Chapter 1278: Infiltrating the Temple Master’s Room

The avatar nodded.

"Alright, you can wait outside the temple while I’m searching the information inside temple master’s room." He then turned around and walked away, intending to leave the hall.

Alcraz nodded.

"I will wait for you in front of the herb store, the Ictus Herb Store, located in the western part of the city, inside District 8. There is a tavern in front of the store which is one of my businesses. I will wait for you there."

The avatar nodded and continued walking. He took out a new concealment talisman and activated it. His body turned invisible again, which left Alcraz and Yui stunned.

They truly could not sense the avatar’s presence at all after he disappeared!

After they thought that the avatar had already left the hall, both of them sighed.

"Master, so what will happen to us now? What are we going to do?" Yui asked.

"Just act normally. Don’t think too much about what happened today. I will leave for now. Take care of the hall," Alcraz said as he walked away, intending to wait for the avatar at the place they had already agreed upon.

As for the avatar, he was already standing in front of the alchemy tower while looking at the Tower of God’s Sovereign.

’Alcraz said that the temple master’s room is located in the building behind the Tower of God’s Sovereign.’

He then flew in that direction.

He was not worried as long as the concealment talisman remained active. At that moment, he sensed the spiritual senses of two Immortal Saint cultivators repeatedly sweeping through the area before they stopped.

The avatar thought it was only a routine inspection and ignored it as he continued flying toward the building that matched Alcraz’s description.

’That is the only building guarded by two Immortal Overlord guards,’ the avatar thought as he saw the large building with its grand entrance. Two guards wearing armor and carrying spears stood motionless like statues.

The spears they carried were actually Low Divine Grade artifacts!

The avatar could not help but feel impressed that something so valuable was only being used by guards in this place. However, he did not care and simply entered the building, passing through the entrance without either guard detecting anything.

The avatar then arrived in a hall where he could see rows of seats. The arrangement reminded him of the halls used by cultivator families, with the patriarch seated in the center and the elders seated on both sides.

He thought the situation here was similar, with the temple master seated in the center and the other higher-ups seated on both sides.

There was no one in sight when the avatar entered. The only things that attracted his attention were the two hallways on the opposite side of the hall. He walked toward the right hallway, and when he reached it, he saw a long corridor stretching all the way to its end.

At the end of the corridor were a pair of double sliding doors, which he assumed led to the temple master’s room.

Without hesitation, the avatar walked toward the doors. As he passed through the corridor, he went by several rooms and sensed powerful presences within them.

Every one of them belonged to Immortal Overlord cultivators, while the two rooms closest to the temple master’s room contained two Immortal Saint cultivators!

After reaching the doors, he paused for a moment before placing his hand on one of them. There was no formation that would stop him if he simply opened the door and entered the room.

However, if he did that, it would undoubtedly alert anyone in the rooms he had passed. The fact that there was no formation on the door in case someone entered the room without authorization showed how confident the temple master was in the guards of this place.

But it was truly a fatal mistake on the temple master’s part, as it made it easy for him to infiltrate the room. He could use his Shadow Laws technique, which was also concealed by the concealment talisman, to enter the room.

His body turned into a shadow and slipped inside before he manifested his body once more. Now that he was inside the room, he could sense the formation that prevented anything within from being detected outside, maintaining the privacy of this place.

This was even better for him, as he could search more peacefully.

He observed the room in greater detail. The room was not particularly large. Four bookshelves filled with books and various documents stood on both sides of the room. In the middle was the temple master’s work table along with his seat.

’Reports regarding the cultivators across the territory are usually written on paper or scroll rather than stored in information crystals,’ the avatar thought.

’Let’s see. If I were the temple master, I would store important documents such as reports on the development of the territory somewhere safe, somewhere secret where no one would know about it, or inside a place that no one could open, such as a hidden compartment or a secure vault.’

He then walked toward one of the bookshelves and carefully inspected every part of it with his spiritual sense.

Finding nothing, he proceeded to search every bookshelf, looking for signs of a hidden vault or something similar.

After searching for a minute, he finally found what he was looking for. One of the books on a shelf was not actually a book.

’One of the oldest tricks,’ the avatar thought as he gently pulled the fake book.

At that moment, a section of the bookshelf flipped inward, revealing a large safe hidden behind it. The safe was roughly half the avatar’s height.

The avatar observed the safe and noticed the formation sealing it. The formation was quite complex. Not only did it strengthen the safe itself, but it also completely sealed everything inside from anything outside.

The avatar could not send his spiritual sense inside, nor could he move the safe.

There was also a safety mechanism in place. The formation was connected to the entire room, and if it were forcefully broken, it would immediately alert the guards outside.

The only way to open the formation was by injecting authorized energy into it, which would obviously belong to the temple master.

But the avatar smiled.

Although the formation protecting the safe was quite complex, it still had weaknesses. With the deep knowledge and comprehension of formations he had, he could easily identify several flaws within it.

’This part needs to be blocked... and this one as well... and this...’

The avatar worked on deactivating the formation without triggering the warning mechanism, and after half a minute—

Shrinng!

A soft sound came from the safe, signaling that the formation had been successfully deactivated.

The avatar then opened the safe. Inside, he found several treasures along with a stack of paper documents and scrolls wrapped in a large red cover.

He picked up the bundle and took out the documents one by one to read them.

After a few moments, a smile appeared on his face as he found a great deal of useful information within the papers. Besides data regarding the strength of the city and the surrounding region, the documents also contained information covering the entire domain.

It was much more detailed and comprehensive compared to the information given by Alcraz.

From what he read, it appeared that these documents were shared among the various cities, and they were kept quite up to date. Each city needed this information because they coordinated with one another, and to do so, they had to know each other’s strength.

There was even data regarding the temple’s activities over the past year, which could be used as a reference for his future plans.

The avatar also discovered that the temple was paying more attention to Tarius and his followers than to the resistance group, which was good news for him and his followers. The only matter that required attention was the envoy sent by Avergis to search for his real body.

Since Avergis had sensed his domain, it appeared that Avergis had also begun paying attention to his real body in addition to Tarius’s followers.

The avatar made sure to read all of the documents. He could read extremely quickly, and it did not take him more than four seconds to finish each paper or scroll.

After he finished reading all of the documents, he returned them to their original place and made sure everything was arranged exactly as before. Finding nothing else of interest inside the safe, he decided to close it.

He then reactivated the formation and concealed the secret safe by moving the book back into place once more.

The moment the bookshelf returned to its original position, the avatar decided to leave the room.

However, right before he could reach the door, he sensed someone approaching from the other side. Without hesitation, he moved aside.

Shrrk!

Not even a second later, the door opened, revealing a middle-aged man with long black hair tied in a ponytail. He wore a white robe and possessed cultivation at peak Immortal Saint Stage.

At that exact moment, the avatar did not miss the opportunity. He immediately used his Shadow Laws and slipped out of the room while the door was still open.

By the time the man closed the door, the avatar was already outside the room. He did not stop and continued using his shadow technique as he moved through the hallway.

Inside the room, the man suddenly stopped and frowned. It was as if he had sensed something. He turned his head toward the door.

’Is it my imagination?’

He continued staring at the door.

A moment later, he opened it and looked into the hallway, observing the surroundings for a few moments.

However, he did not sense anything unusual. After making sure that nothing was out of place, he closed the door again.

’Maybe it really is my imagination.’

He then glanced around the room before walking toward his table.