Chapter 1090: Chapter 1084: The Chess Pieces
[Congratulations, your clan has repelled the Nirvana Sage Elder and obtained spoils of war: the Nirvana Sage Elder’s right hand.]
[Your clan captured Nun Dairou and suppressed her with the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock.]
At this time, Nun Dairou was locked by the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock, and everyone present returned to the interior of the Dusheng Nunnery.
The Grotto-Heaven of the Dusheng Nunnery was riddled with holes, and those Buddhist temples had been reduced to ruins.
Everyone rested and regrouped here.
Yet there was no joy on Li Wei’s face.
“A Dao Integration expert is truly not that easy to kill.”
There was no doubt that the Nirvana Sage Elder had escaped.
However, thinking about it, under such massive Spiritual power, the Nirvana Sage Elder certainly hadn’t had an easy time either.
He looked toward the Huan Gui and Su Chen in the distance.
Over the years, their clan had laid out numerous traps in Shadowfell Prefecture.
The Huan Gui and her companions had constantly been searching for the Dusheng Nunnery and Min Tiange’s objectives, while simultaneously seeking their own opportunities in Shadowfell Prefecture.
Li Yaoqing was currently beside the Huan Gui, handing her a pill to recover Spiritual power, and congratulated her, “Congratulations, Senior, on breaking through to the Body Integration realm.”
“You are too polite.”
The Huan Gui didn’t have a good attitude toward the three scoundrels of the Heavenly Principle Hall, but she showed a gentle expression to Li Yaoqing.
After all, during those years in the Thunder Fire Demon Cave, Li Yaoqing not only saved Taotie but also helped heal her injuries, preventing any lingering hidden ailments.
“It’s also thanks to you all killing Fei Heng that I was able to break through. I just didn’t expect that the True God would actually fall at the hands of Min Tiange.”
Seeing the sorrow on Huan Gui’s face, Li Yaoqing blinked.
Back then, the Corpse God had abandoned the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, selling out the Four Great Elders without hesitation.
Seemingly noticing Li Yaoqing’s confusion, the Huan Gui smiled bitterly.
“This is the inheritance of our Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems.
The cultivation of the Corpse-Stitching Art has always followed a single path. In the end, we, the Four Great Elders, would all cultivate toward the Dao realm of the True God.
All along, the True God was extremely vigilant against us, but the fact that he was willing to block Holy Monk Yidian for us back then was already the utmost of benevolence and righteousness.”
Hearing this, Li Yaoqing nodded slightly.
The True God hadn’t killed the Four Great Elders, who could have harmed him and stolen his Dao path at any moment, which was already pretty decent of him.
The Huan Gui continued, “It is just a pity that only Nirvana Sage Elder came this time, while Min Tiange was nowhere to be seen.”
As she spoke, the Huan Gui’s eyes were filled with chilling sternness.
If it weren’t for the True God being immortal, she could have broken through to Body Integration at any time.
The moment Fei Heng, who occupied her Dao path, died, she immediately began her breakthrough, which was also part of the plan.
She, Su Chen, and the others had prepared outside long ago, waiting not only for the Nirvana Sage Elder but also for Min Tiange to show himself, using constancy to respond to all changes.
It was just a pity that, despite their early planning, the one who ultimately fell for the trap was not Min Tiange, but rather the Nirvana Sage Elder charging at the Azure Cloud Li Clan members, forcing them to reveal their trump cards and killer moves.
“Min Tiange is incredibly cautious. An old fox. He might just be in Shadowfell Prefecture watching us right now.”
Li Yaoqing waved her hand.
“Since he has laid out schemes in Shadowfell Prefecture, it’s better for us to prepare early.”
Not far away.
Li Xinnian and Su Chen were searching through the Dusheng Nunnery.
Previously, when the Nirvana Sage Elder battled Zhao Guang and Wenren Jiuyue in the Dusheng Nunnery, the two of them were not here. Returning now, Su Chen took a deep breath.
“Of the three Dharma Masters in the Dusheng Nunnery, two have vanished without a trace.”
“Fei Heng hid in the Dusheng Nunnery for decades.
Even if he was at the Body Integration realm, to hide right beside Nun Dairou without exposing his flaws, he absolutely must have had an accomplice.
Among the three Dharma Masters, there was definitely someone belonging to Min Tiange.”
Li Xinnian frowned.
“Eldest Brother, it’s just a pity Min Tiange didn’t show himself. If he had, he would have been the one suffering a disaster.”
This time, laying out the scheme in Shadowfell Prefecture, the family’s greater intention was to drag Min Tiange out into the open.
