Mortal Mage

Chapter 153 Far ahead

In the attic utility room, the smoke from the "Soul-Loving Incense" had already settled, leaving behind a choking floral scent.

"Master, don't you understand the formation? Quickly break this formation so we can escape."

Hua Yu helped Zhang Mingxuan up, frowned, and spoke in an anxious tone.

Zhang Mingxuan woke up drowsily, shook his head first, then rubbed his eyes and stood up.

He bent down and pulled up his trouser legs, took out the golden storage ring from his socks, then searched his body again and found that the two spirit stones engraved with spirit gathering arrays in his sleeves had been taken away by Bu Dazhen or Ye Buwen at some point.

He usually relies on this spirit stone engraved with a spirit gathering array to open his storage ring.

"Help me open the storage ring."

He stretched out his hand towards Hua Yu and opened his palm.

"Ah? Master, your storage ring is in your socks?"

The moment Hua Yu saw the ring, he widened his eyes in disbelief, and said tentatively, "It's not a good idea for a disciple to check Master's storage ring..."

In Hua Yu's understanding, a person's rare magic weapon or other means of survival are usually placed in a storage ring. Even if the person dies, the magic weapon will be buried with the owner's body. Otherwise, it will never be opened by others, not even by his own son.

Zhang Mingxuan's action was not surprising, and Hua Yu was already in the mood to kneel down.

"There's nothing rare in there except for spirit stones and a second-hand weapon bought at an auction. Just help me take out the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone."

He walked around the room, trying to find some clues to the rune veins.

"Well, good Master, I will definitely only take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone you mentioned, and will not look at anything else."

"Well, I may not be able to solve this formation in a short time. You'd better talk less and do more."

"Oh, then Master, I have opened it, okay?"

"Well, the forbidden formula, the flowers fall all over the ground."

"The ground is covered with red flowers? What a strange formula."

"Any questions?"

"No, no, Master..."

Hua Yu held the golden storage ring in her hand. The craftsmanship of the ring seemed ordinary at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that the flying beasts carved on the outer edge of the ring are extremely rare in the entire Cuiyun Continent.

She bowed slightly, looked at Zhang Mingxuan respectfully, and whispered again to confirm, "Then Master... I will start to open it, okay?"

"Ah."

"Master, I really opened it, huh?"

"Can't you open it?"

Zhang Mingxuan turned around and looked at Hua Yu with a frown.

Logically speaking, it is impossible not to be able to open the storage ring in the middle stage of foundation building.

When he finished speaking, Hua Yu opened the storage ring without hesitation.

"Wow."

Hua Yu's pretty face seemed to be shocked by something, and she stood there silently.

She had tried her best to restrain her consciousness and not look at the things in the storage ring that she shouldn't look at, but she was still dazzled by the overwhelming white and bright silver, the glittering gold, and the mountains of green low-grade spirit stones and blue medium-grade spirit stones in the ring.

There was a hint of haziness and drunkenness in her dreamy eyes. There was no surprise on her face. She was just lost in her own spiritual space in a trance.

"Can't find it? It's in the corner. There are lots of rice paper, charcoal sticks, brushes and ink."

Zhang Mingxuan squatted on the ground, and seemed to find no rune structure in the room.

"Wow……"

Hua Yu's expression was still intoxicated, her big watery eyes were slightly filled with intoxication, and her voice was soft and gentle.

"Hey."

Zhang Mingxuan turned around and gently patted Hua Yu's pretty face.

"what?"

Hua Yu retracted her spiritual sense and looked at Zhang Mingxuan's face before she realized she needed to take out the pen and ink. She hurriedly used her spiritual sense again to scan the storage ring.

The storage ring space is as big as a palace. If you don’t use your spiritual sense to scan it, it will take a lot of time to find a few pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

"Master, your storage ring has such a large space."

Hua Yu took out a pen, ink, and charcoal, and carefully handed the ring back to Zhang Mingxuan. "Master, where did you get so many spirit stones? Aren't you afraid that I will steal them?"

"Old Li said that if you betray your teacher and ancestors, you are violating the will of heaven and going against the way of heaven. At the very least, your chances will be frustrated, and at the worst, your mind will be unstable and you will go astray." Zhang Mingxuan took the ring and put it back around his ankle. "As the saying goes, don't employ a person you doubt, and don't doubt a person you employ."

"You don't need to doubt people, but you don't doubt people when you employ them?"

The overwhelming amount of gold and spiritual stones still echoed in Hua Yu's mind. She was completely devoted to this casual cultivator master.

Even the elders in the sect, who usually call their disciples "Master", are always on guard against rebellion. For a technique or a task, they will make the disciples engage in intrigue and hinder each other at every turn.

She followed Zhang Mingxuan around the room, thinking; "Don't employ people you doubt, and don't doubt people you employ. Master's words are very meaningful. If the elders in our sect can do this, there will be fewer unnecessary fights in daily life."

Zhang Mingxuan stopped, turned around, looked around, and did not respond to Hua Yu's words; "I'm afraid it's impossible. There is no rune structure in this room, unless I can reach the first level of Qi Refining."

"First level of Qi refining?"

Hua Yu stopped what she was about to say.

It would take at least twelve years for her master, who had useless spiritual roots, to cultivate to the Qi Refining level.

Zhoucheng will fall into the sea in thirty to fifty breaths at most, and then sink to the bottom of the sea. This room is isolated from the outside world. If there is no fresh air, it can only rely on spiritual energy to maintain it. It won't take long before it will be trapped to death in this formation. How can it be possible to wait for twelve years?

"Master, move aside, I will break the formation by force."

After she finished speaking, Hua Yu's expression was already filled with anxiety. She stepped to the window, raised the jade sword in her hand, and slashed at the window again with a "clang".

The window glowed with golden light, and rune lines flashed out.

"Wait, there it is!"

Zhang Mingxuan saw the golden light flashing with runes and moved closer to Hua Yu in surprise.