by Feng Yise
Master Wu's face turned black, and he said, "What nonsense! He, a measly little Tier 7 array formation, learning what Tier 9 array formation?"
Master Wu's figure moved, and he arrived at the Tier 9 array formations area very soon and saw a young figure bustling about over there. He immediately flew into a thunderous rage.
"Ye Yuan, what are you doing?! You actually dare to touch the Tier 9 array formations without authorization! What if you break the array base, can you shoulder the responsibility? Quickly stop for me! If you still don't stop, don't blame me for not being courteous anymore!"
Master Wu originally had a fiery temper. Upon seeing this sort of situation, he immediately flared up.
This was a mission the City Lord passed to him. If he screwed it up, that would be terrible.
Chapter 857 - Observation
Master Wu's roar startled everyone. Quite a number of people all put down the work in their hands and ran over to watch.
The moment Ding Shiyu heard Ye Yuan, she immediately ran over.
The moment she saw, she could not help jumping in fright.
Ye Yuan was bustling about on the Tier 9 array formations and was actually repairing the array formations!
"Come, men! Quickly come, men! Capture that punk for me!" Master Wu roared.
Ding Shiyu beautiful eyes swiveled around, staring fixedly at Ye Yuan.
Several city guards hastily rushed over when they heard Master Wu's yell.
Master Wu ordered, "Capture this brat for me. Break his legs first before talking!"
Several city guards received the order and were just able to go forward, when they heard Ding Shiyu say, "Calm your anger, Master Wu. Look closely, that small-scale array element in Ye Yuan's hand is almost finished repairing!"
Master Wu was stupefied. Only then did he carefully observe the movements in Ye Yuan's hands and could not help getting a huge shock.
"Hold your horses! Hold your horses! W-Wait a while more!"
Ye Yuan seemingly did not hear the racket below at all. He just restored the array formation at his own pace.
Very soon, that array element in his hand was fully repaired finish. He did not remain and ran over to another array element place to start repairing.
The expression on Master Wu's face became incomparably fascinating. He looked at Ye Yuan's back view like he saw a ghost.
Although he could not repair Tier 9 array elements, whether the array elements were repaired or not, he could still discern it at one glance.
Ye Yuan, he actually repaired the Tier 9 array element?
"W-What kind of joke is this? This boy is merely at the Heaven Enlightenment Realm. He can actually repair Tier 9 array elements?"
"Too impressive! This guy is simply a genius! How old is he only? To actually have such heaven-defying attainments in the Formations Dao!"
"Heaven-defying! Too heaven-defying! Likely, even Grand Yan Divine King did not have such terrifying strength when he was at this age too, right? Could it be that this boy will be Grand Yan Divine King's successor?"
Ye Yuan repairing a Tier 9 array element struck these array masters dumb with amazement.
This kind of breathtaking performance made them involuntarily think of the Grand Yan Divine King, Lu Linfeng, and carry out a comparison between the two of them.
Ding Shiyu bit her red lips lightly, her eyes were big and moist as if about to drip water out.
"This guy, turns out that he completely feels it beneath his dignity to compete with me! He says that he didn't know how to repair Tier 8 array formations was also because he was too disdainful to repair Tier 8 array formations. The goal for coming in was totally for the Tier 9 array formations!"
At this point, how could Ding Shiyu still not understand Ye Yuan's objective?
Ye Yuan was definitely in a hurry to leave too. So he deliberately sneaked inside for the sake of restoring this super transmission array.
He, a Heaven Enlightenment Realm, saying that he wanted to repair Tier 9 array formations would definitely make people laugh their heads off. So he deliberately says to help, then take the chance when everyone was not paying attention to repair the Tier 9 array formations himself.
This guy was truly too hateful!
His strength was clearly formidable, but he intentionally tied with her. This was an insult to this young lady!
Ye Yuan did not know that he had already been inexplicably hated by Ding Shiyu without rhyme or reason.
