Chapter 12: My Fellow Taoist, Please Wait. (1/2)
Chapter 12: My Fellow Taoist, Please Wait.
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The Wuji Apricot Flag was the highest grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure with ten thousands of golden lotuses. This gave it the ability to ward off all evil and invincible defenses, making it indestructible. But now the flag had no master. With no one to use it, it could only depend on itself by absorbing the Heavenly Spiritual Air, which would not last long.
Moreover, being in the midst of the Blood River Formation, the Heavenly Spiritual Air was cut off. With only the boundless Evil Blood Aura and the lack of the Heavenly Spiritual Air, reviving the Wuji Apricot Flag was hopeless. Once the golden lotus had been wiped clean, the Blood God Doppelganger immediately inserted an original spirit and started refining the treasure. From then on, the Wuji Apricot Flag belonged to Minghe.
The Blood God Doppelganger began to remove the formation by taking back the Clones of Blood God, when finishing the first step to convert the flag. In a rush to prepare for his return to Blood Sea, he then handed the Wuji Apricot Flag to Minghe. After all, this flag was a treasure. It was not safe to leave with an avatar and the flag was only in the first step of conversion. It still needed Minghe to personally convert it in the next step to be able to serve its purpose.
After a few steps, the Blood God Doppelganger heard a cry behind him. ”Fellow Taoist, please hold on a moment!” The Blood God Doppelganger could not help but shiver, knowing that anyone who had read the Investiture of the Gods or novels about Untainted Land knew about this phrase. The lethality of this phrase was shocking, and the Blood God Doppelganger could not help but be afraid.
Only two people regularly used this phrase. The first was the famous Sage of the Heavenly Way, Zhunti, who Minghe knew was the most shameless sage. He often used this phrase to hold up fellow Taoists saying how they were fated to meet, basically lying and cheating to get what he wanted. Anyway, no good could come out of meeting Zhunti.
The second one was Shen Gongbao, who heavily relied on this phrase to help Emperor Zhou of the Shang Dynasty reel in dozens of powerful cultivators and disciples of the Clan of Severity. In the end, all of them were killed and ended up on the list of Investiture of the Gods.
Upon hearing these words, the Blood God Doppelganger could not help but think of those two. Anything could happen and if it was meant to be, it would be. Hearing this phrase right after laying his hands on the treasure, the Blood God Doppelganger simply thought it was hilarious.
He turned around and saw a middle-aged Taoist walking over, the Blood God Doppelganger sighed in relief. He thought about, even if Zhunti was born, Zhunti would have to follow Jieyin to the west to train. And as for Shen Gongbao? He was someone who would only appear during the war of the investiture gods, and he was not even born yet. The Blood God Doppelganger blamed himself for being too paranoid.
When the Taoist caught up to him, he arched his hands and bowed. ”I, Ancestor of Heaven and Earth, have seen my fellow Taoist. Just recently there was a luminous bright light with lots of golden lotus around here. I'm not sure if you, my fellow Taoist know what happened?” The Blood God Doppelganger listened and thought to himself. If he had known earlier, he should have set a Blood River Formation before unsealing the Wuji Apricot Flag, and now trouble had befallen on his doorstep.
The Ancestor of Heaven and Earth? The Blood God Doppelganger had not heard of such a person before, and there was no mention of such character in the myth of Untainted Land either. However, armed with a cultivation realm of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortality Late Stage, the Blood God Doppelganger did not dare to be careless. He replied politely, ”Oh, so it's the Heaven and Earth fellow Taoist. I'm merely passing by and did not see any extraordinary happenings. I still have other urgent matters and will be on my way.”
Just as the Blood God Doppelganger was leaving, the Ancestor of Heaven and Earth blocked his way with an unpleasant expression. ”Fellow Taoist you're lying. You were the only one here, so how could you not know what happened here? Unless you're afraid that I would steal from you? Harrumph!” His tone was not as polite as before. It was no wonder as in the eyes of the Ancestor of Heaven and Earth, though the Blood God Doppelganger was at Primordial Unity Golden Immortality peak, it was nothing to be afraid of.
The Blood God Doppelganger felt that the situation could not be settled peacefully now. He could only stubbornly insist. ”I did see some abnormality but when I rushed to the site, I saw a yellow light heading towards the west. I was going to chase after it, and if you will, you could even catch up to it.”