Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 1048: Chapter 36: Far-Reaching Plans of Shi Liuli

The other end of the teleportation array indeed leads to an underground chamber.

In the airtight room, the Everbright Lamp flickers with a dim glow. If a mortal accidentally entered here, they would immediately suffocate and fall dead.

As a cultivator, Chen Guanshui naturally didn’t need to worry about oxygen deficiency; he carefully examined his surroundings.

If Ah Jing were still here, a single scan would have solved it, but now he must personally check for traps—although most cultivators are accustomed to this while exploring secret realms, the transition from luxury to simplicity often made Chen Guanshui sigh non-stop.

He hadn’t lamented for long when Shi Liuli appeared beside him.

“Why teleport directly over?” She immediately asked upon entering the chamber, “What if the teleportation array has been tampered with? How do you know there’s no problem with this teleportation array?”

“If the teleportation array were tampered with,” Chen Guanshui patiently explained, “there would be no need to shuffle the sequence of each stone slab and flip it over.”

Shi Liuli was initially stunned, but then quickly responded:

“What if there’s a double insurance? The front is disguised, and the back is trapped like that…”

“If that’s the case, generally the trap is set in front, with the disguise at the back.” Chen Guanshui continued to explain almost like teaching a child, “Guests who can see through disguises have usually already realized the host of this secret chamber is insidious, thus traps mostly don’t take effect, so traps must be set first, attacking before they’re prepared.”

“Then what if they precisely use this psychology to make the false seem real and the real seem false…” Shi Liuli continued stubbornly.

“Then it’s just my bad luck.” Chen Guanshui laughed heartily, “After all, I can’t understand formations, what can I do? Just have to choose to take a gamble.”

Shi Liuli: ………….

With her attempt to probe failed once more, she didn’t have any temper left and just quietly pondered.

Although Chen Guanshui’s answers had no flaws, that was actually the greatest flaw—what do you mean “take a gamble”? Did you rely on gambling each time you explored other relics and faced uncertain risks?

You can win a hundred times or a thousand times, but it only takes losing once to be finished!

Instead of “whether this person is Luo Yan,” Shi Liuli now wanted to figure out why he betrayed the sect.

From Wan Xiang Immortal’s side, it seems Luo Yan took something. But what could make a promising Nascent Soul Elder boldly rebel against the sect?

And it’s not just one, at least three… so is the same reason involved in Kunlun and Shushan?

Shi Liuli silently watched Chen Guanshui’s back, thinking to herself she might not have been deceived by him but never truly saw through the depths of his inner being.

Thinking of this, a sense of bitterness spread from her heart, slowly turning into a pale, powerless melancholy.

Chen Guanshui continued to search the chamber while mentally calculating.

If he wants to keep Shi Liuli here, it’s quite simple; he can tamper with the teleportation array ahead of her while leaving.

But the issue is, once he tampered with it, Shi Liuli trapped in the chamber would probably immediately guess he’s Luo Yan.

Another problem is: how long could he trap her?

If Liuli is too weak in formation skills and can’t get out, that’s no good; but if he can’t trap her, it seems useless, revealing his hand instead?

Alas, why does the enemy have to be my own wife! Using a heavy hand is inappropriate, letting her off is also wrong; the measure is really hard to grasp!

Chen Guanshui approached the chamber’s deepest part and indeed saw a skeleton lying in the corner of the wall.

Logically speaking, if a cultivator is above the Nascent Soul Realm and in such an isolated environment, their body shouldn’t decay so badly. It seems they used some method before dying to accelerate the decay of their flesh.

Looking more closely, he spotted a line of text on the wall:

I am an elder of Feather Courtyard Gate, unable above to save the sect from the raging waves, nor below to rescue disciples from danger; now my flesh body mutates, unwilling to become a demon, I take my life as a warning to posterity.

Tsk. Chen Guanshui saw this line of text and sneered in his heart.

Save the sect from the raging waves, rescue disciples from danger, these were things powerless to achieve.

Your greatest problem was not realizing the sect’s deviation in time and fleeing when they decided to go down the wrong path!

Alas. Shi Liuli scanned over with her gaze, sighing inwardly.

As a fellow sect elder, this person could be so resolute!

Then look at someone who disregarded the sect and spouse, suddenly fleeing… the difference is clear.

Chen Guanshui thrust out the Summoning Sword, lifting the storage bag on the ground, holding it, and sweeping it with Divine Sense, consequently revealing its contents.

Within were several magical treasures, flying swords, and scriptures, all enveloped in the light of Divine Light, none were ordinary items.

There was also a bamboo slip, on its back carved with large characters, which turned out to be the Purple Mansion Thunder!

He promptly took out the bamboo slip and unfolded it, ignoring Shi Liuli by his side, and quickly read through it.

This Purple Mansion Thunder was recorded in an ancient script, containing many deep and complex writings, difficult to understand, but with the remnants picked up in Shushan Fire Element Cave, cross-referencing made the learning less difficult.

The scripture concluded with notes from the Feather Courtyard Gate elder, mentioning this Purple Mansion Thunder specially breaks True Essence Dao Techniques, hindering one’s cultivation level; even immortals caught unprepared by this thunder have the fear of falling.

The Great Hollow Thunder is valuable for emptiness and stillness, effective against low-rank Heavenly Demons, but encountering undying high-rank Heavenly Demons, the Great Hollow Thunder can only destroy their bodies, not completely annihilate them.

Using Purple Mansion Thunder would greatly extend their resurrection time, therefore it’s very effective against high-rank Heavenly Demons.

Upon reaching this point, Chen Guanshui understood that this Feather Courtyard Gate elder indeed used Purple Mansion Thunder to take his life, ensuring the transforming flesh into a Heavenly Demon completely decayed, allowing him to rest peacefully here instead of turning into a rotten and decrepit mud-covered body.

“We’ve got the stuff, let’s go.” He turned around and instructed Shi Liuli.

“Yes.” Shi Liuli reflexively responded, then suddenly realized.

That “let’s go” was truly long-lost—when Luo Yan used to take her out to play, every time it was time to return to the sect, wasn’t that exactly how he called her?

“You…” Shi Liuli trembled her voice and said, “You really…”

“I really what?” Chen Guanshui asked confusedly.

“Nothing.” Shi Liuli restrained her emotions, turned around silently wiping her tears.

Now…is not the time to expose him.

To figure out why he betrayed, and to find a way to drive away those two women seeking him, tearing face with him now gains no benefits.

Chen Guanshui seeing she no longer challenged him, internally released a sigh of relief.

Initially considering whether to trap her in this chamber, seeing this Liuli Lady not being troublesome, he temporarily abandoned the reckless plan.

Oh well, will find a way upon returning.

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