Beauty and the Bodyguard

"What a familiar protagonist's aura. What's that person's name? could he have transmigrated here?" Lin Yi sweated.

"Great emperor." Xin Yijie said.

"This is a name?" Lin Yi blinked.

"That's right. Legend has it that this name was treated as a joke at first, but when he came out of nowhere, he became a true great emperor." Xin Yijie said with a look of longing.

"Then what does this heaven ascending array have to do with him?" Lin Yi was curious.

"It is said that the 'one step to heaven formation' was set up by the great emperor himself. Of course, this statement is not reliable. There are no accurate written records left in the sect, so it can only be regarded as a rumor in the Jianghu." Xin Yijie said.

"What about the other way of saying it?" Lingshan and the others couldn't help but ask. This rumor about Xin Yijie was new to them, and they were all quite interested.

"Another theory is about the formation itself. It's said that apart from the identity waist token, the people trapped inside can never get out of the formation unless they have the ability to reach the sky in a single step like the great emperor. That's why it's called the sky in a single step formation." Xin Yijie said.

"No more?" Lin Yi frowned. The emperor's story was interesting, but it had nothing to do with the formation itself. The second story might be useful, but that was all it was?

"That's all ..." Xin Yijie looked embarrassed. He wanted to say more, but in reality, there were many different versions of the story. If he really wanted to say it, he would need more than three days and three nights to finish. However, the problem was that those versions couldn't stand up to scrutiny at all. He was an elder of a sect, after all. Even if he didn't know the core secrets of the [one step to heaven] formation, he at least had the ability to distinguish the truth.

Lin Yi didn't know what to say-he'd said so much, but there wasn't any substance to it at all.

However, he hadn't held much hope in the first place and had only asked casually. He waved his hand at Xin Yijie and said,"Forget it, you can't help me with this. I'll figure it out myself. According to what you said before, there are two things you have to do next."

"Please give me your orders, grand uncle-master," Xin Yijie said respectfully.

"First, you have to find a way to confirm sect leader Hong's whereabouts. If he's dead, we have to see his body. This is very important. No matter how the public opinion develops, we have to know what to do." Lin Yi said seriously. This matter was directly related to the entire strategy. It was one thing if Hong Zijun was alive, and another thing if he was dead. Otherwise, if he didn't even know what he was doing, he would only get half the result with twice the effort no matter what he did, and might even have the opposite effect.

"Yes, this disciple will do his best." Xin Yijie nodded heavily. Even if Lin Yi didn't say anything, he would've done it himself.

"Second, according to what you said, the local faction's disciples are now without a leader and are a pile of loose sand. However, I don't think all of them will just accept their fate and listen to Chen Dongcheng's orders, right?" Lin Yi guessed.

"That's not necessary. " Xin Yijie shook his head decisively."They may be a pile of loose sand, but there are many people who reject the Chen family faction. Otherwise, they wouldn't have fought with the Chen family faction under sect leader Hong's leadership in the past. It's just that no one has come forward to lead them. After all, not only do they have to face Chen Dongcheng and his Chen family faction, but they also have to face the pressure from the Grand Elder. Ordinary people can't handle it."

"Good. Your second task is to secretly contact these people. Try to rope in as many as you can. The more people you have, the more confidence you will have." Lin Yi ordered before adding,"However, you have to find someone reliable. You can't easily leak this out. Otherwise, if Chen Dongcheng and the others find out that you're the one who's secretly colluding with them, you'll be the first one to stand out. I believe I don't need to tell you what the consequences will be."

"Uh ... I know, I know. I will be careful, I will be careful!" Xin Yijie broke out in a cold sweat. Once he became a prominent figure, he would become a thorn in the flesh for Chen Dongcheng and the others. Perhaps even Grand Elder Chen Jiu would be interested in him. With his strength, even ten lives wouldn't be enough to kill him.

"Alright, that's all for now. If there's anything, you can come back and report." Lin Yi said.

"Yes, disciple will take his leave." Xin Yijie immediately took his leave.

"Hehe, I've really underestimated this elder Xin in the past. I didn't think that he would be so bold in the face of such a situation. Oh right, boss, what are the few of us doing?" Chentian and the others asked.

"You guys? Of course, it's cultivation. This is your only mission. Don't bother about the other dogshit matters, leave them to me. " Lin Yi said. Compared to everyone else's training, these things were nothing.

"Alright," he said. Everyone looked at each other and understood the severity of the situation. They immediately dispersed to cultivate.

Lin Yi didn't just sit around. Other than training, he also had to spend some time studying this one step to the sky formation that trapped them. It wasn't a threat yet, but it'd be troublesome if he couldn't find a way to break it.

But Lin Yi gave up after half a day.

Just as Xin Yijie had said, this soaring to the heavens in a single step formation didn't seem to have any impressive features, but it was completely flawless.

But it wasn't all in vain-Lin Yi did get some useful information. This seemed to be a restriction formation designed to trap people, and it wasn't an ordinary physical barrier that trapped them-it was a very advanced spatial barrier.

According to Lin Yi's calculations, the spatial barrier had three layers. Two of them were the more common physical barriers, and when the external force reached a certain level, these physical barriers would be broken. With his strength, it wasn't hard to do this, but the key was that between the two physical barriers, there was an invisible spatial barrier.

This spatial barrier had an extremely magical effect, which could be summed up in four words: so close, yet so far.

Although it was only a thin layer, once one was trapped in it, one would never be able to reach the end. Wanting to cross over was simply as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

"So this is what it means to reach the heavens in a single step." Lin Yi finally understood the true meaning of these words. No wonder they said that unless one had the ability to reach the heavens in one step, there was no way to cross the threshold.

This discovery made Lin Yi a little helpless. He thought that with the advantage of being a spirit, it shouldn't be hard to find the gap, but he realized that in front of the so close, yet worlds apart space wall, the spirit was no different from the body. The distance that the body couldn't cross, the spirit couldn't cross it either. He could only watch and sigh.