Ying Xiong was initial nascent soul and ready to cross over to mid nascent soul at any time. Lu Yunâs brand on his heart and mind was slightly weaker than the one on Ying Wuâs. After being attacked by the young man, Ying Wuâs current mentality was unbelievably fragile.
The golden core and foundation establishment gang members trembled when they thought of Lu Yun. The death of their leader with two kicks and the final blow from goodwill had caused deep trauma.
âThatâs right, the Black Tortoises have a great number of experts. As strong as the young man is, he is only golden core. Big brother wouldnât have died so easily if not for underestimating his opponent and failing to use his treasures,â Ying Wu forced out through grit teeth and spoke around the fear shaking his heart.
âLetâs go!â Ying Xiong set his jaw and stood up.
The second sister they mentioned was the dao partner of the Black Tortoise leader. It was due to this relationship that the Darkwater Gang could operate with such impunity in Fallen Leaf City. The Black Tortoise leader was peak nascent soul and half a step into soul projection. He would be the strongest of any third rank nation.
âYouâre not going anywhere,â Lu Yunâs voice rang out. âForty-five minutes is up. Since you havenât  disbanded, allow this young master to perform the deed.â
âYouâŚâ The two Ying brothers were scared out of their wits to see Lu Yunâs sudden arrival.
Two rays of silver light flashed past, sending two heads of petrified fear shooting into the sky. Two headless bodies flopped to the ground as Lu Yun waved their storage rings to him, then burned the corpses in two balls of fire.
âThere are quite a lot of treasures in the Darkwater vaults.â Golden light gleaming out of his eyes, Lu Yun headed in another direction.
Powerful formations protected the Darkwater vaultsâformations that were jokes to the young man. Ones established by Great Xia cultivators might pose a challenge to him, but the ones from a fourth rank nationâs nascent soul cultivator might as well not exist.
Most formations were laid out according to the logic of the five elements in a continuous cycle of supplementation and counter. Others derived from this logic, such as illusion, slaughter, trap, or disorientation formations were based off of the five elements. One simply had to locate the nodes between the elements and break their cycle if they wished to dismantle the formation.
Of course, a formation with a complete cycle of the five elements would be considered a premier formation. The one safeguarding the Darkwater vault was just a protective one of metal giving rise to water.
When it came to formations, Lu Yun rather thought there should be ten formations of one potential, two principles, three essentials, four divisions, five elements, six directions, seven stars, eight trigrams, nine sectors, and ten orientations. It wasnât just the five elements. If all ten could be combined together and ignite a grand influence over the world, that wouldâŚ
Lu Yun shook his head, shaking his sealed memories back into place. Thankfully, it was just knowledge thatâd slipped out and not memories. Many things would go wrong otherwise.
âWho dares trespass in Darkwater Gang forbidden territory!â Three latter golden core guards stopped Lu Yun as soon as he arrived in front of the vaults.
âWhile the gangâs strength doesnât measure up to the former seven great clans of Darklake, they would be an elite faction regardless in the nation.â Lu Yun flashed in front of them, his fist moving like an illusion and spontaneously crushing all of their dantians and life force.
The Lu Yun of this lifetime didnât show mercy or benevolence. Things were fine enough if others didnât provoke him, but if they did, he turned into a mad dog that didnât rest until he bit them to death.
Heâd already given the gang a chance. If the two vice leaders had swiftly disbanded, he wouldnât have bothered hunting them down.
Lu Yun sent out a surge of fire origin with one hand and directed it at the connection node between water and metal in the formation. Since fire countered metal, it immediately set all of the metal energy ablaze. As for water countering fire⌠an ordinary element of water evaporated when it met connate fire origin.
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The entire formation collapsed when the five basic elements were dismantled.
Lu Yun was likely the only one who could employ this kind of method in Great Xia and the worlds of cultivation. It was similar to medicinal properties reformationâhis own technique.
Darkwater Gang was just a tiny gang in Fallen Leaf City, so the formation safeguarding their vaults was but an initial third rank formation. It barely required effort to break, giving Lu Yun access a small vault roughly thirty meters across. Treasures and ingredients were randomly jumbled inside and there was a shelf in a corner that held roughly thirty storage rings.
Lu Yun swept all of them into the sword pagoda in his dantian without taking a close look. Apart from the ray of sword qi at its center, the sword pagoda was also a massive storage center. It was where heâd subdued the sword pagoda.
