area51novel Chapter 304 Breakthrough, Treasure Hunt 2
Chapter 304 Breakthrough, Treasure Hunt 2
Chapter 304 Breakthrough, Treasure Heist 2
It's certainly good to discover that the Holy Spirit Cult isn't a monolithic entity, but the Tang Clan doesn't currently possess much useful information, and further analysis won't yield any concrete results. The real battle is about to begin, and cultivating one's spirit is what the Tang Clan members should be doing.
Having been tricked by the Holy Spirit Cult, even though Electrolux intervened to eliminate the threat, Beibei still felt mentally exhausted. In order not to hinder the operation that night, Beibei took Tang Ya back to the room to meditate and rest, leaving the communication with Shrek Academy entirely to Xu Sanshi and He Caitou.
After tapping a few times on his phone and receiving a reply, Long You greeted his friends from the Tang Clan, then decisively activated his spatial concealment soul guide array and disappeared from their sight. He then swaggered away from the Mingyue Hotel and headed south of Mingdu City.
Huo Yuhao, still in the conference room, scratched his head, having exhausted all his detection methods, but still couldn't find any clues about Long You's whereabouts. After discussing Long You's possible actions with Elder Yi and the others in his sea of consciousness, he also left the Mingyue Hotel using a simulated soul skill. Having come all this way to Mingdu, it wasn't just Long You who wanted to steal the treasure.
South of the city, in the basement of the Soul Guidance Device Pawnshop.
The tall man in black clothes, with black hair and golden eyes, exuded immense pressure simply by standing there.
"Senior Di Tian, thank you for your hard work. Tonight is the start of the operation. Just in case, you can wait at the hotel now. As soon as Shrek Academy returns, you can take the auspicious beast and leave Mingdu first, and wait for us near the Holy Spirit Cult warehouse in the north of the city."
I will leave Mingdu before nightfall and meet you in the north of the city. We will then complete our planned objective and begin our journey away from Mingdu and the Sun and Moon Empire once darkness has fallen.
"There was nothing difficult about it. It was just a trip to the Heavenly Soul Empire. This is the reward you deserve for rescuing the auspicious beast."
As soon as he finished speaking, Di Tian disappeared into the basement, presumably heading to the Mingyue Hotel. Previously, Long You had told his Tang Sect friends that he needed to use a spatial concealment soul-guiding array to bring the Long family members out of Mingdu, but in reality, as early as the day after the situation with the auspicious beast became clear, Long You had already asked Di Tian to transfer all the Long family members who had come to participate in the competition to the territory of the Heavenly Soul Empire.
Since it involved the schemes of a certain god-king, Electrolux did not reveal the truth to Huo Yuhao, and Long You would never have revealed Di Tian's whereabouts from his side.
Although theoretically Di Tian's whereabouts shouldn't involve the auspicious beasts, caution is never a bad thing. If Long You were to reveal that Di Tian was nearby, and a certain God-King, through Wang Dong'er, learned of this and, fearing Di Tian would disrupt his plans, forcibly rewrite the script, Long You would not only lose his advantage of foresight but could also potentially cause a rebellion among the soul beasts. While the former scenario would be troublesome, Long You could still manage it. The latter, however, was absolutely unacceptable to him, as it would directly disrupt his carefully planned path to godhood.
"I'm back. That Holy Spirit Cult elder has taken the bait."
The silence in the basement didn't last long; Zhang Lexuan's voice pulled Long You back to reality. To successfully pass the evil spirit guardian array in front of the Holy Spirit Cult's treasury, Long You had already devised a fishing plan. Zhang Lexuan's return proved the fish had taken the bait; he just needed to reel them in that afternoon.
"Good job. That guy's strength wasn't beyond my detection, was it?"
Seeing Zhang Lexuan walk into the basement, Long You couldn't help but smile and opened his arms to greet her.
