chapter 2056-2060


    Chapter 2056


    “We can’t leave like this,” said Nash seriously. All of them turned to look at him with confusion in their


    eyes.


    Nash coughed and continued to exin, “What I meant was, we need to make sure the surrounding area


    is clear before leaving. Didn’t you all say that they would do anything to kill you all to make sure you


    won’t be able to report on them? Although we’re at the outskirts of the mountain, there’s no guarantee


    they might not view this ce as a key observation zone.”


    What Nash said was logical. They exchanged nces with each other and all of their expressions were


    solemn. They could not drag on any longer but they could not just leave like that either.


    Jackie knitted his brows and made a decision. “How about this? I’ll go scout the surrounding area to plot


    out a path of escape and we’ll leave within two hours.” Without waiting for their replies, he turned to


    leave the cave but was stopped by Dwight.


    “I will go instead. I have cultivated a special technique and have a keen sense of perception. If there are


    enemies around, I’ll find out immediately and will be able to retreat safely. After all, your cultivation is only


    in the initial stage of the innate level. Besides, I’m all better now,” he said as he stood up. He patted


    away the grass from his bottom.


    Jackie nodded. There was no need to fight about this since he had a special technique to scout the


    surroundings.


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    Jed nodded at Dwight too. “Leave Brother Albion to me. Please be careful out there ande back as


    soon as you can.”


    Dwight nodded and left the cave while the four of them waited patiently in the cave. Jackie meditated to


    rest his body while Nash assisted Jed in taking care of Albion.


    The seconds ticked by and Nash became more and more worried. After ten minutes, he could not hold it


    in any longer and said, “He should be back by now. Do you think he ran into some trouble out there?”


    Jed was worried too butpared to Nash, he had more understanding of Dwight’s capabilities. He


    sighed faintly and in a grave tone said, “Under normal circumstances, Brother Dwight can escape


    extremely fast. He’s smarter than most of us and would be able to detect anything out of the ordinary


    very quickly so there’s no chance for us to escape if he really ran into any troubles now.”


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    Another ten minutes passed and even Jed’s face was darkening by the seconds. He stood up and stared


    worriedly at the entrance of the cave. Jackie knew exactly how he was feeling but they could not do


    anything apart from waiting.


    Finally, after an hour, they heard noisesing from the outside. Jackie’s eyes narrowed, and he


    instinctively looked at the small defense array in his hand. For the defense array to be effective, two


    defense arrays must be used together. One defense array board was ced outside and the other would


    b e kept by the user’s side.


    The defense array board in his hand not only served as an rm but could also transmit the scene


    outside. A figure swiftly traversed the location with the array’s monitor area. Even though he could not


    see the person’s features, he was relieved to recognize the Thousand Leaves Pavilion’s uniform.


    Jed quickly went to the entrance to wee Dwight back. He looked more helter-skelter than before and


    was covered in leaves and grass. His hair was dirty and he was so pale that he gave off a chilling aura.


    Chapter 2057


    Jed grabbed Dwight’s shoulder and anxiously asked, ” What happened? Did you run into any danger?


    Have you plotted out our escape path?”


    These series of questions made Dwight’s face even more frightening to look at. His pupils were slightly


    shaking and the corners of his lips were twitching as If trying to decide how to answer him. All the others


    started to panic when they saw him acting like this. Jackie walked over too and stared at him with


    furrowed brows.


    Dwight signed softly and waved his hand. “Let’s go inside first and I’ll tell you all about it.”


    They nodded and though they were anxious for the answer, they had no choice but to go deeper into the


    cave.


    “I found out what they were doing with the array gs and there’s no way we can get out now,” said


    Dwight gravely after taking one look at the still unconscious Albion.


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    Everyone’s expression changed and Jed grabbed Dwight’s arms impulsively. He raised his voice and


    asked, “What happened? Why can’t we get out? Tell me what happened! Did you run into them again?”


    Dwight nodded and closed his eyes in a bid to try to calm himself down. “Yes, I ran into them again. They


    were definitely up to something big. I kept on trying to find the best escape route but there were at least


    twenty or so disciples from the Corpse Pavilion and after taking a close look, the disciples who chased


    after us were not amongst them. In other words, the Corpse Pavilion’s disciples have taken over this


    mountain. But thanks to my techniques, I was able to escape from their detection before they discovered


    me.”


    He paused here. Jed urged him to go on by asking, ” Why can’t we get out of here? Is it because there


    are too many of them?”


    Dwight shook his head and his lips were trembling.” No, it’s because of something much worse than that.


    While it’s true I’ve managed to escape their detection and sessfully arrived at the border between


    Mount Beasts and the outside world but from there I discovered they had set up a trap array with us in it.


