Chapter 552

Chapter 552: She Is Not The Only One About To Explode With Rage
No!

This had to be Yu Zhao deliberately messing with the path of his state of mind.

He had clearly seen it just now.

Yu Zhao had obviously chosen this mountain.

There was no way that was fake.

Feng Jiusi also gave a cold laugh and said: “Yu Zhao, if you still have time to chat with me, you might as well go look for another way out.”

Yu Zhao shook her head, said nothing, and simply left.

The calmer she was, the more uneasy Feng Jiusi felt.

But he had already left his own Soul Mark on this mountain. The result could no longer be changed, and he could not even leave before the assessment ended.

He clenched his fist in unease. His usual calm was gone.

After Yu Zhao left, she continued to fly through Painting Mountain for quite a while.

As time passed, more and more immortal mountains gained a Master, and there were not many choices left for her.

On top of that, she still had to avoid Jin Yuan, Ye Cong Xin, and the others, so she did not dare to fly too fast.

However, the more you fear something in your heart, the more likely you are to run into it.

Jin Yuan’s silhouette suddenly appeared within the range of her Divine Sense.

By the time Yu Zhao noticed, Jin Yuan was already charging in to kill her.

Right now Jin Yuan’s cultivation level was at the Early Void Refining Stage, while Yu Zhao was still at Divine Transformation.

That whole major realm difference was something Yu Zhao could not make up for no matter how careful she was.

Luckily, Yu Zhao was not without trump cards.

One hand controlled the Heavenly Pillar Array, while the other drove her flying artifact. She managed to keep a distance from Jin Yuan that was neither too far nor too close, and Jin Yuan could not catch up to her right away.

Ever since the first time she had let Yu Zhao escape, Jin Yuan had been burning with anger. Now that she saw Yu Zhao again, she did not even stop to think. She used her strongest killing move, determined to take Yu Zhao’s life.

Golden arrows poured down like rain, covering the sky as they slanted toward Yu Zhao.

But the Formation Array Arts blocked the way. Before those arrows even got close, their paths were already pushed off course. Many of them fell onto the immortal mountains on both sides.

A few slipped through the formation, but they were blocked again by Yu Zhao’s defensive magical artifact.

Jin Yuan’s pupils shrank.

Once again she realized that Yu Zhao was no longer that plaything who could only obey her orders.

The things on Yu Zhao’s body were more shocking one after another.

A cruel light flashed across Jin Yuan’s eyes.

That only meant she could not let Yu Zhao live even more.

She had to die!

As she thought of this, Jin Yuan’s five fingers clenched tight.

The rain of arrows all over the sky instantly gathered together and formed a single golden arrow as thick as a sky-supporting pillar.

The arrowhead gave off a fierce metallic killing aura. Even before it shot out, it was already slicing the space around it into strips of Space Rift.

Yu Zhao sensed the hair-raising aura behind her, and a smile actually spread in her eyes.

Then, under Jin Yuan’s unbelieving gaze, she suddenly stopped, turned around, and dove straight toward an immortal mountain she had flown past earlier.

That immortal mountain still had many holes left behind by the arrows.

“Yu Zhao!”

By the time Jin Yuan realized what Yu Zhao wanted to do, the giant golden arrow had already left the bowstring.

The huge arrow slammed into the light curtain with a boom.

The curtain trembled, then quickly returned to its original shape.

The giant arrow, under that huge impact, turned into golden sand and scattered with the wind.

“Ah!!!”

Jin Yuan was about to be driven mad with rage.

Just one step away!

Again, it was just one step away!

Yu Zhao had clearly been about to die, yet she had escaped another disaster at the last moment.

“Yu Zhao! Yu Zhao!”

In her heart, she screamed Yu Zhao’s name over and over. The way she looked at Yu Zhao was as cold and venomous as if it had been dipped in poison.

Yu Zhao looked back at her with a faint smile.

She really did have to thank Jin Yuan for helping her solve a problem.

Right now, the one whose lungs were almost bursting from anger was definitely not just Jin Yuan alone.

In the Daqian Alliance, Master Da Wei’s gaze fell on that hateful curve at the corner of Yu Zhao’s mouth, and his expression was extremely dark.

