Chapter 155: Blown Away Half the Peak

Su Jin collected a circle of insect carapaces and returned to her elder brother's side.

Su Jian was boiling a pot of wild mushroom chicken soup, richly fragrant, richly fragrant.

He had built his own firepit and brought along a portable hanging pot for camping.

Su Jin's stomach growled loudly.

This made Su Jian burst into laughter: "Just wait a little longer, just a little longer and it'll be ready."

Su Hanlin was roasting flatbreads—palm-sized cakes threaded onto skewers and pressed against the fire, occasionally brushing them with sauce.

When all the breads were done, Su Hanlin and Su Jian, together with Su Jin, devoured an entire pot of wild mushroom chicken and over a dozen flatbreads.

The night breeze rustled gently; the commotion from neighboring Mount Woniu couldn't reach them at all.

"Hanlin, when do you think the chaos in the outer district will finally calm down?" Su Jian, full and relaxed, sought a topic. "When can we go home?"

"Hard to say. If that High Priest doesn't keep stirring things up, the outer district will settle quickly."

"If he keeps stirring things up, let him stir."

"The more he stirs, the more of his hidden cards he reveals—and the greater his losses."

Look, at first, the outer district was just disturbed by the parasitic ones; later, traitors led the parasitic ones to seize entire districts.

Now it's worse—the High Priest has unleashed his big move, even planning to target our Su clan's first-year pupils.

And to succeed, he was willing to expose his Number One Mother Nest, hidden for years!

This time he suffered heavy losses—Xu Yunrui led the team to trick Feng Qi and directly caused him to lose one Mother Nest.

That Mother Nest was far larger than the Shell Beetles. It grew by directly stealing the spiritual veins beneath Mount Woniu.

Think about how long the Mount Woniu Sect has been managing this mountain?

This Mother Nest has existed for over a hundred years."

Su Hanlin's words jolted Su Jian awake from his drowsiness.

"What? This Mother Nest beneath our feet has existed for over a hundred years? And we had no idea? Has the Patrol Office really become this useless?" Su Jian asked, his face cold.

"As if we could've found the Mother Nest without the Patrol Office stepping in," Su Hanlin defended the Patrol Office. "We located this Mother Nest because our Intelligence Bureau traced some clues, and secondly, Xu Yunrui is truly talented."

His plan was flawlessly layered, leaving Feng Qi completely unaware of any anomaly."

"That's how we tricked open the Number One Mother Nest," Su Hanlin said approvingly.

"To be honest, no one initially thought the Number One Mother Nest was this close to Mount Woniu," Su Hanlin admitted—he'd broken into a cold sweat when he first received the news.

If Xu Yunrui hadn't prepared in advance, our Su clan's first-year pupils, newly admitted to the clan school this year, would've suffered devastating losses.

"Do you know why the High Priest chose to target our Su family's first-year pupils?" Su Jian frowned.

"I heard one of these children became a disturber of the River of Time."

"What does that mean?" Su Jian still didn't understand.

"It means one of these children, due to great fortune or some unexpected circumstance, glimpsed the future."

"The insect fears that person seeing its true face, so it wants to capture all our Su clan's first-year pupils—so it can use what they saw to alter its own plans," Su Hanlin explained.

"No way! We've got one of these monsters in our clan school? Then does that mean Su Jin's chances of gaining the school's favor and elite training just got even harder?" Su Jian couldn't help complaining.

"Big brother, I never wanted the clan school's favor or elite training," Su Jin said, blushing.

"Adults are talking—don't interrupt," Su Jian snapped.

"Not necessarily. After all, Xiao Jin has not only excellent talent, but also a Blood Crimson Spider!" Su Hanlin said.

"That's true," Su Jian felt reassured the moment he thought of the Blood Crimson Spider.

"Thanks to Xu Yunrui tricking open the gate, the Mother Nest didn't trigger its self-destruct mechanism—we got a complete insect nest for free."

"A complete Mother Nest yields enough resources to feed the entire family for a full year," Su Hanlin added.

"Xu Yunrui is really that capable?"

"Of course."

"The Patrol Office has Su Huchen and Xu Yunrui—so your job there's relatively safe. Work hard. I'm waiting for your promotion and raise so you can treat me to dinner."

"Go away."

"Oh, by the way, the Mother Nest is right here—could Mount Woniu really not know?" Su Jian had barely finished speaking.

Everyone saw Mount Woniu erupt in a thunderous explosion.

The violent updrafts whipped up a massive black mushroom cloud!

The upper half of Mount Woniu's main peak was completely blown away.

Su Jian and the others stared, dumbfounded.

The Su clan cultivators who had been sitting or lying on the ground all leapt to their feet, staring at Mount Woniu nearby!

"Did they just blow off half the main peak? Any casualties? Should we go lend support?" one cultivator asked.

"Wait for orders. We haven't finished our job here either. We can't just leave on our own," another said. "No unauthorized departure during mission."

We're staying here for two reasons: first, to prevent the High Priest's people from retaking the entrance and trapping the Patrol Office personnel inside.

Second, after the Patrol Office leaves, we'll conduct a second harvest of this Mother Nest.

Only after we've harvested everything will the Mother Nest be permanently sunk underground.

This thing absolutely cannot be allowed to keep growing.

Not long after Mount Woniu's main peak exploded, hundreds of cultivators flew out from within the Mother Nest.

Leading them was Bao Junyi, Director of the Xiancheng Patrol Office.

His face was dark as if he could drip water.

He never imagined the High Priest would blow up Mount Woniu's main peak.

But you think blowing it up means I won't suspect you anymore?

Impossible.

A cold, ruthless smirk curled at the corner of Bao Junyi's mouth.

The more you try to cover it up, the more certain we are it was you.

Deep within the underground mother nest, the City Lord of Xiancheng, Xu Yi, discovered that his son Xu Yunrui had not emptied the worm crystals stored in the Origin Pool, and asked in surprise, "I didn't know you were this close with the Su clan — you even left them so many worm crystals."

"Did I do that for the Su clan? I did it to win over my Blood Chilo. Who knows, one day it might be abandoned by its master, then think I'm especially nice and decide to follow me from now on."

Xu Yi let out a snort of laughter at those words.

"A companion wraith will only switch masters after confirming its master's death. And the new master cannot fully control it."

"Huh? Is there really no exception?" Xu Yunrui truly liked Blood Chilo far too much.

He felt that little fellow was a better match for him!