Chapter 3497: Martial Aunt (14)

“Where did Jianzhan Peak go?” Ning Shu asked Yi Youxuan.

She had taken such a massive peak? Yi Youxuan’s cheat was truly powerful enough to pierce the heavens.

“It is just gone,” Yi Youxuan said, while casually shrugging her shoulders. However, a smile she could not quite hide played on her face. She looked perfectly confident, and her response to Ning Shu was completely dismissive.

Ning Shu: …

Ning Shu truly could not help wanting to beat her chest. Good heavens, my inner demons are about to break out!

Qi Cheng arrived shortly after. He was beyond shocked as he looked at the spot where the peak had vanished. “Where is the mountain?”

“Master, I do not know either. When I arrived here, the peak was already gone. I suspect someone moved it.”

Ning Shu maintained an expressionless face. “Right. Someone just shouldered a giant mountain and ran off without a trace.”

Who are you trying to kid?

Clearly, Qi Cheng was no fool. Jianzhan Peak was not something that could be carried off easily. Even with the strength of the three of them combined, they would not have been able to move it.

Furthermore, Qi Cheng believed his own strength was not weak, yet he had been unable to budge the mountain even an inch. Had some person suddenly appeared and run off with it?

“Is that true?” Qi Cheng was skeptical.

Yi Youxuan could not help but say, “Master, do you actually not believe me? Do you think I could do anything to a whole mountain?”

Qi Cheng felt that while his disciple was quite capable, it was still impossible for her to make an entire mountain disappear.

Ning Shu really wanted to smash a hammer into Qi Cheng’s head. It was obviously Yi Youxuan. If it wasn’t her, who else could it be?

Ning Shu felt like her entire world was falling apart.

“Should we give chase?” Yi Youxuan asked Qi Cheng.

Qi Cheng looked at the vast blackness of the night surrounding them. Where would they even start looking?

How would he explain this to the sect leader? Could he really say the mountain had vanished into thin air?

Ning Shu’s face became even more stony. Where would they look? Yi Youxuan was certainly ‘interesting.’

“No tracks were left, so it will be hard to track. Do you have any clues?” Qi Cheng asked Yi Youxuan, as she was the first to arrive.

Yi Youxuan shook her head. “It was gone by the time I arrived. I have no idea how it vanished.”

Qi Cheng could not help but want to scratch his head. Even seeing a ghost would not be this bizarre.

Ning Shu clutched her chest.

Oh, my heart… my inner demons are acting up. I did not even get to see what was inside before it vanished. Yi Youxuan just took it all.

If this thing could have been taken with a storage ring, she would have done so long ago.

To do all the hard work only for someone else to reap the rewards—and without even being paid for her labor—felt absolutely miserable.

Ning Shu said, “Perhaps someone took it. Maybe they used a spatial dimension to collect it. Otherwise, there is no way to explain the mountain’s sudden disappearance, especially when you were the only one here.”

“You suspect that I took it? Which of your eyes saw me do it? You should be responsible for what you say.” Yi Youxuan frowned. “To say I took it based on nothing but your own assumptions… is there something wrong with your head? If you are sick, go see a physician, but do not just open your mouth and start talking nonsense.”

Yi Youxuan looked at Ning Shu with total confidence. The item was already safely tucked away in her immortal estate. Even if these people searched, they would never find it.

“Forget it, stop arguing. Since there is no evidence, do not make a scene,” Qi Cheng said.

Ning Shu just wanted to roll her eyes. All Qi Cheng ever knew how to say was ‘forget it’ and ‘stop arguing.’

He was always smoothing things over and making excuses for his disciple. Ning Shu felt truly irritated. “I notified the sect, and now the item is gone. It vanished right after the two of you arrived. How are we supposed to explain this to the sect?”

“The thing is simply gone. What can we do about it? After all your talking, you still just suspect me of moving a giant mountain. It is pure fantasy. Why don’t you just say it flew up into heaven?” Yi Youxuan said haughtily.

Since ancient times, treasures had always belonged to the capable.

Ning Shu looked at Yi Youxuan silently, then said, “I think you are the one who has flown up to heaven.”

“Enough, stop arguing,” Qi Cheng spoke up again.

Ning Shu snapped, “Can you say something other than ‘stop arguing’? If you are not tired of it, I certainly am.”

What was the point of all this chatter? Was there any actual solution?

Ning Shu knew exactly what Yi Youxuan was up to. She was playing the pig to eat the tiger, swallowing the treasure while pretending it had nothing to do with her so she could make a fortune in silence.

But since Ning Shu had reported this to the sect, it was now sect property. Most importantly, it seemed Yi Youxuan did not intend to let anyone else have even a sip of the soup.

She was going to gulp everything down by herself.

“Why are you arguing with my master? It was not my master who made it vanish. If you want to suspect him, then I suspect you were the one who took it. According to your logic, everyone here is a suspect.” Yi Youxuan stepped up to protect her master.

Ning Shu only gave a cold laugh. What was the use of being angry?

“Since we are all suspects, let us return to the sect and accept an investigation. This thing now belongs to the sect because I reported it. Whoever took it is a thief. A common, petty thief.”

“Look at you, making it sound as if my master and I are thieves. You need to produce evidence for that,” Yi Youxuan said coldly. “I defeated you once, and I can do it again. A petty clown like you should stop jumping around.”

Oh, my temper is flared now.

Ning Shu put her hands on her hips. “I will jump all I want. We are talking about Jianzhan Peak. I suspect it was actually the ruins of an ancient Divine Dao sect.”

There had been more than one Divine Dao sect in the past, much like how there were many cultivation sects now. They had simply declined for unknown reasons.

Some of the methods used by the Divine Dao were not things that modern cultivators could decipher.

One followed the path of cultivation while the other followed the path of the gods. There was no comparison.

When Ning Shu mentioned that Jianzhan Peak was a ruin of a Divine Dao sect, a strange look flickered across Yi Youxuan’s face, though it vanished in an instant.

Ning Shu had been watching Yi Youxuan closely. Seeing that fleeting expression, she was now almost certain that Yi Youxuan was the one who had taken the mountain.

One simply could not compete with someone who used cheats.

“A Divine Dao sect?” Qi Cheng’s expression suddenly became serious. If it truly were a Divine Dao sect, then the ancient manuals, pills, and weapons would be things that any modern cultivator would dream of obtaining.

A single pill might change one’s innate constitution. A cultivation manual could create a powerful master. There would also be ancient natural treasures and all sorts of other riches.

“You cannot even be sure it belonged to an ancient Divine Dao sect. If it truly were such a thing, would you have been the one to find it?” Yi Youxuan sneered. “Do not exaggerate the importance of things. No matter how large the world is, no one can pound their chest and guarantee they know everything.”

Ning Shu: …

Ning Shu patted her chest. This was the classic case of someone getting a bargain and then acting like they were the innocent party. Yi Youxuan clearly thought that because the item was in her immortal estate, no one could do anything to her.

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