Chapter 328

Chapter 328: A Very Dangerous Feeling

At first, she felt nothing for this suddenly returned second sister-no hope, but no hate either. It was only because Chen Xin Yue kept whispering that the newcomer would steal everything from her that she began to feel tense.

But what happened these last few days overturned everything she thought she knew.

In her eyes, her father had always been tall and unshakable, yet he bowed and scraped to someone else. And the lord her powerful father tried so hard to please treated that newly found second sister with deep respect.

[Would someone like that really need to steal from me? Steal what? If even the Martial Alliance isn’t worth her notice, what could I possibly have that she wants?]

Her heart was torn. The seed of suspicion had already been planted. Even if she knew it was pointless to treat the other girl as an enemy, a wall had risen inside her; being warm, easy sisters was no longer possible.

In the end, she could only comfort herself: [Even if they respect you and try to please you, you cursed their son. If nothing bad actually happens today, they’ll still resent you for it.]

Suddenly, a little maid ran in and said, “Eldest Miss, Miss Chen invites you.”

Jiang Si Ying gave a cold laugh, then said, “My father confined her so she wouldn’t run around spouting nonsense. If she can’t come out to stir trouble, does she want me to go in and watch her put on a show?” She flicked her sleeve and left, leaving the little maid baffled.

Night fell. The sky was pitch-black, with no stars and no moon.

Yu Zhi Yi opened her eyes from meditation. Listening to the wind howling outside, the corner of her lips lifted: “Finally.”

On her first day in Minghan, she had noticed a problem with the mountain’s feng shui-someone had set up a luck-shifting formation. But the formation core wasn’t on the mountain. To be exact, it was hidden away. Also, this formation wasn’t like the luck-shifting formations she knew.

The one on Mount Ming was “dead.” Even so, Mount Ming’s fate had clearly been drained by more than half, while a lot of misfortune and deathly energy had been pulled in from elsewhere. This meant the formation was normally closed and only ran after it was triggered.

She hadn’t found the trigger in the past few days, so she even wondered if a person had to open it by hand. But just now, when the wind rose, she clearly felt the formation start to run.

Days earlier, while walking the mountain, she had secretly buried defensive talismans. Her talismans didn’t just defend; they also watched. If anyone touched the defensive array, she would immediately sense that person’s figure and aura.

But just now… the defensive array hadn’t been touched at all.

[Interesting.]

Yu Zhi Yi moved and left the courtyard. She was so fast that, in the blink of an eye, she vanished. Even the guards in the yard didn’t notice anything wrong, and they certainly didn’t know that the person they were supposed to protect was already on the back mountain.

With the formation running, nothing could hide from her eyes. She quickly found where the formation core lay.

“So that’s how it is. The person who set this up really is a genius,” she murmured.

This formation didn’t need a person to open it. The wind opened it. Simply put, the wind was turned into the energy that powered the array. The stronger the wind, the stronger the formation.

By chance, it hadn’t been windy at all in the days since she returned, so the formation had never started. If today’s weather hadn’t changed, she might not have found the key so soon.

Following the tracks of the array, she soon discovered the formation core hidden in a secret spot.

For such a vicious formation, she didn’t need any fancy moves. If she destroyed the array straight on, the one behind it would suffer backlash. She didn’t have time to play a slow game. The sooner she dragged out the mastermind, the sooner Mount Ming would have a clear sky again. Then, when she returned to the Capital City later, she could rest easy.

She gathered spiritual energy at her fingertips to shatter the formation core-when a heavy chill rose in her heart, cold and suffocating like Death’s gaze.

Without thinking, she used her lightness skill and leapt away. The instant she left, a giant crater appeared where she had been standing, as if the ground had been struck by thunder. The marks looked almost the same as the pits left when she faced heavenly lightning during her foundation breakthrough. A faint burnt smell filled the air.

Strangely, no one was around.

Yu Zhi Yi narrowed her eyes and gathered spiritual energy again. Sure enough, that hair-raising threat crept near once more.

With a cold snort, she flung three talismans, and at the same time, she hurled out the spiritual energy in her hand.

Her energy hammered the formation core, and the three Heavenly Thunder Talismans slammed into the hidden thing preparing to ambush her.

A sharp wail split the night. Whatever had been lurking could no longer stay invisible-it was a person in a black cloak! The cloak hung in tatters, and the body beneath jerked a few times, then went limp. He was dead.

Yu Zhi Yi drew a sword from a Spatial Talisman, hooked away the mask on the corpse’s face, and revealed a charred, blackened face. “Tsk. What a shame-an invisibility cloak that good.”

Since she started cultivation, she’d been very sensitive to auras. She was sure she had never met this person. At least his aura was completely strange to her.

With the formation broken, she checked the area again. Seeing nothing left undone, she planned to call someone to deal with the body.

She didn’t know that the dying scream, plus the sudden thunder on the back mountain, had scared the Jiang clan people badly. They rushed up the mountain to see what had happened. Jiang Yu Wei and Jiang Yu Chuan, the two brothers, arrived first. The other Jiang clan brothers wanted to come too, but they stayed behind to calm the guests.

Seeing the body on the ground, Jiang Yu Wei’s face changed as he demanded, “What happened? Why did you kill him?”

Martial world experts were keen to aura; with one look he could tell the man had stopped breathing.

Jiang Yu Chuan knew his daughter would never act without cause, so he asked, “Jin’er, are you hurt?”

Jiang Yu Wei: “…”

Facing sister-obsessed types and daughter-slaves every day was exhausting. A man had died, yet his older brother only cared if his daughter was hurt?

But neither father nor daughter paid him any mind. Yu Zhi Yi explained to Jiang Yu Chuan, “He wasn’t from the martial world. He was from the Mystic Sect. He attacked me with a Lightning Command Talisman, and I killed him.”

She stated the reason first, then added her findings: “Father, do you remember I said someone messed with Mount Ming so everyone living here was having their fate stolen?”

Of course Jiang Yu Chuan remembered. He also remembered she had said the method was very clever-she had found traces of a formation but not the formation core.

“Did you find the formation core?” he asked.

Yu Zhi Yi nodded and said, “I did. He jumped out when I was about to destroy it.”

She felt a bit regretful. The fastest way to reach the mastermind would have been to capture this cloaked man and force a confession. But the danger he gave off had been too strong. She hadn’t had time to think and had thrown three Heavenly Thunder Talismans on instinct. Though both were lightning talismans, a Heavenly Thunder Talisman was more than ten times stronger than a Lightning Command Talisman.