Chapter 1123: Beating
The Dark Heavens Devilish Deity turned to Han Li, then tossed a purple jade slip at him as he demanded, "Give me a copy of the cultivation art for the Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra. Rest assured, Patriarch Miro and I are good friends, so I won't make you give me the cultivation art for nothing.
“Here's a Five Lightning True Mantra that I obtained by chance from a set of ancient ruins. It's one of the most powerful lightning-attribute cultivation arts in this realm, and it's not inferior in value compared with your Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra."
Han Li's expression remained unchanged as he caught the jade slip, but his mind was racing as he processed the situation.
The Dark Heavens Devilish Deity was clearly not in a sound state of mind, and he seemed to have placed his trust in Qi Mozi, so Han Li had to proceed with the utmost caution here.
Before he had a chance to say anything, Wyrm 3 suddenly stepped forward, and a Reincarnation Palace mask appeared over her face as she urged, "Don't trust that man, Senior Shi! Not only is he a cultivator from the Heavenly Court, he's the current chief warden of the Immortal Prison, and he's lying to you to try and lure you to the Heavenly Court so all of the Dao Ancestors can target you at once! Fellow Daoist Han and I are both from the Reincarnation Palace, we are your true allies!"
The Dark Heavens Devilish Deity's brows furrowed slightly upon seeing this, and it seemed that a hint of rationality had returned to him.
Qi Mozi seemed to have already anticipated this, and he remained calm and collected as he sneered, "I'm a cultivator of the Heavenly Court? What a joke! Given Fellow Daoist Shi's vast wealth of knowledge and experience, would he not be able to tell if I were from the Heavenly Court? Why is your Reincarnation Palace trying to stop me from rescuing Mistress Jin Ling and Young Master Shi? What are your intentions?"
"He seems to be using the Time Severing Flowing Fire Tome of the True Mantra Sect, which isn't a Heavenly Court cultivation art," the Dark Heavens Devilish Deity mused to himself.
"That's precisely correct, Fellow Daoist Shi," Qi Mozi immediately said, not giving Han Li and Wyrm 3 any chance to interject.
At the same time, he swept a sleeve through the air to release the withered bodies of the three devilish beings from earlier.
"Fellow Daoist Shi, these three were once subordinates of yours, but they betrayed you and doomed you to be imprisoned in this place. I've killed these three, and their two brothers were killed in the Five-Elemental Great Annihilation Array, so you can rest easy now, knowing that they'll never be able to betray you again," Qi Mozi said, clearly sucking up to the Dark Heavens Devilish Deity.