Chapter 219 Searching for the Array Core
"Charge!" Mu Jianjian raised her finger and pointed at the people on the sand city, a triumphant smile playing on her lips.
Even if her true energy is sealed and she has no cultivation, she can still fight alongside these people to improve her body's instinctive reaction speed.
Mu Jianjian watched as these people poured into the city through various gates according to the original plan, while she sat on the highest rooftop, looking down at the scene below.
"Thank you for your help."
At some point, Lu Shaocheng appeared beside Mu Jianjian, his expression a mixture of joy, excitement, and gratitude.
"No need to thank me. I didn't do much to get here. Besides... I just wanted to break the barrier and get out of the sand cave so I could enter the East District." Mu Jianjian's gaze fell on the city below, watching the panicked and fleeing crowd. The sigh on her lips disappeared into the air.
“Miss Mu, you don’t need to sympathize with these people. They have lived in the sand cave for a long time and committed all kinds of evil. When they drove us to our deaths and left us on the cliff, they never thought of letting us live.”
Lu Shaocheng's eyes were deep, concealing much hatred and resentment.
"I have no sympathy for them." Mu Jianjian slowly touched her cheeks with both hands, the uneven marks on them showing the severity of her wounds.
She could never forget the pain Baili Yicheng had inflicted on her, so how could she possibly sympathize with the people in the city who were about to be trampled to death by the monsters?
"Why does Miss Mu look unhappy?" Lu Shaocheng turned to look at the girl who was wearing a tattered dress but whose temperament was still undeniable.
He had been paying attention to her ever since he entered Shacheng, and his initial joy turned into his current depression in just a short moment.
"Because I haven't eaten in a long time, I'm very hungry," Mu Jianjian blinked, turned to look at Lu Shaocheng, and said this calmly before asking, "Don't you need to keep an eye on them?"
With the monsters now rampant in the city and no one daring to stop them, shouldn't Lu Shaocheng be directing those people to plunder the city's resources?
“With the boss here, there won’t be any problems. It will take a long time for the person in charge of the East District to send cultivators over. How could they have time to come and see if we’re fighting over vegetables or anything like that?” Lu Shaocheng hurriedly explained, but found that the girl’s expression remained calm, as if she didn’t care about his answer.
"This is just the first step. What will you do once the people in charge of the East District realize what's happening and kill the monster here?" Mu Jianjian covered her eyes.
Disrupting the East District to seize resources is certainly a good thing, but her purpose is not limited to that, and she believes Lu Shaocheng is as well.
“No, Miss Mu,” Lu Shaocheng shook his head slightly after a moment of surprise, “The highest-ranking person in charge of the East District is a Foundation Establishment cultivator. If we wait until everything is over and let them adjust, our cave’s chances of winning are extremely slim.”
Mu Jianjian raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised by their decisiveness.
But was such a decision made too hastily?
You should know that the only cultivator in their Sand Cave, that big man, was only at the Qi Condensation stage. How could he possibly fight against the person in charge of the Eastern District?
“Miss Mu, there’s no need to worry. We will have people in the East District to take care of you. If this trip fails, it won’t implicate you,” Lu Shaocheng said urgently.
"Take care of?" Mu Jianjian tilted her head.
“Yes, someone from the East District has already contacted us. If we can distract them, we can try to take it down in one fell swoop. After all, we in Shaku are outnumbered and have no way out.” Lu Shaocheng smiled bitterly.
"Then let's go." Mu Jianjian stood up from the city wall, looking at the ground a hundred meters away without any fear. She used the trees by the wall to leap lightly and landed lightly on the ground in a few steps.
Lu Shaocheng didn't react immediately, "Then where do we go?"
He climbed down the tree with some difficulty and followed closely behind Mu Jianjian.
"Of course we're going to the very center of the East District. Didn't we say we were going to kill those people?" Mu Jianjian answered matter-of-factly.
“Miss Mu, there are cultivators everywhere there,” Lu Shaocheng said, listening to the noisy sounds of demonic beasts running rampant in the city and crashing into houses not far away. “Let’s go in together after the demonic beasts enter the East District.”
Those are Foundation Establishment cultivators!
A Foundation Establishment cultivator can cause the heavens and earth to collapse and turn everything into dust with a single move. He had never seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator in his entire life, and no matter how determined he was, he couldn't help but feel fear.
“No need, you can wait for me here,” Mu Jianjian stopped and turned to the thin boy, patiently explaining, “I’m not worried about your mission failing, I’m just afraid that if we arrive late, the people in the East District will believe that the Resurrection Technique will destroy the raft leading to the outside world.”
If she can't get out of the sand cave, then everything she did today will be of little significance.
Lu Shaocheng did not understand what the other person was saying. He looked confused and still only had a vague understanding.
“The sand cave has been sealed off at the edge by outsiders. If the people from the East District can get out, it means there is a so-called array eye here,” Mu Jianjian’s expression became more serious, “an array eye that leads to the outside.”
If the array's core is destroyed, how will she get out of this sand cave?
"But most of the people there are cultivators. One wrong move and you'll be smashed to pieces!" Lu Shaocheng knew that the other party had some skill and strength, but he still spoke up to advise him.
"You don't need to come along." Mu Jianjian dared to go to the Xuan Tian Secret Realm alone when she first started cultivating, so she dares to go to the Manager's Mansion to find the array eye now.
Instead of being afraid, face it.
Lu Shaocheng stared blankly as the girl left him with a single sentence and walked away without looking back, his thoughts drifting far away.
He has not been in contact with the outside world for many years, and his impression of the outside world is still stuck more than ten years ago.
For Lu Shaocheng, the most valuable thing was the resources within the Eastern District. If today's plan succeeded, he felt there was nothing more worthwhile to strive for.
After all, we've already gotten the best of everything.
But when the girl repeatedly brought up the outside world, he realized that the sand cave was not the whole story, and that he had never regained his freedom.
Thinking of this, Lu Shaocheng watched the girl's figure disappear and hurriedly followed after her.
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"Boom—boom—"
The furious roars of the demonic beasts resounded in the ears of everyone in the East District. The furious roars almost pierced their eardrums, and some people without cultivation even had blood flowing from their ears and dripping to the ground, but they couldn't care less about that.
Everyone wanted to escape this place, but many were caught by the claws of the monsters and died instantly.
In the chaos, no one noticed the figure of a slender young girl walking towards the steward's residence.
From afar, Mu Jianjian saw a brightly lit mansion in chaos, with countless people fighting and entangled inside. She took out a Qi-condensing talisman from her system space, affixed it to her body, and ran past the people in the courtyard towards the back of the mansion.
"Click—"
Mu Jianjian lifted a tile from the roof, the faint sound going unnoticed by anyone.
Light shone through the gaps in the eaves, and she looked down into the room.
"What should we do? I don't want to be killed by that mad demon outside!" an old man with white hair said to the black-clad servant beside him.
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