Chapter 83 - Toxic Colludes With Toxic (1/2)

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On the mountain at the back of Little Qiong Peak.

Standing beside a few withered old trees, Li Changshou frowned and sighed. He raised his hand and patted the trunk of one of them.

“Thank you.”

A gust of wind blew over, and a few of the old trees’ branches, which were completely devoid of green, swayed gently as if they were saying that they were fine.

Actually, they were probably just trembling.

There was nothing he could do about it. In order to get more paper effigies to engage in actual combat, Li Changshou had repeatedly gone there to obtain tree sap over the past six months. He had also used various methods to restore their vitality.

He conducted various processes…

The old spirit trees, which could have lived for tens of thousands of years and had hope of producing wood spirits, could not hold on any longer.

I’ll just take good care of them.

Li Changshou sighed and felt a little guilty.

He looked at the tree branch that had been planted and resurrected not far away. He began muttering to himself, “If you can’t survive, I will treat your children well.”

A gust of wind blew past, and the old trees trembled again.

Perhaps, they’re touched.

Ahem, I’m not going to joke any more.

Li Changshou tapped the ground with the tip of his toes, and his figure drifted away with the wind.

He floated near the lake and stood on the top of a tree in the bushes.

He closed his eyes and focused. His long hair, which was tied up simply, fluttered in the wind. The bottom of his long robe swayed slightly along with the tree branches.

When it was still, it was as light as a feather. When it moved, it looked like it would shatter the clouds and the earth.

To achieve such an effect without using mystical abilities and Dharma spells was also a skill that could only be achieved when one’s Qi was at a high level.

Over the past six months…

Thanks to the efforts of the old trees, the first stage of the preparation plan was painstakingly completed.

Fortunately, the people who secretly coveted the Immortal Du Sect gave him time to prepare.

Otherwise, he would not be able to do that much if a huge battle broke out.

In the past six months, the newly added array formation on the Little Qiong Peak had not been updated.

However, those array formations had already become one.

There seemed to be ancient patterns growing all over the forest. They merged with the mountains, gra.s.s, and trees, and no longer seemed daunting or invoked fear within people.

Trapping Array Formations and Bewitching Array Formations were meant to block enemies. The lethal ones were meant to kill enemies.

If danger could be detected ahead of time and the array could deter others from entering, it would definitely not be an excellent killing array.

The array below the Little Qiong Peak was in the best state that he could imagine.

Due to the fact that he had obtained a high-grade Dharma treasure, that is the Forbidden Secret Manual, the paper effigies had been slightly repaired. It had reached Li Changshou’s minimum requirement. There was no need for him to place all his attention on them.

There was still a long way to go before he could completely transform that mystical ability into an incarnation technique.

For now, he could make do with it.

After all, they did not have any feelings and could cast poisons, cause fires and chant sutras. He could indirectly control them and they were mystical treasures that could be used in various ways, all day long.

Of course, there were also things that did not go his way.

He had obtained the Divine Poison technique from Elder Wan Linyun. As he had not cultivated for long, he was only a beginner.

That mystical ability could be considered to have turned concocting poison into a magical technique.

It allowed him to be more efficient in releasing poison. He was more confident in his ability to do so too.

Li Changshou opened his eyes and looked at the lake to see that his master and junior were studying the escape technique.

Due to Li Changshou’s insistence, his master could not reject him. He started cultivating the Earth Escape half a year ago…

Ling’e had come into contact with the Five-Element Escape Technique earlier. At this moment, she was also studying the Water Escape Technique because Li Changshou had instructed her to train harder.

Hence…

Occasionally, he would see a graceful figure in a fluttering dress, with her black hair dancing in the wind. She would emerge from the lake and fall, causing water droplets to splash up. It was considered a beautiful scene.

It’s just…

“You’re too slow.”

Li Changshou frowned and shook his head.

He had clearly taught Ling’e all the tricks to quickly cast Water Escape, but she was still very interested in “appearing” and “exiting”. She was very concerned about her overall beauty.

This narcissistic little girl…

Why doesn’t she get two precious pearls and put them around herself to give her a soft light effect!?!

Li Changshou could not say anything about that. After all, Ling’e was already at the age where she would tend to be vain. Besides, she was naturally beautiful…

“Those guys are still not going to make a move?”

Li Changshou muttered to himself and closed his eyes to sense it again.

The sky was high, the air was clear, and they were close to the clouds.

After counting the time, he realized that more than ten months had pa.s.sed since Jiu Wu and the two elders returned with injuries.

The members of the sect seemed to have quietened down once again. The attacks seemed to have ceased as well.

Li Changshou tried to follow up on the matter involving Jiu Wu, but Jiu Wu had only given him vague replies.

It should be that he did not manage to find anything after the investigation.

The experts from the three Dao Sects were not stupid either. The low-level method of using someone else to kill was also rather obvious.

However, it was impossible to find out who the mastermind was.

The seeds of discord were gradually formed from suspicion…

That was the intelligent thing about the culprit.

Li Changshou had been thinking about the manipulative ways of the instigator.

Controlling the puppets would cause the puppets’ essence souls to instantly decline.

What mystical ability was that?

It should be considered some sort of witchcraft.

There are too many experts in the Primordial world. I can’t even count how many there are out in the open, let alone those who have been hiding in the dark.

His immortal senses slowly dispersed.

They were about to enter the second stage of preparing for the battle. He was waiting for Elder Wan Linyun’s messenger jade talisman. The two of them would act together…

…

After staying in the secret underground chamber for three days where he thought about what might happen next, Li Changshou rushed to Pill Tripod Peak immediately and met Elder Wan Linyun.

His method of convincing Elder Wan Linyun was actually very simple.

Li Changshou pulled tricks like conveying dreams, taking oaths, provoking him, making conjectures, and reasoning. The elder quickly believed in Li Changshou and felt that there might be powerful enemies headed for the Immortal Du Sect.

Ever since Elder Moon appeared in his dream, Li Changshou had discovered that using the excuse of others appearing in his dreams was rather effective.

It was not unusual for Qi Refinement cultivators to detect things and have heightened senses.

However, he had just been dreaming about people… a little more frequent than others…

After hearing Li Changshou’s “suggestion”, Elder Wan Linyun reminded the sect master and the other elders using his own name.

If he used Li Changshou’s name, the sect would take it a lot less seriously.

However, Li Changshou could not control the effect of the reminder.

He had done everything he could.

“Elder, why haven’t you left yet? It’s time to set off,” Li Changshou mumbled.

He was slightly puzzled. He had been investigating Pill Tripod Peak with his immortal senses.

He recalled that he had not done much in the past six months.

Most of the time, he would refine poisons and paper effigies in the sealed Pill Chamber.

The poison refinement this time was purely for the increment of power and quant.i.ty of the poisonous pills.

Li Changshou refined everything he had obtained from Linhai Town, the poisonous herbs he had obtained from Elder Wan Linyun and from the North Continent, into poisonous pills.

He also treated those poisonous pills specially and turned them into colorless and tasteless poisonous powder.