Chapter 548

Chapter 548: To Save Myself, I Had No Choice
The Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators were infamous rogue cultivator Dao Companions in the Middle World.

They had once been Heaven’s Chosen of the same sect, but because they were not satisfied with the resources the sect gave them, they killed their Sect Master and seized his magic treasures. From then on, they roamed free outside the law.

Bei Ming Yan had long heard of their evil name, but she had never thought the two of them would actually dare to strike at them.

After all, in front of the three great families of Bei Ming, Dongfang, and Nan Gong, at best the two of them were only a little stronger than ants.

Unless the two of them did not know who they were.

But from the way they were looking at her, Bei Ming Yan did not think they were ignorant.

That left only one guess.

They believed that since they had passed the Third Trial, they no longer needed to fear the Three Great Families.

Nan Gong Jie said coldly: “You dare attack us, are you tired of living?”

The young woman gave a light laugh: “The ones about to die should be you.”

The man snapped: “Stop wasting words with them, kill them first!”

The man had an even hotter temper, and he moved to attack the three at once.

For the Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators to make such a name for themselves in the Middle World, it was clear they were not just empty reputation and fancy moves.

The two had known each other for many years. Their teamwork was seamless, their attack and defense both strong. Nan Gong Jie and the other two fell back again and again, and very soon they were at a complete disadvantage.

Bei Ming Yan gritted her teeth.

If this went on, all three of them would be injured, and things would only become even more dangerous.

“I will count to three. We split up and run.”

Whoever could escape would depend only on luck.

Nan Gong Jie and Dong Fang Yue were silent for a moment, then both nodded.

They could not think of a better plan either.

“Three, two, one! Go!”

As soon as the words fell, the three of them turned into streaks of light in three different colors and fled in three different directions.

The Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators shared a look, then, without any hesitation, chased after the same direction.

Feeling the aura behind him getting closer and closer, Nan Gong Jie’s brows knit so tightly it felt like he could pinch a fly to death between them.

He did not understand what the Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators were thinking. Among the Three Great Families, only the Nan Gong Clan had the deepest ties with the Daqian Alliance.

If they killed him, then even if they passed the Daqian Alliance’s test and went to the Great World, every step would be difficult.

Countless thoughts spun through Nan Gong Jie’s mind, but in the end they all turned into heavy despair.

He had finally held on until the Third Trial and proved himself in front of everyone. [Was he really going to stop here?]

“Run? Let me see where you think you can run!”

A harsh shout rang out.

A black and a white mass of mist, like two tangled dragons, chased tightly after him.

Nan Gong Jie knew that once these two streams of qi wrapped around him, he would never get a chance to escape.

Just when his heart was full of unwillingness, a faint voice suddenly sounded by his ear: “Run to the east.”

In his panic, Nan Gong Jie did not have time to care who was speaking. He turned his body and flew to the left.

The two qi dragons turned with him. After they flew forward a few more zhang, they suddenly stopped.

Then, under the shocked gazes of the Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators, the two dragons twisted around and crashed into each other.

The two streams of qi did not come from the same source, but their Masters’ minds were connected, and their strength was evenly matched. After a single breath, they both exploded with two dull bangs and vanished into the air.

The Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators halted, shock and doubt in their eyes.

“Someone interfered.”

They thought for a moment and quickly understood what had happened. Their faces darkened at the same time.

When they looked again, Nan Gong Jie had already fled far away.

It was too late to chase.

“Damn it, he actually got away!”

“Forget it. We never really thought it would go that smoothly anyway. Since we already received the payment, even if we don’t finish the job, they can’t do anything to us.”

Besides robbing and killing people for treasures, the Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators also secretly took some shady jobs.

Nan Gong Jie, Dong Fang Yue, and Bei Ming Yan were indeed juniors that the Three Great Families valued highly.

But there were just as many people who did not want them to live.

Using the Great Thousand Alliance Selection was a perfect chance to get rid of them.

So someone was willing to pay a heavy price to buy their lives.

Even so, the Yin Yang Wanderer Cultivators were not so crazy that they would throw away their own lives just for money.

They had made things clear from the start. They would do their best to complete the task, but the final result would depend on luck.

Nan Gong Jie’s luck was good.

It had let him pick up his life again.

The two looked once more in the direction Nan Gong Jie had fled, then turned and flew away.

Nan Gong Jie flew several hundred zhang, and after he was sure they were not chasing, he slowly began to slow down.

He clasped his hands and said: “Many thanks for your help, Fellow Daoist Yu.”

Just now, he had already remembered whose voice it was that warned him.

Yu Zhao stepped out from not far beside him and said: “Are you interested in working with me?”

Her impression of Nan Gong Jie was not bad.

Back when Ancestor Sui Bian had called for help, Nan Gong Jie, who had only met them a few times, had also answered the call and come.

In the end he had not been able to help, but Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian had not forgotten this favor.

Her first choice of partner had not been Nan Gong Jie. But since he had bumped into her here in Painting Mountain, she did not want to keep looking for someone else. She might as well help Nan Gong Jie once and form a team.

“Work together?” Nan Gong Jie looked at her, confused.

“I am going to seal all of my Spirit Power and Divine Sense in a moment. You will use your Spirit Power to support me and take me around to observe the surrounding immortal mountains.”

“You found a way to clear the trial?”

Nan Gong Jie’s eyes opened wide in surprise.

“Not yet. But if things go well, I should be close.”

Inside Painting Mountain, aside from the towering immortal mountains hanging in the sky, there was only endless cloud and mist.

If Yu Zhao sealed all of her Divine Sense and Spirit Power, she would not be able to stand in the mist at all, nor observe the mountains.

She could only find someone to work with her.

Nan Gong Jie raised a brow in a strange way: “If you seal all of your Spirit Power and Divine Sense, aren’t you afraid I will make a move against you?”

They had only met a few times.

Yet Yu Zhao was willing to hand her life over to him?

Yu Zhao smiled: “Look at your wrist.”

Nan Gong Jie stretched out his arm and looked.

Some time without his notice, a crescent-shaped mark had appeared on the inside of his wrist.

“You!”

“To save myself, I had no choice.”

Yu Zhao gave him an apologetic smile.

If she dared to do this, she had of course already left herself a safeguard.

Nan Gong Jie took a deep breath: “Fine, I will work with you.”

[What else could he do if he did not agree?]

Right now his life was in Yu Zhao’s hands.

And the one who made this condition was Yu Zhao. If it had been anyone else, even if it meant fighting to the death, he would never have given in so easily.

Yu Zhao closed her eyes. With a single thought, the Spirit Power in her meridians quickly gathered toward her Dantian, and the aura around her grew weaker and weaker.

At last, she formed a seal with both hands and sealed her Divine Sense inside her Sea of Consciousness as well.

In an instant, it was as if the world had rejected her. She lost all sense of everything.

Yu Zhao opened her eyes again, and her expression froze for a moment.

The immortal mountains that had sat quietly in the clouds now carried a faint gloomy, eerie air in her eyes.

Even the pure white clouds now seemed to be stained with a thin layer of haze.

The whole world looked as if it had not changed, yet also as if it had turned upside down.

“How does it feel?” Nan Gong Jie asked.

Yu Zhao hesitated for a moment: “Take me to a few other places to look.”

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