Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

"Black Umbrella?" Li Yelai was taken aback, not expecting to hear that bastard's name here.

That guy was one of the participants in the Illusion Band incident, but because of Li Yelai, he left early and was unable to make a move.

Inside the ark, Li Yelai made two transactions with him, refining the ashes of two mounts.

During the transaction, both sides set traps for each other. Black Umbrella wanted to double-cross Black Umbrella, while Li Yelai wanted to lure him in or directly destroy his base.

The two haven't been in contact since the last transaction involving the Heavenly Comet Qilin. It's unclear how far the authorities have progressed in their investigation.

However, it is known that the scoundrel Black Umbrella collected some of the bodies of the champion team members who sacrificed their lives back then, and gleaned some secrets from them.

Therefore, Black Umbrella is also one of the targets that the champion team wants to acquire.

"good."

Little Mad Queen reached out and gently wrung out her wet hair. Water droplets slid down her hair, dripped onto her collar, soaked her bathrobe, and outlined her exaggerated figure.

Li Yelai turned his gaze away from Little Mad King, thinking to himself that he couldn't let Mr. Shadow see him.

Little Mad King continued, "When I first entered the settlement, I infiltrated the material area that a team was attacking. I discovered that their target was some material impurities."

"Impurities?" Li Yelai pondered. When using extraordinary creatures as materials to refine spiritual energy weapons, some impurities that cannot be refined will inevitably be produced.

These impurities are often reused multiple times, eventually becoming fertilizer to nourish the land. In the wilderness, some scavengers also collect these impurities to sell.

When the official team traded the Sky Comet Kirin with Black Umbrella last time, they added some kind of tracking method to the Zerg materials in the traded items.

This method was very cleverly devised to avoid detection.

It is difficult to detect within the raw material. Only after it has been extracted and transformed into impurities will it emit a certain imperceptible spiritual energy frequency after a dozen hours, allowing nearby night watchmen carrying corresponding devices to detect it and track it.

As a result, many night scouting operations now install new devices in their communicators.

"Are you saying that the impurities in the materials used by Black Umbrella were obtained by this church's gathering place?" Li Yelai asked. "They have a deal with Black Umbrella?"

"I don't know about that. Actually, collecting material impurities is not a strange thing. Material impurities can also be considered a kind of resource."

In our city, we usually render the impurities harmless and then use them as high-grade fertilizer. This has greatly alleviated the city's food problem, and there is even a surplus.

"Some of the special abilities of the Netherworld Path require materials like bones to activate, and some psionicists without resources will use these materials as backup," Little Mad King explained. "Therefore, these materials still have a market in the wilderness. I guess they may have come here after passing through other forces or certain cults."

"And so, a team was attracted," Li Yelai pondered. "The only way to find the Black Umbrella is to follow this line!"

“That’s right. So I think your team’s attack here was actually to find the Black Umbrella,” Little Mad King continued.

Li Yelai nodded slightly; that was indeed a possibility. Otherwise, why would they be so fixated on attacking the resource database?

It seems they really did find information about the Black Umbrella. During this attack, the Night Scouts may have used various abilities to obtain enough intelligence from some of their followers.

Like the hypnotic effect of cheese
Black Umbrella possesses the bodies of a squad of soldiers from back then. Whether it's investigating the truth or bringing back the bodies of our comrades, we have to start with him.

"So, the Black Umbrella might not be too far from me." Li Yelai thought to himself, if possible, could he borrow the power of the Ember Church to deal with the forces behind the Black Umbrella?

The Blood God faction is obsessed with killing; even within the church, battles break out. We can take advantage of this and make them fight amongst themselves.

With God's chosen ones leading the charge, how could they not follow?
"Can you help me investigate? As a chosen one, it would be faster for me to ask myself," Li Yelai replied.

Little Mad King replied, "That's right, your status within the church is very high. You can find an opportunity to ask the relevant members yourself. As for that scout in the second border city, you need to notify headquarters."

Li Yelai nodded: "Okay, but I have to go back to my room first. Um... I need to change my clothes."

Little Mad King paused for a moment, glanced at Li Yelai who was still soaking in the pool, and then nodded in understanding.

"I'm sorry."

Immediately, Little Mad King took a step back and vanished abruptly, leaving no trace of her watery footprints. No one knew where she had disappeared to.

It truly possesses an uncanny ability to conceal itself.

Li Yelai breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that having a girl by his side all the time was still quite stressful. Wouldn't that mean that everything he did would be seen?

