novel-bin Chapter 1035: Mysterious White Dust (part 1)
Chapter 1035: Mysterious White Dust (part 1)
Chapter 1035: Mysterious White Dust (part 1)
To the Devilbirds, whether they were from the east or the west, the Immortal Skills Halls were places of pure holiness. The grand immortal adept of every generation might not necessarily have an Imperial Sovereign cultivation base, but in terms of status, was just as important as an Imperial Sovereign.
Nowadays, the decline of the eastern Devilbirds, as well as the death of their grand immortal adept, had caused the eastern Immortal Skills Hall to lose some of its glory. The immortal adepts there were constantly at odds as they tried to outdo the others and become the new grand immortal adept.
Although Yue Dong was the apprentice of the grand immortal adept, she wasn’t the only person who qualified to be the successor. That was why she’d started working with the Lan Clan. If the crazy plan to get Grand Emperor Netherflame’s corpse worked... then she wouldn’t just qualify to take over the Immortal Skills Hall. She and the Lan Clan could theoretically seize control of all the eastern Devilbirds. But now... there were some dramatic developments.
Thankfully, Erniu was around. He was a virtuous person who liked to help others, and therefore, he wanted to see Yue Dong’s plan through to the end. Erniu actually wasn’t very surprised to hear that Xu Qing wasn’t planning to join him.
“You’re right,” he said. “Settling your identity is the most important thing. You’ll come back right away?”
Xu Qing shook his head. He had his own things to deal with. And similar to his Eldest Brother and the Immortal Skills Hall, this situation was something that had been bothering him for a long time. He had thought about the issue for a long time, but had never figured out a way to deal with it. But then... Sir Blood Dust showed up, and he got an idea.
“I’m not sure when I’ll be back,” he said. “That Sir Blood Dust has something of great interest to me, Eldest Brother. I’m going to go look more closely into the situation. Once I have the information I need, I’ll track you down.”
Of course, Erniu was now feeling very curious. “Something of great interest? What exactly?”
Xu Qing looked off into the distance. He could sense that the tracking mark he had put on Sir Blood Dust was already wearing off. Thankfully, he had also put one of Little Shadow’s shadow eyes on him. That meant that he would have no trouble tracking down Sir Blood Dust. After confirming that he could sense Sir Blood Dust’s location, Xu Qing’s eyes glittered.
“Something karmaless,” he said. With that, he took a step forward and then turned to leave.
“That’s fine,” Erniu said. “After all, given the level of your cultivation base, little Junior Brother, as long as you’re careful, you should be fine. Besides... here among the eastern Devilbirds, we have Lu Lingzi to back us up, right?”
Licking his lips, Erniu turned in the direction of the Immortal Skills Hall and started moving.@@@@
In that manner, Qing and Niu split up to work on their own respective tasks.
A few hours later, Xu Qing flew through the air concealed in invisibility. Using his connection to the shadow eye, he was making his way through the lands of the eastern Devilbirds. As he got closer and closer to his quarry, his heart started to beat faster. The moment he encountered Sir Blood Dust, he sensed something special about him. It was quite unexpected. That was why his heart was racing.
Something karmaless.
Around evening, as the glow of the setting sun faded, he looked at a low-lying mountain off in the distance. He started moving in that direction.
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In that low-lying mountain was a mansion grotto, outside of which were hosts of spell formations that concealed the place and created powerful defenses.
Inside the mansion grotto was Sir Blood Dust, seated cross-legged in meditation. After escaping from Xu Qing and Erniu, he didn’t return to his original mansion grotto. After purging himself of any tracking marks, he switched mansion grottos a few times in a row before settling on this one.
His face was ashen, as if he had sustained damage to his vital energy. Veins bulged on his face, and fluctuations of instability pulsed off him. Previously, he had seven major worlds. But now he only had five, and they were all very dim. He had lost two of them after detonating them in the fight with Xu Qing and Erniu.
Something was off about Yue Dong! That slut was doing a lot more damage than she used to. And that corpse puppet of hers.... Why did it leave me feeling so jumpy? And it was actually working with Yue Dong to unleash Six Thieves Deceive Life.... Dammit!!
Sir Blood Dust felt full of defiance and fury. However, he didn’t suspect that Yue Dong was anyone other than herself. After all, Six Thieves Deceive Life was the signature ability of the eastern Devilbirds’ Immortal Skills Hall, and it was also Yue Dong’s signature move.
That whore was one of the scouts that got sent to Revered Ancient. After she arrived there, she must have come across some amazing destined opportunity! Killing her is going to require some clever planning.
Right now, Sir Blood Dust could do nothing but focus on healing. As he did, he took out a jade slip. It was a mission jade slip that the Devilbird holy land had given out. It listed all sorts of available missions, as well as the battle credit that would come upon completing them.
I need to keep racking up battle credit to get access to other pocket realms. Thankfully, there are a lot of humans out there, and there are plenty of weak ones that I can kill. The more I kill, the more battle credit I’ll earn.
Sir Blood Dust had no choice but to suppress the killing intent toward Yue Dong. He was fundamentally a patient person, otherwise he wouldn’t have waited so long before suddenly making a lightning-like attack out of nowhere. Unfortunately, he knew that he wasn’t strong enough right now. He needed to stockpile resources and get stronger before he sought revenge.
As he scanned the jade slip with divine will looking for an appropriate mission, he suddenly sensed fluctuations from outside the mansion grotto. They started very faint, but quickly grew so strong that the entire mountain was shaking violently. The spell formations were being attacked.
An instant later, the mansion grotto’s main door cracked open.
The sudden development caused Sir Blood Dust’s face to fall, and he extended his right hand, and a teleportation symbol appeared under it on the ground. All he had to do was touch that symbol, and he would be teleported away.