Taking the Initiative to Send Word

"There's no medicine, and I don't know how to treat it. The old Daoist's injuries are too severe; he truly can't contribute!"

Kong Ning stayed temporarily at Maoling until Zhang Xuezhou and others produced a 'certificate' concerning normal entry and exit from Chang'an City.

After nightfall, Zhang Xuezhou returned to Chang'an City and found the Yunyi Daoist Temple where Li Shaojun was staying.

He reached out and knocked on the side room where there was still some light in the distance. Li Shaojun's voice, which was both firm and helpless, immediately came out. It seemed that the other party had been harassed quite a bit recently.

"The door is open!"

Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed, and then heard a flurry of activity. The door, which should have been opened, was instead bolted even tighter, and he could feel Li Shaojun's body pressed against the door.

"Have you gone mad or struck it rich?" Zhang Xuezhou retorted. "What's wrong with me taking a look?"

I find you unlucky!

Li Shaojun answered from behind the door.

Zhang Xuezhou is too good at causing trouble, and Li Shaojun is genuinely a little afraid.

When he attacked the Nine Spirits Primal Sage, he was just putting on a show. Zhang Xuezhou and the new emperor were truly ruthless in their killing, and this kind of fighting created a blood feud.

If Zhang Xuezhou were to ask him for help targeting Daojun and other powerful cultivators, Li Shaojun felt he might as well just laze around and wait to die.

"What a pity! I've got some news from the west, and I was planning to inform you of the operation, but it seems it's not a good day to meet. See you in a month!"

Zhang Xuezhou sighed.

Before he could even turn around, the door to the side room was bolted open, revealing Li Shaojun's mournful face.

"Sir, let's talk this out. You're in a dire situation, and you're still worrying about my business?"

Li Shaojun was still holding the porcelain bottle containing the pills in his hand, and there were more than ten pill bottles on the table in the side room that hadn't been tidied up, indicating that he had been in a bit of a hurry to clean up.

"Hey, while others are fighting to the death, you've made a fortune!"

Zhang Xuezhou made a sarcastic remark, and Li Shaojun blushed.

"How can this be my fault?" Li Shaojun argued, veins bulging on his neck. "When the Empress Dowager invited me, she said there would be hundreds of thousands of troops lying in ambush, and everyone would be a dead man under her arrows. We only needed to target some tough cultivators. Who would have thought we wouldn't even see a volley of arrows? Eighty percent of the accompanying high-ranking cultivators died halfway through, and few could keep up with the rapid march. At least I showed my face, so I can take these pills without feeling guilty!"

"I didn't even see who you killed," Zhang Xuezhou retorted.

"I, the Daoist priest, dislike killing!"

Li Shaojun grunted twice, and after Zhang Xuezhou entered the room, he quickly closed the door and bolted it shut.

"I can't stay here any longer," Li Shaojun sighed. "This is all the skill I have; I've already used it to its limit!"

Although he has repeatedly made a name for himself, and many members of the Great Han Dynasty's royal family and high-ranking officials regard Li Shaojun as a great cultivator at the level of Sacred Land lord, Li Shaojun is well aware of his own limited abilities.

If it weren't for the imposing presence he displayed as Divine Lord Zhenyuan, and the fact that his diligently practiced cloud-riding technique was also impressive, he wouldn't have lasted more than three seconds.

Li Shaojun has been planning to run away recently, but he is not able to ensure that he can enter his True Self with the pills he has obtained, nor is he confident that he can break free from the control of 'Bai'.

Running away wouldn't end well, but if he stayed in Chang'an City, he would inevitably become a target for the Sacred Land of the Xiong State to eliminate in its revenge.

Li Shaojun knew very well that the forces targeting him would be formidable, and an attack would be fatal. If his ability to 'resurrect' failed, Li Shaojun didn't know how he could withstand those elusive and treacherous sorcerers from the Xiong State.

He couldn't run away, but he lacked the skills to stay, so it's no surprise that Li Shaojun felt conflicted.

"If you can't stand staying here, go out and travel around to relax," Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile.

"I'm going to die whether I go left or right, so I don't have the mind to travel around," Li Shaojun said with a headache. "You guys just dragged each other along like I did, and spent some time venting your frustrations on that crazy woman. Why are you thinking of assassinating Daojun and Zhu Jiuyin!"

