Chapter 1148: Chapter 763: Entering the City (2)
"Sister Li knows so much!" Xiaohei said.
"Of course! Don’t you know who I am!" Li Qianluo chuckled.
"Who are you?" Xiaohei asked, puzzled.
"I’m naturally a master who combines beauty and wisdom!"
Li Qianluo flicked her long hair, straightened her body, and posed stylishly.
Xiaohei gave a thumbs-up in praise, then asked innocently, "But Sister Li, what Dao are you cultivating? I feel your Dao embryo is very rare, almost unheard of in the Edge Corner Airspace, how come the litian spear didn’t detect you?"
Both Xiaohei and Xiang Beifei could see others’ Dao embryos, yet Li Qianluo’s Dao embryo had not been clearly manifested, similar to Xiang Beifei.
Though Xiaohei speaks in a sweet, harmless voice, this little guy is actually quite clever, always pretending to be naive to gather information.
Li Qianluo blinked and said, "Ha! Of course, it’s the Li Dao! Anyway, no matter what Dao embryo you have, as long as it’s within the litian spear’s knowledge, it won’t bother you."
"Your Li Dao is also within the litian spear’s knowledge?" Xiaohei asked in surprise.
"The Dao I cultivate is pretty special! How should I say it? My Dao embryo can transform into others’ Dao embryos, just now I transformed into the Bird Dao Race to enter."
Li Qianluo pointed above her head, her spirit trembled slightly, transforming into a giant winged phantom, the spirit of the Bird Dao Race!
Xiang Beifei glanced subtly, carefully observing Li Qianluo’s spirit.
Li Qianluo spoke and then surveyed Xiang Beifei, "You should be able to do it too, right?"
"How do you know I can?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"Because you are very special! You’re human, but definitely not an ordinary human. I’m not a fool, how could I not see that?" Li Qianluo said with a cheeky smile.
"How can you see that?"
"Using my brain."
Li Qianluo pointed to her head, proudly saying, "Everyone in Jiuzhou has a system, but no one has yet reached the immortality stage. Even Uncle Luo only reached immortality after leaving Jiuzhou, except for you!
I think you must be a person without a system, or maybe you can simulate all systems, making everyone in Jiuzhou go round in circles! That’s the only possibility."
Xiang Beifei gave a subtle nod but did not refute, only looked thoughtfully at Li Qianluo.
Can she also transform into other races’ Dao embryos?
"By the way, before you go in, you’d better choose a suitable Dao embryo, because after entering the city, if you suddenly disguise as another Dao embryo midway, the ancestor’s weapon will immediately detect your location." Li Qianluo advised.
"Understood."
Xiang Beifei pondered for a moment, thinking about which Dao embryo to use.
Usually, when wandering around, he would disguise as any Dao embryo he wanted, but this time the restriction is quite severe, to avoid detection, he can only select one Dao embryo.
"Then I’ll go with this one!"
At this moment, a system interface appeared above Xiang Beifei’s head:
[Dao Practitioner: Taixian]
[Dao embryo: Transforming Dao]
[Realm: Immortality Stage]
The Transforming Dao, can help him switch appearances more easily, and if discovered, he can quickly change into someone else and blend into the crowd.
"What Dao embryo are you disguising as?" Li Qianluo asked.
"Transforming Dao." Xiang Beifei did not hide it.
Li Qianluo held her chin, "Hmm, Transforming Dao is good, you should be able to transform with me together, I need to think of a different Dao embryo, it’s a waste if it’s the same ability."
She clenched her right hand and struck her palm, "Then I’ll choose the Divination Dao!"
"Divination Dao?"
Xiang Beifei looked at Li Qianluo in surprise.
"Yes, Divination Dao, I can help you turn bad luck into good! Of course, this ability is actually quite unreliable, I’m not very good at it, but sometimes it’s quite useful for escaping." Li Qianluo said with a cheeky smile.
Xiang Beifei raised his eyebrows slightly.
He glanced at Xiaohei again.
Xiaohei also propped his chin, meeting his gaze.
The Divination Dao, they were not unfamiliar with it.
