CHAPTER 410: 224, CHU KINGDOM PILL CAULDRON SCHOOL, GREEN VINE TALISMAN

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Proposing a 40-year agreement was just a temporary measure for Xu Xing.

He would not limit himself.

He had a countermeasure.

As early as before forming his Dao Pill, Xu Xing had built a Thousand Miles Teleportation Array within the Surging Jade Mansion, which could teleport him out of the Immeasurable Sect. Therefore, even with the supervision of Kang Han and Helan Lianjiang, Xu Xing was confident that he could escape.

But... once the teleportation array in the Surging Jade Mansion is activated, it should trigger the sect’s Sect Protecting Great Formation... Among the sects, the Sect Protecting Great Formation serves not only for defense and attack. Restraining the internal array techniques within the sect is also a basic necessity.

「Inside the living room of the Surging Jade Mansion.」

While Xu Xing was exchanging pleasantries with Gu Chengbin and the others over a few drinks, he secretly pondered his escape routes.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows.

When Xu Xing joined the Immeasurable Sect, he had already planned how to escape. In addition to the teleportation array in the Surging Jade Mansion, he had also built one in the Cave Mansion at the Crane Mountain Marketplace, which he had used several times. He had personally seen the layout of the defensive array technique at the Crane Mountain Marketplace; although complex, it did not have the spatial array technique to restrain teleportation arrays.

After all, the teleportation array technique is neither particularly difficult nor simple to create, and those proficient in it are truly few and far between. The most basic Hundred Miles Teleportation Array, though its principles are only at the level of second-tier array techniques, requires at least the skill of a fourth-level array master to fully comprehend and personally set up. Spatial array techniques are the most difficult type among all array techniques.

Thanks to the Tenth Heaven Immortal Destiny [Clear Array], Xu Xing’s understanding of array techniques was slightly different from ordinary people. As long as his array technique proficiency reached the second level, he could comprehend and set up any second-level array technique, simple or complex, provided he spent enough time on it.

Second level: Hundred Miles Teleportation Array.

Third level: Thousand Miles Teleportation Array.

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The banquet was at its midpoint.

Gu Chengbin excused himself, citing pressing official duties, and left the Surging Jade Mansion.

"Yun Shu Tea will have to be enjoyed next time..." Gu Chengbin refused with a smile. "I won’t take advantage of you, Junior Brother Chang." After handing a Storage Bag to Xu Xing, he turned into a streak of rainbow light and disappeared into Golden Rainbow Valley.

Next, Xu Xing ordered the Strong Men in his Cave Mansion to remove the Spiritual Feast from the table.

He took out a Jade Box from his sleeve, pinched some Tea Leaves from it, placed them in the Teapot, and then used Snow Spirit Water as the spring water for brewing.

The Yun Shu Tea was quite valuable. An ounce was worth five or six hundred thousand Spirit Shells.

Soon, the tea, heated by spiritual fire, was bubbling and steaming.

Xu Xing took out tea cups, poured several cups, and had the Immortal Maidens serve them to Kang Han and Helan Lianjiang at the small tables before them.

The Immortal Maidens and Strong Men belonged to the Chen Family, which was under the protection of the Surging Jade Mansion. For this banquet held for the two True Monarchs, the Chen Family dared not be negligent and had their most beautiful legitimate daughters serve as Immortal Maidens.

"Yun Shu Tea from Ze Sheng Forest, this is a treasure of the Clan Leader. Ever since my privileges within the clan were suspended..." Kang Han began, tasting the tea and watching the wisp of mist rise from the brown brew in his cup. He sighed lightly and said with emotion, "Even I, a Senior Brother of our lineage, haven’t had this tea for a long time."

He belonged to the Ze Sheng Forest lineage and was one of the few True Monarchs in the clan. Yet, he couldn’t even obtain the Yun Shu Tea that the clan produced in abundance, faring worse than an outsider like ’Chang Kun’.

"Junior Brother Kang, don’t worry about it. You are still one family; it’s just that Chief Kang hasn’t come to his senses yet..." Seeing Kang Han’s self-pity, Helan Lianjiang, seated next to him, immediately consoled him.

He smiled reassuringly, "You are all brothers of the same clan. In a few decades, just apologize to him. There’s no animosity that cannot be resolved."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xing also became curious, interrupting his private thoughts to focus on this piece of gossip.

The gossip of high-level members sometimes revealed information that could even determine the course of a power’s fate.

He put down his teacup, ordered the Immortal Maidens and Strong Men to withdraw, and then asked, "Brother Kang, Brother Helan, from what I’ve observed, Chief Kang doesn’t seem like a petty man; he’s fair and generous. So how did grievances arise between you and him, Brother Kang?"

Chief Kang Sheng is the direct son of Ze Sheng Ancestor and Kang Yu’s biological father... I haven’t had much contact with Kang Sheng, but after Kang Yu offended me previously, he took the initiative to apologize and invited me to a banquet in Ze Sheng Forest to make amends... Just from the family’s conduct, Kang Sheng’s character shouldn’t be that of someone who’d be jealous of talent or virtue. He wouldn’t go as far as to dispute with a cultivator at the Dao Pill Peak within the clan, allowing people inside and outside the clan to gossip about it and tarnish Ze Sheng Forest’s reputation.

"It’s shameful to admit," Kang Han hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and sighed. "Indeed, this matter is my fault. More than three hundred years ago, the clan was preparing to finalize the selection of candidates for future Nascent Formation... Within Ze Sheng Forest, only the Clan Leader and I had reached the Dao Pill Later Stage in our cultivation..."

"The Clan Leader is the second-generation direct descendant of Ze Sheng Ancestor, while I am merely a great-grandson from the fifth generation. In terms of closeness to the Ancestor, the Clan Leader naturally holds the upper hand."

"Moreover, during my progression to the True Monarch stage, the Clan Leader also provided me with much assistance."

Xu Xing nodded, not doubting these words.

Although Kang Han and Kang Sheng were only two to three hundred years apart in age, this age difference was enough to predetermine many things. Perhaps when Kang Sheng reached the Returning Core Realm at the age of 200, Kang Han was still a newborn child, crawling on the ground. Just like him and Song Knife. When he was a mortal and had not yet come into contact with the Immortal Path, Song Knife was a historical figure recorded in ancient books, and he did not believe that this Founding Emperor was actually a living person.