Chapter: Chapter 499
“The spiritual power within that feather is quite strong, and it will take me some time to digest it. It’s a good opportunity for me to come out and take a look.” Leticia raised her hand, clad in a black lace glove, and flicked her hair. “This place has a bit of the royal tent’s scent, and there’s also something hidden underground.”
It would be strange if the underground of such a large tribe wasn’t hiding anything.
However, these bird-like beastmen might be like mice, burying the thing too deep. Even Leticia found it difficult to determine what lay beneath the ground at this moment.
It could be an energy transmission array, similar to what she had encountered before, or it could be something else entirely. Unless she went down there to investigate directly, she wouldn’t be able to figure out what was beneath the ground.
“Never mind, I’ll come back to check on this later. For now, let’s deal with these priests.” Shaking her head, Leticia’s voice echoed ethereally, “They no longer doubt Wu’s identity, do they?”
“Yes, the pill used to ensure these people’s loyalty seems to recognize Wu as Huang as well. And after being punished by the power within that pill, they could never doubt Wu’s identity again.” Linglong nodded. This type of pill was originally used to ensure the loyalty of subordinates, but now it had led to the emergence of many traitors. It was hard to say whether it was fate playing tricks or Huang’s cleverness backfiring on herself.
After all, who could have imagined that another entity capable of activating those pills would appear?
Huang also couldn’t have imagined that the Great Egg would divide a wisp of consciousness at this time, be captured by Leticia, and then raised like a daughter.
“This is our advantage. We should make the most of it to understand the true nature of this organization, pinpoint the location of the sacred land, and then go there to offer Huang some warmth.”
“Against these beastmen who have taken the pill, my hypnosis is useless. As soon as I make a move and they enter a hypnotic state, the power within the pill will burn its host to death, just like the merchant I encountered before.”
In such a situation, Leticia felt a slight discomfort, akin to the frustration of driving at high speed for hours only to exit the highway and experience the slow pace.
After gaining the power of the Dream God, she had been gathering information in dreams. Now, she had to go back to basics with coercion and seduction. Sigh, it was difficult.
“Why not have the priests here lure the people from the sacred land out?” Linglong proposed her idea.
Have the priests here send a message to the people in the sacred land, lure some of them over, and then they could capture those people and interrogate them.
However, this method might be effective against ordinary people, but it might be completely useless against these believers.
Those who were sent out were likely to have extremely firm beliefs and had been in prolonged contact with Huang. They probably wouldn’t acknowledge Wu’s position.
Even if Wu could activate the power of the pill within them, they might not necessarily accept Wu. As long as they remained silent, Leticia wouldn’t be able to do anything about them.
“Deception is certainly necessary, but we can also show some sincerity by telling them about Wu and having them send people to welcome their deity back to the sacred land.” Resting her chin on her hand, an idea gradually formed in Leticia’s mind. “We can follow behind those people and find their sacred land directly.”
“But they might not necessarily send people to welcome you, right?” Informing the people in the sacred land about Wu would be like alerting the enemy, wouldn’t it?
Huang’s consciousness was still there. As long as the believers who worshipped Huang asked Huang, wouldn’t everything be clear?
Linglong felt that this method was not very feasible.
“Huang doesn’t know that Wu is in our hands. At most, she knows that a part of the Great Egg’s consciousness was accidentally severed, and it’s normal for this wisp of consciousness to create a body and want to return to its origin, isn’t it?” Leticia, however, didn’t think there was anything wrong with her plan. Firstly, she didn’t know if the believers could still contact Huang. Even if they could, Huang wouldn’t know the situation outside.
Did she know that Wu had fallen into Leticia’s hands? Absolutely impossible!
As long as the priests here didn’t reveal anything about Linglong and the other two, Huang would never guess that Wu had already joined the other side!
“We have to try. Let’s lure these turtles out first.”
“Alright, since you’re definitely better at this kind of thing than I am.” Linglong sighed. When it came to devising wicked ideas, she was indeed no match for Leticia, the old schemer.
“Okay, then I’ll leave the negotiation with the priests to you, Linglong. I’ll go underground for a bit to see what’s there.”
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“You mean that little girl is truly your deity? But she has just been resurrected and her strength has not fully recovered?” The Great Eagle Chieftain’s expression gradually became complicated after hearing the priest’s explanation.
He had initially thought they were just a bunch of charlatans, but now they had actually brought out a deity and performed such a grand spectacle at the tribe’s entrance. What was their intention?
Was that girl truly a deity? The Great Eagle Chieftain did not believe it.
Deities were all lies. The Lion God of the lion tribe had already been proven nonexistent. What evidence did the people of this cult have to prove the existence of their Phoenix Bird God?
Forget that girl, the Great Eagle Chieftain knew quite a few tricks of pretending to be a god. Moreover, everyone who participated in that performance was a member of this cult. Who knew if these people had colluded together, presented this girl as a deity, and used the identity of this deity to pressure him for more benefits?
“That’s right, I can guarantee that she is our deity!” the priest said emphatically, his eyes shining with fanatical light. Although he had just cursed Wu as a骗子 (cheater) not long ago, he had now completely become a devout believer of Wu!
This was called abandoning darkness and embracing light, and turning back from the brink!
To compensate for his image in the eyes of the deity, he felt he needed to request a little more benefit for his deity.
“Then should I go and pay a visit to this little deity?” the white-haired Chieftain asked with a smile.
“If you are willing, naturally you can.” The priest beastman nodded. “But our deity is currently meditating alone in the temple. If the Chieftain wishes to visit, you might have to wait for a while.”
