Chapter 475 - 265: So, You Were Waiting for Me Here?
"They’re said to be looking for a man named Shangguan Yang," the man who was asked replied.
"What do they want with him?" Jiang Man asked immediately.
"I don’t know. They say whoever finds him will get fifty thousand Spiritual Sources." The man looked regretful. "If I knew, I’d really want to be that good samaritan. It’s not even about the Spiritual Source. They just seem to be in a hurry, so it must be for something important."
Hearing this, Jiang Man sighed. "I’d like to be that good samaritan, too."
’Unfortunately, Shangguan Yang is already gone.’ Jiang Man didn’t say this out loud.
’For them to suddenly be looking for Shangguan Yang, it has to be either people from the Sun and Moon Immortal Path or the Immortal Sect.’
’The latter seems more likely.’
But since he couldn’t be sure, he wouldn’t take the risk.
Jiang Man then asked the man next to him if he knew about the Celestial Essence Skill.
"You want to learn it?" the man asked.
Jiang Man nodded.
"For five hundred Spiritual Sources, I’ll introduce you to someone. Her fee is three thousand five hundred," the man said.
Jiang Man readily agreed.
In the end, the man brought a woman over to help explain the Celestial Essence Skill.
「Three days later.」
Jiang Man and his group left.
"You did a good job explaining. They gave an extra five hundred, so one thousand five hundred in total," came the man’s voice.
The woman sighed with emotion. "Earning Spiritual Source is pretty easy. That’s one thousand five hundred just like that. I’ll give you five hundred, then."
"No need. You just keep it. If another good opportunity like this comes up, I’ll recommend you again," the man said righteously.
"Thank you," the woman said sincerely.
Jiang Man fell silent as he listened.
’This middleman is a real piece of work.’
Thinking about it, Jiang Man realized he didn’t understand the market very well. He spent most of his time on Cultivation and wondered if he had been exploited by middlemen like this before.
’I really paid the price for my ignorance.’
However, during those three days, he had asked the two of them a question.
He asked if Shen Yao was considered a genius in the Immortal Sect.
They gave him an affirmative answer.
She was.
Although Shen Yao couldn’t be considered top-tier, she was a relatively famous genius.
Her Cultivation speed was decent, but her combat power had already reached the peak of the Golden Core realm.
Few Golden Core cultivators of her age were a match for her.
Jiang Man didn’t dwell on it and quickly left.
He hid in a corner of the fog.
In the fog, Jiang Man and the others paid no more attention to the outside world.
All that was left was Cultivation.
The Celestial Essence Skill was a Low-grade Skill, so it wasn’t difficult to cultivate.
But the person who explained it was a bit lacking, so Jiang Man spent seven days organizing the information before he could begin cultivating.
There were nine layers in total.
With those two streams of Magic Purple Qi, learning it was very fast.
It took half a day just to succeed on the first run-through.
Celestial Essence Skill, Entry Level.
The second run-through.
Celestial Essence Skill, Second Layer.
The Third Layer required two run-throughs.
But the time for each run-through had shortened.
「Three days later.」
Celestial Essence Skill, Great Success.
At that moment, Jiang Man felt he could draw upon all the power in his body for a rapid burst.
It allowed his combat power to increase swiftly.
It was similar to the True Martial Skill, but stronger.
However, the difficulty of circulating it also far surpassed that of the True Martial Skill.
He would need a long time of practice to be able to use it in the middle of a fight.
This was a test of his control over his power and Primordial Spirit.
For the time that followed, Jiang Man focused on studying arrays.
This was the array to deal with the Ling Hua Immortal Spirit.
The plan to awaken it was already in motion; it wouldn’t be long before it woke up.
So he had to make preparations as soon as possible.
’Hopefully, it will cooperate with me.’
’Otherwise, I’ll have no choice but to make it sleep a while longer.’
「Mid-March.」
Jiang Man read one book after another.
By early April, he had read a third of them.
Much of the content was related to the Array of Seventy-Two Books, so it was time-consuming to learn.
However, Monk Zhen Kong went out for a trip and found that things outside were a bit chaotic.
It seemed some people were relentlessly searching for Shangguan Yang and Zhou Qing.
「Mid-April.」
Monk Zhen Kong went to gather information again.
"I heard they’re looking for a large rock. It seems there’s some incredibly powerful Divine Object inside," said Monk Zhen Wu.
「End of April.」
Monk Zhen Kong returned with news again, saying they had found the large rock—the very place they had been to.
They even went inside.
But they didn’t find what they were looking for.
Now, many people were searching for the Divine Object, saying it was either taken by Zhou Qing or carried away by Shangguan Yang.
Many people were looking for Zhou Qing and Shangguan Yang.
But Shangguan Yang had disappeared, and there was no news of Zhou Qing and her group.
