Chapter 1739: Beast

"Come take a look. This is the core component of the teleportation device. Only by removing this part can we destroy the teleportation device," Zhao Yang said.

Those black-clothed men passed around the materials on the construction of the teleportation device's core component, then one after another furrowed their brows.

"Young Master, this place is so complicated. To remove the core component will take quite a bit of time," one of them said.

"I know. So what we need to do now is drive everyone out of the warehouse, then go all out to destroy the teleportation device," Zhao Yang said in a low voice.

For them, destroying one teleportation device was not difficult. Because as disciples of the Artifact Spirit Sect, they had their own method. The reason Zhao Yang had originally asked Zhao Ruoshui to buy several teleportation devices was precisely because he wanted to use these teleportation devices to stop the enemy's pursuit.

Of course, the risk of destroying the teleportation device was extremely great. Once their position was locked down by the enemy's experts, they might suffer a catastrophic disaster. But under the current circumstances, they could no longer worry about so much. Moreover, the injuries on their bodies had to be treated in time.

Afterwards, the few of them nodded in unison. Then they began to wantonly wreck the teleportation devices in the warehouse.

These black-clothed men were all elite disciples of the Artifact Spirit Sect, so they had a method for destroying teleportation devices. And during this process, Zhao Ruoshui was also driven out of the warehouse by Zhao Yang. The warehouse was simply too chaotic. Zhao Yang was worried that Zhao Ruoshui would get hurt.

A little over an hour later, an explosion sounded from inside the warehouse. The entire warehouse trembled violently.

Crack!

The warehouse roof was blasted off by a powerful force. Afterwards, a black-clothed man flew out from inside the warehouse. Black smoke was still rising from his body.

"It's done," Zhao Yang said joyfully.

Although that black-clothed man was seriously injured, he was still able to crawl out of the warehouse on his own. And at this time, Zhao Ruoshui also took out quite a few things from her spatial storage ring. There were healing medicines, and also daily necessities. Of course, there were also quite a few gold coins and spirit stones.

"Young Master, this subordinate is useless, this subordinate…" a black-clothed man suddenly knelt before Zhao Yang, weeping bitterly as he spoke.

"Get up," Zhao Yang said in a low voice. "Being able to successfully destroy the teleportation device this time is all thanks to you. It's just a pity that we couldn't bring out the core component of the teleportation device." Zhao Yang looked at that weeping black-clothed man, and could not help but sigh in his heart. He naturally knew what this black-clothed man was thinking. The reason he knelt before Zhao Yang was because he felt he had not completed the task Zhao Yang had assigned him.

Destroying the teleportation device's core component and bringing out that component was the task Zhao Yang had assigned them. But now, although they had destroyed the teleportation device, they had not brought out the component. In their thinking, this was their failure.

"Although you failed to bring out the core component, I don't blame you," Zhao Yang said in a low voice. "Destroying this teleportation device, you have already completed your task. That core component was just me being impatient, wanting to get it done in one stroke. Things have come to this, you don't need to blame yourselves."

Although Zhao Yang said this, those black-clothed men still looked gloomy. They also felt that failing to complete Zhao Yang's task was their failure.

"Now we need to find a place to heal our wounds," Zhao Yang said. "Once the injuries are healed, we'll leave this place."

Although they had destroyed one teleportation device, wanting to leave this place was not easy. Because Yanjing had experts who controlled teleportation arrays. Once cornered by those people, they would not be able to escape even if they grew wings.

However, apart from leaving this place, they had no other choice now.

Afterwards, the group found a relatively more concealed place to settle down. Although the injuries on their bodies were not considered serious, they needed medicinal pills to heal. And this place was relatively concealed; ordinary people, even if they passed through here, would not discover them.

Among the few people sitting cross-legged to heal their wounds, a black-clothed man could not help but heave a long sigh. "Young Master, we are sorry to you."

"You've already done your best," Zhao Yang shook his head slightly. "Things have come to this, saying anything is useless. Let's think about what to do next."

To leave this place, there was only one way, and that was to go through the main gate. And going through the main gate meant facing the test of the grand array. To pass through the grand array and leave this place, there were only two methods. First, was to use a large amount of spirit stones to open the grand array. Second, was to have an expert who controlled teleportation arrays help open the grand array.

"We don't have an expert who controls teleportation arrays to help us open the grand array now," Zhao Yang said in a low voice. "So we only have the one method of using a large amount of spirit stones to open the grand array."

Although spirit stones were not some valuable thing, at a time like this, they were more precious than anything. Because to leave this place through the grand array, one had to have spirit stones. And the number of spirit stones they could carry on their bodies was limited. So what Zhao Yang needed most now was to obtain a large amount of spirit stones.

