Chapter 115: What a Great Scheme!

Because the illusion reflected reality, the Linglong Saintess not far away had already put on her clothes, leaving only that Saintess Token lying alone on the ground by the spirit pool.

Even so, Qi Yuan did not relax in the slightest. To avoid causing fluctuations in magic power, he did not even dare to use spiritual power to retrieve it directly; instead, he walked over on tiptoe and picked it up.

Although the two women were trapped in the illusion, this by no means meant he could take advantage of the opportunity to do whatever he pleased.

Especially the Sect Leader of the Holy Land, Shao Xuanji; as a Hedao Realm Cultivator, as long as she received even the slightest stimulus, she would immediately break free from the illusion, and then the trouble would be huge.

After thinking for a moment, Qi Yuan set up several warning Restrictions around the spirit pool from a distance to isolate the inside from the outside, avoiding any outsiders accidentally breaking in and waking the two women up prematurely.

This place was located in the core area of the Linglong Holy Land, and those guests attending the celebration could not step foot here at all.

Moreover, this spirit pool was a bathing spot frequently used by the female Cultivators of the Linglong Holy Land. Any passing Disciple of the Holy Land, upon seeing the Restriction, would subconsciously assume that someone was bathing inside and certainly would not enter to disturb them.

In short, the longer he could drag it out, the better.

After doing all this, Qi Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Brilliant light flickered on his body as he used his movement technique with all his might, flying rapidly in the direction of the compass needle…

He knew clearly in his heart that he had severely offended the Sect Leader of the Linglong Holy Land, and perhaps the Linglong Saintess as well. If he did not find a way to remedy the situation, it could be said to be endless trouble.

Qi Yuan did not believe that two women were the kind of living Bodhisattvas who would repay evil with kindness, suffering such a big loss without reacting.

Although Shao Xuanji might not kill him, she had countless ways to make his life miserable while leaving him unable to voice his grievances.

Therefore, one should never offend women when there is no need, especially a group of capable women.

If the hearts of women from the Demonic Path were as small as the tip of a needle, then the hearts of women from righteous sects were roughly equivalent to the awn of a wheat stalk…

Therefore, the key to solving this predicament was to first obtain enough bargaining chips, so as to make Shao Xuanji hesitate to act for fear of damaging something valuable, and abandon the idea of retaliation.

That Innate Divine Beast was clearly of extraordinary significance to the Linglong Holy Land. If he could secretly subdue it, it would be enough to make Shao Xuanji feel wary.

As a Dao Child, every move Qi Yuan made represented the will of the Taixuan Holy Land, at least that was how outsiders saw it.

For Shao Xuanji, if a Loose Cultivator with no background not only took advantage of her and her disciple but also dared to covet their Innate Divine Beast, she would definitely kill him directly, and even scatter his ashes afterwards.

But if the target was changed to Qi Yuan, it would be different. She would instinctively suspect that the Taixuan Holy Land was behind the matter of the Divine Beast.

If that were really the case, killing a Dao Child of Tai Xuan would not have any effect other than enraging the Taixuan Holy Land. In the future, countless spies from the Taixuan Holy Land would sneak into the Linglong Holy Land carrying Command Seals capable of suppressing the Divine Beast; that would be truly impossible to guard against…

As long as Shao Xuanji had reservations, Qi Yuan was confident he could pull her to the negotiating table and reach an agreement that both sides could accept.

With the situation developing to this point, whether or not he could complete Old Man Shi's entrustment was no longer important; he had to fight for his own interests!

…

Meanwhile.

Qingyun Town.

Ji Chaner walked slowly through the bustling market. She was dressed in a deep purple neon skirt, her slender waist cinched, her curves graceful. As she looked around, a speck of crimson rune sand on her forehead flickered incessantly, which, combined with her snow-white, crystalline skin, made her appear even more beautiful and alluring.

At this moment, the aura around her was hazy, dreamlike and illusory; she had unexpectedly broken through to the Nascent Soul Mid-stage level.

