Chapter 1767: Chapter 69: A Duel to the Death with
“Wait, we can’t look at it like this.” Xiang Bei suddenly reached over.
Looking at Tai Yin shrink back abruptly with a wary expression, he found it increasingly inexplicable: “What’s wrong with you?”
Tai Yin let out a dry laugh: “No, nothing. I was just a little nervous because I didn’t know what you wanted to see.”
Xiang Bei pressed a Spirit and Soul Array Map in the air with one hand, placing it before Tai Yin’s right eye, and gently pressed it, causing the map to vanish.
“Use this eye to look, it won’t be detected,” he said.
Only then did Tai Yin roughly realize sothing. He knew Xiang Bei possessed the ability of “anything seen must be perceived,” and understood that this ability stemd from the developnt of Spirit and Soul Power.
After pausing slightly and confirming the distance between himself and Xiang Bei was enough to react, he finally leaned towards the monocular mirror.
What he saw was the magma lake and the person soaking in it.
“Jiang Wang isn’t dead?!”
Tai Yin was visibly more shocked than Xiang Bei, because he was more confident in his judgnt. Back then, Jiang Wang’s traces had indeed faded away.
Either the man was dead, or the traces were scattered.
Two things were essentially one: if all traces of existence are dispersed, can the person survive? Could those Huo Dou possibly save him?
But now, the clear image was right before his eyes—
Jiang Wang had survived and looked to be in good spirits.
“What’s going on?” Tai Yin asked incredulously, “Is the Huo Dou planning to clean him up, cook him, and then eat him?”
Xiang Bei replied: “If they just wanted to eat him cooked, he should have been cooked long ago given all these days.”
“Then for what reason?” Tai Yin was truly puzzled: “They stripped him clean, soaking without a thread in the magma lake. Are they waiting for so festival to enjoy him?”
“Unless we can communicate with the Huo Dou and they are willing to explain to us, otherwise we’ll never understand their thoughts,” Xiang Bei said slowly. “But what’s most important for us now is… since Jiang Wang isn’t dead, the Jade Bi with Orange Ode must still be on him.”
“And we need that Jade Bi,” Tai Yin continued.
“So there’s only one question left.” Xiang Bei’s thoughts were very clear: “Now the enemy is in the light, we are in the dark. The enemy is few, we are many. If we both strike together, can we resolve him and take the Jade Bi in the shortest ti possible?”
Before the plan began, he was cautious and reluctant to rush into a gamble.
But once the plan was set, he refused to hesitate for a mont, no matter what terrible scenario he encountered, focusing single-mindedly on striking the target.
This was indeed the quality of a Famous General—
Aside from being sowhat arrogant and irritable.
Tai Yin silently thought, saying aloud: “If you and I join forces, coupled with a surprise attack, this should not be a problem. The biggest difficulty now is how we can escape once we’ve stirred up the Hudu Group. No matter the reason the Huo Dou left Jiang Wang here, they likely won’t tolerate us intruding into their lair.”
All things and beings have traces.
He was very skilled at observing both things and people.
In the past, it was just a hobby, the lofty perspective of an aristocratic family’s privileged offspring, enjoying the superior insight into various facets of human life. But after Uncle Tai Hua True Man’s death, this beca a crucial ability.
He had to accurately judge which people were opportunistic, who harbored ulterior motives, who were willing to lend a helping hand to the Tai Clan, and who sought to crush the Tai Clan completely…
Xiang Bei was certainly his friend, but Xiang Bei was also the person he wanted to grasp the most accurately.
Because Xiang Bei was personally chosen by Xiang Longxiang as his successor, destined to lead the entire Xiang Family. As a top family in the Overlord Country, even though the Xiang Family’s influence had waned significantly, it was far beyond what his Tai Clan could compare.
He could offer great assistance to the Tai Clan, to him personally…
Making friends with a utilitarian mindset was certainly not comndable. But in the increasingly tense atmosphere and resource-scarce Sumr Country, how should the Tai Clan, having lost its greatest support, stabilize its standing? How many connections could they pull?
The paths to take were indeed few!
“Do not underestimate Jiang Wang.”
Xiang Bei’s expression was very serious at this mont, even staring at Tai Yin, slowly saying: “Even though I’ve fought him before, I never pushed him to his limits. I advise you not to think about how to handle the Huo Dou first, because the task of killing Jiang Wang itself poses a significant challenge.”
Recalling Jiang Wang dodging the Disaster Fighting King Beast’s bite while simultaneously piercing through his palm with that sword…
Instinctive underestimation, perhaps a natural self-justification… A weak person’s choice.
“I think you’re right,” Tai Yin sincerely admitted his mistake. “I shouldn’t underestimate soone with such brilliant achievents. From now on, I will approach this battle with the attitude of facing the strongest enemy of my life. We will devote all our efforts to burying this worthy opponent.”
“I think soone like him, a genius, would not want to live humiliatingly in the Mountain and Sea Realm,” Xiang Bei said. “It’s ti to help him find release.”
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The sadness and joy of humans are never interconnected.
Lord Jiang was soaking in the magma lake, ticulously sorting through himself.
The astounding heat of the deep-sea magma, under the divine light of the Samadhi True Fire, was extrely mild, finely sculpting his already extraordinarily robust physique.
And the developnt of the Sky-reaching Sea, Five Mansions Sea, and Star Sea, these three seas of the human body, was indeed a long-term endeavor.
This seemingly tedious water-grinding effort, not everyone can do it.
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