ASER - Chapter 247

Chapter 247: The Plan

Everyone looked at A'Diao in unison. A'Diao said, "Why are you looking at me?"

Baiyue Qinggu said, "We're waiting for you to come up with some insidious scheme."

Damn!

A'Diao rolled her eyes and said, "After looking at the array formation diagram on the wall above, don't you have any thoughts?"

Thoughts? Could there be some trickery involved?

Qu Xia'er glanced at the array diagram and said lightly, "The knowledge system of this array diagram originates from the Human Clan. It's estimated that there's a highly skilled technical expert within the Human Clan helping the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast prepare for the resurrection of the Supreme Demon King. But considering the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast is even keeping it secret from the group of lesser demon kings, this person's identity must be extraordinary."

The Human Clan has a traitor, and their skill level is extremely high, hidden very deeply.

She suspected that A'Diao already had some guesses about this person's identity, so she wanted to use this person to pass this secret to the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast, and finally guide the Supreme Demon King to make a move.

Thanks to the successful undercover exploits of that old turtle Chen Gui, everyone was somewhat wary of this. After all, if you can infiltrate others, others can also infiltrate you.

It was hard to say whether the Human Clan would fall into a pit of excrement like the Celestial Clan once did.

This made everyone fall silent for a moment, as if wondering if one among them could be this traitor.

Toilet even immediately thought of the old Daoist priest with the strange stance.

But A'Diao said, "Don't worry, none of you are suspects. Before calling you here, I naturally confirmed that you are trustworthy."

Being recognized was always a good thing, but they were a little curious.

Daoguang Luoshen pondered and asked, "Is it because we are not Human-Demons? Or are you saying you suspect this hidden person is a Human-Demon?"

A'Diao said, "I've examined the traces of the array diagram on the wall. It started around the time the Demonic Spirit Race began to steal the secrets of the Arbitration Council's Celestial Seed project. This indicates they started working on Demonic Seeds then. With such a coincidence in timing, I wouldn't believe it if this person didn't try out a Demonic Seed for themselves."

Demonic Seeds have a major characteristic: MAX hiding ability. She suspected that when the Demonic Spirit Race researched this, they specifically focused on this aspect. This was because the Celestial Seeds invented by the Arbitration Council focused on aptitude. They evolved by consuming the corpses of the Celestial Clan. The Demonic Spirit Race's inherent racial trait was to evolve by devouring living beings; their bodies already possessed this characteristic, so they didn't need to research it. Moreover, they didn't have many Celestial Clan corpses on hand. According to their plan, the main purpose of inventing Demonic Seeds was to infiltrate the Human Clan.

So, Celestial Seeds and Demonic Seeds each have their own advantages.

Kunlun has a Celestial Seed in his body. One Celestial Seed is enough to compensate for the advantages of his original body. Even as the Celestial Seed matures, his strength might even surpass his previous peak. However, this is still no match for the current Grand Bishop and the soon-to-be-resurrected Supreme Demon King.

He also thought of a very crucial question: although they wanted to use the Supreme Demon King to eliminate the Grand Bishop, the threat of the Supreme Demon King was also present. Could it be that A'Diao was confident in controlling the Supreme Demon King?

He was curious but didn't ask, because Chen A'Diao would never entrust her core plan to a second person.

But now the question arose.

Why had she called them here?

A'Diao smiled faintly, "Everyone, if we succeed in luring the Supreme Demon King into the Arbitration Council and he goes on a killing spree, where do you think those experts from the Arbitration Council will flee? Will you be able to stop them then?"

That's right, so they had to prepare early.

A'Diao led them into a spatio-temporal secret chamber, which was piled high with a massive amount of Sun-aspect materials and already prepared mutated substances.

"Don't be reluctant to use them. You are all my people now. I will take care of you."

She was taking advantage of them in various ways, but Kunlun and the others didn't say a word, silently sitting down to cultivate.

