[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-85":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355268,4608,"Chapter 85: Playing Tricks","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-85",85,"\u003Cp>Violent fire energy exploded outward, rippling through the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swamp ground was blasted into a pit over one zhang deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mud was flung everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Yang Xu’s body, it had long been reduced to countless fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took a deep breath and retracted the earth-elemental shield surrounding his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, in combat, he no longer felt the same tension as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning, he had been utterly composed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng leapt up carefully and landed where Yang Xu had died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Xu’s corpse was certainly gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His robe had been torn into shreds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Hundred Treasures Bag lay intact on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the Hundred Treasures Bag were a small flying sword and a shield, both of middling-grade magic treasure quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took no pity—he snatched up the sword and shield, stowed them in his storage bag, then opened Yang Xu’s Hundred Treasures Bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hundred Treasures Bag held few items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Yang Xu had spent these days relentlessly searching for him, he had no time to gather rare herbs or treasures; aside from a few garments, his bag contained only a few jade talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And roughly a hundred spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take!” He Pingsheng seized the spirit stones without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the jade talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A teleportation jade talisman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A good item—crush it and you’re transported out of this realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was also a yellow talisman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the talisman were drawn two strange characters; He Pingsheng barely recognized them as 【Tongxin】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is a Tongxin Talisman?” He Pingsheng was startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seen such a talisman mentioned in the *Miscellaneous Records of Cultivation*, but never encountered one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put, it was a talisman—uniquely special.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One entity, two halves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single talisman could be split into two parts, each held by a different person; when one was activated, it could transmit a single message and reveal the holder’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the condition was that they could not be too far apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a Rank-One 【Tongxin Talisman】, the maximum effective range was ten thousand li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within ten thousand li, it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, it became useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng did not know who held the other end of this talisman, but he guessed there was a ninety percent chance it was in Linglong’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t this fellow come after me because Linglong ordered him to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm…” He Pingsheng stared at the talisman, then smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided he would play a trick on Linglong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the secret realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linglong, Luoyu, and another disciple were hurrying down from a mountaintop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Run fast… hahaha…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linglong laughed loudly: “Don’t worry—they can’t catch us!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn ice-polar immortal sect disciples, daring to bully me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once we’re out, I’ll have my grandfather come and wipe out the Ice-Polar Immortal Sect!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside her, Luoyu sneered: Your grandfather? Wipe out the Ice-Polar Immortal Sect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Possible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a Tongxin Talisman hanging from Linglong’s waist suddenly flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh…” Linglong beamed: “Haha… Yang Xu found that bastard!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linglong did not stop running; she kept sprinting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after escaping danger did she mount a paper crane and fly off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In midair, she unfastened the jade talisman—it emitted no sound, but displayed a green dot that blinked steadily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn Yang Xu!” Linglong cursed: “Why didn’t he send me a message?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luoyu, riding the same paper crane, asked: “Found him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Probably!” Linglong said: “Let’s go see… Yang Xu, make sure you keep him alive!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehehe…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When I get there, I’ll make him suffer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dog-like thing—originally just an outer sect laborer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I asked him to brew pills for me, and he acted high and mighty?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today, I won’t rest until I kill him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, Luoyu frowned slightly: “Sister, don’t keep bringing this up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And when you meet him, just kill him outright—no need to torture him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If someone sees, Master Yuning won’t be easy to answer to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the worry?” Linglong gritted her silver teeth: “He’s just a dog from a laborer’s background—kill him, and if needed, I’ll just spend a few days in the Reflection Square!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luoyu shook her head: “Though he was a laborer, he’s changed now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s now a true disciple of Yuning Palace!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you kill him like you did Hao Yun, your punishment won’t be just a few days in the Reflection Square!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, sister… this matter must be kept secret!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t let it get out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph…” Linglong sneered: “If killing him can’t be made public, isn’t that boring?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I want everyone to know what happens when they cross me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two paper cranes flew across the void toward He Pingsheng’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they were far away, the two paper cranes flew for nearly half an hour before reaching the spot where the Tongxin Talisman flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What place is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down at the vast swamp, Linglong frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Luoyu shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister… over here… over here…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other disciple on the paper crane suddenly spotted something and shouted urgently before landing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few breaths later, Luoyu and Linglong also landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the center of the swamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long branch stood upright on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the branch hung several garments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These garments were the ones He Pingsheng had taken from Yang Xu’s Hundred Treasures Bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had hung them on the branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does this mean?” Linglong asked, staring at the clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luoyu said: “Look… there’s writing over there!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the fluttering clothes, several lines were written in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bring me those clothes!” Linglong ordered the male disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disciple plucked the clothes down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On them was written one large line: Beneath the branch is a jar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just those words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then all three stared at the soil beneath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground below had clearly been dug up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dig!” Linglong ordered the male disciple: “Dig out that jar—I want to see what trickery this is!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linglong feared being tricked, so she dared not dig herself and instead commanded the male disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The male disciple didn’t want to dig either, but he had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only grit his teeth and used his flying sword to dig into the ground around him.\u003C\u002Fp>",1026,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f05be7bb23fef60b6a92241b8220d7604ee52022bf76157f72675a56be869ee3","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-86","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-84",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]