Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1409 - 421: [Mountain Array]_3

For someone like Wu, whose military training is excellent, living for a while in this kind of abandoned factory isn’t much of a problem.

In the end, Chen Yan took out the map and had Wu mark it up; once Wu had marked the exact location of the mountain area where he had encountered Xie Jiuyan back then, Chen Yan had obtained everything he wanted.

Before Chen Yan left, the two of them shared a drink.

The liquor was something Chen Yan bought in town, and the food he’d gotten from a Chinese restaurant; the taste was oddly off, obviously "improved" Chinese food tailored to local palates.

Still, it would do.

After a few cups of liquor, Wu thanked Chen Yan very seriously.

"I know you’re not an ordinary person. Meeting you is my good fortune. If it weren’t for you, Angie and I would never have escaped that disaster."

Wu downed a cup of liquor in one gulp, then stared straight at Chen Yan: "I won’t forget the grace of you saving my life. Even though someone like you, with such great abilities, there’s not much I can do to help you. But... if you ever have something where you can use me, you can come find me anytime. No matter how difficult it is, at worst I’ll just give this life back to you."

Chen Yan thought for a moment, then raised his cup as well: "Then I’ll just wish you... safe and sound. May no one ever find you."

After they had drained several more cups, Wu was, after all, only newly recovered from serious injuries; his body was weak, and he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Yan took advantage of the night to get up. He glanced at Wu, who had burrowed into his sleeping bag and was snoring away; he stared at Wu’s figure for a few seconds, then turned and left.

"Do me a favor." Wu suddenly spoke up from behind Chen Yan’s back.

"What?"

"When you... get to that place, burn a stick of incense for him on my behalf. Just say that the entrustment from back then—Wu has never forgotten it for even a moment."

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Seven days later.

On the border of a small South Asian country.

It was midsummer; in the boundless mountains, the air was humid and stifling, so thick it almost made one feel short of breath.

Chen Yan wore hiking boots, his pant legs tightly bound to ward off insects, but after trekking through the mountains, the hems of his clothes and pants were stained with grass juice and mud.

He had been wandering in the mountains for several days now, a heavy hiking pack on his back. When he first entered the mountains, the pack had been stuffed full of supplies; now it was much emptier.

He stopped for what felt like the umpteenth time, took out the map, and checked it again.

The coordinates were right, the location was right.

He had already been circling this ridgeline for two days and had confirmed it was exactly the place Wu had given him.

But he still hadn’t found anything, so the only possible answer was...

This place was still shrouded within the Array that Xie Jiuyan had left behind.

Ghost Wall?

Blinding Technique?

Chen Yan smiled faintly.

After wandering around this area for two days, he had basically stepped out a suspicious sector.

He had even determined the approximate scale of the Array Xie Jiuyan had laid down.

The reason he hadn’t simply forced his way in and broken the Array outright was that Chen Yan wanted to study the Array Xie Jiuyan had left behind with some care.

Walking down to the base of a slope, beneath a tree that would take two or three people to encircle with their arms, Chen Yan exhaled, took out a bottle, drank a couple of mouthfuls of water, and wiped his forehead.

He looked up at the tree. Even without using the Qi Observation Skill, Chen Yan could sense the faint, vigorous vitality emanating from this great tree.

Given the degree of his Affinity with Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, he could easily feel that the density of Primordial Qi in this tree far surpassed the surrounding vegetation.

Standing where he was, he stared closely at the tree, observing with his Illusion Breaking vision the pattern of Primordial Qi flowing around it.

After a while, Chen Yan nodded.

He took out a local-style bush knife commonly used for opening up mountain paths, walked up to the tree trunk, gauged with his hand for a bit to find the right spot, then raised the knife and gently drove it in.

A moment later, he had cut a notch in the trunk. In the end he carved out a section of the heartwood, and when he carefully pried it open, there was indeed a small piece of jade inside.

It wasn’t square, but carved into a rhombus—this way it had more faces, more surface area in contact with the air, which was more conducive to the flow and dispersal of Primordial Qi.

The quality of this jade was quite good; if you took it to a jewelry store for appraisal, it would definitely count as "high-end" stock.

Cut into a rhombus, the workmanship was clearly good; the cuts were very neat.

Looking closely, Chen Yan discovered a tiny scratch at the lower right corner of one facet. On closer inspection, it was actually the character "nine."

"Another one."

Chen Yan let out a satisfied breath, casually opened his pack, and tossed the jade in.

Inside the hiking pack, seven or eight similarly shaped rhombus jades were already stuffed in, each one bearing the character "nine."

These jades were all materials he had dug out from various nodes of the Array he’d located over the past few days.

After finishing this, Chen Yan immediately raised his head to look.

He saw that the Primordial Qi that had been continuously flowing from the tree suddenly hit a snag!

As if a faucet had been twisted shut, the source cut off.

The remaining Primordial Qi still flowed slowly along a fixed direction, but it looked much weaker now.

Chen Yan pressed his lips into a smile, fixed his gaze on the direction in which the Qi was flowing, and strode quickly after it.

Mm, getting closer and closer; this Array was about to reveal its full form.