The key to Lin Yuan's move lay in meeting, communicating, and cooperating with Yun Shan without drawing any unnecessary attention.
When Lin Yuan decided to meet Yun Shan and chose the location, the first place he ruled out was the Misty Cloud Sect. If he personally went up to the Misty Cloud Sect and a conflict broke out, he would be facing Yun Shan and Protector Wu, two Dou Zong, on their home ground. Forget alerting the enemy—if things went badly, he might not even have a chance to escape.
He could not exactly count on that Jiejie Monster, Protector Wu, just happening to be absent, or on him not coveting the soul of a Sixth-Grade Alchemist like him.
How could Lin Yuan place his life entirely on luck or on others' mistakes?
After careful consideration, he finally chose the Tagor Great Desert, where the Snake People Race was located, as the meeting place.
To lure Yun Shan into this desert, Lin Yuan laid out his plan with meticulous care.
First, he deliberately dealt with Hai Bodong's seal in the desert region, attracting Medusa's attention and setting off that fierce battle.
After that, he used the defeated Medusa's life as a bargaining chip, successfully joined the Snake People Race, reached a cooperation with them, and became an elder with great status and authority. In this way, he could borrow the strength of the Snake People Race and turn this desert into his own home ground.
Then, through Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family, Lin Yuan leaked news of the Heavenly Flame in the Tagor region to Gu He, and had Queen Medusa release half-true, half-false news in the desert to verify that there truly was a Heavenly Flame here. He also deliberately sent the Seven-Colored Scale carrying the aura of