Chapter 654: The Two Women's Plan

The woman's whole body trembled; she was unwilling to believe that this Ding Huan was the same Ding Huan she had been searching for all these years, yet the clear portrait showed it was him.

An emotion she could barely contain surged within her; at this moment her entire body was shaking.

She tried hard to control herself, but that excitement rising from the deepest part of her soul simply could not be held back.

"This senior sister, do you know him?" a slightly hesitant voice rang out.

The woman turned her head and saw the one who had spoken.

The speaker was also a female cultivator, with withered-yellow hair, her cultivation slightly stronger than hers—she should be at the peak of the Spirit Nurturing realm.

Whereas she herself was only at the late stage of the Spirit Nurturing realm.

With an outsider's interruption, the trembling of the woman's body finally stopped, and she gradually regained her composure.

"No, I was thinking—how can this person just casually kill people and snatch their things?"

The withered-yellow-haired woman, seeing the other looking her way, instantly froze.

She herself was also a woman, yet she had never seen a woman with such clean eyes.

The weariness of wandering through the vast void of the cosmos could not conceal the cleanness in her eyes.

At first glance, those weary eyes seemed to have endured countless hardships and bitter struggles.

But only when facing those eyes directly would one understand what true clarity meant.

"Senior sister, may I know your name?" the withered-yellow-haired woman could not help asking.

"My name is Qu Yi. And you?"

Qu Yi had experienced countless brushes with life and death across the vast cosmos, and had seen all manner of faces and all manner of people.

At a glance she understood that Luo Huan'er bore her no ill will.

"My name is Luo Huan'er." Luo Huan'er's heart was still marveling at the clarity of Qu Yi's eyes.

"Senior Sister Qu, I live not far from here. Come to my place and sit for a while, let's chat."

Luo Huan'er had undergone the reconstruction of her physical body and was no longer the simple, unknowing ordinary female cultivator she once was.

When she noticed Qu Yi's body trembling slightly at the sight of Ding Huan's wanted notice, she knew Qu Yi must know Ding Huan, and that their relationship ran deep.

She had been staying on Dao Ruin Street for nearly thirty years.

When she had first arrived at Dao Ruin Street, she had only one purpose: to enter the Dao Ruin and search for god-grade crystals.

The Wangshen land also had god-grade stones. Having stayed in the Wangshen land for so many years, Luo Huan'er naturally knew better than anyone that all the good god-grade stones there had long since been searched out.

To find better god-grade stones, one had to go to the sixth floor or above of the Wangshen Ladder Sea.

Going to the sixth floor or above of the Wangshen Ladder Sea was something ordinary people simply could not do, and neither could she, Luo Huan'er.

So she chose to leave the Wangshen Ladder Sea and come to the Dao Ruin.

When she had first arrived at Dao Ruin Street and seen Ding Huan's portrait, she too had been struck as if by lightning.

She, Luo Huan'er, had come to this world with only one relative and one benefactor.

Her relative was her brother Luo Buzheng.

Pitifully, her uncompetitive brother had been humiliated to death by the Five Flayers.

Her only benefactor was Ding Huan.

Ding Huan had not only avenged her, but had also left her a Nine-Colored Void Lotus to reconstruct her physical body.

Yet in truth she and Ding Huan had no real friendship.

Without Ding Huan, there would be no Luo Huan'er today.

The value of a single Nine-Colored Void Lotus, Luo Huan'er knew all too well.

Even the sects of the Upper God land could not hope to obtain such a treasure, let alone a lone wandering soul like her.

Upon seeing Ding Huan wanted, her only thought was that even if it cost her own life, she had to save him.

Her cultivation was too low; there was nothing she could do.

Over the years, the only plan she could think of was to rush out suddenly the moment Ding Huan appeared, tell him, and warn him to enter the Dao Ruin again at once and not come out.

For the sake of that one sentence, she had waited here for a full thirty years.

Over those thirty years, she had continuously sought out and gathered every possible way to save Ding Huan.

During that time, thanks to her innate divine ability, she even learned an enormous secret—the method by which Ding Huan was being captured.

Yet her strength was simply too limited; she could only come up with such a scheme.

"Alright." Qu Yi accepted Luo Huan'er's invitation.

The place where Luo Huan'er lived was not too bad, because any rest inn near the Dao Ruin Street plaza was not too bad.

All the god crystals she had earned over these years had been spent on lodging fees.

"Senior Sister Qu…"

Qu Yi smiled: "Sister Huan'er, I may look quite old, but actually I'm not older than you—just call me junior sister."

Qu Yi was certain she was not older than Luo Huan'er.

That she could appear in the God Realm was because of a supreme opportunity.

It was because she had obtained a piece of hide scroll.

It was precisely because of that one hide scroll that she had soared to the skies, reaching the God Realm in just a few hundred years.

And also because, across the vast cosmos, she had endured too many hardships, giving her an air of utter weariness.

Luo Huan'er paid it no mind; she nodded: "Junior Sister Qu, you should know Brother Ding, right? In fact quite well, is that so?" Qu Yi did not deny it: "Yes, without Brother Ding there would be no Qu Yi. You also know Brother Ding?"

"Mm, my life was saved by Brother Ding…"

The two chatted for an entire night.

When Qu Yi understood why Ding Huan was wanted, she clenched her fists in fury.

These people truly have no shame—just because Ding Huan can sink without falling in the Reincarnation Swamp, they shamelessly issued a wanted notice against him on fabricated grounds.

"Sister Huan'er, with your method I'm afraid we won't be able to save Brother Ding." After a long while, Seeing Qu Yi regained her composure.