    This trap array would alert them should anyone step out of it and the only way to get out of the array is to


    attack it.”


    Everyone froze when they heard this. It was the worst situation ever. They never expected the disciples


    of Corpse Pavilion to set up a trap array at the borders of Mount Beasts. As the name implies, the trap


    array is used to trap people in a particr area. Although they would be able to break out of it by


    attacking it with powerful energy, they would still be discovered as long as they were within the warning


    range. Then, the surrounding Corpse Pavilion disciples woulde and attack in groups, and no one


    would be able to survive then.


    Jed suddenly deted like a balloon on the ground and was trembling all over. Both Nash and Jackie’s


    faces were darkened, they thought they would be safe once they reached the outskirts of the mountain


    but now it seemed as if they were too na?ve.


    Nash nced at Jackie and asked, “What should we do now?”


    Chapter 2058 Jackie shook his head. He had no ideas either. There was no way they could get out


    safely unless news of their entrapment reached the Dual Sovereign Pavilion. They had no idea what the


    Corpse Pavilion disciples would do next. Would they rigorously scout through the area they were in? If


    they did, Jackie and the others would no doubt be effortlessly eliminated.


    Seeing everybody’s expression, Dwight started to contemte whether he should continue speaking and


    decided, in the end, to do so because some words could not be left unspoken.


    He took a deep breath and in a sorrowful voice said, ” On the way, I saw a lot of corpses. Most of them


    were the bodies of the disciples within the Thousand Leaves Pavilion’s sphere of influence and a few of


    them were unaffiliated cultivators. Judging by the wounds of their bodies, they must have perished under


    weapons and not monsters.”


    This news made an already bad situation worse.. It confirmed Jackie’s guess that anyone would have


    been eliminated once discovered by the Corpse Pavilion disciples. Both Dual Sovereign Pavilion and


    Muddled Origin n were within the Thousand Leaves Pavilion’s sphere of influence which was not


    surprising since the former two n associations were only third-grade while thetter n association


    was the only fourth-grade n association in the entire north area of West Cercie State.


    Therefore, ording to the rules, the lower-grade n associations would need to heed the orders of


    the higher-grade n association so that was why the two n associations would help out the


    Thousand Leaves Pavilion even though they did not belong to the same n associations.


    What the Corpse Pavilion disciples were doing was indiscriminate killing. Death was inevitable as long as


    one did not belong to their own n association. Knowing this, it finally dawns on Jackie and the others


    just how bad their situation was.


    Jackie’s face was ck as thunder. “What should we do next? We can’t just wait for death toe to


    us!”


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    Dwight nced at Nash helplessly and said, “You’re right. We can’t just wait to die here but our ideas


    have run dried. We’re not even sure how many Corpse Pavilion disciples are out there. From my initial


    observation, there are at least a hundred of them. One of them is still manageable but they usually move


    in groups. Besides, we don’t even know what their motives are and how long they would stay here.”


    Dwight had listed out all the questions in everyone’s minds and still, no answers were to be found. It


    would be their worst nightmare if the Corpse Pavilion disciples nned to stay there for half a year or


    even a year.


    Jackie furrowed his brows and raised his head. “How long do you think it will take the Thousand Leaves


    Pavilion to discover what the Corpse Pavilion is doing?”


    That was the million-dor question. It was given that the Thousand Leaves Pavilion would notice


    something was amiss even though the Corpse Pavilion disciples had set up the trap array but the


    question was, when?


    Their only hope, for now, was for the Thousand Leaves Pavilion toe to their rescue but they were


    not sure what the higher-ups of the sect would do once they got wind of what the Corpse Pavilion was


    doing


    Jackie got up and looked outside the entrance. “We can’t stay here and be sitting ducks. We should still


    find a way to get out no matter what the Corpse Pavilion ns to do or how long they’ll stay here.”


    He took out the map from his storage ring,id it t on the ground, and marked their location. Jackie


    was a decisive person and chose not to wrack his brain over what he could not figure out. Instead, he


    would find a way out of this himself. Dwight, too, came over to his side.


    Chapter 2059 “We all know the best thing we can do now is to look for a way out but how can we when


    there are so many of those Corpse Pavilion disciples?” asked Dwight helplessly after looking at the map.


    Then he gestured at the circled location which was where they were. “There are no other hiding ces In


    this vicinity apart from this cave. The only ce we can go is this cliff over here but chances are we’ll die


    If we scale the walls there so we might just as well wait here.”


    He became despaired after saying that. Dwight was not the type to easily give up when things got tough


    but this time, he obviously realized they had been backed into a corner. Although they were still safe for


    now, he was not exactly sure for how long more.


