Knowing that he and the eccentric rchant were likely to also get swept up in the exploration of the ancient ruins if they didn't leave the city, Chu Yang turned to look back at the eccentric rchant. Only to turn around and see that he had already finished packing up and was in the process of leaving.
"What are you standing there for? We have to get out of here fast before those Nascent Soul Realm cultivators show up here as well!" Not caring the slightest bit about the shocked expression on Chu Yang's face, the eccentric rchant stepped forward and grabbed hold of him before rapidly leaving the sowhat secluded corner of the street that he had set up his stall in.
Not feeling any threat from the rchant, Chu Yang allowed himself to get dragged along. Curious about how the rchant planned to avoid getting forcibly recruited by the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. After all, it would definitely be impossible for them to leave the city at this point in ti, as those Nascent Soul Realm cultivators would definitely be stationed around that place to pick up anyone trying to run away.
Hm? We are not going to leave the city, but instead moving further into the city…?
Feeling a bit surprised when he noticed that the rchant wasn't dragging him towards the outskirts of the city for sowhere to hide, but instead deeper into the city where the more powerful cultivators would be located, Chu Yang felt even more curious about what kind of escape plan the eccentric rchant had co up with.
After all, given what he had managed to learn about him so far, he seed to be prepared for most situations and had a solution to them.
Given that he had decided to stay in the city, even though he knew about the danger that ca along with it, ant that he should have a way to avoid the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators…
Splash!
Just as Chu Yang was wondering what kind of thod the eccentric rchant planned on using to avoid the detection of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, he suddenly saw him jumping into a large river running straight through the city.
"Follow or you will have to find a way out of this place on your own!"
And along with those few words, he dived beneath the surface of the water. Disappearing from view.
"…"
Seeing this, Chu Yang could not help slightly raising an eyebrow.
Although hiding in the river might be a good option when facing weaker cultivators, when confronted with the powerful divine sense of soone in the Nascent Soul Realm, it wouldn't make much of a difference whether soone was hiding inside a building or below water.
Splash!
However, curious about what the eccentric rchant was planning to escape the sight of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, Chu Yang still decided to follow him into the river. Soon catching up to the eccentric rchant who skillfully swam through the strong current. Soon enough stopping in front of a small hatch located at the bottom of the river.
This… A concealnt formation? Although relatively low quality, it should be more than enough to avoid the divine sense of soone in the Nascent Soul Realm if they don't pay attention. Indeed, this fellow is quite prepared when it cos to escaping danger…
Seeing the small hatch at the bottom of the river, Chu Yang could not help showing a slightly surprised expression on his face, as he realized that the hatch actually had a concealnt formation placed on top of it.
Even if the quality of the formation was low, it still showed that the eccentric rchant had far more talent when it ca to formations than he had first let on with his small but useless trinkets.
Follow !
Not aware of Chu Yang's thoughts, the eccentric rchant turned around and signaled for him to follow, as he used all of his strength to open the hatch and swim inside.
Following closely behind, Chu Yang soon found himself inside a narrow tunnel that was still filled with water, as he watched the eccentric rchant quickly swim past him before closing the hatch behind him. Not wasting a second after that before he moved past him and rapidly moved through the tunnel.
Considering that soone in the Foundation Establishnt Realm couldn't hold their breath forever, he had a limited ti on his hand and clearly wanted to get out of the water as fast as possible, as they had already spent close to five minutes under the water by the ti they reached the small hatch.
Like this, close to fifteen minutes flew by with them moving through the increasingly narrow tunnel filled with water before they finally managed to reach the other side of the tunnel-
"Haaaa!"
Where the eccentric rchant almost collapsed on the ground as he greedily breathed in air after having spent twenty minutes under water. Almost having reached the limit of what was possible for soone in the Foundation Establishnt Realm when it ca to not breathing, a truly impressive feat on its own.
However, compared to the eccentric rchant who was now laying on the ground recovering from the long underwater escape through a very narrow tunnel that made it hard to move towards the end, Chu Yang stood up completely fine without any sign of water on his body as he looked around the small dark space that he now found himself inside of.
Outside of the fact that the small space wasn't made by hand but should instead be so kind of natural underground cave that had been ford over a long ti, Chu Yang almost instantly noticed that there was only a small tunnel connected to the space that he would only be able to move through by crawling.
"What is this place?"
Unable to contain his curiosity as he finished looking around the small cave, Chu Yang could not help turning back towards the eccentric rchant who had sowhat recovered at this point in ti as he asked him outright.
"This… Is a place I found in the past during my ti looking for safe locations to hide in case sothing happened in the city. The cave itself might be small, but there is a constant supply of fresh air coming from the small tunnel connected to this cave, we can stay here until things calm down back in the city and then make our way back through the underwater tunnel."
"What about the tunnel connected to this cave? Given that it provides a constant stream of fresh air, it ans that it should be connected to the outside, why not follow that instead of swimming through that place…?"
"I… Tried in the past, but the location it leads to is sowhere inside the city lord's mansion at the center of the city. Although the formation guarding that place didn't discover as it seed to be in the process of undergoing maintenance or sothing along that line, I doubt sothing like that will happen if I try going through that place again. Especially considering that there are currently a lot of wandering cultivators present in the city at the mont.
Even if the formation needed so kind of maintenance, I doubt the city lord would choose this kind of ti to shut it down and do so." Thinking for a brief mont before saying this, the eccentric rchant helplessly shook his head before going back to recovering his strength.
Considering that he would once again have to fight his way back through the underwater tunnel to get back out again, he had to fully recover his strength as fast as possible if he wanted to leave alive with his current strength.
"Leads straight to the city lord's mansion…" Narrowing both of his eyes as he muttered this to himself after hearing what the eccentric rchant said, Chu Yang could not help feeling like there was sothing wrong with what the eccentric rchant said.
First of all, a formation going through maintenance would still be active to so extent… And the rchant would have never been able to avoid detection with his strength.
Instead of that, it was likely that instead of the formation being under maintenance like the eccentric rchant suspected, Chu Yang felt that it was far more likely that the eccentric rchant had managed to unknowingly find a flaw in the formation guarding the city lord's mansion. Essentially allowing him to freely enter the mansion without alerting the people inside.
Of course, the rchant was far too weak and would almost definitely be spotted if he tried to actually enter the city lord mansion sneakily.
However, if it was soone stronger, it could prove fatal to the city lord and the people in the mansion. Especially if that soone happened to be their enemies…
Luckily for them, Chu Yang wasn't their enemy nor did he feel interested in selling the information on this flaw in the formation, as it would also end up ruining the hiding spot of his new friend.
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