Chapter 1694
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Chapter 1694 Methods for a Comeback
“These monks from Magadha actually like to play chess?”
Yan Zhong also saw the chessboard and said with surprise, then dove into the small kitchen beside the courtyard, rummaging for a long time until he finally found some dried food.
Huo Qubing and the others also entered the temple one by one, looking around. Chloe curiously poked at the clay Buddha statue in the center while lighting flames, igniting the red candles offered in the temple one after another.
The blizzard mixed with the howling wind made the door of the dilapidated temple creak, and several candle flames flickered in the wind, seemingly bathing the clay Buddha statue in gold.
“Everyone is starving after this journey. Let’s eat something here before setting off,” Yan Zhong distributed the dried food to everyone. “Otherwise, if we really encounter that monster’s true form, we’ll be too hungry to fight.”
Lin Qiye, now possessing a Primordial Spirit Body, no longer needed to eat, so he handed his portion to Jialan:
“You eat it.”
Jialan was gnawing on her own dried food when she saw Lin Qiye offering her another piece. She paused, then tentatively asked, “Aren’t you going to eat?”
“I’m not hungry.”
Jialan skeptically accepted the dried food. “Just to be clear, treating me to a meal won’t buy me off… you still need to find me the work you promised.”
“Yes, yes, don’t worry, I won’t let you starve,” Lin Qiye responded with a wry smile.
After taking a few bites of the dried food, Jialan seemed to remember something:
“By the way, Lin Qiye.”
“What is it?”
“By my calculations, those monsters should be coming for me again soon… what should we do? This time I’ve eaten the Immortality Pill, so it can’t be destroyed even if we wanted to.” Jialan’s face fell, as if even the dried food in her hand no longer tasted good.
“Don’t worry, with me here, they won’t be able to take you away.”
Lin Qiye reassured her, but in his heart, he was seriously pondering.
The [Key of the Gate] knew that Jialan had eaten the Immortality Pill and would certainly not let the matter rest. Given the current situation, it would continue to send Migou to hunt down Jialan. Although she would be safe as long as he stayed by her side, this couldn’t be a permanent solution…
What if he concealed Jialan’s causality as well?
A glimmer flashed in Lin Qiye’s eyes as he turned to look at Jialan. In his vision, threads of causality floated out from within her body.
Hearing Lin Qiye’s promise, Jialan was just beginning to feel reassured when she noticed him suddenly staring at her with a serious expression. She asked puzzlingly:
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, just keep eating. I’m just looking.”
Lin Qiye stared intently at those floating threads of causality, his brows slightly furrowed.
Until now, Lin Qiye had only successfully hidden his own causality threads. Whether he could hide someone else’s causality was still unknown… Jialan had grown up in Yaopool, serving only the Queen Mother, so she had very few causality threads. But the problem was that Lin Qiye sensed another presence within her.
A black thread of causality, mixed among Jialan’s own, extended outward into nothingness.
What causality was that?
Lin Qiye traced along the thread and finally located its source… the Immortality Pill.
Although the Immortality Pill was an object, as long as it existed, it had its own causality threads. The causality on this pill was a hundred times more complex than Jialan’s, and that black thread of causality even carried a trace of the Ke system’s aura.
How could the Immortality Pill have causality with the Ke system?
Lin Qiye suddenly recalled hearing from the Great Xia God that when the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Lord refined the Immortal Pill years ago, it was subjected to heavenly tribulation. A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, splitting the Immortal Pill in two…
Heavenly tribulation?
Lin Qiye clearly remembered that after obtaining [Causeless Cause] and [Predetermined Effect], he also attracted that terrifying lightning strike… but that wasn’t any heavenly tribulation, but rather the [Key of the Gate] attacking from afar, trying to kill him.
Was it possible that what destroyed the Immortal Pill back then wasn’t heavenly tribulation at all, but the [Key of the Gate] reaching across the river of time, trying to erase this pill?
The Heavenly Lord of that time probably didn’t know about the [Key of the Gate]’s existence and mistook that lightning strike for heavenly tribulation?
This would explain everything… The [Key of the Gate] had realized from the beginning that the Immortal Pill posed a major danger and wanted to destroy it directly, but due to the Heavenly Lord’s interference, it only split it in half. The [Key of the Gate] didn’t give up, immediately dispatching Migou to hunt down both halves of the pill, wanting to completely erase their existence.
No wonder the Immortality Pill had the causality of the [Key of the Gate] – it was left by that lightning strike…
Seeing that Lin Qiye was still staring at her intently, Jialan felt a bit embarrassed. Just as she was about to say something, Lin Qiye suddenly reached out his hand toward her hair…
“What are you doing?” Jialan came to her senses, two streaks of blush quickly crossing her cheeks.
“Don’t move.”
Lin Qiye’s fingertips stopped just before Jialan’s hair, gently manipulating something. One by one, invisible causality threads were extracted, connected end to end in his palm, gradually gathering into a circular shape. Jialan’s causality became faintly visible.
But Lin Qiye’s frown deepened. After a moment, he lowered his hand and sighed helplessly.
He could hide Jialan’s causality… but not the causality thread of the Immortality Pill. Perhaps because the connection between the Immortality Pill and the Ke system was too tight, or perhaps because his mastery of [Causeless Cause] and [Predetermined Effect] was still insufficient.
But regardless, this was bad news. Even if he could hide Jialan’s causality, as long as the Immortality Pill remained, the [Key of the Gate] could still see her.
Jialan brushed aside her disheveled hair at the temples, her face completely red. She couldn’t understand what Lin Qiye was doing at all, but for some reason, her heart was inexplicably racing.
“What’s wrong with your face?” Lin Qiye asked.
“No… nothing.” Jialan took a fierce bite of her dried food, her mood gradually calming down.
Lin Qiye didn’t ask further because his thoughts were now completely focused on something else. He got up from the ground, casually picked up a pebble from the corner of the temple, and began to examine it carefully in his palm.
“What are you doing?” Chloe asked curiously, seeing Lin Qiye’s actions.
“Hiding causality.”
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes. As his fingertips moved slightly, the causality threads of the stone intertwined, condensing into a ring, gradually concealing themselves in nothingness.
His eyes grew increasingly bright!
“I know now.” Lin Qiye tossed the stone aside and, as if remembering something, suddenly turned to look at the chessboard in the courtyard and quickly walked toward it!
Whoosh!!
He picked up a chess container and poured the black pieces all over the board. This immediately drew the attention of everyone else.
“What do you know?” Chloe became even more confused.
Lin Qiye looked down at the chessboard filled with black pieces, his eyes as brilliant as stars!
“The way to turn the tables!”
