Chapter 133 Preparing to Leave
But after a moment, he seemed to think of something again, and squatted down to fumble around on the body.
Suddenly, he touched something hard.
Pulling it out for a look, it was actually a pitch-black token. The two words 'Pass' on the token were like a lifeline, causing Lu Li's face to light up with great joy.
"Excellent!"
Lu Li cautiously put the token into his bosom, then also put Wu Qi's Storage Bag into his own space hall. After thinking for a bit, he squatted down again and took off the purple fang mask from Wu Qi's face.
Under the mask, Wu Qi's face was rather handsome, just colorless, with a slightly greenish complexion.
After giving it a look, he walked to behind the stone door and picked up that identity token, tucking it at his waist.
Lu Li planned to disguise himself as Wu Qi's appearance, then rely on the pass token to slip through. If no other accidents occurred, he should be able to leave safely.
After putting on the mask, Lu Li then activated the Ink Cloud Treasure Garment.
Before long, his all-black, tight-fitting attire turned into a black long gown, adding an air of cold arrogance out of thin air.
"Hah, this black outfit indeed has a distinct aura."
Lu Li took a glance at himself, then slowly put on that purple fang mask. Fortunately, Wu Qi's body shape wasn't too different from his. With this comparison, unless one looked carefully, it really wasn't easy to notice that the person under the mask had changed.
To prevent being seen through, Lu Li specially activated the God-Concealing Jade, concealing his entire aura.
"It's time to go."
Lu Li surveyed the stone chamber he had stayed in for nearly four months. Although he had obtained a large amount of spirit medicine here that helped him break through to the late stage of the seventh layer, he didn't want to come back here ever again in this lifetime.
After injecting True Qi into Wu Qi's identity token, a flash of light appeared on the stone door, and it creaked open.
Lu Li took a deep breath, calming his state of mind, then slowly walked out. After closing the door, he unhurriedly walked onto the plaza.
At this moment, on the plaza, some people were hurriedly passing by, while others were sparring with each other. To avoid being discovered, Lu Li tried to steer clear of places with people.
After roughly a quarter of an hour, he finally reached the plaza exit at the southern edge from the northwest corner of the plaza.
Just stepping off the stone steps.
A tall man, also wearing a black long gown and a cyan fang mask, walked toward him. Lu Li pondered briefly, then stood to the side, lowering his voice and cupping his hands, saying, "Greetings, Fifth Senior Brother."
Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple-Lu Li had long heard of the rules of the Corpse Sect's Seven Martial Wraiths, so he didn't feel panicked, just being cautious.
"Junior Brother, where are you going?" Wu Wu glanced lightly at Lu Li and asked casually.
"Elder has instructed me to go out and handle some matters."
"Going out?"
Hearing this, Wu Wu's gaze lifted, moving closer to Lu Li.
Lu Li frowned, inwardly alert, "Senior Brother, is there something?"
"Heh heh." Wu Wu patted Lu Li's shoulder. "It's not easy for us to go out once. Since Junior Brother has a chance to go out, I'd like to ask Junior Brother to help with some things. I wonder if Junior Brother is willing?"
Lu Li originally had no desire to get entangled with him, but worried about causing trouble, so he patiently asked, "What does Senior Brother want me to do?"
"It's like this. Last time when I went out to gather herbs at Misty Cloud Mountain, I accidentally entered a cave mansion. I happened to encounter a female cultivator inside who was drawing Talismans. That Talisman brush was shining with spiritual light-definitely not ordinary..."
Wu Wu began talking endlessly, his eyes filled with greed.
Turns out.
During their fierce battle, Wu Wu didn't hold back his strength and struck the female cultivator down the cliff with one palm. When he went down to search later, the female cultivator had already disappeared without a trace.
Just when he was about to come back to borrow the Sect's Thousand Mechanisms Guide to search for that female cultivator, Mo Shang rushed back from Liangzhou and strictly forbade anyone from going out privately. So the matter was shelved.
Now meeting Lu Li going out, he had a thought, hence this episode.
Lu Li naturally didn't want to help him capture that female cultivator, but he was curious about what this Thousand Mechanisms Guide was, that made the other party so confident in catching that female cultivator. So he flashed a look and said:
"Senior Brother plans to get something for nothing?"
"How could that be." As Wu Wu spoke, he took out five Talismans and handed them to Lu Li. "These five high-level Green Vine Talismans are the deposit. If Junior Brother helps me get that Talisman brush, I'll give you ten more. How about it?"
"Green Vine Talismans?"
Lu Li's eyes lit up, taking the Talismans. "Deal. Where's the Thousand Mechanisms Guide!"
"Here." Seeing Lu Li agree, Wu Wu was also extremely happy. Glancing left and right, he stealthily handed a miniature circular disc with a diameter of only two inches to Lu Li, solemnly saying:
"Junior Brother, the Talisman brush is a small matter. This Thousand Mechanisms Guide, you must not lose it. Otherwise, both you and I will find it hard to escape death."
This Thousand Mechanisms Guide was actually more important than that Talisman brush?
Lu Li glanced at the Thousand Mechanisms Guide, finding it looked just like a miniaturized Eight Trigram plate. There was a black pointer in the middle, seemingly nothing strange about it.
"Understood." Lu Li pretended not to care, putting away the Thousand Mechanisms Guide, ready to leave.
However, Wu Wu grabbed him. "Junior Brother, why so hasty? There's still something I haven't given you."
Saying this, he handed a strand of hair to Lu Li.
"This is something I got from that female cultivator during our battle. Use it to activate the Thousand Mechanisms Guide."
Just as Lu Li was about to take that strand of hair, Wu Wu pulled his hand back. "Forget it, you're too careless. Better give me back the Thousand Mechanisms Guide, let me activate it first, lest you lose it."
Lu Li helplessly returned the Thousand Mechanisms Guide.
After getting the Thousand Mechanisms Guide, Wu Wu rolled that strand of hair into a ball, then pointed two fingers at it. A stream of fiery-red True Qi shot out, directly burning the hair into blue smoke. The blue smoke had just floated up two inches before being sucked into the Thousand Mechanisms Guide.
Immediately, the circular area under the pointer shone brightly with spiritual light, and the pointer began swinging wildly.
After three breaths, the spiritual light extinguished, and the pointer returned to calmness.
Lu Li watched in amazement, wanting to ask what was going on, but ultimately didn't ask.
After finishing all this, Wu Wu handed the Thousand Mechanisms Guide back to Lu Li, solemnly reminded him a few more times, then left contentedly.
"Hah, quite interesting."
Lu Li glanced at Wu Wu's back, then turned and walked toward the pitch-black passage ahead.
Finally reaching the end of the passage.
He saw five cyan-clothed guards on each side of the stone door. A black-clothed man sat cross-legged in the center of the passage with closed eyes, seemingly cultivating.
Only upon hearing Lu Li's approaching footsteps did the black-clothed man notice someone coming toward him. He couldn't help but frown, stood up, looked at Lu Li, and inquired, "Is Seventh Senior Brother going out?"
Lu Li wasn't in a hurry to answer. He took out that pass token from his bosom and handed it over, saying in a deep voice, "Following Elder's order, going out to handle matters."
Outwardly calm, internally he was already extremely panicked.
In his heart, he silently prayed, hoping not to cause trouble at this critical moment.