Gateway of Immortality-Chapter 900: Connecting the Dots

Everyone present was a wily old fox and naturally would not be so easily fooled. Yet Landou Sect indeed had two Spiritual Infant grandmasters. Abbot Lu had publicly admitted that the man was his fellow senior brother from the most mysterious branch of the sect.

Moreover, they could not see what was happening inside the bamboo lodge. They only heard the accusation but not Abbot Lu’s rebuttal.

Though the lodge was shrouded in a sea of blood and did not resemble orthodox methods, the others knew nothing of the handed-down art of Douniu Peak. With such secrecy, there had to be a reason. Even if they cultivated some form of devilish art, it would not be surprising.

All these coincidences mixed together, and it was impossible for them not to harbor suspicion.

If they involved themselves in the Landou Sect’s internal strife, their own safety was secondary. Should their sects be implicated, one careless move could see the foundations their ancestors left destroyed.

With the situation unclear, everyone was filled with misgivings. They kept their eyes fixed on the bamboo lodge, thinking through countless possibilities, unsure whether they should intervene or how to intervene.

Meanwhile, Daoist Fang never expected to deceive them for long. He only needed to trap Abbot Lu. Once his junior brothers succeeded, he would immediately withdraw.

Amidst the chaos, no one noticed that Daoist Master Ming Yue had vanished. Qin Sang was already racing toward the location of his incarnation. In his hand was the Qingfu Coin, and the child coin had already returned.

Before the upheaval inside the lodge, Qin Sang had sensed something strange with the Qingfu Coin and received a message from his incarnation, though he did not know what had happened. As he was burning with anxiety and pondering how to break away, the lodge erupted into battle.

Landou Sect’s internal strife involved the Douniu Peak that concerned him most. He was naturally curious about what was happening inside, but he had not expected his incarnation to encounter trouble at such a time.

Now he could only set this matter aside and seize the chance to escape, rescuing his incarnation as the priority.

"My incarnation carries the Essence-Devouring Spike and the Sky-Eyed Butterfly. What on Dongming Island could threaten him? And yet both sides crossed paths at this very moment. Had I known, I would not have sent him out..." Qin Sang sighed in regret.

Unleashing his evasion technique with full force, he raced against time. Soon, he reached the outskirts of Landou Sect’s territory.

Ahead, chaotic streams of evasion light surged toward him. Clearly, the Landou Sect disciples had discovered something unusual at the entrance.

Qin Sang slipped into the shadows, his speed undiminished. Passing under their very noses, he darted inside. Before long, he finally sensed his incarnation’s location, and relief washed over him. The incarnation was safe.

Qin Sang flickered forward, silently slipping through the barriers. He caught his incarnation’s thoughts and instantly understood everything that had happened. He was greatly astonished.

"You leave with them and use the chance to get away!" Qin Sang decided at once, instructing his incarnation to withdraw.

The incarnation was no longer needed. It was best he left this place of danger and found a safe refuge, lest he be dragged into the chaos.

As only a Qi Refining disciple, as long as he was cautious enough, none of the experts would notice him.

The incarnation nodded lightly and turned to depart.

Standing atop the mountain, Qin Sang looked out over the dark forest, still wearing a stunned expression. He had never expected things to develop this way, as if he had run into old enemies once more.

His incarnation and the Sky-Eyed Butterfly had discovered Zhao Songqiao’s strange actions and personally witnessed him releasing a witch race gu insect.

This immediately made the incarnation recall the Black Snake Mountain cultivators who had infiltrated human territory and once set a trap for his true body.

It seemed too much of a coincidence, but there was no doubt Zhao Songqiao had witch race cultivators behind him, and was also targeting Landou Sect.

Their true purpose, however, was unknown. Why arrange for someone to sneak a gu insect into the Dark Lightning Wood grove?

Because of this, the incarnation had ordered the Sky-Eyed Butterfly not to alarm Zhao Songqiao but to watch quietly.

After releasing the gu insect, Zhao Songqiao flew deeper into the forest, arriving at its innermost depths, where the great array of Dongming Island reached its edge, sealed by white mist.

There, he produced over a dozen black flags the incarnation had never seen before. He planted them into the ground of a clearing, and they vanished. They looked very much like forbidden artifacts.

He then stood still, as if waiting for a certain moment. The gu insect meanwhile fluttered through the forest as though searching for something.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly followed, and finally saw it stop above an inconspicuous pond. After a brief pause, it returned to Zhao Songqiao.

Without the gu insect leading the way, it would have been nearly impossible to notice anything unusual there.

Fixing its gaze on the pond, the Sky-Eyed Butterfly discovered a barrier sealed within. It was far stronger than any the incarnation had encountered on Dongming Island so far, incomparable to the two-layer barriers he had seen. There had to be a secret of Landou Sect hidden inside!

Just as the incarnation considered whether to inform the true body, a sudden change occurred. Zhao Songqiao and the gu insect finally acted.

He cast one incantation after another into the clearing, raising the black flags from the earth to form a great array. Black smoke billowed from the flags, growing denser and denser. The gu insect trembled its wings and dove into the smoke.

The gathered smoke rose, drifting upward toward the mist. When the two different auras met, they clashed violently, like oil poured onto fire.

The black smoke carried a corrosive power and gradually contaminated the white mist. At the same time, strange movements stirred outside Dongming Island.

Seeing this, the incarnation understood that they were working inside and out together to break the great array of Dongming Island!

This array had been laid by the sect leader of Landou Sect with the combined strength of several sects. Even a Spiritual Infant grandmaster would have found it difficult to break. Yet now, with the array weakened from the Dharma Assembly and with this flag array designed specifically to break it, their inside-out cooperation might truly breach the mist.

How many people are outside? What cultivation level? There likely are no Spiritual Infant cultivators, otherwise they would not go to such trouble to infiltrate.

The incarnation’s cultivation was too low. Afraid of exposure, he dared not stay. He quickly crushed the Qingfu Coin to notify the true body and ordered the Sky-Eyed Butterfly to act with caution.

After understanding everything, Qin Sang immediately realized that what was happening inside the bamboo pavilion was not sect infighting at all. Those three disciples from Douniu Peak were working to aid outsiders in breaking into Dongming Island!

The disk that controlled the island’s great array was in Abbot Lu’s hands. If enemies attacked the array, he would immediately sense it. With so many Core Formation cultivators on the island, they could never be allowed to enter unchecked.

But Abbot Lu was trapped in the bamboo lodge, sealed within the sea of blood, unable to send word. The others’ attention was already entangled elsewhere, unable to notice the anomaly here in time.

By the time that side resolved matters, these infiltrators would have long since succeeded and vanished without a trace.

At the same time, Qin Sang connected the threads further.

Witch race's gu insects, Landou Sect, Douniu Peak, some unknown treasure, the Dark Lightning Wood grove, the barrier-sealed pond and...

Black Snake Mountain, that mysterious group who could subdue the Kui Dragon and cultivate terrifying lightning techniques.

Piece by piece, it all seemed to connect together!