Although Luo Huan'er was older than her and had spent more time in the God Realm than she had,

Luo Huan'er's experiences were far less rich than hers.

From Earth to the Cultivation World, from the Cultivation World to the Immortal World of various universes, she had endured hardships beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators.

This was still because she had obtained that one scroll of skin; if not for that scroll, she did not know how many times she would have fallen.

Because of that scroll, she obtained a supreme technique and learned alchemy and array formation.

Although she was still only a God-Nurturing Realm cultivator, no one knew that she was also a fourth-grade Divine Pill Grand Master.

This was also because she had only come to the God Realm a few dozen years ago.

If she were given more time and resources, she might well have been a seventh-grade Divine Pill King by now.

The reason she had come to Dao Ruins, her purpose was the same as Luo Huan'er's: first, to seek the Godhood Stone, and second, to seek the Fortune Stone.

Luo Huan'er sighed: "Although I've been looking for other methods and have some leads, actually carrying them out is very, very difficult."

"What other methods are you thinking of?" Seeing Qu Yi had just arrived at Dao Ruins Street and hadn't even gotten a clear picture of the situation in Dao Ruins, so naturally she had no good method either.

Although there was still an isolation divine array inside the room, Luo Huan'er still lowered her voice:

"Junior Sister Qu, I've heard that the Dao Ruins Merchant Guild has laid down a Heaven and Earth Net Divine Array on Dao Ruins Street. This Heaven and Earth Net Divine Array is only a surface measure; the real measure is a powerful space.

As soon as Ding Huan comes out, even if Ding Huan activates an escape talisman, he will be teleported into a space at the first instant…"

Hearing this, Seeing Qu Yi instinctively shivered.

How ruthless.

Luring a cultivator of not-high cultivation into someone else's space—who could escape that?

These people have thrown away all shame just to enter the Reincarnation Swamp.

In Seeing Qu Yi's view, Ding Huan was about the same age as her; even if he had some opportunities, his cultivation was at most in the God-Nurturing Realm or the Heavenly God Realm.

"I've investigated for several decades, and based on my own guesses and some evidence, I've already determined where that space is."

"Where?" Seeing Qu Yi asked impatiently.

"It's the transmission building at the edge of Dao Ruins Street's plaza. That transmission building is fake. As soon as Ding Huan enters the Dao Ruins Plaza from Dao Ruins, the killing-restricting grand array of Dao Ruins Plaza will activate.

Besides the killing-restricting grand array, the Heaven and Earth Net grand array, and various forbidden-sky divine arrays…

Ding Huan's only path is to immediately activate an escape talisman or use a forbidden art to flee. No matter how Ding Huan escapes, he will end up in that space.

So the only thing I can do is, the instant Ding Huan comes out, tell him to hurry back into Dao Ruins—otherwise it's a dead end."

Luo Huan'er's tone was very firm.

She understood what the consequences would be after she warned Ding Huan.

"How did you find out?" Seeing Qu Yi stared at Luo Huan'er in astonishment—how could the Dao Ruins Merchant Tower have leaked such a thing?

"Because I obtained a innate divine ability, and this divine ability requires reshaping my physical body to cultivate. It's the Downwind Divine Ear.

My cultivation is too low, and the level of my Downwind Divine Ear isn't high either, but the Dao Ruins Merchant Guild has a Rest Tower only a few zhang from where I live. I happened to overhear it once while cultivating my Divine Ear."

Hearing Luo Huan'er's words, Seeing Qu Yi was somewhat stunned.

Are there really Clairvoyance and Clairaudience?

Indeed, everyone has their own secrets. She, Seeing Qu Yi, had the scroll, and Luo Huan'er likewise had an innate divine ability.

Luo Huan'er then sighed: "It's a pity I can't get close to that space tower of the Dao Ruins Merchant Guild; otherwise, I would definitely burrow through the earth and dig that space open."

Though she said so, in fact Luo Huan'er was equally clear that even if she did get close to that space tower, she still couldn't dig that space open.

Any Dao rhyme fluctuation or Five-Element-attribute magic treasure attack would inevitably be detected by the Dao Ruins Merchant Guild.

Besides, even if it weren't detected, how many years would it take to dig open a space?

Seeing Qu Yi's eyes, however, lit up.

"Senior Sister Huan'er, I have a method."

Luo Huan'er looked at Seeing Qu Yi in confusion.

Seeing Qu Yi took out an Earth-Burrowing Talisman: "This is a seventh-grade Divine Earth-Burrowing Talisman, specialized for earth burrowing. We can burrow directly beneath that transmission space."

"But even so we can't dig open that space, can we?" Luo Huan'er was even more puzzled.

Seeing Qu Yi took out two jade slips: "These are two jade slips. One is a Concealment Jade Slip that can make you blend into your surroundings—even if someone sweeps with divine sense, as long as they aren't looking deliberately, they won't notice.

The other is a Flower-Pinching Finger divine ability. As long as we don't use magic treasures, don't circulate Dao techniques, and there's no Dao rhyme fluctuation around us, digging open that space won't be detected.

As long as that space hasn't reached the level of a Five-Element World, we have a chance to dig it open."

Digging open a space from the outside is basically not very possible.

The reason Seeing Qu Yi dared to say they could dig open this space was precisely because this space wasn't sealed. That transmission building was the flaw in the space.

If it were sealed, it couldn't be used to trap Ding Huan.

An unsealed, open space—as long as it doesn't reach the level of a Five-Element space—she and Luo Huan'er together have a chance to dig it open.

(End of this chapter)