Had she stumbled into this by accident, or had she really discovered the tricks he had pulled?

No, it had to be luck.

Otherwise, with her cultivation level, how could she possibly have noticed that he had switched the positions of the immortal mountains?

Right, it was just good luck!

If not, Yu Zhao would have fallen for it the first time he tampered with the trial.

If that self-important idiot had not suddenly jumped out, Yu Zhao would already have been eliminated.

Originally, even if one plan failed, he could still carry out a second one.

But that crazy woman had attacked recklessly and left marks on the immortal mountain. If he tried to switch them again, he would definitely be exposed.

All he could do was swallow his anger and watch as Yu Zhao left a Divine Sense Mark on the mountain.

Master Da Wei was in a foul mood, and the Patriarch of the Nan Gong Clan was in an even worse one.

Although he still did not know whether the mountain Nan Gong Jie had found was real or fake, Nan Gong Jie’s attitude was already very clear.

Nan Gong Jie had grown estranged from the Nan Gong Clan.

Even if he failed to pass the assessment in the end, he would very likely never return to the Nan Gong Clan.

As the mastermind behind the scenes, the Patriarch of the Nan Gong Clan did not feel he owed him anything. Instead, he felt that Nan Gong Jie did not know the bigger picture.

Nan Gong Yin might have suppressed him, but the family clan had never treated him unfairly.

Besides, becoming the Young Patriarch of the Nan Gong Family had always been Nan Gong Jie’s own goal.

He had only helped Nan Gong Jie a little.

Nan Gong Jie should not blame him, and he even less should vent his anger on the whole Nan Gong Clan.

That was very irrational behavior.

Even though the Patriarch of the Nan Gong Clan had plenty of complaints in his heart, he still had no plans to give up on Nan Gong Jie.

After all, Nan Gong Jie was his son and the heir he valued. In the future, the entire Nan Gong Clan would be handed over to him.

He would also help Nan Gong Jie fix his twisted temper and turn him into a qualified Patriarch.

As for whether Nan Gong Jie passed the assessment or not, that really was not within the Nan Gong Clan’s range of concern.

With the Nan Gong Clan’s presiding elder here, whether Nan Gong Jie stayed or left would only take a single word.

The undercurrents hidden inside Painting Mountain were something outsiders did not notice.

But that did not stop Ancestor Sui Bian from spitting in the direction of the Jin Clan.

No, it was not just the Jin Clan. The Feng Clan did not escape either.

The family clans of the two people who had made things hard for Yu Zhao were both bombarded by his storm-like curses.

At first, the Jin Clan and the Feng Clan did not want to bother with him.

But Ancestor Sui Bian’s curses were really too nasty.

On top of that, there was a slick, pretty boy Sword Cultivator next to him, jumping in on every word.

The two of them played off each other. No matter how good their manners were, the people of the Jin and Feng clans were almost driven so mad that one Buddha would be born and a second would ascend to the heavens.

So the two sides started quarreling fiercely.

Ancestor Sui Bian and the Old Black Daoist did not need anyone else to help. The two of them alone fought a war of words against the crowd and did not fall behind at all.

The heads of several other family clans felt it was embarrassing, so they quietly moved away from the Jin Clan and the Feng Clan.

In the end, it was the Jin Clan and the Feng Clan who took a step back. The argument ended with Ancestor Sui Bian and the Old Black Daoist winning a great victory.

But there was not much joy of victory on their faces.

That brat from the Feng Clan was truly shameless. He actually stole the immortal mountain that Yu Zhao had her eye on. If he had the ability, why did he not go choose one himself and instead only set his sights on what others had already picked?

Bah!

And that Jin Yuan! One look and you could tell there was something wrong with her brain. Instead of thinking of ways to pass the trial, she chased Yu Zhao like a mad dog and would not let her go.

Yu Zhao must have used up eight lifetimes of bad luck to be targeted by those two.

They did not know whether the mountain Yu Zhao chose was a hasty choice to avoid disaster or something she truly liked.

They only hoped she would not fail at the final step and fall flat right at the critical moment.