Meditating in the temple? The Great Eagle Chieftain was a little curious. What did this deity want to do?
Although he was curious about Wu’s intentions, the Great Eagle Chieftain could only suppress his thoughts for now and wait to meet the deity when she had time.
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While everyone on the ground was busy with their own affairs, Leticia had already used earth-遁 (遁, to escape/hide) magic to reach underground and began to explore the anomaly she had sensed earlier.
Similar to what was hidden beneath the other temples, there was a giant hollow space beneath this one. However, what was different was that this giant hollow space contained not only golden arrays but also many golden ores and a small temple.
A scorching aura erupted from the temple. Leticia cautiously concealed her aura completely. There seemed to be a rather powerful force within this temple.
Was it Huang?
Most likely.
Looking up at the giant golden array suspended in mid-air, this array was more complex and massive than any she had seen before. It should be a very important part of the entire array network.
Countless golden curved lines were interconnected in a three-dimensional manner, forming a spell array that could be called a work of art, with the golden cluster in the center as its core. Energy surged through these lines, transferring the energy transmitted from afar to the sacred land further north.
What if she destroyed this place? Leticia clenched her fist and began to consider the pros and cons of directly destroying it.
Undoubtedly, destroying this place would significantly slow down Huang’s recovery process, but it would also definitely make Huang notice that something was wrong. If such a large array hub had a problem, it would be absurd if she didn’t notice!
Leticia now knew that Huang was in the Great Desert, and she was not far from Huang. If she alerted Huang at this time and Huang directly escaped, wouldn’t all her previous efforts be in vain?
Therefore, this place could not be destroyed directly…
“Such a complex array, the probability of it malfunctioning should be quite high, right? If the malfunction is so severe that even the priests here can’t solve it, then the turtles in the sacred land will have no choice but to come and repair it themselves?”
Looking at this exceptionally spectacular golden array, Leticia’s lips curved slightly. The person who created this array network was indeed a genius, but unfortunately, they were one step short, not expecting someone to infiltrate and cause sabotage here.
Silently adding a bit of blockage to this array was not a simple task, but Leticia was a Demon King, the person who understood magic the most among all living beings in this world.
No one understands magic better than I do.
The small temple and the golden ores were most likely protective measures for this array. If she used brute force, opponents similar to the firebird she encountered before might leap out of them.
Fortunately, Leticia would not choose brute force; she had a gentler and less noticeable way of causing destruction.
Silently leaving the underground hollow, Leticia returned to the surface.
The place she had just drilled into was the main hall of the temple, where Wu was still sitting cross-legged on the ground, eyes closed, diligently digesting the feather she had just swallowed.
This feather contained a lot of spiritual power. If she digested all of it, Wu’s mental strength would increase significantly.
However, judging by the situation, it would take quite some time to digest. She might not even finish digesting it by tomorrow.
Reaching out and drawing a line in the air beside Wu, Leticia opened a spatial portal and returned to the artifact space. She needed to create the item for destroying the array herself.
“How is the situation outside? Wu seems to be having a bit of trouble?” Bai Ling, who had been watching the livestream, asked casually as she saw Leticia jump out of the spatial portal.
“It’s not a big problem, it just takes some time to digest such a large piece of meat. I’m going to make some array-disrupting potions now, come and help me.” Leticia grabbed Bai Ling’s hand and dragged the idle Sword Saint lady towards the basement. As she dragged her, she shouted into the air, “Ancestor, I’m borrowing the laboratory!”
“As you wish.” Yin Fino’s response echoed in Leticia’s ears.
The passage leading to the basement appeared with Yin Fino’s permission. Leticia pulled Bai Ling and hurriedly entered the depths.
Only after entering the laboratory, which had been renovated not long ago, did Leticia release Bai Ling’s hand and explain her idea to her. “I plan to have this array here damaged a bit due to ‘natural causes.’ When this happens, those guys in the sacred land will definitely not be able to sit still.”
“If I damage this array today, the sacred land will immediately know that there’s a problem with this array. Because this damage is due to ‘natural causes,’ they won’t think too much about it and will directly send people to repair it.”
“At the same time, news about Wu will be transmitted to the sacred land through the priests of the Great Eagle tribe. And by the time the news here reaches there, the people repairing the array will have almost arrived here, right?”
While mixing various potions, Leticia explained her plan. “Then we can have Wu perform again, gain the trust of those people, and as long as they cooperate, we can follow the clues and find the sacred land where Huang is slumbering!”
If the plan went smoothly, while those old turtles in the sacred land were still arguing about whether to believe Wu, Leticia and Bai Ling would have already arrived at their doorstep.
“But this situation is too idealized. Those who come to repair the array might not know the way to the sacred land, right?” Bai Ling handed a blue potion, which she had been stirring for a long time, to Leticia. “You just said that even the highest-ranking priest here doesn’t know the way to the sacred land. Do those technicians really know?”
“What does it matter if they don’t know? I don’t believe they won’t go back after coming out. As long as they want to go back, we can track their movements and find that so-called sacred land!”
Leticia’s only goal was to get these cunning guys to come out. As long as they came out, there would be a way to track their whereabouts and follow the clues to find the sacred land hidden in the Great Desert.
“Be a little gentler and mix these three potions together. Yes, when they turn transparent, the preparation is complete.” Watching the liquid in the test tube held by Bai Ling gradually turn transparent, Leticia nodded with satisfaction. “Beautiful!”
