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Chapters 771-780

Chapter 771: Three words: No can do

Hearing that Baili Mingxiang had arrived on Celestial Mountain, Long Feiye lowered his eyes and slowly cleaned up the chess pieces. "The others should have reached Medical City by now."

The "others" in this case being Han Yunxi and Gu Beiyue's group.

"The Apricot Woods Conference will begin three days from now. It'll be a problem if they're not in Medical City," the sword sect master grinned.

As expected, a shadow guard soon delivered Gu Beiyue's letter saying that they had arrived safely.

"Your lordship is looking forward to it," Long Feiye wore a rare smile after days of long faces. The sword sect master stroked his beard and felt a tremor of excitement in his own heart. The Apricot Woods Conference would be changing Cloud Realm history this time. Once Long Feiye confirmed that Han Yunxi and the others were well, he finally set some of his cares at rest. Next, he should be starting on the last stage of recovering his internal energy. This was the most crucial point of his recovery. Not a single error would permitted, since even the Honored Elders wouldn't be able to save his life then. Thus, he had discussed it with the old men to finish his treatment not here, but in their cultivation caves.

"Master, will you be going over?" Long Feiye asked.

"What about Baili Mingxiang? Someone should at least pick her up from the bottom, right?" the sword sect master suggested.

"Sending someone to pick her up will do. Have her live in the side rooms for the next few days," Long Feiye intoned.

"Are you certain?" the sword sect master grew puzzled.

"Is there a problem?" Long Feiye asked.

"Feiye, if you don't put on an act, how will the fish take the bait?" the sword sect master finally laid it all out.

Baili Mingxiang was precisely Long Feiye's fish hook. Her purpose was to lure out that old fox. He Yilian knew to use delaying attacks against him, which meant the spies at Nine Xuan Hall and the master behind them both understood his Lustbite Seal very well. It was even impossible they knew he was the East Qin imperial crown prince.

There were three stages to cultivating Lustbite energy. One was accepting its seal and using it to collect power that could be cultivated into Lustbite energy; two was controlling the energy itself until using it was second nature; three was merging Lustbite energy with the body's own internal energy to reach insurmountable heights of power. By then, even the Honored Elders of Celestial Mountain wouldn't be his match, to say nothing of the ordinary herd below. As long as Long Feiye cured his internal injuries, he would finish step two and fully control the energy. But to get to the third step and merge two energies into one, he needed the help of a martial arts genius and practice dual cultivation before he could succeed. Even his great talents were no help in completing the third step alone. In other words, if he couldn't find a martial arts genius, his Lustbite energy might be stuck at the second stage forever.

Baili Mingxiang...was, of course, no martial arts genius. Long Feiye was simply summoning here as a pretense to create a false impression and mislead that old fox. As long as he suspected Baili Mingxiang, he would make a move to strike again.

Long Feiye now knitted his brows at the sword sect master. "What kind of act do you mean?"

"Something to let people see that you treasure that girl," the sword sect master suddenly thought up a plot and muttered it in Long Feiye's ear. "Feiye, the Lustbite energy fears feelings the most. Suppose we kill two birds with one stone and have you pretend to conquer Miss Baili. Then it'll prevent troubles from plaguing Han Yunxi while hoodwinking that old fox!"