Chapter 277: Heavenly Dao Disguise

White clouds drifted by, and the wind whistled.

The enormous Iron-toothed Howling Sky Beast soared through the air, releasing the powerful pressure of its Half-Step Grandmaster realm. Other flying savage beasts were terrified and scattered in all directions, not daring to approach.

Inside the room on the beast’s back, Zhang Xuan and Miss Mo Yu sat facing each other.

"There are many flying savage beasts in the sky," Miss Mo Yu said, looking out the window at the vast sky stretching for miles. "If we weren't riding the Howling Sky Beast, we would be greatly bothered. While safety wouldn't be an issue, it would be quite troublesome."

Zhang Xuan nodded. By reading books, he had gained some understanding of these things. The sky might appear quiet, but in reality, it was just like the land, where the strong preyed on the weak. If the flying savage beast one rode was not powerful, it could easily be targeted by other beasts and even ambushed and killed in the air. Because of this, the higher the level of the savage beast, the more expensive it was—not just for speed, but more importantly, for safety.

"If you want to find the Poison Hall, we must first go to Red Lotus City!"

After a night of adjustment, Miss Mo Yu finally suppressed her anger. She looked at the young man before her and once again regained her cold, haughty, and dismissive princess demeanor.

"Red Lotus City?"

"Yes," Miss Mo Yu nodded. "It's an ancient city at the foot of the Red Lotus Mountain Range, a necessary passage to enter the mountain range. The person I mentioned is in the city."

"Is he a poison master?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"No, he's a Medicine King!" Miss Mo Yu replied.

"Medicine King?" Zhang Xuan was puzzled. Pill refiners and physicians need medicinal ingredients for refining pills and treating illnesses. The cultivation, purchase, and sale of these ingredients have special channels, and those who control such channels are known as Medicine Kings. The Poison Hall specialized in using poison and was sinister and terrifying. How could they be connected to someone like that?

"This is one of the kingdom's most core secrets," Miss Mo Yu said, frowning. "I only heard about it by chance from someone. The Poison Hall is hidden deep within the mountain range. Every year, countless people try to seek apprenticeship there, but they all die under the poisonous miasma. Legend has it that the only way to truly find them is through a Medicine King. This is because the Poison Hall needs a large amount of medicinal ingredients to concoct their poisons, and they also need to sell their poisons. The only purchasing channel for these is through the Medicine Kings! Red Lotus City has thirteen Medicine Kings, and the one I mentioned is the most formidable among them—the Grand Medicine King."

"The Grand Medicine King controls the entire medicinal ingredient circulation in Red Lotus City. If anyone can contact the Poison Hall, it's him, no one else. It's just that..." Miss Mo Yu hesitated for a moment, then continued, "I heard that this Grand Medicine King is very old, no longer concerns himself with worldly affairs, and has stopped receiving visitors. To meet him and ask him to lead the way to the Poison Hall is virtually impossible."

"Impossible?" Zhang Xuan was speechless. "But you said you'd help me find the Poison Hall..."

This guy had previously promised to help him find the Poison Hall. Now, he couldn't even meet this Grand Medicine King, and if he wouldn't lead the way, how was that helping?

"I only said I'd help you find this person before," Miss Mo Yu retorted triumphantly. "Whether you can meet him or persuade him, that's not my concern!" *You little brat, haven't you been annoying me every day? See how I annoy you now!*

"Oh, is that so!"

Zhang Xuan thought back carefully. It seemed that she had indeed only said she would help him find this person, and not necessarily take him to the Poison Hall. Just providing a piece of information and making him teach pill refining felt like he was getting the short end of the stick, no matter how he looked at it. He was always the one to trick others; he never expected to be tricked by her this time. But it didn't matter. As long as he could find this person, it meant significant progress and a clear lead. He wouldn't be like a blind man feeling an elephant, blindly searching without a goal.

"Hmm?" She had expected this guy to be visibly anxious and exasperated upon hearing this. But instead, he merely said, "Oh, is that so!" and then fell silent. Mo Yu couldn't help but look at him, only to see him looking completely relaxed and unconcerned.

After a while, she couldn't hold back and asked, "Aren't you worried that he won't see you?" She had already said that the Grand Medicine King was old and received no one. Why wasn't this guy anxious at all?

"I am worried!" Zhang Xuan said.

"Then why..." Mo Yu blinked. "Is this what worry looks like? I can't see it at all."

"Worrying is useless," Zhang Xuan said. "Instead of wasting time, I'd rather calculate when you'll return the money you owe me..." At this point, Zhang Xuan looked suspicious. "By the way, you're not an impostor princess, are you? Otherwise, how could you be so poor? Not even returning a small sum, and still shamelessly riding my spirit beast?"

Mo Yu's delicate body swayed. She had thought she'd won a round and could enjoy seeing his frustrated expression. She never dreamed that with just one sentence, he would infuriate her half to death again. *Annoying!* She knew this guy never said anything good, but she didn't expect it to be true... It seemed best not to speak with him much in the future; otherwise, she would surely die of anger because of him sooner or later.

"Hmph!" She gnashed her teeth in anger, but dared not say anything more. Her cheeks puffed out, and she ignored him completely.

