Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 32 Nervous
"Boom", just as Li Zhen was talking to the two women, a loud noise occurred in the distance.

Li Zhen felt as if the earth was shaking. He quickly stood in front of Han Wenqin and looked in the direction of the sound.

Han Wenqin lowered her head and started operating her identity bracelet. She was asking her family what had happened.

"A node in the city defense formation was destroyed!" she said softly after a while.

"How is it possible? All the nodes of the city defense formation are under strict protection!" Rong Honghui couldn't believe this fact.

Li Zhen certainly knew about the city defense formation, which was the most important defense for Yunxi County.

Normally, the city defense formation is not fully open, but only certain monitoring functions are turned on. If the spiritual power fluctuation in the city reaches a certain level, it will be discovered by the city defense formation and an alarm will be issued.

Like Li Zhen’s previous battle outside the Ghost Market, due to the low level of the battle and the fact that the Public Security Bureau’s attention was focused on the Ghost Market, it did not receive immediate attention.

The most important function of the city defense formation is to monitor the cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.

When cultivators in the late stage of Qi training enter the city, the fluctuations of their spiritual energy will be sensed by the city defense formation, and the Public Security Bureau can know the location of these cultivators in the late stage of Qi training through the city defense formation.

When the nodes of the city defense formation were destroyed, Li Zhen immediately realized that some cultivators were preparing to do something big in Yunxi County.

Otherwise, they would not have destroyed the formation nodes of the city defense formation. Given the difficulty of destroying the formation nodes, their purpose must be extremely great.

Li Zhen couldn't help but worry about his home, hoping that nothing would happen at home.

"Don't practice today. Be careful!" Han Wenqin no longer had the heart to practice in the Yiqian Hall. She said to Li Zhen and Rong Honghui as she turned and left.

Li Zhen returned home as quickly as possible. On the way, he received a message from Li's father and mother, who were somewhat worried about his safety.

When he entered the house, he saw that his parents were fine and he finally felt relieved.

"Mom and Dad, I'm afraid something big will happen in the city in the next period of time!" Li Zhen said to his father and mother.

"What news did you hear from the Han family? Where did the explosion happen just now?" Father Li asked hurriedly.

He could tell from Li Zhen's words that Li Zhen seemed to know something. He thought that whatever Li Zhen could know must be news from the Han family.

"A node in the city defense formation was destroyed!" Li Zhen replied without hiding anything.

"Hiss!" Father Li took a deep breath and looked at Mother Li, whose eyes were also filled with horror.

"Son, come with me!" Father Li said to Li Zhen.

Father Li took the lead, and Mother Li nodded to Li Zhen, motioning Li Zhen to follow.

Father Li came to a warehouse on the first floor and kicked a brick three times in the innermost corner.

"This is the mechanism of the secret room. There is no surveillance in the warehouse, and even Mei Yun doesn't know there is this secret room!" Father Li said softly.

A piece of the ground lifted up, revealing the cave below.

As the ground was lifted, Li Zhen heard the sound of machinery running.

Li's father was in front, and Li's mother and Li Zhen were behind, and they came down through the cave entrance.

The area below is not very big, only fifteen square meters, and most of it is filled with supplies neatly stacked from the ground to the ceiling.

The supplies are spiritual rice cakes and water. Spiritual rice cakes are made of spiritual rice, which is a kind of spiritual food that can be preserved for a long time.

"These stored supplies are for emergency use only. They can sustain our family of three for a year. The walls here are made of the companion stone of spiritual ore, which can block the perception of spiritual consciousness to a certain extent!" Father Li introduced to Li Zhen.

This is the life-saving place that Li's father prepared for his family, and it is not even stored in Mei Yun's database.

Although Mei Yun is an obedient smart butler, if the smart butler encounters intelligent professionals or higher authority, it is possible to crack the smart butler's permissions.

If Mei Yun is not kept secret, then once the home security system is hacked and the smart butler is controlled, this life-saving place will be meaningless.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh at his father's ability to save lives. It must have taken a lot of effort to build this life-saving place.

Sheriff Shang stood in front of the big hole with his brows furrowed. A big hole was blown out of the main building of the Archives Bureau.

