Holding the space chat group, the cannon fodder female supporting role ascended

Chapter 213 Cause and Effect
"Uncle Wei is wise, but using a teleportation array is a bit extravagant."

Hua Xuanzi smiled and said.

"It's okay to splurge a little. I don't think this matter can be kept secret for long. After you return to the sect via the teleportation array, you should take this message back and ask the sect to send someone over as appropriate."

"What if the four of us work so hard to find the treasure only to lose it? I remember that cultivation cities usually have a Nascent Soul True Monarch stationed there."

"Xuanzi understands."

Hua Xuanzi stopped smiling and respectfully agreed.

Cao Yi and the other two naturally overheard Yun Xi and Hua Xuanzi's conversation. They thought their junior sister was very thoughtful and tacitly approved of Yun Xi's approach. They could afford to pay for the spirit stones needed for them to ride the teleportation array.

An hour later, the group appeared at the city gate of Jade Star City.

Shortly after they left the site of the Golden Core self-destruction, two groups of people went there to investigate: one group consisted of evil cultivators dressed in black robes, and the other group consisted of rogue cultivators dressed in gray robes.

After inspecting the scene, both groups turned their attention to the direction of Jade Star City and then quickly left without Yunxi and the others knowing.

After Cao Yi and his three companions entered Jade Star City with the Foundation Establishment stage disciples, they sensed that someone was secretly watching them. However, they remained calm and led the nine disciples to the teleportation hall of Jade Star City.

Upon seeing the newcomer, the guardian of the teleportation hall greeted him with a smile:

"Gentlemen, the teleportation array is experiencing some problems and is currently out of service. If any of you have urgent business, you can leave by airship."

Cao Yi's eyes flashed upon hearing this, and he smiled, cupping his hands in a respectful gesture:
"I am a fourth-grade array master, capable of repairing teleportation arrays. Perhaps I can be of assistance."

Upon hearing this, the Temple Guardian replied with an unchanged smile:

"Thank you for your help, fellow Daoist. However, this teleportation array has a dedicated array master responsible for its maintenance, and I cannot presume to do it for you, so..."

Cao Yi's offer of help was a test, and since the other party politely declined, it proves that someone in Jade Star City is determined not to let them leave and must know about the treasure map. That makes things even more interesting.

Yun Xi smiled and said:

“Senior Brother Cao, we sent our nephews away because we were afraid they would be affected. Since we can’t use the teleportation array, we’ll send them on a spaceship. Anyway, the items are in our hands, and they are not in danger. It’s just a matter of taking a little more time.”

Yunxi's words were ambiguous; those who understood them understood them, while those who didn't didn't grasp their deeper meaning.

Sure enough, after Yunxi finished speaking, the guardian's eyes flickered for a moment, then he cupped his hands and said:
"I'm sorry to have delayed your trip. If you are traveling by spaceship, you can get a 20% discount."

He then presented a jade plaque, with a flying boat engraved on the front and the characters "Tianlin" on the back, which should correspond to the spaceship.

After Yunxi's divine sense swept over these two words, she smiled knowingly. This spaceship was truly omnipresent. Once it took them to the location of the Nine-Round Sacrifice Array in Shuangshan City, and another time it created an opportunity for Wei Yunqing to seize the Xuanlei Purple Flame. Each time, it completed its mission perfectly and then made a graceful exit.

After Cao Yi bowed and thanked him, he accepted the jade token and led Lin Sheng and his group to the spaceship's docking location.

Yunxi casually walked over to Cao Yi and told him about the suspicious aspects of the Tianlin Flying Ship, suggesting that the Foundation Establishment disciples take a flight from another flying ship.

Cao Yi was even more vigilant than Yun Xi. He had no intention of using the discount jade token in the first place, and now that Yun Xi had mentioned the strangeness of the Tianlin Flying Ship, he was even less likely to use it to please her.

Upon arriving at the spaceship boarding area, Cao Yi decisively arranged for the nine people to board a spaceship that had made a temporary stop in Jade Star City, and this spaceship did not belong to the Flying Lin Ship Company.

After watching the nine people leave, the four of them casually found an inn to stay in, since they weren't in a hurry anyway.

To avoid getting separated, the four of them stayed in a small courtyard. Cao Yi even redecorated the courtyard's defensive formations to ensure that no one could detect their conversation. Yun Xi also released the Little Flying Butterfly to gather information, and the third-tier Flying Butterfly was sent to the City Lord's Mansion.

The four then gathered together to examine the so-called treasure map, hoping to find something new.

Zhang Lingrui examined it carefully but couldn't find anything. Lin Keyang also found nothing. Only Cao Yi looked at it most carefully, fearing that the animal skin scroll contained a hidden formation.

Yunxi had the same idea, but after scanning the animal skin scroll with her divine sense and finding no hidden information, she thought of trying methods such as burning or watering it. However, she was too embarrassed to say it out loud, feeling that people in the cultivation world would not use such simple methods.

After carefully studying the document, Cao Yi said to the three of them:
"I didn't find any hidden formations on the animal skin scroll, but I always felt that something was off about it, but I couldn't figure out why."

After saying that, he handed the animal skin scroll to Yunxi. He felt that the female cultivator was meticulous and had a keen sense of things, and might discover something.

After taking the animal skin scroll, Yunxi first rubbed it with her hands to feel its texture. Then she held it up to the midday sun for a long time and actually saw a few blurry words in one corner of the scroll, as if they were written in the lining of the scroll.

"Senior brothers, look, there are words here."

The three of them leaned closer after hearing this, and then they noticed a line of tiny characters. Zhang Lingrui read it aloud in a low voice:
"After being burned by a strange fire, it becomes a spoon."

Lin Keyang frowned and said:

"Does this mean we need to burn this animal hide scroll with a strange fire to obtain the key to the hidden treasure?"

"It should be, but where do we find this strange fire?"

Zhang Lingrui began to worry; this was a strange fire, not an ordinary flame.

"How about we try using ordinary flames?"

Lin Keyang suggested.

Cao Yi didn't object. He raised his hand and made a hand seal, and a ball of flame appeared below the animal skin scroll. However, after burning for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the animal skin scroll didn't change at all, showing that ordinary flames wouldn't work.

After seeing those words, Yunxi connected the cause and effect in her mind.

Hua Xuanzi and Zhao Jinmu were able to establish their foundations and obtain the animal skin scroll, and she deserves some credit for that. Although Zhao Jinmu said that the animal skin scroll was his gain, he unconsciously glanced at Yun Xi while saying it, confirming to her that the animal skin scroll should have been obtained from the people who ambushed them in the back mountain of the sect.

Because of her and Zong Hao's intervention, the two were not tricked and not only successfully established their foundations, but also discovered the other half of the treasure map in Jade Star City. By combining the two halves, they obtained the real map.

The key to obtaining the key to the entrance was to burn the animal hide scroll with the strange fire. If she hadn't taken the Xuanlei Ziyan first, this opportunity would have fallen into Wei Yunqing's hands.

She unwittingly stole another opportunity from the female lead, which made her happy. She was also glad that she had been decisive enough to use the spatial jade tablet to obtain the Xuanlei Ziyan. That was the first time she had used the jade tablet space to seize an opportunity after obtaining it.

Yunxi felt she had no regrets about seizing this opportunity, so she coughed lightly and said:

"Senior brothers, my junior sister obtained a strange flame while refining pills. Perhaps it can be of help."

Upon hearing this, the three of them immediately turned their attention to Yunxi.

Zhang Lingrui smiled and said:

"Junior Sister Wei, quickly reveal your strange fire!"