Chapter 226: Is Li Yu

The excitement in Li Yu's eyes quickly faded, as if it had only been a momentary whim.

He continued to study the "Blessing" divine ability; after all, it was the only key to opening the door to his explosive combat power, so he could not be careless.

The more he studied, the more delighted he became.

At the same time, a very clear look of relief gradually appeared on his face.

"Fortunately, I did not yield to the difficulty and chose the top-tier advancement."

"If I had also used things like Black Tai Sui or merman flesh to advance to 【Longevity Daoist】, let alone the grand plan of becoming an army of one, it would be a question of whether I could even raise my combat power at all."

The reason Li Yu sighed with such emotion was that he had already figured out the characteristics of the Blessing divine ability.

To a certain extent, this Blessing divine ability was a great benefit specifically prepared for Longevity practitioners who achieved top-tier advancement.

"Ordinary Longevity Daoists can spend ten or several decades blessing a single divine ability to achieve the goal of increasing combat power... but this is of too little use to me. This growth speed simply cannot keep up with the Chosen Ones who have the help of the Demon Star Order, the Samsara Heavenly Net, and the backing of their respective True Gods; I would be beaten to a pulp."

"But it is different if it is a top-tier advancement. You can keep adding points; even if you have exhausted your usable lifespan for the day, you can still cooperate with the 【Ingestion】 technique to swallow any medicine or elixir that increases lifespan, and after replenishing the deficit, continue to add points."

"Doing this can compress a divine ability that would originally take several years to bless into just a few months, or even shorter."

"Of course, there is a price, which is that the erosion of medicinal poison will accelerate. If one cannot complete the 【Detoxification Ritual】 in time, this can also be considered a path to death."

"As for why ordinary Longevity Daoists cannot do this?"

"The reason is simple: it is equivalent to a large pool and a small pool; the gap in their capacity limits is too great."

"It is hard to imagine how many violently upgraded divine abilities a Longevity Daoist like Senior 【Lu Sheng】 would possess after living for several decades, and whether he could kill a Sequence 4 across ranks."

Regarding the final question, Li Yu was certain he could.

When Lu Sheng was still at Sequence 5, he must have been able to fight Sequence 4.

After all, after this person advanced to the Sequence 4 【Bait-Feeding True Monarch】, he directly led a group of people to trap the Sequence 2 Immortal Qin Qin Zhizhu.

And he did it perfectly.

"Hmm?"

"Come to think of it, my Truth Bubbles have now reached the nineteenth one being perfected."

"How can it still not break through the mystery within the body of that 【Corpse of the Penglai Female Immortal】?"

Abruptly, Li Yu dug out a piece of information from a corner of his memory that had almost been forgotten.

His gaze also turned to the fifth bubble solidified on his eye membrane, inside which there was still a question mark representing an "unsolved mystery."

Li Yu had entered the first strange domain and touched the corpse of the suspected fellow sect member, the Penglai Female Immortal, obtaining a secret.

Because of the authority and status, it could not be cracked and remained sealed within that bubble.

Forgotten for many days!

Now that Li Yu remembered it, he found it still could not be broken.

But having experienced and seen more now, after a little thought, he immediately had more speculations:

"That Penglai Female Immortal must be my fellow sect member. The terrifying strength of her corpse is even more frightening than my top-tier advanced Longevity Daoist body; at the very least, she was a Bait-Feeding True Monarch, or an even higher sequence."

"The mystery within her body should not be a secret medicine formula."

"Although I do not yet know the secret medicine formula of a Bait-Feeding True Monarch, it should not be enough to stop the prying of my nineteenth Truth Bubble."

"As for whether it is the secret medicine formula for the Sequence 3 of the Spirit Venerable path?"

At this thought, Li Yu shook his head, denying it based on his intuition.

Although he was incredibly curious, the clues had not increased much, and guessing further would yield no results.

Li Yu's high inspiration, along with his current sequence as a Longevity Daoist, only brought a vague premonition: "The secret is highly unlikely to be a secret medicine formula, but it is definitely related to the entire Spirit Venerable path and the Spirit Venerable sect."

After this premonition settled, Li Yu temporarily stopped paying attention to it.

The secret remained sealed within the bubble; sooner or later, he would forcibly break it.

The Truth Soul Body was just that overbearing.

This arrogant thought had just arisen when, the next moment, it was doused with a bucket of cold water because Li Yu's thoughts suddenly touched upon a danger he had overlooked.

Li Yu had originally been thinking about how to collect "lifespan-increasing items" to add points, and incidentally wondering if his current body and spirituality could help Hong Dou replenish her spirit more quickly, allowing her to restore the divine power of the "Heavenly Craft Seed" sooner.

With this train of thought, alarm bells rang in his heart.

"The reason Hong Dou bypassed my orders and showed signs of mechanical servant loss of control to use the 【Spirit Replenishment Great Method】 was to keep up with my pace and enter the strange domain together."

"She wanted to obtain a Demon Star Order or a Samsara Order."

"And two days later, it just so happens that the two major festivals, the Demon Star Descent and the Samsara Day, will restart simultaneously."

"At that time, the entire Mancheng will once again see the grand scene of 'gathering of the gods,' and this place will be watched by who knows how many evil gods."

"Naturally, that includes... the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes!"

"I'm dead, I'm dead; my scam might be exposed."

"How should I deal with the victim being the 【Lord of Ten Thousand Changes】?"

Li Yu's expression immediately turned from joy to sorrow, full of conflict. Since his closed-door cultivation had just ended, he opened the door and let Hong Dou lead the two little things in.

