Chapter 24: line with translation of chapter title translation

Along with the fireball's booming blast came a scream, and the black banner floating in the air was seized by a figure.

Jiang Yu's tense heart relaxed; she had just invoked "Tenfold Ambush" only to deliberately mislead the opponent—this formation was actually a Four‑Direction Demon‑Sealing Array.

It is a reduced variant of the Tenfold Ambush, sharing the same void‑forbidding effect, which often leads to misjudgment.

In her haste, she judged by the direction of the arrow rain and attacked using the standard array‑breaking method taught at the Transmission Hall, and it surprisingly worked.

One can only say the opponent is also a half‑baked array user.

Now that the gap opened, the arrow rain vanished instantly, and the person hidden within the array materialized; she pursued him without hesitation and unleashed another fireball talisman.

"Damn it!" Ye Lin fumed, the dead girl's talisman core was as worthless as a spirit stone.

"Qi Ge, how's Xiao Shiba?" he transmitted his voice to Ye Cheng while channeling his entire spiritual energy into the black banner.

"My hair was burned away by more than half." Ye Cheng hadn't expected a brief encounter to injure anyone on our side.

"I'll give you another quarter‑hour; if it doesn't work, retreat, otherwise the patrol won't pass and other disciples will also travel through."

"Understood." Ye Lin waved the large banner, intending to seal the cracked array light.

And over Jiang Yu's side, how could she let him finish the array? "Jiang Tu, burn that banner."

As Ye Lin and a few others at the formation prepared to seal the great array, another fire talisman struck.

At that moment he brushed the flame aside with the banner, not noticing a tiny pale‑blue flame landing on a corner of the black banner.

When Xiao Wugui perched at the spirit‑beast bag's mouth and lightly uttered "Boom", the black banner turned to ash in an instant.

If Ye Lin hadn't swiftly tossed the flagpole and activated the waist‑worn defensive jade pendant to retreat several zhang, his hands would likely have been lost.

With the main array banner destroyed, the other three banners also lost their effect.

The four of them simultaneously slapped their storage bags, drew swords, and surged forward.

Jiang Yu didn't flee; instead she raised a black orb threaded with golden silk in each hand, feigning a toss.

"Heaven‑Thunder Orb!" The four instantly turned back, using swift body techniques while releasing flying implements to scatter and flee.

At this moment, hidden behind the flying sword, a girl of about ten years old exclaimed, "Looks like Grandpa really didn't need to step in."

Senior sister Jiang Yu's strength is not to be underestimated; she not only has a fifth‑rank spirit beast that can protect its master, but also wields two Heaven‑Thunder Orbs. Envy!

"Hehe, the Heaven‑Thunder Orbs are fake; when she took them out of the storage bag, she wrapped them with golden spiritual‑energy threads."

"But when did her cultivation reach the seventh layer of Refining Qi?" The sword‑wielding one was none other than Guan Shishu from the Transmission Hall.

"Grandpa, hurry and catch up, let's see the truth." The little girl didn't care about Jiang Yu's cultivation; she just wanted to know if she could seize an attacker.

Jiang Yu didn't realize there were more people behind; she leapt onto the flying boat and pursued the one who had just seized the black banner. Even if the opponent used disguise, she could recognize them from the eyes that only stared at the top of the head.

Ye Lin hadn't expected her pursuit to be so close—only a few dozen zhang away and still drawing nearer.

Returning to the sect was impossible; he resolutely prepared to head to the market, to have the enforcement squad accuse the person behind him of treasure‑stealing.

The idea sounded good, but Jiang Yu was determined to chase him, decisively borrowing a top‑grade spirit stone from Xiao Wugui, placing it on the flying boat; with a whoosh, its speed surged, and she blocked Ye Lin's flying cloud in an instant.

Without a drop of mud or water, she rose and smashed that golden‑silk orb into his defensive shield.

"You madman!" Ye Lin leapt down from the cloud quickly, simultaneously crushing the life‑saving Hundred‑Li Escape Talisman to dodge.

Unexpectedly, a water net surged forward, ensnaring him in an instant and breaking his escape talisman.

"Throw him into that forest over there; as long as he doesn't die from the fall." Jiang Yu retrieved the silent orb, unceremoniously reclaimed the cloud and erased its original owner's imprint.

Xiao Wugui Jiang Tu blew gently at the water net; the struggling Ye Lin sped toward the forest where he had previously set a trap.

