At this moment, all the disciples of Shu Mountain outside saw the giant mountain god’s shadow on Red Cotton Peak.

“What is that?” “It seems like the statue of the Shu Mountain god?” “Could it be a clue for the Mountain God Festival?” “Let’s go and check it out!”

The design of the clue was such that even if no one could solve the riddle, they would still be able to see the appearance of this phantom and discover the first clue.

But those who had solved the riddle were prepared and naturally had an advantage.

Among the elite disciples on Red Cotton Peak, at least half of them had reacted, and the next clue might be hidden in the direction of the mountain god’s finger.

Suddenly, sword lights soared into the sky!

More than a dozen sword lights lit up one after another, tearing through the night sky, but soon three sword lights pulled away from the rest.

Xu Ziyang, with his fifth realm cultivation, exploded with astonishing speed, and his first step of sword control almost flew him out of Red Cotton Peak.

Jiang Yuebai was proficient in fairy body techniques, even the simplest sword control technique was more powerful when she used it, closely following Xu Ziyang without falling behind.

Chu Liang’s performance was the most surprising. To outsiders, he had just advanced to the fourth realm, and even with the top-grade Golden Elixir, he should have some gap with the first two.

But only he knew that he was driven by dual Golden Elixirs, two top-grade Golden Elixirs spinning crazily! The vortex of his Qi Sea was a Yin-Yang double vortex!

When fully operational, his Qi Sea roared!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——

Three sword lights dragged long rainbows, and in an instant, they arrived above Sword Sheath Peak.

This was the hiding place of the Purple and Green Swords, and sword Qi would occasionally run wild at the peak. Normally, disciples of Shu Mountain knew not to approach this place.

But at this time, they naturally couldn’t care about that.

With a sweep of their divine consciousness, all three of them found something special.

In the four directions of east, south, west, and north of Sword Sheath Peak, there was a flag inserted in each direction, a total of four flags.

Without any hesitation, Xu Ziyang flew towards the eastern flag closest to him. Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai flipped and flew towards the western flag. Chu Liang didn’t compete with them and flew straight towards the southern flag.

Snap.

He pulled out the big flag and found that it seemed to be a map, but it was not complete… It seemed that the four maps needed to be pieced together to be complete.

Chu Liang had no time to think, he put away this flag and flew towards the last northern flag.

The three of them each got a flag without any harm. Now facing the last big flag, it seemed that a fight was inevitable.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——

The three of them flew at the same time, the distance between each of them was very small, and they might arrive at the fourth flag at the same time.

But when there was only a few dozen feet left, Jiang Yuebai suddenly made a finger gesture.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Two consecutive flashes, each time crossing over ten feet of space, she was in front of the flag in the blink of an eye.

Shrinking the ground into an inch!

Using fairy magic at this time was too cheeky!

Chu Liang shouted in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. Jiang Yuebai had told him the technique of shrinking the ground into an inch a few days ago, but he had not yet comprehended the elusive way of distancelessness.

Not only was he anxious, Xu Ziyang’s eyes also tightened.

Seeing that Jiang Yuebai was about to get her second flag with the advantage of fairy magic, Xu Ziyang raised his hand and shot out a sword light!

It was inevitable to fight in the competition of the Mountain God Festival, which was part of the competition of the Shu Mountain Summit. His purpose of this sword was not to hurt Jiang Yuebai, but to distract her.

Sure enough.

With the surging sword light behind her, Jiang Yuebai had to turn around and draw her sword to block. The sword Qi collided, and the light was dazzling, delaying her steps to grab the flag.

But in a moment, it was enough for Xu Ziyang to catch up from the side and reach out to pull the flag!

How could Chu Liang let him succeed?

The Dustless Sword, driven by the power of the dual Golden Elixirs, unleashed a decisive cloud sword Qi, breaking the wind with a bang!

Even Xu Ziyang didn’t dare to take this hit head-on. He swung his sword to break the sword Qi, but he also retreated two steps.

Now Chu Liang was the closest to the flag. According to the cycle among the three, Jiang Yuebai should be the one to stop him from grabbing the flag.

