plumnovel Chapter 553 - 257: Li Changqing’s Backup Plan (Part 2)
Chapter 553 - 257: Li Changqing’s Backup Plan (Part 2)
"I don’t know." Li Hengsheng shook his head.
"Tomorrow morning, we all have to go to work, Li Yun, you know that, right? Our Human Race has it tough here, there’s always too much work to finish, and the pay is miserably low. But wanting to return to the Human Race’s territories is not so easy."
Huang Li rambled on.
"How tough is it?"
Li Hengsheng curiously inquired about the situation.
If I were to escape this Ghost City, where else could I go?
"How tough is it?"
Huang Li smiled and said, "It’s virtually impossible, unless you’re a powerhouse like the Great Martial Sect of the Human Race or a land-based Immortal. Otherwise, if you leave Ghost City, you won’t get far before being caught and drained by the powerful Blood Ghost clan of the Ghost Race."
"The Cloud Wasteland is full of dangers. Even if you’re in the Innate Realm, it’s risky to wander around without the protection of the City Lord of Ghost City; the Human Race finds it hard to survive in the Cloud Wasteland."
Hearing Huang Li’s words, Li Hengsheng had a rough idea in his heart.
The Cloud Wasteland is filled with the Ghost Race. Escaping to the Eastern Wilderness sounds unrealistic. If I don’t leave here, once my portrait gets to Ghost City, I won’t escape death. Even if caught and sent to Monarch Yuehan, dying might not be easy.
Never mind, first heal the wounds.
Li Hengsheng nodded, ignoring Huang Li, and sat on the bed to heal.
Until night, the Ghost Race brought meals.
The food was awful, using some unknown material to make buns that were as hard as stones, with a rancid taste. Li Hengsheng almost vomited after one bite but had no choice since there was nothing else to eat.
Huang Li, however, seemed to enjoy the meal, leaving Li Hengsheng speechless.
How does he even eat such stuff?
Finally, it was midnight.
Li Hengsheng felt his injuries were mostly healed.
His strength was about eighty percent recovered.
Unfortunately, his Immortal-Extinguishing Spear was nowhere to be found.
The only solace was Li Hengsheng’s hidden ring on his finger, given by Li Changqing when he arrived at the White Snake Dao, with instructions to open a box inside if something happened.
Li Hengsheng hadn’t forgotten, despite witnessing his father’s death, he remained hopeful as he retrieved the blue box from the ring.
Gently opening the box.
By the moonlight, Li Hengsheng saw a treasure inside.
It was a wooden carving.
Seeing the carving, Li Hengsheng’s eyes moistened, as he finally understood everything.
Why his cultivation path suddenly became smooth.
From a chore disciple at Wanzai Peak to a direct disciple at Muhai Peak, the wooden carvings by Wu Daozi, and the phoenix carving that saved his life, the origins were now clear.
Li Changqing, Cyan Lotus Sword Venerable.
He risked offending Guanglan Palace, battling the Su family’s Great Martial Sect, and later gave so much Dragon Blood Essence.
A father’s love.
Otherwise, how else could he earn others’ favor?
Why enjoy Crown Prince’s treatment at the Evergreen Commerce Association?
Everything was clear now.
Li Hengsheng took out the wooden carving, finding it strange.
The top looked like a lotus, but the base resembled a lampstand.
Carved intricately.
And the wood felt exceptional.
After feeling it closely, Li Hengsheng was shocked. He realized the treasure’s name.
"Treasure Lotus Lamp?"
Moreover, inside the Treasure Lotus Lamp, Li Hengsheng sensed a familiar aura, his father’s.
A trace of Li Changqing’s aura was hidden in the Treasure Lotus Lamp.
Li Hengsheng tried to communicate with the aura, but to no avail.
The treasure must be activated to contact Li Changqing.
Li Hengsheng felt helpless, still in the Postnatal Great Perfection Realm; he needed to reach the Innate Realm and possess Innate True Essence to activate the treasure.
Carefully storing the Treasure Lotus Lamp back in the box and putting it in the ring for safekeeping.
Li Hengsheng believed his father wouldn’t die easily, perhaps the Treasure Lotus Lamp was the key to his resurrection.
Celestial Sea City.
Monarch Yuehan awoke from cultivation, an intense rage visible in his eyes.
"Damn it..."
Yuehan struggled to break through to the Great Freedom realm, yet failed.
Realized after days that he was missing One Soul of his Three Souls and Seven Spirits!
Li Changqing hid one Soul!
"Damn Li Changqing, though dead, where did he hide that Soul?" Yuehan couldn’t understand.
Now, having gathered Three Souls, with Seven Spirits down to Six, missing one Soul meant he couldn’t survive. Astoundingly, he couldn’t sense his own missing Soul.
This puzzled Yuehan more.
Even with Three Souls and Six Spirits, and his king-level Divine Soul, he couldn’t find the last Soul.
Yuehan was bewildered.
Brought Yue Zhiming to use reverse-heaven techniques through causality to locate his final Soul.
Ultimately, Yue Zhiming, with little lifespan left, overdrew three years to use these techniques, finding Yuehan’s last Soul shielded, undetectable.
What treasure could do this?
Yuehan suspected Li Changqing possessed a Painting Immortal level artifact, otherwise, how could he hide his last Soul?
Such suspicions fueled Yuehan’s anger.
By his plan, merging with Li Changqing would lead to the Great Freedom realm, becoming a Painting Immortal!
Wielding the Human King’s Brush, becoming the Cangyuan Realm’s most powerful.
Seizing the Cangyuan Seal, capturing Li Hengsheng for World Origin Pearl information, ultimately obtaining treasures and reaching immortality.
Achieving true Immortality.
Invincible in the world.
Li Changqing blocked the first step.
Years of scheming, stuck at the start, how could Yuehan not be furious?
All forces frantically searched for Li Hengsheng.
Who wouldn’t want a Painting Immortal Level treasure?
Meanwhile, Li Hengsheng was hiding in Ghost City, feeding horses under a false identity.
Always watched.
Li Hengsheng suspected Hai Dongsheng, thinking he’d aroused suspicion, surrounded by watchful eyes.
Days passed without action, dutifully completing tasks, gathering information on Ghost City.
Ghost City’s City Lord wasn’t in town.
General De Kang was absent, allowing Hai Dongsheng to arrogantly enslave the Human Race.
Only a mysterious Governor was present.
Unseen by anyone.
Li Hengsheng scoped the vicinity, finding the nearest city five thousand miles away, fraught with danger.
Escaping would lead nowhere without returning alive to Eastern Wilderness.
On that day.
A massive cyan bird descended upon the City Lord’s Mansion.
A Ghost Race member held a scroll from the bird, turning to leave.
Unawares, a figure appeared behind him.
"Governor, sir."
The Ghost Race member spoke hurriedly.
"What are you holding?" the Governor asked with a smile.
"Sir, this is a portrait of Li Hengsheng wanted by Realm Master Cangyuan," the Ghost Race member said.
"Oh?"
The Governor extended his hand, "Let me see."