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Chapter 330: 34 Lure the Snake Out of Its Hole (Part 2)
Chapter 330: 34 Lure the Snake Out of Its Hole (Part 2)
Chapter 330: 34 Lure the Snake Out of Its Hole (Part 2)
“How is that possible? Among us seated here, all are high-ranking members of the Taoist Sect, almost all at the level of a vice Sect Master. How could there be an insider from the Underworld amongst us?
What kind of conditions could the Netherworld possibly offer to buy off a group like us? You are giving the Underworld too much credit!” The Great Cultivator Xuanji was the first to stand up in opposition.
“Nothing is impossible,” said the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master, indifferent to the Great Cultivator Xuanji’s sudden rage. “Taking things for granted is a grave taboo when confronting the Demon Race.”
“So, Pavilion Master, are you suggesting that we should be put under house arrest and interrogated?” The Spirit Yue Palace Master’s face turned as dark as water. “Although we all respect you, Pavilion Master, as high-ranking members of the various Taoist Sects, the likelihood of us letting you manipulate us at will is somewhat unrealistic, don’t you think?”
The more powerful the Cultivator, the more secrets they have and the more concerned they are with saving face. How could they possibly allow themselves to be interrogated just because of a guess made by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master?
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master shook his head with a smile. “Of course, I would not take such a risk.”
“However, the Underworld is using this infiltrator, who tampered with the Formation in the Seal Spirit Tower, as a disposable pawn, without realizing that even pawns have their uses.
They may not know that the Heavenly Secret Mirror has a Divine Skill that can observe the causal lines of all beings in the world.
At that time, I will only need to bring everyone in front of this Underworld’s throwaway Cultivator and use the Heavenly Secret Mirror to observe their causal lines with this Divine Skill.
If any of you seated here do have an insider from the Underworld, there will be an extremely complex causal line between you and this Underworld throwaway Cultivator.
My reason for coming here was precisely to inform all of you and to express my hope that you will cooperate with this small request of mine.”
Everyone fell into contemplation, and after a long while, the Taibai Sword Master said indifferently, “If it’s just such a small request, my Sword Sect agrees.”
“Great Pure Palace agrees as well,” the Spirit Yue Palace Master hesitated for a moment before also agreeing.
Subsequently, everyone present expressed their agreement.
“It’s good that you all are willing to cooperate,” King Qing Mei said with a calm smile, and immediately suggested, “Then let us go together now to the location of this Underworld throwaway, and allow the Pavilion Master to investigate the causal lines!”
“Very well, let us follow the Pavilion Master on this journey.” The Taibai Sword Master was still the first to agree, his eyes scanning over the other people present.
Among those present were the Vice Palace Master of Great Pure Palace, the Vice Pavilion Master of Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Holy Master of Dragon Elephant Temple, the Sect Leader of Rinsing Spirit Sect, the Hall Master of Martial Debate Hall, the Tower Master of Armor Pavilion, and the Peak Master of Sword Sect’s Vastness Peak.
These individuals were all Great Cultivators wielding considerable power. If the Netherworld had truly infiltrated to such a level, it would indeed send chills down one’s spine.
“Follow me,” the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master and King Qing Mei disappeared from view, immediately standing up and transforming into a beam of Escaping Light, flying out of the great hall and hurrying toward a corner within the city.
The other Cultivators followed closely behind.
With their Escape Techniques, it wasn’t long before they were about to reach the destination,
but just at that moment, the face of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master suddenly changed. “The Xuantian Spiritual Record I left on that Underworld throwaway is dissipating!”
Everyone was shocked and hurriedly increased their speed again.
Soon enough, they arrived at the destination, a wooden building located in the northern part of the city.
However, at this very moment, the wooden building was a complete mess, and the body of a Cultivator lay silently amidst the ruins.
“This… this… to commit murder in Debate Dao City, the Netherworld is provoking our Human Cultivators!” Upon seeing this scene, the Spirit Yue Palace Master was immensely angry.
They didn’t die earlier or later, but just after the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master proposed a solution.
In just less than half a moment’s time, this person had died on the spot, and this solution had only been mentioned in the presence of the Cultivators from the Taoist Sects.
Could such a coincidence truly exist in the world?
Obviously not.
There must be some trickery at play here.
“Pavilion Master, what should we do next?” Shui Yue Pavilion Master asked with a worried expression, while also feeling that something was amiss.
She always felt that, given her understanding of her own Pavilion Master, he shouldn’t have made such a mistake-laden move.
Wouldn’t it have been better to capture this Underworld discard and then look for them?
Why insist on bringing them to find this Underworld discard, isn’t this rather giving the Underworld Cultivators time to deal with the aftermath, which led to the current awkward situation?
“Now that this Underworld discard is dead, the man is gone and so is his spirit, and the thread of causality has vanished along with him.
We had finally found a way to break the situation, but it has turned into this scene. What should we do next?” Chang Geng Sect Leader sighed, filled with regret.
“Although I am reluctant to believe this fact, as I just said to everyone, there is an undercover agent of the Underworld among us.” As Chang Geng Sect Leader sighed, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master’s icy gaze suddenly swept across the crowd, her tone full of lethal intent.
Just as everyone was in shock, a person who looked exactly like the dead body was pressed out by King Qing Mei.
“He’s not dead??” The cultivators present were all stunned. They glanced back at the corpse, then at the Underworld discard that King Qing Mei had restrained. After being bewildered for a moment, they suddenly realized, “Is this a trap to lure the snake out of its hole?”
“I and King Qing Mei first captured this Underworld discard, then used the Art of Incarnation to create a lifelike, fake Underworld discard, and revealed everything to you.
I truly hoped that my incarnation could emerge unscathed, but the result has truly chilled my heart and should chill everyone’s hearts as well,” said the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master with no expression on her face.
“This is a trap, a test for us,” Taibai Sword Master realized at this moment. “No wonder, Pavilion Master, you were so eager. It turns out you wanted us to fall into your fast-paced trap, to make instinctive responses subconsciously.”
Indeed, upon closer thought, one would notice that there were actually many flaws in what the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master had just said.
For instance, the simplest question: why bring them to see the Underworld discard instead of bringing the Underworld discard to them?
And if the Heavenly Secret Mirror truly had such a tyrannical ability to observe causality, as miraculous as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master mentioned,
Then why hadn’t the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, in cooperation with the Control Tower, achieved any breakthrough victories against the Netherworld over so many years?
Questions like these, but under the deliberate guidance of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master, everyone had fallen into his pace and simply did not have time to ponder these details.
If there indeed was an undercover agent of the Netherworld among them, their first impulse upon subconsciously believing the words of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master would be to immediately find a way to kill this Underworld Cultivator, to erase the causality, destroy the evidence, and avoid exposing their own presence.
Everyone at this point was both shocked and angry.
The Grand Master Xuanji was the most astonished.
He was the one who least believed that there could be an undercover agent of the Netherworld among them, and he reacted the most vigorously.
But now the truth was right before his eyes, there indeed was an undercover agent of the Netherworld among them!
Who could it be?
At this moment, everyone looked at each other, the meaning in their eyes suddenly becoming strange.
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