Hong Dou, who had originally seen Li Yu transformed into a longevity species with extremely abundant spirituality and was about to pounce over to replenish her spirit, immediately issued a warning after hearing the threat mentioned by her master.

"Beep beep beep!"

"According to the information provided by the master, during the 【Demon Star Descent】 festival two days later, the probability of the master being discovered by the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes will reach one hundred percent."

"According to the database, the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes is an extremely powerful and difficult evil god. Its status is high, ranking at the forefront among the many evil gods; even the six great righteous gods are often schemed against by it."

"If the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes discovers and targets the master, the master will find it very difficult to have the power to resist."

"Starting to deduce a solution..."

"Beginning to deduce a solution..."

Clearly, the result deduced by Hong Dou was also very dire.

Although Li Yu had long anticipated that his deception of the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes would sooner or later be exposed.

At that time, the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes would likely be very happy, and might even give Li Yu a generous reward from afar, because the divinity of this evil god was just like that.

Being able to deceive It was equivalent to pleasing It.

But this was not a good thing; it meant that the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes would treat Li Yu as a "new toy," cast more eyes upon him, and play games of strategy with him, the content of which would naturally be various conspiracies and calculations.

Then Li Yu would only have two endings:

But this is by no means a good thing; it means the Master of Myriad Changes will treat Li Yu as a "new toy," casting more attention his way to gamble and play with him, the content of which will naturally be all manner of schemes and calculations.

Second, admitting defeat and defecting to the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes, becoming a genuine Chosen One of Ten Thousand Changes.

Li Yu, who was currently in a state of freedom, was unwilling to accept either of these.

Master and servant both racked their brains to think of a way.

It was fun to scheme against a True God in the past, but now that it was time to pay the debt, his scalp could not help but go numb.

Even though he had just advanced to the Sequence 5 "Longevity Daoist," it could not bring him the slightest bit of security.

This was normal; a body of immortality was heaven-defying in the mortal world.

In the cultivation world, it was also a perverted level of ability.

But against a "powerful evil god," it was useless.

A single scheme from the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes might make Li Yu regret having an immortal body; for example, by setting a trap to get Li Yu stuck in some terrible place, such as a deep-sea eye, the boundless void, or the bottom of an abyss, then immortality would become the most terrible curse.

Soon, Hong Dou began to deduce a plan with the highest success rate amidst constant self-negation:

"Entering the strange domain... Demon Star Order recasting period, conditions not met."

"Fleeing Mancheng... conditions not met, unable to flee."

"Entering a state of feigned death... according to past cases in the database, the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes is suspected of possessing some unknown divinity; deliberate avoidance methods, including but not limited to feigned death, would instead accidentally fall into the hands of the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes, cannot be adopted."

"Requesting protection from the 【City Lord's Mansion】... the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes is suspected to have a cooperative relationship with this organization; there is an eighty percent probability that they will hand the master over, cannot be adopted."

"Requesting protection from gods such as the Toad God or the Lord of the Furnace who have causal entanglements with the master... the probability of successfully avoiding is fifty percent, and the probability of accelerating discovery is fifty percent."

"Requesting protection from the City Lord's Mansion... The Master of Myriad Changes is suspected to have a cooperative relationship with that organization; there is an eighty percent probability they will hand the master over, so this cannot be adopted."

"Requesting protection from deities such as the Toad God or the Master of the Furnace who have karmic entanglements with the master... The probability of successfully hiding is fifty percent, and the probability of accelerating discovery is fifty percent."

"Temporarily enabling 【Xu Kequan Module】... entering the Heavenly Craft intranet... starting to query and deduce."

"Because the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes is suspected of possessing divinities such as 【Omniscience】 and 【Secret Prying】, to avoid Its gaze, one must seek a place where Its gaze cannot reach and Its avatars are unwilling to involve themselves... according to the database, the core areas of the three forbidden lands of Mancheng, which are also the places the City Lord's Mansion wants to open up, cannot be peered into by the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes for the time being."

"The Lord of Ten Thousand Changes has attempted this many times, such as casting different Ten Thousand Changes kin into the cores of the three forbidden lands... multiple evil gods have made the same attempts, but as of now, none have succeeded."

"The three core areas seem to have some kind of terrifying restriction on 【True God】 level beings, and also pose a terrible threat to high-sequence life forms; those who enter will either die suddenly or go missing, but it does not restrict the entry of beings below Sequence 3..."

"According to the Heavenly Craft database cases, life forms below Sequence 3 and above Sequence 5 have a survival probability of up to sixty-three percent in the cores of the three forbidden lands; the common point is that they only conducted exploration and did not touch upon certain taboos... the following are relevant exploration cases..."

As Hong Dou spat out each mechanical sentence, the conflict on Li Yu's face gradually turned into surprise.

He hadn't thought of a way yet, but Hong Dou had provided so much key information and even included a plan with a very high success rate.

Of course, what truly made him happy was the "value" his mechanical maid was showing at this moment.

At the same time, there was also a look of tension in Li Yu's eyes.

He did not interrupt Hong Dou; she was enabling her extraordinary permissions as a "Heavenly Craft Seed" to hack into the intranet and query secret information.

Every mechanical sound she spat out next made the Truth Bubbles on Li Yu's eye membrane flicker.

She did not speak to interrupt Hongdou, who was currently activating her extraordinary permissions as a "Seed of Heavenly Craft" to hack into the internal network and query secret data.

It was all secret lore.

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They are all secret histories.

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