Chapter 293

293. Chapter 293: Long Xuan's Sinister Scheme

Di Xin walked over and looked toward the direction of the explosion: "No need to be shocked. Both of them are young masters of large merchant associations. Before entering the Heavenly Island ruins, they definitely had to make sufficient preparations. How could they not make intelligence work beforehand?"

"Relying on the powerful intelligence collection capabilities of the merchant associations, it is very easy for them to know the method to deal with puppet generals."

"They clearly came prepared. That Nine Prince used the Zhu Xian Thunder that can easily blow a Spirit Sea peak to death, and he used three of them at once. How could that puppet general not die?"

"It's just that the manufacturing method of the Zhu Xian Thunder has long been lost, and there aren't many Zhu Xian Thunders left in the world. And because of their rarity, every Zhu Xian Thunder is priceless."

"He threw three of them in one breath, simply throwing away a gold mountain. Whether he can break even with his harvest in the Heavenly Island ruins is still unknown."

"The other puppet general was forcibly transferred to a very far place by Luo Hongchen using the Luo Clan's unique Gu worm, the Transfer Gu."

"Whether that puppet general is dead or not, I don't know, but it definitely won't be able to come back in a short time, so this battlefield ended extremely quickly."

"It's just that although that Transfer Gu transferred the puppet general away, it definitely also had a hard time escaping death in the hands of the puppet general."

"Cai Shao clearly also paid a massive amount of wealth to trade with Luo Hongchen, so that Luo Hongchen was willing to pay the price of a Transfer Gu."

"So the reason why these two puppet generals could be solved so quickly is entirely because they took a shortcut."

"Don't look at how the three puppet generals on the east city wall were all solved instantly, but the puppet generals on the other three city walls were not so easy to solve."

"The other three city walls will definitely make the Gu cultivators there suffer heavy casualties."

"Let's go down too. There are treasures in every house in the city, and there are puppets guarding them. Whoever can snatch more treasures depends on whose hands are faster!"

Di Xin smiled, jumped off the city wall quickly, and ran toward a certain house with a clear goal.

The others at this time also had red eyes, jumping off the city wall one after another, each choosing a house that looked pleasing to the eye, and then excitedly rushed toward that house.

Long Xuan at this time looked toward a certain house in the city. This house was close to the center of the city and was precisely the house where the Golden Toad was hidden as recorded in the letter. It was also the goal of his trip to the Heavenly Island, which made him furrow his brows deeply.

However, that Nine Prince was also leading a large number of people to kill their way toward the direction of that house. Clearly, his goal was also that Golden Toad, which made Long Xuan furrow his brows deeply.

Not to mention whether he could be faster than him, even if he ran into that house one step ahead, he would be seen by that Nine Prince. He absolutely couldn't give up that Golden Toad, so there would definitely be a battle between them.

Who knew how many Zhu Xian Thunders that Nine Prince had on him? What if he still had a pile of Zhu Xian Thunders on him?

He was truly too wary of this thing, and he simply didn't dare to be sure whether his defense could defend against the bombardment of the Zhu Xian Thunder.

Long Xuan furrowed his brows and pondered for a moment, and soon a plan came to mind.

He used the Face-Changing Gu to change into another person's appearance, and ordered the Flame Clone to run toward the Nine Prince's direction with his own appearance.

After arranging all this, he jumped off the city wall confidently.

Under the city wall, at this time, the Gu cultivators of all sides had already killed until their eyes were red, frantically slaughtering the puppets in the city while rushing into various houses with red eyes, scraping up the treasures in each house.

There were all types of treasures in the houses: pills, spirit tools, cultivation methods, Gu formulas, and even Gu worms, everything one expects to find.

But this was a bit like opening a blind box. Very few people knew what treasures were hidden in each house, and they could only randomly choose a house to break into. Whether they could find good things depended entirely on luck.

Of course, there were patterns. The closer the house was to the center of the city, the higher the value of the treasures inside. The closer the house was to the city wall, the smaller the value of the treasures inside.

The doors of every house were sealed by a barrier, and there were puppets of varying numbers guarding the entrance.

The puppet problem was easy to solve. No matter how difficult they were to deal with, they could always be killed. They couldn't possibly be more difficult to deal with than puppet generals.

But the difficulty lay in the barrier sealing the door. The hardness of these barriers was positively correlated with the value of the treasures in the room.

The more trash the treasures in the house were, the more fragile the barrier at the door was. The more heaven-defying the treasures in the house were, the harder the barrier at the door was.

Many treasures in the rooms were simply too heaven-defying, so the barriers at the doors were already hard to the point that they were not something the power of an Essence Refining stage Gu cultivator could break.

And it just so happened that the people who could enter the Heavenly Island were all Essence Refining stage Gu cultivators. So every time the Heavenly Island ruins closed, there were many rooms where treasures hadn't been taken away, such as the Golden Toad and the Gu God Alms Bowl.

The people who left just didn't know what method to use to figure out what treasures were specifically in those rooms, so they could only return disappointed.

But how could the people who left be willing to give up? They often drew the houses hiding heavy treasures into maps and then handed them to future generations, waiting for the next Heavenly Island ruins to open, trying to let future generations take away the heavy treasures.

So every genius who came here had their own goals, including Candle Moon of the Candle Clan, Shui Juanyun of the Shui Clan, and Qin Kai of the Red Demon Pirate Group. They were all ordered by their respective elders to bring back treasures from certain rooms.

So these geniuses jumped off the city wall and headed straight for certain houses with clear goals.

However, whether they could break the barriers of their respective target houses was entirely an unknown.