I need to find an opportunity to tell her that at least she doesn't need to follow me when I take a shower.

Afterwards, Li Yelai put on the clothes provided by the followers and returned to his room.

“There is no eavesdropping or spying in the room,” Little Mad King’s voice came from beside me.

Li Yelai nodded slightly, then took out a set of windbreaker and a bronze mask from his backpack and put them on.

He took out paper and pen to write down the intelligence, and then directly activated the Ark ticket.

With Little Mad King around, he doesn't need to worry about safety.

The next second, a feeling of weightlessness came over him, and Li Yelai found himself in the Ark Hall.

To his surprise, there were actually two other members inside the ark.

One of the voters was a male Ark voter dressed in white robes and wearing a scholar's hat.

Ark Voters, codename: Scholar. Ark Voters active outside the Megacity Circle.

Its strength seems to be at the fifth level of the Awakening.

On the other side is Red Peach, a female Ark voter who had previously traded with Li Yelai.

They were clearly also making a transaction, and Li Yelai just happened to stumble upon it.

"Oh, Mr. Copperface." The scholar's face was blurred, but laughter could be heard: "It's been a long time."

"Copperface, it's rare to see you dressed up like this," Hearts said casually.

"Scholar, Lord Red Peach," Li Yelai nodded in greeting.

"What a coincidence," the scholar said. "We can't believe we bumped into each other like this. We'll talk about it later."

Li Yelai nodded slightly, and after the two entered a private state, their figures and voices blurred and disappeared.

Li Yelai then spoke: "Captain, please open a private space for me and invite Lord Camellia."

'Can'

Afterwards, Li Yelai waited in his seat for about five minutes. Then, a white light flashed, and Jing Lin walked out of the white light.

He first noticed two blurry figures in the distance, and was taken aback, asking, "Are there still voters here? Who are they?"

“Red Hearts and Scholar,” Li Yelai replied, “Lord Camellia, I wish to trade information with you. And I desire the Five Senses Elixir recipe for the Myriad Paths.”

"You've started preparing the potion?" Camellia nodded. "Then I can provide it to you now. What information do you want to trade?"

The space in Li Yelai's hand flickered, and a piece of paper appeared: "I have found out a gathering place of the Ember Church. This is the exact location. As for the risks and rewards, you have to judge for yourself."

“Who doesn’t know that the Church of Embers is rich in resources? This is quite good intelligence.” Camellia nodded, and a few seconds later, a roll of parchment appeared beside him: “This is the potion recipe for the Five Senses Myriad Manifestations Path: Mimicry Dragon Breath and Mimicry Dragon Soul.” The two tacitly exchanged supplies, or rather, exchanged the information hidden within them.

Camellia continued, "How are you? Are you still in danger?"

"It's alright, there's no danger at the moment," Li Yelai replied.

After becoming God's chosen one, he indeed wouldn't be targeted by the church. As long as the Great City doesn't kill him as a traitor to humanity, he should be quite safe.

“Okay, let me know when you need supplies,” Camellia said.

“Yeah, I know, otherwise you’d be getting off easy,” Li Yelai replied.

Jing Lin smiled and quickly left the ark.

He needed to inform the authorities about Li Yelai's intelligence as soon as possible.

With Jing Lin's departure, the hidden space where Li Yelai was located disappeared.

Li Yelai met the scholar again. The scholar had already completed his transaction with Red Peach, but did not leave the hall immediately. Instead, he waited for Li Yelai to complete the transaction.

"What? Does Your Excellency have something to discuss with me?" Li Yelai asked in surprise.

"It's not that I have anything to say, but I remembered that you've been active near Border City No. 3, so I thought I'd come and ask you about it," the scholar said.

Li Yelai's heart skipped a beat. The operation at Border City No. 3?

What? You want to do a fantasy band incident too?
Li Yelai was somewhat overwhelmed by the stress.

"What's the deal with Border City Number Three?" Li Yelai asked, suppressing his hostility.

"Don't misunderstand, the operation I'm referring to isn't within the Great City," the scholar replied. "You've been operating near Border City No. 3, so you might know that some time ago, the Night Watchmen of the Great City killed that human traitor from the Heavenly Realm and a large number of angels. They're now wanted by the two major families of the Forbidden Zone."

"Oh, I know that." Li Yelai thought to himself, how could I not know? I'm the one who's wanted by the police!
"What, you want to take down that wanted person? Do you have information about him?" Li Yelai asked, thinking to himself that you're only at the fifth level of perception, you might not be able to take me down.