Toilet was a bit dazed: Two years ago, this rascal was still calculating how to blow up public toilets to earn Mental Power, and now she was going to 'maintain' the founder of a religious sect.

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Time was tight. A'Diao had several things to do now.

First, the main body digests the National Vein.

Second, clone A is in the Demonic Spirit World, working on the Hellfire and the Supreme Demon King's body.

Third, clone B goes to the cosmic black hole to continue working on Sun-aspect materials.

Fourth, two clones, C and D, infiltrate Lie Qin and Nan Jin.

Fifth, excavate resources, excavate like crazy, upgrade Toilet. Toilet is her biggest BUG.

Sixth, clone E makes an appearance in the Three Kingdoms War...

Toilet said, "Actually, it's all the clones doing the work. Are you listing it all out so clearly just to show how busy you are?"

Hahaha, that's right.

Poor students have lots of stationery, right? She's not a poor student, but she's a scumbag.

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A'Diao had many clones, more than just six or seven. Even Toilet didn't know exactly how many clones had been split off, because clones could further split into more clones. A large number of them were setting up Spirit Gates in various places.

At this moment, she was like a high-precision operating computer system, splitting into countless processes, all running for the same command. Time was fragmented, and efficiency was king.

And in the Demonic Spirit World, A was frantically studying the array diagram on the wall. If the abilities she displayed on the surface as the Fox Lesser Demon King were 10%, fitting this persona, and she was also completing the final remaining tasks required of the Fox Lesser Demon King, A's actual assigned duty from A'Diao was to master the entire content of the array diagram. So, even if her true mental processing efficiency was 10000%, she still needed to seize the time to digest the massive array diagram at a terrifying speed, even allocating some of it to the main body for joint digestion.

But at this moment, after the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast went out, A and the main body immediately swapped places.

Yes, A went to the secret chamber, and the main body went to the Demonic Spirit World.

If it were before she mastered the National Vein, she definitely wouldn't dare to swap so openly. But now, she was not what she used to be. On a life-level, she was superior to the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast. It could be said that apart from the Supreme Demon King at normal strength and the Grand Bishop who controlled the Heaven Gate, no living being could see through her disguise.

Then why did she swap her main body?

After A'Diao swapped over, while seriously repairing the array diagram, she activated the vast mental threads in her sea of consciousness... Soon, she sensed that the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast seemed to be contacting someone at this moment.

She felt a mental-type rhythm.

But it wasn't a sound-transmission type of secret communication.

Strange. Long-distance information transmission, such as cross-realm, shouldn't exceed this limit. Even the Celestial Clan used this type of sound transmission. Could it be that this Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast had an independent, external method of communication?

But she was very certain that this person must be that Human Clan traitor.

While A'Diao was suspicious, she chose to completely record this type of rhythm. Later, she would go back to examine and analyze it, to see what kind of method it was, so she could determine if this person's identity was among those she suspected.

Toilet said, "Your main body came over personally, probably not just because you suspected this Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast would contact the other party and thus came specifically to probe and investigate, but more so because you suspected the other party would, in turn, investigate all the current lesser demon kings. Therefore, it's safest for the main body to come."

A'Diao said, "You're finally smart for once."

At this time, the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast didn't know it was being spied on by A'Diao. After confirming there were no lesser demon kings or Demonic Spirits nearby, it contacted a person.

The other party's first sentence was: "Beware that among these lesser demon kings currently serving you, someone might have been replaced by Chen A'Diao."

Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast said, "I have thoroughly investigated them many times. It's basically impossible. But is there a more effective way to determine their authenticity?"

It also knew that Chen A'Diao was best at this kind of disguise, and she was not what she used to be, with deep schemes. It was possible that the logic and suspicions it had investigated were already within her predictions, her act perfect, and it might not be able to see through it.

