Wet viviparity

Chapter 868 Presenting a Memorial, A Heaven-Piercing Skill
"Your stalling strategy worked!"

Ji Ming spoke to Da Feng, who was so open and honest.

He was willing to sit down and talk to Dafeng, cooperating with the other party's purpose, naturally because he was not confident in dealing with Zhao Duluo.

Since the Cloud and Rain Temple has placed its hopes on this divine general, he is naturally not someone that an ordinary fifth-realm cultivator can deal with. Let alone the fact that this divine general is about to revive, even if he hasn't, Ji Ming would still have to think twice. Besides, he came to the Great Calamity General War to gain experience, not to come here specifically to die.

This battlefield was a fog of intelligence for him, so apart from completing the tasks assigned by Lu Zhenjun, he wouldn't do anything else.

The wind said slowly, "This is good for both of us. You have obtained secrets that even immortals and gods may not know, and I have not failed the important task entrusted to me by the God Lord. We both benefit. In addition, I have a final gift for you."

"Gift?"

Ji Ming said with a look that was both surprised and a little amused.

“A forbidden technique, a forbidden technique. At the final moment of Zhao Duro’s revival, I am willing to use a forbidden technique to buy time.”

"That's too blatant. I'm supposed to be the next True Lord, you should be more tactful."

“If the time is right, I’m willing to come up with another excuse, one that won’t give you any leverage. But the time is not right now, so I can only be direct. However, I imagine you would find it hard to give up this forbidden technique.”

As he spoke, a milky white light emerged from Da Feng's broken true form; that was Da Feng's primordial spirit.

His primordial spirit sketched in the void, and a talisman slowly emerged. The talisman formed a pattern that Ji Ming found familiar—a snake-bodied, human-headed creature.

"This is."

Ji Ming suddenly stood up, his whole body swaying slightly. He was more excited than ever before, his face flushed with excitement. He asked again, "What exactly is this?"

Seeing Ling Xuzi's genuine excitement, Da Feng felt a little guilty and thought to himself, "His excited expression is really strange. It doesn't seem like he's suppressing his joy because he's about to obtain the forbidden technique."

Could it be that he was familiar with this Primordial Divine Form Great Forbidden Technique, understanding that once mastered, it could easily benefit others, hence his agitated state, which was actually a cover for his anger?

Da Feng didn't want to easily reveal this forbidden technique, but it was the only forbidden technique he possessed that could tempt Ling Xuzi, preventing him from interfering with Zhao Duluo at this crucial moment. Moreover, if Ling Xuzi were to truly master this technique, it would be tantamount to severing his own path in the future, which could be considered a win-win situation.

In addition to Dafeng's unease, there is another factor at play.

That was the half-yin incarnation of the illusory divine infant—Hong Gu. This Hong Gu once used this forbidden technique to reward Jiang, the leader of the Little Stone Holy Sect, in the Fire Casting Mountain's Heavenly Candle Golden Court.

If Lingxuzi knew about this matter, combined with his previous statement that "although I do not know these divine techniques, all four of us are deeply rooted, and the two evil ones, Man and Xu, and even the evil ones, have mastered forbidden techniques," he would deduce that Hong Gu is the incarnation of a certain evil god.

After all, Taipingshan has explored the Yunyu Temple more than once over thousands of years.

Hong Gu's sudden appearance on the battlefield of Nanhuojiang caught the Taiping Mountain cultivators off guard. The Taiping Mountain cultivators must have found that there was no information about Hong Gu at that time, especially Ling Xuzi, who would have pondered this matter repeatedly in his mind.

Suddenly, Da Feng became uneasy.

He felt he was scaring himself. Although the Yunyu Temple had suffered a complete defeat in the Southern Fire Frontier due to Hong Gu's death in the battle with Ling Xuzi, this did not mean that the secret of Hong Gu teaching forbidden techniques had been leaked.

Even if the matter were to be exposed, and Ling Xuzi knew that Hong Gu had used the ancestral divine form to greatly reward Jiang Jiaozhu, he still wouldn't be able to produce the forbidden talisman that Hong Gu had given to Jiang Jiaozhu at the time, thus confirming the crime of the evil god sending an incarnation to descend upon Nanhuojiang.

In times of great calamity, divination and calculation are useless; only empirical evidence can speak for itself.

Thinking of this, Da Feng felt slightly relieved. Under Ji Ming's eager gaze, he began to speak, saying, "This is a forbidden technique, and also a divine technique. It is the first divine technique created by Huang Tian."

"No wonder! No wonder!"

Ji Ming muttered to himself.

