Chapter 39: Dragon‑Seeking Array

Yes!

Zhao Bi hurriedly relayed all the information he had investigated, and Wang Tie and Long Yu listened for a while, their brows tightly furrowed.

"By your account, that thief is indeed exceptionally cunning. But since you infer that he is still in Lin Shan Cheng, he must have more than just boldness—perhaps another motive?" Wang Tie sensed a key point and asked.

"Yes… that thief has already obtained the Mysterious Accumulation Secret Command. If he truly remains within Lin Shan Cheng's territory, he is probably now trying to break through the Heavenly Mortal Realm!"

Long Yu looked puzzled and said, "Mysterious Accumulation Secret Command? Heavenly Mortal Realm…"

"Junior sister, you don't know, but it's merely the realm of ordinary martial practitioners. A Heavenly Mortal Realm warrior is only equivalent to us Lianqi Level cultivators; we could annihilate them with a flick of the wrist!"

"As for that Mysterious Accumulation Secret Command, I've heard of it; it seems related to the broken Martial Dao path…" Wang Tie frowned and thought.

Long Yu, not very interested, said, "Senior brother, shall we go look for it now?"

"Indeed, let's go!"

"Go!"

"Respectfully escort the Immortal Master!"

As they spoke, the two flew out the window; one stepped onto a lotus leaf and vanished midair!

Zhao Bi took a deep breath, and only after a long pause did he dare raise his head, gazing out the window with envy.

After a short while.

The two silhouettes descended into the city, looking at the bustling scenery around them.

"Ah, candied hawthorn!"

"Junior sister, take it slow."

Watching the curious Long Yu haggle and buy at every stall, Wang Tie gave a helpless smile and followed her, paying the bills.

"Senior brother, these mortals exude such heavy turbid Qi, but the food is quite good," Long Yu laughed.

"Hehe, let's find a place to sit and rest. Chasing that thief is a minor matter; this Yangchun Trading Hall is the real reason Master sent me to bring you out," Wang Tie said with a smile.

He took Long Yu to a restaurant and reserved a private room.

The two sat inside; Wang Tie extended two fingers, pinching a mantra, and laughed.

Long Yu, puzzled, asked, "Senior brother, are there other cultivators here? Why is a silent barrier activated?"

"It's wise to be cautious when traveling. Continuing the earlier topic, the Yangchun Trading Hall was originally a self‑organized gathering of mountain and wilderness wandering cultivators; the once‑in‑twenty‑years market may yield some fine items, but we need not purchase them—Spiritual Stones are still quite precious."

"Is that so? I get fifty Spiritual Stones every month,"

Wang Tie:......

Your family, my family?

Don't you have any sense?

"Junior sister, if you come across something you like, you may trade for it. However, most are wandering cultivators, so remember not to flaunt wealth and invite disaster," Wang Tie warned.

Long Yu nodded, then laughed, "Isn't senior brother still here~"

Wang Tie raised an eyebrow, "I'm only at Lianqi Level seven; I'm hardly a master."

"Hahaha."

Wang Tie sighed; indeed, a junior sister who has never encountered the outside world is still too unguarded.

Even a Lianqi Phase cultivator would die if a vital point is struck!

Unless a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator has acquired an Accumulation Armor, they can protect all vital points.

If an Elder at the Golden Core Stage has fused Accumulation Martial Power and Accumulation Armor into Accumulation Beast Armament, they no longer fear enemies directly harming the cultivator's body.

Thus, for cultivators, the importance of an Accumulation Device is self‑evident.

"Besides the Yangchun Trading Hall, perhaps we should look for the cave residence that Venerable Huang Song left here earlier."

"You mean the one on Huang Songshan? Didn't we hear that disciples from the sect went looking before and didn't find it?"

"Who knows, maybe our luck will let us find it," Wang Tie laughed.

Long Yu shrugged indifferently.

"Then where shall we go now?"

"The Yangchun Trading Hall starts in two days; for now let's search the city for that thief's whereabouts."

Wang Tie said, and suddenly produced an array from the ring on his hand; Long Yu exclaimed in surprise:

"This is senior brother's Accumulation Device, the 'Dragon‑Seeking Array', right? I heard it aligns with the principles of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, capable of deciding all matters of the world!"

Wang Tie waved his hand: "I don't have that ability; if I did, I would have become a Yuan Ying Period Ancestor long ago! This Accumulation Device came from a tattered Accumulation Diagram I happened upon decades ago; after painstakingly restoring it, I only managed in recent years to gather Spiritual Materials and barely forge it. However, junior sister, don't underestimate this Dragon‑Seeking Array—though it is a First‑Tier Accumulation Device, unlike those forged from Accumulation Diagrams, it still has room for improvement!"

"Didn't we say that Accumulation Devices made from Accumulation Diagrams cannot be upgraded? Only devices that cultivators themselves devise can grow with the cultivator," Long Yu asked curiously.

"My device is different; it is an anomalous Accumulation Device, not subject to ordinary logic."

Wang Tie spoke, pinching the mantra with both hands; internal magical energy began to surge, flowing along the dragon patterns on the array and gradually activating it!

The array emitted a phosphorescent glow, Wang Tie's fingers fluttered continuously, and the grid squares etched with Eight Trigram patterns seemed to come alive, rotating incessantly.

At that moment, a startling scene unfolded! The massive dragons carved on the array's edge seemed to spring to life, twisting their bodies and spiraling above the grids. Their claws and teeth bared, exuding overwhelming momentum as if about to soar. Most astonishing, the tightly shut eyes on each dragon's head suddenly snapped open, emitting dazzling golden light.

Wang Tie's complexion changed; the mantra in his hand halted instantly, his magical energy continued to surge, and he clapped his hands, "Combine the hexagram: reveal the original form!"

The wooden bodies of the carved dragons were suddenly bathed in a golden sheen, their scales glittering magnificently. After a single dragon's roar, the hexagrams on the array shifted abruptly, and before Wang Tie's eyes…

"Dragons seen in the wild? No people here? Benevolence carries all! Discovered something new!"

"Huh? Senior brother, what did your method calculate?" Long Yu asked curiously.

"Although we didn't find anyone resembling that thief, we did locate a place with abnormal spiritual energy! I reckon that is likely the location of Venerable Huang Song's cave residence!"

"Where is it!"

Wang Tie looked out the window, pointing to the city's highest peak: "Huang Songshan!"

Wang Tie quickly carried Long Yu to the summit of Huang Songshan and surveyed the surroundings.

"Such dense mist gives this place a hint of a celestial mountain's grandeur," Long Yu said with a smile.

"What Junior Sister said, there are many Cloud Mist Mountains; the key is, if inside this mountain is not on a dragon vein node, a place where spiritual energy gathers, it also cannot be called an immortal mountain." Wang Tie laughed.

Long Yu nodded: "Indeed, only the great mountains and rivers where the dragon vein lies can gather spiritual energy; this is also our Eight Dao Mystic Gate's primary choice when founding the sect."

"However, there is no sign of spiritual energy gathering here; Senior Brother, could you have miscalculated?"

Wang Tie furrowed his brows, investigated a bit, after some thought: "My divination shows it should be nearby; it shouldn't be wrong. Could it be somewhere under the mountain?"

"How about we first look around here?" Long Yu raised his eyebrows and said.

"Mm." Wang Tie nodded.

After all, it concerns a senior's cave dwelling; maybe we could find some good things.