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Chapter 333 The Three Truths and the River of Oblivion

As Zhao Yan looked at the light blue mark with the character "Jiang" on his left arm, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

He wasn't stupid, so he quickly recalled the information that the elder behind the girl beside him had revealed not long ago.

If there were any unexpected events that would prevent him from waiting for his senior sister to recover, it would most likely be due to the sudden appearance of these members of the Three Truths Sect, and the timing would also match up.

'I see.'

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan had a sudden realization.

It seems necessary to deal with those Sanzhen disciples here. After all, due to the existence of Sanzhen Zhuikongxi, even if he escapes now, he will be found sooner or later.

However, launching an attack so rashly is not in line with his usual style. It would be best to test the waters first, since who knows if there are any oddballs like his old friend in this generation of the Three Truths Sect.

Given his current strength, if such a situation were to occur, he would likely have no choice but to place his hopes on the little girl beside him, or rather, on the elder behind her.

After a brief moment of thought, Zhao Yan said in a calm voice, "Bai Xiaoxiao, right? There's something I need you to do."

"I will take you as my apprentice after this is all over."

Now that the information about the handwriting's owner has been preliminarily verified, and given that this little girl's talent is indeed quite good, he can indeed consider passing on the [Forgotten River Academy] to her.

Of course, this is just an empty promise for now; the specifics will have to wait until he meets those disciples of the Three Truths Sect.

But what if there really were monsters like that old friend among those people?
No. That level isn't necessary. Even those with great or even moderate supernatural powers would be difficult for him to handle.

'It seems we still need to keep some backup plans.'

As this thought flashed through his mind, Zhao Yan tore off a piece of clothing from his sleeve, then bit his fingertip and began to record the relevant information about the [Return to Heaven Blood Body] on it.

Before long, a piece of cloth covered with tiny, blood-red characters appeared in his hand.

Zhao Yan casually handed it to his Rejuvenating Blood Body, indicating that it should hide the tattered cloth that contained the supreme inheritance of the [Forgotten River Academy].

After doing all this, he said calmly, "You should know where I hid that thing. If anything unexpected happens, I hope you can use its contents to teach this little girl properly."

"If we could inherit the name of the [Forgotten River Academy], that would be the best."

He paused briefly, then said wearily, "But if you don't want to bear the consequences of the [Forgotten River Academy], I hope you can choose a suitable successor for me. The reward will be the [Return to Heaven Blood Body]."

Zhao Yan believed that the owner of the handwriting should be able to understand his meaning.

The reason he did this was ultimately because of the other party's mysterious and unpredictable concealment methods. If the handwriting hadn't appeared in front of him on its own, he wouldn't have even noticed the presence of a third person.

As Zhao Yan finished speaking, the alley fell silent for a moment.

After a brief silence, a barely perceptible handwriting suddenly caught his eye.

【Can. 】

Seeing this, Zhao Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, Bai Xiaoxiao spoke up and asked, "I wonder what you want me to do?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yan first sighed, then said very solemnly, "Please control this guy to go to the Wu family and find two things for me."

"It's a magical artifact that seems to be made of tortoise shell, and it looks something like this."

As he spoke, a phantom of a token resembling a tortoise shell appeared in his hand, with a rare magical rune drawn in the center of the token.

After a brief demonstration, Zhao Yan prepared to tell the girl what the second item was.

But before he could even speak, he noticed that the other person's expression was somewhat strange.

At this moment, Bai Xiaoxiao recalled the phantom of the token she had just seen and felt as if she had seen it somewhere before.

Where is it?
She began to search through her memories, trying to figure out where this sense of familiarity came from.

After some recollection, Bai Xiaoxiao quickly remembered where she had seen the token.

Back in Black Mountain Village, it seems that Hao Guang always had a very similar token with him!

'So Uncle Zhao is looking for Haoguang and his gang?'

Before Bai Xiaoxiao could reach a correct conclusion, Zhao Yan's voice pulled her back to reality: "Have you seen this before?"

At this moment, the Supreme Being of the Wangchuan Academy looked at the girl whose expression kept changing and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Faced with his question, Bai Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment before nodding in admission: "I have indeed seen it."

As she spoke, she told everything she knew.

After telling Zhao Yan everything, she couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Zhao, what do you want with Brother Haoguang and the others?"

