Chapter 1115 - 456: The Protagonist Plan That Ended Before It Began_3

Chapter 1115: Chapter 456: The Protagonist Plan That Ended Before It Began_3

He excitedly stood up and rang the small bell beside him.

Ding dong ding!

"The Phecda Immortal Mansion has emerged! The seventh formation eye is activated!"

Ma Jia was utterly flushed when he heard this, thinking, you call this a good thing, don’t you?

All he felt was a surge of killing desire rising in his heart, wanting to punch the middle-aged cultivator hard and let himself catch some luck.

He took a few deep breaths, suppressing the demon in his heart,

after all, he was now controlling his true body, not the puppet parasitized by his flesh and blood, which would make it difficult to escape if he caused trouble.

He snorted coldly and turned to leave the hall.

As he walked out of the Rite Place, he found the sun in the sky exceptionally glaring.

The originally clear dungeon strategy route suddenly became blurred.

All seven immortal mansions were taken over, rendering the immortal mansion blessings and the Demon-breaking Army’s status entirely void.

Even in his current appearance, he could not enjoy the treatment of a Celestial Being. He had to restore his original appearance after leaving the city and re-enter the city to take the Demon-breaking Army trial.

If it were only his plan’s failure, it would be a small mistake, but what was unbearable for him was that seven players started with an advantage of one more immortal mansion than him.

Before entering the world dungeon, he was thinking of becoming the focus of the world dungeon, but with such a bad start and no other important resources, it would be difficult for him to catch up with those ahead.

Just thinking about it made him feel a burst of dejection.

However, no matter how, Ma Jia was the first Breaker of the Revelation. He soon got out of his slump, pulled himself together, and prepared to find another prey to control, seeking the next opportunity for a comeback.

His experience told him that opportunities were everywhere, as long as he kept calm and worked hard to dig for information, the chance for a comeback could be right beside him.

He looked around and suddenly froze on the spot, the opportunity was indeed right beside him.

Not far from the Rite Place’s entrance, a table was set up by the roadside, with a wooden sign standing beside it that read:

"Demon Realm Exploration Recruitment Center."

The sign was very simple, obviously non-official, seemingly like some cultivator’s spontaneous sacrificial action.

This was not uncommon in Zhenyue City. The Demon-breaking Army was to charge into the Demon Realm, and second-rate experts were the minimum threshold for the Demon-breaking Army.

Many cultivators who came to Zhenyue City with high aspirations were unwilling to be eliminated due to insufficient cultivation, so they would organize groups to explore the Demon Realm on their own, trying to prove themselves through action to join the Demon-breaking Army.

However, most of these impulsive people never returned.

Many cultivators coming in and out of the Rite Place often just glanced at the sign and then ignored it.

If it was just the sign and the scale, Ma Jia wouldn’t have cared, but the issue was that the person standing behind the table looked very familiar to him. It was none other than Peace, Leng Shan, and Sword Star, with whom he had cooperated in the Steam Phantom Dungeon.

The combination of these three indicated that this was no ordinary recruitment, it was definitely a big move.

He cautiously approached the recruitment center, wondering how to express his identity to make them agree to his joining, but before he could speak, he heard Sword Star asking Wu Chang:

"How did you know this person would come over?"

Ma Jia was stunned, was Sword Star talking about him?

Wu Chang shrugged and said:

"Why do you think I set up the recruitment center here?"

"I saw him rushing in full of excitement, realizing he couldn’t reach the Immortal Mansion, and with hopes dashed, of course, he could only go to the Demon Realm with us."

Ma Jia’s eye twitched slightly, and he couldn’t help but ask, "Can you recognize me?"

Wu Chang said, "Of course, in the Steam Phantom Plane I had already told you that I could recognize you even if you changed your identity. You didn’t think that having mastered the Power of Root, you could escape my sight, did you?"

Just like in the Steam Phantom Plane, Ma Jia, using the Flesh Invader to kill, made it hard for the target not to bear grudges. As long as Ma Jia had resentment attached to him, no matter how well he hid, he could not escape Wu Chang’s sight.

Since he was already exposed, Ma Jia directly asked:

"Can I join your Demon Realm exploration team?"

Wu Chang asked, "Are you not going to ask what we are going to do first?"

Ma Jia shook his head and said, "There’s no need."

With the tacit understanding from the Steam Phantom Plane, he knew that in terms of dungeon strategy, following Peace would not be wrong.

"I don’t need to ask how you plan to explore the Demon Realm, but there’s one thing I want to know, among the Celestial Beings who conquered the seven immortal mansions, were you included?"

Wu Chang, Leng Shan, and Sword Star nodded at the same time and said, "Yes."

Ma Jia helplessly looked up to the sky. Among the four of them, he was the only one without an Immortal Mansion, making it utterly impossible for him to turn the tables now.

Wu Chang corrected him, "In fact, among those who conquered the Immortal Mansions, only six were players, and one was an indigenous person of the plane."

Ma Jia showed a look of surprise. In the information he had obtained, it was said that Da Xuan had struggled for an entire year in the dungeon without progress. How could the world dungeon be successfully conquered right at the start?

Ma Jia asked, "What are we going to do next?"

Wu Chang looked at the sky and said, "No rush, let’s wait a bit longer."

The level of the Steam Phantom Dungeon was very high, corresponding to which, the correction coefficient for players in the final ranking was also very high.

Among the members of the Secret Magic Knight Order, quite a few were ranked in the top hundred. Waiting a bit longer, they could set off together.

They waited around the Rite Place for another two hours, successfully meeting the Divine Tongue, Killing Intent Fluctuation, and Shadow.

Initially, Ma Jia was still brooding over his failed plan, but as Wu Chang pointed out, he saw three acquaintances just like him, running into the Rite Place with excitement and then coming out dejectedly, instantly balancing his psychological state a lot.

Upon meeting Shadow, the Negotiation Master, Earth Puppet, and Bai Ma had already received the messages left by Leng Shan through the internal codes of the Management Bureau, and came to the Rite Place to meet with everyone.

Behind them followed Booker and Veronica.

According to the Negotiation Master, Booker and Veronica entered the dungeon at similar locations. Using pre-devised codes, they met up first, and then Booker, riding a motorcycle, hurried to the Rite Place at the first chance.

They could be said to be the third group of players who entered Zhenyue City the earliest.

Upon entering Zhenyue City, they did nothing but squat at the city gate, checking cultivators with the guards, and then spotted the tall and slender Negotiation Master with black-and-white hair in the crowd, following her all the way here.

Such purposeful actions indicated that the two must have made plans before entering the dungeon.

With this, the Secret Magic Knight Order was fully assembled. Wu Chang glanced at them, noticing that after the Steam Phantom Dungeon, each had made great progress. Once the Demon Realm exploration was finished, they could be sent out to activate the Twelve Earthly Branches.

Wu Chang led everyone into the Rite Place, arriving at the hall where his true body, Erin, and An Rong had been waiting for a long time.

Quietly, Wu Chang True Self said to Ma Jia, "See, the Earth Immortal leading this Demon Realm exploration is that indigenous person who successfully conquered the Immortal Mansion."