Vampire Cultivation Notes

Chapter 182 Heavenly Intent to Kill, Stars Shift and Constellations Change

"Senior brother, here's a map for you. Just fill in the new topographic map into it."

Master Baozhang was busy with calculations, holding a magic sword in one hand and rapidly calculating with his fingers in the other, leaving a trail of afterimages.

Sensing Yang Huangli's return, Master Baozhang didn't even raise his head. He simply reached out and swiped, sending a light screen in front of Yang Huangli. On it were densely packed nodes representing the Blood Heart Cave Heaven parameters, simulating a palm-sized model of the Blood Heart Cave Heaven.

Yang Huangli glanced at it and felt dizzy. He reluctantly accepted the task: "Baozhang, unlike you, I haven't cultivated the [Star Calculation Sword Technique] and can't calculate the secrets of heaven. I can only calculate a mere eight thousand numbers at most. In my opinion, this kind of calculation is not something that can be mastered in a day. I can't neglect my cultivation. I'll steal a few days to make connections with the local court and carefully collect some treasures from Blood Heart Cave. That way, the trip won't be in vain."

"No, senior brother!"

Master Baozhang was startled and stopped rubbing his fingers, which were almost sparking, together. He said urgently, "The most important thing is to quickly go out and report to the sect. Then we won't have to worry about not receiving a reward!"

Yang Huangli was somewhat displeased: "The rewards from the sect are one thing, but the rewards we receive ourselves are another."

"Junior brother, over the years I've secretly investigated both inside and outside the palace, and discovered that the indigenous court has quite a few good things. The Foundation Establishment cultivators in the royal family all possess extraordinary spiritual senses. Within the palace, there's also a sealed and treasured method of combined cultivation, which seems to have a faint correspondence with your supernatural ability, also using the Star Fiend element. These benefits are all legacies of the Blood Heart Demon Sect. Why not take them if they're free? Why be so stubborn?"

"Senior brother, sigh..."

Bao Zhang simply stopped the magic artifact from operating, thus interrupting the calculations.

With a long sigh, Bao Zhang said, "Senior Brother Bao Wu, although I am weak in combat and have always ranked last among the Seven True Ones, this supernatural power requires such harsh conditions as collecting star-like evil spirits from the Gangfeng layer to master. How could it be so simple?"

"Oh, what's so special about it?" Yang Huangli asked with a smile.

"The interaction between Heaven and humanity!"

Master Baozhang said, "As the saying goes, when Heaven sends out a calamity, the stars shift and the constellations change. This [Star Calculation Sword Technique] is not only excellent at calculation and can assist in setting up formations and performing rituals, but it can also sense the arrival of a calamity before others."

"That demoness Shecai is clearly being controlled by a demon king from who-knows-where. We were passively brought into this Blood Heart Cave, but she came here on her own initiative."

"That day, when we were surrounded and attacked by demons sent by the demoness, and we barely managed to escape, I sensed something was amiss!"

"What kind of feeling is this?" Yang Huangli's expression turned serious. He came from an upper sect and had seen many calamities descending from heaven and earth, so how could he not believe it?

"This is dangerous!"

"It is not we who are in danger, but this entire world that is in danger!"

Master Baozhang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, as if trying to erase the word "danger" that was also etched on his forehead.

"The demoness Shecai has taken the initiative to enter Blood Heart Cave Heaven and contact and recruit demons. Although we don't know what her backer wants to do, she must be eyeing Blood Heart Cave Heaven itself. If we don't escape and warn her as soon as possible, how will we survive when Blood Heart Cave Heaven is truly destroyed?"

"Destroy the entire Bloodheart Cave Heaven?!"

Yang Huangli stood on the Sendai platform, gazing at the capital city and its outskirts, as well as the rolling Tongtian River, and shivered.

After a long pause, he laughed and said, "How could it be so? I really can't believe it. But good junior brother, let's hurry up and continue the calculation."

……

"What exactly are these two busy with?"

Outside the towering pagoda with its dense eaves, Li Jieqing found a side room to rest in, his eyes fixed on the celestial platform atop the pagoda.