"Don't worry, although that guy is indeed a level 79 peak Soul Saint, as long as he hasn't broken through to Soul Douluo, my grandfather and I can't possibly give him any chance to struggle if we join forces."
Seeing Long You's smile and outstretched arms, Zhang Lexuan felt a little more relaxed. Her tone of voice unconsciously softened, but the content of her words remained authoritative.
On the other side, as Grandpa Long Guozhang stepped into the basement, he couldn't help but stroke his beard as he looked at the scene before him, and said with a smile, "Le Xuan is right. That guy has been following me for two days. He's just a Soul Saint, and there's no regular contact between us. We can take care of him without worry."
Everything was ready except for the final touch. Long You and his two companions treated themselves to a delicious lunch in the pawnshop's kitchen, and then it was time to rest and wait for the sun to set.
...This is a time divider...
As the sun set, in the northern part of the city, not far from the Holy Spirit Cult's warehouse, at the "security post," Long You, with his spatial concealment soul-guiding array disc above him, carefully began setting up an information isolation formation. Just now, Long You had confirmed through his soul-guiding detector that the mind-altering drugs he had accumulated over the past few days had begun to take effect. The Soul Saints and Soul Emperors in the "security post" had lost their ability to detect anything amiss immediately. However, to be on the safe side, Long You still needed to ensure that news of his actions would not be transmitted.
Half an hour later, as the light faded, darkness began to fall. Long You, having successfully set up the information isolation array, waited for his grandfather and Zhang Lexuan to arrive.
After accepting the identity token handed to them by Zhang Lexuan with a smile, Long You and the other two entered the information isolation array without hesitation, using the spatial concealment soul guidance array disc. Once they confirmed the array was activated, a peculiar floral fragrance, infused with a mixture of potent poisons, began to waft through the guardhouse.
The three people gathered together clearly saw that after the fragrance wafted for a full half minute, the evil soul master at the Soul Saint level in the "guard booth" twitched his nose a few times and began to wake up from his meditative state. He seemed to have noticed something, but before the Soul Saint could make any further move, his eyes, which he had opened, closed again, and his body began to sway.
"Five, four, three, two, one, fall down, fall down!"
Originally, seeing that the Soul Saint seemed to be waking up, Long You broke out in a cold sweat, but seeing his reaction, Long You breathed a sigh of relief and even had the mood to imitate a scene from the novel "Water Margin" that he had read in his previous life.
"Snap!" "Thump!"
Just now, in a fit of tension, Grandpa Long Guozhang slapped his grandson across the face. The sound of the slap hitting his head overlapped with the sound of the "security guards" falling to the ground in the "security booth".
Knowing he was in the wrong for putting his heart on the line, Long You could only silently grit his teeth, not even daring to scratch the back of his head. After waiting another five minutes and confirming there were no further changes, Long You then manipulated the spatial concealment soul guide array plate forward. After having Xiao Yan analyze the Soul Saint's storage soul guide device and confirm that there were no traps like "unauthorized opening will result in immediate destruction," he took out the identification token from it.
The operation of combining the identification token and the identity token was not difficult. After confirming that the array pattern generated after the two tokens were combined was indeed effective, Long You took a deep breath and activated the simulation soul skill from Huo Yuhao that Xiao Yan had previously analyzed, simulating his aura as that of the evil soul master who had already been reduced to ashes by Zhang Lexuan and Long Guozhang.
Next comes the most exciting part of the entire "treasure-stealing" operation. After planning for so long, will Long You be able to get through the "portal array" that imprisons the "evil spirit" using these methods?
The spatial concealment soul-guiding array was kept ready to be activated at any time. Zhang Lexuan and Old Master Zhang of Longguo joined forces with Di Tian, who had just revealed himself, at the edge of the evil spirit portal array. If Long You's actions failed to deceive the evil spirit portal array, then Di Tian would intervene to save Long You and eliminate the evil spirit in the process. If everything went smoothly, Long You would go to the warehouse door alone, swipe the token to open the door, and take the contents.