Chapter 1392: Deceiving Everyone

Taking in the scene, Qin Sang felt a flicker of suspicion. While everyone else fought tooth and nail over the spoils, the Rainbow Rat made no move to seize the ice box.

Instead, at this most critical moment, he slipped away from the desolate island in secret, eluding not only the human cultivators but seemingly the demon kings as well, none of whom had any inkling of his movements. When something defied all reason, there was always something strange behind it!

What was more, the Rainbow Rat had transformed into an ice rat and hidden himself within the ice blast, his aura concealed to perfection, without the slightest flaw. The ice blast the white-robed man had triggered might as well have been prepared for him alone.

Something stirred in Qin Sang's heart. His gaze swept once between the white-robed man and the Rainbow Rat. He could be certain that the white-robed man he had locked onto was the true body, and that was precisely what made it odd.

Still, the situation was on a knife's edge and shifting by the moment. Qin Sang knew far too little, and there was no time to untangle every cause and reason, so he made his decision on instinct.

Betraying nothing, he kept his true body in pursuit of the white-robed man, yet he harbored a private intent and warned no one that the Rainbow Rat was up to something.

The void around Qin Sang rippled faintly. The eyes of the other Spiritual Infant cultivators and demon kings remained fixed on the white-robed man and the ice box, and so none of them noticed an invisible butterfly leave Qin Sang's side, beat its wings gently, and fly off the island along the direction the Rainbow Rat had taken!

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly fluttered through the air, its form light and graceful. Its innate invisibility supernatural ability was its most fundamental means of preserving its life.

Even so, the Sky-Eyed Butterfly's true body was far too fragile compared to cultivators and demonic beasts of the same realm, and Qin Sang, fearing some mishap, rarely let it out of his sight.

But the Rainbow Rat was clearly in a weakened state, the Sky-Eyed Butterfly's intelligence was high, and the Spiritual Infant Talisman Puppet waited in support near the island. Against a single Rainbow Rat, success should be assured, and there was no need to worry for its safety.

That was it! Qin Sang suspected the Rainbow Rat had carried off something in secret, meaning to deceive everyone, and he intended to ambush and kill him in the shadows. Even if his guess proved wrong, he would lose nothing.

Beyond the desolate island, the Rainbow Rat succeeded and turned his head to look back. His eyes were a strange, pallid white, like two snow beads set into his skull, the gaze hollow, and then a trace of struggle surfaced within them.

The Rainbow Rat whipped his head around and fled at full speed, skimming low over the sea, his destination none other than the storm belt!

Once the Rainbow Rat had put some distance between them, a black shadow rose silently beneath the surface of the sea.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly arrived an instant later and settled weightlessly onto the shadow's shoulder. The puppet and butterfly together gave chase in the direction the Rainbow Rat had gone.

On the island, the struggle grew ever more fierce. The white-robed man's true body was finally seen through, and in a flash every gaze converged upon him.

Knowing now that his death was all but certain, the white-robed man did not look back but threw himself forward with all his strength, making one last desperate effort.

Though Qin Sang was not the closest to the white-robed man, with the Sky-Eyed Butterfly's help he had locked onto the true body early.

His figure flickered again and again, and in the blink of an eye he swept past several mountain ranges, calling up the Golden Sinking Sword at the same time and aiming it at the white-robed man from afar. Without the slightest hesitation, he sent a sword strike cleaving at the man's back.

A muffled thud rang out.

Qin Sang let out a soft sound of surprise. To his astonishment, a crystalline round shield had appeared from nothing behind the white-robed man.

The shield was small, forged entirely of mystic ice, and looked exceedingly thin and brittle. It shattered the instant the blow landed, yet it had still managed to block Qin Sang's strike.

Driven by the immense force, the white-robed man pitched violently forward, then sprang up in a sudden leap and fled onward.

"Something's not right!" Qin Sang narrowed his eyes.

Brief as the exchange had been, he had keenly sensed that there was something strange about the white-robed man.