This explains everything. No wonder the Dangerous Path God and the Old Demon Huang You, who fought against him, all knew his information like the back of their hand. He had thought that this information was passed on by those who had slipped through the net in the Southern Fire Frontier.

Now that I think about it, the identity of that Miss Hong is really suspicious.

His ability to master forbidden techniques that only the Man, Xu, and the Three Fiends could wield, and his casual reward to Jiang Heixiao—all these qualities, including his magnanimity, boldness, and even his cultivation level, along with the suspicious fact that this person had never appeared in the intelligence reports about Taiping Mountain, all sent a signal to Ji Ming: Hong Gu was an avatar of one of the Three Fiends. Although it was incredibly unbelievable that this avatar could evade the ironclad laws of the Three Realms, Ji Ming firmly believed that this was the truth.

"How dare you?"

Compared to the method of evading surveillance by incarnation, Ji Ming was more surprised by the audacity of this evil god.

However, it is perhaps precisely because this evil god was confident in evading the laws of the Three Realms that he developed such astonishing courage. I'm afraid even Lu Zhenjun could not have predicted this.

Seeing Ji Ming's expression change several times, sometimes excited, sometimes thoughtful, Da Feng's ominous premonition grew stronger, and he felt even more helpless. At this moment, he could not speak up to test the waters, lest his premonition be wrong and arouse the other party's suspicion.

At this moment, Da Feng felt as if he were being roasted over a fire, and could only stare at every change in Ling Xuzi's face.

The excitement, amusement, and contemplation on Ji Ming's face vanished instantly, replaced by a calm that made Da Feng's heart tremble.

"Perilous Path God!"

His voice rang out from inside the porcelain bottle.

"Who leaked the information about me?"

Ji Ming prayed in his heart that it wouldn't be the already dead villain, otherwise this tremendous achievement would be lost.

"Say!"

As Ji Ming finished speaking, the Yin Yang Golden Talisman suddenly emitted light, pressing down on the six gray arms of the Dangerous Path God, causing their bones to break.

"The illusory divine infant is the illusory divine infant."

Having already yielded once, the god of peril will naturally yield a second time; once courage is gone, it is gone forever.

"Is Hong Gu an incarnation of her?"

"what?"

"The God of Danger" replied with a blank expression.

Ji Ming did not continue to ask questions. He knew that the God of Danger should not be qualified to know such inside information. He stopped looking at the strange phenomenon of the god's revival in the mud root network, and stopped paying attention to the talisman drawn by the Great Wind Primordial God. Instead, he slowly raised his right hand.

In the palm of his hand, a gilded incense burner, no bigger than a fist, appeared out of thin air. It had no dazzling brilliance, but it possessed a solemn and dignified air that seemed to pierce the heavens and reach the ears of the gods.

The Azure Talisman and the Gilded Bucket were two magical artifacts that Ji Ming obtained after he quelled the flood on the Cangjiang River and took over the position of the Cloud and Water Superintendent of the Longevity Palace. The Azure Talisman represented Ji Ming's position as the superior in charge of the wind, rain and water veins of Guhe Prefecture, while the Gilded Bucket could be used to burn talismans and report matters to the Longevity Heavenly Palace.

Within the present territory of Dayunfu, a gilded goblet could be used to present memorials at the Jade Terrace in the Heavenly Palace.

On the bird's head, ravaged by the wind, the only remaining eye suddenly widened, its pupil shrinking to the size of a pinhead. It was not a mountain spirit or monster, but a former celestial noble, and naturally recognized the effects of the gilded dou.

"What are you doing?!"

The spirit of the great wind let out a sharp, almost distorted shriek. All the previous composure, seduction, and even the slightest bit of trepidation and calculation were now replaced by a bone-chilling sense of horror.

He instinctively tried to stop it, and the broken body even struggled violently, causing the mud roots to rustle, but it was all too late.

Ji Ming completely ignored his reaction, forced out a drop of golden blood from his fingertip, drew a talisman in the air and fell to the sky, and at the same time used his primordial spirit to express his previous deduction—that Hong Gu was very likely the incarnation of the illusory divine infant, and that this incarnation had privately transmitted the "Great Forbidden Restriction of the Ancestral Divine Form" in the Xiaozhu Golden Court of Huozhu Mountain. This incarnation's actions in descending to the border seriously violated the iron law of the three borders. He asked the Ancestral Master to investigate and immediately question the Yunyu Temple.

These deductions transformed into an invisible message, pouring into the gilded cup all at once.

"Virtual Divine Infant, leave immediately!"

The wind shouted weakly.

(End of this chapter)