Chapter 782 - 416: May I Ask If I Am Qualified to Receive an Invitation? (Part 2)

Chapter 782: Chapter 416: May I Ask If I Am Qualified to Receive an Invitation? (Part 2)

Bai Mo watched the live broadcast, then suddenly his phone vibrated. He opened it and saw it was a call from Feng Kaishan.

"Hello?"

"Hello? Expert Bai Mo, good day. There is something we need to request from you.

"A scholar in your laboratory named Li Kuiwu is implicated in an Immortal-related case.

"We’d like to talk to him, would that be possible?"

Li Kuiwu?

What’s his involvement with Immortal matters?

Bai Mo frowned.

"Hmm?"

Feng Kaishan continued to explain.

"He has a biological sister named Li Qingting, also a scholar, who was previously sent to Heluo for study under Jiao Su.

"But... Jiao Su was exposed; anyway... um... this Li Qingting, although not involved with Immortal matters, carries the Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s Fish King’s Bloodline.

"We suspect that her family members also carry this bloodline.

"Our team is currently heading to Chunshan to investigate her parents and other direct and indirect relatives.

"As for Li Kuiwu..."

Bai Mo nodded.

"You can go ahead with the investigation."

So the Prince Bloodline does not only exist within Immortal Technique Masters?

Even ordinary people today, completely uninvolved with Immortal matters, might carry the Prince Bloodline passed down through millions of years.

...

Crack!

In the Great Treasure Vault, amid wind and snow, Yu Cui crushed the triangular head of a Fire Poison Mantis, flicked her fingers, and sent the mantis’s flesh flying.

As for the young man in the polar exploration suit, he had already been burnt to ashes, most of which blew away in the cold wind, leaving only a shallow gray-black on the ground.

Yu Cui grinned, glanced around, and found a broken door frame in the ruins.

He pulled a Bronze Token from his pocket and walked towards the door frame.

The token was dark bronze, with a map engraved on the front and the Nine Kingdoms’ languages on the back. These language sequences were extremely complex, and Yu Cui had no understanding of them.

But it didn’t matter, as this token was given to him by his master, and he only needed to know how to use it.

Grasping the token, he stepped into the broken door frame.

Yet when he stepped out of the door frame, he found himself thousands of miles away, at the entrance of a cave.

He glanced into the cave and saw two fellow disciples covered in indecipherable runes, and shouted in surprise.

"What the hell!

"Why are you two working so hard?

"You get a skin disease, don’t you treat it properly and still come to the Great Treasure Vault to mess around?"

...

In the deserted outskirts of Beihai City, in an abandoned factory.

The hidden workshop was fully lit.

Under bright lights, the workshop was cleaned neatly.

Several Immortal Artifact embryos cut on the machine table were placed neatly.

Guan Yuexi rolled up her sleeves, sat in a chair with a cup of tea, and watched the live broadcast of the Celestial Wave Mansion on her tablet screen.

In her mind, the Ancient Immortal Master Fat Granny was speaking about hidden secrets.

"There have been suspicions that this Heluo Treasure Vault is intimately connected with our Immortal Artifact Kingdom.

"Some even suspect that it is a ploy by one or more Emperors or Princes from the Immortal Artifact Kingdom to use the vault as bait, luring generations of the ambitious, tricking them into sacrificing their lives and wishes, hoping to forge a mythic Immortal Artifact out of them."

Guan Yuexi frowned as she listened.

Assessing the right or wrong was difficult.

Fat Granny continued smoothly, explaining the vault’s mechanisms, recounting its historical appearances, and detailing the last wishing technique.

"...I once heard the most valuable thing in the vault is... an invitation.

"Um... I’m not sure exactly what the invitation is for.

"But when making a wish, you can ask if you are qualified to receive one.

"This is the safest way to wish.

"The vault will issue invitations to those qualified.

"For those unqualified, the vault will notify you and then send you out.

"Um... well... these are all just hearsay; it’s tough to determine their truth."

Guan Yuexi nodded.

