Thousand-Faced Fox's Vision [Please Subscribe, Please Vote!]

After watching the storyline, Jiang Chen felt that although the Empress Dowager had protection, this storyline still contained many uncertain factors and far too many safety hazards.

After all, the scene of Senior Sister Liu being physically sent to the afterlife by Chen Gongxing's sword was still vivid in his mind.

Limited by the Empress Dowager's Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation, Thousand-Faced Fox's illusion technique could not be fully unleashed. It could only conceal or interfere; faced with indiscriminate attacks from a Spirit Severing Realm powerhouse, escape would be difficult.

By comparison, Li Lingzhou had a much thicker thigh to cling to.

Unfortunately, her actions were unpredictable, and she might go back on her word... You could never trust a gambler!

The focus of Jiang Chen's simulation this time was to carefully investigate whether any additional Nascent Soul Realm or Spirit Severing Realm powerhouses in Xiyang City were involved in this matter.

Before beginning the simulation, he maxed out the resolution of his divine sense in the original storyline and conducted a thorough search of the entire city.

The old emperor was at the Pseudo-Nascent Soul stage. Though he was nearing the end of his life, his actual combat strength still far surpassed that of a Peak Golden Core cultivator. For now, he was the most dangerous figure... Yet he had not dared touch the Empress Dowager. He was most likely wary of her illusion arts, or perhaps he had tried and failed to kill her.

Elder Guo was at Peak Golden Core and likely lacked the power to shake the Empress Dowager. Otherwise, the old emperor would have seized real authority long ago... But Elder Guo represented the Beast Taming Sect, so it was possible that the sect's two Nascent Soul powerhouses were involved.

Beyond that, there were several Golden Core Realm generals and ministers in the city, as well as the owner of Gray Castle's Fireburn Kingdom branch... These people probably would not get involved.

Unfortunately, the image map could only extend so far. Otherwise, Jiang Chen would have investigated further.

Among them, quite a few watchers had been stationed around Peaceful Palace, possibly by the emperor or the princess.

Although these watchers could not penetrate the Empress Dowager's illusion array, they could monitor Jiang Chen's comings and goings.

Presumably, they had already noticed him when he went to the sword shop to forge swords and sell equipment.

These watchers were simply too weak, had no killing intent, and followed from too far away. They did not dare lock onto him with divine sense and could only observe from afar with their eyes, which was why he had not noticed them.

Fortunately, out of caution, he had not left behind any blood from his finger, so he had not given them any leverage.

At the same time, he had thrown out the name of Li Lingzhou from the Prison Suppression Bureau. That should have intimidated quite a few people.

[You have finished viewing Main Storyline Five: "Princess Breaks Off the Engagement." Begin the simulation immediately?]

"Begin simulation!"

[The first storyline simulation has begun. Please choose a landing location!]

This time was somewhat different from the previous rounds of storylines.

Jiang Chen's identity had already been exposed in advance, and the Peaceful Palace where he was staying was no longer absolutely safe.

It was necessary to first secure an escape ending as a small safeguard.

Jiang Chen was extremely skilled at running away... Even if he had not been before, he should have learned it after watching Reverend Guiqi's escape route.

He directly landed in the desert outside Xiyang City.

He chose the southeastern direction, opposite from the Beast Taming Sect.

He landed a hundred zhang deep in the sand and sat cross-legged, lying low.

Then he resonated with the sea of sand and the sandworms, completely concealing his aura. He pretended to be a grain of sand in the desert, determined to hide through this incident first.

Running away might be shameful, but it was truly useful.

In any case, Thousand-Faced Fox would have no problem saving herself.

The only pity was that if he did this, the Empress Dowager, possessed by Thousand-Faced Fox, might face the same risk as Senior Sister Liu and be killed.

Of course, he had not discovered any Spirit Severing Realm powerhouse within Xiyang City for now, so it would not be difficult for the Empress Dowager to escape.

Besides, the danger lay in the climactic storyline. In this current setup storyline, the Empress Dowager was relatively safe.

It would not be too late to save her next round.

After that, Jiang Chen sat in the desert and cultivated quietly.

He continued cultivating Myriad Phenomena Resonance!

First, to cultivate the art of concealing his aura.

Second, to train his resonant divine sense.

Two hours later.

As his resonant divine sense slowly spread outward, Jiang Chen vaguely detected an unusual aura.

