Tyrant Sky Martial Soul

Chapter 568: Chapter 568 Mutual Scheming_1

The Demonflame Celestial’s avatar couldn’t help but snort coldly, thinking to himself, ”No matter what little tricks Ling Xiao has up his sleeve, today will be his burial ground!”

However, what the Demonflame Celestial didn’t know was that Ling Xiao was not just bluffing.

The reason he had chosen to accept the Demonflame Celestial’s request to lure away those monsters was entirely to take this opportunity to set up an array formation, one that would utterly annihilate the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar—the Trapped Dragon Formation!

Ling Xiao wasn’t going to wait for the Demonflame Celestial to plot against him; he planned to take care of both the Demonflame Celestial and Bai Feifei first, and then take his time collecting the treasures.

Certainly, he understood the Demonflame Celestial’s little schemes.

It was nothing more than an intention to use the power of the Haze Demons against him—even if it didn’t kill him, it would weaken him.

Then, by using him, the celestial aimed to buy time to steal all the treasures himself.

According to the Demonflame Celestial’s plan, once he had obtained the treasure and if Ling Xiao hadn’t perished, the Demonflame Celestial would surely deliver the finishing blow.

If Ling Xiao had perished, all the better.

Either way, it was to the Demonflame Celestial’s advantage.

If Ling Xiao refused to lure away the monsters, he would likely immediately face the thunderous strike of the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar.

Because at that point, Ling Xiao would have outlived his usefulness, and the Demonflame Celestial wouldn’t let him live.

One against two, a situation Ling Xiao would definitely not choose.

Even if he could win, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.

Ling Xiao preferred to choose methods that were both easy and effective in solving problems.

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Bang!

Upon entering the City Lord’s Mansion, Ling Xiao firmly stomped on the ground, causing the entire mansion to shake.

However, he had controlled his strength well enough not to collapse the mansion outright.

In an instant, over a hundred guards from all over the City Lord’s Mansion surged out, converging towards Ling Xiao.

Whoosh!

Seeing the Mechanical Puppets closing in, Ling Xiao leaped up and, with one foot stepping on a puppet’s head, dashed towards the outside of the mansion.

”Feifei, follow him, and look for an opportunity to take that boy down,” Wang Nan, the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar, instructed Bai Feifei.

”Understood, Father. I knew you couldn’t possibly really cooperate with that kid. I’ll go kill him right now!” Bai Feifei nodded and leaped to follow.

Ling Xiao certainly wasn’t foolhardy enough to confront the Mechanical Puppets directly, for hidden among them were about ten Haze Demons. The demons weren’t very powerful, but they were particularly difficult to deal with.

What he had to do now was to use the strength of these creatures to activate the Trapped Dragon Formation.

As for that foolish woman Bai Feifei, she could soon play her last with the avatar of her foster father.

”Ling Junior Brother, wait for me!”

While Bai Feifei yelled this out loud, she was actually conserving her True Essence to its utmost, not wanting to provoke the Mechanical Puppets—clearly just wanting to sit back and enjoy the show.

However, Bai Feifei didn’t realize that she was step by step entering into danger.

Ling Xiao activated his Cloud Dragon Divine Movement, unfurling the Golden Dragon Wings on his back. It seemed as though he was fleeing, but he was actually drawing a strange pattern.

This pattern was a set of inscriptions.

This was Ling Xiao’s modified Trapped Dragon Formation, which didn’t require Dragon Trapping Pillars to use. Although slightly less powerful, it was more than sufficient to deal with the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar and Bai Feifei.

After all, with so many Mechanical Puppets and Haze Demons attacking together, any non-Heavenly Man Realm individual would suffer injuries or even a terrible death.

The Demonflame Celestial might be a Heavenly Man Realm Expert, but his avatar certainly wasn’t at that level.

Fleeing while inscribing was possible only because of his speed.

You must know, those Mechanical Puppets were not slow.

Soon, the ground inscriptions were completed. Ling Xiao suddenly pulled out an Array Refining Stone and rushed to the center of the inscriptions.

Seeing this scene, Bai Feifei was somewhat puzzled. She didn’t know what Ling Xiao intended to do. Clearly, he had already escaped the encirclement, but then he suddenly re-entered it. Was he insane?

Boom!

The already impatient mechanical puppets opened their mouths one after another, firing strange yet powerful beams of light.

Ling Xiao, standing at the center of the inscription, was instantly shattered to pieces.

”This idiot, how could he die so quickly? I wonder if father managed to get the treasure inside!”

Bai Feifei was completely unable to distinguish between Ling Xiao’s real body and his avatars.

Even the Divine Sky Heavenly Venerate might not be able to tell the difference.

The main reason was that Ling Xiao’s avatars possessed souls, genuine avatars with little to no difference from real people.

Except they had no blood or flesh, their bodies purely formed by condensed energy.

However, the shattered corpse had turned to powder, and who could tell whether it was the powdered remains of dried blood and flesh or just energy fragments?

Because she was too focused on the slain Ling Xiao, Bai Feifei didn’t notice the inscriptions on the ground, twinkling with a faint light that was hard to detect.

At this moment, Ling Xiao, hidden in the shadows, released another Sword Soul Clone, still standing in the center of the inscription, letting those mechanical puppets and Haze Demons attack it.

This time, the Sword Soul Clone lasted much longer, mainly because it was well prepared and could now rely on the inscription to channel energy.

Freeing up some of his attention, Ling Xiao looked towards the distance.

There lay the Inner Hall of the City Lord’s Mansion.

At this time, the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar, Wang Nan, had already entered that place.

Because Ling Xiao had lured away all the mechanical puppets and Haze Demons, Wang Nan didn’t need to fight at all to find the treasure.

Inside the Inner Hall, there was a secret chamber. Once the mechanism was activated, a scent that made the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar excitedly screech filled the air.

At the same time, various glimmers twinkled, clearly indicating that those items were extraordinary.

”Damn it, how could this happen!”

The Demonflame Celestial’s avatar, touching a charred mark on his hand, revealed an angry and fearful expression.

Not only was there a mechanism in the secret chamber, but a powerful array formation had been set up, which he couldn’t get past!

”If only I’d known, I should’ve brought that kid Ling Xiao with me!”

The array formation was extremely formidable, it had instantly rendered one of his hands useless.

Luckily he didn’t enter with his whole body, or else his entire being would most likely be ruined by now.

Thinking this, the avatar Wang Nan immediately severed his own left hand and then retreated outwards.

Ling Xiao absolutely couldn’t die!

Otherwise, he could also forget about the treasures.

All of this, Ling Xiao saw with his own eyes.

At this time, he had sacrificed twelve avatars, and the Trapped Dragon Formation was completely prepared. Suppressing the Demonflame Celestial’s avatar and Bai Feifei should now be quite straightforward.

Seeing the avatar Wang Nan approaching, Ling Xiao hurriedly darted out, still maneuvering among those mechanical puppets and Haze Demons.

”Feifei, help save Ling Xiao,”

said the avatar Wang Nan to Bai Feifei, who was watching the scene from the shadows.

”But father, didn’t you just say you wanted to kill this kid?”

The avatar Wang Nan shook his head, ”The situation has changed, the items inside are blocked by an array formation,. Among the three of us, only Ling Xiao is an Array Formation Master.”

”Damn it, just when I thought that kid had finally died in the fight with those monsters, I got happy for nothing. Now my anticipation is dashed yet again,”

Bai Feifei was exceedingly frustrated.

Why couldn’t this Ling Xiao just die?

Why!