Journey to the West: Starting by taking Sun Wukong as my disciple!-Chapter 181: Start the Interrogation with the Wolves from Zhongnan Mountain
Yun Zhongzi felt a sinking feeling in his heart. He usually maintained good relations with others and even his attitude towards the Jie School was not that extreme.
In both personal sentiment and principle, he should not have attracted such trouble, so why had this happened?
With hurried steps, Yun Zhongzi rushed straight to his Refining Room, and upon seeing the scene before him, his expression turned ugly in an instant. There laid the casually discarded lid of the furnace, which was now completely empty.
With the lonely Samadhi True Fire still burning, the thief had some nerve!!
Yun Zhongzi’s mood was as fiery as the Samadhi True Fire, burning with rage; he wished he could directly seize the chief culprit and punish them without mercy!
This was a treasure he had meticulously crafted with countless efforts—how had it been taken just like that?
Enraged, Yun Zhongzi extinguished the Samadhi True Fire with a sweep of his hand and immediately sat down on the spot, starting to calculate through the feedback from the restrictions.
However, Yun Zhongzi’s expression only grew uglier. There was not a single clue. The Art of Hiding!
Yun Zhongzi clenched his teeth tightly. The intruder had actually used the Art of Hiding.
Other than this, there was no other way to explain the destruction of the Formation without any trace of human presence.
He tried again without success.
Could it be that person possessed some magical treasure capable of concealment?
Yun Zhongzi stood up, frowning deeply in thought, but that shouldn’t be the case either!
He hadn’t delayed at all, and had started rushing towards his cave abode the moment the restriction was triggered.
Although his specialty was Artifact Refining Technique, and by extension, he often needed to embed various Formations for reinforcement while refining.
Therefore, his prowess in Formation Dharma was not shallow.
This Sealing Formation was exceedingly concealed, something even those of the same realm as him would not easily discover.
He had not delayed for a moment in flying back, and logically, he should have immediately encountered the chief culprit!
Yun Zhongzi walked towards the wall, intending to check if there was a problem with the Formation he had set up. As his fingers gently touched the wall, Yun Zhongzi’s face changed.
How could there be another Formation!
Yun Zhongzi swore that he had only set up one Formation here.
Does this mean that this Formation was set up by the chief culprit?
Yun Zhongzi tried to calm himself down and, channeling his mana, he analyzed this unknown Formation in combination with his understanding of his own Formations.
But the more he studied it, the more alarmed Yun Zhongzi became. The structure of this Formation was too intricate, and he couldn’t fully understand it!
And although he could not completely decipher it, he understood the effect of the Formation—it could actually intercept triggers within the Formation.
No wonder the thief was gone by the time he returned.
By the time he received the feedback from the restriction, who knows how much time had already passed!
Even though he was the victim, Yun Zhongzi couldn’t help but admire the skills of the thief. How did they even come up with such a strange Formation?
It was a complete overturn of conventional Formation knowledge!
Much time passed, and Yun Zhongzi withdrew his hand, sighing helplessly—he still couldn’t find any trace within this Formation!
The depth of the thief’s Formation skills was definitely far superior to his own.
Yun Zhongzi mulled over in his heart the many experts in the Three Realms skilled in Formations, though none had any grudges or grievances with him.
How could it be!
Yun Zhongzi considered the chief perpetrators to be those with Quasi-Saint cultivation like himself.
How could he guess that the one who had broken his prized Formation was actually just a Taiyi Realm Black Bear Demon?
The heaven-defying aspect of Xiong Daoren’s Mysterious Heavenly Formation Armor was its extreme control over Formations, creating new Formations at will.
There was nothing he couldn’t achieve if he could conceive it—tremendously powerful.
For him, the greatest limitation was his cultivation level. If his cultivation level could be raised, his unrivaled Formation capabilities could dominate the Three Realms.
Was he supposed to just swallow this bitter pill? Yun Zhongzi could hardly accept this.
While he was capable of replicating the Executioner Immortal Sword, he simply couldn’t stomach such an affront!
