Chapter 1638: Setting the Plan

Immediately, Li Yan gave a quick recount of the news obtained from the soul-search. Mu Guyue’s beautiful face was already covered in a layer of frost.

She never expected that Zhao Haiyang would be so despicable as to not only kill Li Yan but also capture her and rewrite her memory.

“This is the treasure they used to find us, as well as a set of mantras. You can look at it first. It’s a marker left in the identity tokens!”

As Li Yan spoke, he tossed a Bronze Ring Pendant and a jade slip to Mu Guyue.

That jade slip was something he had transcribed on the spot; it was the secret art to drive the Bronze Ring Pendant he had just obtained through the soul-search. The art wasn’t very difficult.

Before Li Yan, a Bronze Ring Pendant also hovered. While speaking, he was already attempting to drive the mantras…

Dozens of breaths later, Li Yan and Mu Guyue had completely grasped the true usage of the two Bronze Ring Pendants.

The two also found with alarm that this thing was so strong that it truly exceeded their expectations. Even if the identity token was placed in a storage ring, its aura could not be masked.

However, if it was placed within the Empty Shadow storage space, the Bronze Ring Pendant could not find it.

This suggested that the person who refined the Bronze Ring Pendant and the identity tokens was only familiar with normal storage spaces but understood nothing of the storage methods of a soul cultivator’s Empty Shadow.

At the same time, Li Yan secretly moved his identity token into “Mud Speck” and found that the Bronze Ring Pendant likewise couldn’t find it.

He immediately guessed that this was because the level of “Mud Speck” was too high. This once again made him admire Martial Uncle Thousand-Layer even more.

Afterward, Li Yan tossed the several storage rings he had just obtained to Mu Guyue.

“Give these all to you. The identity tokens of Kong Qianchu and Min Bufu inside shouldn’t be destroyed for now; they might be useful.”

Li Yan said quickly.

Mu Guyue knew Li Yan’s wealth was abundant, so she didn’t hesitate and took them all.

But upon hearing Li Yan’s final reminder, light flashed in her phoenix eyes, though she didn’t ask immediately.

Afterward, Li Yan summoned back the items issued by the Supreme Polarity Dao Sect from before the wall. After clearing all the poisons from them one by one, he and Mu Guyue stored them away once more.

But this time, including the items of Kong Qianchu’s duo, everything was placed into the Empty Shadow.

Because they couldn’t be sure if the Supreme Polarity Dao Sect had other methods to find their cultivators besides the Bronze Ring Pendant.

However, even Kong Qianchu and his companion might not know these things. They had limited rank in the military; thus, such information naturally wouldn’t appear in their memories.

Fortunately, the items of these two didn’t fill up all the storage rings. Although the Empty Shadow space was much smaller, Li Yan gave Mu Guyue a few more, and everything was packed away.

“Zhao Haiyang will come in a few days. If he can’t find Kong Qianchu and his companion, he will quickly guess that something happened to them. What do you plan to do next?

Do you want to enter Ghost Sound City first to find the Guiyun Laixi Merchant House, or do you want to deal with Zhao Haiyang?”

Mu Guyue immediately looked at Li Yan after handling these matters.

She understood Li Yan’s character all too well now; this man was just like her, someone who sought revenge for the smallest grievance.

And she hated Zhao Haiyang even more; this man had been scheming to possess her body.

The thought that she had nearly ended up under another man made the demonic nature in her chest impossible to suppress.

At the same time, hearing Li Yan tell her to keep the items of Kong Qianchu’s duo, she knew she hadn’t misjudged this man.

Demons had always been thus: for their Dao companion, they could give everything. Whether they could succeed was one thing, but at least the attitude was crucial.

Furthermore, Zhao Haiyang had already targeted the two of them. As long as they wanted to return to the Supreme Polarity Dao Sect’s side, this person was a great river obstructing their path back.

In the future, when he saw both of them return safely but heard no news of Kong Qianchu’s duo, Zhao Haiyang, no matter how stupid, would know what had happened.

Then, what awaited Li Yan and herself would be the true calculating revenge from a Void Refining stage powerhouse.

The man’s position in the military was so much higher than Li and Mu’s. If he truly moved for the kill, it wouldn’t be like before; their chance of dying would exceed seventy percent.

However, taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Haiyang didn’t know the situation yet—although he was in the mid-stage of Void Refining—Li Yan’s skill in calculation was often unexpected.

Perhaps they could take a gamble. This was also why Mu Guyue wanted to hear Li Yan’s suggestion rather than choosing to hide directly.

“Of course, we cannot match him in strength!”

A sharp light flickered in Li Yan’s eyes.

“But even if it’s an ambush, although we have soul cultivation techniques and your poison skills, the chance is not very high. It’s only a hope!”

Mu Guyue wanted to kill Zhao Haiyang, but seeing that Li Yan truly meant this.

