MEIWITA Chapter 731: Many People Trapped

Lou Mu Yan grew thoughtful when she heard Ming Xiu’s words and had a vague premonition that they might encounter many things in Cang’lan Secret Realm this time.

She looked sideways to the two clans who were besieged together with the Ming Palace Royal Clan, then quickly retrieved her gaze.

The twelve people were even frightened when they saw her gaze suddenly shift towards them, but they really had nothing to do with the group of beasts, and they were also victims.

“Ninth Younger Brother, the several of us want to go to a place to find something, so we won’t remain with you.” The Second Prince deliberated a bit, then walked to Ming Xiu with a smile, looking like a good elder brother.

He really never considered getting rid of Ming Xiu in the Cang’lan Secret Realm. They were blood-related brothers. Although there were relatively large conflicts of interests, but they hadn’t reached the point where he’d kill his own brother.

But after seeing Lou Mu Yan’s strength just now, he wanted to leave with his party. Otherwise with the strength of these two, they might not be able to share much when they encountered good things.

“Alright, Second Elder Brother, take care.” Ming Xiu replied with a nonchalant smile.

The Ming Palace Royal Clan won a total of two tokens this time and had the Second Prince and Ming Xiu lead a team each. Each team was also filled with people who were close to them.

The Second Prince came to Cang’lan Secret Realm with his own secrets, and Ming Xiu wasn’t interested in knowing about it at all.

People from the other two clans weren’t familiar with Ming Xiu nor the Second Prince, so they politely bid their farewells and left.

In the end, Ming Xiu and his five teammates were left. Lou Mu Yan recognised three people—the Seventh Prince whom she met in the private room that time, the Fifth Prince who hadn’t spoken a word, and the Eighth Princess who appeared gentle and refined. There were also two people who she had never met before.

“Ninth Younger Sister-in-Law, I haven’t seen you for more than a year and you’re even more beautiful now.” The Seventh Prince walked in front of Lou Mu Yan and said with self-perceived elegance and a smile.

Ming Xiu knew that his seventh elder brother had coveted Lou Mu Yan before, so he tightened his arm around Lou Mu Yan and tossed over a cold dagger-like gaze.

“Seventh Prince, you’re too polite.” Lou Mu Yan replied indifferently. Her man truly was so easily jealous.

The Seventh Prince couldn’t stand Ming Xiu’s cold daggers and took two steps back with an awkward smile and asked: “What should we do now?”

Ming Xiu looked down at Lou Mu Yan, “What does Yan’er think?”

“We’ve all accepted missions from the Mercenary Union, so we need to go to several places right now, and it’s also relatively dangerous.” Lou Mu Yan said truthfully.

“Together.” Ming Xiu said decisively without any hesitation: “We also have a mission.”

Others knew the relationship between the two, and also knew Ming Xiu’s strength and decisiveness. The most important task of the five of them after entering Cang’lan Secret Realm was to assist Ming Xiu to obtain a spiritual item ordered by the royal family, so it didn’t matter what they decided.

Lou Mu Yan nodded when she saw that Ming Xiu’s teammates had no objection: “Sure!”

Then she turned and looked at An Yu Qian, asking: “Yu Qian, why don’t we summarise our respective missions. The Union didn’t require us to complete them independently, as long as we obtain the mission items.”

“Sure!”

So the pupils of the Mercenary Union, Alchemy Pagoda, as well as Ming Xiu’s people gathered together to discuss their next route to take.

When they were summing up the tasks, in a hidden cave at the bottom of a clear lake in Guang’ling Realm.

At this moment, there were many powerhouses at Celestial Unification Realm sitting within.

They were watching the situation in Cang’lan Secret Realm through a water curtain projection in the cave.

They watched Lou Mu Yan and Lan Yan Huan team up to break the restriction, and also watched Lou Mu Yan release the Scarlet Bee swarm and her group of spirit pets to easily wipe out the high-level beast tide. Many people’s eyes revealed interest.

“Old Feng, is this Lou Mu Yan the daughter of Feng Yue Xin from your Feng Clan?” An elderly man sitting beside the Ancestor of the Feng Clan asked with a smile. 

The Ancestor of the Feng Clan smiled and stroked his beard, “Haha, little Mu Yan is indeed the treasure of our Feng Clan.”

