Chapter 13 Scattered Province

One of the Thirteen Taibao, inside a rented apartment.

The Palace Master Zhisha, in a fiery red dress and a silver mask, looked at a woman with perfect features and said softly, "Has there been any movement from the Third Elder recently?"

The exquisitely beautiful woman's face was blank, her eyes hollow. Without a moment's thought, she replied, "No movement! The Third Elder said that since Yuanshi Tianzun has returned, we should all keep a low profile. That's all."

Upon hearing this, the Palace Master Zhisha turned her head and glanced at her three companions in the same room. Zhang Yuanqing, the doppelganger wearing a little red hat, said softly, "Given the grudges between me and the Nan faction, it's predictable that I'll seek revenge after returning. It's normal for the Nan faction's higher-ups to be wary. The Nan faction has a considerable number of Sovereigns. As long as Ling Tuo can't calculate exactly who we're targeting, he can't make targeted deployments, nor can he arrange for Sovereign-level helpers to be stationed permanently by the Nan faction's elders. But they should have a means of quick communication. I suggest a swift decision."

The Devil Eye Heavenly King hummed in agreement, "If we can't kill him within three minutes, we'll abandon the operation to avoid affecting ordinary people."

With that, according to plan, the Palace Master Zhisha hypnotized the exquisitely beautiful woman, took out the miniature compass for entering the dream world, and extracted the incantation.

The doppelganger Zhang Yuanqing, without hesitation, took the compass and looked at his three companions, saying, "If I don't make any move after ten seconds, you should abandon the operation."

After speaking, deep vortices appeared in his pupils, and he jumped into the unknown dreamscape.

Zhang Yuanqing appeared in the front yard of a large manor. The sky was azure, the greenery lush, and the surroundings were covered with clean, flat lawns. In the center of the front yard was a fountain pool with a statue of a nude woman with her legs spread apart.

Clear water flowed from between the nude statue's legs.

By the edge of the green belt, two gardeners in work clothes were trimming shrubs.

This was the dream woven by the Ninth Elder of the Nan faction.

Seeing a stranger appear in the manor, the two gardeners turned their heads in unison, staring at him with empty eyes.

Zhang Yuanqing felt a powerful mental force scanning him and attempting to stir up the fear in his heart.

When stirring up fear failed, the two gardeners suddenly mutated, turning into two twisted, mutilated, and blood-soaked demons with eerie white eyes.

Seemingly staggering, they rushed toward Zhang Yuanqing at great speed.

Ghosts are a terror etched into human genes.

When unable to elicit the target's inner fears, transforming into ghosts can also plunge the target into fear, though the effect is slightly weaker.

"All conditioned dharmas are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows."

Zhang Yuanqing raised his hand and gently brushed, and the two demons vanished without a trace.

Seeing this, the entire manor trembled violently, then moved away from Zhang Yuanqing like retreating scenery.

After discovering that the intruder possessed the same level of ability, the Ninth Elder decisively took the dream and ran.

Zhang Yuanqing snorted softly, puffed out his cheeks, and blew hard.

"Whoosh..."

A strong wind rose, and the manor, which was drifting into the distance, shattered into pieces.

The next moment, Zhang Yuanqing fell from the dreamscape, returning to reality. Returning with him was a pale-faced, beautiful woman.

She was wrapped in a robe of condensed black smoke, and her body seemed to have turned into black smoke as well, floating in mid-air. Beneath the robe were not legs, but undulating, wave-like smoke.

But Zhang Yuanqing, as a Night Watcher, knew that the other party was not in a spirit state.

He looked around and found himself in a factory district, filled with factories with green tarp roofs, as well as a few administrative buildings and dormitories.

*Hmm, the three-shift factories always have people sleeping, so that can support the long-term existence of the dream?* Zhang Yuanqing realized. Immediately, he heard the misty, beautiful woman's eyes reveal greed, and she shrieked, "Yuanshi Tianzun, you really came for revenge! The Illusion God item, Traceless Past, is indeed on you!"

Zhang Yuanqing didn't waste words. He opened his inventory and grabbed a two-meter diameter, half-person-high stone platform with one hand, slamming it heavily on the ground.

