Chapter 1079: Chapter 729: Hidden Depths (Part 2)
"Old bastard, do you know who we are? How dare you meddle in our affairs!" Wu Kaimo’s eyes burned with murderous intent.
"What identity?" the Diviner asked with a chuckle.
"We are protectors of the Dao Palace, this person is from the Human Race, his crimes are punishable by death. Do you dare to stop us and oppose the entire Dao Palace?" Wu Kaimo shouted angrily.
He knew that there were quite a few powerful rogue cultivators in the Edge Corner Airspace, many stronger than himself. But upon hearing the words "Dao Palace," those who enforcer the Dao would strategically retreat.
"Oh!"
The Diviner nodded slightly, then waved his hand again!
Boom!
The entire sky suddenly condensed a terrifying aura, enveloping a thousand meters in golden light. This golden light was dignified and powerful, surpassing many of Dayan Jinshou’s attacks, overwhelming Wu Kaimo and his peers.
"How dare you—"
Wu Kaimo roared in stunned anger!
The faces of the other six from the Dao Palace turned pale with fear, this terrifying aura seemed even more frightening than Dayan Jinshou!
Boom!
The roar abruptly stopped, and the seven people who rushed from the Dao Palace were directly blasted into nothingness in this golden light!
Wu Kaimo, one of the thirty-six protectors of the Dao Palace, dead!
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Xiang Beifei was stunned!
Wu Kaimo had come with his real body, far more powerful than any mere projection. He originally thought he was in grave danger today, but unexpectedly, the Diviner wiped out these seven Dao Palace people with just a slap!
"You’ve killed Wu Kaimo?"
Xiang Beifei was genuinely surprised.
He originally believed the Diviner was just a pawn placed by the Dao Palace in the Rushou relics, luring powerful experts from other races in the Edge Corner Airspace to their deaths, completing the Dayan Jinshou’s soul sacrifices.
But who could have thought that the Diviner was far from as simple as he imagined!
That was three at the late-stage Inquiring Dao, two at the early-stage Ascending Dao, one at the mid-stage, and one at the late-stage Ascending Dao!
The Diviner turned around, stroked his beard, and said with a smile: "You, if you had come with me earlier, you wouldn’t have been beaten so badly. You had to take a hit to remember."
Xiang Beifei was even more puzzled.
"What are you standing there for? We should leave now."
The Diviner grabbed Xiang Beifei and transformed into a stream of light, passing through Dayan Jinshou, leaving the Rushou relics, and disappearing into the void.
They flew in the void for at least half an hour before the Diviner stopped.
"Alright, we’re far enough from the Rushou relics here that you shouldn’t be detected by any of the Dao Palace’s reinforcements, little one. Hurry up and create a relaxing place with your breath soil," the Diviner laughed.
Xiang Beifei hadn’t spoken a word on the way, his mind filled with too many questions, originally wondering where the Diviner would take him, but he only brought him here.
He hesitated, as the breath soil swept, a floating island formed in the void, and various protective formations were laid around the island.
After doing all this, Xiang Beifei asked, "Who are you really?"
"Me? Just an old man who knows how to divine and read the stars!" The Diviner sat cross-legged on the ground, speaking leisurely.
"You’re not someone who cultivates the Divination Dao," Xiang Beifei stated.
"How can you be so sure?" the Diviner smiled.
Xiang Beifei stared at the top of the Diviner’s head.
The Diviner suddenly realized something, and laughed: "Oh! So that’s why you doubted me suddenly, it’s this system interface."
Xiang Beifei was taken aback!
What did this old man mean?
How does he know about the existence of the system interface?
Everyone in the Edge Corner Airspace knows Xiang Beifei mimicked the system interface, unlike in Jiuzhou where cultivation isn’t reliant on system interfaces. They do not realize that their cultivation in Heavenly Dao could appear as a system interface to Xiang Beifei!
But what the Diviner did next shocked Xiang Beifei even more!
