Chapter 272: A Perfect Disguise
Chapter 272: A Perfect Disguise
Whether it was the Heavenly Dao or anything else, whoever dared to touch his reverse scale would be destroyed by him first.
Thinking of these unpleasant matters, Fu Young’s smile became chilling.
"Young’er, I understand. I will not do anything to make you worry. I promise. So do not scare me like that. That way of threatening me is a bit frightening."
Xiao Shou was startled by Fu Young’s expression and thought he was deliberately trying to scare him.
He quickly gave in and made a promise.
Hearing this, Fu Young came back to his senses.
He was actually a bit startled himself, but he was far better at hiding his emotions than his master.
He immediately went along with it and said, "You said it yourself, Master. If you go back on your word, hehe..."
"Got it!"
Xiao Shou unhappily cut off the communication jade while complaining that Fu Young had somehow learned that vague and ominous "hehe" style.
It made his heart pound nervously.
If this continued, life would become unbearable.
Even while complaining, Xiao Shou knew he had to follow through with his lie to his disciple.
After ending the communication, he immediately took a disguise pill and transformed himself into an ordinary looking middle aged cultivator.
An average appearance would not attract trouble, nor would it draw the attention of the Crown Princess.
There was no safer disguise than this.
After disguising himself, Xiao Shou also put away the accessories and magic treasures he usually used.
He then concealed his storage ring with illusion techniques and even changed the style and color of his storage bracelet, making everything completely flawless.
At the side, Yaoyao clicked her tongue in amazement and asked in confusion, "Master, why did you change into this appearance?"
"Ah, Yaoyao, can I discuss something with you?" Xiao Shou asked, suddenly realizing he had almost forgotten about his spirit pet again.
Worried that she might accidentally reveal something in front of Fu Young, he felt a bit guilty but still insisted on his plan.
Yaoyao did not notice his hidden intentions at all and immediately asked, "What is it?"
"Well, I am going to disguise myself to gather information. You are my bonded spirit pet, so if you appear outside, others might recognize you. I want you to rest inside the spirit pet bag for a while. Once I no longer need this disguise, I will bring you out again. Is that alright?" Xiao Shou felt quite apologetic as a master who was keeping secrets.
Yaoyao blinked her eyes and agreed without hesitation. "Of course! It is such a small matter, Master does not even need to ask me. Just send me in directly."
After saying that, she jumped into the spirit pet bag that Xiao Shou had specially prepared for her.
As drowsiness began to take over, she vaguely thought, I have always been by Master’s side, so where did all that information her Master told to the Young Master come from?
Why do I not know anything about it...
Never mind, I’m too sleepy...
Seeing how obedient Yaoyao was, Xiao Shou felt even more guilty as if he was not a good master.
"Master, you should also temporarily store me and your other bound treasures that should not be exposed inside your storage ring," Xiao Ai suddenly said after remaining silent for a while. "When we stopped at Yingzhou Celestial Isle earlier, I sensed a treasure of the same rank as me covering the entire island. It seems to have the ability to inspect everything within and around the island. It can even detect magic treasures inside a cultivator’s body. Only your storage ring, which is of a higher grade, can avoid being detected by it."
This unexpectedly resolved one of Xiao Shou’s doubts about the original story.
In the novel involving Yingzhou Celestial Isle, after Xiao Ran killed the Emperor’s only daughter and escaped, the Emperor personally led a pursuit against her.
That period was the most miserable time for her in the Heaven Origin Realm.
All of her magic treasures, spirit treasures, formation plates, and various methods that even powerful cultivators could not easily deal with were completely ineffective against Emperor Yingzhou.
In the end, Xiao Ran had barely managed to escape with the help of the Heavenly Orb.
Thinking about it now, Xiao Shou realized that Emperor Yingzhou was likely able to deal with all her endless methods so calmly because of that same rank spirit treasure Xiao Ai had mentioned.
He wondered what that treasure was called and what other abilities it had besides inspection.
No matter how he thought about it, this kind of treasure was basically an invasion of a cultivator’s privacy.
Xiao Shou found it quite annoying. "Xiao Ai, thanks for the reminder. You really helped a lot. Do you know if it has any other abilities besides inspecting the treasures inside a person or their storage items? For example, tracking or surveillance?"
"It has no consciousness," Xiao Ai replied. "It is centered on Yingzhou Celestial Isle and forms a massive network. Any existence within this network, once passing through one of its nodes, will be scanned inside and out. It records details such as cultivation level, gender, magic treasures, and even the contents of storage items that are of a lower grade than itself."
As a spirit artifact, Xiao Ai could naturally sense the abilities of treasures at the same level or below, something human cultivators could not do.
That was precisely why high level treasures with artifact spirits were so rare and valuable.
Fortunately, Xiao Shou’s disguise pill was a special fused item.
Even his Nascent Soul would change accordingly, making it completely natural.
As he let out a sigh of relief, he said, "That is impressive. Xiao Ai, if you had not told me this, I would have been in serious trouble."
He truly meant it.
Whether it was his bound treasures or the items in his storage bracelet, if any of them were exposed, given the nature of Yingzhou Celestial Isle’s people, he would definitely be robbed.