The other party said, "Open the seventh true eye. I will transmit the secret True Eye technique to you to spy on its spirituality... I have studied her clones. Although they have mysterious methods to create convincing fakes, there are still flaws – no matter what her clones disguise themselves as, they need to use a special willpower within a type of mental energy. This willpower, along with spirituality and energy, will form a special rhythm. I have specifically developed a True Eye secret technique to examine these lesser demon kings, to ensure that secrets are not leaked."

"Yes."

The Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast quickly received the True Eye secret technique transmitted by the other party. It then first spied on a wave of other lesser demon kings outside, seeing through all their deceptions at a glance. After feeling reassured, it returned to the depths of the Purgatory Remains and, in the shadows, locked onto A'Diao's group of four.

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At this moment, both A'Diao and Toilet felt a chilling sensation, as if their hair was standing on end.

But, having anticipated that the other party would verify their authenticity, Toilet had already proactively hidden in an attached living space, using it to conceal itself. A'Diao herself also faced the other party's prying with her main body's perfect disguise...

At this moment, both the person and the toilet sensed this probing.

It swept past.

That was all, but Toilet still broke out in a "cold sweat."

Toilet said, "I feel this is the closest we've come to being exposed. How did this big monster suddenly become so formidable? It doesn't look like the type to take such a technical route – the secret technique it just used already captured the direction of Mental Power, and it was developed specifically for this."

A'Diao was also a little surprised, but because she had preemptively repaired the biggest flaw – that rhythm – with the quickest result, she remained stable, merely surprised by the opponent's skill level.

"It's not that it suddenly became formidable, but the Human-Demon behind it is formidable. It seems Dantai Ye is just a small fry. This person's true identity... I hope it's not as I suspect."

The Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast got the test results and informed the other party, who said nothing.

A'Diao's swap between clone and main body this time was somewhat fruitful. Afterwards, she took the data on this rhythm to conduct experiments.

Three hours later, she had the investigation results.

In the laboratory, A'Diao cursed, "Unexpected! Damn! The plan has to be changed a bit, but I can almost confirm this person's identity."

Since the identity was confirmed, she just needed to arrange for a clone to appear in the other party's life, allowing them to discover this clone. And the information this clone carried was the secret about the black hole.

It was related to the main body, so naturally, it was a secret.

The content of this secret was: A'Diao's main body's location.

What use was such subtle and seemingly unimportant information?

There was. What was she doing in the universe?

This was like fishing. If you directly delivered a big fish to someone's door, they would be suspicious. You had to let them discover the bubbles and fish shadows under the water themselves, then let them cast the hook themselves. Then, what they caught themselves, they would feel their fishing skills were top-notch, and the fish was delicious.

In the darkness of the imperial court, after a person quietly spied on one of Chen A'Diao's clones, they repeatedly compared and confirmed that their True Eye secret technique was effective. After obtaining this secret information, they began to trace A'Diao's whereabouts. Soon, they tracked her down.

Originally, he was half-believing and half-doubting, until he spied the black hole and Sun-aspect materials from afar. Then this pursuit seemed perfectly natural.

And at this time, A'Diao had once again transformed B, who was already in the depths of the universe, into her main body. The main body entered the black hole region and began to frantically pry away Sun-aspect materials.

Toilet was a bit dumbfounded: "Holy crap, I thought you would disguise yourself and act secretly. Making such a big commotion, aren't you afraid the other party will find out?"

A'Diao said, "I just praised you for not being stupid, and now you're acting unintelligent. Shouldn't I currently be certain that they are all holed up in the Arbitration Council world, not daring to come out? Even if they did come out, they wouldn't be my match. And I don't know they have a secret exit here. So, if I openly pry away all the Sun-aspect resources, is there a problem?"

Ah? That seems right.

A'Diao said, "And not only am I prying it, I have to pry it quickly. Because I arrived suddenly. The group they were preparing to dispatch is either still in the tunnel, or has already left the tunnel and is recuperating outside. Their choices are either to hide from me, not exposing their tracks and the secret of the exit, or to rush over as soon as possible, trying to seize the opportunity to kill me in one go. This depends on their numbers and recovery status."

