Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 1111: Chapter 397: Breaking the Final Veil, Turning Against Each Other!

Revealing the two Nascent Souls—more or less unintentionally showing off his strength—once the Bone Nightmare Old Demon saw his goal achieved, he withdrew his two Nascent Souls.

When he looked at the other cultivators again, there was already a slight change in his gaze.

”Back then, after I counter‑killed this old demon, I took that Water Spirit Infant, refined it into my own Second Nascent Soul. On this point, Master, you shouldn’t have anything left to say, right?”

The Nightmare True Monarch looked at his high‑spirited prized disciple, and there was not much anger in his eyes.

Or rather, that anger had long since burned itself out.

”I have to admit, Gu Yan, you really are a genius—with fortune, with skill, and with scheming.”

”If we master and disciple hadn’t come to this stage, but instead jointly ran this Nightmare Sect, then with three Nascent Souls in one sect, even across the entire Jiyuan Continent, we’d be a rather illustrious sect, wouldn’t we?”

The Nightmare True Monarch spoke as he swept his gaze around, and in the end let out a long sigh.

”If I had truly been fortunate enough to obtain that Water Spirit Infant back then, do you think there would still have been any place for you, Gu Yan?”

”Hold it, hold it.”

While they argued, the others watched the spectacle.

But someone quickly felt that this spectacle seemed a bit too small.

So he jumped out.

Among those present, the only one who would pull something like this was the Mansion Master of Xuan Snake.

He rose, lifted both hands, and gently pressed down, as if to calm both sides, while also drawing everyone’s attention.

Ji Yuan also turned to look at him.

He saw the Mansion Master of Profound Snake say, ”That’s enough. This is the Cultivation Realm—what is it if not mutual deceit, you kill me I kill you? Otherwise what are we talking about, contending for the Great Dao?”

”Whether it’s you Nightmare wanting to kill Bone Nightmare, or you Bone Nightmare wanting to kill Nightmare, it’s all the same thing.”

”Earlier Bone Nightmare failed to kill Nightmare, now Nightmare has come back—what’s he coming back for if not revenge?”

”So, say it a thousand times, say it ten thousand times, in the end it all comes down to letting your hands prove the truth.”

”You old ghost aren’t wrong.”

The Heavenly Fiend Old Demon nodded, for once showing agreement with the Mansion Master of Xuan Snake.

”Say as much as you like, it’s not worth a single fight. Whoever wins then will be the one in the right.”

Even though Ji Yuan had already made preparations, at this point he still felt some concern. He hurriedly sent a voice transmission to the Nightmare True Monarch, asking:

”Senior, with the treasures in the Blood Pool still not in your hands... do you have confidence?”

The Nightmare True Monarch didn’t respond to him. As if reminded of something, he instead asked Gu Yan with a faint trace of doubt:

”Gu Yan, how did you discover my traces? As I recall, ever since I stepped into this Rashamon Sea, we haven’t met even once, have we?”

For the Nightmare True Monarch to have such a doubt clearly pleased the Bone Nightmare Old Demon.

So his lips curled with a joyful smile, and even his voice carried a hint of seductive bewitchment.

”You want to know? I’ll tell you after you’re dead.”

”Heh.”

The Nightmare True Monarch let out a cold snort, clearly disdainful of Bone Nightmare’s posturing.

Then he did a brief bit of calculation, suddenly raised his head, and looked across with a hint of shock.

”You’ve met... Qiu Qianhai?”

What?!

Ji Yuan naturally didn’t dare reveal the slightest trace of surprise, but inside his heart waves were surging.

If that was really the case, then things just got a lot more complicated.

If Qiu Qianhai had fallen into the Bone Nightmare Old Demon’s hands, you could say he’d just escaped the tiger’s mouth only to fall into a wolf’s den.

And since Qiu Qianhai would confide in Bone Nightmare like that, even revealing the Nightmare True Monarch’s identity—

...was that of his own free will?

If not, then hasn’t he already met with deadly danger? And if so, how is he going to face the Nightmare True Monarch now?

’He and I entered not long ago, and I ran into the Nightmare True Monarch while he ran into the Bone Nightmare Old Demon... if you say there wasn’t some deliberate arrangement behind that, I’d never believe it.’

’And who else can arrange such things in the Rashamon Sea besides the Ghost Envoy? But what’s its purpose? If it let me run into the Nightmare True Monarch because it’s on his side, then now making Qiu Qianhai run into Bone Nightmare is clearly harming the Nightmare True Monarch.’

For a moment, thoughts spun wildly in Ji Yuan’s mind.

When the Bone Nightmare Old Demon heard this question, he wasn’t surprised. He only looked at the Nightmare True Monarch with utter contempt.

”Back then you took me as a disciple because you wanted me to help you refine that Second Nascent Soul. Now you’ve found me a junior‑disciple, and it’s still for a body‑snatching scheme... Master, Master, all I can say is, after several hundred years, your nature really hasn’t changed one bit.”

”You’re really not afraid that walking the night road too long, you’ll end up running into a ghost?”

”Though living in this Corpse King’s body isn’t exactly comfortable, is it?”

With those successive lines, the Bone Nightmare Old Demon basically laid the truth bare.

He, Bone Nightmare, had indeed met Qiu Qianhai!

And he had learned all these secrets from Qiu Qianhai!

”All of you... ingrates eating inside and out!!!”

The Nightmare True Monarch ground his teeth as he spoke.

Then he raised both hands, forming several Hand Seals in front of himself, and a few Restrictions appeared at once, each resembling an Array Plate.

Only, right now, the Restrictions were all completely empty.

Seeing this, the Bone Nightmare Old Demon just smiled slightly.

”Don’t bother. With that paltry little Dao of yours... I could break it several hundred years ago, let alone now.”

”Every Restriction on my junior‑disciple, including those in his Divine Soul, I’ve already undone.”

”Just like... this.”

The Bone Nightmare Old Demon snapped his fingers as he spoke.

”Pa—”

The several Restrictions in the Nightmare True Monarch’s hands shattered on cue.

...Not good!

Seeing this, Ji Yuan immediately guessed that the Nightmare True Monarch, having lost several layers of trump cards in a row, was about to tear all pretense away.

”Swift Lightning!”

The instant he turned into lightning and left, the Nightmare True Monarch’s palm slammed down on the spot where he had just been standing.

If he’d hesitated by even a second, he’d be dead there now.

The spot he reappeared at... was atop the sand dune where the Mansion Master of Xuan Snake sat.

Before that old long snake could react, Ji Yuan had already sent a voice transmission:

”Senior, the Holy Fish King entrusted me to bring you a message!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the Mansion Master of Xuan Snake’s eyes narrowed. He took a single step out, blocking the charging Nightmare True Monarch in the air, and slowly said:

”This young friend... will be under the protection of my Profound Snake Mansion!”

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