Capítulo 933: Chapter 101: Triple Trap

After nearly half a day, the flesh on the ground was frozen by the Yin Qi, forming dark brown frost.

Frozen like ice, Tu Sanhun inexplicably stood up without any sense of weakness. His eyes flickered as he coldly stared at the deceased Zhou Yan, saying, “Truly dead, probably not fake. After all, the fight was indeed with all my might, entering a state of Sudden Enlightenment akin to Returning Light right before dying. Indeed, I didn’t expect to suddenly erupt with peak Combat Power.

However, this method, indeed resembles the Divine Fist Venerable’s, yet I don’t know exactly where it stems from.”

Tu Sanhun murmured to himself, then bent down, gently picked up the broken Jade Tripod on the ground, and held it in his hand, carefully sensing it.

At the same time, Tu Sanhun unleashed the Soul Sea Power, using soul power to directly sense this Jade Tripod, seemingly wanting to understand its structure.

Moreover, because Tu Sanhun was sure the enemy was dead, he was unguarded.

But even after sensing, nothing unusual appeared.

Tu Sanhun suddenly put away the Jade Tripod casually, then glanced at the corpses and dried bloodstains on the ground, suddenly spewed a mouthful of blood mist, inexplicably casting the ‘Fate Technique’ to deduce.

The result of the deduction was faint and unbearable because even knowing who the person in front of him was, their fate seemed severed.

Moreover, Tu Sanhun couldn’t determine who the real body of the deceased was!

At this point, Tu Sanhun finally breathed a sigh of relief, murmuring, “Perhaps I’m really too sensitive. Although facing a cultivator at the peak of the Divine Spirit Second Transition this time, it was the most dangerous encounter. Their various abilities are very strange, making one have to guard against them. And the terrifying thing is, the opponent has deep scheming and extraordinary wisdom.”

Tu Sanhun murmured to himself, then shook his head, sighed, and finally flew away abruptly like a stream of light.

This domain, however, remained unchanged, with no changes whatsoever.

Nearly an hour later, Tu Sanhun suddenly manifested again from the Void, his brows furrowed, contemplating. Suddenly, he gathered a Domain of Flames, enveloping all of Zhou Yan’s dead flesh and then burned and refined it with endless flames.

“Sizzle sizzle”

This land was refined by Tu Sanhun into a pitch-black charred wasteland, with no trace of Zhou Yan’s body or flesh, which was quickly refined.

At this stage, Tu Sanhun still did not let go and refined again, concentrating and holding breath, carefully sensing the surroundings, seemingly worried about a sudden attack.

But everything he did was in vain as nothing unusual or any situation occurred.

At this point, Tu Sanhun suddenly hoisted a heavy long knife and turned around, walking away step by step.

However, the place Tu Sanhun went was not Void Sword Mountain, but the place where Zhou Yan was knocked away, precisely the cold area where Tai Chu Yin Qi overflowed.

Tu Sanhun reached this place, then gradually stopped, carefully searching for something in this void space.

But, at this moment, many more Tai Chu Yin Qi suddenly appeared in this void place, and an ancient Array Patterns swiftly fluctuated.

Tu Sanhun suddenly felt his body sink, already enveloped by a broken Ancient Array.

“I knew it, you weren’t dead!”

Tu Sanhun’s voice echoed in this Void, not loud, but very clear.

“However, I was indeed deceived by you, thinking you were dead, but I felt something was off about this place, so after confirming your death, I came here to investigate, not expecting to still fall into your trap.”

Tu Sanhun said in a deep voice.

Zhou Yan’s voice inexplicably appeared in this ancient array, saying, “If I didn’t fight you with all my strength, you’d think I died too easily, surely wouldn’t believe I was dead! If you didn’t believe I was dead, how would you come here to investigate?”

“How do you know I would certainly come here to investigate?”

Tu Sanhun’s gaze cooled, knowing he had already fallen into the enemy’s rhythm. If he couldn’t counterattack and suppress the opponent, he would suffer.

This is not something that can be changed simply because the opponent is a Divine Spirit Second Transition and he is a Divine Spirit Nine Transitions.

Sometimes, Realm is just part of strength, and wisdom is another part.

“Because you are too confident in yourself.”

Zhou Yan’s voice was equally cold, and as he spoke, he did not hide his figure, suddenly appearing.

This time, Zhou Yan did not hide his figure because even if he hid, it could not be concealed. With these methods, plus some events in Quicksand Town and Lan Ji’s death, those with intention would easily track it to him.

Therefore, Zhou Yan no longer concealed but revealed his figure.

“Good, very good, didn’t expect you, this ant, to have such capabilities, this point, just like me in the past, who in a very low realm, had once killed a near Venerable divine.”

Tu Sanhun repeatedly said ‘very good’, obviously being shocked, and some unspeakable emotions were growing due to Zhou Yan’s methods and calculations.