So...

She was racing against time, and also had to give the Arbitration Council and that traitor an opportunity.

So when the traitor located the black hole, they saw A'Diao frantically prying away Sun-aspect materials.

Things were different now. The person who used to sneakily and euphemistically blast Sun-aspect materials was now directly bombarding and blasting, scraping the Sun-aspect materials from the outer ring of the black hole clean – just like when you eat the white flesh inside a coconut, wishing your tongue had barbs to lick it all clean in one go.

The traitor was spying, not only on A'Diao's tracks and purpose, but also on the mysterious surveillance around the black hole's periphery.

However, this surveillance had already been directly destroyed by A'Diao, its fragments floating in cosmic space.

Huh, this surveillance is?

The traitor was lost in thought.

This surveillance was definitely not arranged by Chen A'Diao. But Chen A'Diao knew who arranged it – it must be the Arbitration Council. So, was this place for monitoring Sun-aspect materials?

So, the last time Chen A'Diao's strength surged, it was because she obtained a large batch of Sun-aspect materials here, right? Then why didn't the Arbitration Council directly take it away? It wasn't as if no one left the Arbitration Council world last time. Compared to the failure of killing Chen A'Diao, wasn't collecting these Sun-aspect materials more important? After all, it could make Chen A'Diao even harder to deal with.

So, why leave it there?

It could only mean that it, or this black hole, had a more important purpose.

While the traitor was closely monitoring, the Arbitration Council had also learned of the situation. Watching A'Diao so unscrupulously strip away these Sun-aspect materials accumulated over countless years, the Arbitration Council initially suspected she had discovered the black hole's secret, but now they saw she was just there to plunder resources.

In that case...

The Grand Bishop directly ordered the experts hidden in the nearby star region to immediately go and assassinate her.

Compared to having to enter the mortal realm to assassinate, it was more convenient in the universe, not even needing to pass through the mortal realm's barrier. This was an excellent opportunity.

"But they haven't recovered to their strongest state yet, there's no absolute certainty."

Cardinal Ying Lie of the War College felt it was inappropriate, but the Grand Bishop was cold-hearted, "Since they've gone out, they should be mentally prepared. Killing her sooner is safer than killing her later. Don't underestimate the effect time has on her."

His judgment was naturally correct, but it also carried an indifference to the life and death of others.

The three cardinals dared not speak, because essentially, their inner nature was the same.

As long as they could kill Chen A'Diao in advance and avoid future troubles, it didn't matter if some people died or if they paid a higher price.

At least the Grand Bishop had already mentioned that once he succeeded, the previous BUG regarding entry and exit to the Celestial Realm would disappear, and they could come and go as they pleased.

So, for now, everyone's resistance to leaving the Celestial Realm was not that strong. Even if a group of people died without taking down Chen A'Diao, it didn't matter; they could still send more people out.

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Thus, A'Diao dangled the bait for the traitor while waiting for the group of Arbitration Council experts to arrive... Then, a minute later, sensing that the group of Arbitration Council experts had entered this star region, A'Diao pretended to have discovered something, her expression changed, and then, disregarding the last remaining 0.01% of Sun-aspect materials, she directly tore space and fled.

"Not good, she ran!"

"Chase!"

"Quick, chase!"

Ten peak Great Spirit King experts chased frantically, but they didn't notice the shadow lurking on a nearby planet.

The traitor saw everything. He didn't get involved in the matter between A'Diao and these Arbitration Council experts, but instead continued to stare at the black hole, secretly collecting some materials and recording the energy trajectory of the black hole's operation...

Just as Qu Xia'er had an epiphany earlier with A'Diao's reminder, once one became suspicious about the black hole's function, it wasn't actually difficult to grasp its true secret.

