You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

Chapter 91: Family number 37

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On the night Xia Lie awakened, the street and alleys where Lin Yue’s house stood had already been turned into ruins by Baili Fengzhi’s Personal Guard, leaving only rubble and broken walls.

Most of the several dozen households in the area, after receiving compensation several times the value, happily moved away.

Of course, the multiple compensations were Lin Yue’s idea.

Otherwise, given the domineering ways of the Northwest Pass Border Army, it would have been good if they compensated even half.

"By the way, Baili."

Lin Yue casually used the Wind Element to walk lightly amidst the ruins, with Baili Fengzhi following gracefully behind him.

"I forgot to ask, why did you demolish the houses in this area back then?" Lin Yue asked.

Baili Fengzhi was silent for a moment, then said, "I suspected that a master might be secretly assisting you. This trick was used to deal with those with high cultivation."

"Oh?"

Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrows and asked, "How could merely demolishing the houses deal with strong cultivators?"

Baili Fengzhi explained, "Your Highness does know what the function of my Personal Guard is, right?"

"Military Array?" Lin Yue asked.

"Correct."

Baili Fengzhi said, "But this Military Array merely connects the blood and vigor of the soldiers within with the Array. It is actually not difficult to break; just kill more than half of the soldiers within the array to break it. But the key to this array is to make strong cultivators dare not kill these soldiers."

"Dare not kill?" Lin Yue landed in front of his own courtyard and looked at her curiously.

Baili Fengzhi stopped as well and said, "Because the soldiers of my Personal Guard are stationed at the borders year-round, repeatedly repelling the monsters from Eternal Night invading our Great Yong. Each of them more or less receives the blessing of national fortune; once a strong cultivator kills them, they will inevitably be plagued with sin."

"Sin?" Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrows.

He knew that with Great Yong unifying the world, all that was illuminated by the sun and moon was their territory.

Only the Eternal Night beyond the national borders did not belong to Great Yong.

The Heroic Passes guarded the borders, preventing monster invasions from Eternal Night.

Apart from the eight Heroic Passes, the main role of the City Guard Armies in other cities was still the management of mortals, not warfare.

So, the Border Army indeed were heroes defending the territory.

"Yes, sin."

Baili Fengzhi said, "It is rumored that there is an eye in the heavens watching over Great Yong. Once a cultivator kills too many, when the sin is deep, not only will they be rejected by the heavens and earth, but they may also face the punishment from Heaven."

"I see..."

Lin Yue realized, "So your Personal Guard is meant to make strong cultivators restrained, right?"

"Yes." Baili Fengzhi said, "That’s why I ordered the demolition of the residential area so that if a cultivator engages with me, and the aftermath of the battle has no obstacles to disperse, there is a possibility of killing these soldiers protected by national fortune. Thus, the strong cultivator will have to hold back and not exert full force."

Lin Yue understood her meaning.

"An eye in the heavens?" He couldn’t help but be curious.

"There is a legend that the Eye of Heaven is a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao commanded by the God Emperor to specifically protect Great Yong."

Baili Fengzhi said, "I heard that the capital, Jingzhou, is even more completely protected by the Eye of Heaven, therefore as a result, Jingzhou is much more peaceful and rarely encounters disasters."

"Oh?" Lin Yue became increasingly interested in the Jingzhou Imperial City.

He didn’t think much more and walked into his own courtyard.

Then, he slowly rotated the Lotus Platform of the Blood Lotus Lamp in his hand until an entire Barrier enveloped the courtyard, then he set down the Blood Lotus Lamp.

Lin Yue glanced at Baili Fengzhi standing guard at the courtyard entrance but didn’t mind her seeing it.

After all, she even knew his biggest secret of being a fake prince, so there wasn’t much point in trying to hide from her.

"Where is it..."

Lin Yue didn’t know the exact spot where the black jade coffin was buried, only that it was said to be buried seven footsteps deep underground.

He could only search slowly.

Lin Yue pondered for a moment, then attempted to stretch out one finger, pointing it at the ground beneath his feet, simultaneously urging the Wind Element at his chest to erupt from his fingertips.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of a roaring wind filled the air, as an invisible force burst from his fingertip, instantly rushing forth like an arrow and compressing massive airflows, converging into a spear-like wind pressure!

The wind pressure drilled into the ground in an instant.

But Lin Yue perceived it and found that the shaft of wind pressure dissipated after penetrating merely three steps into the ground.

"Not quite there yet..."

Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrows.

Although the wind pressure condensed from this strand of Wind Element consumed little, its power could rival that of a bullet from his past life, but trying to quickly find something buried seven steps deep using this method would be pretty troublesome.

He couldn’t very well turn over all the land, right?

Seven steps deep, a few feet in circumference, at least a thousand cubic meters of soil, millions of pounds of soil, still pretty troublesome indeed.

After all, he was merely a cultivator who had just broken through the Five Elements Heavenly Barrier.

"Your Highness is?" Baili Fengzhi asked curiously.

"There’s something buried beneath my house, about seven steps deep."

Lin Yue said casually, "But I don’t know exactly where, so I’m wondering how to quickly find it."

"A dead thing?" Baili Fengzhi asked.

"Yes."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, "Do you have any way?"

"I may try."

Baili Fengzhi nodded slightly, then walked into the courtyard, glanced again at the Blood Lotus Lamp, and said, "Could Your Highness perhaps expand the range of the Barrier a bit, at least to include everything within seven steps underground?"

"Sure." Lin Yue picked up the Blood Lotus Lamp, rotated the Lotus Platform, and expanded the Barrier by another circle.

Only then did Baili Fengzhi walk to the center of the courtyard, lay on the ground without regard to the dirt, pressed her ear to the ground, and gently tapped the ground with one hand.

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