The space within was so marvelous that it could hold living beings in unbounded capacity. Lu Yunâs own storage ring likely wouldâve proven inadequate to contain what was in the gangâs vaults.
After cleaning out what could be looted from the Darkwater Gang, Lu Yun scanned the entire area with the Eye of Nullification. He left content after determining there were no hidden vaults like the Lu residence.
While the gangâs wealth didnât measure up to a trading company like the Ouyangsâ, it was still quite stunning. There werenât any rare or exotic treasures within, however. Theyâd probably all been turned over to the Black Tortoises.
âThereâs a certain relationship between the Darkwater Gang and Black Tortoises. The Black Tortoises.. damn it!â Lu Yun suddenly frowned.
The Eye of Nullification broke through all obstacles. At his current level of cultivation, he could see for fifty kilometers in any direction, placing most of Fallen Leaf City in his line of vision.
But even so, he didnât find it very useful. The Eye of Nullification only saw what was on the surface, it couldnât see anything deeper.
Such as the information of the dead.
When he opened the eye to scan the Black Tortoises, the first to enter his eyes was the razed Cloudflow Inn. A deeply injured Long Aotian stood on top of the ruins while Wang Buâer lay decapitated elsewhere.
âSpeak, where is the young man?!â An aloof middle-aged man dressed in black armor grabbed Long Aotian by the collar. If it wasnât for wanting information, Long Aotian would be dead as well.
âI donât know!â Long Aotian exhaled explosively with a tragic air. They were out of the frying pan and into the fire. There was no hope of survival once the Black Tortoises had him in their grasp.
Long Aotian and Wang Buâer came into sudden wealth with the storage rings that Lu Yun gave them. Theyâd planned to leave with Lu Yun when he came back. Unfortunately, the Black Tortoises came knocking before the young man did.
A woman with coldly beautiful features led the delegationâthe dao partner of the Black Tortoise leader. Tears brimmed in her eyes as she sagged in front of Ying Xuanshuiâs corpse.
âBig brother, I will obliterate whoever killed youâŚâ she said emotionally as she trembled.
The man in black armor viciously slapped Long Aotian across the face when he heard those words. âOut with it, where did the murderer go?!â
âKill him. The Black Tortoises will find him wherever he goes in this area.â Ying Yinshui stood up, whereupon she swayed and keened in a distorted voice, âThird brother, fourth brother! Whoever you are, I, Ying Yinshui, swear upon my dignity as a human being that I will exterminate you and yours!!â
She spat out a mouthful of blood while Black Armor paled. He quickly understood that Ying Yinshui had somehow sensed the deaths of her third and fourth brothers. Sheâd sensed Ying Xuanshuiâs death not long after it occurred and rushed to the scene, finding Wang Buâer and Long Aotian. Otherwise, the Black Tortoises wouldnât be so quick on the scene even with receiving word.
Black Armor hesitated for a split second before turning his hand sideways like a blade and bringing it down on Long Aotian.
A chill gripped Long Aotianâs heart and he closed his eyes, waiting for death.
âAHH!!â A ghastly scream traveled into Long Aotianâs ears as the pressure lightened on his throat and he fell to the ground. He opened his eyes to see an apologetic Lu Yun and a wailing Black Armor with severed arms.
Lu Yun sighed as he looked at Wang Buâerâs body. âI didnât think that these siblings would have a Connection Talisman. This was my oversight.â
He originally intended to attract attention from the Black Tortoises through a disturbance at the Duskwater Gang. That would give Long Aotian, Wang Buâer, and the employees of Cloudflow Inn enough time to retreat.
But Ying Yinshui had immediately come by due to the Connection Talisman.
âItâs you!â She realized as soon as she saw Lu Yun. The young man in ivory robes and a blue overcoat was the one whoâd killed her brothers. âKill him!!â she shrieked with a loss of all reason.
More than fifty Black Tortoise members had come with her, all greater than golden core. Three of them were nascent soul powerhouses, and all were on guard with Lu Yunâs sudden appearance. When Ying Yinshu shrilled her command, they immediately brought out their treasures and flung attacks at Lu Yun.
Theyâd gained a full understanding of Lu Yunâs actions before they arrived. If it wasnât for Ying Xuanshui underestimating his enemy, he would still be alive now. In their eyes, a combined blow from sixty people was using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
âThereâs something to the Black Tortoises, their concerted action shows signs of a basic battle formation.â Lu Yun raised his head to regard the flying swords with a frown.