    Suddenly, Jackie’s small defense array board let out a red glow. He quickly put down the map and went


    over to the board to perform some hand seals. The glow changed to white and a moving image floated


    above the board.


    They instantly recognized the ce they were looking at. The ce was about a hundred yards away


    from the cave and the moving image showed twenty or so people in a horizontal line walking toward


    where they were. The man in the middle of the line was wearing a strange mask. The mask was made of


    bone fragments and blood-red runes were written all over it.


    Ted shot up from the ground when he saw that person, “He’s the spring solidifying level fighter!”


    Their enemies were getting closer and this made Jackie’s heart clench while his expression darkened.


    The man with the mask was holding a blood-red rope in his hand and a monster, measuring about half of


    an average human’s height, was tied to the end of the rope


    The monster looked like a dog but was much more ferocious than a normal dog. It had only one eye but


    the eye was the size of a palm and its pupil was giving off a red glow.


    “It’s a cyclops canine!” said Jackie with a knit of his brow.


    The cyclops canine is the final stage of the innate level monster. However, this monster is weaker than


    the average final stage of innate level monster and is very popr with humans. A lot of martial artists


    like to keep one or two of them as pets. The n associations, as well, like to keep a group of them, for


    they woulde in very useful especially in times like this.


    Jed’s lips twitched. His expression was extremely frightening to look at and his breath became very


    haggard. “They must be looking for someone! Who could it be?”


    Although a cyclops canine would not win in a fight with other monsters, he can find a person based on


    the fluctuations of his true energy. With his palm sized eye, he can find the traces of that person within a


    certain range by relying on the remaining true energy fluctuations of a person. This was also the reason


    why many n associations favored having a group of canine cyclops as pets.


    Their blood ran cold the moment they saw the cyclops canine. Then they saw the masked man take out


    a piece of cloth and hold it in front of the cyclops canine’s eye. The huge eye released dark red runes,


    and the runes flickered in the air as if they were attracted by the cloth, and began to hover and float o n


    the small piece of cloth.


    Dwight’s face turned dark, and he quickly turned to look at the still-unconscious Albion. “That’s from


    Brother Albion’s undershirt! He identally ripped It during the fight with them. I’m one hundred percent


    sure about this!”


    Chapter 2060


    Everybody’s hearts clenched again when they heard this and their hands started to tremble. The cyclops


    dog locates a person by following the remaining true energy fluctuations of that person. When anyone


    uses martial arts skills or techniques, there will be residual true energy fluctuations on the things they


    used. This kind of true energy fluctuations cannot be detected by humans, but the cyclops canine can.


    Even if that person’s clothes have extremely weak true energy fluctuations. In the huge eye of the


    cyclops canine, the true energy can be magnified countless times.


    At this moment, Albion woke up and a little bit of color came back to his face. It was obvious that the


    spirited herbs Dwight and Jed had piled on him previously had worked. However, even so, none of them


    were in any mood for celebration.


    “sH*T!” Jackie gritted his teeth as the anxiety in his heart intensified, for he had noticed the cyclops


    canine seemed to have zeroed in on its targets and was wagging his tail and looking over in their


    direction. This was as good as them receiving a death sentence. His breath became haggard and he


    regretted letting Nashe out of the Mustard Seed Spirit Ship. He never thought that things would end


    up this way.


    “We have to leave this ce! The cyclops canine has already found us,” said Jackie decisively.


    Dwight’s face was as ck as thunder. “But where can we go? They’re all over the ce. We’ll die if we


    go out like this!” he said in a panicky tone.


    It might seem like the three of them had dragged Jackie into their problem but to Jackie, he was grateful


    to bump into them. If not, he might not have known about the Corpse Pavilion disciples and might have


    run into them and was probably dead by now. He closed his eyes and forced himself to calm down.


    Then, he made up his mind.


    “There is one way to escape the Corpse Pavilion’s detection.”


    “Which way?” asked Dwight and Jed with wide eyes.


    At that moment, the small array defense board glowed red again and they all turned to look at the newly


    transmitted moving images. The masked man was performing hand seals and the cyclops canine had


    already locked on its target. It was jumping around excitedly, trying to rush to the cave, but was pulled


    back by the masked man. The next second, the masked man walked over to a particr area.


    “Oh sH*T!” cried Jackie in a low voice when he saw where he was going. Immediately, the small array


    defense board he was holding shattered with a crisp cracking sound and everyone knew what had


    happened without any need for exnation.


    The small defense array boards were linked to each other so it was not surprising the array board in


    Jackie’s hand would break if the masked man had broken the other one outside the cave. Fortunately,


    they had already seen all that they needed to see. Jackie turned his head and nced at Albion.


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