Chapter 966 - 418: The Narrow Path of Immortality

Chapter 966: Chapter 418: The Narrow Path of Immortality

The path to immortality is narrow, it only allows one person to stand upon it. So this road is crammed full of schemers.

This woman Shangguan Shengxian truly has an uncommon mind. After the battle in the Celestial Court, she was actually the first to find the main body of Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnation, but she knew very clearly that Yunluo Immortal Venerable was searching as well. If she struck directly at Wu Ming, she would easily expose herself.

Once discovered, she wouldn’t be able to contend against Yunluo Immortal Venerable.

So she changed her approach. She lured Great Monarch Qiongqi over and had him capture Wu Ming, and at the same time she should have transmitted a message to the Dao Sect, having the Dao Sect snatch Wu Ming from Great Monarch Qiongqi’s hands.

Once Great Monarch Qiongqi failed and Wu Ming fell into the Celestial Court’s grasp, the killing move she had buried long ago would erupt, and Wu Ming would still die.

In this way, from the eerie side’s perspective, Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s main body falling into the Celestial Court’s hands would only drive them to madly assault the Celestial Court, while Shangguan Shengxian could reap the fisherman’s profit.

In fact, even though Li An intervened, her plan was most likely already successful. Now, on the eerie side, they mostly will think exactly that and temporarily won’t spare strength to come looking for her.

She simply hadn’t expected Li An to see through all of this and track her here.

"To conceive a child with the main body of Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnation—this child carries Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s bloodline and, in a sense, can inherit everything of Evergreen Immortal Venerable..."

Shangguan Shengxian really is a good schemer. The reason she was willing to incarnate as a coarse, rough woman, to bear a child for the reincarnated body of Evergreen Immortal Venerable, to hide her name and live the days of a commoner... was all to stay by Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnated body.

She was exceedingly cautious. So in this little town, everything proceeded in the manner of ordinary folk: worrying over firewood, rice, oil, and salt, scrimping and saving to buy some low-grade herbs... all because she feared startling the snake in the grass, disturbing Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnated body through karmic ripples.

She did very well, but unfortunately, she still underestimated that old fox Evergreen Immortal Venerable.

Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s true Dao Fruit, cultivation, and hidden cards all lie upon the gray substance. These reincarnated bodies, no matter which one, are just tools to Evergreen Immortal Venerable.

Tools to comprehend life and death.

Shangguan Shengxian, clever for a lifetime, finally grew muddle-headed on this matter and let Evergreen Immortal Venerable take advantage of her for free.

Of course, you can’t really say she was too stupid; it’s Evergreen Immortal Venerable who’s too clever. Any conspiracy and stratagem aimed at his reincarnated bodies are nothing but bubbles and illusions, utterly useless.

Now that this woman has fallen into Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s scheme, she is basically equivalent to a dead person.

Yet even a dead person should be used to their greatest value!

She used Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnated body to divert the attention of the Celestial Court and the Deceit Court. Now Li An can in turn use her to set up a new game!

Although he has now advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal, Li An is not satisfied. The uniqueness of his life-and-death grinding disk destined that he won’t be like other Daluo Golden Immortals, who can only comprehend one or two Daluo Laws...

Instead, he takes all comers, absorbing everything like seas receiving all rivers!

The more Daluo Laws he absorbs, the stronger his cultivation becomes.

So right now he urgently needs...

To kill off a batch of Daluo Golden Immortals!

But Daluo Golden Immortals are the very peak combat power for both the Deceit Realm and the Celestial Court. If such a massive upheaval occurs on the battlefield, whether for the Celestial Court or the Deceit Realm, it will be a world-shaking storm and draw Yunluo Immortal Venerable’s gaze. Li An likewise doesn’t want to expose himself like that.

So he needs something to lure the tiger away from the mountain, to draw Yunluo Immortal Venerable off.

As she is now, Shangguan Shengxian seems to be the perfect bait...

Li An already had a general direction in mind, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

Previously Shangguan Shengxian used the Celestial Court as a shield to block the blade for her. Now it’s time for her to taste that flavor herself.

Hunter and prey, scheme-setter and scheme-enterer—roles truly reverse in an instant.

With his plan decided, Li An immediately set about leaving this small town. He didn’t leave right away, likewise fearing Shangguan Shengxian would sense something off. He worked hard, and in just half a year his outstanding performance won the favor of this small faction, which then assigned him elsewhere and he left the town.

Then he "died" on some mission, departing in a perfectly natural way.

He headed for the Tenth Heaven Domain!

Two years ago, in that battle where Great Monarch Qiongqi died and Xiang Yuntian and the others joined the battlefield, they did indeed carve out an unprecedented great victory. The cultivators of the Celestial Court, facing the eerie army that had already lost the will to fight, pursued and slaughtered all the way, even reclaiming the homeland of the Eleventh Heaven.

But afterward, once the eerie side received definite news that the Purple Fairy and Shangguan Xiaoxiao, those two peak powerhouses of the Celestial Court, had not truly joined the battlefield and were still recuperating from their injuries, plus the Deceit Court claimed the Celestial Court had obtained the main body of Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnation, they launched a massive counterattack. The Eleventh Heaven, once recovered, was lost again, and the Tenth Heaven Domain remained the primary battlefront.

The Tenth Heaven Domain is full of war flames, formations laid everywhere; even the Celestial Court’s armies cannot move freely. But Li An is extremely familiar with the Bone Transformation Array, so he traversed the entire domain without obstruction.

"Using this whole domain as a killing field, luring all the eerie side’s Daluo Golden Immortals over..."

Li An weighed the feasibility of the plan.

This move in fact carries many risks.

First, it’s beyond his control how many Daluo Golden Immortals will eventually enter the game. Once you reach the stage of Daluo Golden Immortal, you’re a peerless powerhouse. If in the end he can’t slaughter them all and fails to take them down, it will be very awkward.

Second, if Yunluo Immortal Venerable does not get drawn away by Shangguan Shengxian and intervenes in the battlefield at any time, it will be extremely dangerous.

Overall, the success rate is probably only fifty percent!

Not much different from courting death.

Even so, Li An still did not waver, mainly because the more time drags on, the more dangerous his own situation becomes.