Bi Shihu, Yun Hongcai, and Nun Dairou could only be considered chess pieces; the true masterminds behind the scenes were Fei Heng and Min Tiange.
The method prepared to deal with the Nirvana Sage Elder was originally intended for Min Tiange.
The situation in Shadowfell Prefecture was complex, with various factions involved.
At most, the family only managed to dig out the Dusheng Nunnery to respond to all changes.
In the various plans deduced by the family, one plan involved using Fei Heng’s importance to draw out the Nirvana Sage Elder and Min Tiange, and then letting the two fight while the family reaped the fisherman’s profit.
But Min Tiange didn’t seem to care about Fei Heng’s life or death at all.
“He won’t show himself. He has always been like this, toying with everyone from behind the scenes.” Su Chen took a deep breath.
“Eldest Brother…” Li Xinnian, however, saw the hatred in Su Chen’s eyes.
“I will tell you a story. You should treat it as a secret.”
“Rest assured, Eldest Brother.”
At this time.
Li Wei quietly appeared beside the two brothers, sitting on a broken stone, resting his chin on his hand, and blinking.
“Back then, there was a genius in the world who was always a step above Min Tiange, but only he knew that he was actually inferior to Min Tiange in every aspect.”
Su Chen sighed repeatedly.
“Unlike Min Tiange, he didn’t have a massive backing behind him. He and Min Tiange were of the same sect.
The treasures that genius had to risk his life to obtain, Min Tiange could get simply by waving his hand.”
“The image Min Tiange presented to the public was always gentle and refined, and many people were on good terms with him.
In contrast, that genius acted domineeringly, and who knows how many people wished he were dead.”
“Until one day, when that genius had almost forgotten Min Tiange’s existence and was facing a breakthrough, Min Tiange appeared, and everything was already too late.”
“His Dao companion, his fellow martial brothers and sisters, his disciples, and even his subordinates had all quietly become Min Tiange’s people.
It was only then that he realized he was nothing more than one of Min Tiange’s chess pieces.”
“Min Tiange stole that genius’s Dao. Now that sixty thousand years have passed, given Min Tiange’s aptitude, I’m afraid he controls more than just one Dao, and his realm…”
The expression of Li Wei, who was listening to the gossip, gradually turned solemn.
If a freak like this actually fell into a trap like the one the family set up, that would truly be seeing a ghost.
Sixty thousand years ago, Min Tiange was already playing the same tricks the Azure Cloud Li Clan was playing now.
There were plenty of old foxes in the Imperial Capital, yet none of them had managed to kill Min Tiange, let alone the Li Clan.
“Oh well, what we obtained this time is enough anyway.”
Li Wei shook his head, deciding to cross that bridge when he came to it.
“I wonder when the Old Tree will break through.”
Li Wei immediately appeared in front of the Old Tree.
The Old Tree was growing taller and taller, its canopy becoming increasingly dense.
A tree demon breaking through to Void Refinement was truly different from a human race cultivator doing so.
When a human broke through, they shielded the heavenly secrets to a certain extent and didn’t have to suffer a Thunder Tribulation.
But the Old Tree, on the contrary, provoked the wrath of the heavens and was about to be struck by lightning.
However, beneath the Old Tree was a lotus platform, and with the Buddhist faith power present, there was no doubt he could survive this tribulation.
Seeing that the Old Tree was still accumulating the Thunder Tribulation and was far from breaking through, Li Wei didn’t disturb him.
With him providing protection, he wasn’t afraid of any blind fools coming to interfere.
If worst came to worst, he would just carry the Old Tree and run.
Several days passed.
Inside the Dusheng Nunnery, the clan members looted the spoils of war.
After all, the Dusheng Nunnery was a Grotto-Heaven, and numerous treasures lay amidst the ruins.
The sealed Nun Dairou was also stripped clean of everything.
The old nun’s expression was composed; she knew there was no way out for her.
Just at this time, the expressions of everyone in the Dusheng Nunnery froze.
From the Shadowfell Prefecture battlefield, a message from Gu Fenghua and Ba Siyu arrived.
Zhao Guang extended his palm, and a wisp of smoke appeared within it.
“Come quickly! Please assist me in swiftly annihilating the Wu tribe!”
…….
At this time, the great army pressed into Shadowfell Prefecture.
Half of Shadowfell Prefecture’s territory had fallen into the hands of the Wu tribe, transforming into a forest.
With the Nirvana Sage Elder absent, how could the human race side fail to seize the opportunity?
Gu Fenghua had always been swift and decisive in his actions.
