Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1295 - 1295 0742 Seize the Sword and Behead

Chapter 1295: Chapter 0742: Seize the Sword and Behead Chapter 1295: Chapter 0742: Seize the Sword and Behead Chapter 0742: Seize the Sword, Behead the Foe

Before encountering Manager Chen, Qi Tian had never come into contact with undead cultivators. Even now, his understanding of undead cultivators was very superficial. What exactly was an undead cultivator? What was their cultivation system like? What resources did they require for their daily cultivation? Qi Tian had no idea about any of these questions. Under these circumstances, Qi Tian didn’t have the slightest confidence in being able to subjugate Manager Chen, whose strength was simply too formidable. Knowing the Cultivation World inside out, if Manager Chen were to feign submission due to circumstances and defect to Qi Tian, only to betray him when an opportunity arose later on, or even take the chance to kill him, these were all possibilities. Qi Tian dared not take the risk of being backfired upon in trying to subdue Manager Chen, which would be an extremely unwise act.

After much deliberation, Qi Tian felt that the only way to gain the greatest benefit from killing Manager Chen was to turn Manager Chen into fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine. After all, Manager Chen was an undead cultivator at the Second Level of the Nascent Soul Stage, inherently representing an immense amount of energy. If allowed to be absorbed by the Heavenly Dao Engine, the benefits were self-evident.

There was just one premise, that an undead cultivator like Manager Chen, if not willing himself, could not have their energy absorbed by the Heavenly Dao Engine, and such absorption wouldn’t cause any adverse effects on the Heavenly Dao Engine. Qi Tian definitely did not want the Heavenly Dao Engine to undergo uncontrollable changes due to this absorption, which would leave him in utter despair.

After deciding how to deal with Manager Chen, Qi Tian’s gaze pierced through the thick fog and locked onto Manager Chen.

Manager Chen knew he was in a highly dangerous situation and that if he could not extract himself as quickly as possible, death would be his only fate. Neither Manager Chen nor the master of the Saint’s Tomb, with whom he had merged, were willing to die like this. They both longed for immortality, believing in their grand destinies. How could they possibly allow themselves to be defeated within this Saint’s Tomb?

Despite being in a desperate situation, Manager Chen rapidly found a possible way out of his current predicament. Although he was surrounded by thick fog and couldn’t use any reference points in his vicinity to determine his location, one thing was constant: if he flew upwards, he would be able to touch the ceiling of the Outer Palace, which had various patterns. The tomb’s master chose these patterns personally while designing the Saint’s Tomb, and knowing the patterns’ forms and directions, if he could just touch them, he would be able to ascertain his position within the Outer Palace, thus establishing his relative position and distance from the two holes above. With that figured out, the rest would be easy. By flying close to the ceiling and heading towards the holes, he might find a chance to escape. Although the chance was slim, Manager Chen, driven to desperation, had no other options and had to make a break for it.

Manager Chen made up his mind in an instant. Without a second’s delay, he soared into the air, and in a blink, his head touched the ceiling of the Outer Palace. With what was left of his hand, he touched the nearby patterns on the ceiling and immediately ascertained his bearings. Without any hesitation, he adjusted his body and flew towards the two holes in the ceiling at the fastest speed he could muster.

Having learned his lesson from before, Manager Chen protected himself with three layers of defense. The outermost layer was his flying sword, followed by two layers of Protection Talismans. With these three layers of defense, he felt he could still brave the Millennium Corpse Water, and there might still be a chance for him to carve out a blood path to escape the Saint’s Tomb. Once outside, the world would be wide open to him, and no one could stop him anymore.

Qi Tian had never underestimated Manager Chen, even though it appeared Manager Chen had reached a dead end. Qi Tian took Manager Chen very seriously, preparing various precautionary measures for any action Manager Chen might take. Especially those two holes in the ceiling were a defensive focus for Qi Tian.

Seeing that Manager Chen had managed to realign his direction in such a short span of time, Qi Tian promptly dispatched the Transporting Whirlwind to move, just as before, lunging towards Manager Chen and successfully knocking him off his intended path.

But Manager Chen was not afraid. He had found the method: even if Qi Tian only knocked him once, let alone a hundred and eighty times, he could adjust his direction using the same method. Furthermore, Manager Chen had good reason to believe that the initial few strikes by the Transporting Whirlwind might displace him, but given time to adapt to the force and angle of the impact, he would ensure that not even the Transporting Whirlwind’s subsequent hits would cause him to move an inch. His strength and realm as a Second Level Nascent Soul cultivator were not to be taken lightly; his main issue was that he was still unaccustomed to his crippled body, unable to precisely control his power, which lead to him being knocked around.