The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1197

Chapter 1197: Chapter 1194: The Response Strategy Chapter 1197: Chapter 1194: The Response Strategy “There's no need for you to worry about my affairs; just guard this place well,” Shen Luo replied to the Ghost General. His body's Green Light flickered as he took a step and vanished into the Void, leaving no trace behind.

This time, he fully activated the Yimu Xuandun and managed to travel well over a Hundred Li before reappearing within a lush mountain forest.

Shen Luo didn't linger there for long, immediately using the Yimu Xuandun again and continuing to move far away, while taking out the Qiankun Bag and that Ginkgo Spirit Fruit from the Void Jade Box.

“Daoist friend Shen, why have you taken me out of that box?” Bashe immediately sensed Shen Luo's action from within the Qiankun Bag and asked.

“It's nothing serious. The Nine-Headed Insect is quite capable. I've fought with it once before and was not entirely satisfied. This time, I want to see if it can surpass me in the art of escape,” Shen Luo said with a faint smile.

“Are you joking? The Nine-Headed Insect's godly powers are beyond your imagination! Damn it, how could I have trusted you, a human cultivator? If you are seeking death, don't drag me into it!” Bashe was stunned for a moment and then became furiously exasperated upon realizing Shen Luo was not joking, almost bursting into a curse.

“Rest assured, since I've promised to keep you safe, I will not let anything happen to you,” Shen Luo replied calmly, continuing forward with the Immortal Escape, without getting angry.

“Are you delaying for time? I heard that you came here with Ao Lie of the West Sea Dragon Palace before. After a great battle, both Ao Lie and the Nine-Headed Insect were injured. Ao Lie was in that cavern mansion just now; are you waiting for Ao Lie's injuries to heal?” Bashe seemed to catch on a bit.

“You may know what you should, but don't ask about what you shouldn't. Since you're so idle, why don't you tell me what happened before? How did you end up in this state?” Shen Luo nonchalantly responded.

“After we left the Ginkgo Divine Tree, we each fled. Although my Thunder Escape Technique is not as fast as your Wind Thunder Spirit Wings, I was faster than the others and managed to escape to a far place. I thought I was safe, but the Nine-Headed Insect still found me using the demon power mark within the Ginkgo Spirit Fruit. After a fight, I was no match and was slashed by the Moon Soul Hook, my Storage Magical Tool was taken away, and my demon body was cut into pieces. Fortunately, at the last moment, I used the Bashe clan's secret technique 'Split' to hide my divine soul in a split body and fled to your location using an Escape Technique,” Bashe recounted after a moment of silence and sighed.

Shen Luo considered Bashe's words carefully, verifying them repeatedly. They seemed consistent and likely not false.

“You haven't answered the question I asked earlier, how did you know I was in that patch of low mountains?” He then pressed on with his question.

“Ahem… Actually, when I was guarding the Ginkgo Divine Tree, I also secretly placed a demon power mark inside the Ginkgo Spirit Fruit. I can sense the location of the spirit fruit through this mark,” Bashe coughed awkwardly and said.

Shen Luo rolled his eyes. It seemed this Bashe had been plotting to get those Ginkgo Spirit Fruits all along, but this snake was really useless. It had its own mark within the spirit fruit yet failed to notice that the Nine-Headed Insect had done the same.

“What about the others?” he pondered for a moment before asking.

“Based on the mark on the Ginkgo Spirit Fruit, the fruit that the Mirage Demon snatched has already fallen into the hands of the Nine-Headed Insect. Its fate doesn't need to be asked. As for the cultivators of the He Mountain Sect, they didn't get a Ginkgo Spirit Fruit, so I also can't speculate. But given the speed of the Nine-Headed Insect's Blood Cloud Escape, I fear the outlook is mostly grim,” Bashe said.

“You previously said you could help me against the Nine-Headed Insect. What do you propose?” Shen Luo wasn't particularly concerned about the Mirage Demon or the people from the He Mountain Sect. It was just a casual question. Seeing this, he did not press further but changed the subject and asked.

