Infinite transcendence began with Covering the Sky.

Chapter 63 Dangerous Dao Stone

"Your name is Wang Teng?"

In a building with carved beams and painted rafters, Yao Xi, dressed in white, looked at the man not far away with a strange expression.

Not long ago, Yao Xi heard from Ji Biyue that there was a suspicious person in the inn. After thinking it over, she felt it was necessary to meet him, so she asked Ji Biyue to bring the person out.

Now that the person was close by, Yao Xi looked him over carefully and began to have doubts, because she couldn't see through Qi Zhe's disguise, but her intuition told her that there was something wrong with the person in front of her.

Qi Zhe, sitting at a distance, remained quite calm. He did not show any fear when facing Yao Xi's questions. He was certain that Yao Xi had not seen through his identity, otherwise she would not have been so calm in her interactions with him.

Thinking of this, Qi Zhe smiled and said, "My name is indeed Wang Teng. Could it be that I have offended the Yao Guang Holy Land because of this?"

Qi Zhe's attitude was far from friendly; he didn't even give face to Yao Xi, who was the Holy Maiden of Yao Guang, which immediately made Yao Xi's expression turn ugly.

"What a fool. If that thief was just pretending, he wouldn't have lost his mind to anger me, but we can also rule out the possibility that he did it on purpose," Yao Xi thought to herself.

Even though Qi Zhe's attitude was terrible, Yao Xi didn't lose her temper on the spot and ultimately endured Qi Zhe's sarcasm.

"Fellow Daoist, you flatter me. The Yao Guang Holy Land would never care about a mere name. I only disturbed your seclusion because I was very curious about you."

Yao Xi smiled, her expression showing no anger whatsoever, her star-like eyes calmly looking at Qi Zhe.

Qi Zhe rolled his eyes at Yao Xi's scrutinizing gaze and said, "I am just an ordinary person with shallow cultivation. There is nothing about me that would pique the curiosity of Fairy Yao Xi."

"If there's nothing else, I need to go into seclusion, so I won't stay any longer."

Qi Zhe was about to get up after speaking, which startled Yao Xi, who wanted to continue observing. She quickly said, "Fellow Daoist, don't you want to know what I'm curious about?"

Qi Zhe had no time to care about Yao Xi's curiosity and bluntly said, "I don't want to at all."

Qi Zhe was determined to leave. He stood up and walked straight out of the building, making Yao Xi, who was sitting there, think to herself that he was a bastard.

"Wait!" Yao Xi was indeed anxious, and without caring whether the person in front of her was really Qi Zhe, she blurted out:
"Junior brother is truly a prodigy. In just one year, he has already achieved such cultivation. Now that he has mastered the Way of Transformation, there is nowhere in the vast Eastern Wilderness he cannot go."

She looked expectant, ready to expose Qi Zhe's disguise on the spot as soon as he showed the slightest flaw, so that he would know that there are people more capable than him.

Qi Zhe stopped abruptly, which delighted Yao Xi, who had been looking on expectantly, and she secretly realized that her opponent had revealed a flaw.

"Heh," but Qi Zhe's sneer stunned Yao Xi on the spot.

Then, Qi Zhe turned around with a disdainful expression and mocked, "I think the Yao Guang Holy Land is indeed failing; the Holy Maiden is going around recognizing junior brothers everywhere."

"I am indeed a prodigy, but I have no intention of joining Yao Guang. If I were to join, it would be the Yaochi Holy Land."

After Qi Zhe finished speaking, he walked out of the building with a smug look on his face, leaving Yao Xi standing there with an extremely strange expression. After a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Shameless!"

This cultivator named Wang Teng was one of the few exceptional individuals she had encountered in all these years. He considered himself a prodigy and aspired to enter the Jade Pool, practically on par with Duan De.

"Haha. He calls himself a prodigy at the fourth level of the Dao Palace. I think he will become famous in the Eastern Wilderness sooner or later."

Ji Biyue's voice came from outside the building, and then she appeared in front of Yao Xi with an extremely strange expression.

Yao Xi was speechless at this point, and shook her head, saying, "This person is utterly shameless; he's not the one I'm looking for."

Yao Xi looked somewhat regretful, and Ji Biyue, seeing this, was speechless, only able to comfort her, "You'll gain something."