Even so, Bifang and the other demons trailed Qin Sang by only half a beat, for once the white-robed man had activated the array, they had received the Rainbow Rat's voice transmission.

The Rainbow Rat had left a mark within the white-robed man's body, and that illusion technique could not be erased.

Master Feng and his people, by contrast, had floundered like headless flies at first, and since Qin Sang had given them no warning, they were the last to confirm which figure was the white-robed man's true body and the slowest to act. For Spiritual Infant cultivators, every second counted.

Streak after streak of evasion light chased close behind the white-robed man, some ahead and some behind. Qin Sang ran almost neck and neck with Bifang.

The frog-fish had been among the closest to the white-robed man from the start and kept pace in time, while the other demon kings were left behind, some of them breaking off outright to fight over the ice box.

It seemed Qin Sang was about to face two foes at once. Fortunately, Master Feng did not disappoint him. Turning his body into a clear breeze, he surged out from the pack and pressed close behind them.

"Daoist, please hold them off a little. Once I have it in hand, you will have a share of the treasure!" Master Feng, secretly anxious, told Qin Sang by voice transmission.

Qin Sang's gaze flickered, and he gave a cold snort. "Just who is he? It seems you knew the truth of this all along, Daoist, yet I have been kept in the dark!"

Master Feng showed not the slightest shame and went straight to the point. "This man comes from Mystic Heaven Palace, and he carries a precious treasure of Mystic Heaven Palace. That is why the demon race wants him!"

A strange light crossed Qin Sang's eyes. Ever since he had come to the North Sea, the great name of Mystic Heaven Palace had thundered in his ears.

It reigned supreme over an entire realm, and its palace master was a great cultivator.

Now that his senior sister and Old Devil Ye had ascended, Beichen Realm still had no great cultivator to anchor it, and the experts of Mystic Heaven Palace alone were enough to overshadow the whole of Beichen Realm. Even in the North Sea, Mystic Heaven Palace was acknowledged as the strongest power of the human race!

The fact that the white-robed man came from Mystic Heaven Palace, crossed vast oceans to appear near Crescent Moon Realm and carried a precious treasure of the palace was reason enough for these demon kings and Spiritual Infant cultivators to behave so madly.

Once this news spread, even the experts of Crescent Moon Realm would likely find themselves unable to sit still.

As thoughts flashed through his mind, Qin Sang suddenly unleashed a vicious sword strike at the frog-fish and swept his sleeve, unleashing his devilish flames without reserve. They turned the air into a sea of fire that scorched the mountain peaks, and their target, of all things, was Bifang.

Bifang was beside himself with fury and on the verge of cursing Qin Sang aloud. But once he felt the power of the devilish flames, his heart clenched and he could not help his dread.

In the great battle at the sea just now, this man did not use his full strength after all and was holding back. If he had driven his devilish flames with everything he had to stop me, then even with this blood-flame transformation supernatural ability, escaping would have been hard! Bifang thought.

The devilish flames bore down across the sky. Bifang's figure was swallowed in shadow as he threw back his head and let out a long cry, a roar like thunder, deafening to the ear.

All this while Bifang had held the form of a blood-flame divine bird, and now, under the pressure of the devilish flames, he erupted completely and called forth another layer of his supernatural ability's transformation. The blood flames began to draw inward, condensing into feather after feather of crystalline crimson.

His whole body sheathed in feathers of blood flames, Bifang shot forward like an arrow loose from the string, charging headlong into the devilish flames with a momentum that seemed to pierce the void itself!

On the other side, the frog-fish took Qin Sang's sword head-on. A great swath of the scales across its body shattered, but these were only flesh wounds. He paid no mind to the other battlefields, for his eyes held only the white-robed man.

Seeing that he had won Qin Sang over, Master Feng rejoiced and, swift as the wind, rushed to the front.

By now the closest to the white-robed man had become Master Feng and the frog-fish. In the thick of it all, man and demon exchanged a single glance.

Master Feng gave a cold snort and paid the frog-fish no heed, intent on bringing down the white-robed man first, lest the man still had some trump card in reserve and a long delay invited mishap.

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