Chapter 307 – Secrets of the Lake (IV)

Chapter 307

Secrets of the Lake (IV)

Long Tao nearly stumbled and fell when he heard the ringing laughter–he’d barely left the room for the hallway before they immediately gave in, causing him to grind his teeth. They couldn’t have even waited for him to return to his room!

… letting go of the breath, he shook his head and smiled faintly.

Nonetheless, he still was quite curious as to why his Master insisted they do something that seemed so pointless. If the city lord had spent centuries looking for the Guardian and failed, it simply meant that the Guardian either didn’t exist or was so strong that it could never be located unless it wanted to be.

In either case, kids intervening in the entire thing wouldn’t really do much of anything outside of putting themselves at risk of being discovered.

Master wasn’t stupid and likely knew all that, and yet, he still insisted. Why?

Long Tao couldn’t even begin to fathom.

… though a certain thought appeared: was it possible that the Guardian itself asked Master to intervene? Perhaps as a test or a trial, or perhaps even out of necessity?

It was, he presumed.

Long Tao himself had experienced something like it dozens of times before in his life, where he’d arrive at a new place where a Spirit would ask for his help; each time he would help, a trace of that Spirit would remain on him, signaling others that he was an ‘ally’.

Sometimes he’d help, sometimes he wouldn’t, but circumstances like that weren’t all that uncommon. The question was whether that was what happened, but if his Master didn’t divulge it, not even in their say-it-but-not-really way, then the truth was likely far deeper than that.

Ultimately, though, it didn’t matter; while the kids would participate, Long Tao himself had other plans–city lord himself.

One way or another, especially with Xi Zhao’s little show, that man would have to die–otherwise, they were never leaving this city. Not alive, at least.

The issue was, among many others, that the man was at the peak stage of the True God Realm. No matter how talented Long Tao was, in a direct duel, he’d be killed before he understood what happened. Rather, in any combat scenario, they could not win.

There was one saving grace, however–the fact that the city lord was scarred. Though to most the fact he had likely reached Nirvana Realm once before would be an even greater hurdle to overcome, to Long Tao it indicated something that could be exploited: he likely had his Nirvana Spirit either heavily damaged or outright destroyed.

Even if he somehow survived the ordeal, likely with the intervention of some divine medicine, that sort of a wound doesn’t simply become a past shame–it remains an eternal hindrance, forever part of one’s soul.

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