But until he reached out and pulled out the flag, he didn’t meet Jiang Yuebai’s move.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Liang had no time to think about it. After he successfully pulled out the flag, he looked at Jiang Yuebai with a little surprise.

“These four maps need to be put together to be complete, whether you get one or two is the same.” Jiang Yuebai smiled and said, “There’s no need to fight to the death over this.”

“Thank you, Sister Jiang, for your kindness. This fourth map is considered to be owned by both of us, and I will not hide anything.” Chu Liang immediately said.

“That’s good, then we can also exchange views on the remaining map.” Jiang Yuebai said.

“Why don’t our two teams just form an alliance?” Chu Liang further suggested.

“Eh?” Xu Ziyang found this conversation strange.

The two of them were talking back and forth, and the situation suddenly became weird. He was still here!

Are they ignoring me?

Xu Ziyang stepped forward, looked at Jiang Yuebai, and asked, “Are you really going to form an alliance with him?”

Jiang Yuebai counter-questioned, “Why?”

Xu Ziyang paused for a moment, then suddenly said, “Actually, I can also form an alliance with you. This time, our two teams are the strongest. We can first unite to eliminate all other teams, and then compete.”

“Eh?” This time it was Chu Liang who felt something was wrong.

There were only three people present, who did you mean by “others”?

The situation suddenly turned into two men vying for Jiang Yuebai. She couldn’t help but smile and said, “Why can’t you two form an alliance?”

Chu Liang and Xu Ziyang exchanged a glance, and suddenly said in unison, “That’s true.” “Not a bad idea.”

In a three-team competition, if everyone forms an alliance, it’s as if no one has.

Jiang Yuebai then said, “No matter who wants to form an alliance with me, I only accept the exchange when all four maps are present.”

Chu Liang and Xu Ziyang immediately nodded in agreement.

She was quick-witted.

Because the current situation was that each of the three parties had a map, and the information did not overlap, normally, none could be missing.

However, if two of the parties exchanged their maps, it would be equivalent to overlapping information between the two parties. As long as the first party finds the third party, they can piece together the complete information.

The second party that completes the transaction first would then be kicked out.

To avoid this situation, one could either rush to be the first party, but that would lead to a mutually harmful mode; or insist on being the third party, to absolutely avoid this risk. But no one would be foolish enough to do that, so the transaction could not be completed.

To avoid mutual harm, the best solution was a three-party transaction, completing the overlap of information among the three parties at the same time, so that no one would be at a loss.

During their conversation, several more sword lights landed.

There were teammates who had chased from Red Cotton Peak, and disciples of Shu Mountain who had rushed from other places.

Chu Liang said, “With so many people around, let’s go back and study the maps in our hands first, and arrange another time to discuss.”

“Agreed.”

Jiang Yuebai and Xu Ziyang both agreed to this proposal.

……

After returning to Silver Sword Peak, Chu Liang wanted to study the two maps first.

But before he could take them out, he suddenly felt a slight movement coming from the White Tower space.

The egg?

He realized, and took out the mysterious beast egg from the White Tower.

These days, he had never relaxed his efforts to incubate the egg, holding it in his hand and using his true qi to incubate it whenever he had free time. After so many days, there was finally a slight movement inside the egg.

It seemed like something was about to come out!

Chu Liang quickly activated his true qi, gently infusing it into the eggshell. The response inside the beast egg became stronger and stronger, and the whole egg began to shake slightly. There was a clear sign of life’s restlessness inside, it was eager to break out of the shell!

But at this time, Chu Liang couldn’t help, he could only silently guard it. After waiting for a long time, the first crack appeared.

Crack.

A small break appeared on the intact eggshell, like it had been pricked with a needle. Then, this small break extended with a crackling sound, forming a crack.

A large amount of blue and white liquid flowed out, covering a large area. After this liquid flowed out, an extremely small figure appeared on the table.

Chu Liang exclaimed in surprise.

Such a big egg hatched such a small thing? And this thing…

On the table, the little creature, about half a knuckle long, slightly thicker than a needle, pure white and slightly transparent, was struggling there.

It was clearly a…

Maggot?

Good morning.

(End of the chapter)