Chapter 599

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Protagonist:

Yu Zhangsheng

Hu Ruhai still had some doubts about this. "If you don't say it, how would we know if your method is true or false?"

"This is a matter of life and death. If you don't say it, I see no need to speak further either, and I won't do as you say."

Yu Zhangsheng smiled faintly; that was precisely his meaning.

He did not want to be led by the nose by this Wang Mie; if he were used and sent to his death, would that not make him a laughingstock?

"You all!"

Wang Mie nodded. "Very well. For the sake of dealing with Lin Tianhao, I can tell you. But you must keep it secret; it must not leak out."

Hu Ruhai laughed. "Rest assured. If your method is real, we absolutely will not speak of it outside; we can even swear on the Dao."

Wang Mie gritted his teeth. "Good! The name of this secret art is the Dragon-Trapping Lock. Once deployed, it can continuously drain the magical power of the trapped person."

Yu Zhangsheng said: "Such potency — there must be many restrictions, I presume?"

"Naturally. To deploy the Dragon-Trapping Lock, one first needs four people of similar cultivation bases to cast it together. Each person must learn a type of incantation and strike simultaneously, without any delay."

"That is not even the most difficult part. The hardest part is that someone must hold down the trapped person during the deployment of the Dragon-Trapping Lock."

"Because the Dragon-Trapping Lock is extremely fragile while forming; the slightest disturbance forces it to re-condense, ruining all prior effort."

Hu Ruhai questioned: "What kind of joke is this? How long does your Dragon-Trapping Lock take to condense? During that period, one must fight Lin Tianhao — how many people could possibly do that?"

"Moreover, one cannot suffer the slightest disturbance, yet must restrain an existence of Lin Tianhao's strength — isn't that a farce?"

"If there truly were someone with the strength to restrain Lin Tianhao, why would they need your damn Dragon-Trapping Lock?"

Hu Ruhai directly disparaged Wang Mie's method as utterly worthless.

The restrictions of this Dragon-Trapping Lock were simply too harsh; it was fundamentally impossible to achieve.

Wang Mie was also quite helpless. If this Dragon-Trapping Lock were truly that powerful, his Wang Family would have long since taken Hai Shou Tian Dao for themselves.

"But this is the only method we have to target Lin Tianhao. If you have a better method, feel free to speak up."

Hu Ruhai fell silent as well; he naturally could not have a more reliable method than this.

But having him execute this method wasn't impossible either; in any case, the person going to restrain Lin Tianhao definitely could not be him.

Yu Zhangsheng said: "Let's set this aside for now. Didn't you say controlling the Dragon-Trapping Lock requires at least four people? Plus at least one or two to restrain Lin Tianhao."

"That means we still need more manpower. Before we gather enough people, there's no need to dwell on this."

"True. Then let's continue finding others to cooperate, and discuss this later."

Wang Mie agreed and stopped mentioning it.

Yu Zhangsheng exchanged information with the Xuan Gui once more, then continued forward in one of the directions.

With the Xuan Gui's guidance, the team soon encountered newcomers.

This time they again ran into several people from the Da Sheng Clan; through Hu Ruhai's communication, they also temporarily joined the team.

Afterward, Yu Zhangsheng continued advancing toward the Core Zone, recruiting people along the way.

By the time Yu Zhangsheng and the others were very close to the Core Zone, the team had already reached ten people.

"Ahead lies the core of this Twelfth Layer. If we truly intend to enter, shouldn't we discuss the matter of the Dragon-Trapping Lock?"

Hu Ruhai suddenly spoke up in the crowd.

Among these ten, five were from the Da Sheng Clan, including two of Hu Ruhai's subordinates; the other three were subordinates of Qi Liu San and others.

Another two: one Yu Zhangsheng knew to be a member of Leng Xu's team; the other was Wang Xi, a member of Wang Mie's team.

Earlier, when recruiting these people, they had almost all been told the purpose: to deal with Lin Tianhao.

However, the matter of the Dragon-Trapping Lock was only brought up now.

Wang Mie said: "As of now, we have a full ten people — controlling the Dragon-Trapping Lock is more than sufficient. And we still have ample manpower to restrain Lin Tianhao."

"Our chances are very high this time! As long as we eliminate Lin Tianhao, we remove the greatest trouble!"

The others naturally had no objections; the only issue remained the same: who would restrain Lin Tianhao.

After all, this was the most dangerous task, and the more people the better.

"My strength is meager; I am unsuited to restrain Lin Tianhao. I can go control the Dragon-Trapping Lock."

"You think too highly of yourself. No one here wants to do the dirty work. Might as well all refuse and just disband."

