Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 472

Outside of the Defense Array

The elders kept their heads down in fear and the other strong cultivators knelt on the ground with heavy hearts.

"Have you done nothing for more than a month, you idiots? You still haven't found a way to save Carey?

If he's still alive, you useless bastards will be imprisoned for one year. If he's dead, you will all face your deaths as well! Humph!"

A middle-aged man in a grey robe glared at everyone.

"Vice master, we have no other choice. In order to protect Young Master Carey from being disturbed, we set up the strongest Protection Domain. However, the man who sneaked in here was able to enter by using a rule power blockade. We can't open it," an elder explained as he kept his head down.

"Bastard! Don't you know how to ask for help? Why didn't you tell me right away? If you make any petty excuses again, I will kill you!"

The middle-aged man, Arnold Chi, was the vice master of the Red Inferno Sect and was Carey Chi's uncle. His status was second to that of the master of the Red Inferno Sect.

All of the elders present dared not utter another word. There was a powerful array in the passage which made it so that if the young master didn't come out, the other remaining elders and powerful disciples couldn't enter. They thought it was pointless to tell this information to the vice master as it would have made them look exceedingly incompetent.

In addition, once they informed others of the unfavorable situation, everyone in the Red Inferno Sect would know that they had made an enormous blunder. They wouldn't be able to escape if the young master was killed.

Needless to say, most of them thought it was preferable to escape rather than be punished if the young master had been killed. None of them were unwavering and definitely foolish enough to inform the sect and basically turn themselves in.

However, Arnold Chi had a strong rule cultivation base and thus could break through the Defense Array.

He had some obligations to attend to outside the sect and had suddenly gone back two days ago. When he received news that Carey was going to break through, he immediately rushed back and went out of his way to see it for himself. He most certainly did not expect to find this situation upon his arrival.

Arnold's cultivation base was nearly equal to that of the strongest elder, but he had mastered a basic true rule which he inherited. So at present, his power had surpassed that elder.

What was the basic true rule?

If the completed true rule was compared to a big tree, the basic true rule was like the branches of this tree. It could also be said it had all the same basic framework needed for the whole completed true rule.

Once someone understood the basic true rule, they could essentially own the whole completed true rule by working hard.

Although this was true, if the basic true rule was obtained through inheritance, it could not go any further.

Even so, the true rule was very powerful, even the inferior true rule. And also, even the basic inferior true rule was more powerful than the common superior rule formulas.

"Arnold!Come and help me! Hurry!"

A soul voice suddenly resounded inside Arnold's head as he was breaking the Defense Array around the pool, startling him.

"Brother?

What's going on? Can you wait for a moment? I'm still dealing with Carey's situation right now," Arnold immediately replied.

"You need to come quick! You have to be here within thirty seconds, or else—"

His brother's urgent voice was suddenly cut off.

A sense of unease swelled in his gut. His brother, the leader of the Red Inferno Sect, had been doing closed-door cultivation and never would have contacted him in secret unless his life was under threat.

At that moment, Arnold realized that the defense array was Carey's life-saving recourse. If his hunch was right that the impostor had taken control of it, he worried that Carey was already dead.

Hence, Arnold stopped his attempt to save Carey without hesitation and decided to go to his brother's location. He came to the resolution that his brother's predicament was of more importance.

"The Defense Array is about to open. You need to search it once it opens. Find the intruder and kill him," Arnold hurriedly commanded and then left by using a spatial teleportation skill.

If he did not use the teleportation skill, he would not be able to get to his brother in thirty seconds.

After Arnold had left, everyone collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's hurry! Our young master may still be alive. Then we don't have to die!"

"What if... what if he's dead?" someone stammered out.

"The vice master had left in a hurry. He is not here right now, meaning if the young master has indeed been killed, we are just going to have to survive with our own skills!" the strongest elder spoke out.

The connotation behind his words was terribly obvious—if they found that Carey was dead, they needed to escape.