Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Hand over the Liangyi Immortal Jade?!

Chu Wunian’s words left the Chu Family cultivators staring at each other in stunned silence.

It was true that if they handed it over, Su Ye wouldn’t be able to get the Liangyi Immortal Jade. But this Spiritual Object would likely have nothing to do with their Chu Family anymore, either.

’Is this...?’

"Ancestor, the Liangyi Immortal Jade is our Chu Family’s heirloom. This..."

"It’s just a pair of fourth-rank Spiritual Objects. What’s there to be reluctant about?" Chu Wunian rose to his feet, clasping his hands behind his back, exuding the aura of a Golden Core Ancestor!

He offered no explanation, simply issuing his command.

"Get it done! Quickly!"

"We have our people in the Flame Alliance. Take the Liangyi Immortal Jade today and send it to the Sulfur Strait!"

"Yes!"

"We obey the Ancestor’s decree!"

The cultivators replied in a panic, hastily bowing before taking their leave.

As the Golden Core Ancestor, Chu Wunian’s will was absolute within the Chu Family!

The younger generation of Chu Family cultivators could offer suggestions regarding his decisions, but once Chu Wunian made up his mind, all they could do was carry out his orders!

He watched the younger family members scatter like frightened birds and beasts.

The corner of Chu Wunian’s mouth twitched, and he couldn’t help but press a hand to his forehead and sigh, a hint of helplessness on his face.

’This batch of the Chu Family’s younger generation... their temperament is, more or less... somewhat lacking.’

’Forget it.’

Chu Wunian shook his head.

’Temperament is the kind of thing that regresses to the mean. There’s nothing to be done about it.’

Besides,

with a Golden Core Ancestor like him to shelter them from the storm,

being average was good enough.

...

Then,

he continued to ponder and formulate his strategy.

Handing the Liangyi Immortal Jade over to the Flame Alliance was only the first step.

Chu Wunian calculated:

’The Liangyi Immortal Jade will be used for the Luotian Illusion Array, serving as a Luotian Array for this super Array in the Sulfur Strait.’

’Once the Liangyi Immortal Jade enters the Luotian Illusion Array and becomes an array foundation point, not even the Council will be able to forcibly remove it in a short period of time.’

The Luotian Illusion Array.

It was a strategic-level Array.

The power of this Array was beyond doubt!

To put it this way, each Luotian Array was equivalent to a fourth-rank Array!

And over ten of these Luotian Arrays combined with each other to form the complete Luotian Illusion Array!

The Flame Alliance had spent immense resources to set up this super composite Array, which was how they managed to stabilize the front lines and create a stalemate after a major defeat!

This super Array was like a great wall on the sea, and the Luotian Arrays were the fortress nodes along that wall.

For this reason, these Luotian Arrays required a fourth-rank Spiritual Object to anchor them. And once a fourth-rank Spiritual Object was placed in an array point as an anchor, replacing it was extremely troublesome!

What’s more, within the Flame Alliance, the Wanlong Commerce Association was only one of the alliance’s leaders; it did not have absolute authority!

Once the Liangyi Immortal Jade was in the Array, trying to replace it would involve no small amount of bureaucratic wrangling!

’This will buy me some time to lay out my plans...’

Chu Wunian’s gaze was ice-cold as he muttered to himself.

"First, I definitely can’t make a move myself."

"After all, with Mr. Yun watching, I’ll have no opportunity."

"But... just because I can’t act doesn’t mean I can’t... borrow a knife to kill someone!"

A sharp glint flashed in Chu Wunian’s eyes!

The Sulfur Strait.

He had also carefully chosen this location.

It was a critical place, the very front line of the standoff between the two great powers, the Flame Alliance and Candle Python Cave. The air was thick with gunpowder; cultivators died there at almost every moment!

Of course, he was also aware of Su Ye’s strength. Having been able to defeat Chu Jiangheng, Su Ye was already without rival below the Golden Core realm!

"In that case... I’ll find a Golden Core!"

"Heh... The greedy brat has woven his own cocoon!" Chu Wunian sneered. Normally, getting a Golden Core expert from an enemy faction to act would be very troublesome.

In fact, it was nearly impossible. After all, while the Chu Family might be a bit selfish, they were not traitors.

Why would a Golden Core expert from an enemy faction listen to his suggestions?

However,

according to his information,

Su Ye’s demand for the Nether River Soul Gold had given Chu Wunian an opportunity!

"I imagine... Yinshan of Candle Python Cave would be very interested in this fourth-rank Spiritual Object?" Chu Wunian murmured to himself, rubbing his fingers together.

This was exclusive information he possessed; not even the Wanlong Commerce Association knew about it.

During the last great battle, he had crossed blades with Yinshan.

And in the middle of their fight, Chu Wunian had personally witnessed Yinshan take out multiple pieces of third-rank Soul Gold and feed them to his life-bound Spiritual Treasure, the Yin Mountain Seal!

This Golden Core expert from Candle Python Cave.

’The life-bound Spiritual Treasure he wields... it seems to be able to devour Soul Gold to raise its quality?’

Chu Wunian had a sharp eye. According to his analysis, the probability of this was very high!

And Nether River Soul Gold was of the highest grade among this type of Spiritual Object!

Presumably, Yinshan would not remain indifferent after learning that Su Ye possessed Nether River Soul Gold.

"Of course..."

"The premise is that I have to find a way to make Su Ye go to the Sulfur Strait..." Chu Wunian said to himself. In his eyes, that wasn’t difficult.

The Liangyi Immortal Jade was the fragrant bait!

Replacing a Spiritual Object in a Luotian Array was no simple matter.

It required multiple high-rank Array Masters to spend a long time working on it, making it incredibly troublesome... And in the Day Flame Sea Region, available high-rank Array Masters were few and far between.

The reason was simple.

The Luotian Illusion Array.

In order to maintain this super composite Array that spanned over a hundred thousand li, the Flame Alliance wished they could split every high-rank Array Master in two to get more work out of them!

The Chu Family wouldn’t even need to do anything extra.

At a critical time like this, there were already not enough high-rank Array Masters to go around, let alone enough to replace the Spiritual Object in an array core!