The Prince Can Do Divination-Chapter 113 - 106: Using Oneself as Bait, Mortal World Purgatory

Chapter 113: Chapter 106: Using Oneself as Bait, Mortal World Purgatory

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「Meanwhile.」

It was a dark and windy night.

Lu Mingyuan was in a tavern near Prince Zhuang’s Mansion, surrounded by several of his C Level colleagues, chatting idly out of sheer boredom.

They had been waiting for quite a while.

Fortunately, he had already found time to take a nap, returning to the Cold Palace to lull both Hong Wan and Zi Yun to sleep.

"So, why did you all join Prince Jin’s Mansion?"

one of the men in a bamboo hat asked.

The group had been talking all night, mainly because there was truly nothing else to do.

A man with mutton-chop whiskers boasted, "I took the chance while my master was away to sleep with his wife, so I’ve been on the run from my Sect ever since."

A short man beside him flew into a rage. "Damn you! If we weren’t on a mission, I’d have to fight you right now. My wife ran off with another man, so I slaughtered her entire family. I hate people like you the most."

"And you, brother?"

The man in the bamboo hat looked at Lu Mingyuan, his eyes showing respect.

Among those present, he and the High Crown Taoist clearly had the highest Cultivation.

Lu Mingyuan was silent for a moment before his muffled voice rumbled from under his mask, "I was originally a Temple Priest at a True Monarch Temple. I stole the incense offerings and was kicked out."

He looked at Wu Shangzhen, curious as to why he was here. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Noticing everyone’s gazes, Wu Shangzhen said with indifferent eyes:

"I killed my master."

However, Lu Mingyuan saw a fleeting complexity and guilt in the depths of his eyes.

The man in the bamboo hat chuckled. "Don’t tell me, you slept with your master’s wife too?"

"No."

A murderous aura instantly flared in Wu Shangzhen’s eyes.

The man in the bamboo hat gave a sheepish smile and didn’t dare to speak again.

BANG!

Suddenly, a loud noise erupted from within Prince Zhuang’s Mansion.

Two beams of light, one cyan and one yellow, shot into the sky, intertwining with each other.

Lu Mingyuan looked up, and everyone else noticed the scene as well.

Just then, the Cyan Jade Token finally began to flicker faintly.

Picking up the Jade Token to check it, Lu Mingyuan received a strange order.

Kill the female Tributors in their party, and don’t let them resist.

It wasn’t just Lu Mingyuan; the men beside him were clearly stunned as well.

’Isn’t Prince Zhuang’s Mansion the target, the enemy?’

’Why kill our own companions?’

Only Lu Mingyuan had an inkling of the true intention.

For the past several days, he had been cleaning up the gangs in the Capital City, absorbing many factions and even taking the women from Smoke Willow Lane. This was very strange. The Second Prince wasn’t a man who coveted beauties, so what did he need so many women for?

From the start of this outing, Tributor Lei had never revealed what the mission truly was, keeping it hidden the entire time.

Even the White-bearded Daoist hadn’t told them what they were supposed to be doing while stationed here.

’It was all for secrecy.’

’So from the very beginning, Prince Jin’s Mansion never expected any of these people to return?’

Tributor Lei had deceived them all.

’What kind of game is Lu Guangjing playing? It’s not an assassination, nor is it a simple infiltration. Walking right into a trap, using himself as bait... why?’

Regardless, for now, he could only follow orders.

Evidently, the Assassins beside him were thinking the same thing.

They all fixed their gazes on the sky.

WHOOSH!

In the night sky, a brilliant cyan light flared.

A tyrannical aura spread out from the Prince’s Mansion. Four enormous tails, like celestial pillars, seemed as if they would punch a hole through the heavens—it was clearly the presence of a Middle Fifth Grade being.

The several C Level Experts beside him all sprang into action, leaping up and unleashing a barrage of blades, swords, and Talismans.

The fox tail, wrapped in green light, was riddled with holes.

The next second, the other three fox tails swelled abruptly and shot out with a WHOOSH!

