Chapter 61.
Chapter 61: Calculations
Li An repeatedly swept his mind with his divine thoughts, and the magic box buried underneath this clay was clear and unmistakable in his mind.
He confirmed that this was definitely laid by the Yin-Yang Demon Cult, and that this Yin-Yang Demon Qi could not be wrong.
Moreover, based on the condition of the dirt at the scene, it should have been a month or two.
In other words, from a month or two ago, the Yin Yang Demon Cult had already rearranged its layout in Qingyang Fang City?
“The Yin Yang Demon Cult has gone into hiding in recent years, and even once made the world think that they had all been purged clean ……”
“If they were truly weak, they would never dare to do such a big thing again and prepare to make a move against the Xuan Yang Sect’s market!”
“All these years, they’ve been deliberately doing it to the three great sects? Paralyzing the three great sects!”
“This is the biggest possibility!”
“And now, they have waited for the opportunity, so they are ready to strike ……”
Li An pondered, the string that had been taut all these years finally played the prelude to the conspiracy.
He quietly left and eliminated the traces of his stay here.
After leaving this place, he didn’t go any further into the rest of the grand formation.
This was because he was worried that there would be demonic cultivators watching in the shadows.
Next, he spent another three days, staggering his time, casually and naturally, checking out the rest of the Grand Formation without anyone noticing.
“The great formation in Qingyang Fang Market has a total of seven corners, and currently the demonic cultivator has already placed ban-breaking talismans at two key points.”
“They are very cautious!”
“With the speed of their layout, they should still have at least four or five months of buffer.”
“Moreover, Qingyang Square Market is only the periphery of the Xuan Yang Sect, and when they make their move on the periphery, the core area of the sect will surely be attacked in tandem as well.”
Li An was incomparably sure that there was definitely a mole within the sect.
Because, with the experience of the last attack on the Qingyang Square Market, for the Square Market Protection Formation, the sect’s secrecy was extremely strict, and only the true core executives could possibly know about it.
The fact that the demonic cultivator was actually able to set up the formation so accurately meant that the demonic cultivator was able to get information from the inner gate of the Xuan Yang Sect.
“If I were a devil cultivator, when attacking the Xuan Yang Sect, the inside and outside would definitely strike at the same time ……”
“In addition, the key to winning or losing this conspiracy actually lies with the sect leader, Realist Xuan Yang.”
“If Realist Xuan Yang doesn’t die, even if the Xuan Yang Sect is heavily damaged, recovery will only be a matter of time ……”
“Therefore, we must first take care of Realist Xuan Yang.”
“A head-on hard fight? This is unlikely, even if we can win, we will still pay a heavy price, it must be a plot and trick, such as poison, traps, etc……. Now that the Devil Cult insiders have already mixed into the top levels of the Xuan Yang Sect, this is not difficult.”
“And Xuan Yang Sect, after being attacked by the devil religion, if something happens to Xuan Yang real person, then there is only one ending …… Defeat, flee!”
“Where can they flee to? Who can escape and who will be targeted by the Devil Sect’s focus? Will the Devil Sect surround and intercept them, or will they just let it happen? ……”
Li An repeatedly deduced in his mind, substituting himself into the roles of Xuan Yang Sect and the Devil Sect respectively.
Early the next morning, Li An sneaked out of the workshop and headed towards the Liuyang River workshop.
He did not enter the Liuyang River Workshop Market, but instead, he repeatedly wandered between the Liuyang River Workshop Market and the Xuan Yang Sect’s gate for a month!
–After Li An’s repeated thoughts, in the event that the Xuan Yang Sect collapsed, the Liu Yang River Workshop Market would most likely become the last place of peace for the Xuan Yang Sect.
For no other reason, it was close to the Hundred Beasts Sect.
If the Demon Sect was not powerful enough, it should not directly attack this place so as not to invite the involvement of the Hundred Beasts Sect.
And at that time, most of the remaining disciples of the Xuan Yang Sect would definitely flock towards the Liu Yang River Marketplace.
The Yin Yang Demon Sect would most likely set up a killing robbery in the middle of the way to reduce the remnants of the Xuan Yang Sect’s strength.
What he was looking for was the location where the Demon Cult might set up an ambush.
The Xuan Yang Sect and the Liu Yang River Marketplace were more than eight hundred miles apart, and there were too many possibilities within that distance.
In the end, Li An locked his target on a ferry fifty miles away from the Liuyang River Workshop City!
The Liuyang River Workshop Market was different from the Qingyang Workshop Market, the Liuyang River Workshop Market was built on the banks of the Liuyang River, plus this place was too far away from the main sect of the Xuan Yang Sect, so the Xuan Yang Sect had set up heavy protection for this workshop market.
First of all, the entrance and exit of the market is the river, so you can only take a boat.
