Chapter 2384: Mastermind
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Due to the bewildering rumours about Zi Xiao and Qin Yun’s relationship, everyone started to investigate Zi Xiao intensely.
Su Mo continued to cultivate peacefully in the secret room of a mansion within Cloud Dragon City.
His cultivation level reached Lower Rank 3, his Devouring Rules had also reached the early third stage.
However, even if he had had ample resources to help him further, it would be difficult to push his cultivation ranks to a higher level.
On the other hand, with the help of the Enlightenment Divine Elixir, he had made fast progress in mastering Devouring Rules.
TIme flew and in the blink of an eye, three months passed.
On this day, Long Teng came to the mansion and knocked on the Secret Room’s door.
Su Mo heard and stopped his cultivation to open the door for him.
“Su Mo, look who’s here?” Long Teng smiled and pointed to his side.
Beside him, stood Ling Chang dressed in blue, looking exceptionally magnificent.
“How did you know I was here?” He asked immediately, shocked.
In such a short period of time, Ling Chang had actually managed to find him here?
“I went to Reincarnation Holy Court and also Chaotic Holy Court before coming here finally,” Ling Chang said solemnly.
She had spent a great deal of time and effort just to find Su Mo.
Thankfully, she was aware of the close ties between Su Mo and Dragon Tribe, and knew that Su Mo was acquainted with Long Teng, which was why she was able to find out about this place.
“Su Mo, I came here because I need to tell you something!” She sighed and her expression darked.
“It’s about Zi Xiao, isn’t it?” Su Mo’s eyes glinted. He had already guessed that Ling Chang had come because of Zi Xiao.
“That’s right, Zi Xiao said that if you don’t find him in 5 years, he will hurt you, and if you take more than 10 years, he will kill you!” Ling Chang said grimly.
“He is determined to obtain the Ultimate Holy Sword and Ultimate Sword Art,” she said.
Su Mo sighed and did not reply.
His plan was already laid, if it went well, there was still a hope of saving Qian Xunyue.
However, Su Mo was sure that Zi Xiao would make life difficult for him.
“Ling Chang, I already have my plans, you don’t have to worry!” He replied.
“What plans?” Ling Chang asked, unable to think of any plans that Su Mo could possibly have.
It was an extremely difficult task to save Qian Xunyue from Zi Xiao.
Unless an Advanced Supreme Being lent a helping hand, no, even if there were one, it would still be unpredictable whether or not Qian Xunyue could be saved.
“Stop asking, just wait and see!” Su Mo shook his head. It was not that Ling Chang could not be trusted, but a matter of the situation being extremely complicated, to the extent that it was confusing for himself too. Hence, it was better to just take it one step at a time.
Ling Chang did not question him after that. She knew that Su Mo was a meticulous person, since he said that he had plans, she believed him and did not probe him further.
“Do you need me to help with anything then?” Ling Chan asked after a while.
“Once you return to Ultimate Supreme Being Palace. If the higher echelons in Ultimate Supreme Being Palace ask about it I was Zi Xiao’s disciple, just agree and convince them that the rumour is true.”
“So it was you who spread this rumour!” Ling Chang was surprised at the sudden revelation after hearing this rumour for all this while.
“That’s right, I want to damage Zi Xiao’s entire reputation and make him become the target of public criticism.” His eyes sparkled. This was just a start, he still had another series of plans for later.
“Understood!” Ling Chang nodded her head. She was not dim-witted and she roughly got the gist of Su Mo’s plan.
However it seemed it that it was not sufficient to just deal with Su Mo alone, and he had more plans lying ahead of him.
“Since you already have a plan, I shall go back first!”
Ling Chang sighed and headed back towards Ultimate Supreme Being Palace.
There was not enough time left, she had to go back quickly.
“Mmm!”
Su Mo nodded and replied, “Si Kongyan went to the Ultimate Supreme Being Palace, you should take care of him secretly!”
“Okay!” Ling Chang nodded. She had Hong Qingxuan’s memory and thus knew about Si Kongyan.
After which, Ling Chang did not hang around any longer. She left Cloud Dragon City and headed for Ultimate Supreme Being Palace.
Long Teng chatted with Su Mo a bit before returning to Dragon Capital City.
Su Mo then continued to cultivate, resuming his peaceful day-to-day life.
Time slowly flew by and in the blink of an eye, several months passed yet again.
However, even though Su Mo was cultivating, during these few months, he had used his avatar to get news on the outside world, knowing everything that had happened like the back of his hand.
During this time, several incidents did occur at Reincarnation Holy Court.
Firstly, a disciple of Heavenly Palace injured a disciple of Earth Palace, followed by the death of a Heavenly Palace disciple caused by two Earth Palace disciples.
Secondly, a bunch of Heavenly Palace disciples had a huge fight with those of Earth Palace, consequently causing many deaths and injuries.
Due to this series of events, things turned sour between Heavenly Palace and Earth Palace and the elders of the two palace almost got involved to intervene.
Thankfully, both palaces exercised good restraint and tolerated each other’s mistakes even though it caused much fury.
As for Ultimate Sword Domain, after Ling Chang and Zi Xiao returned back to Ultimate Supreme Being Palace, they were thoroughly interrogated by Ultimate Supreme Being.
After the interrogation, Zi Xiao had no evidence to prove that he had had nothing to do with Qin Yun.
With investigation and Ling Chang’s testimony, both proved that Zi Xiao and Qin Yun had a relationship and Qin Yun was a close disciple of Zi Xiao.
Upon knowing this, Ultimate Supreme Being was furious. He conducted searches on Zi Xiao’s storage space and Spacial Device to check for the Ultimate Holy Sword and Qin Yun’s lover according to rumours, but to no avail.
With regards to this matter, if he had no critical evidence, there would be no escape for Zi Xiao.
Lastly, Zi Xiao was ordered by Ultimate Supreme Being to be grounded at Ultimate Supreme Being Palace unless told otherwise.
All these incidents caused great surprise to the superpowers in every region of Sky Pool as Zi Xiao was unable to get his name out of his matter.
However, other Superpowers were not much bothered by this news.
After all, if the Ultimate Holy Sword and Ultimate Sword Art was with Qin Yun, they still stood a chance of taking it away. If it were with Zi Xiao, it would be an impossible feat.
This was because Zi Xiao was a powerful Middle-rank Supreme Being; plus Ultimate Holy Sword and Ultimate Sword Art belonged to Ultimate Supreme Being. They had no valid reason to seize them.
“Very well!”
In the secret room, Su Mo opened his eyes and there was a gleam in them.
Everything was expected, thus he did not need to carry out the next part of his plan.
Five years of time would be enough to complete his plan and push Zi Xiao to fall into an absolute abyss.