She immediately pressed him. Before Li Yan could give a plan that she could accept, she wouldn’t agree.

Killing was meant to slay the enemy, not oneself. Li Yan only needed to have this intent for her; if the plan was feasible, they would do it; if not, they would abandon it and find another way.

And what Mu Guyue herself could think of was a similar ambush method as before—using poison and soul arts that Zhao Haiyang knew nothing about.

Catching him by surprise, yet she also felt it was uncertain; the grasp was too small!

“This time, when I say we cannot match him in strength, I truly mean it!”

Li Yan suddenly spoke such a sentence, which Mu Guyue found to be nonsense.

Then, without waiting for Mu Guyue to ask, Li Yan quickly began a voice transmission. Soon, a look of shock and doubt appeared on Mu Guyue’s face.

“Just that? But that requires close-range contact with Zhao Haiyang. The chance of deceiving him might not even be twenty percent?

And although we also know some news about Ghost Sound City, this plan… might be a bit too much wishful thinking. Making Zhao Haiyang believe it is too difficult!”

After hearing Li Yan’s plan, Mu Guyue felt that what she heard didn’t seem like a scheme Li Yan could devise.

“Based on the materials on Ghost Sound City provided by the Supreme Polarity Dao Sect, it should be fine. As for the problem you worry about, you can try this!”

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Li Yan’s face. While he spoke, he flipped his palm, and a grey pill appeared in his hand.

This pill was the size of a small fingernail, with no spiritual energy fluctuations on it. Its appearance was dull and lackluster, colorless and odorless.

“What is this?”

Mu Guyue stared at Li Yan’s palm…

Half a cup of tea’s time later, Mu Guyue gazed at the young man before her, who had already transformed into Kong Qianchu. Her Divine Sense repeatedly scanned his body.

And the young man across from her, aside from his appearance being Kong Qianchu’s original look, also displayed the Nascent Soul stage aura and so on. No matter how Mu Guyue repeatedly observed him, she found nothing unusual.

Not long after, a chill rose in Mu Guyue’s heart. What kind of pill did Li Yan just take?

To be able to conceal himself to this extent—if Li Yan were her enemy, the mere thought would bring a shivering coldness…

To let her probe, Li Yan had even released his magical power circulation, letting her look as she pleased. But she could no longer see that this was Li Yan. This made her doubt if Li Yan had been possessed.

“Hehehe… you can’t probe it, can you?

After using this pill, no matter how one disguises based on this appearance, once the illusion is removed, it will still look like this. This is not a technique!”

Li Yan’s voice strangely came from the mouth of this young man, which made Mu Guyue feel odd.

“This pill is very wondrous; it’s not something an illusion can compare to!”

Mu Guyue also had to admit the prowess of this pill.

“This is like some traps; sometimes the most primitive mortal traps are precisely what cultivators cannot conceive!”

Li Yan spoke with a smile. When saying this, he thought of the methods used to deal with Han Zhumei in the past.

Mu Guyue scanned him carefully once more. This pill Li Yan took out was called the “Reality-Warping Pill.” It could actually allow bones and skin to deform at will.

Crucially, after the deformation, the lack of coordination or traces of modification in the bones was something she couldn’t detect as abnormal at all.

This was the unique aspect of this pill; some of the materials in it were very hard to find even in the Lower Realm.

After changing his appearance, the feeling it gave Mu Guyue was completely of something that truly should exist. However, Mu Guyue still thought of another problem.

“How do we conceal our cultivation? We cannot be sure if Zhao Haiyang can see through their true boundaries with his ability, even after Kong Qianchu and the others hide their cultivation.”

Mu Guyue still felt that there was a major loophole in Li Yan’s plan.

This loophole could be ignored, or not. Because for a scout to come out and hide their cultivation was the most normal thing.

Like Kong Qianchu before, who suppressed his cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage, she and Li Yan couldn’t clearly see through it.

But that Zhao Haiyang was a Void Refining stage powerhouse; thus, it wasn’t certain.

If either of Kong Qianchu or Min Bufu’s cultivation were similar to Li Yan’s duo, or lower, they could pose as them by suppressing their cultivation.

But both were late-stage Spirit Transformation experts. How do you pose as a higher stage?

Li Yan didn’t speak this time. Suddenly, the aura fluctuations on his body shifted, and a grand, vigorous magical power fluctuation appeared abruptly.

This fluctuation vanished once more the instant it appeared and brushed against Mu Guyue, returning once again to the late-stage of Nascent Soul.

“You… how could you be at the late-stage of Spirit Transformation? Have you… have you broken through consecutively?”

Mu Guyue was momentarily stunned. In her perception, the resonance of that fluctuation still remained.

According to what Li Yan himself said, he only truly succeeded in Spirit Transformation in the “Earth-True Domain.” How many years had passed since then? How could he have reached the late-stage of Spirit Transformation?

Li Yan shook his head.