“This fellow, how did he get here?”
“He has the ability to find this place so quickly?”
Song Yun gazed into the distance with a gloomy expression.
Then she concealed her figure and hid to one side.
Not long afterwards, another figure arrived at the spot.
This person was one of the three geniuses of the Gongsun family, Gongsun Leiyu.
Gongsun Leiyu walked straight to the location of the stone gate.
Since the stone gate had vanished once more, when Gongsun Leiyu arrived, he could not detect its position at all.
But he remained calm and unhurried. He took out a scroll from his robes.
The scroll not only marked the location of the stone gate, but it also contained the star map formation for summoning it.
Moreover, there was a map and another, more complex formation.
“This is the place.”
Gongsun Leiyu followed the instructions on the scroll to set up the formation and summoned the stone gate with ease.
“Heh…”
When the stone gate appeared, there was no great surprise on Gongsun Leiyu’s face. He merely gave a faint smile, as if finding this place was entirely to be expected for him.
Then he stepped forward, intending to enter the stone gate.
Boom—
Argh—
Suddenly, a powerful force descended from the sky, pressing Gongsun Leiyu flat on his back. He lay on the ground, unable to move.
“This feeling, it is martial power?”
“Senior, why are you attacking me?”
“I am Gongsun Leiyu of the Gongsun family.”
Gongsun Leiyu knew full well that juniors could not use martial power in this place.
And the martial power at work now was at the Martial Venerable realm, so his first thought was that one of Old Demon Heisha’s subordinates had struck him.
“Gongsun Leiyu, this old man asks you, where did the scroll in your hand come from?”
An aged and authoritative voice rang out. In truth, it was Song Yun disguising her voice.
She had already felt it unreasonable that Gongsun Leiyu could find this place so quickly.
And now, the scroll in his hand confirmed her suspicions were correct.
If the scroll had only recorded the location of the stone gate, that would have been one thing.
But it actually contained a map, and Song Yun recognised that map. It was the layout inside the stone gate.
No matter how talented Gongsun Leiyu was, he could not possibly deduce the interior of the stone gate just from the formation covering the sky.
Furthermore, besides the interior map, the scroll also held a grand formation.
Song Yun was, after all, a world spiritist herself. She could tell that this grand formation was meant to control the main formation within the barrier gate.
In other words, with the formation recorded on the scroll, Gongsun Leiyu could easily take control of the main formation inside the barrier gate and secure one of the places at the marriage recruitment tournament without effort.
With such a scroll in hand, Gongsun Leiyu had held the advantage from the very beginning.
Yet such a map should never have appeared in the hands of a participant like him.
Unless…
“Senior, this is a map I drew myself.”
Gongsun Leiyu said.
“Nonsense. Daring to lie and deceive this old man, I will take your worthless life.”
As Song Yun finished speaking, the oppressive aura intensified.
Crack, crack sounds came from Gongsun Leiyu’s body. His bones were forcibly shattered by Song Yun’s pressure.
Ah—
“Senior, stop! I will tell, I will tell.”
Gongsun Leiyu let out a miserable scream. Having intended to conceal the truth, he now saw how ruthless his opponent was and could only reveal the full story.
It turned out that the Gongsun family had long ago bribed an elder responsible for controlling the formations in this area.
The scroll had been given to them by that elder. Not only did he have one, but the other two geniuses of the Gongsun family each had one as well.
With these scrolls, the three geniuses of the Gongsun family were practically guaranteed the three places here.
“Truly shameless.”
“Quickly tell me, which elder gave you the map?”
Song Yun asked again.
“Senior, I truly do not know. The map was given to me by an elder of my clan. As for which elder he obtained it from, I really have no idea.”
Gongsun Leiyu shook his head repeatedly.
“If you will not say, then do not expect mercy.”
Song Yun gave a cold smile, then increased the pressure. Gongsun Leiyu screamed endlessly.
At this point, all he could do was scream and beg for mercy. From the look of him, he genuinely did not know the identity of that elder.
No matter how much Gongsun Leiyu pleaded, Song Yun showed no intention of stopping.
“This feeling?”
Suddenly, Song Yun’s expression changed. She looked into the distance.
“Even though no martial power was released inside the stone gate, it was still detected?”
Song Yun frowned deeply, then glanced at Gongsun Leiyu, who had already been gravely injured by her. She seemed to make a decision.
“I will spare your worthless life.”
After saying this, Song Yun took out a piece of jade from her robes.
As the jade appeared, light flashed brightly. Immediately afterwards, a barrier gate emerged.
Song Yun stepped into the barrier gate, and as her figure vanished, so did the gate.
When Song Yun reappeared, she was already outside the Breeding Forest.
“Really, why is he so interested in that Asura Burial Ground?”
“You helped me find the dark demon and came out fine, but do not die at the hands of those Gongsun family dogs just for a place at the marriage recruitment tournament.”
Song Yun muttered towards the direction of the Breeding Forest, then turned to leave.
“Young friend, leaving just like that would not be proper, would it?”
Unexpectedly, an elderly figure appeared behind Song Yun.
This elder was the very one who, outside the Asura Burial Ground earlier, had told Chu Feng that obtaining a place at the marriage recruitment tournament might allow him to approach the Asura Burial Ground.
This elder’s strength was unfathomably deep.
Yet upon seeing him, Song Yun merely smiled faintly.
“Senior Yun Kong, have you truly forgotten me?”
“Forgetting me is fine, but surely you still recognise this?”
As she spoke, Song Yun took out a token from her Cosmos Sack.
Upon seeing the token, the elder’s expression changed at once.