“I've served under the Nine-Headed Insect for nearly one hundred years; I'm well aware of the techniques it excels at and the magical treasures it possesses. Most importantly, inside those Ginkgo Spirit Fruits carried by the Nine-Headed Insect are not only its marks but also mine. Even though my cultivation level has greatly diminished, and I can't sense the marks' positions across thousands of li like the Nine-Headed Insect, as long as those Ginkgo Spirit Fruits are within five hundred li, I can immediately detect them. With this ability, the Nine-Headed Insect won't be able to launch a sneak attack on us,” Bashe boasted.

“So it is indeed of great use, you must constantly sense the location of those spirit fruit marks, and inform me immediately of any situation,” Shen Luo said with a trace of a smile on his face.

Ba She acknowledged with a sound and stopped talking to Shen Luo, focusing on casting spells to sense the location of the marks.

As Shen Luo continued to move forward, a quarter of an hour later, he placed the Qiankun Bag and the Ginkgo Spirit Fruit into the Void Jade Box, and then changed direction.

Thousands of Li away from him, a blood cloud raced across the sky with astonishing speed.

Within the blood cloud, the Nine-Headed Insect had already reverted to human form, his expression unsightly.

Of the nine Ginkgo Spirit Fruits, he had recovered six, mitigating some of his losses, but the Ginkgo Divine Tree had been shaken by Ba She, losing all its leaves and suffering great damage to its vitality. Although he had several secret techniques for cultivating spirit trees, he did not know whether they would be effective on the Ginkgo Divine Tree.

“I was careless for a moment, allowing that wench to escape! No matter, she has fled to that thief with the family name Shen, just right to clean up together!” the Nine-Headed Insect said viciously, flicking his sleeve, a magical treasure like a blue compass appeared in front of him, the compass needle trembling slightly, pointing directly ahead.

The Nine-Headed Insect nodded and was about to collect the compass to concentrate on performing the escape technique when the compass needle suddenly began to spin swiftly, eventually losing its sensing ability.

“Eh, what's going on here?” the Nine-Headed Insect was shocked, blood light fluctuated around him as he stopped, his hands moving rapidly to make magic spells towards the compass.

Magic spells entered the compass, and the Body's Green Light on the compass needle flared up, but it still spun aimlessly, failing to indicate any direction.

The Nine-Headed Insect furrowed his brows but didn't show much disappointment. He took out a blood-red round pearl, which was the Blood Demon Bead.

He then took out a Jade Bottle and poured out a drop of fresh blood with a hint of Blue Light from it, dropping it onto the Blood Demon Bead, his hands moving rapidly to cast spells to activate the pearl.

The fresh blood quickly permeated into the Blood Demon Bead. The inside of the bead revealed a blood cloud spinning rapidly and then turned into a small blood arrow. Like the compass needle, it began to spin, seemingly trying to point in a certain direction.

Then, the blood arrow spun around a few times, still appearing aimless and confused, likewise unable to sense the target location.

“The Ginkgo Spirit Fruit is one thing, but Ba She is a living being, and its breath has been completely shielded?” The Nine-Headed Insect's expression grew solemn, but his eyes quickly turned cold again.

“Don't think that just because you have one or two treasures that can shield breath, you can escape from my grasp. As long as it's within Yunmeng Marsh, there's no one my true self cannot find!” the Nine-Headed Insect snorted coldly, the blood cloud around him radiated brilliant light, and with a slight turn, dozens of blood lights shot out in all directions, vanishing into the distant horizon in the blink of an eye.

In each blood light, one could vaguely see hundreds of small birds resembling blood-colored wasps, each only about an inch in size, their bodies patterned with metallic gloss. Yet, these blood-colored bee birds moved with incredible speed, and in their buzzing sound, they soon disappeared into the far-off sky.

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