Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1293 - 1293 0741 Only Manager Chen Himself Remains

Chapter 1293: Chapter 0741: Only Manager Chen Himself Remains Chapter 1293: Chapter 0741: Only Manager Chen Himself Remains Chapter 0741: Only Manager Chen Remains

This time, Manager Chen set the teleportation target as the giant stone that blocked the entrance of the Outer Palaces’ tomb door. He had set up over a dozen Teleportation Arrays within the space of the stone beforehand, so even if Qi Tian had the ability to tamper with several of them, he shouldn’t have been able to destroy them all.

Manager Chen moved swiftly, gifted with a natural talent for operating Teleportation Arrays. He could set the teleportation direction in an extremely short amount of time. However, he soon realized something was amiss. Those Teleportation Arrays he had adjusted within the giant stone failed to respond at all. Manager Chen felt as if he had plummeted into an ice cavern, realizing without doubt that those Teleportation Arrays must have been sabotaged by Qi Tian—none were spared. Qi Tian had cut off his chance to reach the Outer Palaces’ tomb door in the shortest time possible.

Manager Chen was filled with rage. Had he known Qi Tian would become the scourge he was today, he should have decisively killed him and ground him into minced meat during their first encounter. Manager Chen’s eyeball, hanging off his cheekbone, flickered uncertainly. He glanced at the Outer Palaces’ tomb door, not too far from him, and probed the visible and hidden aspects of the path ahead with his Divine Sense. Gritting his teeth, he propelled the only leg he had left, bounding toward the tomb door.

If Qi Tian had already destroyed the Teleportation Arrays in the giant stone space, then the likelihood of Qi Tian setting an ambush at the tomb door was very low. Once he could get to the tomb door and open it, he would be able to rush outside; with Manager Chen’s cultivation level and strength, he could swiftly recover in an extremely short period of time. Then it would be time to settle accounts with Qi Tian. Chen was determined to flay and debone Qi Tian. No, that would be letting him off too easily. It would be better to fuse him with his own body, utilizing Qi Tian’s flesh, energy, and spirit to extend his own life.

He should find an opportunity to let Qi Tian know that his fate was to become a living corpse. Imagining Qi Tian losing sleep and going grey overnight was simply too beautiful.

Qi Tian, making use of the Heavenly Dao Engine’s ability to sense Spirit Qi, was constantly monitoring every move Manager Chen made. Upon noticing that Manager Chen was resolutely bounding towards the Outer Palaces’ tomb door, Qi Tian knew that Manager Chen no longer had a chance. It was time to settle the long-standing feud between them. He hurriedly directed the glass sand to release even more dense fog, allowing it to enter the Outer Palaces, preparing to envelop it and deprive Manager Chen of any potential advantages he might have there.

Afterward, Qi Tian let the nine ghost faces, the Transporting Whirlwind, and the glass sand go ahead of him out of the Inner Underground Palace’s tomb door and return to the Outer Palaces. Qi Tian remained exceedingly cautious. A camel dead from starvation is still larger than a horse, and although Manager Chen appeared to be missing an arm, a leg, and a few ribs, his strength was still intact. If he were to recklessly confront Manager Chen head-on, the destructive power Manager Chen might unleash would be tremendous, so he had to be careful.

By then, Manager Chen had reached the Outer Palaces’ tomb door. When he was just a few steps away from it, he couldn’t wait to trigger the spirit rune, aiming to control the giant stone to descend and clear the path for him so that he could rush outside to the Saint’s Tomb at the first opportunity. But to Manager Chen’s utmost surprise, as he activated the spirit rune, the stone simply shook at the door, causing dust to fall in abundance, yet stubbornly refusing to sink down and clear the path as he commanded.

Manager Chen had no idea what had happened, but in a blink of an eye, he had approached the giant stone. With a glint in his eye, he spotted the meddling that Qi Tian had done on the stone. Seeing several wedges that had been added to the stone, Manager Chen howled with fury.

“Qi Tian, Qi Tian, you’re really something. I’m about to be killed by you.”

There were five or six wedges on the giant stone, each ingeniously placed, and Manager Chen knew it would take a lot of time to remove them. If he resorted to brute force to break through, it would be even less possible. Deeply embedded within the stone, these wedges, in stones so hard that even Manager Chen couldn’t simply destroy them, would take more time to force out than to remove properly.

Manager Chen itched with frustration but felt helpless. In a dire situation, he couldn’t just sit and wait for death, knowing any hope of escaping through the tomb door had completely vanished. He turned around and saw thick fog rolling towards him. Unable to see clearly through the fog, he could guess that Qi Tian was definitely inside it and that it might not be long before he would confront Qi Tian face to face again.

Having had his fill of the bitter defeats Qi Tian had brought him, Manager Chen looked up and set his sights on the two holes in the ceiling created by the collision with the glass sand—perhaps his final opportunity to escape.

Manager Chen clenched his teeth, crouched down, and like a spring compressed to its limit, he shot upwards toward the two holes in the ceiling. Furthermore, in his desperation to survive without the slightest delay, he conjured a flying sword into his hands while midair. This flying sword was greatly different from the ones typically used by cultivators. Death Qi coiled around the blade and the sword itself, like Manager Chen’s shattered body, was missing parts here and missing edges there—seemingly in total disrepair. Yet the true power of the sword was known only to Manager Chen himself.