What was strange was that such a stunning beauty appeared on the busy street, yet the people around acted as if they had not seen her, not sensing her existence in the slightest.

It was as if they were facing a mass of transparent air, only unconsciously walking around her when they were about to get close.

Soon, Ji Chaner arrived outside a spacious residence. She casually stopped a passing yamen runner and asked in a deep voice: "Was this place the station of the Black Tiger Gang before?"

The stopped yamen runner's expression was blank, looking at Ji Chaner as if looking at a stone. He nodded and said: "This place was indeed the headquarters of the Black Tiger Gang. After the Black Tiger Gang was wiped out by a passing Cultivator, it was sold by the Town Mayor to the wealthy merchant, Master Li."

Ji Chaner frowned upon hearing this. After a slight hesitation, she continued to ask: "Do you know what the Cultivator who wiped out the Black Tiger Gang is called?"

The yamen runner shook his head: "I do not know, but I heard that the Black Tiger Gang Hall Master killed a miner surnamed Qi. As a result, that person's cousin came to seek revenge later and killed everyone from the Black Tiger Gang outside the city."

"Surnamed Qi?" Ji Chaner's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she quickly pursued: "Where is that miner you mentioned buried now?"

The yamen runner immediately replied: "Since he was a poor miner, he would definitely be buried in the mass grave outside the town…"

Before he could finish speaking, Ji Chaner moved her lotus steps lightly, and in an instant, she arrived in the middle of a large area of graves.

…

Not long after.

Beside a small-scale grave mound.

Ji Chaner stood quietly at the head of the grave, her expression somewhat strange.

The grave before her had long been dug open, the interior was empty, and a large amount of soil was scattered on the ground. The wooden tombstone that had originally stood at the head of the grave was tilted and lying to one side, looking very desolate.

"Grave of Elder Brother Qi Yuan." Ji Chaner gazed silently at the handwriting on the wooden tombstone, a cold smile curling on her lips.

In just a short while, she had deduced the cause and effect of the matter.

Truly worthy of being a born Demonic child, this trick of the golden cicada shedding its shell was played quite skillfully.

Because he felt the threat of the Black Tiger Gang Hall Master, he did not hesitate to fake his death, turning from the light to the dark, and seized the moment when the enemy relaxed their vigilance to deal a fatal blow!

Finally, he successfully killed the Black Tiger Gang Hall Master, who was a Cultivator, with the body of a Mortal, and impersonated his so-called cousin, uprooting the entire Black Tiger Gang…

In order to paralyze the opponent, he did not hesitate to push his own sister out as bait. What a great scheme!

Indeed ruthless and cruel enough; such a person is worthy of being this Seat's man!

It is a pity that he is still unwilling to join the Holy Sect. Otherwise, with just a little cultivation, he would definitely become a Demonic Path Magnate who would make those Pseudo-Daoists tremble with fear.

Thinking of this, she sighed softly, then pointed a slender finger, casually casting a spirit fire to burn the wooden tombstone to ashes.

"Since the person is still alive, why keep the tombstone? Bad luck!"

Wrong!

Just at this moment, Ji Chaner's expression suddenly changed slightly. She immediately flew to the center of the grave, picked up a pinch of soil with a grave expression, and carefully examined it.

Soon, she was shocked by a new discovery. The soil contained corpse Qi; clearly, a body had been buried here not long ago.

Besides that, although the piles of old soil dug out on the side had started to grow grass, judging by the growth of the grass, this grave had been dug at most a month ago.

At that time, Qi Yuan was still working as a handyman in Luoyun Valley; how could he have appeared here to dig his own grave?

This meant that there had indeed been a body buried in the grave, and the person who dug the grave was someone else!

What was even more coincidental was that one month ago was exactly the time when the Qi family was exterminated!

Thinking of this, Ji Chaner's beautiful eyebrows furrowed tightly, and a strong sense of unreality surged in her heart…