"S-Still stoning there for what? All get your asses back for this old man! If you delay the restoration of the array formation, this old man will give you all a good one!" Master Wu boomed.
Those array masters watching the show dispersed with a single command, each returning to their stations.
When Master Wu looked at the Ye Yuan with his hands full, his gaze was filled with astonishment.
After an hour, Ye Yuan finally could not hold on anymore and backed down.
He wiped the sweat on his forehead and said helplessly, "Restoring Tier 9 array elements really consumes essence energy! Even with my essence energy recovery speed, it's actually a bit too much for me."
Setting up the grand array naturally needed to expend massive amounts of essence energy too. Otherwise, with Ye Yuan's strength, wouldn't setting up Tier 9 array formations be easily accomplished?
Even if it was a measly little Tier 9 array element, the essence energy expended was rather considerable too.
"Ah! Master Wu, really sorry about it! This Ye is in a hurry to leave too, so that's why I resorted to this plan. Please don't take offense!" Ye Yuan said with an apologetic look.
Master Wu's face flushed crimson red. Being called a master by a person who could repair tier 9 array elements, how could he live up to it?!
"Don't, don't, don't, in … in front of you, how can I dare to be 'master,' this word? That … M-Master Ye, this Tier 9 array formation …" Master Wu hurriedly said.
Ye Yuan naturally understood his meaning. Nodding, he said with a smile, "This Ye's cultivation realm is too low. The repair speed is a little slow. Give me a day's time, these Tier 9 array formations should all be able to be repaired finish."
Master Wu's eyes became wide-saucers as he muttered, "A … A day?"
What kind of joke of was? Even if Tier 9 Array Emperors were invited over from Dawn Heavenly Palace, it was also not possible for them to finish repairing these Tier 9 Array formations within a day.
Ye Yuan actually said that he only needed a day's time?
And this … was even slow?
Master Wu was really speechless. The words that a monster say would really make ordinary people breakdown!
"En, a day's time, should be about there. Master Wu, I'll recover for a while first."
Finished talking, Ye Yuan swallowed a medicinal pill and went to one side to recover essence energy.
Before long, Ye Yuan was brimming with essence energy once more and returned to repairing the array formations.
Master Wu followed in Ye Yuan's footsteps, seemingly having some words that he found hard to speak out.
Ye Yuan said in puzzlement, "Does Master Wu have something you want to tell this Ye?"
"P-Please stop calling me master. This old man is Wu Junran. Master Ye, you just call me by my name directly will do. That … That … Master Ye, when you're repairing the array elements, can you let this Wu observe by the side?" Master Wu said bashfully.
Formations were the same as alchemy, both with secretly learning from a master being a taboo.
Observing the repairs of array elements at the sides undoubtedly had some suspicions of stealing secrets.
Ye Yuan was stunned, but he said magnanimously, "No harm. If Master Wu wants to look, just observe by the sides."
"Ah! T-Thank you so much, Master Ye!" Wu Junran gave a deep bow to Ye Yuan.
The martial artist world, those who reached first served as teachers.
Wu Junran's formations attainments could not compare to Ye Yuan's. Learni
ng from him was also something very natural, nothing to be ashamed about.
On the contrary, Wu Junran's strength being lacking, that would be looked down upon by people!
To a Tier 8 array master, he wanted to become an Array Emperor powerhouse even in his dreams. Such a splendid opportunity, how could he miss it?
Even the Array Emperor powerhouse who hailed from the Dawn Heavenly Palace would not possibly let him observe the restoration of the array formations at close quarters too.
In comparison, Ye Yuan was much more generous.
Ye Yuan did not have any taboo areas regarding this. He and Wu Junran did not have any conflicts of interests at all. Even if he really succeeded in stealing secrets, with Wu Junran's comprehension abilities, it was impossible to catch up to him in this lifetime too.
Therefore, what harm was there in allowing him to learn a little?
