Chapter 255: The Benefit of Allies

Chapter 255: The Benefit of Allies

The time passes quickly, as I keep my eyes open and aware of any issues. Even more so, since the fiasco from earlier.

But nothing occurs and the light peeks around the horizon soon enough.

Throughout the night, the flying creatures circled our little encampment, acting as instructed. Normally, not all of them could fly for this long, but my healing made up the gap.

But they werent the only ones hovering around. That feeling from earlier of someone powerful watching remains from my scan. It looks like they havent used their spiritual sense to read me, but are keeping an eye on the situation and just gathering information.

I can mostly tell its information gathering, as its focus changes depending on key statements said by different parties.

What this means is that Ill need to wait until we get into the towers to do anything healing-wise with them. While it will spread some more aspects of my abilities around, because of my recent actions with the elders, I need to reduce as much as I can until then.

I wont be able to avoid it for much longer, though. Im expecting requests/orders soon.

Heres to hoping that my being under Sister Nuan and the others pays off. Making sure that I can be safe after revealing my abilities was a major reason I joined the sect.

I might need to buy a favor from Senior Tian to set up concealing formations around the towers. Im sure Ill have to help him with one of his projects for it.

Either way, we will need to get moving soon. Weve spent enough time on this this road and have far too much to do.

As I see the sun rising over the horizon, I move around and setting things up. As I do so, others do the same, waking others up who arent early risers. Unsurprisingly, thats only a small amount of people, as those on the path of cultivation are expected to be constantly striving as hard as possible to further themselves.

Soon enough, we are continuing on the path to the tower.

On the way there, I find out the name of the Foundation Establishment ex-Yellow Sashes member is Xu Ah.

After getting to know her, some things become quite apparent.

I-I-I am glad to see you are well, Master! L-let me know if you need me to fight anything that comes up, and Ill do my best to take it down.

The whole time she says this, she is practically shivering from the thought. From fear, not anticipation.

But she still says it and I can see the conviction in her eyes.

This is exactly the type of person I was looking to have in my group. While normal groups like the gang wouldnt want someone who shows their fear, thus lowering their prestige, I truly dont mind.

She has true courage. Acting despite her fear.

I calm her down and welcome her to the group, while thinking of plans on how to support people like her better in the group.

It takes another day before we can see the outline of the tower in the distance. As we get close, I am shocked to see the bright red hair of someone that I was already planning on reaching out to later regarding the towers.

Senior Tian.

Oh, go ahead inside first. Well be heading inside right after.

Despite their movements as a whole, many of them enter slowly, hoping to see more of what we are doing.

I dont mind too much, as they already signed the contract and I dont feel anyone else watching, so I get back to work on healing him. As Ive become accustomed to doing when I know people are watching, I let my hands glow and hover over him as he works.

He seems twice as invigorated with me doing so, moving from place to place, with me close behind.

Streams of blue light flows from his hands to each of the towers, moving like adjustable streams to the different parts of each. At every point that it touches, theres a slight glow, and only my scan can pick up that there is a rune or symbol that is drawn there.

What I find most interesting is that each tower has a massive invisible circle surrounding them and overlapping in areas with the others. They actually seem to be growingly reinforcing each other as they individually grow stronger.

As could be expected, theres no way that one person should be able to do all of this. But, it appears he set a template in place and was waiting for me to get here to actually start the real work. Even just that much is an incredible feat.

No wonder he looked so haggard when we came by. Im surprised he didnt look worse than that, to be honest.

As he flits from one portion of the tower we are at, to another, it is honestly tough keeping up with him like this, since he moves so quickly.

I can even tell that hes struggling to move slower, while changing the formations at the right timing. By this time, all the group members are inside and exploring the first floor.

Since no one is around, I decide on a not exactly respectable way to keep up with him.

this may sound weird, but if it makes it easier, I can hop on your back to make this easier for us both.

He practically stumbles into place before catching himself. Im pretty sure I almost caused him to ruin the whole project as well.

But that was only a microsecond of time, before I see him squat down a little in affirmation.

I immediately hop onto his back before he takes off to make even more sub-formations. Funnily enough, the closer contact allows me to heal him even more efficiently and hide some of the more intense healings.

We become a whirlwind pair, with him now moving to jump off the air and building in bursts, while also using his cultivation techniques to penetrate the towers.

From what I can tell, the formations are improving the integrity of the building, preventing scrying inside, and several other effects that I cant figure out. With this level of the scan, at least.

This is practically a fortress.

So, what would a fortress cost me? Surely, helping him with his cultivation wont be enough.

But thats when I realize his eyes have glazed over. Hes getting in a flow.

This is getting good. An opportunity to learn from the best out there.