The barriers of those houses were not so easy to break. Every time the Heavenly Island ruins appeared, there were massive numbers of houses where treasures hadn't been taken away. No genius could break the barriers of those houses.

The purpose of that immortal in the center of the city placing treasures in various houses in the city was not to give the treasures to those who were destined. He wasn't that generous.

The purpose of his move was entirely to use various heaven-defying heavy treasures to attract outside Gu cultivators to come in.

Those treasures were bait. How could he allow anyone to take those baits away?

He simply didn't have the idea of sending those heaven-defying treasures out.

Including why some people could know what treasures were specifically placed in those houses, it was probably that he deliberately exposed flaws and deliberately told them, with the purpose of attracting more people.

If you want to break the barriers of those houses, you have to cheat.

After Long Xuan ran in front of a house door, he easily solved the two puppets guarding the door, and then smashed the barrier at the door with one punch, rushing inside.

A wooden treasure chest was placed prominently on the table in the room. Long Xuan was too lazy to check what was in the chest, guessing that with such an easily shattered barrier, the things inside were definitely not treasures of astonishing value.

Thus, he didn't even look at it and directly stored the treasure chest into his storage ring.

He gritted his teeth and finally secretly said that if you don't lose the child, you won't catch the wolf. He fought! He pulled a branch of the Soul Nourishing Wood from the World Tree seed, and then reluctantly threw it on the table.

The Soul Nourishing Wood was one of the three great divine woods of the world. Refining the Soul Nourishing Wood into an accessory and carrying it on one's body could stimulate the growth of innate soul power, and it was growth at all times.

With such a heaven-defying divine object, he didn't believe it wouldn't tempt those two.

Long Xuan sneered, quickly threw the Soul Nourishing Wood branch on the table, and then rushed out of the house and ran far away.

In an instant, the aura of the Soul Nourishing Wood overflowed, and the aura exceeding that of Heaven-grade spiritual herbs rushed straight into the sky, attracting the attention of everyone nearby.

"This is... this is a Heaven-grade spiritual herb? No! This is an aura exceeding a Heaven-grade spiritual herb! A divine medicine has appeared!"

The Nine Prince looked toward a certain direction, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately revealed a greedy expression.

He hurriedly changed direction and led people to rush toward the position that released the divine medicine aura.

Regardless of what kind of divine medicine that was, every kind of divine medicine was unique in the world, and each possessed heaven-defying effects. It could be considered one of the treasures with the highest value in the whole world. Meeting such a heaven-defying treasure today, how could he let it go?

In front of this treasure, he immediately gave up the plan to go and search for the Golden Toad first, deciding to get the divine medicine into his hands at all costs first.

At the same time, Cai Shao also looked toward that side, his eyes revealing excitement.

"It's actually the aura of a divine medicine? Even if my Cai Clan is rich enough to rival a nation, I have never seen a divine medicine. I didn't expect that there would be such a divine object in the Heavenly Island ruins!"

"Forget about the things the ancestors want. Let's get the divine medicine into our hands first!"

Cai Shao didn't even think about it. After detecting the aura of the divine medicine, he immediately changed his forward direction and rushed toward the position that released the divine medicine aura.

The group of Cai Clan experts behind him also revealed excited expressions, following closely behind him.

The Cai Clan side and the Qian Clan side, because their strength was strong, were the two factions that rushed the deepest.

And the position Long Xuan chose to place the divine medicine was very clever. This position happened to be right in the middle of these two teams.

That is to say, the distance of both sides to this house was exactly the same. If there were no accidents, both sides would arrive at the same time.

Things finally developed according to the script Long Xuan set. The Cai Clan group and the Qian Clan group arrived in front of this house door almost at the same time.

And the Nine Prince was just a few steps closer than Cai Shao.

As soon as the two sides met, the people on both sides were stunned at the same time.

But the Nine Prince relied on having walked a few steps more than Cai Shao, so he still quickly rushed toward the inside of the door.

Seeing this scene, Cai Shao was instantly angry. He hadn't forgotten the trap the Nine Prince set for him before, which caused him to pay a not-small price to solve that puppet general. Now, new hatred and old hatred were calculated together.

Cai Shao followed closely and rushed into the house.

Enemies are especially jealous when they meet. If it were said that the two needed to prioritize the big picture before attacking the city and were very restrained.

But now that the Divine Mechanism City had been broken, there was no need for both sides to be restrained at all.

These two family enemies might fight when they met accidentally, not to mention that there was a divine medicine placed in front of them at this time.

The value of the divine medicine even exceeded the mission items of both sides. Neither side could make concessions.

Thus, the sounds of the two fighting soon came from the room, and the outside also soon became chaotic.

And Long Xuan, who was not far away, poked his head out from behind a house. After seeing this scene, he finally heaved a sigh of relief.

These two merchant association young masters were both rich and generous masters. Basically, they had everything in their storage rings, and there were very few treasures that could tempt them.

Taking other treasures, Long Xuan couldn't guarantee that these two families would fight over the treasures. Only the most heaven-defying treasures could possibly cause these two families to fight. He also had to grit his teeth and break off a branch of the Soul Nourishing Wood.

Now it seemed his plan had succeeded. The Soul Nourishing Wood really caused the two families to fight and evolved into a big melee.

Long Xuan heaved a sigh of relief. Now the Nine Prince had been completely dragged down by the big battle and couldn't take care of anything else.

He definitely couldn't reach the house where the Golden Toad was hidden in a short time.

Long Xuan didn't watch anymore and quickly sneaked toward the depths of the Divine Mechanism City. This time, there was truly no one left to compete with him for the Golden Toad. (End of chapter)