case someone noticed and attempted to murder them for loot; they could look after one another.
While they were consuming Pills and practicing their Cultivation Techniques, they did not hear the continuing noise coming from the hole made by the Burst Talisman in the room below the shop.
Unaware, they were cultivating within the protected area of the light ring Jiang Tang had cast to safeguard them.
They were neither harmed nor disturbed by the noise during their practice.
Jiang Family Head swallowed a Vitality Pill and a powerful surge of Vitality Spirit Qi circulated through his body.
Before he had a chance to guide the Spiritual Energy into his Dantian, he felt as though a strong force was blowing up his body like a balloon.