sinovels Chapter 187 Killing the Mastermind
Chapter 187 Killing the Mastermind
Chapter 187 Killing the Mastermind
Whether it was the Morning Bell of the Second Day or the Death Pass, they both gave Li Jiuhe the same clue: to pass through the crack in the sky that had never closed.
"To know the whole truth?"
Li Jiuhe raised his head and stared at the strange crack.
After rescuing the Morning Bell, he discovered that he and the Morning Bell had completely merged, with no longer any barriers between them.
With a single thought, the two stone figures belonging to the morning bell could merge into his body.
As for Li Jiuhe himself, he felt a sense of interdependence with the morning bell, no longer like before, where the bell simply followed him and he could only see it when he looked up.
It's a wonderful feeling of fusion.
But he couldn't say for sure whether it belonged to the same sequence of devouring and fusion.
This was not the time to ponder this. Without further hesitation, he strode to the bottom of the rift in the sky. After a brief moment of sensing, he realized that the two stone figures were still inside him, at his command.
He could even clearly sense the morning bell at 27, without needing to turn around to check.
Even now, after killing the old man's two recovering bodies, he realizes that the mission he set to eliminate the mastermind is still incomplete.
There must be some secrets hidden within that I am unaware of.
Perhaps only by crossing this crack in the sky can we learn the truth about everything.
Li Jiuhe bent his knees slightly, looked up at the sky, and with a little effort, he sprang up, leaping more than twenty meters high until his figure disappeared into the strange crack.
Almost at the same moment, the crack began to shrink visibly.
A few seconds later, the sky returned to calm, and there was no longer any sign of anything unusual.
It's clear that the crack persisted for some time before disappearing because it was affected by the power of the Morning Bell on the 27th; otherwise, the sky should have returned to normal long ago.
After entering the rift in the sky, Li Jiuhe plunged headlong into the deep darkness.
However, this time was very short. He only felt his vision go black for a moment, and then a bright light enveloped his entire body.
My feet suddenly felt heavy, and I was standing on the ground.
He looked around and found himself standing in an unfamiliar living room.
To be precise, it was a large villa. No one was seen inside, but a strange and unpleasant smell could be detected.
Li Jiuhe didn't know where he was, but he was certain that he had returned to the real world, rather than going to another alternate dimension.
The moment he came into contact with the light, the divination spell within him was triggered again, and his whole body began to itch slightly, as if weeds were growing wildly inside him.
Soon, the power of the two stone figures rose, and the stone figures of the Morning Palace immediately emitted a layer of petrifying energy within Li Jiuhe's body.
Li Jiuhe's body surface instantly turned stone gray and hardened rapidly, but it was not completely stone-like.
However, this state was enough to delay the onset of Li Jiuhe's divination curse, allowing him to temporarily come into contact with the sunlight and suppress the growth of the curse within his body for a short period of time.
He just had to constantly endure the tingling and itching sensation all over his body.
Despite his physical discomfort, he walked into the middle of the living room and saw a huge calligraphy scroll hanging on the wall of the villa's living room. The characters inside were vigorous and powerful, each stroke strong and forceful.
The title of the calligraphy copybook alone made his pupils shrink slightly.
【Guan's Sequence Maxims】
Seeing the dawn and dusk, gathering the stars.
Before the third watch drum has ceased, the world is as dusty as a mirror.
Golden-inlaid sword, ninefold gate.
Do not ask about the path you came from; all of you are lamplighters.
At the same moment, the text of the death pass quickly appeared before Li Jiuhe's eyes, revealing his indescribable excitement and agitation.
[Holy crap, Li Jiuhe, my dear collaborator, so your nemesis really is the Guan family of Xiongfengling! I only realized this after entering this place. The mastermind behind your attacks is in this villa, in the bedroom on the second floor. He's also my delicious meal. I beg you, you absolutely must take him down!]
Li Jiuhe gleaned more information from the text on the pass and asked telepathically, "Do you already know this person's identity?"
"Okay, okay, I know everything now that I'm here. Hurry up and go to the master bedroom, talking as you go—"
Knowing the situation was critical, Li Jiuhe didn't delay any longer and immediately headed towards the stairwell.
At the same time, more passage text appeared before him, quickly explaining it to him.
[You and your colleagues have roughly guessed that the person's sequence ability is "Grand Diviner," and yes, he is indeed a Grand Diviner. However, he is not two people; your colleague, skilled in tracking, was misled by this guy's ability.]
"What? Not two people?" Li Jiuhe asked in surprise.
He quickly climbed the stairs and headed towards the second-floor corridor, his eyes fixed on a closed door in the middle of the corridor as he rapidly approached.
