I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 638: Chapter 482: Teasing, Celestial Concealment Technique (Part 3)

Zhuge Yu nodded slightly, but a strange color flashed in his eyes. He remembered when Qin Tian took him and Dongfang Haoyue to see the Ice Gate for the first time, Lan was also there.

At that time, Lan could recognize the writing on the ice pillars, and from the memories within the Ice Element, Lan looked very similar to the Ice God Race from thousands of years ago, except his appearance was even more outstanding.

He had some guesses in his mind but didn’t ask them directly.

"Qin Tian, before finding Yuan Sheng, I want to solve a small trouble first." Zhuge Yu said.

"What trouble?"

Qin Tian asked, "Do you need my help?"

Zhuge Yu shook his head, "No need, it’s just a small trouble."

Upon entering the ruins, he didn’t notice anything unusual at first, but when Asaki could precisely locate him and effortlessly break through the bewildering array, he immediately realized that something had been done to him.

After reaching a safe environment, he quickly checked himself and indeed found the problem.

It turned out that at some point, he had an extremely inconspicuous mark on his body.

The mark was rather tricky, probably hard to remove for a while, but it wasn’t difficult to shield it, at least for him.

Zhuge Yu raised his hand to take out the bronze Array Plate, and Spiritual Energy slowly injected from his fingertips. The Eight Trigrams patterns on the plate instantly lit up with a cyan-golden light, with intricate energy lines flowing along the plate like living veins. Soon, a faint, almost transparent energy wave spread out from the Array Plate, enveloping Zhuge Yu’s whole body—the initial waves were still a bit unstable, like a candle in the wind, but quickly stabilized, wrapping him like an invisible veil, even blurring his aura.

Heavenly Secret Shielding Art

This is one of the abilities commonly mastered by high-tier mages of the Zhuge Family.

They are people who envision fate and heavenly secrets, but at the same time, they must endure the backlash from probing the secrets.

To reduce the backlash, the ancestors of the Zhuge Clan developed the Heavenly Secret Shielding Art, which cannot completely remove the impact of heavenly secrets on oneself but can reduce the impact to an acceptable level.

Heavenly secrets are like this, and a small mark is even less of a concern.

"Done!"

Zhuge Yu put away the Array Plate.

At this moment, a look of surprise appeared in Qin Tian’s eyes; the mark he had left on Zhuge Yu couldn’t be sensed at all.

The Zhuge Clan’s arrays truly are magical.

"Alright, then let’s set off to find Yuan Sheng." Qin Tian waved his hand grandly, and a Gate of Space opened before him. Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng went in first, with Qin Tian remaining last.

Before entering the Gate of Space, Qin Tian’s mouth curled slightly and he drew a few strokes on the ice rock.

...

Meanwhile, above the snowy plains, a blood light raced like an arrow leaving the string, slicing through the endless wind and snow.

Asaki flew with all his might, the blood-colored battle sword in his hand trembled slightly from the exertion, the blade gleaming with blood-light, as if yearning for fresh blood.

In his crimson eyes, the killing intent almost materialized, staring fixedly at the faint red light on the blood-hidden jade pendant at his chest—the position mark of Zhuge Yu.

"Qin Tian, Zhuge Yu..." Asaki’s voice was hoarse and grating like a broken gong, "This time, I won’t give you even a sliver of hope!"

As the distance grew closer, the red light on the blood-hidden jade pendant became clearer; Asaki could even imagine the terrified and despairing expressions of the trio once he caught up to them. He accelerated his speed, and the blood mist around him surged like boiling magma.

But at that moment, the blood-hidden jade pendant suddenly flickered violently.

The previously stable red light dimmed rapidly like a flickering candle in the wind, and in just a few seconds, it completely lost its luster, becoming a lifeless black jade pendant.

"Hmm?!"

Asaki abruptly halted, grabbed the blood-hidden jade couplet, his blue-black face instantly darkened, seemingly able to drip water.

"What’s going on?!" He roared, frantic Spiritual Energy pouring into the blood-hidden jade, but the pendant still didn’t react. The mark tracking Zhuge Yu had vanished into thin air!

"Impossible! This blood-hidden jade is a family-made secret treasure, how could it fail?!"

Angry disbelief filled Asaki’s eyes, and he crushed his back molars, bloodshot eyes filled with veins, "It must be Zhuge Yu’s doing!"

He dared not delay and rushed even faster toward the direction where the mark disappeared.

Before long, he arrived at a region full of ice rocks—this was exactly where the blood-hidden jade last sensed the mark.

Asaki’s gaze swept among the ice rocks, and suddenly, a crooked pattern on a massive ice rock caught his eye.

It was a crude drawing of a clown, with rough lines and poor drawing skills, yet it vividly depicted the taunting, grinning expression of the clown, a pair of round eyes seemingly mocking his incompetence in silence.

This crude graffiti felt like a poisoned dagger that pierced Asaki’s heart, as if mocking his long pursuit that turned out empty-handed, taunting him for being played for a fool!

"Ahhhh—! Qin Tian! Zhuge Yu! I will kill you! I will definitely kill you!"

The beast-like howl of rage broke through the clouds, carrying a chilling killing intent, resonating long on the snowy plains.

The howling wind and snow continued, with ice fragments striking his body, seemingly joining in the mockery of his embarrassment and helplessness.