Chapter 1765: Preparing for a Sneak Attack

A person who is both short and thin easily looks big-headed. This one's facial features were all squeezed together, only the eyes were flying to both sides, and the appearance was quite distinctive. The others looked like elites.

Sending two Immortals for just one mine cave, the importance Bai Ziqi placed on this place was evident.

He Lingchuan's strategy of dispersing the enemy's strength had also achieved initial results.

The visitors lit red candles, but did not lighten their footsteps. The mine cave guards rushed out again, shouting loudly: "Idlers stay away! Who are you!"

Those who would come here in the middle of the night could not be idlers.

So they were beaten to the point of vomiting blood in a few strokes, and then their heads were pressed by the other party and pushed directly to the edge of the mine cave: "Open the prohibition."

"C-can't open it. Only the Deputy Guard Chief and above know the formula."

"Has anyone been here just now?"

"N-no."

The dwarf Immortal reached out and patted their crowns, saying in a deep voice: "Break the prohibition. The Illusion Sect probably already knows we are here."

No need to cover up anymore.

The person holding the red candle stepped forward, aimed the candle flame at the cave entrance, and blew hard.

"Whoosh—"

Red smoke drifted into the cave entrance, reflecting patches of red halo on the cave walls, and finally condensed into one spell after another.

This was the prohibition placed by the Illusion Sect at the cave entrance; if a living person broke in, they would immediately be blasted by thunder and lightning until they were charred.

Seeing the original form of this prohibition, the dwarf Immortal said to the fire giant lizard: "This belongs to you."

The others all retreated a yard away, and Jieshui True Person walked forward two steps slowly, taking a deep breath, and the originally loose neck skin sank in.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but He Lingchuan felt that its body suddenly swelled up a circle again.

The next breath, it spat out crimson flames toward the mine cave.

Before the flames drilled into the cave entrance, the eyeball spider on the tree discovered that this was actually the image of a fire snake, with the snake head, snake tongue, and snake scales appearing and disappearing, and the eyes were burning white flames.

One was not enough; Jieshui True Person released six fire snakes in a row before stopping.

A blue light flashed at the door, and the prohibition resisted stubbornly. However, Jieshui True Person's divine ability was too fierce after all. By the time the third fire snake came on stage, the prohibition really couldn't hold on. The stone powder on the cave wall fell down, and before long, even the stone cave was burned and melted, and the surface of the stone wall was a dazzling crimson.

The prohibition couldn't attach itself and was completely burned.

Those few fire snakes did not stop after blasting the prohibition but went directly toward the depths of the mine cave.

However, they looked like they were burning with flames, but the mine tunnels two or three feet away were not scorched to the point of heat.

There were many man-made works in the mine cave, with wooden reinforcements every few yards. If all these supports were burned down, it would be of no benefit to the fire snakes exploring the tunnels.

Six fire snakes acted separately, whistling back and forth in the mine tunnels.

The mine cave was complex, and it was not easy for outsiders to walk in it, so Jieshui True Person let them go down to explore the way first, and by the way, burn all the prohibitions on the road.

These six fire snakes indeed burned everything that blocked the way, and if there were living people at the bottom of the cave, they didn't mind sending them on their way for free.

They moved very fast, and before long, He Lingchuan heard a whooshing sound coming from above.

The fire snakes were coming.

These things must be Jieshui True Person's eyes and ears. Even if they killed these few things, Jieshui True Person would know that there were thorny points in the mine cave.

Luo Xie pointed forward immediately: "There is a large pit at the corner that can be used for shelter!"

Everyone quickened their pace, and sure enough, they found a sunken large pit at the turn, the entrance was small and hidden, and they would miss it if they weren't careful.

After everyone jumped in, a black light flashed on Elder Liu's hand, and a brush was in his hand.

He took two steps forward, stood in front of the crowd, and began to write in the air.

What was magical was that the air directly in front of him seemed to be a vertical piece of paper, and it was really smeared by him, using ink of the same color as the mine pit rocks.

Time was so tight, yet Elder Liu still had the leisure to add two small crystal clusters to the picture!

He Lingchuan had to admit that Elder Liu's painting skills were truly vivid.

The fire snakes were coming, and the pit tunnel above already revealed dazzling red light.

Elder Liu also jumped into the pit and added the last few strokes with his backhand.

Now, the crowd was hiding in the concave cave, separated from the pit tunnel outside by only a smeared air wall.

But if one walked to the front of the air wall and looked, this was an ordinary rock wall, the stone surface was uneven, a small stalactite hung from the top, the stone wall was still wet with water marks, and the stone texture was rough to the touch.

The mining pit behind was covered tightly, and no one could see it.

Then, the fire snakes came.

The crowd stood in the concave cave and could perceive the change in light in the pit tunnel. As soon as the fire snakes passed, it seemed like dawn outside.

They swam past directly in front of the crowd without stopping at all, rushing to the deeper underground.

The perfect disguise painted by Elder Liu easily deceived these fire snakes.

"Good brush!" He Lingchuan praised, "How long can the wall painted last?"

"One hour." Elder Liu shook the brush tip lightly, "This is the Spiritual Immortal Brush bestowed by the Immortal Venerable."

The brush body of this brush did not look like an ordinary bamboo tube or wooden tube, but was pale silver, with a bit of iridescence under the light.