Yes, there aren't two people behind it, there's only one. And the terrifyingly powerful old man we encountered earlier was actually his clone.
Li Jiuhe arrived at the bedroom door, gently pressed down the doorknob and pushed it open. The door was not locked from the inside and was immediately pushed open.
The first thing you see is an enormous bed, lying across the spacious master bedroom.
The extremely strange smell from before became even stronger at this moment, making Li Jiuhe feel like vomiting.
The source of the smell was the enormous, custom-made bed in front of him, a bed that could probably not be bought anywhere else.
At this moment, a person was lying on the bed, his body like a small hill. At first glance, it was almost impossible to tell that it was a person. At this moment, the person's body was rising and falling.
The words on the death pass continued to appear.
[Great Diviners, this type of Sequence Master is very powerful, generally belonging to the Gold Sequence, and this Great Diviner from the Guan family should have already reached the "Super-Rank" level! However, all Diviners have a fatal flaw, which is that revealing heavenly secrets will cause backlash, so they will use various means to resolve or transfer this backlash.]
[The method by which this great diviner from the Guan family transferred himself likely involved separating a "divination body," essentially his clone. Although I've never seen him, legend has it he was incredibly obese, far beyond your imagination, so his true body couldn't move at all. Instead, he used a divination body separated during his sleep to shield himself from the backlash he received for revealing heavenly secrets.]
Over time, his divine body grew stronger and stronger; his recovery ability alone was unmatched by other sequence users.
Li Jiuhe was completely stunned, staring blankly at the huge, obese body on the bed.
Recalling the plump hand that had reached out from the crack in the sky inside the Second Seven Morning Bell space, it seemed to be the hand of the obese body before him.
"Who exactly is this person?" he asked Death Pass, staring intently at the obese body on the bed.
His name is Guan Qingzheng, an elder of the Guan family and one of the family's leaders, but almost everyone calls him Third Master Guan!
"Lord Guan?!"
All the clues converged in Li Jiuhe's mind at this moment, and things he had never been able to understand before suddenly became clear.
The person who secretly contacted and commanded Si Mingyu was none other than Master Guan. Only someone as powerful and influential as Master Guan could win Si Mingyu's respect.
While Guan Yu appeared to be too obese to move, he had actually secretly developed his own divination body, allowing him to move without any hindrance.
This divination body not only helps him avoid the backlash from revealing heavenly secrets, but it also becomes stronger with practice, and can even take his place outside when he is asleep.
The figure in the divination is the second Guan Yu.
However, even among the Guan family members, probably only a very small number know about this.
If it weren't for the knowledgeable and experienced person with a death pass explaining things to Li Jiuhe, Li Jiuhe would still be completely bewildered even now that he's in this place.
Guan Sanye's divination form later appeared on the stage in Tongcheng. After Si Mingyu's defeat, he immediately abandoned this pawn and then used Si Mingyu's name to have Guan Chuandao, a backward branch of the Guan family, carry out his backup plan.
So in reality, the black box was not sent by Si Mingyu, but by Guan Sanye using his divination form to deliver it to Guan Chuandao's house.
There was no spiritual power in the black box, because Guan Sanye knew very well what Guan Chuandao and the others needed, so he deliberately said that there was a lot of spiritual power in the black box.
This made the Guan family flock to him immediately.
It wasn't until later, before Li Jiuhe's mission was reset, that Guan Jikun opened the black box once and discovered that inside was a passage of a spacetime rift, not the spiritual energy they wanted.
That's why Guan Jikun looked surprised; he knew they had all been deceived.
However, Guan Jikun thought that Si Mingyu was deceiving them, but he never expected that the mastermind was the elder of their family, whom they had always respected—Third Master Guan.
After the Guan family's operation failed, Guan Sanye wanted to continue using his divination body to carry out the follow-up plan, but at that moment, Li Jiuhe's face was blessed with a Nuo mask made by Xu Huaiyuan.
Tong Cheng's facial makeup combined with Xu Huaiyuan's Nuo mask forcibly severed his karmic ties with Guan Yu.
Because Tong Cheng and his apprentice were both very powerful and the incident happened suddenly, even Guan Yu couldn't stop them and lost his attention to Li Jiuhe.
It wasn't until Luo Shuo retraced the origins of the black box that this causal thread was reconnected.
In fact, at that time, Guan Yu's divination body was always hovering near Yuanmeng City.
He knew he was looking for something very important there, doing something very important, but he couldn't remember what it was.
That's why his divination body rushed to the vicinity of the hospital immediately after the cause-and-effect line was reconnected and began to deploy an ambush.
As for the mastermind that Luo Shuo initially tracked down when he was looking for Li Yi in Wangchuan City, it was none other than Guan Sanye, not Si Mingyu.
