Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1350 - 1350 0769 Deliberately Waterproof_2

Chapter 1350: Chapter 0769: Deliberately Waterproof_2 Chapter 1350: Chapter 0769: Deliberately Waterproof_2 Zhao Deyi was eager for the tomb’s master to take the first move; if the master could break through the ceiling of the Saint’s Tomb in front of him and escape, then he would believe that the passage the master referred to was safe.

Zhao Deyi directly shared his thoughts, urging the tomb’s master to act. However, the master remained as before, motionless, making no response whatsoever to any of Zhao Deyi’s requests or demands.

Feeling helpless, Zhao Deyi thought to himself that had he known this would happen, he should not have coveted the artifacts the tomb’s master had promised to give him and should have left early. Artifacts could be sought later, but if his magic power was completely exhausted, where could he find it again?

Zhao Deyi glared fiercely at the tomb’s master, then once again waved the Banana Fan toward the entrance of the Inner Underground Palace, using the reactionary force of the fan-generated gale combined with his own abilities, to shoot up into the air at an extremely fast speed, heading straight toward the direction indicated by the tomb’s master.

Caught between believing the tomb’s master and possibly finding a way to escape and being captured by Qi Tian, Zhao Deyi ultimately chose the latter.

Choosing the former would definitely lead to no good end; choosing the latter might offer a glimmer of hope.

To Zhao Deyi’s surprise, when he crashed in the direction the tomb’s master had pointed, the ceiling actually shattered upon impact, creating a large hole, and Zhao Deyi found himself escaping the Saint’s Tomb, head first through the bricks and stones breaking out of the ceiling. Barely having time to feel relieved, he released his flying sword, jumped onto it, and once again started to desperately flee with the Banana Fan.

A cold smile appeared on the tomb’s master’s lips. Zhao Deyi thought he had escaped to the heavens, but he could never imagine this was just what he believed, and that many things awaited him later. When the time came, the tomb’s master would make Zhao Deyi vomit up everything with interest.

The tomb’s master glanced at the entrance of the Inner Underground Palace, his figure about to follow Zhao Deyi and escape from the large hole Zhao had just broken open. Although the master did not fear Qi Tian, he dreaded another war of attrition with him, something he simply could not afford. The master had already made up his mind; he would withdraw from the Saint’s Tomb first, then find Zhao Deyi to execute his plan on him. Once the plan succeeded, he would become the No.1 figure of the Imperial Family Secret Territory, at which point he would have the entire territory at his feet, ready to control as he pleased.

The tomb’s master had a well-thought-out plan, but there was one thing he overlooked, or rather, he had not taken seriously at all.

Qi Tian had been relentlessly activating the Transporting Whirlwind and using the Lustrous Sand again and again to strike at the entrance of the Inner Underground Palace, aiming to enter and separate Zhao Deyi and the tomb’s master for a divide-and-conquer strategy. Qi Tian’s plan had not succeeded, solely because Zhao Deyi had been constantly consuming his energy, waving the Banana Fan.

Now that Zhao Deyi had run off and taken the Banana Fan with him, no one was left in the Inner Underground Palace to create the gales that could even shake a Nascent Soul Master. The Transporting Whirlwind, which had been incessantly striking the Inner Underground Palace, suddenly burst inside.

Qi Tian reacted quickly; he immediately commanded the Transporting Whirlwind to hurl the solid rocks it carried directly at the tomb’s master.

The tomb owner merely sneered, watching those stone blocks about to reach his side, he had no intention of knocking down the incoming stones. He leapt up, heading straight towards the hole that Zhao Deyi had just made. He planned to follow behind Zhao Deyi and escape from the Saint’s Tomb together.

The tomb owner’s plan could not be considered anything less than meticulous, as he had gone through every conceivable situation. However, what the tomb owner did not account for was the Transporting Whirlwind which he could neither see nor sense.

After throwing the massive stones, the Transporting Whirlwind rolled towards the tomb owner. At the same time, Qi Tian had been continuously monitoring the entire Inner Underground Palace, and Zhao Deyi’s escape was actually the result of Qi Tian’s leniency.

When Qi Tian first entered the Saint’s Tomb to obtain treasures, he extensively scanned the entire Saint’s Tomb with the Heavenly Dao Engine’s sensing capability, not knowing how many times he did so. While it seemed that his focus was primarily on the walls of the Inner Underground Palace, he was, in fact, very aware of the situation on the tomb’s ceiling as well.

Where the ceiling was sturdy and where it was fragile was fully exposed under the Heavenly Dao Engine’s scan. Qi Tian could have pre-arranged traps at any selected location if he had wanted to, during his initial planning of the ambush. But he did not choose to do so. He had already prepared traps at the space gate, just waiting for Zhao Deyi to trigger them. Setting another ambush here would have been a serious waste of resources. More importantly, he severely lacked manpower and could not complete such a task in a short time. Spending a great deal of time here might allow Zhao Deyi to refine the recently acquired magical instruments. Even if traps were set up here, they might not bring about the anticipated results. Setting up here would inevitably make some noise, which could lead to other complications that might alert others to their presence, possibly rendering the traps ineffective.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Qi Tian chose to ease up here and not add another set of traps unnecessarily.

Letting Zhao Deyi escape was part of Qi Tian’s plan, and he did not care about that, but he could not agree to the tomb owner escaping. What Qi Tian feared the most was Zhao Deyi and the tomb owner joining forces again. If the tomb owner obtained external cultivation resources, he would surely restore his strength to its peak in an extremely short time. Then, with the tomb owner’s superior cultivation and strength, he could dominate within the Imperial Family Secret Territory and put Qi Tian under extreme pressure, likely killing him in a short period of time.

Given these considerations, Qi Tian would not let the tomb owner escape no matter what. He quickly commanded the Transporting Whirlwind and the Liuli Sand to act in conjunction, and the ghost faces he brought with him also charged into the Inner Underground Palace.

Without Qi Tian needing to instruct them explicitly, the Transporting Whirlwind, the Liuli Sand, and the ghost faces cooperated seamlessly. The Transporting Whirlwind hurled the stones they carried at the tomb owner, and after releasing the stones, they simultaneously entangled the tomb owner, hoping to use their collective strength to delay him.

The Liuli Sand first dispatched all the Nascent Soul Stage yellow sand granules, knowing that they were no match for the tomb owner and there was no possibility of confronting him directly. So, they harassed the tomb owner to slow his progress, and the Liuli Sand also released a dense fog, hoping to blockade the entire Inner Underground Palace with it.

The ghost faces rushed towards the broken area of the ceiling, wanting to seal the hole before the tomb owner could escape from the Saint’s Tomb.

Seeing these ghost faces, the tomb owner almost laughed. He could tell at a glance that these ghost faces were originally his, collected from various places over a long time to protect his Saint’s Tomb from outsiders. To ensure their obedience, the tomb owner had tampered with them.