CH 531

531: Juntian’s Suspicions

Ai Lin looked at the guy in front of her curiously. She didn’t know who he was, but he was acting familiar with Feng Wu. Was he a relative?

“It turns out Miss Ai Lin is Xiao Wu’s classmate. I am Xiao Wu’s older brother, Feng Juntian. Thank you for taking care of my family’s Xiao Wu at school Miss Ai Lin.” Juntian looked at Ai Lin and spoke without emotion.

Yep, siblings. Ai Lin believed it. Both siblings had the same expressionless, nearly paralyzed faces.

“It’s no matter; Xiao Wu also takes care of me a lot too.”

“I wonder, why is Miss Ai Lin here?” Juntian asked without missing a beat.

She had entered in such a hurry. Could it be related to the formation array in the cave?

“Well... I accidentally left something in the cave a few days ago. I just remembered today, so I hurried back to get it.”

“Did you drop this?” Juntian held out a softly glowing snow-white bead the size of an egg. The bead was absorbing nearby elements and was clearly an unusual item.

“My gathering magic bead!” Ai Lin whispered in surprise. She had only gotten the rare support item recently a few days ago and hadn’t moved it into her dimensional space yet when she lost it.

Because the bead could gather and store energy from the five elements, a magician could keep it on their body and use it in battle to ensure they wouldn’t run out of energy.

She knew she had it when she went to the cave so she had backtracked and search all the places she was at recently. The cave was the last place she thought of to look. Unexpectedly, it was there and it was Feng Wu’s brother who picked it up.

“This is not a bad bead. It’s a rare support item and will be helpful to you in the future if you use it properly.” Juntian wasn’t greedy for other people's things. He wasn’t a magician but a sword user, and although the item could certainly be useful, he wasn’t the type to rely on support items; nor was he going to take someone else’s magic item.

“Thank you, Brother Juntian.” Ai Lin secretly sighed after taking the bead back from Juntian. The guy was definitely worthy of being the heir to a super power house. Anyone else would never have returned it.

“Miss Ai Lin, from what you’ve said, it sounds like you were here a few days ago, correct?”

"Brother Juntian, just call me Ai Lin. Yes I was here a few days ago.” There was nothing for her to hide, so Ai Lin spoke truthfully.

“Ai Lin, I’m not sure if you would know, but do you recognize the formation painted on the floor here?”

“What do you want to ask about the Soul Sacrifice formation for?” Ai Lin didn't expect him to ask about it and had replied with thinking.

She knew she’d said something wrong the moment the words left her lips. She shouldn’t have recognized it; now if something happened in the future, people were going to blame her for it. Wasn’t she just digging her own grave?

It was too late to take it back now. Everyone there had heard her say it.

“You really know the name of this formation?! What the hell is it?! Do you have something to do with it?! Are you involved with An’an’s death. Tell me! Answer me!”

Before Juntian could ask anything, Shui had jumped in and grabbed Ai Lin by the collar and shook her hard while pummeling her with questions.

Ai Lin was dizzy from having her head shaken like a bobble so she tried to shoo Shui’s hand away.

Juntian thought Shui was being impulsive. They weren’t sure Ai Lin had anything to do with the deaths so it was a bit too much to rush and question her like that.

He grabbed Shui’s shoulders and pulled her away from Ai Lin.

“Brother Juntian, let me go! I have to ask her clearly. Let me go!” Shui shouted as she struggled against Juntian.

“OK, calm down. We can ask in a reasonable manner. Let me do the talking.”

Shui was a little afraid of Juntian so she shut her mouth and let him do the talking.

Once she calmed down, Juntian let go of her shoulders and asked Ai Lin, “Ai Lin, how do you know the name of this formation?”

He couldn’t recognize the formation, and he was from one of the most powerful families on the continent and was an up and coming future member of Star Marshall hall. With all the resources these stations gave him, it stood to reason he would be more knowledgeable than a second year at Xingguang Holy academy.

And yet Ai Lin knew what it was immediately. It was unusual and really made him wonder.

“Oh, it’s a coincidence actually that I know about it. Last year, I was lucky enough to enter an ancient magician’s tomb. The magician was a formation magician and left a scroll detailing several formations behind. I looked through them and saw there were several forbidden formations in it.

I burned the scroll after reading it because I felt it would be a disaster if it fell into the wrong hands. It was only by chance that I passed by Qui mountain a few days ago and entered the cave. As soon as I saw the formation on the ground, I recognized it was one of the forbidden formations from ancient times. . . ”

Verifying what Ai Lin said would have been difficult, but Juntian didn’t feel she had any reason to lie. It looked like she didn’t have anything to do with the formation.

But then again it was all too coincidental – her coming to the mountain alone and her discovering the formation. The suspicion in Juntian’s mind wasn’t completely dispelled but he was careful not to show it and instead continued to ask his questions.

“You said this was called the Soul Sacrifice formation, but we still don’t know the purpose behind it.”

Ai Lin thought for a bit then said, “Just the Soul Sacrifice formation by itself is useless. It needs to be paired with a treasure from the underworld to work.”

“And what would that be?”

“Death’s Wishing Stone.”

“What’s that?” Shui had been listening to the side. She didn’t fully believe Ai Lin, but she wasn’t as agitated as she was earlier.

Feng Wu stood to the side quietly listening.

It wasn’t a surprise they didn’t know. If Ai Lin hadn’t read the story, she would never have thought there was a way to exchange lives and bring the dead back to life, never mind that a treasure as sinister as a death stone could exist.

“Death’s Wishing Stone is a stone the god of death left behind in this world. It’s a very unusual stone in that it has a bit of godly essence inside. Anyone who has the stone can make a wish and use it to revive anyone they want. . . ”