Even though Bai Xiaoxiao was unaware of the love-hate relationship between the Three Truths Sect and the Forgotten River Academy, she could vaguely sense something amiss.

After all, it's unlikely to be anything good for a corpse to approach a seeker of magic.

“I see.” However, Zhao Yan did not answer the girl’s question directly, but sighed and said, “Just check if there are any acquaintances among those people, and leave the rest to me.”

He originally didn't want to take action, but the current situation left him no choice.

To minimize the contact between this young girl, who might become the next head of the Wangchuan Academy, and the Three Truths Sect, he should do the dirty work.

The good news is that, according to the information revealed by this little girl, it seems that there are no strong individuals in this generation of the Three Truths Sect.

"Sorry, Little Jiang Zi, but don't blame me for bullying your disciples and grand-disciples."

After offering a half-hearted apology to his old friend, Zhao Yan turned his attention to Bai Xiaoxiao.

Bai Xiaoxiao was extremely conflicted at the moment, after all, her future teacher was obviously at odds with Haoguang and his group, and there was even a high probability that he would take their lives.

She wanted to stop all of this, but didn't know where to begin.

Just as she was racking her brains trying to figure out how to start the conversation, a voice rang out in her heart.

Do as he says; that young upstart Haoguang isn't as weak as you think.

Upon hearing this voice, Bai Xiaoxiao was taken aback.

What does this mean? Does it mean Uncle Zhao will be caught off guard and suffer a setback? But isn't he a powerful seeker of magic?

As if it could read her mind, the voice rang out again.

[Hehe. Don't underestimate the Three Truths Method. In the future, when you deal with them, try your best to avoid this kind of thing happening.]

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Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaoxiao was momentarily puzzled.

However, since that person said so, it seems that Uncle Zhao will indeed suffer a setback at the hands of Haoguang's little brother.

In that case
"it is good."

Seeing that the girl had finally agreed to his suggestion after some struggle, Zhao Yan felt a little embarrassed.

He decided to make amends to the other party properly after everything was over. By then, his senior sister might have recovered as well, and with the two of them teaching her, the little girl would soon become a powerful seeker of the Dharma.

Just as he was thinking this, the corpse controlled by the [Borrowed True Eye] began to rush towards the largest mansion in the town.

Meanwhile, Li Ang was hiding inside the [Heavenly Palace], silently observing how things were unfolding.

Although the plot has not changed much so far, there have been many deviations in the details.

It's important to know that in the original work, Zhao Yan didn't leave behind the secret manual for the "Return to Heaven Blood Body," but instead planned to take that Wudao Jifa Demon Lord as his disciple.

It's now quite obvious that Bai Xiaoxiao is going to snatch it away.

However, Li Ang was previously troubled about how to hand over the [Rejuvenating Blood Body] to Gao Haoguang, but now he no longer needs to worry about that problem.

Thinking this, he glanced at his now fully healed body, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

He had initially thought that such interference would incur causal punishment, but surprisingly, he only received a strike during his initial conversation with Zhao Yan. 'Strange. Why does it seem like the judgment is more lenient?'

It's not that Li Ang is a masochist, but things are indeed a bit strange.

Unfortunately, after some thought, he did not come to any useful conclusions.

But no matter what, this is a good thing, so Li Ang temporarily suppressed his doubts.

The most important thing right now is to clear away the karma on Zhao Yan's body and then inherit the Wangchuan Academy to become a seeker of the Dharma.

He hadn't forgotten that Lawson and the others were still protecting him in the main universe, and he needed to gain enough power to fight those guys before returning.

Thinking about this, Li Ang couldn't help but wonder what innate and innate divine abilities he would awaken.

Hopefully, it'll be powerful enough.

With this thought in mind, he turned his gaze to the corpse controlled by Bai Xiaoxiao.

……

at the same time.

The Wu family, the largest landowners in Sanchuan Town, were entertaining several seekers who had taken down the bounty on their heads.

As for what kind of reward it is...
Recently, a demonic corpse has appeared in Sanchuan Town, and even Master Wu's most beloved youngest son died at its hands.

Fortunately, he left behind offspring before his death; otherwise, the Wu family might have died out.

To avoid this situation, Master Wu began recruiting seekers of magic to remove the demonic corpse.