"We were thinking the same thing, I didn't expect this either!"

Li Shaojun was a scoundrel, and so was Zhang Xuezhou. The two had very similar ideas about doing things. Zhang Xuezhou initially only thought about pulling the Daojun Yangpo incarnation, but he never expected that the new emperor would dare to draw his sword.

However, drawing the sword also has its advantages. Zhang Xuezhou, caught up in the storm, realized that things weren't so bad after all.

If he wants to become an ordinary True Self Realm cultivator, he only needs to open the path of Realm Technique. But if he wants to leap into the ranks of cultivators such as Emperors and Yuanshi Heavenly Venerables, he needs to participate in large-scale competitions and experience various things in those competitions in order to possibly promote the formation of his domain.

The various aspects of this are difficult for people to understand. Zhang Xuezhou has only roughly explored the possibilities and is far from finalizing his approach. His current style of doing things is not significantly different from before.

"You've exposed the truth, there's no going back now, what are we going to do?" Li Shaojun sighed, "I don't want to die a meaningless death in Chang'an City!"

"I already told you you went traveling," Zhang Xuezhou complained.

"You really want me to go traveling?" Li Shaojun asked in surprise.

"I'm really letting you go!"

Where to go?

"Kunlun or Lingshan, perhaps we should also add another Sacred Land of the Western Sect!"

Zhang Xuezhou recommended that Li Shaojun travel around. Li Shaojun thought that Zhang Xuezhou would suggest a good place to relax and rejuvenate, but he did not expect that the place Zhang Xuezhou recommended was even more dangerous than Chang'an City.

"Don't play me," Li Shaojun said. "I haven't realized 'Bai' is summoning me yet!"

"Who's messing with you?" Zhang Xuezhou said, "I've heard some news and know there's an opportunity over there, but I can't be sure when it will happen. You'll just have to go and wait!"

"Aren't we going together?" Li Shaojun asked in surprise.

"You go first," Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand and said, "You'd better bring Venerable Lei with you to work. As for the excuse, you can come up with whatever you want. If anything happens, send him back to let me know, and I'll get there as fast as I can!"

"Do you think we're just visiting someone in Chang'an City? This place is tens of thousands of miles apart. Even if Venerable Lei flew back and forth, it would take him half a month. What could be progressing so slowly?" Li Shaojun complained.

"Just tell me if you're going to do it or not. If you're not going to do anything, I'm not going to bother with you anymore!"

"I'll do it!"

Li Shaojun may have been complaining, but he was afraid of Zhang Xuezhou.

Regardless of whether things will succeed or not, he has to do it, lest Zhang Xuezhou abandon him, since there are very few people in this world who can help him.

"Just do it, that's all I'm telling you..."

Only after Li Shaojun bowed his head and resigned himself to his fate did Zhang Xuezhou recount the various circumstances he had speculated about.

Although it was just a guess, he described it in great detail, almost as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"The Western Sect and the Kunlun Emperor are targeting Zhu Jiuyin? And it might even involve attacking the Xieluosi River Holy Land?" Li Shaojun asked doubtfully. "Wouldn't that mean it's happening right now? Shouldn't this be the best time to strike at Zhu Jiuyin?"

"But they also need to know what happened in Mayi," Zhang Xuezhou shook his head and said, "Don't be fooled by the commotion in Chang'an City; we don't have any Kunlun or Western Sect members here. Who knows when this information will reach their ears!"

"You mean I inadvertently leaked the information when I went to Xiniu Hezhou?"

If no one is available to deliver the message, then someone will be specially sent to do so.

Li Shaojun understood immediately and knew what role he was to play.

If he had the initiative to transmit information, he could indeed predict the timing of some events with relative accuracy, thus enabling Venerable Lei to help transmit information back to Chang'an City.

"Your identity when you're out in the world is something you give yourself. You can make up whatever identity you want, but you must be careful not to go too far. It's extremely difficult for us to lie to those top-tier cultivators!"

Li Shaojun quickly got into action, and Zhang Xuezhou felt satisfied with the task entrusted to him.

If Venerable Lei can bring the information back to the Yedie River Holy Land, thus causing these people to fight among themselves, the Great Han Dynasty will have a very good chance of seizing the opportunity.