Mud Bodhisattva plucked a few hairs from the Fire Monkey, lit them with a candle flame, and only then began his divination.
After a while, he opened his eyes. "Right Envoy, Ice Emperor is heading northeast."
Northeast?
Lin Lang thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered a place-the Sword Mausoleum.
Lin Lang narrowed his eyes. "Cunning fellow. He almost got away with it."
He had always thought Ice Emperor wanted to slaughter the Fire Qilin, the last divine beast in this world, but had overlooked the Fire Phoenix with her divine beast bloodline.
Although the Fire Phoenix in the Sword Mausoleum was nowhere near a true divine beast Phoenix, she was still an extraordinary Heaven-and-Earth Strange Beast, second only to divine beasts.
Moreover, Di Shitian had originally refined the Elixir of Immortality using the essence of Phoenix Blood. Using the Fire Phoenix's essence to refine pills this time would clearly yield a higher chance of success.
Ice Emperor was at the Myth Realm Peak, with his essence, qi, and spirit having all undergone the Third Transformation. Pills refined from the Fire Phoenix's essence would be enough for him to break through to the Land Immortal realm.
Had Mud Bodhisattva not divined it, Ice Emperor might really have succeeded. After all, Lin Lang had only told the Sword Sect to watch Lingyun Grotto, and Jiang Xiaoyu and the others had also focused their arrangements there.
"Right Envoy, I'll contact Xiaoyu and the others and capture Ice Emperor," Hua Wuque volunteered.
Lin Lang shook his head. "No, don't notify them. Follow the plan and take men to reinforce the defenses at Lingyun Grotto."
"That way, Ice Emperor won't realize his whereabouts have been exposed, and I'll be able to catch him."
Ice Emperor had obtained Heaven Gate's treasured martial arts manuals. Who