[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-898":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},2356081,4608,"Chapter 898: Use Their Own Way Against Them","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-898",898,"\u003Cp>“Lady Muhan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng could no longer bear Muhan’s words and interrupted her: “You seem to misunderstand one thing—while the Mingwang Ritual indeed incorporates your clan’s [Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual], that does not mean the Mingwang Ritual is identical to the Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, the Mingwang Ritual was cultivated by the Great Lun Mingwang only after absorbing and integrating eleven different spiritual arts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was not derived from your clan alone!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Others consider this perfectly normal—and utterly simple—so why do you insist this is exclusively your Nine-Colored Clan’s?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Friend, you jest!” Lady Muhan said. “I advise you not to speak like this again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If that’s true, doesn’t it mean the Great Lun Mingwang was merely a fraud? His so-called self-created spiritual art is nothing but plagiarism!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng countered: “Plagiarism?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me—what rank is your [Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual]?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And what rank is the Mingwang Ritual?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Show me how you could plagiarize a Yellow-rank art into a Heaven-rank art?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, Lady Muhan’s face darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This statement not only stated the truth but struck right at the Nine-Colored Clan’s sore point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Friend… this is getting ridiculous!” Lady Muhan took a deep breath. “Let’s set aside the rank issue—just answer this: Is the Mingwang Ritual derived from your [Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual]?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt debating with Lady Muhan today was a terrible mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to reason with someone who refuses reason is utterly pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine!” He Pingsheng said. “I don’t know whether the Mingwang Ritual originated from your [Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual], or how much it borrowed—so can you show me the original version of the Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course!” Lady Muhan had prepared this already and immediately produced the Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Great Lun Mingwang had said, its rank was low—only Yellow-Middle Grade!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was not a valuable artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a Body Integration cultivator, it held virtually no worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine-Colored Peacock Clan had no reason to hide it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took the art, glanced at it, and within less than half a stick of incense, scanned its entire content: “I’ve seen the contents of the Mingwang Ritual.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To be honest, if you claim this is the Mingwang Ritual, you’re blatantly lying with your eyes open!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have a question for you!” He Pingsheng pointed at the Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual: “Was this spiritual art truly discovered by your Nine-Colored Clan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or did you plagiarize it from another race?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible!” Lady Muhan snapped. “It was discovered by our ancestral patriarch—how could we have plagiarized anyone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “Wrong… how can you be certain it was discovered by your ancestor and not plagiarized?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… I…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Muhan was so furious her nose twisted: “This is outrageous… you… you’re unreasonable!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not so… not so!” He Pingsheng smiled. “I’m not being unreasonable—I once saw two human texts, and in every aspect, your art is a blatant copy of those two!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But your plagiarism was crude and incompetent!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They were Heaven-rank spiritual arts—you reduced them to Yellow-rank!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You didn’t even copy them fully!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—you—you’re slandering us!” Lady Muhan cried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No,” He Pingsheng remained calm now, smiling. “I’m not slandering you—I have proof.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The two human texts aren’t with me—I’ll retrieve them. It will take one day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go back to your Nine-Colored Clan and bring several respected elders. Tomorrow, we’ll compare the two arts and see if your Nine-Colored Clan is the plagiarist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way—don’t just bring your Nine-Colored Clan’s elders!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bring some from other races too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Only then will this be fair and impartial!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine!” Lady Muhan fumed. “You said it was two Heaven-rank human spiritual arts—make sure you bring them, or if you falsely accuse our Nine-Colored Clan, we won’t let you off easily!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Lady Muhan left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he seized the opportunity, pulled out a blank jade slip, and re-etched the [Nine-Colored Ripped Feather Ritual] into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—snap—he dropped it into the Treasure Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tomorrow, two Heaven-rank spiritual arts would appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Great Lun Mingwang’s imperial palace grounds, seven or eight Body Integration and Mahayana cultivators had gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Lun Mingwang—one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng—one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Chen—one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Chen was merely dragged along by He Pingsheng to fill the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides these three, the Nine-Colored Peacock Clan had two:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Muhan and Tianjiu Laozu, the Nine-Colored Peacock Clan’s Mahayana elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two were mediators:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was the Peng Emperor of the Peng Emperor Domain, Peng Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was Zhu Zhengyan, father of Zhu Xuanlun and an old friend of He Pingsheng and the Great Lun Mingwang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing He Pingsheng, both were speechless with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially Peng Emperor—cold sweat poured from his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, during the Stone Platform Gathering, the Peng Clan’s crown prince had joined the assassination attempt on He Pingsheng—and had died in He Pingsheng’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that sense, they bore a mortal grudge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oddly, Tianjiu Laozu of the Nine-Colored Clan had never seen He Pingsheng before and failed to recognize him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You humans dare accuse our Nine-Colored Peacock Clan of plagiarizing your spiritual arts—and claim we copied your Heaven-rank arts? Produce sufficient proof!” Tianjiu Laozu glared at He Pingsheng. “Otherwise, Heihei … little human brat, don’t blame old man for slapping you dead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You overestimate yourself,” He Pingsheng said coolly. “That immortal phoenix elder said the same thing—he slapped me three times, lost thirty thousand years of lifespan, and still couldn’t kill me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Chen, standing behind He Pingsheng, sneered faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Lun Mingwang smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the others across from them were stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Phoenix Clan’s patriarch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t kill him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did this guy just call the Phoenix Clan’s patriarch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old undead”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sssss… how bold—he must have some powerful backing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—you—you’re Wang Dun!” Tianjiu Laozu, thinking himself clever, suddenly slapped his forehead, his body hairs standing on end in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>",985,"2026-06-21T04:09:01.327Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d36c8915a154e10695e69d4063dd4e6510c6fd8653278726b47e7cab3cb2f626","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-899","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-897",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]