Luo Xie stared at this brush, really curious, and subconsciously asked: "Can it turn into whatever you paint?"

"Only small objects can, someone once used it to paint gold and silver to deceive people." And the things painted by the Spiritual Immortal Brush had a certain strength, not breaking at a poke, but Elder Liu was too lazy to mention it, "The Immortal Venerable once said that if it could continue to change and improve, one day it would be able to paint mountains and seas, and at that time it could be called the 'Creation Brush'."

This divine ability was really a bit awesome; He Lingchuan could instantly think of a hundred uses for the Spiritual Immortal Brush.

The crowd chatted in the concave pit and were not in a hurry to go out. Sure enough, after a while, the pit tunnel outside was bright as day again—

The fire snakes passed by again.

"Divine ability exploration is complete, they should be coming down." Elder Liu said in a low voice, "It's a pity that the prohibition we laid was burned by the fire snakes."

Jieshui True Person released the fire snakes, not only to explore the way but also to clear obstacles and check if there were enemies at the bottom of the cave.

Ever since seeing the Spiritual Immortal Brush he took out, He Lingchuan had an idea, and at this moment suddenly said: "This brush can be fake and real, and Elder Liu's painting skills are profound, let's rearrange the traps."

"Okay." Elder Liu took out the Spiritual Immortal Brush, "What to paint?"

"Profound Crystals. The bigger the better." He Lingchuan asked Luo Xie on the side, "The Profound Crystals in this mine cave, can the biggest ones be half a person tall?"

"Too many." Luo Xie did not exaggerate, "There were even ones taller than a person. When they were first dug out of the ground and saw the light, wow, even gold couldn't compare to that kind of radiance!"

Extravagant! Dong Rui on the side secretly slandered.

On the lighthouse by the lake, Bai Ziqi called Wu Shidao over again.

The work still had to be completed step by step.

"Do you get monitored by the Haoyuan Golden Mirror when you usually move on Stone Dragon Peak?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"As long as the sect doesn't suspect me, the Haoyuan Golden Mirror won't pay attention to me." Wu Shidao was very confident, "The Haoyuan Golden Mirror ignores the coming and going of these thousand people in the sect most of the time."

"Excellent." Bai Ziqi kept him and spent a lot of words, just for the next plan, "I have a task to entrust to you."

Wu Shidao knew that he could survive because he was useful: "Please give your instructions, Lord."

"Where are the Illusion Sect's Profound Crystals kept?"

"Ah, the Profound Crystals are stored in three places." Wu Shidao was worthy of being a know-it-all, not only stating the locations of the three warehouses but also knowing the approximate storage volume.

Bai Ziqi grasped the key point: "That is to say, more than sixty percent of the Profound Crystals are stored in the Immortal Light Cave?"

"Yes, yes. The other two warehouses total less than thirty percent."

Bai Ziqi took out a pocket and gave it to him: "You go to the Immortal Light Cave and sweep all the Profound Crystals in stock into here, as many as there are."

Ah? Wu Shidao took it with both hands and reminded him cautiously: "Lord, that is a massive amount of Profound Crystals, enough to fill the entire large rock cave! The capacity of this pocket..."

Can it hold it?

Over the past one hundred and fifty years, the spiritual energy sent by the Great Inversion Array was truly not small, so much so that after the gas cut off for more than half a year, Qian Huan and the Immortals under his command still couldn't squander it. Bai Ziqi smiled and casually threw a silver ingot into this pocket.

With a "clatter," the silver ingot actually fell out of his sleeve, landed on the tabletop, and rolled twice under Wu Shidao's surprised gaze.

"This is called a General General Wu Di Bag." Bai Ziqi explained to him, "It has no capacity itself, because the things thrown into it are directly transmitted to me!"

But from the Upside-Down Lake to Stone Dragon Peak, this distance is a bit far... Wu Shidao suddenly realized, it's good to have long ears, why have a long mouth? Hadn't the Heavenly Palace considered these questions beforehand, and was it his turn, a surrendered soldier, to ask questions? As a subordinate, just do the work honestly. Over the past few decades in the Illusion Sect, he hadn't been this enthusiastic either.

So he quickly answered "Good" twice.

In fact, the General General Wu Di Bag was a pair, one given to Wu Shidao, and the other hidden in Bai Ziqi's sleeve.

One feeds in, the other feeds out.

This is very similar to the Small Mountain-Moving Array, which can also move objects, but the difference is that the transmission range of the General General Wu Di Bag is huge, and the effective distance can reach an astonishing thirty li, while the Small Mountain-Moving Array can only move two or three li at most, and is affected by the prohibition of escape techniques.

But Bai Ziqi certainly wouldn't explain the principle to Wu Shidao, only telling him: "Remember, this bag can only hold things two feet square, things too big can't be put in, living things can't be put in, other storage spaces can't be put in, and it can only exist for three hours!"

After three hours, the bag would automatically disappear.

Because it is essentially a solidified divine ability: Goddess Feng He's signature skill, space folding!

This is to fold two spaces together and open a channel. The principle is different and is not affected by the escape technique prohibition array.

But because the distance between them is very far, the folded space is very small and can only hold small objects.

It's not enough to hold other large treasures, but it's handy for holding some gold, silver, jewelry, or Profound Crystals. ===== CHAPTER 1766 =====