This is a formation node of the city defense formation, and the Archives Bureau is also an extremely important government department. In addition to the Archives Bureau's own security, the Public Security Bureau also has a team here. However, due to the chaos in the city, the Public Security Bureau transferred this security team, which also gave convenience to the destroyers.

If the security team is still there, as long as they can hold off the vandals for a while, support from the Sheriff's Office will arrive.

However, it was precisely because the security team was withdrawn and the security of the Archives Bureau was ineffective that the vandals broke through the defenses and entered the core area directly, destroying the formation nodes and leaving safely.

"How long will it take to repair the formation nodes?" Sheriff Shang asked when he saw a monk coming out of the cave.

This cultivator is a low-level formation master. Yunxi County is unable to retain talented people, and this cultivator is one of the very few formation masters.

"The damage is too severe. I cannot repair it with my ability. It requires at least a mid-level formation master to repair it!" The low-level formation master replied with a wry smile and shook his head.

"It's just a formation node. We still have spare materials!" Sheriff Shang said incomprehension.

"I suspect that the other party used the Formation Breaking Bead, which caused the chaos of spiritual energy here. In addition, the Formation Breaking Bead also polluted the nodes of the formation!" The low-level formation master explained helplessly.

When Sheriff Shang heard about the formation-breaking beads, he was speechless.

Even if the Formation-Breaking Bead is of low quality, it is still a precious item equivalent to a first-grade, high-quality magical weapon.

Generally speaking, when the city defense formation is not activated, you are already close to the formation node and can forcibly attack with magic weapons to cause damage.

In this situation, a formation-breaking bead is still consumed, which is because they do not want the city defense formation to be repaired easily.

"You try to repair it first, and I will ask for support from higher-ups!" Sheriff Shang said in a deep voice.

He ignored the low-level formation master's ugly expression and immediately contacted the director.

The situation was reported to the Director, who also understood the importance of the matter and reported it accordingly.

"Is someone trying to target the Jiutian Group?" Sheriff Shang muttered to himself after ending the call.

This possibility is not high. Although there are rumors that the annual auction will include the Acupoint Breaking Pill and even the Foundation Establishment Pill, no matter whether it is the Acupoint Breaking Pill or the Foundation Establishment Pill put up for auction, the Jiutian Group will have corresponding security.

The Breaking Acupoint Pill is a breakthrough pill for those in the middle stage of Qi training to break through to the late stage of Qi training. The Foundation Building Pill is not needed because it is a breakthrough pill for those in the Qi training stage to break through to the foundation building stage.

The Acupoint Breaking Pill will drive a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training crazy, and the Foundation Building Pill will drive a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training crazy. The Jiutian Group is also aware of this.

Rather than believing that someone was preparing to attack the annual auction, Sheriff Shang believed that the monks were robbing each other in order to have more resources to participate in the annual auction.

But this time the nodes of the city defense formation were destroyed at such a huge cost, not to prepare for robbery among the monks.

In fact, the value of the Breaking Formation Bead can be exchanged for a Breaking Acupoint Pill.

Suddenly, a rumor spread in Yunxi County that the city defense formation was destroyed and could not be repaired until the annual auction.

At first, not many monks believed this rumor, but it was soon confirmed.

Two mid-stage Qi training monks were fighting. It was a fight at the mid-stage Qi training level. As long as the Public Security Bureau monitored the fluctuation of spiritual power, they would immediately send people over.

However, the Public Security Bureau did not arrive until two mid-stage Qi training monks, one dead and one injured, had arrived.

The other monks also made several attempts, which further proved that the city defense formation had been destroyed.

One can imagine what would happen if a group of monks were without surveillance supervision.

That is to say, most of the local cultivators in Yunxi County are low-level cultivators without much wealth, and conflicts between foreign cultivators normally break out among each other.

Every monk who wants to participate in the annual auction has a considerable amount of wealth on him, and a successful robbery can bring a huge fortune.

The Public Security Bureau was almost going crazy, as the patrolling monks sent out by the four major families would send out warnings from time to time.

The Security Bureau already has insufficient number of security guards. The Bureau can ask the four major families to patrol, but the four major families will not agree to send experts to act together with the security guards.

A figure rose into the air from the county seat. It was the head of Yunxi County.

He flew in the air and circled above the city. In the process, he killed two cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training and one cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, shocking all the foreign cultivators in Yunxi County.

(End of this chapter)