"Then what do you propose? Is no one supposed to go?"

"If all else fails, we can only draw lots."

"What joke is this? Drawing lots for something like this?"

Everyone fell silent for a moment, unable to come up with any other idea.

Wang Mie also said: "It seems drawing lots is the only way."

"Select four people to control the Dragon-Trapping Lock; the rest will be responsible for restraining Lin Tianhao's movements. How about that?"

The crowd looked at each other, and in the end everyone nodded.

"Good!"

Wang Mie clapped his hands, picked up a few stones from the ground, flipped his palm, and under the surge of magical power, those stone fragments instantly turned into smooth, uniformly sized small spheres.

"Among these ten spheres, four are hollow; the rest are all solid."

"To avoid suspicion of cheating, I will choose last. You choose first."

"The four who pick the hollow ones will be responsible for controlling the Dragon-Trapping Lock; the rest will be responsible for pinning down Lin Tianhao."

Wang Xi immediately stepped forward and exchanged a glance with Wang Mie.

His hand also hovered among those ten small spheres.

But the prompt Wang Xi had been waiting for did not appear.

"Sigh, are you choosing or not? If you won't choose, I'll choose."

Seeing this, Wang Xi could only close his eyes and pick one, then pinch it open in his palm.

The result was a solid stone sphere.

"Sigh, damn it."

Wang Xi walked to the side, dejected.

Another person from the Da Sheng Clan laughed loudly, "If you don't have that luck, don't try to show off. Watch me."

That person came to a spot not far from Wang Mie, observed carefully for a long time, and selected one from among them.

Then he opened the stone sphere in his hand, but just as he looked at it with full confidence and smugness, it was also a solid one.

"Damn, how is my luck this bad? I didn't even hit a fifty percent probability!"

That person directly threw the stone sphere in his hand onto the ground and crushed it into powder.

Wang Mie smiled and said: "Alright, now solid and hollow are half and half; the chance has increased greatly."

Hu Ruhai said: "My turn!"

Without any hesitation, Hu Ruhai directly picked one, "Hahaha, I got it!"

Quite a few people, seeing Hu Ruhai actually got a solid one, immediately went over to pick up stone spheres.

Another five stone spheres were taken; surprisingly, two were hollow, three were solid.

Wang Mie looked at the three stone spheres left in his hand and said: "Yu Zhangsheng, among the three stone spheres only one solid remains; are you still not making a move?"

Yu Zhangsheng smiled; a one-in-three chance wasn't too bad.

So he also slowly walked over to the stone spheres.

Wang Mie urged: "Don't dawdle; choose."

Yu Zhangsheng nodded, and as he stepped forward, his foot suddenly stomped hard, shaking the ground. One stone sphere flew up directly, while the other two remained steady as a mountain.

Yu Zhangsheng reached out and grabbed at the void; the flying stone sphere was immediately sucked into his hand.

Then Nie Kai took a look, and sure enough it was a hollow stone sphere.

"Hehe, looks like my luck isn't bad either."

Wang Mie shouted angrily: "You're cheating!"

Yu Zhangsheng smiled and said: "How can this count as cheating?"

Another person was also dumbfounded; he had thought letting Yu Zhangsheng choose first, if Yu Zhangsheng's was still hollow, his own probability of getting a hollow would increase greatly.

Who knew Yu Zhangsheng would actually use this kind of method to get a hollow one.

Hu Ruhai laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Brother Yu Xiong really has quite the method! Truly admirable."

"Alright, now the four people controlling the Dragon-Trapping Lock have been decided; you can't go back on it."

"The remaining six people must be responsible for stalling Lin Tianhao."

Wang Mie stomped the remaining two stone spheres on the ground into pieces; he hadn't expected that this time he would actually fall into Yu Zhangsheng's hands like this.

"Hmph! This Dragon-Trapping Lock isn't that easy to control either; if something goes wrong, we others will deal with you four first."

Hu Ruhai laughed loudly: "Rest assured, this kind of thing we absolutely won't mess up."

"Quickly tell us the specific method to deploy the Dragon-Trapping Lock."

Wang Mie said: "This method I will only tell you four; the rest of you step aside. After you hear it, you must still swear a Dao Trial; once spoken, you can never attain the Dao for eternity."

After the others scattered.

Wang Mie's palm struck out a spell seal, and several talismans appeared in his palm.

"The deployment method of the Dragon-Trapping Lock is inside; just read it with Divine Sense."

"Besides this, you also need to refine an auxiliary Magic Treasure. I don't have this thing on me; you four will have to figure it out yourselves."

"We still have to provide our own materials to refine a Magic Treasure?"