"The reward is tempting, but the risks and consequences are too great. Not to mention, it would completely offend the Giant City and even the Champion," the scholar said. "Even if you get the reward, you'll become a traitor to humanity and be hunted down by the Giant City. Why bother?"

"Then what do you want to see me about?" Li Yelai asked, somewhat puzzled.

"That's how it is," the scholar explained. "After receiving the news, my organization dispatched a team to investigate near the restricted area. They wanted to know if the champion candidate was alive or dead. If we could find out any information, it would be good to sell it."

As a result, during our investigation, we discovered a caravan that had been attacked. The entire caravan was killed, and seven psionic guards were beheaded. The investigation revealed that the Church of the Embers was responsible.

Li Yelai's heart skipped a beat; this matched what he knew. Hong Nu and his men had ambushed a caravan a few days ago.

The scholar happened to run into that caravan.

“It was indeed a tactic employed by one of the factions within the Ember Church. And then what?” Li Yelai asked.

"Then, we started tracking the Church of the Embers in reverse, intending to pinpoint their location. You know this kind of information is very valuable. We can get a reward by selling it to the Great City. We can also get a share of the spoils by selling it to certain big shots inside the Ark. So, we really wanted to pinpoint the location of that branch or gathering place. In the end, we didn't find the branch, but we did discover a special little town."

The scholar said, "It is a small town in the mountains. There is poisonous gas outside the town, enough to kill even psionicists and supernatural beings. But inside the town, there seems to be another world."

"We speculate that it might be a special terrain formed after a certain disaster fog was conquered. It could also be some kind of forbidden object. So, we decided to conquer the town. Since you were active in Border City No. 3, and we happened to run into you, we came to ask you about it."

Li Yelai understood. The scholar had encountered a strange area and was eyeing the good things inside, but he couldn't eat them himself, so he planned to recruit others.

Li Yelai was in Border City No. 3, which was quite far away, but compared to other voters, it was relatively close.

The scholar was also cautious, revealing no information about his location. It's likely he'll only disclose it after they meet in person.

"Let me think about it," Li Yelai replied. "That town must be dangerous. I'm just a weakling with only four senses; I'd probably die if I went there."

"It's nothing, I was just mentioning it. We can cooperate later." The scholar nodded; he naturally didn't expect to be able to gather all the helpers at once.

The scholar then left the ark.

Li Yelai did not rush to leave, but walked to the mural.

As he looked at the third mural, perhaps because he had become the chosen one of the Blood God, he could vaguely feel a pressure emanating from it.

The blue flames in the picture seem even more intense and realistic.

It seems the chaotic gods are having quite a bit of fun.

Li Yelai thought to himself, "This is what I'm complaining about."

Then, they left the ark.

After returning to the physical world, Li Yelai opened his eyes and said to the person beside him, "I'm back."

"Hmm, no one has come close." Little Mad King's voice came from the corner.

Immediately, Li Yelai opened the scroll of parchment, on which was written the potion recipe for the Myriad Paths.

Mimicry: Dragon Breath and Mimicry: Dragon Soul, plus the Church's Dragon Transformation.

Li Yelai has mastered three types of Five Senses Magic Potions.

Of course, that's not the main point; he's still a bit far from having all five senses.

Li Yelai found a letter in the parchment's inner layer, rearranged it using the coded language of the Night Scouts, and obtained genuine intelligence feedback.

The remains of her father, Li Qiong, have been handed over to Li Yunyan.

The old mad king's lifespan was restored after eating the spiritual fruit.

The intelligence report didn't mention Cheese and his team's actions, so it seems the official headquarters is also unaware of what's happening on the front lines. There really is an information gap.

It's unlikely that they'll be able to contact the cheese company through headquarters.

This place is too far from the border city; even if a psionicist travels at full speed, it would take several days.

"It would be too unfair if I were killed by my own people," Li Yelai pondered.

"I can only pray that I don't run into them."

Unfortunately, early the next morning, Li Yelai received news that his troops were assembling and preparing for battle.

The followers were fanatically preparing for war and slaughter in order to please the gods.

Li Yelai's heart jumped, and he grabbed a follower and asked, "Have you found the champion team?"

"It's a pity, Your Majesty Emperor," the followers said with regret. "We were supposed to attack the Immortal Faction."

Li Yelai immediately felt relieved and said calmly, "It's alright, it's the same, I will lead the charge!"

Of course they are different.
Facing the champion team, they were meek and submissive.

Facing the Church of Embers, a powerful blow is struck! (End of Chapter)