Chapter 1573

The entire God Realm was keeping these secrets.

"Also, will Bai Ziqi return to Bai Mao Mountain to pursue the clues of the Thousand-Illusion True Person?"

"Of course. That is the Thousand-Illusion True Person!" He Lingchuan put away the black armor and turned back into the unremarkable Island Master He, "Even if he knows the origin of this intelligence is questionable, or even possibly a diversion, he has a responsibility to investigate until the truth is revealed."

A few months ago, just as he arrived in the Allied Forces territory, he received news from the Carefree Sect saying that a huge fern wood array had inexplicably appeared on Bai Mao Mountain, and the Mou Nation had already sent people to investigate.

The Carefree Sect didn't pay much attention at first; after all, Bai Mao Mountain was so vast and the forest so dense that even if the giant fern wood was spectacular and abrupt, it was still hiding wood in the forest, with only a lonely cluster every ten miles or so. But disciples entering the mountain found one cluster today and another a few days later, and with mountain monsters witnessing it and reporting the anomalies to the Carefree Sect one after another, the latter finally organized manpower to investigate, searching for giant fern wood across the entire Bai Mao Mountain range, then numbering, calculating, and mapping the array.

The coup in the Pu Nation and You Enguang's rise to establish the Peng Nation, followed by the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce flourishing throughout the Peng Nation thanks to most-favored-nation trading status—the Carefree Sect certainly knew about this. Sect Master Li even maintained a fairly friendly personal relationship with He Lingchuan and allowed sect disciples to sell herbs and beast cores collected on the mountain to the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce, which had a stronghold in the town near the Carefree Sect.

This news was casually revealed to the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce by a Carefree Sect disciple who went up the mountain to collect herbs, and then it reached He Lingchuan's ears.

He received countless clues from the Flash Gold Plain every day and didn't take this intelligence to heart, but the second piece of news followed closely:

This array was a Great Tiangang Array.

He Lingchuan immediately perked up.

Because the data he received when he took on the task of finding the Thousand-Illusion True Person showed that the Spirit-Gathering Array laid down by this great immortal on the Flash Gold Plain was a variant of the Great Tiangang Array! He personally wrote to Sect Master Li and finally confirmed that the giant fern wood array on Bai Mao Mountain was not a conventional Great Tiangang Array.

Ancient arrays moved to the present day all required some modifications.

Moreover, the Carefree Sect had occupied Bai Mao Mountain for 150 or 160 years and had never discovered the existence of this array, which showed how hidden and superb it was.

As for why the array was exposed, after the Soul-Capturing Mirror calculated the array map, it pinpointed the array eye under the dried-up waterfall, which was the location where He Lingchuan had encountered the White Bear King!

So it was easy for He Lingchuan to link the reason for the array's failure to his previous actions.

The Thousand-Illusion True Person went into seclusion more than 150 years ago, so the timing matched.

One had to know that Bai Mao Mountain—also known as Dragon Head Mountain—was the legendary place where the dragon fell. He Lingchuan believed this claim had a certain degree of credibility because it produced the mutated Bright Lamp, which was very likely to break through the mystery of the womb; it also hid supreme treasures like the Heart Scale. With just one Heart Scale, the White Bear King almost threatened the entire ancient Giant Deer Nation.

If Dragon Head Mountain was indeed the place where the Dragon God fell, and it was favored and arrayed by the Thousand-Illusion True Person, it was fully qualified.

Therefore, He Lingchuan could also reasonably infer that it was very likely because he took the Heart Scale from the White Bear King's cave that the Great Tiangang Array gradually failed and was exposed to the world.

But what surprised He Lingchuan the most was that the array location marked on the data given to him by Lingshan was clearly in the North Sea, not Bai Mao Mountain!

This was interesting.

Lingshan hoped he would find the Thousand-Illusion True Person, so they wouldn't give him wrong data.

Therefore, there was likely another trick to this.

The Thousand-Illusion True Person was the most mysterious and unpredictable ancient immortal in Lingshan, and the array he laid down must have had many implications. Even Wang Xingyi had explained that Lingshan sent two groups of people to find the Thousand-Illusion True Person, but they never returned.

After clarifying these clues, He Lingchuan went to Shizhoutou again as the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds and handed this intelligence to God Puyin.

The Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds would sooner or later be intolerable to the gods; this was his foresight, so he had to be prepared.

No matter whom the gods sent to investigate the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, they would first go to Shizhoutou to pursue clues because this was the key battle where the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds first appeared. Then the pursuer would "accidentally" learn the intelligence about the Thousand-Illusion True Person from God Puyin.

The Thousand-Illusion True Person and the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds were not weights of equal importance on the scales. Once the pursuer obtained this news, they would definitely report it to the Heavenly God, and once the latter knew, they would likely demand that the focus of the investigation be shifted to the Thousand-Illusion True Person. After all, dealing with the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds wasn't that urgent.

This could buy He Lingchuan more time and space because, with missing data, it wouldn't be easy for the pursuer to fathom the layout of the Thousand-Illusion True Person.

Even He Lingchuan himself hadn't figured out the true location of the Inverted Sea yet.

Of course, there was another possibility: the gods sent two groups of people to pursue the Thousand-Illusion True Person and the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, respectively.

But there was also a sequence issue here: the most capable pursuer would be prioritized for the Thousand-Illusion True Person, so the power to track the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds would be weakened.

As one grows and the other wanes, it would be beneficial for He Lingchuan.

Now it seemed that his precaution was indeed necessary. Even if Ah Hao in Giant Deer Port didn't report the news of Bai Ziqi arriving at the Flash Gold Plain in time, the backup plan He Lingchuan had laid still bought him a lot of time.

Learning that Bai Ziqi was personally pursuing the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, He Lingchuan was indeed shocked.

But based on his understanding of Bai Ziqi, this Commandant Bai would not let go once he found clues about the Thousand-Illusion True Person.

"Credit" was a good thing; as long as you were within a system, you would involuntarily scramble to seize it.

With Commandant Bai's ability, he would definitely be able to find something, so in the short term, the secret of the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds should still be safe.

He Lingchuan only hoped that before the storm in the Yao Nation ended, Bai Ziqi wouldn't come to muddy the waters.

The situation was becoming increasingly chaotic.

He opened the door and summoned Wanqi Feng: "Send a message to the Yangshan stronghold at the foot of the Carefree Sect to see if Bai Ziqi has taken the bait."

That night, He Lingchuan still couldn't sleep.

Sure enough, his plans were always difficult to carry out smoothly, and there were always complications at key nodes.

He had originally thought that once he reached this point, he could lie back and watch the show. Now, he didn't dare.

Bai Ziqi coming to the Flash Gold Plain meant that Lingxu City was exceptionally concerned about the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds and was determined to get rid of him quickly.

It seemed that whether it was the gods or the Heavenly Palace, they all saw the huge threat the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds posed to the Heavenly Gods in the future.

Truly far-sighted.

……

The morning meeting ended. As Qingyang walked out of the palace, Yuan Xuan greeted her and whispered a few words.

"Only now?" Qingyang gave a light hum, "Lead the way."

Yuan Xuan personally drove the carriage to take her to a jewelry shop on a side street.