“Everyone starts growing as an ant, you too, in the eyes of a Venerable, you are also an ant. You laugh at me, but it’s just pot calling the kettle black, utterly meaningless!”

Zhou Yan said coldly.

His figure gathered in front of Tu Sanhun, but Tu Sanhun did not make a move, obviously knowing that even by killing Zhou Yan, he might come back, so it was better not to kill him.

However, Tu Sanhun would never sit and wait for death.

“You’re trying to stall me by talking so you can break this grand array? It’s useless; I’ve already locked this array. Once the Tai Chu Yin Qi condenses, we’ll both enter the sealed land of the Ten Thousand Soul Ghost Demon, and die together.”

Zhou Yan said indifferently.

These words were not false.

Tu Sanhun’s strength was indeed formidable; Zhou Yan couldn’t kill him, but he could leverage the environment.

A powerful environment, if utilized, becomes a part of one’s own strength.

In killing his enemy, Zhou Yan did not care about the means because he would stop at nothing to become stronger. Zhou Yan also knew that if he could slay Tu Sanhun and devour some of his Divine Soul Fragments, the gains would be enormous.

Upon hearing Zhou Yan’s words, Tu Sanhun’s cold eyes suddenly brightened, and he intently stared at Zhou Yan’s Divine Soul, saying, “What you say, is it all true?!”

“If you think it’s false, then it’s false! Though I can’t kill you, you can kill me. I have no path to survival, so I must do whatever it takes to kill you. Either way, it’s death; by killing you, I might have a slim chance of survival. Choosing the lesser of two evils, if it were you, you would do the same!”

“Fine, your cunning is truly formidable! If we were not adversaries, we might even have been late-acquainted Taoist friends, but talking is useless now. I, Tu Sanhun, am not one to stand idle and wait to die. Let’s see who survives once the Tai Chu Yin Qi condenses!”

Tu Sanhun said coldly.

Speakingly, he concentrated and held his breath, quickly calming down, maintaining a state of unflappable composure.

Zhou Yan approved in his heart but didn’t show it and simply said, “Then we wait!”

“I’m quite curious. Clearly, you were really slain by my blade before; why didn’t you die? Can you enlighten me?”

Tu Sanhun asked.

“How did you figure out I wasn’t Yuan Xiaoqi after all?”

Zhou Yan countered.

“It was simple. Yuan Xiaoqi truly died. Yuan Xiaoqi is my younger brother, but the Yuan Xiaoqi in the Sect was merely my avatar. He was useless, I killed him, and with his body and Divine Soul, I refined a Void Body Ding Furnace, forming a Soul Split.

That’s why I, who never believed in loyalty or betrayal, would be exceptionally affectionate towards Yuan Xiaoqi.

Moreover, even before, when Yuan Xiaoqi saw me, he would only call me ‘Brother Soul’ in private, not ‘Senior Brother Tu’. ‘Senior Brother Tu’ is what I called myself after killing Yuan Xiaoqi. Given such a glaring flaw, no matter how similar you are, how could I not notice?”

Tu Sanhun explained with a cold laugh.

“So that’s how it is. It seems I was overly confident, thinking such a trick could deceive you, but I didn’t understand the complexity between people.”

Zhou Yan sighed lightly, appearing somewhat regretful over the failure of his stratagem here.

“And you? How did you escape a fatal strike and conceal it?”

Tu Sanhun inquired.

“Very simply, because I knew my scheme might very well fail.”

Zhou Yan chuckled.

“You—you knew your scheme would fail? You mean you knew I knew you weren’t really Yuan Xiaoqi?”

“I understand the principle of speaking too much leading to mistakes, so I deliberately let you discover I was deceiving you, but I couldn’t make it too obvious, or else you would see through it easily.

Humans are always like this, very confident in everything about themselves, especially when the enemy shows no flaws, they tend to think of themselves as infallible.

In reality, I didn’t know anything about Yuan Xiaoqi, yet I dared to impersonate him. Isn’t that the biggest flaw?

With such a flaw, how could I not know I’d be discovered? Since I’d be discovered, why should I pretend ignorance? In truth, as you were plotting against me, I was still plotting against you.

I set up three traps; in the first trap, you thought you had plotted against me, but you still fell for my second trap.

Once you break my second trap and kill me, you’d fall into my third trap.

Is my explanation clear to you?”

Zhou Yan chuckled.

“Impressive, such cunning is certainly no ordinary Divine Spirit Second Transition. This is why I was never certain you were truly dead and repeatedly examined, tried to deceive you.”

Tu Sanhun also smiled, yet seemed increasingly confident and assured.

But Zhou Yan laughed, “Do you feel like you’re gradually starting to control this array, gradually able to pinpoint my exact position and escape this danger? If so, congratulations, you’ve been calculated anew.”

Zhou Yan laughed.

Tu Sanhun’s expression changed suddenly, his gaze firmly locking onto Zhou Yan.