The Empress's No.1 Lackey

Chapter 1035 - 576: A Wild God Is Still a God

"Let’s have a meeting, we must find a way to break the situation."

In the forest.

A bonfire was roasting the prey, and upon hearing these words, the three priests, led by Zhong Pan, simultaneously put down the roasted meat in their hands and looked at Zhao Douan.

A meeting? This term wasn’t popular in Yu Country, but they all inexplicably found it quite appropriate.

Zhao Douan sat cross-legged on the ground, seriously looking at the three faces: "According to the calculations just now, even if we exhaust our last opportunity to teleport, the time remaining for us is possibly only eight hours... Well, that’s being optimistic, and if we don’t figure out a way to break this trap within this period, just running away is of little significance."

Indeed, running away is meaningless!

This is why Zhao Douan chose to sit down and eat at such a tense time:

If the right method can’t be found to shake off Xu Jingtang, then scrambling for time would be useless. Therefore, the urgent task is not to immediately flee.

But to calm down, restore energy, engage the mind, and invest in thought.

The three priests were stunned for a moment, quickly understanding his point, and couldn’t help but fall into contemplation.

How to escape from the pursuit of a Divine?

This is undoubtedly an extremely difficult problem. Zhong Pan knitted his brows, while Yu Xiu got her mind working. As for Jin Jian... the girl was so sleepy that she was closing her eyes, white tender hands holding the roasted meat, stuffing it into her mouth, chomping like a panda eating bamboo, utterly giving up on thinking.

After all, she felt that she wasn’t good at this, so she might as well not waste brain cells.

"Perhaps, we can start with the Divine," Zhao Douan broke the silence seeing that no one else spoke up first, "I was just thinking, how does Xu Jingtang track us?"

After speaking, he stared at Zhong Pan and Yu Xiu.

Zhao Douan was good at thinking but lacked knowledge of the magician system, especially involving the Divine, thus needed answers from the two orthodox priests to brainstorm.

Zhong Pan sat cross-legged on the ground, wrapped in a large black robe, pondering for a moment, said:

"In my view, it should be following the curse on us. Divines aren’t omnipotent, each Divine has a corresponding domain of authority, like the Water God certainly couldn’t use Flame Magic. Moreover, the Sorrow God summoned by Xu Jingtang, is probably only just at the level of a Heavenly Human. And the magic mastery of the Sorrow God mostly relates to curses, lacking the power of searching, tracking, or divination."

Yu Xiu’s pure sleeves were already dirty from last night’s journey, and now the charming female Taoist put down the roasted meat, nodded with a serious expression:

"What senior brother said is correct, the most likely scenario is that the Sorrow God senses the residual curse on us, thus roughly knows our location, to track us. Of course, there’s another possibility..."

Zhao Douan asked in confusion, "What possibility?"

"Luck," Yu Xiu, with a solemn expression, "The Godless Sect can alter a person’s luck, you should have felt that, if Xu Jingtang made our luck worse, even if he lost track of us, by choosing any direction to pursue, under the pull of luck, we would encounter him... After all, as long as our luck is bad, our escape will not go smoothly."

Ah this... Zhao Douan paused for a moment with a strange expression.

Indeed, he had deeply experienced this.

Back when he was in Jianning Prefecture, his luck had been cursed.

Yu Xiu analyzed seriously: "Also, did you notice? When Xu Jingtang caught up with us earlier, he did not track from our position, but intercepted us in front."

Zhao Douan thought for a moment, then said: "Do you mean... if he purely followed a curse, he would have chased from behind, yet appeared in front, more possibly due to the influence of luck?"

Yu Xiu nodded.

Zhong Pan added: "It does seem possible. But we also can’t rule out the possibility of tracking by curse; Xu Jingtang taking a shortcut to intercept ahead can also make sense. Moreover, the sensing of the curse should be related to distance. Each time we teleport, when the distance increases, his sensing becomes blurred, which also explains why it took him so long to catch up last night."

Zhao Douan nodded, acknowledging that either speculation was possible, or even both, summarizing: "In any case, both are directly related to the curse on us. And Xu Jingtang’s judgment on our position may not be particularly accurate, just an approximate range, and the closer we get, the clearer the positioning?"

The two priests both nodded, expressing agreement from a professional standpoint.

"Chomp chomp..." Jin Jian, like a hamster, finished off the leg of the deer in her hand, nodded in pretense of understanding, "Senior brother and senior sister are right."

Then she reached out her small hand, snatched the piece of roasted meat Yu Xiu placed on the ground, and sneaked off to continue eating.

Zhao Douan held a stick stirring the bonfire, casually doodling on the ground, calmly saying:

"So, in theory, we just need to remove the curse on us to shake him off?"

Zhong Pan sighed, shaking his head: "The problem is, we can’t do that.

A Divine’s curse is not easy to remove. Last night, I tried using a cultivation method to weaken the curse, but the effect was minimal. I estimated that even if I cultivate non-stop, weakening the curse little by little, it would take at least half a month to completely erase it."

It would take Zhong Pan half a month, let alone others... Zhao Douan frowned and asked: "The curse will disappear on its own, right?"

This was based on his experience of being cursed by the White Clothes Sect’s magician in Jianning Prefecture.