He did not know whether it was an illusion, but he discovered that although the sandworms within a hundred li were still hunting in irregular patterns, they were collectively moving slowly toward Xiyang City.

Upon closer observation, he even found that a small number of sandworms had already lain in ambush deep underground beneath Xiyang City.

"Too strange..."

Could someone be trying to control the sandworms to attack Xiyang City?

Controlling a sandworm swarm... Could this be the work of the Beast Taming Sect?

Jiang Chen made a rough estimate. To control a sandworm swarm over such a range of a hundred li required at least Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

If this really was the Beast Taming Sect's doing, then at least a Nascent Soul powerhouse was participating in this plan.

Of course, this might only be a backup plan.

If Yun Lanzi and the princess's plan failed, the plan to control a sandworm swarm and attack the city would be activated.

It was no common matter for a prestigious righteous sect to attack a city.

But finding a reason would be easy enough.

For instance, the Beast Taming Sect's treasured pair of Twin Mermaids had been secretly taken by the emperor and subjected to every kind of humiliation.

For instance, the Beast Taming Sect had treated the princes and princesses who entered its sect to cultivate exceptionally well, yet twenty years ago, the emperor had killed Consort Xiao, a prodigy of the Beast Taming Sect.

For instance, the emperor had secretly imprisoned and abused three hundred merfolk women. His crimes were unforgivable, intolerable to heaven's laws.

Jiang Chen thought that if the Beast Taming Sect merely wanted the Dragon Bone, there was no need to make such a massive display.

What they wanted to do was most likely steal the kingdom!

Jiang Chen finally understood why the Imperial Guards robbing the merfolk slaves had been the main storyline last round...

Jiang Chen vaguely sensed danger.

One had to know that Golden Core Realm Sand Monsters existed beneath the desert.

There were also great beast tamers with Nascent Soul Realm cultivation...

Hiding in the sea of sand was not all that safe either.

Thinking this, Jiang Chen could only slowly move from beneath the sea of sand to beneath Xiyang City.

He emerged from the ground in a suburban forest, entered the city after a simple disguise, and changed his appearance.

He then went to an inn operated by Gray Castle, registered a new identity as Xuande, and stayed at the Gray Castle inn under Xuande's name.

After all, Gray Castle had a small teleportation array.

Once Jiang Chen discovered the sandworms going berserk or encountered some other danger, he could leave Xiyang City through Gray Castle's teleportation array at the fastest possible speed, or receive temporary protection from Gray Castle.

For the next stretch of time, he held his breath and focused his mind, spreading an extremely faint thread of resonant divine sense to check whether anyone had noticed him.

Only after confirming that he was safe did he treat this place as a temporary foothold.

Fortunately, no one could have anticipated his landing location, so his trail was sufficiently hidden. No one had noticed him all along.

Only then did Jiang Chen breathe a sigh of relief.

He then completed the storyline within the Gray Castle inn.

His consciousness returned to the cultivation chamber beneath Peaceful Palace.

He immediately reviewed the recording of the first simulation carefully, once again confirming that he had not been followed or noticed.

Next, he checked whether the main storyline had been interfered with.

The storyline of the princess breaking off the engagement proceeded as usual.

But once the Empress Dowager returned to Peaceful Palace and found that he had suddenly vanished, the storyline was bound to change.

The instant the Empress Dowager stepped into Peaceful Palace, she abruptly stopped and realized that he was gone.

This woman was far calmer than he had imagined.

There even seemed to be falling cherry blossoms in her deep-pool-like eyes, gradually forming the shadow of nine fox tails across the water's surface.

It was the excitement she had not felt for so long that she had nearly forgotten it...

She raised her head and looked into the depths of the sky.

"Being able to leave my illusion array without leaving a trace, I imagine the entire Ascending Dragon Continent is where you roam after rebirth.

Calling it an opportunity with me was you underestimating yourself."

After saying that, the Empress Dowager quickly returned to the underground chamber. As though nothing had happened, she cultivated in meditation and continued waiting for the arrival of her opportunity.

Jiang Chen was startled.

The entire Ascending Dragon Continent was where I roamed?

Just what was Thousand-Faced Fox's background, to possess such vision and make such a remark?

Could it be that before the system descended, he had already come to cultivate at the Azure Mist Sect and had become Thousand-Faced Fox's fellow disciple...

Was that itself an opportunity?