Chapter 369: Major Secret News

"Master!"

Hua Tianxiong was frantically fleeing for his life, and upon seeing Qin Ming's arrival, he was instantly filled with both shock and joy.

Without saying a word, Qin Ming pulled him directly into the Small Xiao Lingjing to hide.

After a short while.

The space surrounding the mountain range rippled like water waves, spiritual energy began to churn wildly, and a golden beam of escape light arrived in an instant.

As the escape light dispersed, the figure of Yun Yangzi, the Third Elder of the Divine Dao Mountain, appeared.

Clad in a golden long robe, he stood suspended in mid-air with sharp eyes; he then released his late-stage Jin Dan divine sense to probe for a long time, yet found nothing at all.

The expression on Yun Yangzi's face suddenly changed! "Strange, how could a person vanish into thin air just like that?"

"Something isn't right!"

Just moments ago, Yun Yangzi had been leisurely pursuing Hua Tianxiong of the Thousand Mechanisms Merchant Guild, intending to find a secluded spot to eliminate him without anyone knowing.

Otherwise, given the vast chasm in cultivation between the two, relying solely on Hua Tianxiong's barely early-stage Jin Dan cultivation, even with a top-grade flying vehicle like the Golden Luan Palanquin, he would absolutely never escape Yun Yangzi's grasp.

Therefore, Yun Yangzi hadn't taken it too seriously originally.

But who could have known that upon arriving here, Hua Tianxiong seemed to have evaporated from the earth, leaving no trace whatsoever; furthermore, Yun Yangzi employed several tracking methods in succession, yet all returned fruitless.

It must be known that he had long ago planted a tracking secret technique on Hua Tianxiong's body.

Just as Yun Yangzi was filled with shock and suspicion, another purple beam of escape light flashed and arrived from the distance.

"Third Elder, why have you suddenly stopped?"

"Where is Hua Tianxiong?"

The newcomer was none other than Wen Yuliang, a Nascent Soul seed of the Divine Dao Mountain.

Seeing Yun Yangzi standing motionless in a daze, he couldn't help but frown and ask.

"This old man doesn't know either! When I tracked him to this place, the other party actually vanished into thin air."

"By my intuition, Hua Tianxiong must have used an extremely sophisticated method to hide."

"With his cultivation, he absolutely could not have fled too far."

"Oh? Could there really be such a matter?" Upon hearing this, Wen Yuliang was also greatly surprised.

"Then let me give it a try."

As his words fell.

A Bai Yu mirror magical treasure materialized in Wen Yuliang's hand, after which he formed hand seals to activate the treasure.

The Bai Yu mirror flew into the air, instantly expanding to a size of one zhang, emitting a burst of green light from within to illuminate the area within a ten-li radius nearby.

Yet half an incense stick later, although Wen Yuliang had driven the precious mirror to illuminate almost every corner, he still discovered absolutely nothing unusual.

At this point, even Wen Yuliang's complexion turned extremely ugly.

"Impossible! There are no signs of hiding anywhere nearby?"

"Let alone any spatial magical treasures capable of sheltering a person; could it be that Hua Tianxiong truly escaped?"

Yun Yangzi said, "Even Junior Brother Wen's Illusion Heaven Mirror cannot detect the slightest clue; it seems this Hua Tianxiong actually has some tricks up his sleeve."

Wen Yuliang's face was gloomy and sinister, his gaze drifting uncertainly as he pondered something unknown.

Yun Yangzi's words were correct; escaping from under the noses of two Jin Dan elders of the Divine Dao Mountain was indeed a considerable feat.

Even an ordinary late-stage Jin Dan cultivator could not accomplish this.

"Then what should we do?"

"I didn't expect that fellow Zou Pinghai to have eaten bear hearts and leopard gall, daring to privately scheme for that Seven Wonders Treasure Tree and enter the secret realm to fish for treasures."

"This is something even I would not dare to imagine; he, merely a pawn planted within the Ten Thousand Dao Merchant Guild, actually dares to plot rebellion... truly deserving of death!"

"Hua Tianxiong got mixed up with him; who knows how much inside information he has learned; if we don't eliminate this future trouble and news leaks out..."

"The matter is of great importance!"

"If the Grand Elder blames us, he will certainly not spare us," Wen Yuliang spoke.

Inside the Small Xiao Lingjing, Qin Ming and the other person secretly observed the conversation between the two outside, feeling extremely astonished.

Qin Ming turned his head and asked Hua Tianxiong:

"Do you know what matter they are speaking of?"

