After that conversation Lie Mo starts pondering. How is it possible to not trigger any traps.

  Touching the water might trigger the trap. He can’t pull out the body without touching the water. If he throws a spear at him to kill him then they might find out who he is.

  He can’t lead a beast into the water to kill him. But what if he can take the pond to the beast?

  Ponds can be emptied with a trench to a lower region. But digging a trench takes a lot of time and is visible from a long distance. How about a tunnel? A tunnel that leads out to outside the valley. And there a beast tide can finish him. That way I never touched the water and I never touched him.

  Now only one question remains. Can a beast tide kill him?

  “Welcome martial. Did you kill him?”

  “No, I have a plan that makes it difficult to track me. But I don’t know if it can kill him.”

  “I listen.”

  “This pond is on a hill. And nothing but me can enter the area around the pond. But what If I brought the person to the outside?. When I dig a tunnel I can drain the pond and lead the water downhill right into the arms of a best tide I prepared. That way I never touch the water and I never touch the body. The only question I have is if a best tide can kill the cultivator.”

  “That sounds like a solid plan. It just takes a while to execute. May I give you some improvements?”

  “Sure, does it still count as me succeeding then?”

  “Yes.”

  Stolen novel; please report.

  “Then go ahead.”

  “There is a rare technique of investigation. It’s called time reversal. It isn’t omnipotent. But if they arrive quickly then they can look at events in the past. So they might see that someone set up the trap and they will find out about how you look. This is a warning and I give an encouragement. The beast tide will form automatically. The pink water contains a lot of live energy. That is very attractive for beasts. And the body of a cultivator is even more attractive. It is just well concealed on this hill. That’s why the beasts haven’t come to take him out.”

  “How long does that time reversal work?”

  “A week perhaps. I would say a month at most. And you are unknown and weak. That makes it harder to detect.”

  “So I have to create a delayed trigger for my tunnel trap. That is an interesting hurdle”

  After a long while of pondering he comes up with a solution. After confirming that it works with the skull he starts working on it.

  After examining the pond Lie Mo realized that the pond is in a vat. And this vat is resistant to liquids but not damage. Cultivator skull said that a big hit can shatter the vat.

  Lie Mo starts digging. With the help of qi the stone is surprisingly easy to cut through. But it still takes all year.

  At the end of fall the tunnel is finished. It leads directly out of a cliff into the wild. During the entire time he was hunting for beast and left them as food for other beasts right below the shoot. Because of that the number of beasts in this region is quite big. And the bigger number of beasts start to lure in stronger beasts.

  Lie Mo builds a wooden structure with a heavy stone on top. It is builds in a way that the stone falls down as soon as soon as it is loosened.

  During the first half of the winter Lie Mo freezes the structure firmly into place. This creates a big ice sheet that holds the wooden structure in place.

  At the same time he removes all of his hidden bases.

  He kills and eats all the bunnies that can survive in the desolate zone.

  He even removes his fortress.

  He places the skeleton into the tunnel so that it will be swept down with the pink water.

  I little more than half the winter is left. That is when he leaves the place for good. But he doesn’t leave the place completely.

  Lie Mo has to know if the plan works successfully. Because of that he set’s up a new camp on a hill just about in viewing distance. The stone structure is barely visible from here. A month goes by and a second one.