Thus, half an hour later, the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast received his message.

"I've found a way to enter the Celestial Realm. Speed up... get in there early to kill that Grand Bishop and stop him from mastering the Heaven Gate."

Compared to the Grand Bishop who held the Heaven Gate, A'Diao was a lesser threat. They naturally chose to kill the Grand Bishop, but the faster they dealt with the Grand Bishop, the faster they could free up their hands to eliminate Chen A'Diao.

And there was another reason: Chen A'Diao could currently still be dealt with by other Arbitration Council experts, but the Grand Bishop could only be handled by the Supreme Demon King himself.

So, the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast received the order and immediately turned back, entering the depths of the Purgatory Remains, looking at the four lesser demon kings.

Its gaze was strange, making people feel scared.

Then the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast went "Wah" and opened its mouth to vomit out a pile of things.

"These are all supreme spiritual body treasure resources from the birth of the universe. They can effectively enhance your spiritual bodies, even allowing you to grow to a spiritual body cultivation level comparable to a Great Demon King in a short time. Work hard, rise for His Majesty!"

What kind of existence was the Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast? In the primordial era, apart from the Goddess and its own master, it looked down on everyone. If it said something was good, it was definitely good.

This was like cutting its own flesh and blood!

Clone A and Toilet: "..."

Quite easy to deceive, huh? It's even rushing to offer benefits.

She suddenly kind of liked this traitor and this big monster.

Hahaha.

With a surge in "wages," of course, she had to work herself to the bone. A'Diao simply used these treasures to appear as if her potential had exploded, speeding up the completion of the array diagram... And the revival of Hellfire and the Supreme Demon King was also significantly advanced.

One more day would be enough.

Meanwhile, A'Diao had already completed the previous plans 1 and 2. Clone C in the universe was still leading the Arbitration Council experts on a chase. On her end, she had already begun the third step, which was actually very simple, super simple.

That was, clones C and D infiltrated the secret vaults of Lie Qin and Nan Jin that they had recently sneaked into.

The National Vein has a backlash BUG, but your secret vaults don't, right?

So they began to secretly undo the restrictions and entered.

To roll or not to roll?

Forget it, to save time, A'Diao directly took out a 3D-printed forbidden object specially made by Chen Xun, and then released Toilet.

"Eat them!"

Print out a replacement, swap it, repair the restrictions, perfectly seamless, then Toilet eats it.

Over and over again.

It took a full three hours to simultaneously finish eating the secret vaults of the two imperial clans.

And A'Diao also obtained a massive amount of Civilization Book fragments, feeding all of them into the complete Book of Civilization in her sea of consciousness.

This book belonged to the Celestial Maiden.

Its civilizational content was neither a time-category like Yellow Springs, nor any mental or energy system, but a domineeringly awesome World Book.

That's right, the Celestial Maiden's Book of Civilization was actually a World Book.

"No wonder it can split. Because a world itself can be incomplete, splitting and merging. But its caliber is very high; it can completely devour all other Civilization Books to upgrade." Under this epiphany, A'Diao began to lavishly feed it Civilization Book fragments.

Meanwhile, Toilet was also devouring the material treasures hidden in the secret vaults of the three imperial clans, beginning to reassemble them into new abnormal weapons.

After mastering the National Vein, its conversion efficiency became higher and higher.

And in the demon caves all over the world where most of her clones were, countless Spirit Gates were being frantically devoured by A'Diao. As time passed bit by bit, when the progress of the Grand Bishop and Hellfire was getting closer and closer to completion, A'Diao finally gathered 99 super-large Spirit Gates.

Toilet said, "So many. Did you start sending out clones to harvest Spirit Gates all over the world a long time ago?"

"One who does not think far ahead will find trouble near at hand."

As she said this, A'Diao was conducting research in the laboratory. The data on the draft paper and optical computer beside her seemed to be related to Celestial Seeds, but she now took out her own blood and the Celestial Clan bloodline floating in her sea of consciousness.

