RNP Chapter 72 The Ultimate Kill 4
Chapter 72 The Ultimate Kill 4
At dawn on July 16, just after 7 a.m., the various groups from the academy had already assembled and, led by their teachers, went their separate ways to their designated picking areas.
The sea breeze was fierce at Huaguo Mountain in the early morning, and a large number of ripe Xianyan fruits emitted a sweet and cloying fragrance. As the sea breeze spread, it had already attracted a large number of seabirds to circle around the area in the past few days.
Large-scale harvesting begins today. The fruit will produce an even stronger fragrance after it is removed from the stem. In no more than an hour, Flower Fruit Mountain will be swarmed with seabirds, sea monsters, and sea nymphs.
Cai Fei, Yu Qianqian, and two other sixth-level martial artists were grouped together and tasked with picking fruit from a small cliff.
Guo Xiqin placed the four people in the last group, led them to the location, personally inspected the site, told them the positions of all the formations, activated and checked them all, had them all try them out, patrolled the surrounding area, and then rode his flying sword to a nearby mountain.
There, Feng Xiangguo and his three underlings had already begun picking. Guo Xiqin flew close to the cliff and went to Wei Yiye's location for a close inspection. Seeing that everything was alright, he circled up and greeted Longhen, who was sitting cross-legged on the giant rock.
"Please take good care of these children, Master Long." Guo Xiqin bowed respectfully from his flying sword.
"Of course, these are all kids I take care of."
Longhen was meditating with his eyes closed. When his divine sense was opened to its limit, no movement within a mile could escape his notice, not to mention the help of several formations.
He is the only one in Aolai to have reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment. Longhen is just old, not weak.
In a short battle, Longhen is not only the best in the academy, but also unmatched in the entire Aolai region.
Honestly, it's a huge waste to have a top-tier expert like him guarding a single point without moving.
The old dean was paying too much attention to these promising young players. He interpreted it more as the old dean being considerate of him and wanting him to rest more.
Of course, if he can't even keep an eye on these three groups of students, then Longhen shouldn't be hanging around in Aolai anymore.
At the same time, the old dean, whom Longhen had been talking about, landed on the Great Sage Stone. Xiang Fuzuo, who had been guarding the Great Sage Stone, went up to him with the young guards and invited him to sit down.
A large-scale magic array centered on the Flower and Fruit Token has been activated, covering an area of hundreds of miles, including the entire Flower and Fruit Mountain and the surrounding five miles of sea.
Within this area, all cultivators, demons, and spirits who use spiritual power are exposed and displayed on the large jade disc at the center of the formation, with the dots representing Foundation Establishment cultivation being particularly prominent.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the old dean stood in front of the core jade plate. The scattered yellow dots represented the thousands of Qi Refining cultivators in the inner and outer layers. The outer circle was noticeably brighter because the Anfu Division generally hired cultivators at the sixth level or above, while the inner circle, mainly composed of academy students, was naturally much dimmer.
However, the old dean's gaze was only fixed on those red dots—at this moment, there were still very few small yellow dots on the jade plate and in the sea area, but there were already four red dots, indicating that four Foundation Establishment Realm demons were already wandering in the nearby sea area.
Slightly more than in previous years, but that's normal. This year's harvest is bountiful, and the rich aroma of fruit is spreading everywhere. The great demon's nose is even more sensitive, so it will naturally be eyeing the fruit earlier.
However, they generally possess intelligence and are more cunning than ordinary spirits. They don't go up the mountain to hunt so early, and some aren't even after the Immortal Rock Fruit—their target is low-level spirits.
There were even more red dots on the mountain. The Pacification Division, the Demon Exorcists, and the Academy together had twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators. Adding the few hired from outside, there were a total of 23 Foundation Establishment cultivators stationed on Flower Fruit Mountain at this moment.