Cherishing one's own old broomstick, that was all something that only those people without confidence would do.
Observing Ye Yuan repair the array elements at close-range, the shock in Wu Junran's heart became even more intense.
When this super transmission array was being set up, he was there. When those Tier 9 Array Emperors were setting up the array formations, he had naturally seen before from far away too.
But those Tier 9 Array Emperors' skills were actually not as proficient as Ye Yuan's!
This Master Ye was too formidable!
Chapter 858 - Green Sea Mercenary Group
For an entire day, Ye Yuan virtually spent it swamped with work.
Repairing Tier 9 array formations was also a tremendous challenge to him. His essence energy was depleted fully several times, then replenished back through medicinal pills again.
This kind of intensity made Wu Junran unbelievably speechless from watching.
But Ye Yuan did not brag. He only used less than a day's time to finish repairing all of the super transmission array's Tier 9 array formations!
"Done!"
Along with the final array element being fully restored, Ye Yuan felt rather excited too. Finally leaving this place.
"Master Ye is truly a genius! Even if a Tier 9 Array Emperor was here, it's not possible to do it better than Master too!" Wu Junran gasped in admiration. 1
This entire day's time, he constantly followed by Ye Yuan's side just like an apprentice. Once in a while, he would even help as Ye Yuan's assistant.
As a Tier 8 Array Master, how long has it been since Wu Junran had this kind of feeling?
But this one day's time, Wu Junran learned a lot by Ye Yuan's side. Some areas he did not understand, he would pose questions to Ye Yuan. And Ye Yuan would never keep it all to himself either, explaining these problems to him.
The more Wu Junran listened, the more terrified he got. In the end, he was even more in awe of Ye Yuan.
"Fortunately, this grand array's core formation's damage wasn't severe. Otherwise, I would be at a loss on what to do as well. Master Wu, now that the grand array is already repaired finish, I wonder if this Ye can be the first group to leave or not?"
"Can, of course can! Not only can Master Ye be the first batch to leave, but the fees for passing through this transmission array can also be waived directly!" Wu Junran said.
Each time the transmission array was activated, the earth essence crystals expended was not little.
Each person who rode the transmission array had to pay a considerable fee.
But with Ye Yuan's contributions, Wu Junran naturally could not let him pay anymore.
"Hey, hey, and me! Master Wu, this young lady contributed quite a bit of effort!"
At this time, the other damaged array formations were already repaired finish too. Probably receiving Ye Yuan's stimulation, Ding Shiyu restored the array formations like crazy and indeed contributed quite a bit of effort.
Wu Junran laughed and said, "Huhu, that is, of course!"
Finishing with some preparation work, Yi Sea City announced to everybody that the super transmission array was opening up anew.
This news made everyone all feel very surprised. They had already made the preparations to stop over in Yi Sea City for a period of time. Did not expect that they only used a few day's time to finish repairing.
The first batch of 300 people already entered the super transmission array one after another. When the transmission array activated, Ye Yuan and Ding Shiyu were naturally among them too.
"Didn't they say that the Tier 9 Array Emperor had not reached Yi Sea City yet? How was this array formation fixed?"
"I heard that it was a young man a little over the age of 20 who finished repairing it!"
"A young man slightly over 20? You have got to be kidding! Hair hasn't even grown fully yet, and he can repair a super transmission array?"
"I originally didn't believe either. But someone personally saw Master Wu who was presiding over the array formation's restoration following behind that young man, calling him as a master time and again."
This first batch of people already waited for a number of days. They were naturally burning with anxiety. They also each displayed remarkable abilities to inquire about the transmission array's restoration progress rate.
But hearing that this super transmission array was actually repaired by a youngster, each and every one of them were incomparably stunned too.
These words naturally landed in Ding Shiyu's and Ye Yuan's ears. Ding Shiyu involuntarily looked towards Ye Yuan but discovered that Ye Yuan had a perfectly calm and collected face as if he did not have any relation with what others were talking about at all.
