"Actually, I only had a fifty-percent chance of success regarding this upheaval. But now that I've found you, if you can help me undo the seal on my true body, I'll have at least an eighty-percent chance."
As Tu Bo spoke, he tapped the blood-red rock beside him with one hand.
"What? Even if your true body comes out, you'll only have an eighty-percent chance?"
Ye Tian found it strange. Wasn't Tu Bo's true body an existence on par with the Heavenly Dao? Without Great Dao fragments, who could possibly plot against him?
"There is no matter in this world that carries an absolute certainty. Leaving two parts of leeway is leaving a way out for oneself."
Tu Bo said, then suddenly pressed one hand against a rock!
Boom—
A neither loud nor soft sound rang out, sending a ring of energy rippling outward.
The two Yin soldiers standing guard felt the tremor, yet for a moment, they did not know whether they should go up and investigate.
"Those two had the general's handwritten token and went up the mountain. They probably have urgent business. Why don't we avoid disturbing them?"
"I think so too. It's best not to provoke anyone the general has personally granted a token to."
Having reached an agreement, the two Yin soldiers simply hung the matter high and away, as though it had nothing to do with them.
Not far from Thousand Mechanisms Peak, mournful cries from a flock of cold crows rang continuously from atop a withered tree. Yet one of them was exceptionally quiet.
That silence was shattered the instant the strange change occurred atop Thousand Mechanisms Peak.
A trace of humanlike light flashed through the cold crow's blood-red eyes. Then it began to wail, its cry shrill and miserable. The surrounding cold