However, Guan Yu's strength was too great. After discovering that he was being followed, he casually severed the trail, causing Luo Shuo to suffer a severe backlash.
Because Guan Yu possesses the ability to predict the enemy's moves, he can anticipate every step of the way. Even if his plans are temporarily thwarted, he can still proceed with the next one without anyone noticing.
This meant that even though Li Jiuhe seemed to win every time, he could never find the real mastermind behind it all, let alone know the reason why the mastermind did all this.
Now he finally understood why he couldn't kill the old man.
Because as long as Guan Yu's physical body is still alive, the old man, as the divination vessel, can be resurrected almost without limit.
As long as he can absorb enough energy.
As for how Guan Yu's divination body later obtained the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh Day, that remains unknown for the time being.
However, one good thing is that the original Tongue of the Dead has already been destroyed in the containment facility.
The other tongue of the dead was later eaten by the black ant larvae that Li Jiuhe threw to Ma Li.
The Tongue of the Dead was already scarce, and this loss of two meant that even a powerful being like Guan Yu could not find another one.
Even Guo Fan from the Guo family was preparing to use the Rubik's Cube Haunted House ability to replace the Tongue of the Dead.
Therefore, even though Guan Yu temporarily obtained the Erkang Morning Bell and got close to Gong Li Jiuhe, he was unable to carry out his original plan.
All the clues converge on the image of the enormous fat man before the bow.
At this moment, the bed's obese body was already wriggling, as if Guan Yu wanted to turn over and get up, but he was too fat and could not do it by himself.
So as soon as he moved, the sensors by the bed immediately sounded, alerting the servants who were taking care of him to come over.
After a brief moment of shock and sudden realization, the sound from the sensor pulled Li Jiuhe back to reality.
At the same time, a text message indicating death from the travel document also flashed.
[Kill him immediately! His physical body is immobile and not as strong as his divination form, and if his divination form were to be controlled by him, it would suffer a backlash! This is the heart of the Guan family territory; if we delay too long, even more powerful Sequence Users will arrive!]
Seeing that the fat man on the bed was struggling to lift his head and seemed to have sensed something, Li Jiuhe immediately stepped forward, and the illusory weight appeared out of thin air, then solidified and pressed down hard on the fat man.
Guan Yu also sensed that danger was approaching.
He was actually quite surprised at that moment, because everything he had done in the dream had been severed upon waking up.
He couldn't understand why Li Jiuhe was still following him, and even went directly into the heart of his Guan family's territory in Xiongfeng Ridge!
That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he had already been "tracking" Li Jiuhe's movements, and Li Jiuhe's every move could not be hidden from him.
Unless the causal relationship between the target and oneself is temporarily severed.
However, the cause and effect have not been severed, but he failed to grasp Li Jiuhe's movements in advance, and only discovered that the other party had already entered his own lair.
Guan Yu was unaware that this was due to the existence of the Qinglian Boy, a magical creature.
Unless he sees the Azure Lotus Child with his own eyes, the child's sequence ability will keep the child temporarily outside this causal chain.
Currently, Li Jiuhe still possesses the Green Lotus Child. Although the karmic connection between him and Guan Yu cannot be severed, his movements are no longer tracked by the "divination," making him unpredictable.
This is why they were able to intercept Guan Yu's spirit in the hospital stairwell and simultaneously enter the heart of Guan Yu's territory.
The heavy weight was about to smash into Guan Sanye's face, causing his entire body of fat to tremble violently. Aunt Kai let out a furious roar.
The roar visibly created sound waves, and with a whoosh, it washed away almost everything in the master bedroom, including the falling weight.
The huge, sturdy bed beneath Guan Yu was also affected by the sound waves and snapped in two with a loud bang, causing Guan Yu and the floor beneath the bed to sink violently.
However, the floor must have been reinforced, because even though it sank into a semi-circle, it still managed to hold Guan Yu's obese body firmly in place, preventing it from being directly pierced.
"Ah, Third Master!"
"You thief Liang! Prepare to die!"
Just then, servants rushed in from outside the door, including the young men and women who usually took care of Guan Yu, as well as the loyal and dutiful steward.
Li Jiuhe knew that a swift and decisive action was crucial. With his left hand, he swung the black iron chain backward, while with his right hand, he controlled the bronze weight to press down hard on Guan Yu once again.
The chain, sharp as the eye of a longbow, pierced through the chest of the first young man who charged ahead.
Undeterred, it passed right through the chest of a young woman behind it.
Although both of them were mid-level cultivators, their cultivation levels were only at the basic level. When facing Li Jiuhe at this moment, they couldn't even withstand a single move.
The chains that pierced through the two beams did not stop; instead, they made a whooshing sound as they attacked the butler behind them.