Qi Zhe breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the building, knowing that he had passed Yao Xi's test and there should be no more trouble in the future.

However, he couldn't act rashly at this point. If he left quietly, he would be giving himself away. Staying safely in Haoshui City was the right thing to do. "But Yao Xi seems a bit off right now," Qi Zhe thought to himself as he stroked his chin on the way back to his secluded cultivation chamber.

Logically speaking, it would be difficult for people from the Yao Guang Holy Land to act within the Ji family, and the Yao Guang Holy Son left early after being unable to find him.

But Yao Xi stayed and even found him, something even the Holy Son of Yao Guang couldn't do, so there must be something wrong with it.

"It must be that Yao Xi has connections with someone inside the Ji family, otherwise an inn wouldn't have bothered me."

Qi Zhe secretly added the Ji family to his list of people to be wary of, planning not to stay any longer after breaking through to the fourth level here, so as to avoid the Ji family from making a move against him.

With a "thud," the stone door closed, and Qi Zhe re-entered the secret chamber in the Heavenly Moon Pavilion, releasing the Chaos Stone Platform to continue his cultivation.

"How is Wang Teng now? Has he made any unusual moves?"

In a quiet palace, Ji Biyue, dressed in a green dress, stood with her back to the camera. Her slender figure was alluring and graceful, and even her back view was breathtakingly beautiful.

But at this moment, her face was somber, her whole body was shrouded in azure light, and illusory purple lightning crackled around her, radiating an astonishing chill.

She was no kind person; in terms of ruthlessness, she was many times more ruthless than Yao Xi. She even dared to harm her cousin Ji Ziyue, and was as vicious as a snake.

Now, she was just standing there, and no one behind her dared to look up at her. They could only say in trembling voices, "No, I have been in seclusion in the pavilion for half a day!"

The person secretly monitoring Qi Zhe was an innkeeper who was responsible for serving tea and water to many guests on weekdays. He had personally witnessed Qi Zhe returning to Tianyue Pavilion during the day.

Upon hearing this, Ji Biyue remained unmoved. She waved the waiter away and turned to sit down at her desk, looking thoughtfully at the wanted poster placed in front of her.

"Who is this Qi Juejing, that Yaoguang is so concerned about him? Could it be that the desolate tower is really on him?"

As she muttered to herself, Ji Biyue felt it was impossible. The fat Taoist priest who spread the rumors hadn't told a single truth. Among the many holy lands in the Eastern Wilderness, only Yaoguang believed in it.

"Could it really be related to the Yao Guang lineage? If so, that would be quite a show!"

Ji Biyue recalled the clan's records about Yao Guang, which stated that Yao Guang had experienced many internal conflicts since the death of the Azure Emperor, and there might really be some hidden story behind it.

While she was deep in thought, Yao Xi, who lived in another palace, seemed a little distracted. After talking with Qi Zhe for a while, her intuition told her the answer.

“Appearance and aura can change, but your detached and otherworldly gaze cannot.” Yao Xi said solemnly.

Qi Zhe's biggest flaw was his eyes, which seemed to see through everything and want to control people's hearts and the future. Yao Xi had memorized this deeply when they were in Yandu.

With a "whoosh," a Daoist deity dressed in a long blue dress appeared inside the palace. Yao Xi glanced at the deity and then abruptly disappeared into thin air.

Along the way, Yao Xi's expression was solemn and indescribable. Using a magical technique to conceal her presence, she quietly arrived at Qi Zhe's secluded cultivation place, Tianyue Pavilion.

Like most palaces, Tianyue Pavilion is accessible only through the main gate, and its interior is quite spacious, with the secluded chamber located at the deepest part of the palace.

Yao Xi has now arrived at the stone gate. Looking at the intricate Dao patterns on the stone gate, her expression remains unchanged. The divine light emanating from her fingertips causes the stone gate to tremble slightly.

"Kaka."

As the stone door swung open, Yao Xi stepped into the secret chamber. She paused, momentarily stunned, then smiled and said, "Junior Brother, how have you been?"

At this moment, Qi Zhe was sitting on the stone, coldly observing Yao Xi who had barged in for a long time. Upon hearing this, a strange look appeared in his eyes.

"Why bother? Senior Sister, do you know what this stone is made of?"

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