Cultivating Immortality: I Have a High-Martial World

Chapter 166: A Big Fish Has Been Caught!

Frontline of the Land of Mist, Qinghe City.

After announcing his seclusion, Lin Chen left a martial arts puppet in his mansion that resembled himself.

Afterwards, he went to a deserted alley in the city and used the Earth Escape Technique.

An hour later, Lin Chen arrived at the safe house a thousand miles underground in Qinghe City.

That's right. Over the past year, Lin Chen has also dug several safe houses in Qinghe City and on the border of the Fog Kingdom.

The number of underground safe houses has reached eighty-eight, and the escape system is more complete.

After arriving at the underground safe house, Lin Chen dialed a communication device.

"The plan begins."

As Lin Chen gave the order, seven thousand miles away, in the market town of Guangyuan.

Long Ba moved.

He went to the auction in Guangyuan Town and met with Chairman Liu.

"President Liu, this is the Golden Essence Pills and other trading materials for the next three months..."

"The proceeds from the auctions over the past few months..."

Without the slightest hesitation, Chairman Liu handed over a spirit stone bag containing 500,000 spirit stones.

After receiving the spirit stone bag, Long Ba stayed in Guangyuan Town for a day.

It wasn't until late at night that they took advantage of the darkness and flew north.

At the same time, Lin Chen also arrived at the target location.

Three thousand miles south of Qinghe City, at the border between the Fog Kingdom and the Yanlai Kingdom, beneath a certain mountain... a thousand miles deep underground.

Inside this safe house, Lin Chen shared Long Ba's perspective and waited quietly.

It was already late at night, and a message came about a thousand miles after Long Ba left Guangyuan Town.

"Master, a target has been detected coming out of Guangyuan Town and following me all the way... It's 132 li behind me at the 7 o'clock position."

"Vital signs detected, target number six..."

Upon hearing Long Ba's report, Lin Chen revealed a meaningful smile.

"Continue to proceed as planned."

"Yes, Master!"

Long Ba showed no sign of anything amiss and continued heading towards Lin Chen's location.

Lin Chen brewed himself a pot of tea, took some snacks and half a purple swallow chicken, and prepared to watch the show.

"The fish has finally taken the bait..."

……

Meanwhile, more than a hundred miles behind Long Ba.

Several figures followed behind at a leisurely pace.

"After a full eight months, the puppet has finally left..."

"Do you think he'll go find that Master Wu Leizi?"

A voice came from behind; the speaker was a female cultivator.

"Yes, that's probably it... We've been keeping an eye on him for the past six months, and he hasn't had a chance to send out the spirit stones he was trading."

"Judging by the amount, he probably has no less than two million spirit stones!"

Two million?!

"This is just the small part... If we find Xu Shi, there will be another four million! Even if we split it, each of us will get 1.5 million spirit stones!"

One and a half million spirit stones per person!

Heavy breathing filled the air, followed by silence.

One and a half million spirit stones, the cost of Lin Chen's three years of cultivation.

But for ordinary Golden Core cultivators, this is a fortune they could never earn in a lifetime of cultivation!

The wages of avarice is death.

The cultivators are no different, except that they are more expensive.

"Should we... notify the ancestor?"

"We'll follow up for a while longer; it's still too early to say for sure..."

So, this group of people followed behind Long Ba.

After following them another thousand miles north, someone finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"It must be true! Coming to such a remote place... they must be meeting someone else!"

"Waiting any longer will be too late! Inform the Ancestor now!"

As they spoke, one of the cultivators took out a jade slip.

However, he was stopped by three other cultivators.

"Wait a minute, will the Blood-Eyed Ancestor really give us spirit stones? That's four million!"

"That's right! What if the patriarch changes his mind... He's a demonic cultivator, he kills without blinking an eye..."

At this point, the three cultivators all revealed unfriendly looks.

The cultivator holding the jade slip chuckled upon hearing this and said:

"Look at you all, so petty and stingy! Rogue cultivators are utterly useless!"

"What kind of person is the Ancestor? Would he be short of your pittances? After this matter... you won't be able to stay in the Righteous Alliance anymore. Come with me to the Demonic Sect! The Ancestor wouldn't harm his own people, would he?"

At present, it seems that the four cultivators who are tracking them are not a group.

One of them should be a demonic cultivator himself.

The other three were turned by the Demonic Sect...

They were silent for a moment, then agreed:

"Alright! Then I'll inform the Ancestor immediately..."

The jade slip was quickly activated.

After a moment of silence, a voice came from the other end of the jade slip.

"Tell me the location..."

"Ancestor, we are now..." The only demonic cultivator among the four hurriedly asked.

……

An hour later, Long Ba arrived at the bank of a large river.

This river is so wide it seems to stretch for dozens of miles, and from a distance it looks like the sea.