"And what exactly are this 'Seven Wonders Treasure Tree' and the secret realm?"

Hua Tianxiong shook his head in blank confusion and said with a bitter smile:

"Master, I do not know about this matter either."

"Although I have indirectly probed Zou Pinghai several times in the past, his lips were extremely tight; he stubbornly refused to reveal even a single word to me."

"If not for finally encountering the ambush by the Divine Dao Mountain, I wouldn't have known that the cargo being transported was actually third-grade Rot Spirit Grass sourced from the Zou family."

"Master... do you think it could be related to the 'Seven Wonders Treasure Tree' those two mentioned outside?"

"And it seems to have a tremendous connection with the half fourth-grade spiritual vein occupied by the Divine Dao Mountain."

As the guild master of the Thousand Mechanisms Merchant Guild and a shrewd man who had lived for several hundred years, once Hua Tianxiong connected the preceding and subsequent events, he quickly vaguely guessed something.

His thoughts coincided exactly with Qin Ming's.

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming nodded, then recalled how Zou Pinghai had recently racked his brains to dig out Li Lan specifically for farming; it seemed the Zou family was secretly cultivating large quantities of third-grade Rot Spirit Grass.

What surprised him even more was that this Zou Pinghai was actually a spy planted by the Divine Dao Mountain within the Ten Thousand Dao Merchant Guild, and had even climbed to a high position within the Elder Council—this was truly terrifying upon careful thought.

However, Zou Pinghai had evidently mastered some major secret and, when attempting to swallow it alone, was discovered by people from the Divine Dao Mountain and immediately silenced and purged; coincidentally, Hua Tianxiong got dragged into this trouble, and if not for Qin Ming stepping in to save him, he would have long since died without a whole corpse under the joint attack of the two elders from the Divine Dao Mountain today.

The Divine Dao Mountain and the Li Li Huogong were as incompatible as water and fire.

Even with Elder Qian of the Li Li Huogong as a backer, Hua Tianxiong could not bluff these two; one way or another, he would inevitably face death.

However, regarding the 'Seven Wonders Treasure Tree' mentioned by the two from the Divine Dao Mountain, even Qin Ming, a third-grade top-tier Spirit Plant Grandmaster who possessed a third-grade spirit plant inheritance, had no impression of it whatsoever.

"Could it be that this 'Seven Wonders Treasure Tree' is some kind of fourth-grade spirit plant?"

"Hua Tianxiong, you have stayed in Great Jin for a long time; have you ever heard of this tree?" Qin Ming's thoughts immediately became active.

Hua Tianxiong replied with slight embarrassment: "Reporting to Master, my knowledge regarding spiritual plants is shallow, and I have never heard of such a spiritual plant."

Qin Ming did not expect to obtain any useful information from him, and subsequently shifted his gaze toward the two people outside.

His eyes flickered incessantly, and inadvertently, a trace of cold light flowed from within his pupils.

"Then perhaps it would be better to slaughter these two, then search their souls; perhaps by then there will be unexpected gains."

Hua Tianxiong, standing nearby, heard this terrifying idea from Qin Ming that shocked heaven and earth, and was truly frightened severely.

Those were two Jin Dan elders from the Nascent Soul sect, Divine Dao Mountain!

One was Yunyangzi, a Jin Dan late-stage cultivator of long-standing fame, and the other was Wen Yuliang, a Nascent Soul seed at the peak of Jin Dan perfection.

Not to mention Yunyangzi, Wen Yuliang, with his astonishing talent, reached Jin Dan perfection at merely over three hundred years of age, and the divine abilities and magical treasures in his hands crushed cultivators of the same realm.

With such a lineup, his Master's first reaction was actually to consider attacking such cultivators to search their souls and refine their spirits?

"Cough! Um... Master, shouldn't you reconsider? After all, the other party consists of important figures from Divine Dao Mountain."

"If even a slight carelessness occurs, it will bring about a catastrophic disaster!"

Hua Tianxiong spoke to advise him; he feared that if Qin Ming died, he too would perish along with him, his Dao extinguished.

Primarily, he was controlled by the black talisman in his mind; if this Master, Qin Ming, died, he certainly could not survive.

"Hehe! What? Are you afraid?"

"When the time comes, it is you, Hua Tianxiong, who will kill them; no one knows me, so what is there to fear? Hehehe!"

Qin Ming let out an evil and bizarre laugh, activated the True Demon Illusion, and instantly transformed into Hua Tianxiong's appearance.

(End of Chapter)