There were eighteen Foundation Establishment cultivators patrolling the mountain alone. According to the usual rule that a four-on-one fight between humans and demons of the same realm is a win, these cultivators were enough to keep those great demons at bay within a five-mile radius of Flower Fruit Mountain.
It should be noted that apart from Huaguo Mountain, Aolai only has a total of more than thirty Foundation Establishment cultivators. With such powerful strength, Huaguo Mountain should be safe at the moment. The only thing to fear is an internal traitor.
"Why isn't Deputy Commander Peng here yet?" The old dean quickly noticed the problem and frowned.
Three years ago in Haixing, a genius student at the academy was murdered, and the murderer remains unknown. Because of this, he specially recruited Guo Xiqin, who had mastered a special tracking technique, to Aolai.
After several years of investigation, the mystery has been largely focused on the charming and debonair Peng Yulang, but there is no concrete evidence.
Peng Yulang also sensed the academy's suspicions, so this time he took the initiative to ask to go with Fang Yingyue and chose a southern area, far away from the promising students of the Earth Class.
However, the old dean still paid special attention to Peng Yulang's whereabouts.
Upon hearing this, the deputy looked over and then smiled, "She's probably still waiting for Teacher Fang at the academy. Women always need to dress up before going out. Don't you see those two red dots in the academy, standing so close together?"
Sure enough, there were two more red dots very close together inside the academy.
The old dean attached his divine sense to the jade plate and examined it closely. He discovered that the slightly lighter red dot carried a familiar wood spirit fluctuation, which was undoubtedly Fang Yingyue. However, her location was not in the Water Curtain Cave, but in the early training area of the Earth Class.
Ok?
What is Peng Yulang doing here with Fang Yingyue so early in the morning?
The old dean frowned even more deeply. Little did he know that Peng Yulang was also frowning at that moment.
"Shadow Moon, the kids have all gone, we need to hurry, otherwise if something happens, it will be too embarrassing for me as the deputy captain."
Peng Yulang had spoken for the third time. He had arrived at the Water Curtain Cave a stick earlier than expected. As it turned out, Miss Fang was quite punctual when she left, but instead of going on patrol, she insisted on coming to the Earth Class Morning Repair Square, saying she was looking for inspiration.
"I'm at the crucial point right now—solving this three-link puzzle will allow me to see Yang Qianguang next time I go back. You said it yourself! You can go on patrol first. Anyway, I'm just a scholar and I'm not of much use. You're a great expert. With you here, it doesn't matter whether I go or not."
Fang Yingyue replied casually, her eyes fixed on the circle of answer sheets outside the morning study area.
"Transform the number into a shape, place a right angle on the left, and an equilateral side on the right, and you get 67."
Two days ago, Fang Yingyue inexplicably received this sentence in her dream. Although it was taught to her by the hooligan Cai Fei, she couldn't resist and tried it yesterday. As a result, she actually got the answer, and the answer really was 67!
Fang Yingyue was a little confused. Of course she knew the method of transforming numbers into shapes, but she rarely used it, and she had never thought of this method when solving this triple ring problem.
Why did that sentence pop into my head in my dream?
They can even figure out the answer!
However, it's always good to get things done. After solving the first link of the three-link puzzle, Fang Yingyue persevered and solved the second problem using the same method. Then, she ran into trouble on the third problem.
I stayed up all night, and my eyes were a little swollen. I felt like the answer was right in front of me, but I was just a little bit short of it. I was so anxious, like I had a bone stuck in my throat.
Reflecting on the dream, since the answer was given through Cai Fei's words, it's highly likely that my inspiration was related to Cai Fei.
Fang Yingyue thought about it and figured that she had been looking at Cai Fei's solutions too much in the morning study area of the Earth Class recently. Cai Fei liked to use the method of combining numbers and shapes, and she must have gained inspiration from it, which is why it appeared in her dream.
So early in the morning, Fang Yingyue went straight to the early morning study area of the Earth Class, hoping to gain inspiration again from Cai Fei's answer.