Chapter 1611 - Second Plan Begins
If they alerted the camp and the deacon came, they would be summoned back immediately. That would shatter the next step of Liu Wuxie's plan, and he still needed to gather a massive stockpile of martial souls to create the kind of effect he wanted.
Since he couldn't trust the Santi Tribe, he would fall into danger the moment the Santi Tribe bailed out at the critical moment. Tian Can's presence meant he wouldn't fear for his safety, but it would still alarm the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and that wasn't the outcome he wanted.
He had to make the plan foolproof. Liu Wuxie froze the snake-scorpion in place, then formed seals and forcibly extracted its primordial spirit from its soul sea.
Now that he had reached the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm, his ability to create martial souls had climbed to an unbelievable height. In only a few minutes, he condensed over a hundred light orbs in his palm.
"Not enough. It's best if I can hunt a snake-scorpion at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm," Liu Wuxie thought, then activated the Ghost Pupil that pierced through layers of rock until he traced the snake-scorpion's den. He discovered they lived deep in the underground world.
"Tian Can, lead the way for me." Liu Wuxie summoned Tian Can as insurance in case the Snake-Scorpion Clan had experts lurking nearby, then ordered him to take the lead and carve a path.
He left Nanmen Shan outside as a lookout, guarding against the arrival of other disciples of the Immortal Slaughter Palace. The moment Tian Can received the command, he charged into the Snake-Scorpion Clan's nest and immobilized over a thousand snake-scorpions with a single move.
Liu Wuxie followed close behind. He didn't need to act at all, and he devoted himself entirely to refining martial souls. Logically speaking, the movement of a quasi-immortal should have alarmed the Snake-Scorpion Clan's campsite, but Liu Wuxie relied on the Great Spatial Mythical Art to lock down the surroundings and prevent any news from leaking out.
On top of that, Tian Can never released his aura at the Quasi-Immortal Realm. He suppressed his cultivation to the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm instead, ensuring the Snake-scorpians couldn't sense anything unusual.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Wuxie refined thousands of snake-scorpions into martial souls. The deeper they went, the more powerful snake-scorpions finally appeared.
Without a quasi-immortal to oversee them, the snake-scorpions remained only an ordinary clan. They could never produce experts at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, and the Heaven Gaze Realm would always be their ceiling.
Liu Wuxie and Tian Can slaughtered their way forward, and the snake-scorpions suffered catastrophic losses. The Santi Tribe's massive bodies made the underground world unsuitable for them, so the two races kept to themselves and never interacted.