After Luo Yan left, Qing Yu released a tiny worm, which slowly headed in one direction under the leadership of this small worm.
The insect, sensitive to the scent of the blazing fragrance flower, would unconsciously fly in the direction of the flower’s fragrance. The bearer of the scent of the scented flower was, of course, Feng Jiu.
Soon, under the leadership of the scent-sensing insect, Qing Yu found Feng Jiu, who was also alone.
“Meng ——” When Feng Jiu saw Qing Yu, she opened her mouth to speak, but was stopped by Qing Yu’s hand gesture.
“What’s going on?” Feng Jiu gestured to Qing Yu and asked.
“The Wind Chasing God Catcher’s disciple, Luo Yan, is also in the small secret realm, and although his ‘Art of Hearing the Wind’ is nowhere near as good as Lu Qifeng’s, he is able to just about hear us in this small secret realm.” Qing Yu replied in the same sign language.
Among the Six Sects, Qing Yu had the deepest fear of Lu Qifeng. Lu Qifeng’s “art of hearing the wind” was Qing Yu’s nemesis, who had no power but could only play tricks. In Yangcheng, it was because of Lu Qifeng’s “Art of Listening to the Wind” that Qing Yu’s golden cicada escape strategy was not fully successful and he was caught by Lu Qifeng’s tail.
So when he found out that Lu Qi Feng had arrived in Yangcheng, Qingyu immediately started to think of ways to deal with the situation. The best way to prevent being eavesdropped on was to communicate in a silent manner.
Before learning sign language, Qing Yu used to write whenever he and Feng Jiu talked in secret. Sometimes, when they did not have the means to write, they would communicate in a place with loud noises, as in the case of Qing Yu’s conversation with Feng Jiu at a street-side breakfast stall after he had left the Pa*senger House last time.
The two finally reached the point where they could communicate in sign language before the literary competition for the position began.
Qing Yu (in sign language): “Earlier on Zheng Qi Square, Ming Rui confronted Dean Zhuge with his qi, clearly to suppress the onlooking scholars and prevent them from speaking, but in reality, to cover for the science scholars on Zheng Qi Square. Of the twenty-five scholars of science who participated in the competition for the position at the Literary Forum, twenty-two were impostors, all impersonated by people from various forces on the side of the Great Qian.
Now, the Little Secret Realm has lost contact with the outside world, and Dean Zhuge has also temporarily lost control of the Little Secret Realm. We must wait for the time to come before we can go out. Note that no one will save you even if you are going to die now.”
Feng Jiu was slightly silent for a while after reading the sign language that Qing Yu was gesturing. Although he had already made up his mind to participate in the literary competition for the throne, he was still chagrined after learning that the eighth prince, Feng Qiwu, had been fished out. And now, he was even more caught up in a life and death situation.
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “So, is the plan still going ahead?”
Qing Yu (in sign language): “It must go ahead, this is the only chance you and I have. If we lose this chance, it is questionable whether there will be another one.”
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “I’m afraid we’re not strong enough.”
Qing Yu (in sign language): “The people of the Mountain River Academy are all considered our allies, and our aims are not too conflicting with theirs, and we can even say that they are the same. It is enough for us to face only the people of the Great Qian.”
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “Let’s hope so.”
His confidence was not too high, and obviously, Feng Jiu knew the importance of experience against the enemy. The students of the Mountain River Academy, especially those who would be graduating this year, might have a high realm, but since they had basically been on Tatung Mountain for three years, they really could not be expected to have much experience against the enemy.
The people on the other side of the Great Qian, like those from the military and Department Six, are all used to fighting and killing people, and those who are able to enter the small secret realm are all good fighters, so they will never lack experience against the enemy.
Qing Yu (in sign language): “The academy at the top of the mountain should be the location where the martial arts of the Son of Heaven are hidden. A day and a night is not long enough for something to be hidden in a conspicuous location, rather than for us to find it blindly. It’s just starting now, after a while, everyone must be heading for the distance to the study at the top of the mountain.”
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “What should we do then?”
Unlike Qing Yu, who had inserted himself halfway, Feng Jiu was a properly chosen participant of the Literary Altar Scramble, so naturally he would be informed of the details of the small secret realm, without him having to check and guess. This time, as the Literary Altar Competition for the Science side was clearly trying to make things happen, Zhuge Longjue couldn’t care less about the idea of fairness and directly informed Feng Jiu and the other participants of the small secret realm.
Qing Yu (in sign language): “Go and meet up with the other academy students first.”
As he was gesturing this gesture, a loud arrow with red smoke suddenly burst into the sky.
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “It’s Senior Lin Shen Feng. He is the strongest of the academy students who are participating in the literary competition for the position this time. Before coming in, Mr. Ouyang had explained that when Senior Brother Lin gathered up the five senior brothers, he would set off the ringing arrows and summon all of them to come to the meeting.”
It seemed that the lecturers also knew the shortcomings of these scholars. Qing Yu nodded secretly.
When all of them gathered, there was certainly a risk of being caught in a net, but if they were spread out, there was a greater chance of being broken down one by one.
But —— the matter of the ringing arrows, would the people on the Daqian side not know about it?
Qing Yu suddenly speculated a little. Luo Yan was confident about the small secret realm being isolated, and with what Qing Yu knew about him, it was obvious that it wouldn’t be blind confidence. Thinking again about the situation when he had once enrolled in school, Qing Yu suddenly had a terrible thought.
The night when he first arrived in God’s Capital and stayed at the Yun Lai Inn, Qing Yu had been given a letter with the answers to the entrance exam. In the subsequent entrance exam, Qing Yu used his previous life’s level of arts to compare the questions and answers of this exam.
Even with Qing Yu’s half-baked level of ancient Chinese, he felt that it was an absolute reference answer. It was a bit hard to believe that the questions were both moderate and relevant to the exam.
You know, there is no such thing as reference answers for this kind of exam, which is similar to writing an essay on the spot, and to be able to write so standardly, one must be deeply versed in the ways of literature and have great knowledge.
The situation now, combined with the speculation at that time, Qing Yu was sure that there must be a traitor from the Great Qian among the lecturers of Shanhe Academy. The identity of this traitor was definitely not low, otherwise it would not be possible to isolate the small secret realm.
And would a traitor with such an identity not know the significance of the arrow?
Qing Yu (in sign language): “You go and meet up with Lin Shen Feng and the others first. If you encounter people from the Mountain River Academy on the way, help if you can, it’s a good opportunity to brush up on your reputation.”
Feng Jiu (in sign language): “What about you?”
Qing Yu (in sign language): “Eradicate the internal trouble.”
After saying that, Qing Yu used his lightness and disappeared in Luo Yan’s eyes, his speed, even faster than Luo Yan who specialized in speed. Despite the preparations made by the Shanhe Academy, the Great Qian side was still superior and now had the upper hand.
In such a situation, Qing Yu could not allow anything worse to happen.
After Qing Yu left, Feng Jiu also took up his light skills and rushed to the location of the arrow.
The forest was once again empty and the silent discussion ended there.
