Free Web NovelChapter 273: Chapter 50: Hua Yutang’s Secret (Part 2)
Only then did Hua Yutang reveal the truth.
Fang Cheng was flabbergasted and amazed after hearing her story.
It turned out that several years ago, Hua Yutang had discovered a set of Ancient Ruins deep within the Hanhai Desert.
That time, she had barely escaped with her life.
The several Wang Family Elders and Independent Practitioner Guest Elders who accompanied her had all perished within the ruins.
She alone returned, gravely injured.
She brought back a Teleportation Array.
She told no one about this, not even that Inner Sect Elder from the Wang Family.
The Ancient Transmission Array was complete, and she activated it using nine Upper-Grade Spirit Stones.
After careful verification, she found there was no danger on the other side of the Teleportation Array, so she began to explore.
The two stalks of Ninth-Grade Golden Lotus were something she had brought back from there.
Later, she found a Treasure Tree. Unfortunately, it was guarded by several Late-stage Second-tier Demon Beasts, and with her level of cultivation, she was powerless to repel them and take the fruit.
"Late-stage Second-tier Demon Beasts can’t be that powerful, can they?" Fang Cheng asked curiously.
In his experience, the strength of Demon Beasts lay in their natural talents; when it came to Divine Techniques and Magic, they were far inferior to Human Race Cultivators.
What’s more, for someone like Hua Yutang, Sun Fugai’s apprentice, it shouldn’t be difficult to slay a couple of Late-stage Second-tier Demon Beasts with her Flying Sword and Sword Technique.
Hua Yutang’s expression was strange as she said, "My exploration of that place has been limited, but the power of those two Demon Beasts far surpasses that of the beasts in the Southern Mang Mountains."
"Why didn’t you ask Eldest Senior Sister, Second Senior Brother, or even Master for help?" Fang Cheng asked with a smile.
’And what about that Inner Sect Elder from the Wang Family...’
Hua Yutang said frankly, "Knowing Master’s and Eldest Senior Sister’s personalities, if they learned of this Teleportation Array’s existence, they would certainly give me a reward of merit points, then confiscate it for the sect to utilize it to its fullest potential."
"There might be a treasure there that could help me break through to the Mid Stage Realm, so I can’t hand it over to the sect just yet... As for other people, they aren’t reliable enough, whether in terms of strength or character."
Fang Cheng was beginning to understand. No wonder that day in Sun Fugai’s Cave Mansion, after Hua Yutang learned of Fang Cheng’s astonishing power that had turned the tide, she had taken the initiative to show him goodwill...
’Plus, his spiritual soul was damaged. It was the perfect opportunity to plant a thread of affection and "secure" her junior brother.’
’That way, she would have found a partner who was both powerful and reliable.’
Unfortunately for her, Fang Cheng’s Divine Sense was powerful and had been tempered multiple times by the Dream Spirit Secret Technique. The thread of affection Hua Yutang had first planted was, to Fang Cheng, nothing more than a somewhat risqué dream. At most, it only gave him a bit of a good impression and a few ideas about his senior sister.
It was nowhere near the point of being utterly captivated and losing his soul to her charms.
After explaining everything, Hua Yutang withdrew from Fang Cheng’s dreamscape.
Fang Cheng remained sitting on the jade mat in his Cave Mansion, half-awake and half-asleep, using the medicinal power of the Ninth-Grade Golden Lotus to repair his spiritual soul.
Hua Yutang glanced at her junior brother, her face flushing slightly, and quickly got up to go bathe and wash up.
「The next day.」
Fang Cheng slowly withdrew his energy. He felt a wave of comfort wash over his spiritual soul, which had been fully restored.
"The Ninth-Grade Golden Lotus is truly amazing!"
He sighed in admiration. He saw that Hua Yutang had changed into a long, waist-cinching dress that exquisitely traced the lithe and graceful curves of her figure.
When Hua Yutang saw him now, her expression was full of bashfulness, and she didn’t dare to meet his gaze.
Fang Cheng smiled calmly. "Senior Sister, why don’t you take me to see those two Tier Two Demon Beasts?"
Hua Yutang nodded and said softly, "Follow me."
One after the other, the two of them arrived at a secret chamber deep within the Cave Mansion.
The chamber was completely empty. Nine ancient stone slabs were laid out on the floor, covered in simple, ancient Array Patterns and runes that looked like decorative markings.
Each of the nine stone slabs had a groove, in which an Upper-Grade Spirit Stone was embedded. They shone with a brilliant light, and the Spiritual Qi was dense.
Hua Yutang first activated the chamber’s isolation ward to ensure no aura would leak out, and only then did she activate the array.
The Grand Array flickered with light. Countless streams of spiritual light flowed through the Array Patterns, lighting up in sequence.
The two stood inside the Teleportation Array. Hua Yutang activated a Spell, sending a beam of spiritual light into the Grand Array.
「The next moment.」
Two flashes of white light shot through the array, and their figures vanished.
...
With a flicker, Fang Cheng and Hua Yutang appeared in a massive canyon.
As far as the eye could see was a colossal mountain wall soaring straight up. The rock was black and coarse. Looking up along the cliff face, the sky was just a thin, azure line!
This canyon was over a thousand zhang wide and impossibly deep.
At this moment, the two of them were standing on a stone platform jutting out from the canyon wall. Beneath their feet was a Teleportation Array whose spiritual light was slowly fading.
Fang Cheng glanced down from the stone platform; it was pitch-black and bottomless.
To think that this was the scene on the other side of the Teleportation Array... This was somewhat beyond Fang Cheng’s expectations.
Hua Yutang had already been here many times, so her expression was calm. "Junior Brother, let’s go up!"
With that, she flew up toward the sky above the canyon, and Fang Cheng followed close behind.
There wasn’t a trace of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the surroundings. The air was deathly still, filled with a terrifying silence.
The two flew upward for a full ten thousand zhang before they finally emerged from the canyon.
Fang Cheng looked around, unable to hide the shock on his face.
What entered his sight was an incomparably massive, black mountain. The canyon he had just flown out of was merely an insignificant fissure at its base.
Gazing into the distance, his entire view was filled with black rock and bizarrely shaped, strange trees, stretching all the way to the horizon.
Compared to this, Celestial City Peak, the greatest mountain on Yinluo Island, seemed like a small hill.
The two of them stood in the void, gazing up at this great mountain like two tiny specks of dust.
The sky was a vast azure, the sun blazed like fire, and all around was a deathly silence.
Seeing the shocked expression on Fang Cheng’s face, Hua Yutang smiled. "I gave this place a name: the Great Black Mountain. What do you think?"