This steward is far more powerful than the previous two. He is a high-level Silver Thread Sequencer and a confidant of Master Guan.
Only Guan Yu himself knows the truth about the birth of the hexagram body.
As the black iron chains approached with terrifying force, the butler knew something was wrong. He immediately activated his sequence ability, instantly compressing his body into a thin, beam-shaped blade.
The chain lock slammed against the blade with a thud.
The butler's blade was originally extremely sharp, but the lock was not cut off; instead, it was bounced off intact.
At the same moment, the bronze weight on the other side pressed down once again.
This time, Guan Yu couldn't unleash the roar from the bow. Instead, he rolled to the side with all his might. His mountain-like body moved the bow a short distance with difficulty, but he was still hit on half of his body by the falling weight.
Guan Yu let out a miserable scream.
In fact, he had already suffered a great loss in his sleep. His hexagram body was interrupted repeatedly during the recovery period, which resulted in it being unable to take shape again.
Now that his physical strength is weakened, the fat hand in his dream was also broken by Li Jiuhe's chains, severing two of the bows.
These were all serious injuries to Guan Yu.
Moreover, Li Jiuhe's strength has increased dramatically, especially his physical attacks, which are now unprecedentedly powerful.
The half of his body that was hit instantly turned into minced meat, splattering everywhere, and a strong smell of blood filled the air.
Just as Li Jiuhe was about to continue the pursuit, a text message from the Death Pass appeared before his eyes.
[Enough, I can absorb his aura right now! I've already connected the Wuwai to a side path leading to the Ghost Forest; once this is over, we'll leave immediately.]
The moment the text disappeared, new text immediately appeared.
[This is bad! A powerful aura is approaching from the northwest, and it should be heading towards the Guan family's main residence! Quick and decisive action, leave no survivors!]
Upon learning that the travel permit already allowed him to consume the vital Guan Yu, Li Jiuhe immediately turned around and simultaneously placed the bronze weight and black iron chain towards the steward behind him.
The steward felt a chill run down his spine. He had never expected Li Jiuhe to be so powerful. In this emergency, even Guan Yu's divination form hadn't appeared, so it was highly likely that it had already been destroyed by the opponent.
Facing the attacks of chains and weights alone, the steward immediately assumed the most powerful blade-like shape and slashed fiercely at the two offensive magical weapons.
A resounding metallic clang erupted.
The entire room was instantly torn in two by a powerful burst of energy, revealing half of the sky.
The butler's razor-sharp body trembled violently, let out a scream, and then turned into pieces of metal, which, along with the torn house, floated into the air.
Even though he was a high-ranking Silver Thread cultivator, he was still no match for Li Jiuhe and the two stone beams.
"Are you done?"
Li Jiuhe's eyes were bloodshot. He turned his head to look in the direction of Guan Sanye, actually to inquire about the death certificate.
Okay, okay, there's still a little bit left, but don't—
The words appeared before my eyes.
Looking at Guan Yu again, one could see that the fat man was now only half a body, with the remaining half of his body almost completely turned into a blurry mess of flesh and blood.
Absorbing his power from the Token will not affect his appearance. However, most of Guan Yu's current sequence energy has been absorbed by the Token.
Guan Yu was barely breathing; because he was already obese, it was impossible for him to lift his head.
Let's go, the path has already been opened, let's leave here and talk about it later!
Beside Li Jiuhe, a hazy mist formed, about the height of a beam, and was slowly flowing. Li Jiuhe could step into it in just a few steps.
Just as he was about to go over, a thought suddenly struck him.
He quickly approached the dying Guan Yu, who was staring blankly at him with only one eye left, unable to react.
Li Jiuhe took out a delicate knife and, as he was carrying the bow, plunged it into the bow.
"Sorry, your plan has failed again!"
The knife pierced Guan Yu's only eye, reaching all the way to his brain, leaving only a small part of the hilt sticking out.
Li Jiuhe didn't draw his knife; instead, he twisted it violently, turned around, and rushed into the thin mist.
The thin mist trembled and disappeared.
Three seconds later, a powerful and imposing aura descended from the sky, but it was a hunched-over old man.
"Upright and honest!"
The old man seemed to have cataracts in both eyes, his pupils were grayish-white, but he could clearly perceive the things around him and spotted the spot where Guan Yu was lying at a glance.
He rushed forward and touched him; Guan Yu had just died.
Just then, several more people arrived. Among these people, some were as strong as the old man, while others were far weaker.
Everyone looked horrified as they watched this horrific scene.
Before long, Liang approached half of Guan Yu's face and carefully examined the exquisite dagger stuck in his eye socket.
"A quinoa-patterned knife?! It's from the Guo family!"
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