This river marks the boundary between the Kingdom of Yanlai and the Kingdom of Mist.

The location chosen by Long Ba was extremely remote, with no one living within a hundred miles.

After Longba arrived at the riverbank, he stopped and waited quietly.

The four demonic cultivators who were tracking them did not get close.

They hid thirty miles away, watching from a distance.

Half an hour later, one of the cultivators exclaimed in surprise:

"Someone's coming!"

"One of them seems to be Xu Shi... Tian, ​​along with Master Wu Lei Zi and Master Han!"

This cultivator practiced the art of sight, and he dared not use his divine sense to investigate, fearing he might alert the enemy. He could only observe from afar using his visual skills.

"They've started trading! When is the patriarch coming?" The man asked urgently, his eyes bloodshot.

The people from the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect are all here!

The total reward must be at least tens of millions of spirit stones.

"Almost there, the Ancestor is on his way! He'll be there in a quarter of an hour at most!"

"It's too late... They've completed the deal and are leaving!"

The cultivator who activated his eye technique turned around and looked at the other three.

"We have no choice! Now we can only stall for time... until the Ancestor arrives, otherwise we won't get a single spirit stone!"

Upon hearing this, the other three hesitated slightly.

That's Xu Shi!

Xu Shi, who killed the Ghost Eye Monster!

Do you think those four Core Formation cultivators can defeat them?

"Let's give it a try, just stall for half an hour... If we really can't win, we'll run!"

Finally, the demonic cultivator gritted his teeth and said...

Finally, the four cultivators who had been tracking him for thousands of miles could no longer resist and rushed towards the riverbank.

……

At the same time, directly below "Xu Shi" and "Wu Lei Zi".

Deep underground, Lin Chen was leisurely sipping tea and watching a play.

"Why aren't these people here yet... If they don't come out soon, they'll overdo the act..."

Lin Chen muttered something to himself.

Normally, these kinds of transactions wouldn't last too long.

Lin Chen was deliberately moving very slowly in order to fish... but the group of cultivators behind him still didn't dare to go up.

"Master, a life form has been detected rapidly approaching... Should we shoot them down?"

At this moment, Long Ba suddenly spoke.

As his voice fell, the figures in the distance quickly darted to the riverbank.

With a wave of his hand, he threw many magical treasures and spells at Long Ba and the others.

Four Core Formation cultivators have all made their move.

Lin Chen saw the appearance of those people through the perspective of several martial arts puppets.

Lin Chen was not familiar with three of them, but he figured they were probably rogue cultivators.

Of the four, only the female cultivator made Lin Chen raise an eyebrow.

"Yang Rong, it's actually her..."

Lin Chen took a sip of tea, his mind racing with calculations.

His purpose in having Long Ba and several other martial arts puppets perform this play was, of course, to lure people in.

Lure out the traitor lurking within the Righteous Alliance!

Or rather, to uncover the hidden dangers within the Guangyuan auction.

But Lin Chen never expected that he would actually catch a big fish.

Who is Yang Rong?

When Lin Chen first took out the Golden Core Pill, Chairman Liu transferred two Golden Core cultivators from headquarters.

One of them is a master appraiser, Master Tan.

The other female cultivator was Yang Rong.

He is a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator from Qingzhou and works as a steward at the Guangyuan Auction House.

"Tsk tsk, money really does move people! I didn't expect even the deacon of the Guangyuan Auction House to make a move..."

Lin Chen slowly got up, preparing to go to the ground.

It would be quite difficult to kill these Core Formation cultivators with just a few martial arts puppets.

However, just as Lin Chen was preparing to go to the ground, Long Ba said again:

"Master, a life form has been detected rapidly approaching, traveling at speeds exceeding Mach 4..."

"They are currently less than 100 li away from us... We expect to arrive within one minute..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen stopped.

Immediately afterward, through Long Ba's vision, Lin Chen saw a cloud of red mist rapidly approaching on the horizon.

In the blink of an eye, they were about to arrive around several martial arts puppets.

Upon seeing the red mist, Lin Chen instinctively wanted to flee.

"The Blood-Eyed Demon... how dare he show his face here?"

But Lin Chen quickly calmed down.

"I'm thousands of miles underground now, relax... there's no way this old devil can find me!"

Lin Chen took a few sips of tea and gradually relaxed.

He had previously escaped from this old devil through the underground safe house.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would be unlikely to discover something thousands of miles underground, let alone a mere Nascent Soul cultivator.

"This old devil... traveled all the way from the Spirit Beast Sect to the border of Yanlai Kingdom... just to capture me?"

Lin Chen frowned, somewhat puzzled.

Lin Chen could understand the four million spirit stones bounty.

After all, the one who died was the sect leader of the Ghost Exorcism Sect, a direct descendant of the Blood-Eyed Old Demon.

