Eternal Life by Daily Divination

「A few days later.」

Li Chang’an returned to Changqing Mountain.

He took a large amount of Array Materials, made a trip to the Mo Family, and added several Quasi-Tier Four Arrays for them.

After finishing this, he began to focus on his plan to deal with Gu Yunqi, taking stock of his own abilities in the process.

His Divination Skill had reached Tier Four Low Grade. This ability alone was enough to crush Gu Yunqi.

Additionally, his Quasi-Tier Four Grand Array could unleash power that surpassed the Golden Core Limit.

The Evil Soul’s strength had also surpassed the Golden Core Limit.

’As for my Sword Arrays, I’ve already reached Great Success and can perfectly control eighty-one streams of Tier Three Top Grade Sword Qi.’

With a thought from Li Chang’an, eighty-one wisps of Sword Qi appeared.

The Sword Array formed from this Sword Qi possessed a power far beyond the Golden Core Limit. In terms of pure killing power, it was much stronger than the Evil Soul and the Quasi-Tier Four Grand Array.

Unfortunately, Li Chang’an still hadn’t found a way to balance the Yin Yang Sword Array.

If he could add the Da Geng Golden Sword Formation to it...

The combined power of the two Sword Arrays would surely be even greater, perhaps even posing a slight threat to a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

’Forget it. These abilities should be enough. After all, Gu Yunqi isn’t a Nascent Soul.’

Li Chang’an had made ample preparations.

Soon, he left Changqing Mountain and entered the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Gu Yunqi had visited this Secret Realm before, simply because Wei Xu had once found an Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill here that hadn’t lost much of its potency.

If one pill could be found, it was possible to find more!

For this very reason, Li Chang’an chose the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm as the place to deal with Gu Yunqi.

He ventured deep into the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, selected a set of Ancient Sect Ruins, and began setting up his arrangements within them.

In just three short days, he used a massive amount of Array Treasures to lay down over twenty Quasi-Tier Four Grand Arrays in the ruins!

These Arrays were layered one upon another, intricately linked and endlessly variable. Breaking one would only reveal more. Each was designed to force Gu Yunqi to use at least one of his Tier Four Cards.

Additionally, Li Chang’an placed two Tier Four Turtle Shells within the formation.

With the two Turtle Shells as the core, the entire ruins became saturated with the profound and mysterious Power of Divination of the Tier Four level.

Deep within the ruins, he buried a large number of terrifyingly powerful Tier Three Top Grade Magical Pills.

These Magical Pills could detonate instantly, with each explosion’s power equivalent to a strike from a Late Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

Afterward, Li Chang’an began to place some Ancient Treasures.

He had sourced all of these Treasures from various places in the Zhao Country, and they were steeped in an aura of age, antiquity, and decay.

Once his arrangements were complete, the entire ruins were filled with the aura of Treasures.

If an outsider were to come here, they would surely believe that there were still many undiscovered Ancient Treasures left in these ruins.

’That should do it!’

With a wave of his hand, Li Chang’an tossed three glittering golden Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills inside.

He activated the Array, causing the ruins within to become blurry and indistinct, with only the faint glow of numerous Treasures visible.

After that, he deliberately created a crack in one of the Arrays, making it look as if it had been damaged by the passage of time.

The scent of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills drifted out through the crack.

’Three whole Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills... I refuse to believe Gu Yunqi won’t take the bait!’

Li Chang’an was full of confidence.

He controlled the puppet, Qin Hong, to cross the border between the Two Domains and quietly arrive at the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Then, using Qin Hong’s body, he recorded an image of the ruins with a Memory Stone and captured the leaking scent of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills.

After doing all this, Li Chang’an had Qin Hong return to the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm and get back aboard the Yellow Sand Sect’s Flying Ship.

He didn’t seek out Gu Yunqi immediately, but instead waited quietly for the Divination to appear.

That night at Midnight, a golden light appeared before his eyes.

[Divination has been refreshed]

[Today’s Divination: Auspicious]

[You use the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills as bait to lure Gu Yunqi into a trap, successfully refining him into a puppet and obtaining the final key to the Ancient Wood Cave Mansion.]

’An Auspicious Trigram. This matter is settled!’

Li Chang’an secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He had been preparing for this day for many years.

If something had gone wrong, he didn’t know how much longer he would have had to prepare to get the final key.

He collected himself, refusing to get careless, and had Qin Hong find Gu Yunqi on the Flying Ship.

"Daoist Gu, I spent the last few days in the Southern Domain’s Thousand Lakes Secret Realm."

"Daoist Qin, what were you doing in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm?"

Gu Yunqi’s tone was placid as he asked casually.

Li Chang’an replied, "Ruins from the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty once appeared in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, so I thought I’d try my luck. I hoped I might find more ruins from the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty."

"Oh? Did you find anything, Daoist Qin?"

"I didn’t find any Great Jin ruins, but I did discover something that might interest you, Daoist Gu."

A flash of Spiritual Light appeared in Li Chang’an’s hand, revealing two items.

They were a Memory Stone and a Jade Bottle.

Inside the Jade Bottle was the sealed scent of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill.

A look of suspicion crossed Gu Yunqi’s face as he took the Memory Stone and the Jade Bottle, extending his Divine Sense into each of them in turn.

The next moment, his mind trembled, and even his aura fell into disarray for an instant.

The image in the Memory Stone showed three blurry Elixir Pills. Although they were obscured by an Array and couldn’t be seen clearly, their glittering golden halos sparked a guess in his mind.

The scent from the Jade Bottle confirmed Gu Yunqi’s suspicion.

"Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills!"

The potency of these three Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills didn’t seem to have faded much over the years.

The scent they gave off was far superior to the one Wei Xu had obtained back then.

Gu Yunqi took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement and trying his best to remain calm.

He looked up and asked, "Daoist Qin, were you unable to retrieve those three Treasure Pills because an Array was blocking the way?"

"That’s right!"

Li Chang’an nodded in response.

"There’s a Quasi-Tier Four Array inside those ruins. If I wanted to break it with brute force, I’d have to use up a Tier Four Card. But unlike you, Daoist Gu, I don’t have a Nascent Soul Master, so I don’t have many Tier Four Cards."