"Buddha, what happened?"
Black Robe looked at Wutian's expression and suddenly cried out in shock, "Could it be that True Martial isn't dead?"
"Correct. We all fell into his trap. The him we saw today was merely an external incarnation of his."
Wutian said in a deep voice, "To hide it from my eyes and ears, he even had that incarnation carry the Black Carved Flag, an Innate Spiritual Treasure. I was careless!"
Once a treasure like the Black Carved Flag released its innate spiritual light to protect its bearer, outsiders who wished to probe his magic power and true state would be unable to sense anything at all.
He had indeed been careless. First, victory on the Heavenly Court's side had made him somewhat pleased with himself, and he had lowered his guard. Second, he had never thought Lu Chuan would be willing to give up an Innate Spiritual Treasure to play a golden cicada shedding its shell.
An Innate Spiritual Treasure was something even those mighty beings would be moved by, and the Five Directions Flags were outstanding among them.
Just look at the owners of the Five Directions Flags: three of them belonged to Heavenly Venerables, and one belonged to the Queen Mother. The fact that True Martial could obtain one of them was enough to show how profound this man's fortune and karmic ties were.
Yet now, this fellow had abandoned it just like that—
"Decisive enough. He is someone worthy of my attention."
Wutian's gaze flickered, and he suddenly looked toward Black Robe. "Black Robe, Giant Scorpion, if True Martial had been acting through this external incarnation all along, then where do you think his true body is?"
"True Martial's true body..."
Black Robe and Giant Scorpion exchanged a glance, looking at each other in