Each tail was shrouded in a green aura, and they moved with incredible speed.

In an instant, the chests of two C Level Experts were pierced through.

Even Lu Mingyuan had a huge, bloody hole torn in his chest, but no blood flowed out as his body fell straight to the ground.

Only Wu Shangzhen managed to summon a tattered, pale Golden Talisman from his fingertips, which transformed into the Heaven-Filling Shield and blocked the attack from one of the tails.

But even so, the aftershock sent him flying, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Lu Mingyuan knelt on the ground, his body shattered. The Cyan Light Dao Qi prevented his wounds from healing, and his Divine Soul Sensing was disrupted, flickering in and out.

He could only summon a new Shadow Warrior, mold it into his current appearance, and have it devour the ruined body.

’If one Blood Glutton Shadow Warrior is broken, I’ll just switch to another one.’

His body healed quickly, and he pursued in the direction the green light had fled.

Meanwhile, silence had fallen over Prince Zhuang’s Mansion.

A circle of Papermen had appeared—no more than a few dozen of them. Each one formed a Taoist Technique with its hands, shooting out beams of Golden Light that formed a thousand-meter chain, binding the green light.

A giant, four-tailed fox with purple cloud patterns materialized before everyone.

The next second, the four-tailed fox unleashed some unknown Divine Technique, and its body swelled once more.

One of its massive tails broke free from the Golden Light chains and swept down upon Prince Zhuang’s Mansion.

BOOM!

The spectral image of an Array resembling an overturned golden bowl covered the entire mansion, rippling from the impact.

Lu Mingyuan was not surprised to see this.

’There’s clearly a Middle Fifth Grade expert in Prince Zhuang’s Mansion, and it’s protected by the methods of a Taoist Sect. How could it be so easy to assassinate him?’

Compared to the Fifth Prince, Lu Mingkong, the Fourth Prince, Lu Guangren, had a much deeper foundation of power.

Besides, the one who assassinated Lu Mingkong was a "Great Buddha" like Yun Qinghe.

She could escape from a True Monarch’s grasp; it was hard not to suspect how many Life-Saving Treasures she possessed.

Seeing this, he became even more certain that the Second Prince’s goal was neither assassination nor infiltration.

The experts at Prince Zhuang’s Mansion were powerful, but this Demon Fox clearly had its own life-saving methods as well.

As wisps of cyan smoke puffed from the fox’s mouth, its entire body dissolved and vanished into the sky.

But as Lu Mingyuan watched, he found the look in the fox’s eyes to be very familiar.

He couldn’t help but be reminded of someone.

FLASH!

The Cyan Jade Token lit up again.

The current mission was completely over, yet a new one arrived.

—Find the whereabouts of the Demon Fox.

Lu Mingyuan didn’t rush. Instead, he swept across the corpses of the C Level Experts on the ground, absorbing all of their Dao Practice.

Blood Glutton Celestial Fall Scripture - Divine Sensing Chapter (Eighth Floor: 77,500/250,000)

"Not bad. That’s a good five thousand points of nourishment."

He looked satisfied. Next, he just needed to follow the directions from the Jade Token and search the indicated area. However, it seemed his own strength wasn’t a match for that Demon Fox.

Even if it was severely injured.

’It’s best not to get involved in these muddy waters.’

Apparently, that White-bearded Daoist had some technique to divine the general location, as the beam of light from the Cyan Jade Token in his hand shot toward the Hundred Shops Night Market.

The target hadn’t run toward a secluded place, but toward a crowded one.

The Bright Lamp Bureau also dispatched people into the night, their lanterns illuminating the streets as they searched everywhere.

If Prince Zhuang’s Mansion reported the incident, claiming a Demon had invaded the mansion, then the Three Academy Cultivators would also be alerted. This Fox Demon would have no escape, even if it grew wings.

However, all of this... ’...doesn’t seem to have anything to do with me, does it?’

Lu Mingyuan took one last look at Prince Zhuang’s Mansion before his figure slowly faded, dissolving into a pool of blood and vanishing on the spot.

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