Chapter 458

No matter what had happened between them.

Scorching Sun Old Demon was still a great perfection Nascent Soul cultivator. Even if his true combat strength was inferior to the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord, he would not be slain so easily.

Moreover, the battlefield was inside Eastern Extreme Capital.

Under the watchful eyes of the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable, neither of them dared to cause too much commotion. Otherwise, the consequences would likely be far more than they could bear.

To the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect, every cultivator who touched the Spirit Transformation stage posed a threat, with the four great demonic sects’ leaders being the most dangerous.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s identity was even more sensitive than Scorching Sun Old Demon’s.

He should have been even more wary of this point.

Therefore, what truly puzzled Wang Yu was that after the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord chased him here, Scorching Sun Old Demon had not appeared.

That was what made it suspicious.

After ruling out other possibilities and considering the typical behavior of demonic cultivators, the highest probability was that the two had secretly reached some kind of deal. This was also the root of his question.

If this guess proved true, the credibility and character of the Zhuo Clan cultivators would truly be shameless and despicable.

In the field.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord did not answer Wang Yu’s question. After carefully examining him for a moment, he sniffed lightly.

“You have cultivated the divine abilities of Yellow Springs Monastery, and more than one. Who taught them to you?”

“Since the Monastery Lord has come to kill me, why bother with such trivial matters?”

“This is no trivial matter. Your death is destined today, but a leak of our inheritance… means someone has divulged the core secrets of our monastery. Such a person can sell anything. We must root him out as soon as possible to feel at ease. Don’t you agree?”

Wang Yu raised an eyebrow. The other party’s calm and unhurried attitude did not seem like someone here to assassinate him at all.

He could even chat casually.

This made Wang Yu suspect he had misjudged the situation with Scorching Sun Old Demon, yet when he mentioned the deal, the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord remained silent.

This was illogical.

After all, from the other party’s perspective, whether the deal was real or not, simply admitting it would effortlessly create a rift between Wang Yu and Scorching Sun Old Demon.

It was a free favor. There was no reason to avoid the topic.

Unless the deal was real, but the true goal was not to kill Wang Yu. Exactly what conspiracy the two were plotting was truly hard to fathom.

While pondering.

Wang Yu spoke again: “The Yellow Springs Great Hand Seal was indeed personally taught to me by your monastery. The fusion of the Mysterious Yin Hand and Earth Nether Finger is the true form of this third-rank divine ability.”

It simply lacked the corresponding advancement method. Unless he comprehended the matching Yellow Springs Dao intent, the divine ability could never advance to fourth rank. This was also why he had gradually given up on this technique.

Instead, he practiced the Bone-Burying Curse Sword that he had comprehended from the Yellow Springs Earth Resentment Puppet. Correspondingly, there was another move: Yellow Springs Evil World Spear!

He simply used this weapon very rarely and almost never employed it. His proficiency remained only at the entry level.

“So it was you.”

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord seemed to recall something. He glanced at the furious Yin Gui beside him, who looked like an angry kitten, then fell silent for a moment before speaking.

“You are smarter than I imagined. Let this kid leave first. This Monastery Lord has something to say to you.”

“Fine.”

When Yin Gui saw Wang Yu agree, he immediately panicked.

“Brother Wang, don’t be foolish. Just because I’m easy to talk to, don’t assume other demons…”

Before he could finish, he was enveloped by that ferocious divine sense pressure. Yin Gui instantly shut his mouth, unable to utter another word, and flew away into the distance with his head lowered.

He kept looking back repeatedly, but Wang Yu never changed his mind.

In the end, he could only transmit helplessly:

“I’ll wait three hundred li away. If a fight breaks out, make it loud. This lord will rush over to support you immediately.”

What answered him was a very firm look from Wang Yu.

He now suspected that Scorching Sun Old Demon and the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord likely wanted to make a move against the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable, and keeping him here might be for that very reason.

After all, after thinking it through, only the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable could draw more firepower than him.

Usurping those above was also an old demonic tradition.

Once Yin Gui had truly left.

Only then did the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord smile: “Looks like you’ve figured out quite a lot. Go ahead and speak.”

Wang Yu sighed.

“What exactly do you want me to do?”

“Can you replicate the matter of kicking Youming out of the Celestial Star Tower?”

The moment those words were spoken, Wang Yu immediately understood the issue.

The same excuse could be used to deal with Thunder Howl Lord and the others because they had never experienced the thrill of being a “permission dog.” But when the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable later used that token to try it himself, he would definitely notice the problem.

Similarly, Scorching Sun Old Demon, who had entered the palace with him, would also develop reasonable suspicions after learning what happened in the Celestial Star Tower.

Wang Yu had originally come up with this as a stopgap plan.

As long as Master Youming was dealt with, the goal would be achieved. Even if the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable later noticed something off, he would be too occupied with the opportunities inside the imperial palace to spare any attention.