Bang bang bang

Ye Lin couldn't break the water net; the sword qi he sliced out rebounded onto himself, and because he fell too fast, he crashed from mid‑air onto a tree branch.

After smashing a large swath of branches and leaves, he slammed into the trunk, fell, and the pain left him dazed and near fainting.

Jiang Yu also leapt down at about the same moment, grabbed the unable‑to‑rise Ye Lin, sealed his dantian, and ripped his robe.

"What are you doing?" Ye Lin raised his hand to protest, and with two clacking sounds, she mercilessly snapped off his two arms.

"Wow!" Guan Xiao Guniang, who had been hidden behind all along, placed her right hand over her eyes, peeking through the gaps to see with two eyes.

Xiao Wugui sensed something, turned its head left and right, and said, "Quick strike, quick finish; there may be more people nearby."

As soon as it finished speaking, Jiang Yu swiftly erected several layers of mist‑shrouded barriers, cutting off any prying eyes.

She also applied Golden Armor Technique to the back of her hand, delivering heavy punches to the pain points on Ye Lin's body, not a single strike aimed at his face, neck, or other obvious spots.

The latter screamed miserably, but his spiritual power was sealed, leaving him unable to retaliate.

Even then, she kept spitting threats, "Jiang Yu, just you wait."

"If it weren't for that Ye family face, do you think you could still be alive?" Jiang Yu patted his face and knocked him out with a punch.

Conflicts among disciples, brawls and scuffles, are inconsequential as long as no lives are taken or the path is not destroyed; the sect turns a blind eye.

Yet she cannot kill the person here, otherwise endless trouble would follow, and she doesn't want to be forced to leave the sect and wander due to a momentary rage.

The hardships of a wandering cultivator, never knowing if tomorrow will come, she has tasted and never wishes to endure again.

However, the interest had to be collected today; Jiang Yu searched Ye Lin's storage bag, took all unmarked spirit stones, spirit herbs, pills and elixirs, and then slipped the bag back into his bosom.

As she was about to leave, while unsealing Ye Lin's spiritual power, she "accidentally" spilled some spirit honey.

"Go." Jiang Yu left, but only a moment later, members of the Ye family arrived.

They saw Ye Lin covered in a layer of spirit bees; he was beating and burning himself, his head full of blisters.

"Hahaha…" Guan Xiao Guniang covered her mouth, laughing uncontrollably.

"Grandpa, I think Senior Sister Jiang doesn't need protection at all."

"Master Lin truly underestimated her strength."

"Indeed, Jiang Yu is good; she knows how to weigh light and heavy in her actions."

"But since she took on Master Lin's task, she must see the protection through to the end." When Guan Shishu, wielding a sword, chased to the market, he found Jiang Yu and a fully‑realized Refining Qi disciple inside a tavern.

And that person was the Jiang Bai who hadn't been seen for two years.

He led the person into a private room, erected a barrier, then revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation, and placed numerous Refining Qi pills and over a dozen spirit‑beast pills on the table.

"I'm leaving; these are for you and Xiao Wu Gui Ao You." As he spoke, he also condensed his breath to the Refining Qi stage, and handed Xiao Wu Gui a Wanli Communication Jade, leaving a spiritual imprint with it.

Then he gave Jiang Yu two Core Formation Sword Qi talismans and a jade slip: "The Fish Token can't be placed with you; this is compensation."

"Make sure to keep your life until Foundation Establishment; before the Cave Heaven opens eight years later, I'll try to find you and go in together."

Before his words finished, he didn't let Jiang Yu say a single word, opened the door, and left quickly.

Xiao Wu Gui asked oddly: "He hasn't fully recovered his cultivation yet, why is he leaving?"

"When one reaches Foundation Establishment, they automatically become an inner sect disciple; each peak and valley will also select and focus on cultivating them.

Probably he has a mentor lineage and doesn't want to be an inner sect disciple of the Grand Void Sect." Jiang Yu put away the table of items, and her spiritual consciousness penetrated the jade slip.

The slip wrote that she had been stalked all the way, and pointed out her shortcomings when she fought.

At the end, it included several methods for breaking formation traps and killing formations.

After she finished reading, Xiao Wu Gui grabbed it to peruse, "Jiang Bai, really not bad!"

Jiang Yu only smiled without replying: "There is no good in the world without cause; if there is, it's probably because of good parents."

She also didn't know whether her parents in this life had survived.