"Sigh," Zhang Xuan muttered to himself, "owing money and not letting people mention it—people nowadays really have thick skins!" He stretched.

"You..." Mo Yu gnashed her teeth, for a moment truly regretting coming out with this guy. When others met beautiful women, they were always careful, afraid of offending them with their words. But this guy, on the other hand, deliberately said whatever he knew would displease others, as if he wouldn't stop until he drove them to death from anger. How could there be such a person in the world?

She thought she would be driven to death by anger on the road within two days. But then she realized he was no longer bothering her, but was quietly... spacing out on one side of the room. "What's he doing?" At first, she thought he was deliberately putting on an act. But he remained in that daze for over a day, his eyes looking red and full of fatigue, leaving her completely bewildered. If you called him annoying, he was certainly the type to infuriate people to death without consequence. If you called him a genius, even she couldn't compare. If you called him clever, now he was just spacing out. What in the world was he doing? She was truly getting more and more confused about this guy in front of her.

Ignoring her confusion, Zhang Xuan was currently immersed in learning knowledge. His consciousness was submerged in the Library, reading books, so from the outside, it looked like he was spacing out. Books collected into the Library could be viewed with a thought whenever he wished. However, this knowledge wasn't truly his. Only by memorizing it completely could he use it freely and remain calm when encountering problems. He had been in this world for over twenty days and knew that to become a true Master Teacher, he couldn't solely rely on the Library. He needed to read and learn more; only with sufficient knowledge could he go further. The golden book had the effect of helping him instantly remember the knowledge in books, but he didn't know when this function would generate. Anyway, he was currently idle and didn't have Heaven's Path cultivation techniques, so it was better to read more books and convert more knowledge, gaining more abilities.

"Hmm? I didn't expect the Tianxuan Kingdom's library to have so many books on disguise and camouflage," he mused. His consciousness swept through the many books he had read in the kingdom's library, then suddenly paused at a bookshelf. There were thousands of them, all surprisingly about disguise and camouflage. "I heard that Emperor Shen Zhui traveled extensively when he was young," a thought crossed his mind. "Could these books all have been collected by him? After all, as a prince of a kingdom, many people would want to kill him. Being disguised would make him much safer." He had heard before that Emperor Shen Zhui had traveled and trained when he was young. If he had gone out in his original appearance, he would probably have died long ago. Royal power knew no kinship. For that unique position, countless brothers had murdered each other. When Emperor Shen Zhui was training, his cultivation wasn't particularly high, so collecting these books on disguise and camouflage was probably for his own safety.

"With so many books, let's see if they can form a Heaven's Path Secret Art!" Thinking of this, his mind stirred. The correct content from the various books slowly organized itself, and moments later, a book appeared in his mind.

"It really worked!" His eyes lit up, and Zhang Xuan casually opened the newly formed book.

"The art of disguise lies in the mind," the book began. "Using pills to change appearance or lowering one's voice are the lowest forms. To truly disguise oneself, one needs extremely strong control over all muscles..."

The book was filled with extensive knowledge about disguise. After reading for a while, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but smile wryly. No wonder Liu Ling and the others noticed problems when he disguised himself as Yang Xuan. Only after reading this book did he realize how poor his disguise had been. It was only because the Tianxuan Kingdom was too low-tier and lacked truly powerful experts. Otherwise, that kind of disguise, let alone in the Tianwu Kingdom, wouldn't fool many people even in some second-tier kingdoms.

Soon, he finished reading the entire book. "Although these are just the basics of disguise," he thought, "they can still allow me to change my appearance so that many people won't recognize me!" The books collected by the Tianxuan Kingdom, although they only contained the simplest art of disguise, would allow him to easily change his appearance once he learned them all, making it difficult for Master Liu and others to recognize him again.

"This set of disguise methods requires absolute control over all muscles, changing one's appearance by altering muscle positions," he mused. "For others, practicing this would be almost impossible; just controlling all muscles would be difficult enough. But I'm different! Having cultivated the Heaven's Path Golden Body, my entire body's muscles are already flexible and can move freely." He chuckled softly. Having finished reading this Heaven's Path Disguise Art, he had pretty much learned it all. Now, even without using disguise pills, he could easily change his appearance, making it difficult for others to detect. With this ability, if he couldn't win a fight, he could run away. As long as he changed his appearance, it would likely be very difficult to be found again. It was like having an extra life-saving method.

"We've arrived!"

He was just contemplating the newly learned disguise method and planning to try it out when he heard Miss Mo Yu's voice. He opened his eyes and looked out the window, and indeed saw a massive mountain range appear before him. This mountain range stretched for thousands of kilometers, devoid of any vegetation. It was entirely reddish, appearing covered in rocks and sand, giving off a desolate feeling.

"Is this the Red Lotus Mountain Range?"

The mountain range undulated endlessly, with no end in sight, like a giant lotus flower embedded in the vast earth. No wonder she said finding it was almost impossible. In such a vast mountain range, truly finding a deliberately hidden Poison Hall would indeed be very difficult.

"Yes, that's Red Lotus City!" Miss Mo Yu pointed.

Looking in the direction she pointed, he indeed saw a town, whose age was unknown, standing under the morning sun, ancient and simple.