No wonder Bao Wu and Bao Zhang, ever since they became the national teachers of the Eastern Land, have seemed to be very active, presiding over the expansion order and busy promoting the White Mirror, but they themselves have never shown their faces.

So that's what they were doing, secretly plotting something.

I really can't tell what these two are.

Li Jieqing couldn't release his divine sense, so he stared at the scene for a long time until his eyes started to sting.

When passersby passed by, they assumed he was busy figuring out how to flatter the imperial advisor in the tower.

After a while, Li Jieqing rubbed his eyes and turned his head away.

He remembered that there was a method for cultivating the eyes that was found in someone's storage bag. All it took was to cleanse the eyes with a spirit pearl to begin the cultivation.

It just so happens that he hasn't opened the river clams that Ning Rong's family gave him a few years ago.

Li Jieqing planned to use it later. It didn't matter if he didn't use his divine sense. Since he had come to the Imperial Observatory, he would keep a close eye on the two people in the tower, even if he had to hide in the dark and keep an eye on them. He couldn't let them escape.

……

Li Jieqing not only thought that way, but he also acted that way.

Since taking up his post as a Dragon Guard and serving in the Imperial Observatory, he has spent less time even returning to Ningrong Mansion, and has instead found a place to stay in the Imperial Observatory's official residence.

However, that was all. To avoid gossip, and more importantly, to avoid attracting the attention of Bao Wu and Bao Zhang, Li Jieqing was very patient. He only kept watch outside the tower with its dense eaves and didn't linger in front of Bao Wu and Bao Zhang much.

Therefore, he did not stand out much inside or outside the Imperial Observatory and easily blended in, becoming a part of the Imperial Observatory.

Therefore, he did not stand out much inside or outside the Imperial Observatory and easily blended in, becoming a part of the Imperial Observatory.

And so, another three years passed.

Li Jieqing, disguised as Yu Huanxiu, has broken through to the eighth level of Qi Refining. He is not far from his original intention of coming to the Eastern Land World: to clear his name and become a local Foundation Establishment cultivator, and to seek out people to exchange ideas and discuss the Dao.

Having spent three years discreetly at the Imperial Observatory and observed the area from the outside for so long, Li Jieqing had come to know and understand all the people who came and went. There was one thing he had figured out.

Indeed, only Bao Wu and Bao Zhang are here; the rest of the Seven True Ones are not in the capital.

In fact, it's highly likely that they're not even in the Eastern Immortal Cultivation World, nor in this Blood Heart Grotto.

Otherwise, the Seven True Ones, a group with many people and great power, should have gathered long ago. Just like Bao Wu and Bao Zhang, as soon as they landed, they immediately had some means to gather together and ran to the direction where the Blood Heart Sect altar landed to check.

Since entering the Blood Heart Cave Heaven, Li Jieqing had been quite cautious. When he saw Bao Wu and Bao Zhang together, he assumed that all seven immortals had entered and that the seven immortals were using Bao Wu and Bao Zhang as bait to harm him.

Even when they got close to the Imperial Observatory, they stayed put and hid for three years.

As it turns out, time truly does wash away the sand, leaving behind both the mud and the sand. As long as you don't rush, you will always be able to see the truth floating on the surface.

For example, only Bao Wu and Bao Zhang from the Seven True Ones are prominently featured here, truly befitting the style of the highest sect.

Another example.

Li Jieqing also learned of what the two of them were calculating.

It's nothing else, it's just about how to leave this Blood Heart Cave.

The Eastern Court was willing to directly offer the position of Imperial Preceptor and mobilize manpower and resources to help because it had made a deal with Bao Wu and Bao Zhang, needing their help to calculate the location of the exit.

After becoming familiar with the Imperial Observatory, Li Jieqing overheard people talking about the deal between the court and the Imperial Preceptor. After verifying it several times, he was basically certain that it was true.

"The people from the upper sect are so resourceful; I can't figure out where we can leave from."