Once he had taken all the treasures inside, Wang Yu’s little issue would no longer be an issue. With the treasures already in his hands, a few questions about permissions would naturally become unimportant.

“What about Senior Scorching Sun?”

“He is still inside Eastern Extreme Capital, hiding in a place you are very familiar with.”

“The underground dark river?”

“Exactly.”

Truthfully, Wang Yu had zero desire to get involved.

The Coiling Dragon Ring was connected to an immortal treasure inside the Crown Prince’s tomb and was itself a Spirit Transformation spiritual treasure. Handing it over just like that left him unwilling.

Yet rashly participating also made him worry he would die miserably.

Taking a small risk for a big reward still had its limits. What the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was plotting now felt like teaching an ant to slay a dragon. It was a little too idealistic.

But if he refused, every word the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord had said earlier would be true, and today next year would be his death anniversary.

After hesitating for a long time, Wang Yu asked.

“What can I get out of this?”

The smile on the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s face became even more genuine. He replied, “A lot. As long as you can keep the Crimson Heaven inside Eastern Extreme Capital, this Monastery Lord can borrow his divine body to walk my own path to Spirit Transformation. You can name whatever you want afterward.”

Wang Yu shook his head decisively.

He strongly resisted the scam of drawing a pie to satisfy hunger.

“How about this? This Wang has never been greedy. Senior, tell this junior the advancement methods for all the divine ability inheritances of Yellow Springs Monastery, and clearly explain every single thing I need to do next.

“This Wang will definitely do everything in his power and will not shrink from death. Once the conditions are fulfilled, this junior will immediately leave Eastern Extreme Capital and will never have returned midway.”

This was both insurance against being killed after the deed and a way to demand benefits in advance. If he really succeeded, would Wang Yu still dare come to collect?

And if he failed, he could retreat in time.

He was only providing support. It was impossible for him to bear the main responsibility.

Therefore.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord thought for only a moment before agreeing to Wang Yu’s conditions.

“Fine. But you must play your proper role. Otherwise even Scorching Sun wanting to protect you will be useless. With this Monastery Lord’s strength, killing you would take only an instant.”

Wang Yu remained silent on this.

He did not believe the other party could actually do it. He was not a real ant. Being threatened by a Spirit Transformation Venerable was one thing, but being scared by a peak Nascent Soul? No way.

On the way back to Eastern Extreme Capital.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord roughly outlined the plan. It was actually quite simple and direct.

The cause of everything was Scorching Sun Old Demon’s dissatisfaction with returning empty-handed from this trip. He insisted on biting off a piece of meat from the imperial palace no matter what.

But as events unfolded at the Celestial Star Tower.

And especially after Master Youming’s sudden fall, a different emotion rose in his heart.

Do not forget, when it came to understanding Eastern Extreme Capital, only the Blood Reversal Sect and Yellow Springs Monastery knew the most.

With the Monastery Lord right in front of him, plus his own knowledge of this place and Wang Yu’s inexplicably high-level permissions, the idea of using the terrain to trap and kill the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable was born.

After all, a killing formation controlled by someone and a defensive mechanism with no one controlling it were two completely different concepts.

The core of it all lay in the so-called Eight Capitals Dragon-Subduing Formation.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord said.

“Do you know that the ancient Human Emperor used the dragon as his totem and faith, gathering the faith of all people to create the Immortal Dynasty’s unique destiny methods?”

Wang Yu raised an eyebrow.

“Senior means something like the Purple Qi Divine Fire?”

“More or less.”

“Using the title of True Dragon Son of Heaven, why would the core defense be a Dragon-Subduing Formation?”

“Senior means…”

“The Eight Capitals Dragon-Subduing Formation is divided into yin and yang formation. The visible one is the defensive formation, so breaking into the palace city is effortless. One only needs to grind it down with demonic essence.

“But the hidden yin array is the real fifth-rank killing formation. It also contains the destiny backlash brought about by the fall of the Immortal Dynasty.

“When the True Dragon’s qi is exhausted and he is beheaded by an immortal’s execution blade, endless resentment and karma will be born, giving rise to a terrifying evil dragon of unparalleled ferocity. After being suppressed for nearly a hundred thousand years… once it erupts, I fear even the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable will not be able to withstand it.”

Hearing this, Wang Yu could not help but imagine the possibilities.

It did sound like it had a chance of success, provided the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable noticed nothing and stepped into the imperial palace trap.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord wanted the Crimson Heaven’s remnant body to comprehend the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect’s Spirit Transformation secret. Then what could Scorching Sun Old Demon obtain?

The storage ring? Or some opportunity inside Eastern Extreme Capital?

He remembered.

During the Black Mountain Pass campaign, the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect and Blood Reversal Sect were still in their honeymoon cooperation phase and had even promised a secret method to avoid the demonic contamination problem of the ancient Demon inheritance.

