"D-do it. We have to do it."
Desolate Charm blurted out.
He was even more excited than Xu Yi. He knew full well that if Xu Yi was willing to do it, that meant he'd have a life wheel to swallow.
Xu Yi wasn't after a person. He wanted information, and what could be safer than letting Desolate Charm Old Ancestor swallow the life wheel?
Xu Yi settled down right there, eyes wide as bronze bells as he watched the surroundings from high ground. He let his senses spread completely, so that if a mosquito flew within nearly three hundred miles, he could tell whether it was male or female.
He waited until a quarter past the Chen hour the next day. At last, someone came speeding toward him from the southwest.
Xu Yi first transformed into a Crimson Flame Thunder Monkey, then changed into Black Wind Venerable's likeness.
When he'd been bathed in divine light, only his true body's life wheel had been stirred. His demon-body life wheel had remained hidden and gone unaffected. Thus, if he wanted to change into someone else, he could only first become the Crimson Flame Thunder Monkey.
Black Wind Venerable was in the Third Realm of Divine Map, while Xu Yi was in the First Realm of Divine Diagram. A disguise limited to outward appearance should have been utterly useless—but Xu Yi had a way to make it count.
As Gong Chu, clad in a cloak, swept past the northwest corner, he saw someone beckoning to him. He flew to within three hundred zhang and recognized Black Wind Venerable.
When he came within a hundred zhang, he noticed golden light rising from Black Wind Venerable's head. In a flash, he recognized that the person seated atop the mountain wasn't Black Wind Venerable at