Chapter 1760 - 689: Baiting with Qin Ming

Chapter 1760: Chapter 689: Baiting with Qin Ming

Several top-secret quiet rooms of the Xuanhuang Martial Hall had, in recent days, lost their former serenity, occupied instead by a group of Elders of mysterious origin, secretly plotting major affairs.

Existences like the Time Beast and Old Dream Worm all had actual combat experience hunting mad Heavenly Immortals, so some of the suggestions they put forward were taken very seriously.

This group of powerful old men were methodically advancing their arrangements: fixing the battlefield, combing through mountains and earth veins, layer upon layer setting down a super killing formation...

In truth, the most important thing was the "bait." How to lure the Decaying Heavenly Immortal into the trap?

Otherwise, all preparations would be in vain.

"By tracing back from a few faint clues, we learned that a suspicious monster once appeared in the neighboring Longevity Land, its Qi Mechanism obscure and unfathomable."

"Five Days ago, we intercepted a wisp of its lingering trace. After analysis, we confirmed it differs greatly from the Tao Rhythm of the surface world, with a seventy-percent probability of originating from Outer Heaven."

...

Qin Ming was very busy, having spent more than ten days straight cultivating his "New Self."

He only felt time pressing, remaining in the secret chamber for long stretches, living in deep seclusion, day and night using Seven Flavors True Fire to shape that entirely new Body.

Its material was Divine Lotus, a renowned piece of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

If his Body were destroyed, he could use it to remold his flesh, the difference from his True Body not great.

Hence, this Divine Lotus was worth cities of gold.

An ordinary dojo simply could not produce such a thing; the current world environment made it extremely hard to cultivate it.

Qin Ming had a strong sense of crisis, constantly feeling that the Decaying Heavenly Immortal was already close by, like a ghost lingering nearby. If it suddenly descended, would those contingency measures be effective?

He, Niu Wuwei and the others were all likely already on the Outer Heaven Creature’s menu.

Everyone was guessing this monster was a Heavenly Immortal—that was only a conservative estimate; who knew how terrifying it had been at full strength?

After a round of discussion with Liuyu, the Old Demon personally stepped in and procured for him the treasure known as Divine Lotus.

The reason it could be done was, first, because the Old Demon Liuyu carried great weight, and second, because Qin Ming, as a Great Saint at only twenty-three years of age, had conditions that were frankly impressive.

Moreover, he had brought Demoness Jiang to meet various Great Saints and was even about to swear brotherhood with them, which greatly pleased the upper echelon of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect; they already regarded him as one of their own.

Many people felt he was quite possibly a "future son-in-law."

"You’re going to use yourself as bait to fish for that Decaying Heavenly Immortal?" The Old Demon Liuyu was genuinely startled.

"A bunch of old men are shutting themselves away to study how to lure the Outer Heaven Creature into the trap. I think eight or nine times out of ten they’ll make me show my face. I’m scared, worried it will be ’the wind is bleak and the Yi River cold, once the Emperor goes he never returns.’"

Qin Ming was very candid, frankly voicing his inner thoughts.

Thus, he was proactively "preparing for war."

He asked the Old Demon Liuyu to keep it absolutely secret; the matter of the Divine Lotus Body was to be known only to him and a handful of others.

In the secret chamber, another "Qin Ming," lifelike in every way, had long since been refined by Seven Flavors True Fire composed of Green Sky Flame, Fire of Nirvana, and other fires.

Now, Qin Ming was pursuing perfection, striving for the utmost refinement.

He wanted to reach the point where even acquaintances facing him directly could not tell whether the Divine Lotus Body was real or fake.

To this end, he had already injected Divine Material and other substances, and day and night he was rehearsing his own skills, making sure the performance of the two bodies was identical.

Two days ago, Qin Ming used blood from his True Body to grant "Enlightenment" to the Divine Lotus Body, and infused it with his will, bringing it into full Resurgence.

Of course, his Pure Yang Consciousness would eventually withdraw and control this body through means of resonance.

The Divine Lotus Body wore white robes, its eyes clear like mountain springs, hair black as ink naturally falling to the waist, wide sleeves gathering immortal fog; he was empty-bright and detached from the mundane, his bearing as fine as jade.

Xuantian spoke: "If I don’t tear it open and examine carefully, I can no longer distinguish true from false."

Liuyu also nodded, saying, "The fire refining is just right."

After verification by the two Artifact Spirits, Qin Ming exhaled a turbid breath and finally set his heart at ease.

Recently, aside from seclusion, he was also occasionally summoned by the old men to be questioned about the details of that day.

"Are you a descendant of that Mysterious Family?"

Although it wasn’t appropriate to ask such questions, an old monster still spoke up.

An old crone of the Traveler Civilization, with hair white as snow and eyes deep and dark, asked gently, "Has no powerhouse of your clan stepped out? By rights, they should be shielding you from this calamity."

Facing such situations, Qin Ming was already experienced.

His responses were very concise: he did not admit to being a child of that family, styling himself a Loose Cultivator.

"I’m not."

"I don’t know."

"I don’t have any."

When confronted with a series of identity-related questions, he only had these three answers.

Then the Time Beast, Old Dream Worm, and the others would automatically add explanations on his behalf, saying this was a habitual trait of that family: they liked to style themselves Loose Cultivators.

"More likely than not, he’s a prodigy raised outside, who will return to that clan sooner or later."

"Besides, the one who struck to save Zheng Guang last time was very likely from that family."

No matter what others thought, Qin Ming always responded truthfully: he was just a Loose Cultivator, firmly moving according to his own rhythm.

Because of this, Qin Ming had to recall all sorts of details, informing them of the battle on that day.

"The monster suspected to have broken out from the Land of Fate Change was entirely charred black, in extremely poor condition..."

"The one who blocked it was suffused with Golden Radiance throughout his body..."

The old monsters were all rather steady, not hesitating to dispatch powerhouses to travel endless billions of miles to the site of that great battle, all to comprehensively study the Decaying Heavenly Immortal.

Some even personally set out.

Of course, when they traveled, they all used the Ancient Mist Gate, allowing them to arrive in the shortest possible time.

Even though several months had passed, they still found clues, extracting the corresponding Qi Mechanism.

"Mm, it matches that strand of obscure, inexplicable Qi Mechanism left by the monster that appeared in the Longevity Land. We can now be sure it’s the same lifeform."