Chapter 448 - Want to extort

Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations

Those people who had cast their bets all howled in anguish. Not a single one of them managed to guess it right, so it all went to the house.

However, none of them would have guessed that Sima You Yue was a Great Master. If they had known earlier, there was no way they would have bet on this.

In actuality, in the beginning when everything was settled peacefully, they had kind of guessed it. However, it was still a great step away from being welcomed as a guest at the Heavenly Tiger Hall.

As such, Innkeeper Chou smiled. This was truly done well- a complete victory! However, seeing the Sima Clansmen who came to distribute the money, his heart ached again.

If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have agreed to such a split!

It was only when Zhou Hai Mo invited Sima You Yue and the others to the Heavenly Tiger Hall that the Heavenly Tiger Hall clansmen knew that she was actually a Great Array Master. It was no wonder that their Hall Master had come personally to apologise.

When they entered the main gate of Heavenly Tiger Hall, Zhou Hai Mo said to those other branch hall masters, “You all can go off and settle your own things.”

“Yes, Hall Master.”

Those branch hall masters all took their leave, leaving only Zhou Hai Mo and Zho Hai Min behind.

“You should head down too. Go back and shut yourself up to reflect on your mistakes properly.” Zhou Hai Mo said to Zhou Hai Min.

“Yes, Big Brother.” Zhou Hai Min left without even looking at Sima You Yue and the others.

“I’m truly sorry about that.” Zhou Hai Mo smiled at Sima You Yue and the others, saying, “I’ll take you to see that array now.”

“Okay.”

Zhou Hai Mo took them to a house standing independently, and its courtyard was huge. However, it was empty right now, appearing rather bleak and desolate.

“The array is in the main hall.” Zhou Hai Mo said while pointing at the house without a front door.

In the past, there were many who traversed through those doors, so they made it huge.

When Sima You Yue entered, she did see an abandoned array. Even the array stones were still around. They were just covered in dust. There were also many location names on the wall connected to the array.

“Because they’re afraid of damaging the array again, most people don’t come here.” Zhou Hai Mo explained, “Great Master, is there any way for this array to be fixed?”

“I’ll have to inspect it first.” Sima You Yue said, “There are many reasons why this array could have broken. However, no matter what reason it is, it will impact the connection it has with space. If we don’t pinpoint the exact reason why, we will have no way of fixing this array.”

Zhou Hai Mo didn’t understand the way of arrays, and couldn’t understand what Sima You Yue said. He gathered that it was really problematic, but that it wasn’t hopeless.

He gave a huge bow to Sima You Yue, saying, “Please, Great Master, help us to fix this array. We will definitely pay Great Master the appropriate compensation.”

“I need time.’ Sima You Yue said, “As well as some materials.”

“Great Master, please say it. As long as the Heavenly Tiger Ridge has it, we will definitely get someone to send it over.” Zhou Hai Mo said emotionally.

“Alright.” Sima You Yue told Zhou Hai Mo and few items, then let him take his leave.

Once he had left, Sima You Ran opened his mouth to ask, “Fifth Bro, can this array really be fixed?”

Sima You Yue and Sima You Lin exchanged a glance, then they both burst out laughing. Sima You Lin patted Sima You Ran’s shoulder, saying, “There isn’t anything much that has gone wrong with this array, and any array master will be able to fix it. It’s just that Heavenly Tiger Hall happened not to have a single array master when it broke down, so naturally, nobody could fix it.”

“But Fifth bro said it was really difficult?” Sima You Ran said, “So you just wanted to extort them.”

“Who knows how many things the Heavenly Tiger Hall has extorted from the common folk. It’s no harm if I take a few.” Sima You Yue said, “You Lin, take a look at this array. Are you able to find the unique point in this continent’s space?”

“It’s different from the continent below it.” Sima You Lin pointed out.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“That’s right. Perhaps, the strength of the voids are not the same. That’s why one isn’t able to fly until they’ve reached Divine Overlord rank. The coordinates in space are different too.” Sima You Yue said, “It just so happens that I can use this array to properly research about the arrays in this continent.”

“Not bad!” Sima You Lin said excitedly.

As such, both of them began to examine the array while Bei Gong Tang and the others sat at the side doing their own things.

Three days later, Zhou Hai Mo appeared once again and brought the materials that Sima You Yue requested for, as well as the compensation that they prepared for them.

“Great Master, the materials you need have already been prepared.” Zhou Hai Mo took out an interspatial ring, saying, “Everything else is there is compensation that we have prepared for you, Great Master.”

Sima You Yue didn’t expect that they would be so quick, and the compensation given to them was also quite generous. However, she still furrowed her eyebrows.

“Is Great Master dissatisfied with the compensation? If so, I will get my men to send more.” Zhou Hai Mo was very sensitive to changes in expression.

“Hall Master can just conveniently give us the compensation. What I am concerned about whether or not these materials will be able to restore the array.” Sima You Yu said, “After examining it for three days, I realised that apart from the initial problem, there are also other hidden issues. If we do not fix these errors, I’m afraid that the array would not be able to be used for a long time even if we fix it properly.”

“This… what else do you need? Great Master, please tell us.” Zhou Hai Mo.

As such, Sima You Yue listed a few other materials and Zhou Hai Mo left once again.

Five days later, Zhou Hai Mo appeared once again, bringing the materials she needed along with another batch of compensation items.

This time, Sima You Yue did not trouble him any more and got him to return ten days later, after keeping the items. Within these ten days, she did not let anyone else disrupt their process of fixing the array.

Zhou Hai Mo was filled with excitement when he left. At the same time, he notified everyone else not to disturb Sima You Yue.

When they heard that the array was going to be fixed, everyone in Heavenly Tiger Hall was happy beyond belief.

Everyone else in other places had thought that the Heavenly Tiger Hall did not allow others to use their teleportation array. It was only them who knew that the did not have a functioning array, and had been cut off from the array for a long time.

Of course, Sima You Yue and the others didn’t do anything for those ten days. The previous nine days, they spent cultivating. On the morning of the tenth day, Sima You Yue finally stood up and walked beside the array. After dusting off the dust on top and changing the array stones and shifting it a tiny tiny place during the change, the array was fixed.

When noon came, Zhou Hai Mo brought the hall master from his brother clan over. When they saw the array had already been set up completely new, they were both extremely excited.

“Great Master, has the teleportation array been fixed?” Zhou Hai Mo looked at Sima You Yue while asking.

Sima You Yue didn’t speak. She merely smiled while inserting a bit of spirit energy into the array. As the spirit power entered, the entire array was brought to life and the light from the array illuminated the entire house.

“It’s fixed! It’s fixed!”

“It’s really fixed!”

“It’s been so many years since we’ve seen the rays of light! It’s really exciting!”

“That’s right!”

“Great Master is truly powerful!”

“Thank you Great Master!”

The entire group in Heavenly Tiger Hall was no longer dissatisfied with Sima You Yue in any way. Although she had killed their branch hall master, how could a single branch hall master be as important as the teleportation array!

Everyone was feeling excited and blessed that they did not kill Sima You Yue and the others. Otherwise, the teleportation array would never have been fixed!

“Thank you Great Master!” Zhou Hai Mo brought everyone to bow to Sima You Yue.

Although they did pay a lot of compensatory items, as long as the teleportation array was fixed, it was all worth it!

Seeing how excited they all were, Bei Gong Tang and the others all laughed secretly. These guys were really easy to swindle!