The Diviner reached out his hand and directly grabbed the system interface of the Divination Dao from above his head, playing with the text like a toy.
This move stunned Xiang Beifei even more.
"An oversight, I should have added another line,"
The Diviner tapped on his system interface, and a new line appeared on the Divination Dao’s system interface:
[You divined a safe path to depart within Dayan Jinshou, Dao value +24577]
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"Now you wouldn’t have doubted me earlier, right?"
After fiddling with the system interface, the Diviner raised his head and asked with a smile.
"You... how could you..."
Xiang Beifei looked incredulously at the system interface.
Earlier, he relied on the Dao embryo to suspect the Diviner, because the Diviner claimed he found a safe path, but the system presented no prompt, leading to Xiang Beifei’s doubts.
In Xiang Beifei’s eyes, everyone’s cultivation Dao embryo is a system interface, and whatever they use their Dao embryo abilities for should be visible to him using Yin and Yang source energy.
At that time, there were no prompts about divination on the Diviner’s system interface!
This meant the Diviner’s so-called safe route wasn’t derived from his divination ability, he knew this path long before, so Xiang Beifei’s first thought was that this old man belonged to the Dao Palace!
But now seeing the Diviner manipulating the system interface baffled him.
"Haha! I knew this little guy would be dumbfounded!" The Diviner laughed.
But Xiang Beifei soon noticed something was off, the power from the Diviner seemed to be gradually dissipating.
He realized and said: "No, you’re not real, you’re—you’re just a consciousness projection!"
A projection wouldn’t have a Dao embryo, nor be mimicked as a system interface!
"You’ve seen through it?"
The Diviner extended his hand, his body becoming somewhat translucent.
"If I didn’t present a whole system interface to you, you wouldn’t have been fooled." The Diviner laughed.
The more Xiang Beifei thought about it, the more shocked he became.
Even if the Diviner in front of him was just a projection, the system interface was a ruse for him to see, but this meant the Diviner knew his capabilities!
"Who exactly are you?" Xiang Beifei asked in a deep voice.
"It doesn’t matter, here, take these, you might find them useful." The Diviner tossed a pile of items to Xiang Beifei.
Xiang Beifei instinctively caught them, only to be surprised to find spiritual power crystals!
Six at the early-stage Inquiring Dao, three at the late-stage Inquiring Dao, two at the early-stage Ascending Dao, one at the mid-stage, and one at the late-stage Ascending Dao spiritual power crystals!
"These are refined from the souls of those seven from the Dao Palace, as well as Demon Qiquan, Lan Keju, Xing Meng, and Banji, which I kept for you," the Diviner said.
"Xing Meng and Banji? When did you kill them?" Xiang Beifei asked in surprise.
"I didn’t kill them, they perished together, you wonder where that prophetic scene of death came from?" The Diviner chuckled.
Xiang Beifei recalled earlier before entering Rushou City, on the Black Iron Bridge, they first saw the vision of Lan Keju being killed by a golden-armored man, then they saw the loving Dao partners Banji and Xing Meng kill each other.
"The death scenes? That’s your ability? Not the Rushou relics’ ability?"
"Haha, it’s my ability, sometimes I can really foresee some future events. Sometimes it’s inaccurate, but it doesn’t stop me from fabricating some scenes to mess with them, after all, they wanted to kill us!" The Diviner laughed heartily.
So it was!
Xiang Beifei felt increasingly mystified.
Back on the Black Iron Bridge, when Banji and Xing Meng, the so-called loving Dao partners, were aggressively trying to kill Xiang Beifei and the Diviner to use them as offerings, a future vision appeared.
Everyone saw Banji use a dagger to stab Xing Meng comprehensively!
They thought this event surely would unfold.
Now he found out, this scene was created by the Diviner, instigating the couple’s conflict without shedding blood?
What a clever use of borrowed power to destroy!
How could this old man possess such bizarre abilities?