To have someone walk right up and steal a Magical Treasure was like slapping him in the face. If word of this got out, he would become the laughingstock of the Three Realms.
The more Yun Zhongzi looked at this place, the more frustrated he became.
Having returned to the main hall of his cave abode, he saw the corner wall damaged and in a complete mess.
The veins on Yun Zhongzi’s forehead bulged with anger. Those familiar with his usual kind and gentle demeanor would be shocked to see him like this, as if he was on the verge of killing someone.
It was bad enough that his treasures had been stolen, but to also damage his walls—walls he had personally polished!
As an expert in artifact refining, he had meticulously designed his own dwelling.
And now, a piece of it was conspicuously damaged, and it was clearly done deliberately. The annoyance was indescribable.
This enmity was irreconcilable!
Yun Zhongzi seethed with hatred. He might be good-natured, but he was not without temper!
He was about to use his mana to repair the damage.
But just as Yun Zhongzi was about to do so, he seemed to notice something, halted, and walked straight to a spot, looking down.
He saw a footprint on the ground amidst the dust raised by the wall being dug into, its shape was very strange, not resembling a human’s at all.
"How come it looks so much like a dog’s paw?" Yun Zhongzi muttered to himself.
Could it be the work of a member of the Demon Clan?
Yun Zhongzi nodded to himself.
This footprint, if not from a dog, then it must be from a wolf. With this, the range of suspects was greatly narrowed down.
Yet, Yun Zhongzi frowned again. In the Three Realms, there weren’t any dog or wolf demons with such abilities!
Demons are known for their fighting spirit and bravery, and very few amongst them are masters of formations, let alone those of a specific species.
When it comes to fame, among wolves, the divine official Kuimu Wolf, and among dogs, Xiaotian Dog are both widely renowned.
But what reason could there be?
Kuimu Wolf had his standing as a divine official; why would he dare provoke him? And then there was Xiaotian Dog.
That was the beloved pet of Yang Jian, the prime disciple of the third generation of the Chan School and the Jade Tripod’s nephew by apprenticeship. Both morally and logically, such an act was unthinkable.
Yun Zhongzi had met that dog once before, and although he found it quite detestable and deserving of a beating, it was unlikely to act so recklessly.
Moreover, with Xiaotian Dog’s modest cultivation and Taoist practice, Yun Zhongzi wouldn’t believe it to be capable of this even if it killed him.
Yun Zhongzi used his mana carefully to preserve the dusty footprint, cutting it out and keeping it safe.
Now that he had a lead, he was not going to let the matter rest.
He would start his investigation at Zhongnan Mountain; he wanted every canine demon to imprint their paws. He was determined to drag the culprit into the light!
Yun Zhongzi made a silent vow, thinking that if he didn’t catch the perpetrator, he wouldn’t even consider continuing his work on magical treasures.
Xiaotian Dog, who along with Tian Peng and Xiong Daoren had traveled stealthily to Guan River Mouth, shivered out of nowhere.
"Dammit, if I had known, I wouldn’t have slept on the ground yesterday."
Xiaotian shook his head, seemingly dismissive of the matter.
Tian Peng didn’t speak but took a deep breath, having just run with all his might. He was eager to ask Daoren if the Art of Hiding and Sealing Formation would fail?
He was genuinely panicking!
But he couldn’t swallow his pride to ask; how else would he maintain his image as a valiant warrior?
Tian Peng stood with his hands behind his back, exuding an air of nonchalance. Ultimately, he chose not to ask.
Not out of complete trust in Daoren’s abilities, but because of the Divine Skills, he had awakened from Shopkeeper Chen—it was that trust that held him back.
A product of the Chaos Residence was bound to be fine craftsmanship.
His own Defensive Divine Skills, along with Xiaotian Dog’s olfactory Divine Skills, were unmatched in the entire Three Realms.
Everyone knew of the formidable strength of Daoren’s Mysterious Heavenly Formation Armor.
Formation Armor by name, how could it possibly be weak?