It was currently impossible to determine who had actually taken the object.
As Monk Zhen Kong spoke, he seemed to hesitate.
But in the end, he didn’t ask anything.
Jiang Man found it a bit strange.
’The Sun and Moon Immortal Path is such a large Evil God Organization. Is their plan really this ordinary?’
’Their methods are too simplistic.’
’Just a Zhou Qing and a Shangguan Yang.’
’And they just announced it openly.’
’They claimed it was a choice for the Immortal Sect, but the news has already reached the Sect. Under normal circumstances, Shangguan Yang would be caught sooner or later.’
’So what is the Sun and Moon Immortal Path trying to achieve?’
’Are they just trying to stir up trouble?’
’And it’s normal for Shangguan Yang to be missing, since he’s already dead.’
’But why have Zhou Qing and Shen Yao also disappeared?’
’But if Zhou Qing is really the Sun and Moon Immortal Path’s backup plan, why don’t they suspect she took the object?’
’None of it makes sense.’
Jiang Man walked behind a large tree and took out the Immeasurable Calamity Stone. No matter how he looked at it, he couldn’t feel anything wrong with it.
Out of curiosity, he activated the Celestial Mirror Hundred Books again.
The book’s pages quickly flipped, stopping on the final page.
[The Ten-Life Immeasurable Calamity is silently fusing with your body. The fusion will be complete in another two months.]
The moment he saw those words, Jiang Man was so frightened he threw the stone away.
’My world is collapsing.’
’So this is what they had in store for me.’
’I thought it was strange that there was no news that was unfavorable to me.’
’It turns out that protecting my whereabouts was the most important part of their plan.’
’If this fusion continues, I’ll become the calamity itself.’
And he hadn’t felt a thing.
If he hadn’t been curious enough to appraise it one more time, this Unparalleled Celestial Pride might have died with regret.
Besides, if the fusion would be complete in another two months, that meant the end of June.
Jiang Man froze.
He wouldn’t make it until the Magpie Bridge opened.
He calmed his Heart Spirit and sighed, looking at the irregular stone.
’So it turns out that no matter who got the stone, it wouldn’t affect the Sun and Moon Immortal Path’s plan.’
’But can this so-called fusion be interrupted?’
Jiang Man touched his own hand.
The Celestial Mirror Hundred Books remained on the last page.
[An ant being fused by the Ten-Life Immeasurable Calamity]
’It’s still fusing.’
Then, Jiang Man left via Sword Control.
Once he was far enough away, he touched himself again.
The answer was still the same.
He even waited for three days, only to find the answer hadn’t changed.
’Does just touching it trigger the fusion?’
’This is even more unreasonable than the Immortal Dao Coordinate.’
For a moment, Jiang Man felt that his Unparalleled Celestial Pride Fate Chart was humane by comparison.
At least it wasn’t as domineering as this.
Returning to his original spot, Jiang Man picked up the irregular stone and began to set up an array.
’This is my last resort.’
’If I still can’t suppress it, I’ll really have to go find those people outside.’
’Regardless of whether I run into someone from the Sun and Moon Immortal Path, I have to try.’
’Otherwise, I’ll really be fused.’
’I’ll be gone by then.’
"You really can’t touch things like this."
Jiang Man sighed. He was afraid that even the backup plans Old Huang had left behind were useless now.
Afterwards, he took out the Array Materials one by one, setting up the array while consulting the plans.
Soon, the outline of a massive array was successfully laid out.
Then, Jiang Man began to fill it in.
This array was originally meant to suppress an Evil God. Now, he would see if it could suppress the fusion between the Immeasurable Calamity and himself.
The array had both suppressive and isolating properties, designed to cut off an Evil God’s influence.
So, in theory, it should work.
Seven days later, Jiang Man charged the array with powerful Spiritual Qi.
Then he sat in a corner of the array, placing the irregular stone beside him. This spot was the core of the array.
It was originally in the center, but he had adjusted it.
This was so that he could touch it.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly.
At that moment, he felt completely isolated from his surroundings.
One day later, he confirmed that the array had reached its peak state.
He began by touching himself.
[An ant being fused by the Ten-Life Immeasurable Calamity]
’Still being fused.’
Then, Jiang Man reached out and touched the Immeasurable Calamity Stone.
[The Ten-Life Immeasurable Calamity is silently fusing with your body. The fusion will be complete in another three months.]
’The effect isn’t huge, but it can delay it by a month.’
’That means August.’
’Ting Fengyin should arrive in July, but it’s possible it could be August.’
Right now, he desperately hoped this year’s Magpie Bridge would open in July.
He wanted to see Ting Fengyin, more than he ever had before.
He hoped they would come as soon as possible.
Any later, and he’d be gone.
It turned out that an ordinary person like him couldn’t withstand being tormented by something like this.
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