Chapter 358

Chapter 358: Big Profit

Yu Zhi Yi steadied herself a little, then asked: “Second question-does anyone know you came to Tian’an Commandery?”

Gao Wen Feng shut down and muttered: “No.”

That was exactly why he felt so crushed.

He had thought his high skill with formations would let him avenge his son with ease. When he first heard the news of his son’s death, he was furious and rushed out without thinking to tell his family; he came straight to Tian’an Commandery.

Yu Zhi Yi finally relaxed inside. The only incriminating image had already been destroyed, and no one knew where Gao Wen Feng went after leaving his clan. That meant she and her family were safe for now.

Thinking it over, she asked: “How strong is the Gao Clan?”

Gao Wen Feng answered with a numb face: “In the clan there are three experts at Foundation Establishment Peak, five at Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, and thirteen at Early-Stage Foundation Establishment; there are sixty-eight juniors at the Qi Refining stage. Besides that, there’s also a Golden Core Realm Ancestor guarding the clan.”

Yu Zhi Yi’s eyes widened: “!”

[Gasp.]

Right now she felt very lucky-lucky she hadn’t acted on impulse and killed Gao Wen Feng. If she had, she would have brought a huge disaster down on herself and the Jiang Clan. If the Gao Clan got angry, even the Emperor of the Great Sheng Empire might not be able to protect her or the Jiang Clan.

Seeing her grave expression, Gao Wen Feng brightened a little and sneered: “Scared now, aren’t you? If you’re scared, hurry up and let me go. Do that, and I can spare your Jiang Clan for knowing your place.”

Yu Zhi Yi looked at him calmly and raised her hand.

Before Gao Wen Feng could say another word, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Withdrawing her hand, Yu Zhi Yi whispered: “Looks like until I have absolute ability to protect myself, I can only keep you unconscious.”

She had no plan to let him go. With his kind of “hit the small ones, then bring the elders” personality, she was certain that if she released him, it would be a death sentence for her and the Jiang Clan. But she also couldn’t kill him. Next time, she might not be so lucky-what if the person who watched the killing image didn’t forget to tell others and watched it with a second person? If even one more person had seen it, this matter would never end well.

She couldn’t kill him and she couldn’t release him, so the only choice was to lock him up for now. The rest could wait until she had absolute strength.

Without Gao Wen Feng causing trouble, she easily broke the illusion formation, revealing what the place really looked like. Sure enough, this wasn’t a wasteland at all-it was a forest.

As soon as the illusion faded, Yu Zhi Yi met a pair of gold-and-black, bean-sized eyes.

The moment those gold-and-black eyes saw her, they looked like they had seen a ghost and turned to run.

Yu Zhi Yi calmly picked up a coil of rope that had fallen to the side and flicked it out. In a moment, Jinlin was tied up again.

This time Yu Zhi Yi didn’t gag it; she bound its whole body instead. And this time there was no Gao Wen Feng around to loosen the knots for it. She tied the rope in the style of a pendant cord; after making a neat bow on Jinlin, the other end could even hang from a belt. But Yu Zhi Yi didn’t do that. The little rascal wasn’t tamed yet, and she worried it might sneak a bite when she wasn’t ready.

She left a small hole in the rope at the back of its neck, just big enough for one finger. Sliding her index finger through, she simply lifted it and started searching through the forest.

Not far away lay eighteen shiny Spirit Stones scattered on the ground. Smiling, Yu Zhi Yi collected them into her Spatial Talisman.

Then she searched Gao Wen Feng from head to toe. Strangely, she didn’t find a Spatial Talisman, and he had no other container on him. So where were his Spirit Stones? He couldn’t have walked out of the Gao Clan hugging a big pile of Spirit Stones in his arms, could he?

Unwilling to give up, she searched him again, but still found nothing that looked like a Spatial Talisman. Frowning, Yu Zhi Yi’s gaze swept back and forth over him. She almost shook him awake so she could slap on a Truth-Telling Talisman and make him say where he had hidden his treasures.

Suddenly, her eyes landed on the rings on Gao Wen Feng’s right hand. The rings were very pretty, set with hundreds of tiny rubies-low-key but luxurious at a glance. He wore three rings like that on one hand.

Yu Zhi Yi carefully recalled the rich and powerful men she had seen. Plenty of men liked to wear accessories-her former father-in-law, Chancellor Du, once spent eight thousand taels of silver to win a Jade Thumb Ring at auction. (Of course, that Jade Thumb Ring ended up in her hands.) But man or woman, anyone with taste didn’t stack accessories. Most people wore only one ring; if they really liked them, maybe they put another on the other hand. Wearing three rings on the same hand like Gao Wen Feng? Too strange.

A spark of insight flashed through her mind: a storage ring.

As the name says, a storage ring can hold things-because there’s space inside the ring. It’s another kind of space container, higher-grade than a Spatial Talisman, more stable, and much safer.

Yu Zhi Yi pulled off one ring and tried to probe with her Divine Sense. As expected, she met Gao Wen Feng’s Divine Sense blocking her. But that block was useless-her cultivation was higher than his.

She had to admit, this guy’s stash was much bigger than his son’s. The son had only two Spirit Stones on him. Gao Wen Feng had dozens more besides the eighteen used for the formation. He also had quite a few Alchemy Pills. He didn’t carry much mundane gold or silver, but he had a lot of jade, all very high quality. There were also several Formation Manuals.

Yu Zhi Yi’s brows lifted as she took out the Formation Manuals and flipped through them. A smile touched her eyes. What a pleasant surprise.

She had dabbled in many skills, but only a little in each. In formations, her best work was defensive arrays. As for movement formations, she actually couldn’t arrange them; she could only find a Formation Core by experience. With these manuals, she believed her formation skills would improve quickly.

She repeated the process with the other two storage rings and found many things she didn’t recognize. One ring held stones of many colors. The other held boxes made of materials she couldn’t name.

Dusk was coming on. Without wasting more time, she put everything away, had a flying bird carry Gao Wen Feng to a hidden spot, then set out to find Marquis Wu’an’s heir apparent and the others.

Soon, she found the tree hollow Gao Wen Feng had mentioned. There was indeed a faint formation ripple outside the hollow. Clearly, Gao Wen Feng hadn’t put much care into this array, which also showed how confident he’d been in the earlier illusion formation.