Back when she obtained the Celestial Maiden's remains at the black hole and saw the Celestial Seed in her brain region, A'Diao was somewhat puzzled, because the Arbitration Council definitely couldn't nurture every Celestial Seed in this way.

What was so special about the Celestial Maiden's body?

Later, when she learned that the Celestial Maiden and the Goddess were twins, she faintly had suspicions.

"Because she was the Goddess's twin, those hypocrites, timid as mice, actually didn't choose to destroy the body immediately. That's strange."

"It's probably because the Celestial Seed isn't perfect, and this imperfection made the Arbitration Council, with ambitions higher than the sky, very unwilling. For this reason, even though they were wary that the Celestial Maiden's remains might be resurrected, they still preserved it. They wanted to cultivate a perfect Celestial Seed, approaching the level of the Goddess, thinking that this way they could circumvent the restrictions of the Celestial Realm's rules, enter and exit freely, and also reach a higher realm."

Then the question arose: their research conditions were definitely not as advanced as A'Diao's, because she herself was a living descendant of the Celestial Clan. She didn't need to study how to improve it to obtain natural aptitude comparable to the true Celestial Clan; she just needed to find the Celestial Seed's weakness from it.

She had obtained Celestial Seeds, one innate and one acquired, perfect for comparison.

She had been researching for a long time and had not yet made any discoveries. However, as her mastery of the National Vein deepened, her inspiration also grew stronger, until now...

A'Diao suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"The Celestial Seed is indeed not perfect. Unexpectedly, the weakness is here."

A'Diao suddenly walked out of the laboratory. In front of Baiyue Qinggu and the others, she casually took off her gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed the corners of her eyes, which were uncomfortable from high-intensity research, and also unbuttoned her lab coat, revealing her slender neck and a large expanse of delicate white collarbone. After letting out a breath, she curled her lips into a cold smile.

"My dear 'wives,' it's time to stir up trouble. Success or failure hinges on tomorrow's move!"

Everyone was stunned by A'Diao's devilishly charming and handsome appearance at that moment. At least at that time... Kunlun, Baiyue Qinggu, Daoguang Luoshen, and the others were all taken aback for a moment.

From Baiyue Qinggu +12000 stars!

From Daoguang Luoshen +11111 stars!

From Qu Xia'er...

Oh-ho, here comes the question: is this a good impression or a bad one?

When the atmosphere was cool and slightly ambiguous, A'Diao casually grabbed a milk tea from the shelf, somewhat puzzled: "How strange. Auntie, you're not scolding me or criticizing Master for not teaching me well. Are you captivated by me?"

She held the milk tea in one hand, her cheeks puffing in and out as she sipped, like a little hamster. Yet, she insisted on striking the cringiest pose from a CEO novel, leaning obliquely against the doorframe, one foot propped on the ground.

Scummy, cute, and good-looking all at once.

Qu Xia'er's eyes were calm as she said calmly, "If you lie down now, you could directly fry ten sunny-side-up eggs on yourself."

From Qu Xia'er +13333!

From Baiyue Qinggu +14444!

From...

A'Diao was originally very angry, but seeing another batch of Mental Power burst forth, she steadied herself, blushed slightly, and then turned back to the laboratory without saying anything.

Baiyue Qinggu turned her head and asked, "What was that just now with her?"

Even though Qu Xia'er was one of the people closest to A'Diao's intellect, she was also a bit puzzled at this moment.

Kunlun, however, deciphered it with the most straightforward foodie mindset.

"She thinks you want to eat the 'oil' off her, possibly because ten sunny-side-up eggs are too many, and then she thought we all wanted to eat her."

"So she ran away."

Reverse psychological teasing. Qu Xia'er pressed her temples.

Fortunately, A'Diao soon came out of the laboratory with blueprints and started discussing serious matters with them...

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