"When you went all out to destroy the teleportation device, weren't you locked down by that grand array?" Zhao Yang asked.

"That grand array doesn't seem to have locked down our position," a black-clothed man thought for a moment and said. "I think it might be because that grand array was not activated."

"Not activated?" Zhao Yang was slightly stunned. In his thinking, that grand array, which could protect the entire Yanjing, should have been in an activated state. But now, hearing this black-clothed man's words, that grand array seemed to not be activated. If the grand array was not activated, it could not lock down the position of people entering Yanjing. But this way, it also gave Zhao Yang and his group an opportunity to take advantage of. "Now we must think of a way to get some spirit stones," Zhao Yang said. "Do you have anything valuable on you? Hand over everything valuable on you to me first."

Now they were in a dangerous state, so when Zhao Yang asked for the valuable things on their bodies, they handed them over to Zhao Yang without the slightest hesitation.

After Zhao Yang had gathered the valuable things from the five black-clothed men, he left this place and went to the market of a nearby town. In a place like this, wanting to sell a lot of spirit stones was not very possible, so Zhao Yang could only think of one method, and that was gambling.

The place where Zhao Yang gambled was a small tavern. There were some rich people who were bored enough to come gamble here for amusement. Zhao Yang's gambling originally had no hope of winning, but his luck was extraordinarily good; in just one hour's time, he won quite a few spirit stones.

When Zhao Yang left this small tavern, he had harvested a full pocket of spirit stones. These spirit stones were enough for them to activate the teleportation grand array and leave.

However, just as Zhao Yang was leaving this small tavern, he ran into several Yuanyang Sect disciples wearing Yuanyang Sect dao robes.

After the Yuanyang Sect disciples discovered Zhao Yang, they immediately recognized Zhao Yang's identity and immediately bowed to Zhao Yang. "This subordinate greets the Young Sect Master."

Zhao Yang was slightly stunned, and immediately pretended to be impatient as he said, "I am not your Young Sect Master. You have mistaken me for someone else."

Zhao Yang did not want to get entangled with these few Yuanyang Sect disciples, so he immediately left this place. However, in his heart, he had a few more questions. Why had those few Yuanyang Sect disciples suddenly appeared in this place? What was their purpose in coming to this place?

Not good.

Zhao Yang thought of one possibility: those few Yuanyang Sect disciples had received news of them and had specifically tracked them here. And their purpose should be to take them back to Yuanyang Sect.

Such a thing had not been without precedent. Zhao Yang had encountered it several times before. Many disciples of large sects, after being suddenly expelled from their sect, would be tracked down by the sect and brought back.

However, what Zhao Yang and his group wanted least now was to be taken back to Yuanyang Sect again. So Zhao Yang decided he could not let those few Yuanyang Sect disciples succeed.

Leaving this place through Yanjing's teleportation array was easy. But wanting to shake off the pursuit of those few Yuanyang Sect disciples was very difficult. So the only method now was to use a large amount of spirit stones to open the teleportation grand array and leave this place.

Zhao Yang returned at top speed to the place where the black-clothed men had been hiding, only to discover that those few black-clothed men were already gone.

"Young Master." A black-clothed man not far away dropped to one knee. "This subordinate has already arranged everything according to your instructions."

Zhao Yang was slightly surprised. "How did you know I would come back?"

"Before we left this place, we had already used the contingency we left behind to transmit our movement information to them," the black-clothed man explained. "As long as we use a large amount of spirit stones to open the grand array and leave this place, they will immediately come chasing after us."

Zhao Yang nodded slightly. "You did very well. Now you immediately go to the teleportation grand array and arrange the matter of opening the grand array. You must be quick." Zhao Yang gathered all the spirit stones on his body; altogether he gathered more than two thousand spirit stones, which should be enough to open the teleportation grand array.

However, just as Zhao Yang was using the spirit stones to prepare to open the teleportation grand array, he discovered there was no reaction at all.

"How could this be?" Zhao Yang was stunned. "Why can't this teleportation grand array be opened with spirit stones?"

Just as Zhao Yang was stunned, those few Yuanyang Sect disciples appeared.

"It seems you really did enter Yanjing through the teleportation array," a Yuanyang Sect disciple said, looking at Zhao Yang. "But why can't you open the teleportation array to leave this place? According to the intelligence we obtained, you should be carrying quite a few spirit stones on you."

Zhao Yang squinted slightly. "How do you know how many spirit stones we have on us?"