She immediately grabbed the Forked Grass Cloak beside her and began communicating with the West State Boss.

...

In the Great Treasure Vault, the wind and snow continued.

Three brothers were using shield plates glowing red like branding irons to block the cave entrance, keeping out the cold and snow, drinking strong liquor for warmth.

"Do you think the legend about the vault’s invitation is true?"

"If we hang on till the end and get the wishing qualification, can we really ask for an invitation?"

Their words had barely left their mouths when the shield at the cave entrance was suddenly pushed open!

Behind the shield appeared a young face.

The young man grinned and said.

"You won’t make it to the end, don’t overthink it.

"But... the legend about the vault’s invitation is true."

The young man took out a Bronze Token, waving it smugly for everyone to see.

"See this?

"This is the invitation!

"Once, my master, Prince Bai Bao, held out till the end in the vault and wished for this invitation.

"Now, he has passed the invitation to me.

"With this invitation, I can freely enter and exit the vault, and even slightly control every door within it, which is incredible.

"But you lot, heh heh, no more chit-chat, off you go!"

Yu Cui pocketed the invitation, extended his right hand, and with a "whoosh," black, oily, and filthy flames burst from his fingertips!

...

In the office.

Bai Mo, holding Coffee Claw, ate egg tarts together with Fang Xiaoyu as they watched the live broadcast on the computer screen.

Although the footage wasn’t changing much and there was almost no activity at the scene, the broadcast’s popularity kept rising, and comments continued to pour in.

[Oh my god, this stream is magical, why does it feel so thrilling]

[If someone comes out later, will there be a big showdown?]

[Suggest the drone fly further away to stream, in case it’s caught in the fallout of the battle, breaking the drone, wouldn’t we have nothing to watch?]

After tearing open the last pack of egg tarts and stuffing it into its mouth, Coffee Claw squinted happily, chewed a few mouthfuls, swallowed, and looked at Fang Xiaoyu.

"Aww aww aww!"

Fang Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment.

"Huh? Did we finish them all? I’ll go find more snacks!"

Fang Xiaoyu dashed off, while Bai Mo held his apprentice, hearing a message from Guan Yuexi in his ear.

"Oh?

"Invitation?"

This treasure vault is too strange; not to mention it might still be polluted after the ruin of the Immortal Dynasty.

Fox Mountain isn’t interested in the vault’s wishes, nor in that so-called invitation.

Just as he was about to stretch, the phone screen lit up again, and Bai Mo glanced to see it’s from Feng Kaishan!

He picked up the phone and answered.

"Hello? Expert Bai Mo, we might need to take Li Kuiwu with us!

"His Fish King Bloodline is a staggering ten point two percent!

"His sister Li Qingting’s King’s Blood concentration is also at eight percent.

"This is too high; we need to take them."

Ten point two percent?

Bai Mo frowned.

In the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, this would not be considered high; it was quite low, barely qualifying as Prince Bloodline.

But today, it is a rather high concentration!

Remember, the once Holy Land and Royal Court have long vanished with lost civilization. Even the fortunate remnants of Prince Bloodline, through eons of drift and dilution across generations, how much could remain?

Yet Li Kuiwu has a ten percent?

Is this... atavism?

Feng Kaishan continued.

"Currently, we are unsure of the cause.

"However, a high concentration of Prince Bloodline is not unique to Li Kuiwu; many others also have it.

"We’ve been instructed to find, gather, and protect these individuals."

Bai Mo nodded.

"Alright, I’ve no issues on my end. Please coordinate with Li Kuiwu."

Bai Mo hung up the phone.

At that moment, Fang Xiaoyu returned.

"Hey, found another snack pack!"

Bai Mo, holding his apprentice, was about to look at the snack when suddenly he frowned, switching his view to inside the Great Treasure Vault.

"What’s that?"

...

Inside the Great Treasure Vault, amid the wind and snow, a blue-black meteor pierced the snowy curtain, flying in from the horizon, penetrating the thermal circle of the Fox Mountain exploration vehicle, approaching the exploration vehicle and the Snow Warm Pill on its roof!