But a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator would travel thousands of miles deep into enemy territory, even risking his life... just for revenge?

Lin Chen was somewhat skeptical.

If this happened to a righteous sect, it would be understandable.

But Lin Chen absolutely refused to believe that this had happened to the Demonic Sect.

"So, there must be something... that I've overlooked!"

"This old devil's arrival here is definitely not as simple as it seems."

Lin Chen's mind raced.

So I simply stayed in this safe house and watched the images transmitted from the ground.

Now that something unusual has been discovered, it is only natural to investigate it further.

……

Through the nano-camera, Lin Chen could clearly see and hear everything happening on the ground.

When the red mist landed by the river, the four cultivators who had been following them all breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ancestor, you've finally arrived!"

"Xu Shi... and those rats from the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect, they're all here!"

The demonic cultivator, as if seeking credit, went to the Blood Demon Old Monster's side.

He seemed to already envision himself being promoted, receiving a raise, and reaching the pinnacle of demonic cultivation after this great achievement…

This was also the first time Lin Chen had seen the appearance of the Blood-Eyed Demon.

The emaciated, frail old man looked as if a gust of wind would kill him...

But Lin Chen dared not underestimate him in the slightest.

The Blood-Eyed Demon looked around at the group of people in the distance, and finally his gaze fell on Xu Shi.

"You little brat, I've been looking all over for you!"

Blood-Eyed Demon appeared beside Xu Shi in a flash.

Without hesitation, Long Ba and Feng Jiu unleashed their full power.

High-explosive bullets rained down like a dense storm, heading straight for the Blood-Eyed Demon.

But all of them struck the Blood-Eyed Demon's protective true essence, without causing the slightest ripple.

The Blood-Eyed Demon reached out and grabbed several high-explosive bullets, examining them closely in his hand.

"Interesting... This seems to be some kind of magical artifact, exquisitely crafted... Even that brat from the Puppet Hall couldn't make it."

"No wonder Ghost Eye was so wary of your Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect before..."

The Blood-Eyed Demon King scanned the area, his gaze settling on the two martial arts puppets, Dragon Eight and Phoenix Nine.

"However, having traversed Qingzhou for thousands of years and even visited other states... it seems I have never heard of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect..."

……

Thousands of miles underground, Lin Chen, with a joyful expression, praised:

"Xiao Yan! Your methods are truly miraculous! A dignified Nascent Soul cultivator... you didn't even realize those martial arts puppets weren't human..."

The spirit of the Heavenly Evolution Pearl, upon hearing this, said smugly:

"Master, my Heavenly Evolutionary Aura can shield all divine sense perception... well, not entirely. At least, it's impossible for anyone below the Nascent Soul stage to detect it!"

Lin Chen still had a smile on his face, and was about to say a few more words of praise.

But when he heard the question, "Where did you guys come from?", Lin Chen's expression changed drastically.

"Oh no, is that old devil going to find out?"

"That old devil has lived a long time..."

The Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect, the biggest lie in Qingzhou, was created by Lin Chen.

Not only did they deceive all the cultivators of the Righteous Alliance, but they also...

Even the major powers in Qingzhou, such as the Demon Subduing Temple and the Guangyuan Chamber of Commerce, which are Nascent Soul cultivators, were deceived by Lin Chen.

But this Blood-Eyed Demon is different!

He is a Nascent Soul cultivator... a Nascent Soul cultivator who has lived for thousands of years!

This person is almost at the Nascent Soul stage... If he really sees something out of him, Lin Chen will have no choice but to admit defeat.

But thankfully...

The Blood-Eyed Demon didn't hesitate for long; he slowly said:

"Heh, but the vastness of the universe is such that I have never even explored one ten-thousandth of it in my entire life..."

"Regardless of where your Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect comes from, aren't you overstepping your bounds a bit?"

"Qingzhou is not your territory..."

Blood-Eyed Demon looked at Xu Shi, Wu Leizi, and the others.

But Long Ba and Feng Jiu did not stop at all, and continued to unleash relentless artillery fire.

They even launched dozens of nano missiles at the Blood-Eyed Demon.

The missile, powerful enough to easily destroy a mountaintop, struck the Blood-Eyed Demon's protective true essence, yet it caused little disturbance.

It only caused the Blood-Eyed Demon's protective true essence to waver slightly.

On the contrary, it piqued his interest.

The Blood-Eyed Demon extended his left hand, enveloped in protective true essence, and grasped a nano missile the size of a thumb.

The Blood-Eyed Demon King looked astonished as he watched the missile explode in his hand.

"This thing is quite powerful!"

"It's far superior to ordinary Five Thunderbolts...it seems to be a replica of Heavenly Thunderbolts..."

"But I didn't sense the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy within it... How was it created?"

(End of this chapter)