I Have an Omen System-Chapter 88 - 86: Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers
"Junior Brother Qin, are you sure you want to move this entire mountain?"
Qin Xuan replied, "That’s right. I intend to refine a Magical Treasure, and this mountain is perfect for it."
"Alright. I’ll have the Holy Sect’s Mountain-moving Warriors move it for you, but you’ll owe me 200 Merit Points."
"...Fine!"
After a long hesitation, Qin Xuan gritted his teeth and agreed, signing a loan agreement with a monthly interest of 3%.
This verdant mountain was no ordinary thing. It was the core resource needed to activate the Cyan Imperial Armor Captain—Profound Steel Cyan Shadow Stone!
If he could refine this mountain, he would no longer have to worry about running out of Thousand Puppet Spiritual Liquid when using his Cyan Cicada Shell.
’The Taiyi True View is truly letting a treasure go to waste. Sitting on a priceless mountain and not using it... in the end, it’s all for my benefit.’
But on second thought, he realized it made sense.
The Thousand Mechanism Puppet Sect had been annihilated ten thousand years ago, so Xuanzhen Ascendant himself likely had no idea what this was. After all, Profound Steel Cyan Shadow Stone wasn’t some valuable ore.
Forget Xuanzhen Ascendant; even Wei Qingyi, a Demon Monarch Bloodline, hadn’t recognized it.
’Sigh, what a shame. Now I’m saddled with a two-million-Contribution-Point loan.’ Qin Xuan sighed.
Inner Sect Merit Points were different from Outer Sect Contribution Points, with an exchange rate of one to ten thousand.
Qin Xuan didn’t even know how to earn Merit Points yet, but he was already 200 in debt.
Meanwhile, Wei Qingyi flicked his fingers, shooting out seven Ancient Bronze Ink Jade Demon Beans.
CRACK—
The beans cracked open, unleashing a hundred-zhang plume of black smoke that shot toward the heavens. From within the smoke rose seven green-faced, tusked Mountain-moving Warriors, each standing nearly a hundred zhang tall.
"Mountain-moving Warriors, heed my command—move!"
Veins bulged on Wei Qingyi’s forehead as he clutched a White Jade Token. A bloody light pulsed within it as a long string of numbers on his account flickered, his Merit Points plummeting by ninety-six.
Qin Xuan: "???"
’Holy shit, that old bastard is taking a kickback!’
RUMBLE!
The black smoke roiled as the seven Mountain-moving Warriors roared in unison. Their arms, powerful as horned dragons, tore the mountain from its very roots.
The entire thousand-zhang peak was hoisted onto their shoulders, which were wreathed in Demon Flames. With a swift twirl, the mountain and the warriors together shrank into a palm-sized miniature peak that landed in Wei Qingyi’s hand.
It left behind nothing but a bottomless basin where it once stood.
"Here, Junior Brother Qin. Take it."
Wei Qingyi wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Don’t look at me like that. This isn’t my own power; I just borrowed the strength of the Holy Sect’s arrays. You’ll encounter them in the future. It’s nothing special."
Qin Xuan said resentfully, "Senior Brother Wei, I just saw your account balance fluctuate."
"Oh, really?"
Wei Qingyi laughed awkwardly. "The weather’s great today, isn’t it? Junior Brother Qin, you should take a look around and enjoy the scenery. I just remembered I forgot to turn off the array in my Cave Mansion, so I’ll be going now."
"You..."
Before Qin Xuan could finish, Wei Qingyi transformed into a gust of sinister wind and vanished into the distance.
"Sigh... I was so careful, and I still got ripped off!"
Qin Xuan seethed with anger.
’All things considered, plus the interest, I got ripped off for a whole lot more.’
But then again, he remembered how Wei Qingyi had looked out for him on their journey.
"Whatever. I’ll just consider it a protection fee."
Qin Xuan walked among the ruins of the Taiyi True View. Looking at the crumbling walls and rubble around him, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of melancholy.
’So many dynasties rise and fall, their rights and wrongs, successes and failures... all turning to dust in the end.’
’Oh, right. I forgot I’m the one who caused all this... Never mind, then.’
Just as Qin Xuan was lost in his thoughts, the giant sphere of light in his mind suddenly flashed.
Three ancient bamboo sticks flew out from it.
[Middle-Upper Draw: A Nascent Soul is enraged and in pursuit across thousands of miles. Use the Cyan Cicada Shell to escape immediately. You can obtain a Sixth-Grade Opportunity. Auspicious.]
[Middle-Middle Draw: Do not use the Cyan Cicada Shell. Flee far away at once. However, your trail will be discovered, and you will be gravely injured. Through a fleeting romance, you might uncover the secrets of the Danxia Sect. No opportunity, no gains. Neutral.]