Secondly, the large formation of the workshop market was very special, causing the river section within the workshop market to have a gentle current, while the downstream section of the river outside of the workshop market had a swift current, which even bred a lot of spirit beasts, spiritual qi vortexes, etc., making it impossible for people to sneak and dive in from the water.
Ma Shan Ferry is the most convenient ferry to the Liu Yang River Market, disciples fleeing in all directions, the probability is that they will converge here and take a boat to enter the Market.
The vast river flows endlessly, there are many small and large boats parked at the ferry port, and those in charge of ferrying are all low level cultivators.
Li An circled here for three days, calculating the various possibilities.
Only then did he finally leave and return to Qingyang Fang City. The first time he checked the situation of the workshop market’s grand formation, it was just as he expected, one more corner of the formation had been laid with a ban-breaking talisman.
It was getting closer and closer!
Li An composed himself and the next day, he did two things.
One, look for Long Tao, the owner of the formation store, and ask him to help order a set of second-order formations.
Over the years, and Long Tao had been cooperating, the two had long since had their interests deeply bound, so although Long Tao had doubts, he didn’t ask too many questions, and helped Li An order it after collecting a thousand deposit – this was already special treatment for Li An, an ordinary person ordering a second-order array formation, would need to pay at least two thousand Spirit Stones as a deposit!
But it would take two months for the goods to arrive.
Secondly, Li An docked with the Sect side and increased the demand of the Spirit Rune Shop, allowing the Rune Hall to supply more goods.
Normally, in a month, the clan side supplied the Spirit Talisman Shop with goods such as talismans, talisman pens, talisman paper, etc., with a total value of around one thousand five hundred spirit stones.
Now he had the sect give a supply of two thousand spirit stones of goods per month.
There was a large increase in this amount, but it wouldn’t draw attention from too high a level!
After doing all of this, Li An began to close the door and impact the eighth level of Qi Refining!
“Spiritual Root Sensibility has increased to 57 points …… incomparably close to the Yellow Order Middle Grade Spiritual Root.”
“Even, if in some sects, the test isn’t that accurate …… I can be directly judged as a yellow rank middle grade!”
Filled with confidence, he directly took two Yuan Spirit Pills!
……
The enhancement of his spiritual roots, coupled with the increased dosage of Yuan Ling Dan, Li An’s breakthrough went very smoothly.
A month and a half later, he officially stepped into the eighth level of Qi Refining!
“Sixty-eight years old, nearly ancient ……”
He lamented in his heart, this age was generally considered an old generation cultivator.
But in fact, it was still relatively young for Li An!
After his cultivation reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, his lifespan reached nearly three hundred years!
This was already far, far higher than an ordinary Qi Refining Stage.
So although sixty-eight years old, he was actually only equivalent to an ordinary cultivator in his thirties.
It was still considered a prime age.
“Immortal Master, you’ve finally come out ……”
And Xiao Gou, the apprentice he recruited, arrived eagerly after seeing him come out, “There’s some backlog in the goods we ordered, should we sell them at a reduced price?”
During this period of time, the Spirit Talisman Shop had already accumulated a backlog of over a thousand spirit stones of goods.
Even if they were to lower the price and sell it now, they would have to lose some of it and would be blamed by the sect side!
Li An suddenly coldly said, “I do things, I need you to teach me?”
“Scram, from today onwards, you don’t have to come to the Spirit Symbol Shop anymore, get out of Qingyang Fang City-“
Xiao Gou sniffed, stunned for a moment, then violently kneeled on the ground, crying to, “Immortal, Xiao Gou no longer dare to talk too much …… Please don’t drive Xiao Gou away, please don’t drive Xiao Gou away!”
He was originally a lonely farmer’s son, had participated in the Xuan Yang Sect’s examination, but only miscellaneous spiritual roots, so he was not selected, it is difficult to touch the immortal path in this life, in the time of wandering, because of the people honest and diligent, so was accepted by Li An as an apprentice.
Over the years in the spirit talisman store diligently, Li An is also quite good to him, he hard to cultivate the miscellaneous spirit root to the first layer of refining qi perfect, and now can even impact the second layer of refining qi.
Now just because of one sentence, he was driven away by Li An …… He was hard to accept.
“Get lost.”
Li An threw him a small bag of spirit stones, “Don’t bother me-“
After saying that, Li An took a long walk.
Xiao Gou knelt in the same spot and didn’t move for three consecutive days.
Li An went out and in, completely ignoring him.
Xiao Gou knew that Li An’s mind was set, and finally on the morning of the fourth day, he kowtowed a few times towards Li An’s room, then wiped his tears clean and left the Spiritual Symbol Shop.
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Ten days after Xiao Gou’s departure, it was also the third month after Li An discovered the traces of the Devil Cult.
The second-order formation that Li An had ordered finally arrived.
He headed to the formation store to pick up the formation, and after inspecting the formation, he nodded, then suddenly said, “Brother Long, I’ll hold off for two months before giving you the rest of the spirit stones, is that okay?”
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(End of chapter)