That secret method was actually the very secret the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord longed for. He was willing to take the risk of killing the Crimson Heaven just to glimpse it.

This differed somewhat from the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect’s targeted development of the demonic path. So either they were drawing a pie and lying, or they wanted to establish a true decisive advantage in this righteous-demonic war.

Through this conversation, Wang Yu saw clearly many hidden schemes behind the decisions.

Having a sufficiently high vantage point was indeed very important.

So Xie Xie’an’s matter had been decided back during the Blood Abyss trial. One of the main purposes was probably to verify the authenticity of that secret method.

“What a group of cunning old demons, each one more sly than the last.”

Wang Yu sighed inwardly.

Before long, Eastern Extreme Capital was right before them. The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord looked at him leisurely, as if saying “your performance now.”

Wang Yu had no choice. He took out the Water Ancestral Token and connected it to the underground water formation, instantly teleporting the two of them into the underground dark river. The other party seemed slightly surprised.

“Is this also a benefit of high permissions?”

“Something like that.”

Many people had survived the Heavenly Yin Water Pool trip, but only Cold Bone had any connection to Yellow Springs Monastery. That fellow had died too early and never reported the relevant information.

Wang Yu had subconsciously assumed the other party already knew.

It turned out to be a misunderstanding. The existence of the Water Ancestral Token was not an unexposable treasure. After all, only feng shui earth masters could use it. Still, it was better to keep it hidden if possible.

“What do we do next?”

After entering the underground dark river, Wang Yu became a tool person.

He was only responsible for activating the key step. Everything else had nothing to do with him. He did not need to have his own will; he simply had to play his role well.

“First go to the underground location corresponding to the Longevity Medicine Vault and meet up with Scorching Sun Old Demon.”

In other words, Scorching Sun was still eyeing the medicine vault.

The tenacity on display was jaw-dropping. It was a textbook example of not giving up until reaching the Yellow River. Even after setting his sights on the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable, he was still thinking about the medicine vault…

Wang Yu no longer knew what to say.

After a long silence, he could not help asking.

“He wants to explore the medicine vault first?”

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord smiled.

“That is also my intention. Some ancient spirit pills might produce unexpected effects. Or perhaps they can help this Monastery Lord achieve his goal, in which case there would be no need to act against the Crimson Heaven.”

Wang Yu suddenly understood. That made sense.

Since they had already chosen to offend the Crimson Heaven, clearing out another wave of gains was only natural. Besides, unlike Wang Yu, they had the confidence to escape the Crimson Heaven’s pursuit.

Relying on Yellow Springs Monastery or the Zhuo Clan ancestral land, they could fully withstand a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s attacks. As long as they stalled for a year or so and digested their gains before breaking through, they naturally had no need to fear a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s threat.

In this regard, the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was clearly more confident than Scorching Sun or Master Youming. He was closer to that realm than anyone else.

Betting on it, what was there to fear?

One incense stick of time later.

From afar, Wang Yu saw Scorching Sun Old Demon sitting cross-legged above the underground dark river. A large hole had appeared near the top of his head, and faint restriction light could be seen shining through it.

He finally understood why Scorching Sun Old Demon had appeared in the underground dark river. It turned out he had failed to break the restriction head-on and tried a crooked path, only to discover the bottom route was also impassable.

It was rather comical.

Seeing the two of them arrive together, Scorching Sun Old Demon immediately broke into a chrysanthemum-like smile.

“Little friend Wang, you really came.”

Wang Yu’s attitude cooled considerably, though he did not show open displeasure.

He subtly expressed his dissatisfaction.

“Senior Scorching Sun jests. Since the Monastery Lord personally came to invite me, how could this Wang be so tactless? Please tell me exactly what I need to do.”

“Hahahaha…”

Even with Scorching Sun’s thick skin, he felt a little embarrassed at this moment.

After all, Wang Yu’s relationship with the Zhuo Clan had already fractured. Earlier outside the Celestial Star Tower, he had called him Ancestor Liezu, showing intent to reconcile.

Now, for the sake of this opportunity, he had not only pushed Wang Yu into mortal danger but had also driven him further away. No matter how one looked at it, he had already lost both grace and integrity.

The other party would no longer stick close.

“Little friend Wang, why don’t you try first and see if this restriction light screen can be opened directly?”

Upon hearing this, Wang Yu shook his head immediately.

“The Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable is inside the imperial palace. If the Longevity Medicine Vault’s restriction is fully lifted, it will definitely be discovered instantly.”

The moment those words left his mouth, both their expressions turned ugly.

Wang Yu continued.

“But I can try to partially unlock it and squeeze in bit by bit. Only one person can enter at a time. Who wants to go first?”

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord and Scorching Sun Old Demon looked at each other.

There was both competition and worry that Wang Yu might ambush them, so they fell silent.