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Chapter 50 Hidden dangers
As he stepped into the Qinggu Market formation, the gathering fog obscured his figure, and Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Because of its special spiritual energy, the spiritual marrow ore can infect surrounding objects. Lu Yan stored it separately in a storage bag last night, which happened to be the core of Lu Yan's implementation of this plan.

The value of this spiritual marrow ore is high enough, so high that ordinary foundation-building cultivators dare not covet it. It is simply not something that a mere Qi-cultivating cultivator can take out. Even if a true disciple wants to obtain resources of this level, he will have to pay a huge price, which provides a certain authenticity to this scam.

In the urban version, the photo that Lu Yan obtained from Ji Xingyao's fans also became evidence to prove his relationship with Ji Xingyao.

The combination of various factors confirmed Lu Yan's relationship with Ji Xingyao.

This plan was hastily imagined by Lu Yan, but the only problem was whether Ji Xingyao could intimidate Xie Yun.

Lu Yan actually didn't know what had happened to Ji Xingyao. He knew nothing about the internal struggles of Qingwu Sect, the sect's disciples, or the position of true successor. He even deduced Ji Xingyao's loss of power from her identity as an urban version of a down-and-out internet celebrity.

This resulted in Lu Yan not knowing how much deterrent power Ji Xingyao's title of true disciple still had, and whether the idea of ​​cutting off Ji Xingyao's path would make Xie Yun, an inner disciple, hesitate to act rashly.

So, this is a big gamble for Lu Yan!
Lu Yan wins, Xie Yun lives!
Lu Yan loses, Xie Yun dies!
Yes, this plan from beginning to end determined Xie Yun's life. No matter what the outcome was, Lu Yan had enough confidence to survive.

If he fails to fool Xie Yun, the fact that Lu Yan is carrying the Hundred Souls Banner will inevitably be exposed, and then the only way out is to kill him to silence him.

What he was really concerned about was the negative impact that might be caused after killing someone.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Ji Xingyao, the true disciple of Qingwu Sect, finally showed some of his remaining power.

Although he is already a fallen internet celebrity whose career is on the decline, his fame is still there, enough to make Xie Yun cautious.

The only thing that made Lu Yan feel something was wrong was that after taking out the photo, he always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the way Xie Yun looked at him at the last time.

"What did he notice?"

The thought flashed through his mind and he did not delve into it any further. Lu Yan's eyes swept across the streets of Qinggufang Market.

Since Xie Yun and others had attacked Qinggu Market, they had obviously made some arrangements for it long ago. All the shops on the streets were closed, and none of the high-level Qi training masters who usually managed the market were seen. Only a group of cultivators were left at the entrance of the market, looking at each other in confusion.

Seeing Lu Yan actually walking into the market, a cultivator immediately stepped forward and wanted to ask questions.

"My fellow Taoist, what exactly happened outside?"

Lu Yan ignored him and strode away from the place towards the cave area of ​​Qinggufang City.

In fact, Lu Yan’s best choice should be to turn around and move away from Qinggu Market and directly escape from the territory under the jurisdiction of Qingwu Sect.

But Lu Yan's identity in front of Xie Yun was Ji Xingyao's man. He was only in the middle stage of Qi training, but he had such a precious spiritual marrow ore on him. After the inspection, he turned around and ran out of the market. Even if Xie Yun was a fool, he would have noticed something wrong.

Lu Yan’s only choice now is to enter Qinggu Market and wait for this wave of inspection to be over before leaving secretly.

"I hope nothing unexpected will happen along the way."

Lu Yan sighed softly and returned to the cave with ease.

Sitting cross-legged on the futon, Lu Yan began to think about what happened today. He suddenly realized that the crisis brought by individual cultivators was limited after all, and what was truly irresistible was the oppression from the general trend.

In the Xianxia version, clearing out the Hundred Souls Banner is the general trend. Even the demonic sects dare not use it openly, not to mention that he is just a casual cultivator.

Although the Hundred Souls Banner gave him the confidence to cross the border and kill the Foundation Establishment cultivators, it also brought another level of hidden danger.

As long as you hold the Hundred Souls Banner in your hand, these righteous sects may come to you at any time.

This time, it was an inner disciple of Qingwu Sect who was in the early stage of foundation building. Lu Yan was still able to intimidate him with the help of Ji Xingyao's name.

But what if the next person who appears is a true disciple? Or even a real person of the righteous path, what will happen?
Lu Yan fell into deep thought. After a while, Lu Yan said with a gloomy look:
“The power of the Hundred Souls Banner still has a limit after all!
If you can refine a Thousand Souls Banner or a Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and even kill all the zombies in the apocalypse, and refine all the wandering zombie souls into the soul banner, why would you be afraid of the oppression of a mere righteous sect?"

Lu Yan's focus is still on the issue of his own insufficient strength. As for giving up the Hundred Souls Banner, that is no different from throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The fact that he was able to reap so many benefits in the Xianxia version was not just the reward for his three months of hard work in killing zombies in the Doomsday version?
“However, the time for the next draw of the Doomsday version is yet to be determined, and refining the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to clean up the entire Doomsday is not something that can be accomplished in one or two Doomsday trips.

Before I gain enough power to use the Soul Banner openly, I should find a way to cover it up to prevent things like today from happening again."

Lu Yan sorted out his thoughts and realized that there were roughly two ways to avoid the situation today.

The first is to obtain a treasure that can escape detection by divine sense, and hide the storage bag containing the soul flag in this treasure to avoid possible scrutiny.

However, this method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause, and there is still a risk of exposure even if it avoids scrutiny and investigation.

The second method is to refer to Jindan Zhenren’s practice of refining his own magic weapon, and then take the magic weapon into the body to nurture it.

If Lu Yan could take the Hundred Souls Banner into his body, he naturally wouldn't have to hide it deliberately.

The only problem is that the Hundred Souls Banner is not Lu Yan’s natal magic weapon, and even its quality is only at the level of a top-grade magic weapon. Storing it in his body is just a guess.

Unless he obtains the relevant sacrificial method, Lu Yan will have no way to start.

“It’s really a troublesome thing.”

After not being able to come up with any clues for a long time, Lu Yan simply suppressed the idea for the time being and stopped forcing it.

The investigation was still going on outside Qinggu Market, and Lu Yan was unable to escape at this time. He could only take out last night's gains from his personal storage bag.

After killing Cheng Yu of the Red Lotus Demon Sect, Lu Yan was surprised by the spiritual marrow mine and busy dealing with the scene. He only roughly counted the items in the storage bag and did not have time to carefully check the two books in the storage bag.

Any book that can be put together with the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" must have its own unique features.

With a flip of his right hand, two books fell into Lu Yan's palm.

There were four big characters written on the book above.

"The Mystery of Arrays"!
(End of this chapter)