Li Jieqing was off duty today. As he left the Imperial Observatory, he glanced back at the towering pagoda with its dense eaves, quite admiring the day and night calculations performed on the altar.

Have the Seven Immortals, especially that Master Baozhang, ever put in such painstaking effort before?

Li Jieqing glanced at the details a few more times before turning back.

Actually, as long as he knows that Blood Heart Cave Heaven does have an exit, and that it is in the west, he doesn't need to rush. Even if he searches slowly by himself, he will eventually find the exit.

However, it wouldn't be bad if he could just wait until Bao Wu and Bao Zhang had figured it out beforehand and snag a ready-made spot.

Having control over how to leave, being able to leave Blood Heart Cave at any time, is a perfect escape route.

Just as Bao Wu and Bao Zhang were wary of She Cai, Li Jieqing was also quite wary of that person.

Li Jieqing would never forget that when Chi Kun spoke to her, She Cai did something that attracted a terrifying being to intercept Chi Kun.

Since entering the Blood Heart Cave, he has been living in anonymity, even going so far as to renounce his local identity, largely to guard against the rather strange Fairy of Luxurious Colors.

What if, what if they still hold a grudge about being scammed several times before?

Although Li Jieqing had a clear conscience, he was afraid that others might be petty.

……

The capital city remained prosperous, and outside the Imperial Observatory, many cultivators still gathered, hoping to meet Bao Wu and obtain opportunities. Unlike Li Jieqing, who followed the path of the imperial court, the independent cultivators of the Eastern Land could only stand outside hoping for a chance to meet him. Every year, people came and went.

Li Jieqing walked out amidst envious gazes, noticed the wolf-like rogue cultivators around him, and shook his head.

It's true that all independent cultivators are the same; it's hard to get by anywhere.

Fortunately, he was a member of the imperial court.

With his feet barely touching the air, Li Jieqing headed straight for the Bai Family Chamber of Commerce.

A few years ago, he asked Bai Ningxue to help him find out which demon beast was chasing Bao Wu and Bao Zhang to the Eastern Land, and it seems that he has already made some progress.

If he was one of the three great demons who were driven by Fairy Shecai when he first descended upon Blood Heart Cave, then it might mean that Fairy Shecai herself also came to the Eastern Land, but like him, she was hiding in the shadows.

Perhaps they are still keeping an eye on the Imperial Observatory, one of those scattered cultivators gathered outside.

This assumption is quite unsettling.

Li Jieqing suddenly realized that Bao Wu and Bao Zhang should indeed continue to work. It would be too slow for him to find the exit on his own, and he might not be able to find the correct exit location even when he got nearby. Only by relying on Bao Wu and Bao Zhang, two professionals from the upper sect, could they find the exit from Blood Heart Cave as soon as possible.

"No, it seems like Baozhang alone can handle it...?"

Li Jieqing muttered to himself as he descended to the front gate of the Bai Family Chamber of Commerce.

Having spent several years at the Imperial Observatory, he vaguely understood that although Master Baowu seemed to be very busy at the Sendai, he was actually just an assistant. He was responsible for dealing with the Eastern Court, managing the Imperial Observatory, and handling visits from other Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Master Baowu couldn't stay in Sendai for very long.

The only true expert capable of finding the exit from the Blood Heart Cave is Master Baozhang.

In other words, we only need to keep the weakest one, Master Baozhang.

It's convenient and reassuring.

Master Baowu couldn't stay in Sendai for very long.

The only true expert capable of finding the exit from the Blood Heart Cave is Master Baozhang.

In other words, we only need to keep the weakest one, Master Baozhang.

It's convenient and reassuring.

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Master Baowu couldn't stay in Sendai for very long.

The only true expert capable of finding the exit from the Blood Heart Cave is Master Baozhang.

In other words, we only need to keep the weakest one, Master Baozhang.

It's convenient and reassuring.

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Master Baowu couldn't stay in Sendai for very long.

The only true expert capable of finding the exit from the Blood Heart Cave is Master Baozhang.

In other words, we only need to keep the weakest one, Master Baozhang.

It's convenient and reassuring.