Hu Ruhai immediately became dissatisfied.

Wang Mie said: "If you don't want to provide the materials, fine. I'll provide them, but your spot goes to me."

"You've taken such a big advantage, yet won't even put up this bit of material?"

Hu Ruhai smiled and said: "There, I'm just afraid I might not be able to produce these materials, that's all."

"Alright, the specific materials are all inside; you can examine them yourselves."

Yu Zhangsheng picked up one of the talismans and examined it with Divine Sense.

The deployment method of the Dragon-Trapping Lock was also very simple: borrow that Magic Treasure and cooperate with the other three to form a spirit net.

Once this spirit net forms, it will frantically absorb the magical power of the person trapped inside.

It won't take long before the person inside has their magical power sucked dry.

At that time, no matter what your magical power cultivation base is, you're done for.

However, although the Dragon-Trapping Lock is extraordinarily powerful after forming, before it fully takes shape it has no defensive measures whatsoever; the slightest attack will cause it to collapse, wasting all previous effort.

As for the refining of the Dragon-Trapping Lock's auxiliary Magic Treasure, it's not particularly difficult either.

It's just that some materials are comparatively hard to obtain.

Hu Ruhai frowned after looking for a while.

"Among these materials, there are a few I don't have; do you have any extras?"

Yu Zhangsheng looked; most of these materials he still had in his town.

It was simply that previously he had robbed those pirates and obtained too many materials.

Lots of miscellaneous materials he hadn't used and just stored away; he hadn't expected they would actually come in handy at a time like this.

"I can provide a bit more of these materials. However, I also lack one or two of them, so you'll need to figure something out."

Yu Zhangsheng wasn't stingy either; as long as he had the materials, he could provide a bit more.

In the end, the four of them gathered ninety percent of the materials, but the remaining ones, none of the four had on them.

They could only pin their hopes on the others.

After roughly explaining the situation, Wang Mie also went to seek these materials from the others.

The ten people pooled their resources and finally managed to gather all the materials.

However, before handing over the materials, one of them spoke up: "These materials, surely you can't expect us to provide them for nothing?"

Hu Ruhai frowned and said: "What do you mean by this?"

"What do I mean? Could it be you still don't understand? You four want these materials, fine, but you need to pay a price."

"These materials weren't ours to provide in the first place."

"Right, that's what we all mean."

Hu Ruhai said discontentedly: "We merely asked you to provide some materials we lack, and you actually act like this, isn't that a bit Yi Ju excessive?"

"We're dealing with that Lin Tianhao, and it's not just for my sake alone!"

"If we don't eliminate him, the treasures within this Yong Ta, none of us will get any! They'll all be monopolized by that Lin Tianhao alone!"

Wang Mie said: "You should also Wait Patiently, we're not making exorbitant demands."

"For each material, you just need to exchange it for one kind of material of the same grade from your side, right?"

Hu Ruhai Cold Hum'd: "So you're saying you're all unwilling to provide these materials?"

"Fine, Since So, I say nobody provides them, let's just drop it!"

"With just the six of you, I'd like to see how you deal with Lin Tianhao."

Wang Mie and the others exchanged a glance, Mouth Gritting Teeth said: "At Least you must provide seventy percent of the materials for the exchange!"

Yu Zhangsheng spoke up: "Fifty percent!"

Those people exchanged opinions again, and only then agreed to the terms.

In the end, Yu Zhangsheng and the others pooled another share of materials, and only then got those materials over.

With the materials, the subsequent matters became much simpler.

Everyone was a Sub-Talisman True Lord; although high-grade Magic Treasures couldn't be refined.

Some simple Magic Treasures could still be refined at any time.

The four each used a share of materials to refine an auxiliary Magic Treasure for the Dragon-Trapping Lock.

This was a rope-like Magic Treasure, Almost All over two meters long.

One only needed to, when activating the Dragon-Trapping Lock, borrow this rope Magic Treasure to Connect with the other four people respectively, and it could serve an auxiliary function.

Wang Mie said: "Good, now you four first use the mnemonics to try out the Dragon-Trapping Lock, so as to avoid mishaps when the time comes!"

Yu Zhangsheng Deng Ren naturally had to Experiment a bit, otherwise if a mishap occurred then, No Way would anyone be able to Bu Ji it.

The four respectively arrived at four different directions.

And in the Central position, Wang Mie personally stood in for Lin Tianhao.

"Be Careful when you make your move." Wang Mie reminded.

"Hehe, so you know fear now!"

Hu Ruhai smiled broadly as he Looked At Wang Mie in the center, Simultaneously tossing the rope Magic Treasure in his hand toward another person. (Chapter End)