During this time, many swindlers naturally came knocking, but unfortunately, these people couldn't even defeat the Wu family's guards, let alone that demonic corpse.

Fortunately, this time the people who came were finally seeking the Dharma, and eight of them came at once, which made Master Wu breathe a sigh of relief.

However, after seeing the bizarre and varied appearances of the seekers present, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

'Why are all these immortals' quirks so peculiar?'

It's no wonder that Master Wu thought that way, since among the eight seekers of the Dharma present, only the two middle-aged men carrying long swords looked relatively normal.

As for the others
A one-eyed man, a mysterious man with a comical oversized head, and men, women, and children.

Literally, it refers to men, women, young, and old.

After some self-introductions, the group of people present became quite familiar with each other.

After hearing the self-introductions from men, women, and children, Da Tou paused almost imperceptibly.

'Good heavens! The Three True Methods?!'

He never expected to run into these people here, after all, his sect had an extremely close relationship with them.

Of course, that was a very, very long time ago.

Before today, he thought that the Three Truths Sect had probably been wiped out, otherwise why would there have been no news of them for so many years?

Just as Da Tou was recalling what his old father had said, he suddenly realized that the young man from the Three Truths Sect had left the Wu family alone.

He didn't say anything to stop her, but let her disappear from sight.

"Huh? Where's A-Guang?"

At that moment, a slightly puzzled female voice rang out beside Big Head.

Big Head snapped out of his daze and casually pointed to the door: "You mean that little brother? He just went out with a livid face."

"Looks like I need to use the restroom."

Hearing the young master's words, no one present took the matter to heart.

However, Da Tou felt that things weren't that simple.

Before he could think it through, the two middle-aged men carrying long swords pulled out a mirror from their robes: "This is a unique magic treasure of our Laoshan Dharma Assembly, the Treasure-Finding Mirror!"

"As long as it's there, we should be able to find that corpse very soon."

As they spoke, one of them began to channel magic into the mirror.

With a faint buzzing sound, the image in the mirror quickly changed.

In the scene, seven people are gathered in front of a mirror, observing it with curiosity.

It was them.

"?!"

In just a moment, everyone present realized that something was wrong.

Damn it! That corpse demon had been watching them from the shadows the whole time!

Following the direction of the image in the mirror, the seven saw a monster with the body of an ape and the face of a human hiding behind a roof, staring intently at them.

The next moment, without any exchange, everyone attacked the monster simultaneously.

Swish swish--!
With a whooshing sound, talismans were hurled violently toward the monster's location.

However, when faced with these impending attacks, the monster turned and ran, as if it had no intention of fighting at all.

Upon seeing this, everyone present frowned: "What's going on? A trap?"

Without a second thought, they immediately gave chase.

……

the other side.

Just as Bai Xiaoxiao was about to tell Zhao Yan what she had seen and heard, she heard him ask, "Isn't that the successor of the Same Month Order inside?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaoxiao was taken aback, but quickly realized who the person in front of her was referring to. "Yes."

After receiving a definite answer, Zhao Yan couldn't help but frown.

The situation is getting complicated; the most crucial target wasn't even there.

After a moment's thought, he said, "You hide first, and when I come back, that corpse is dead, that's all."

After saying that, he quickly left the spot without waiting for Bai Xiaoxiao's reaction.

Are you coming back for dinner?
Watching Zhao Yan's departing figure, the girl hesitated, wanting to say something but holding back.

Just as she was about to hide as Zhao Yan had instructed, a voice suddenly rang in her mind.

Conceal your identity, stop those seeking the Dharma, and prevent them from interfering with the upcoming battle.

It's Li Ang.

It's worth noting that in the original story, that magical corpse lingered in the Wu family compound for a very long time.

To avoid disrupting what was to come, he had to have Bai Xiaoxiao hold off the group.

This is why he chose to revive Bai Xiaoxiao, since the [Borrowing Yuan True Eye] can indeed play a crucial role in such situations.

At that moment, the girl froze upon hearing the voice echoing in her mind.

Her. Her?

Those strange seekers looked terrifying. Could she really do it?

Just as she was thinking this, Li Ang spoke up:
If things become unmanageable, I will intervene secretly.

(End of this chapter)