Chapter 1083: Colossal Spiritual Body
Qi Xuansu looked at the Yu King for a long while without speaking.
Even after scrutinizing the King, Qi Xuansu thought that it was merely the final flare of vitality before death. He posed no real threat.
The crux of the matter still lay with Chen Shuhua. Qi Xuansu had already dispatched two first-rank Spirit Guards who were equivalent to Pseudo-Immortals to arrest her. By all appearances, the outcome was nearly guaranteed.
With that thought, Qi Xuansu steadied his breath. He said, “The three Immortals you speak of, besides Chen Shuhua, must be Wu Luo and the True Lord Siming. But their divine descent vessels were already shattered by Great Sage Lan. I don’t think you have a third vessel.”
The Yu King did not deny it. “To forge a vessel capable of housing an Immortal is never easy, especially beneath the Daoist Mansion’s watchful eyes. Everything must be done in secret, so we can’t draw upon dragon qi as we wish. As you said, there is no third vessel.”
Qi Xuansu said, “Yang E is already executed, and Chen Shuhua has been cornered. It seems you cannot escape my grasp.”
The Yu King smiled. “Second Deputy Qi, you speak too soon.”
Qi Xuansu clasped his hands behind his back. His right hand was holding a curled sheet of human-skin scripture.
The King continued, “Since things have come this far, there is nothing that can’t be spoken. When the Fenglin war erupted, we all agreed it was a once-in-a-millennium opportunity, one we could not let slip. That was when we began preparing for today. Though the Fenglin Sonno-joi faction was suppressed by the Daoist Order, the arrow was already nocked, and we had no retreat left.”
Qi Xuansu said, “Whether you had a way out or not is already past. What I want to know now is, do you have any remaining trump cards?”
The King slowly closed his eyes, his aura visibly weakening by the second. “Though the third Immortal-level vessel does not exist, we managed to create one of the Pseudo-Immortal level.
“I expected that once you learned the truth, you would return to see me. If I used myself as bait and stationed a Pseudo-Immortal here in ambush, how would you respond?