Although Ba Siyu was a bit unlucky, he didn’t lack decisiveness either.
Leading the human race to charge into the Wu tribe, in just a few days, they had already beaten the Wu tribe to the point of abandoning their armor and fleeing in panic.
“The Dusheng Nunnery has been taken down, and even the Nirvana Sage Elder has fled in panic, his whereabouts unknown!”
When the intelligence reached Ba Siyu’s ears, his expression turned ugly.
“Crown Prince Fei Heng is dead, fallen at the hands of Nun Dairou…”
“Sure enough, it really was the Li Clan’s doing.”
This intelligence was half true and half false.
Ba Siyu had actually been paying close attention to the matters of the Dusheng Nunnery early on.
How could he not sense the decaying aura of the Crown Prince breaking through to the Body Integration realm?
Once the Crown Prince died, someone on the Li Clan’s side occupied the Crown Prince’s Dao path.
Even thinking with half a brain, he knew what had happened.
“What tremendous audacity, to target the Crown Prince.”
A fierce glint flashed across his eyes, but Ba Siyu could only let out a sigh.
“The Crown Prince cultivated the Dao path of the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems.
I’m afraid the implications of this are extensive. If we dig deeper… it will probably poke a hole as big as the sky.
To break through his Dao path, he caused the death of our dynasty’s soldiers and the loss of our territory to the Wu tribe; it can be considered that even his death isn’t enough to wipe out his crimes.
The fact that this matter hasn’t been leaked is already due to pure luck.”
Amidst his thoughts.
He heard a subordinate report, “Reporting to My Lord, the Wu tribe’s Moon Dragon Totem is already on its way to Shadowfell Prefecture. Lord Spear Saint says we only have half a month.”
“As expected, the arrival of Zhao Guang and the others has also brought the Moon Dragon Tribe into this war.”
Ba Siyu took a deep breath.
“Go tell Gu Fenghua that I have already used both his name and mine to invite helpers.”
Soon after, the great army marched forward.
Within Shadowfell Prefecture, countless human and Wu tribe cultivators engaged in battle.
The Body Integration experts of the Imperial Protectors Guard surrounded the two Sage Elders of the Wu tribe.
Originally, the two sides were evenly matched, but with the Nirvana Sage Elder’s whereabouts unknown, the Wu tribe was now completely at a disadvantage.
It wasn’t until they had occupied more than half of the territory, while Ba Siyu was fiercely battling the Radiant Sun Sage Elder, that the two suddenly stopped fighting.
They stared in shock at the ground of Shadowfell Prefecture.
They saw beads of blood and countless souls of humans and Wu tribesmen floating up into the cloudy sky from the ground, eventually gathering into a massive blood sphere as big as the sky.
Heaven knows how much blood and how many souls of living beings were buried beneath the earth?
They streamed upward endlessly, until this suction force, drawing blood and the souls of the dead, spread across the entire Central Plains.
“Min Tiange’s opportunity.”
Ba Siyu and the Radiant Sun Sage Elder exchanged a glance.
The blood sphere looked like a red moon, reflecting the entire sky of Shadowfell Prefecture in a deep red.
The beads of blood looked like rain flowing backward into the sky.
At this moment.
A spirit ship was rushing toward the battlefield.
The three Body Integration cultivators from the Imperial Capital, as well as the members of the Li Clan, were aboard the spirit ship.
The corners of Li Yunbing’s mouth twitched.
He could even feel the thick Spiritual power on the blood moon.
Such Spiritual power was enough to push an ordinary mortal to the Divinity Transformation realm.
Moreover, the Spiritual power of this blood sphere was continuously increasing as the blood and souls condensed.
At this moment, the eyes of the cultivators across the entirety of Shadowfell Prefecture—whether human or Wu tribe—turned red with greed.
At the same time.
Inside the endless forest, the Nirvana Sage Elder sat cross-legged with a pale face.
He had suffered severe injuries.
Seeing the blood sphere in the cloudy sky at this moment, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
“This is… Min Tiange’s opportunity. Why… why has it been exposed to everyone? If I had known this, why would I have taken such risks, ending up in the state I am today?!!”
As soon as his words fell, his expression turned to sheer terror.
“Bang!”
A silver coffin descended from the sky, landing right in front of him. Figures emerged from the pitch-black darkness, and a calm and steady woman strolled out.
The Li Clan Ancestor, who had perished together with him, appeared in the black mist.
They also seemed to have fallen into a momentary pause because of the blood sphere in the cloudy sky, but then, pairs of eyes stared fixedly at him, making his scalp tingle!
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