[The Worst Draw: Do not flee. Choose a hidden Cave Mansion to conceal yourself. When reinforcements arrive, there will be nowhere to run, and you will die without a grave. Direly Inauspicious!]
Qin Xuan was startled.
The long-absent warning from his Golden Finger had appeared!
Yet two of the three divinations told him to run for his life—the farther, the better!
He looked up at the sky.
The tribulation clouds that had covered the sky had dispersed.
To his surprise, Qin Xuan discovered that it was the night of a full moon.
The bright moonlight cast a silvery glow upon the ground, as if draping everything in a sacred radiance.
"Fuck! You sneaky bastard, Wei Qingyi! You must have known there was danger!"
’Telling me to stay here and enjoy the scenery? Scenery my ass! That son of a bitch left me here to buy him time!’
Without a second thought, Qin Xuan flipped his hand over, his palm tightly gripping the Six-winged Cyan Cicada.
HUMMM!
A strange, ancient-sounding cicada’s call echoed from Qin Xuan’s position, ignoring all spatial barriers.
Positional Divine Power: Cyan Cicada Shell!
A palm-sized phantom of a "Light Cicada" suddenly appeared. It was formed entirely from cyan spiritual light, looked utterly lifelike, and seemed ready to take flight at any moment.
The instant the Light Cicada phantom appeared, Qin Xuan vanished.
As for the Middle-Middle Draw, Qin Xuan didn’t even consider it.
’A fleeting romance? Bullshit.’
’It was so obvious, the other party had to be that cold beauty from the Danxia Sect.’
’I’d have to get seriously injured just to get laid for free.’
’Do they take me for a fucking idiot?!’
...
「Cyan Cloud Sect.」
Dozens of towering peaks floated in the sky. Immortal Cranes danced in the air, their wings scattering trails of light as they weaved through the misty horizon, creating a scene like a mortal paradise.
From time to time, cultivators on flying swords streaked across the sky, transforming into rainbows of sword light.
On the Lingxu Platform, situated atop the tallest and most majestic of the central floating peaks, a young man in a cyan Daoist Robe sat in quiet meditation. His aura was transcendent, and a faint golden light enveloped him. He seemed to embody a boundless Dao Rhyme, perfectly integrated with heaven and earth.
Suddenly, the young man’s eyes snapped open. A brilliant light flashed within them, like a galaxy hanging upside down, able to pierce through the Nine Heavens and the ten earths.
"Little Xuanzhen... did he fail Crossing the Tribulation?"
With a flip of his hand, a Bronze Soul Lamp appeared out of thin air in his palm.
The dim, yellow flame flickered, guttering weakly.
The next moment, the Soul Lamp, which held the life force of his disciple, extinguished without warning!
"No, Little Xuanzhen is dead!" The young man’s expression changed drastically.
"Good. Very good. What an audacious Demon Cultivator."
He had specifically set up ambushes in places like the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion and the Little Talisman Sect.
He never expected them to choose the most unlikely target: the Taiyi True View.
"Although Xuanzhen was a disappointment, he was still one of the first disciples I took on."
How dare they kill and plunder right under my nose?
A vicious glint flashed in the young man’s eyes.
First Lin’Er, then Qingjing, and now Little Xuanzhen.
His eyes were as deep and cold as a wolf’s, his rage uncontrollable. "Dugu Hong, do you really think I’m some pushover?"
WHOOM!
A vast yet restrained aura erupted from within him.
A Great Shifting Talisman, covered in complex runes and glowing with iridescent light, silently materialized. With a flick of his wrist, the Talisman instantly ignited, erupting in a dazzling blaze.
From start to finish, there wasn’t the slightest fluctuation of True Essence.
The entire process was perfectly fluid, a demonstration of returning to the pinnacle of simplicity.
The next moment, the young man’s figure shattered like an illusion of light and vanished, crossing an immense distance in the blink of an eye.
In an instant, he appeared in the sky above the Taiyi True View.
"Hmm? Where did they go?" the young man murmured in surprise.
His Divine Sense scanned the surroundings.
The entire grounds of the Taiyi True View were deserted. There wasn’t a single trace of anyone, and one of the mountains had been completely removed.
The young man’s face instantly darkened, his expression grim.
He waved a hand, and ripples spread through the void before him. The previous scene bizarrely materialized, yet it held no trace of any Demon Cultivator.
It was as if the threads of fate had been deliberately obscured by some powerful being.
The young man could only see the ground littered with withered bones and his own disappointing disciple, lying on his back with his blood drained, his eyes wide open in an eternal stare.
"Heh... This generation of the Blood Demon Sword Sect has produced quite a remarkable figure," the young man said through gritted teeth, his eyes terrifyingly dark.
RUMBLE!
The immense pressure of his Nascent Soul aura erupted like a tidal wave crashing against the shore, causing the very space around him to tremble.
Everything within a radius of several thousand meters turned to dust in an instant!
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