"That you don't need to know," that Yuanyang Sect disciple said, looking at Zhao Yang. "Now you only need to surrender and come back with us to Yuanyang Sect, and nothing will happen. If you resist stubbornly, then don't blame us for being impolite."

Although Zhao Yang wanted to know how they knew how many spirit stones he had on him, he did not have time to get entangled with them here.

Now there were only two choices before Zhao Yang: one was to forcibly open the teleportation grand array and leave this place, the other was to surrender and be taken back to Yuanyang Sect by them.

However, Zhao Yang did not want to surrender and be taken back to Yuanyang Sect by them, so Zhao Yang chose to open the teleportation grand array and leave this place. But Zhao Yang tried several times, and still could not open the teleportation grand array.

"Don't waste your effort," a Yuanyang Sect disciple suddenly said. "To open this teleportation grand array, one must perform a blood-bond recognition of master. If one does not perform a blood-bond recognition of master, even if one has more spirit stones, don't even think about opening this teleportation grand array to leave this place."

Zhao Yang was slightly stunned. Without a blood-bond recognition of master, one could not open the teleportation grand array?

Why had he never heard of this claim before?

Could it be because this Great Teleportation Array is somewhat special?

But no matter how one considers this claim, it should not hold true.

Because if the Great Teleportation Array required a drop of blood to recognize its master, those few men in black robes could not have failed to consider this point...

Although Zhao Yang found it hard to believe that the Great Teleportation Array could not be activated without a drop of blood to recognize its master, the fact lay right before his eyes, leaving him no choice but to believe it.

It was just that now, besides leaving this place, Zhao Yang had no other choice.

So Zhao Yang, without a moment's hesitation, sliced his finger and squeezed out a drop of fresh blood.

When Zhao Yang let the blood fall onto the Great Teleportation Array, he suddenly felt a sensation of the heavens and earth spinning...

Zhao Yang felt his body instantly swallowed by a tremendous force, then transported to a strange place.

"This..." Zhao Yang discovered in shock that he had not been transported to the Great Array in Yanjing, but to another place entirely. This place was not the Teleportation Array of Yanjing at all, but a desolate wilderness.

"How could this be?" Zhao Yang thought in shock. "Is this Great Teleportation Array not the one from Yanjing?"

Although Zhao Yang was very puzzled, he did not linger here. He immediately left this place and went to a nearby town. Yet, the moment Zhao Yang arrived at the town, he was instantly surrounded by a group of disciples from the Yuanyang Sect.

"Young Sect Master, we have been waiting for you for a long time," a disciple of the Yuanyang Sect said, looking at Zhao Yang. "Now, please return with us subordinates."

Zhao Yang narrowed his eyes slightly. "You have been waiting for me here all along?"

"Yes," that disciple of the Yuanyang Sect nodded slightly. "After we received news of the Young Sect Master's whereabouts, we immediately rushed over from the Yuanyang Sect. Now, Young Sect Master, please return with us subordinates to see the Sect Master."

Zhao Yang wanted to leave this place, but he was extremely helpless. Now that he was surrounded, leaving this place was as difficult as climbing to the sky. So Zhao Yang could only watch helplessly as they brought him back to the Yuanyang Sect.

After Zhao Yang was brought back to the Yuanyang Sect, he was immediately imprisoned inside a stone dungeon. Although Zhao Yang was honored as the Young Sect Master of the Yuanyang Sect, he did not have the qualification to see the Grand Sect Master. And although that middle-aged beautiful woman wanted to see Zhao Yang, she was told that without the Grand Sect Master's permission, she could not see Zhao Yang.

Time passed bit by bit; in the blink of an eye, Zhao Yang had been imprisoned for over half a month. During this period of more than half a month, besides some food and water being sent in, no one else came. And the rats and cockroaches in the stone dungeon made it impossible for Zhao Yang to sleep.

"That beast," Zhao Yang ground his teeth in hatred. "If that beast had not suddenly appeared and ruined my good deed, I would have already left the Yuanyang Sect by now."

The moment he thought of that man in black robes, Zhao Yang became extremely furious.

If that man in black robes had not suddenly appeared halfway and ruined his good deed, he would have already left Yanjing by now.

And now he has ended up in such a fate; not only did he fail to complete his plan, but he was also imprisoned inside the stone dungeon...

And just as Zhao Yang felt indignant in his heart, the sound of a lock opening suddenly came from outside the stone dungeon.

"Has that beast finally come?" Zhao Yang thought in his heart.

During this period of more than half a month, besides thinking of a way to leave this place, Zhao Yang could only think of that man in black robes.

That man in black robes, who could silently destroy the teleportation machine, should be a very formidable figure.

And such a formidable figure should be very difficult to deal with.