Meanwhile the Ancestor of the Ming Clan beside Emperor Ming said with a smile: “She’s from the Feng Clan now, but she will enter the Ming Clan in the future.”

Ancestor Feng glared at the Ancestor of the Ming Clan, “There’s not even the first stroke of the character eight1, don’t you Ming Palace Royal Clan come to snatch our Feng Clan’s Yan girl.”

“Little girl is already cuddling and hugging with our Ninth Prince in public but you say there’s not even the first stroke of the character eight, Old Feng, you’re too modest.” Ancestor Ming said with a cheerful smile.

He was very satisfied with Lou Mu Yan right now. Only such a woman was worthy of his great-grandson.

Emperor Ming also raised a smile on his lips, “My ninth son’s wife really surprises people constantly.”

“…” Ancestor Feng had a new understanding of how thick the skin of the Ming Clan was.

People from the other families all revealed thoughtful expressions when they heard what they said.

“You don’t need to argue anymore, the little girl is a good seed of our Mercenary Union. Even if she gets married in the future, she’ll still belong to our Union.” The Ancestor of the Mercenary Union said with smugness.

“…” Ancestor Feng and Ancestor Ming were speechless.

Emperor Ming raised an eyebrow: “Whatever the case, little girl still belongs to my ninth son.”

“…” The other powerhouses present all couldn’t resist twitching their lips.

They were observing talents with potential, how’d it turn into a person-snatching competition.

“Alright now, Lou Mu Yan and Ming Xiu are both very talented. If they could obtain one of the several treasures in Cang’lan Secret Realm, then they can be added to the shortlist.” A handsome man that looked in his twenties in cyan clothes who sat independently at the head of the group spoke faintly.

He had a youthful appearance, but his entire body exuded a daunting and fierce aura, and the powerhouses present at the Celestial Unification Realm, including Emperor Ming, had a faint sense of awe and veneration for him.

He was the most powerful person in the Human Realm, famous throughout for thousands of years. The methods he cultivated had the effect of halting his appearance, so he had maintained his appearance in his twenties for thousands of years, but few people dared to challenge him.

“Yes.”

Hearing the cyan-clothed man’s words, the Ancestor of the Feng Clan, Emperor Ming, and Ancestor Ming all revealed smiles in their eyes.

If they could be added to the shortlist, then it wouldn’t be difficult for Ming Xiu and Lou Mu Yan to breakthrough to Upper Unification Realm with their talent.

In Cang’lan Secret Realm, Lou Mu Yan and the others comprehensively studied their respective missions and found that a route could be formed, so they rushed towards the first mission point.

And the news that Lou Mu Yan had a huge advanced-level Scarlet Bee swarm quickly spread in Cang’lan Secret Realm, making many people very fearful of her.

In the Cang’lan Secret Realm, not only did advanced-level demonic beasts exists, but there was also a kind of native creature, half-human, half-demon.

Some of them were physically strong, while others were proficient in various techniques, such as fireballs, which were very powerful in their hands.

The pressure of the royal race released by Mo Yan could suppress demonic beasts from making surprise attacks, but it was useless against such half-human, half-demon creatures.

When Lou Mu Yan and the others obtained the first mission item for a pupil from the Alchemy Pagoda, they encountered this kind of half-human, half-demon, and it took a lot of effort to kill them successfully.

Three days later, when they arrived at a large river, they saw that most of the pupils of various clans who had entered Cang’lan Secret Realm were trapped on the riverbank, including the members of the Lan Clan, and the other three major forces.

Looking beyond, the other side of the river was filled with creatures holding all kinds of simple and primitive magic tools, with human bodies and demon tails. The cultivation base they released was very strong and were practically all Heaven Elemental Realms.

Most importantly was that some of them could use the elemental law of water to arrange a kind of restriction-like domain, and all Sword Masters who crossed the river without authorisation would be killed by them.

There were many corpses of human Sword Masters floating on the river, and blood stained a large area of the clear riverbed.

1in ancient China, and some still do it in modern China, potential marriage partners would exchange the eight characters (in four pairs)—the year, month, day, and hour of each person’s birth—to be used in fortune telling and see if they’re suitable. When someone says ‘there’s not even the first stroke of the character eight’ (八字还没一撇) it just means nothing has even taken shape yet, what’s the hurry.