Chapter 205: Perfection

Although Qinghe Fairy and Emperor Baocheng were collaborators, they had long understood each other's identities.

The cause is simple: Luoye True Lord received an order from the Upper Sect to gather a large amount of human-path red clouds, so he must double the population of the Gen Dao territory to gather more vitality.

The more vitality there is, the more human-path red clouds form.

However, excessively increasing the population is naturally a huge problem for Emperor Baocheng, who governs the state, especially since it costs mortal lifespans.

This is intolerable!

So Emperor Baocheng has been hiding, hiding his final trump card!

Namely, this tablet that can control the evil dragon—the Dragon-Locking Tablet!

Even Qinghe Fairy was duped by Emperor Baocheng, revealing his present demeanor; this shows that although he is a mortal, he possesses his own resolve—otherwise how could he dare to seek profit from cultivators?

As for Emperor Baocheng, he also knows Qinghe Fairy is not his daughter; even if they are related by blood, they are not close. Moreover, her goals and those of Xuan Gen Dao are merely cultivator affairs—what do they have to do with a mortal like me?

All Emperor Baocheng wants is the capital to sit down and have a proper talk!

Otherwise, I would remain merely a mortal for my whole life.

Emperor Baocheng stood on the dragon's head, gazing into the distance.

"Luoye True Lord, won't you come?"

"Sigh."

Hearing that sigh, which seemed distant yet close, Emperor Baocheng and the surviving cultivators of Lingyu all changed expression and bowed, saying, "Welcome Luoye True Lord!"

"Welcome Luoye True Lord!"

"Welcome Luoye True Lord!"

The white-haired, youthful-faced Luoye True Lord stood before Emperor Baocheng, looking at the tablet in his hand, and said with a complex expression:

"When did you meet Zhen Daozhang?"

"Well... do you really want to hear it?" Emperor Baocheng hesitated, then said.

"Forget it, forget it—let's stop here. I'll capture the evil dragon and then discuss things with you in detail." Luoye True Lord's expression also shifted slightly as he glanced at Fengjian Yun before the Renyan Tower.

Fengjian Yun nodded, turned and gave a strange look at the Renyan Tower, then flew to stand before the two.

"Luoye True Lord, and this is Emperor Baocheng."

"Who is this?" Emperor Baocheng looked at Fengjian Yun, obviously not recognizing her.

"This is Fengjian Yun, the eldest miss from the Upper Sect."

From the Upper Sect?!

Emperor Baocheng's expression suddenly changed; he hurriedly smiled and said, "I am but a common mortal, Baocheng; I have had the honor of meeting the eldest miss."

"Hehe, you do have some discernment—what about that bearing just now?"

"Well..."

Emperor Baocheng felt embarrassed, not knowing what to say; if he were alone facing Luoye True Lord it would be fine, but hearing that someone from the Upper Sect had arrived—even Luoye True Lord would address them as 'eldest miss'—he knew, even without knowing Emperor Baocheng, that this was someone he could not afford to offend.

Afterward, the three left the place, leaving Lingyu in utter disarray.

Qinghe Fairy clenched her fists, glared fiercely at their departing direction, then turned and left.

Good, good, good!

They all treat me as a joke, and won't even give me a proper look!

"The day we part, you will surely regret it!"

Having said that, Qinghe Fairy flew away.

Lidao Ren also knew he couldn't stay long, and hastily fled.

The remaining cultivators glanced at each other, then looked at the ruins.

"I'm leaving first."

"Me too."

"Hey, what are you going to do in the ruins?"

"Great fellow, you want to scavenge, right? Bring me one!!"

A revelry began.

However, before it even began, this group of cultivators was surrounded by a large contingent of soldiers and Heavenly Human realm martial artists, because the vitality of Renyan Tower was still dissipating and their strength had not yet recovered.

These cultivators who wanted to scavenge ended up as prisoners instead.

The matter seemed to have settled.

