mtl008 Chapter 653 Official Announcement
Chapter 653 Official Announcement
Bai Zhizhou found a clue, and Jin Dazhu took a flying boat to meet up with Jiang He and the others.
Besides Jiang He and his group, there were also cultivators from the Weapon Sect, including Jin Dazhu, on the flying boat, carrying large swords and sabers.
With the addition of Huang Mingshi, Shangguan Linghu, and others, cultivators from half the map of the Xiaoyao Sect and the Qi Sect gathered at the location of the flying boat.
Jiang He counted the number of people; there were a total of 952.
With combat power secured, the next step is to engage in battle.
Bai Zhizhou obtained the clue from the ferryman. This time, he encountered the ferryman again and it went smoothly. He guessed that the clue was with him and obtained it.
Jiang He examined the clues.
It is a single word, "end".
Unlike the clear clues before, this clue doesn't point to the next clue, but to the destination!
Zhong Liyu paced back and forth on the flying boat:
"Why are you two so smart? I never guessed it. And this old man is really something. He went around in circles and threw us into the water. We came back after him and now we have to ask him for new clues."
"This step is a series of interconnected schemes. The locations of the two clues are not far apart. The ferryman is probably planning to eliminate a group of people, such as those cultivators who voluntarily gave up their competition qualifications in the vortex or tunnel. After they leave the teleportation array and obtain the real clue, they will need to guess the location of the next clue again. If they do not analyze the water and the water area together, they may fall into his trap and return to the water area to cross the river again. This is the series of schemes that the ferryman has tailored for the cultivators."
"How vicious! Those cultivators who believed it are doomed for life, trapped in a cycle from which they can't escape." Zhong Liyu suddenly remembered Jiang He altering the note inside the box:
"By the way, what did you change the note to?"
Jiang He: "Water."
"Damn, you're a genius! The water area was already confusing enough, but when they found the box with the replaced note and discovered that the clue was the same as the previous one that led them to the water area, I can imagine their reaction."
That's truly a stroke of genius!
Zhong Liyu and Bai Zhizhou excitedly discussed their guesses about the clues on the flying boat.
[I understand what they're saying, but why are they so certain that the new clue lies with the ferryman?]
"It's the water area, the clue is quite obvious. The first clue was 'water,' the second it changed to 'water area.' They went to a hidden space, but it wasn't there, so it must be in the Endless Water Area. If we're talking about who stands out most prominently in the Endless Water Area, we can only guess at the ferryman."
Awesome, I don't have a single brain cell for reasoning.
What about the new clues obtained from the ferryman?
I'd venture a guess: this time it's another single word, and the "end" in "endpoint" matches the "final" in "final destination." Could this be a scattered clue pointing to the final destination?
I think it's like this: at this point, the clues to the finish line have already been revealed. The next step should be to find the scattered clues and piece together the location of the finish line.
Amazing! The Divine Cult's Bei Mingyun also got a character, the character "点" (dian). It's all thanks to you netizens that I can't even understand the rules.
It seems... the official team has stepped up their efforts.
The official actions are unfair; why did they just tell everyone the news directly?
[This year's sect competition has been a battle of survival for every sect. Several days have passed, and with only three-tenths of the sects remaining, I suspect they'll reduce the number of participants for other reasons.]
Viewers in the live stream got firsthand information, and then cultivators with special teleportation talismans immediately received secondhand information as well.
—Notice: The final clue has been revealed. Please proceed with your looting!
(Attached is the fourth rule of the Sect Grand Competition: Cultivators who leave the secret realm during the competition cannot take away any items obtained within the secret realm.)
Two lines of text appeared out of thin air on the teleportation talisman.
Zhong Liyu was furious when she saw this line of text:
"Hey, what a temper I have. When we were looking for clues before, why didn't the authorities show up? Now that we've found the clues, are they going to tell everyone that they've found clues and then eliminate us, huh?"
Zhong Liyu understood the deeper meaning behind the official announcement.
It's nothing more than that they found the real clues about the end point first, and then announced it to the entire secret realm.
Let everyone know that a certain sect has found a clue. If you can't find it, just go and steal it from the sect you're looking for.
What angered Zhong Liyu even more was that the official announcement not only revealed the matter but also told everyone how to snatch it.
Even Zhong Liyu could understand the fourth rule, so it was even easier for others to comprehend it.
"Cultivators who leave the secret realm during the competition cannot take with them any items obtained within the realm."
The rules are simple: either die or tear up the teleportation talisman and leave. This means that as long as a cultivator is eliminated, all items related to the secret realm will be dropped from their person, including clues.
After reading this passage, Zhong Liyu couldn't help but feel disgusted by the sinister intentions of the authorities.
"They're obviously just enjoying the show," Li Ling said quietly, though her eyes were full of excitement.
She'll handle any fights.
Jiang He didn't care about what the official said afterward, but she did feel a little annoyed.
The fruits of victory should be reaped only by them; if anyone else touches them, Jiang He will feel that these sects have taken away her possessions.
Jiang He is petty and cannot tolerate anyone being better than her in the slightest.
She watched the airship move quietly.
A murder that leads to clues is a possibility.
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"Ziye, what do you mean by this? Is this note in our hand the final clue? Isn't that a bit too hasty? It's exactly the same as the previous clue."
Li Songcheng was holding a note with the word "water" written on it.
Wanqi Ziye glanced at it and then looked away. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Ziye, are we going to have to go back to the Endless Waters? That old man threw us into the whirlpool and we almost died there. It scared me half to death."
“I’ll go back, but I won’t get on the ship. I suspect this clue might not be true.”
"? No way? I risked my life to bring this out."
"If the redwood is used to fabricate clues in the empty box, then the clues in the box may also be fabricated."
"No way, it took me ages to unlock this lock. How could it be faked? Are you just being too suspicious?"
"I don't know, I'll probably find out when we get there."
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"Senior brother, I feel a bit nauseous. We've been thrown into the space three times already, and we've entered it three times, but we still haven't found the final clue. Could this note be fake?"
A cultivator from the River Basin Sect spoke up.
He Yonghuai felt bitter upon hearing this.
He desperately wanted to vomit, but he kept getting caught in the whirlpools, and he was always the unluckiest one. What was worse, monsters would follow him to the other end of the whirlpool. If he hadn't been quick enough to run ashore and find the stone gate, he would have been eaten by the fish.
He Yonghuai still had clues they had brought out in his mustard seed bag:
"It's definitely just filler, exactly the same clue as last time, which shouldn't be the case."
“It’s definitely not fake. I think we’ve just had really bad luck. Senior brother, do you remember the beginning? Back then, we not only encountered the Lingyun Sect, but we were also almost ambushed by Hongmu. And it’s the same now. We can’t find any clues no matter how hard we look.”
“Oh right, senior brother, why don’t we go rob it? I really don’t want to go to the other side of the Endless Waters again. The clues are all so convoluted. What if the NPC who placed the clues accidentally put them down by mistake?”
He Yonghuai gritted his teeth and hardened his heart:
"Let's go again."
The cultivators of the River Basin Sect returned to the waters.
The Ninth Elder, who was watching the game from outside, was furious.