Ding Shiyu could not help being slightly amazed in her heart. Other people were praising him by the side, and he actually did not have even a bit of a smug look.
This sort of bearing was completely not like what a young man should have.
If it were her, she would more or less be a bit pleased with herself at this time. And this sort of feeling would naturally be shown on her face too.
Wu Junran originally planned to personally come and see Ye Yuan off but was rejected by Ye Yuan.
Wu Junran coming to see him off personally, these people would definitely know that the one who repaired the transmission array was him. He did not wish to be sized up non-stop by people with eyes like he was a freak.
Moreover, this trip to the Chaotic Devil Sea, best to prioritize keeping a low-profile above all.
After all, the Chaotic Devil Sea's danger was far from what other places could compare to.
The super transmission array slowly activated. The array formation erupted with a dazzling light.
Right then, a wave of hubbub suddenly emitted from outside.
Boom!
The guard who watched over the transmission array was directly sent flying by someone. A figure dashed inside.
"Miss, quickly come out! You running away from home secretly, Master is greatly enraged and wants you to return at once!" that person saw Ding Shiyu in the crowd with one glance and shouted loudly.
But the transmission array already activated at this time. That person was completely unable to stop it.
Ding Shiyu made a funny face at that person and said delightedly, "Humph! You tell grandfather, I, Ding Shiyu, can also make my mark without relying on the family!"
Finished talking, the transmission array erupted with rays of brilliant light. The 300 people inclusive of Ding Shiyu and Ye Yuan instantly vanished from sight.
When that middle-aged man saw Ding Shiyu leave just like this, he stomped his feet in anger.
"Didn't they say that Yi Sea City's super transmission array was broken? Why was it fixed so quickly! No matter how I rushed, I was still a step late! Sigh!"
Once the transmission array activated, the next activation required waiting until three days after.
In three days, Ding Shiyu would have run to goodness knows where long ago.
...
Ten days later, a group of trade caravans with dozens of people were advancing alon
g a narrow, winding trail.
Each and every one among the trade caravans was fully armed to the teeth, akin to facing a great enemy.
These martial artists among the trade caravans, each and every one looked very intrepid. Looks like their combat power were all not weak.
At this time, the trade caravans already entered the Chaotic Devil Sea's boundary. Starting from here, they would have to deal with dangers coming from all sides at any time.
"Elder Brother Liu, I heard that this route isn't very peaceful recently. There are already quite a few trade caravans that were gobbled up until not even bones remained. This trip, we got to be more careful!"
"Don't worry, Owner Yan. Our Green Sea Mercenary Group is Luo Ding City's strongest mercenary group, not one of! With us around, you can feel at ease!"
"With the Green Sea Mercenary Group, this Yan naturally feels safe. If not for so, I wouldn't have spent a large sum to invite Elder Brother Liu either. It's just that the things being transported this time is too important. This Yan has no choice but to be more careful!"
"Owner Yan is overthinking it! The other trade caravans being annihilated was either because the strength of the mercenary groups they employed were lacking, or the trade caravans were unable to see through an obvious situation. Our two families have cooperated for many years. We naturally won't make that kind of mistake."
These two people talking, one was the owner of the trade caravans called Yan Jun. The other was the leader of Luo Ding City's Green Sea Mercenary Group called Liu Yusheng.
Luo Ding City was the nearest city away from the Chaotic Devil Sea, and also a communication bridge between the Chaotic Devil Sea and the outside world.
The Chaotic Devil Sea needed large quantities of goods and materials. All of it flowed into it from places like Luo Ding City.
Due to the Chaotic Devil Sea being very chaotic, it had its own set of survival rules. Therefore, some merchants did this sort of high-risk transactions like Yan Jun this kind.
But the Chaotic Devil Sea was very dangerous. These merchants would naturally hire some mercenary group as well to ensure safety.