"Alright, then use this."
Xiang Beifei did not ask further.
The two of them quickly flew towards Sheyin City. As they descended towards Sheyin City, Xiang Beifei heightened his vigilance, cautiously observing the movements around him.
Passing through Sheyin City, he clearly felt an ancient and powerful aura enveloping him, penetrating his soul. Even using his invisibility ability, he couldn’t guarantee not being discovered.
"What a truly formidable ancestral artifact!"
Xiang Beifei’s expression was also quite solemn. Under such circumstances, if he recklessly relied on his usual brick to fix the Formation and charge in, he would likely be discovered immediately.
Because the brick was just an incomplete ancestral artifact, whereas the litian spear was a complete ancestral artifact!
This time entering the city, he would face significant restrictions.
The strong aura pressed against his soul, seemingly detecting the Dao embryo Xiang Beifei cultivated, and quickly receded. The entire process happened in an instant, but an imprint of Xiang Beifei had already been recorded by the ancestral artifact.
They landed in an alley, the streets crowded with masters of various races, all fervently discussing either the masters of different races or matters concerning the Common Valley.
"This way."
Li Qianluo had come in and out with Ge Hengzi earlier, but Ge Hengzi had other tasks, and it would be too conspicuous to bring them along, so he didn’t come this time.
However, Xiang Beifei had already seen the map sent by Ge Hengzi, so he had a good idea of the streets and alleys of Sheyin City and knew where to go.
Sheyin City dispatched many masters for this Heaven and Earth Ranking competition, with quite a few Inquiry Dao Realm masters coming here to maintain order.
Elders lurked in relatively hidden corners of the streets, watching everyone’s movements, and any unusual behavior would be noticed!
Ge Hengzi worked efficiently, marking all the sentry posts and clearly indicating the range they covered. This saved Xiang Beifei a lot of trouble because within the ancestral artifact’s range, he dared not to glance around indiscriminately.
"Are you going to the Common Valley?"
Li Qianluo had also heard those words in the city just now.
Wu Yanwei was speaking so loudly that even a deaf person could hear.
"I’ll see at the time."
Xiang Beifei didn’t consider these things; he first needed to understand the ancestral artifact.
"I always feel that Dao Palace suddenly opening the Common Valley isn’t well-intentioned. You should understand this too, and if you do go, be careful," Li Qianluo advised.
"I know what I’m doing."
Xiang Beifei walked on the bustling street, slipping into an alley, past a sentry that had been surveying the area, heading towards the center of the litian spear.
The journey here wasn’t easy, as there were too many people, and Sheyin City had regulations. Other than specific landing places designated for flying out of the city, flying wasn’t allowed in the other streets and alleys.
The entire city was under aerial control.
After trekking for half an hour, they finally approached the city center.
Ahead was already the central forbidden zone of the city, impossible to go further, encircled by a city wall only two meters high, but no one dared to casually climb over this low wall.
Xiang Beifei looked up, already able to see the litian spear up close from here. Of course, the litian spear was still approximately a kilometer away, but from here, it shot skyward, exuding a vast aura that awed one’s spirit.
"I only walked this far earlier and didn’t go further, but I saw a river over here," Li Qianluo signaled Xiang Beifei to turn left, bypassing a willow tree, where there was a three to four-meter-wide stream behind it.
"This river continues into the city wall, and there seems to be a special aura underneath. I can’t quite describe what it is, but this river is closely related to Sheyin City’s Formation," said Li Qianluo.
Xiang Beifei looked at the flowing river. The water was clear enough to see the bottom, with aquatic plants swaying beneath.
Yet the more he looked, the more familiar this river seemed. To be precise, it was the aura emanating from the river that was familiar—very oppressive. Though the water was lively, it exuded an indescribable dead energy.
This wasn’t the Ruishui River, nor was it any other river he had seen before.
Xiang Beifei and Xiaohei suddenly exchanged glances, surprised.
"Feifei, am I seeing things?" Xiaohei asked.
"It should be right. I didn’t expect the source to be here," Xiang Beifei said in a deep voice.