Meanwhile, inside Renyan Tower.

Yan Buji appeared once more, gazing at the empty surroundings.

"As expected, the dissipating vitality has even broken through the barrier of the passage prohibition and reached here." Yan Buji sensed it.

"But I can still use my spiritual power? Even without the phantom of the Imperial Banner?" Yan Buji found it strange; this vitality seemed to have no effect on him anymore.

That's actually a good thing!

Hurry up and start looting!

Yan Buji didn't know where treasures might be in this place; instead, the Dragon-Fixing Stone Pillars and the Imperial Banner were gone, and he didn't know whether the Human Origin Grand Elixir and human-path red clouds could still be found.

According to the information given by the phantom of the Imperial Banner earlier, there seems to be a hidden cave behind this plaza.

Yan Buji rushed over and searched everywhere, finally discovering a mechanism!

Infusing it with spiritual power, he easily opened the mechanism. Perhaps no one else thought someone could lurk in such a place; having taken the Imperial Banner and Dragon-Fixing Stone Pillars, they didn't leave but insisted on looting everything clean, so the mechanism's setup was overly crude.

Yan Buji entered and found it to be a stone cavern.

Inside the stone cavern lay a pill bottle; he walked over and opened it to see.

"Human Origin Grand Elixir!"

Three Human Origin Grand Elixirs?!

Earned!

Then, to the side, Yan Buji saw a golden pool of water, rolling human qi coming from it, as if it were some treasure where human qi had condensed to the extreme.

Just a sniff, and Yan Buji felt his mana circulation speed up greatly; could it be that this pool of water works in a similar way to the human Dao's red clouds?

First, take it away!

Yan Buji had been hanging around here for so long; finally it was time to reap the harvest, and he didn't care at all whether things here could move or not.

Take it first, talk later; being hunted down is a matter for later.

After taking out eighty jade bottles and filling them, the pool water ran dry, and looking around there was nothing else.

Thinking this, Yan Buji hurriedly began to look for a way to leave the Hall of Human Smoke.

Half a day passed.

Yan Buji rushed out of the Hall of Human Smoke from before a formation still lingering with icy qi, and his heart relaxed.

"Fortunately I had earlier kept an eye out and searched for Wang Yitian's traces, knowing he was serving the Baocheng Emperor and Zhao Zhen; otherwise I might not have gotten out this time."

Yan Buji had just opened his eyes when he saw the Lingyu turned into ruins, and his eyes widened instantly.

Opportunity!

Go pick up the leftovers!

Since he himself would not be disturbed by human qi, seeing the soldiers coming and going in the ruins transporting large amounts of material excavated from the ruins away from here, he immediately realized this was the Baocheng Emperor's method!

Human qi turned cultivators into ordinary people, and the Gen Dao Emperor, who possessed a Heaven-Man realm martial artist and a large army, had already become the master of this ruins in the absence of the Xuan Gen Dao's intervention!

But how is he facing the provocation from the Xuan Gen Dao?

Indeed, one still cannot underestimate these people; each is like an old fox.

"But, it's also a bargain for me!"

Yan Buji gave a hehe laugh.

"If someone helps me scavenge and pick up leftovers, isn't that better?"

Yan Buji directly followed those soldiers to a nearby newly built warehouse, and after waiting a moment he rushed in under the cover of night.

Huge quantities of low-grade Spiritual Stone!

Countless first- and second-turn Spiritual Material!

And there were nearly a thousand Storage Accumulation Devices lined up on the shelves!

However, many precious Accumulation Devices were not seen here, and those Storage Accumulation Devices are also common goods; likely they couldn't produce anything good, and the truly valuable ones were probably already taken away separately by the Baocheng Emperor and placed in the imperial palace.

Yan Buji clicked his tongue twice, without courtesy he swept everything away, and under the cover of his techniques he directly fled.

The Gen Dao expedition, thoroughly perfect!