This was the directional teleportation array given by the chairman. It didn't require him to visualize scenes he had been to in his mind. As long as his companions crushed the jade talismans in their hands, they could arrive here.

And the jade talismans and the teleportation array could sense each other.

After taking out the teleportation array, Zhang Yuanqing was about to attack the beautiful woman when he suddenly saw her also grab a painting scroll from her inventory and unfold it with a shake.

The painting depicted profound and complex array patterns, which were the exclusive incantations of the Illusionist profession. These incantations lit up one by one, and a pressure from a high level descended. The night sky presented bizarre and colorful illusions.

These illusions slowly coalesced into a phantom figure in a long robe.

*Crap! A peak Sovereign?!* Zhang Yuanqing's heart skipped a beat. Even with the Illusion God's Heart, the moment he saw the figure in the sky, he uncontrollably experienced various illusions.

All sorts of negative emotions surged in his mind.

Chapter 13 (cont.) ...warmth finally came from the teleportation jade talisman in the pocket, emitting a faint light.

This was Yuanshi's doppelganger summoning them.

"Success!" The Devil Eye Heavenly King curled his lips and crushed the teleportation jade talisman without hesitation.

Little Round, the Palace Master Zhisha, and Ms. Jojo, who was on guard outside the community, crushed, or patted the teleportation jade talisman with their paws.

"Whirr..."

What entered the eyes of the three people and one cat was a torrential downpour and an empty city. The sky was gloomy, and the rain blurred the world. High-rise buildings stood silently in the heavy rain. The streets were empty, and the whole world was silent.

And in the empty street, they saw Yuanshi Tianzun wearing a little red hat, and saw the enemies confronting him.

There were four enemies in total. Two of them were wearing black robes. The other two were a gaunt woman with prominent cheekbones and a mean face, and an unremarkable middle-aged man. The only special thing was that his expression was extremely crazy, and his two eyeballs were turning left and right, indicating that he was out of his mind.

The Devil Eye Heavenly King said with a somber face, reciting the names of the enemies: "Third Elder, Fourth Guardian of the Dark Night Rose, Extinction Heavenly King..."

He didn't recognize the unremarkable middle-aged man.

"That guy is the Headmaster of Pure Yang Sect. Tsk, it's only been a few months, and he's already recovered to the Sovereign stage," Zhang Yuanqing's doppelganger said.

"Where is this?" Little Round frowned.

"A mirror space created by the Rain Master. I figured that our combat power is not weaker than theirs, and we can fight, so I summoned you guys over," Zhang Yuanqing said.

As soon as he entered the dream world, he was attacked by four people, so he immediately tore the dream and returned to reality, and then fell into a mirror space that the enemy had already prepared.

"Ling Tuo really calculated that we would deal with the Third Elder, but he didn't arrange for a peak Sovereign to come over. He probably doesn't want to give away advantages for nothing, after all, we have a demigod guarding the formation," Zhang Yuanqing was not surprised by this.

It was all within expectations.

He thought for a while and added:

"The peak Sovereign is likely being saved to deal with the main body. Tsk, what an unlucky kid. However, I can continue to exist, which means the main body hasn't died yet."

"From this point of view, Ling Tuo didn't calculate which Nan faction elder the main body would deal with."

If Ling Tuo observed that they would deal with the Ninth Elder, then waiting for the main body would be the peak Sovereign himself.

If the main body was instantly killed by the peak Sovereign, he would disappear.

Executing the plan in a hidden state could indeed avoid Ling Tuo's observation. They had finally found the weakness of the Lord of Taiyin.

In the factory, illusions were reborn.

Without any hesitation, Zhang Yuanqing immediately activated the "Blazing Sun God of War" and "Rising Sun" skills.

A golden scorching sun rose from the back of his head, and a golden scorching sun mark appeared on his forehead. His short hair stood on end, wrapped in golden flames, his skin refracted golden light, and his pupils turned into molten gold.

Golden light shone everywhere, the words on the painting lost their luster and became mediocre, and the illusionary figure in the sky disappeared before it could completely condense.

And the teleportation array he summoned also lost its divinity.