Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 215 Confiscating the house
"It seems that this is where the Qing-Swallowing Beast lives...it has a good appetite..." said Kuiya.

"Wow, how much has this thing eaten?" Yu Jin couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the white bones scattered all over the ground.

Wei Xi thrust the arrow into the ground, sinking about a third of the way in. Then, he lifted it slightly, and a muffled sound echoed from the ground, revealing broken bones. The Sky-Swallowing Beast had been entrenched in this area for years.

Fei Yangxu frowned, unable to think of any solution. He kept thinking about backing out. He said, "The Qing-Swallowing Beast has the best timing and location in the trial field. Its strength far exceeds ours."

"Since it's been delayed for a few days, I need to find its weakness so I can deliver a fatal blow."

"No!" Wei Xi stopped him. "We don't have much time to delay. If we delay, something bad will happen. We'd better deal with this as soon as possible."

"The monster is no longer in its nest. Even if it is, our current strength can only give it a few scratches." Bao Jinku said in an irritable tone: he couldn't fight happily at this time, and things were not progressing, so he couldn't help feeling depressed.

"Even if we remain as strong as ever, we'll only be able to fill the gaps in the Qing-Swallowing Beast's teeth," Qin Feng compared the size of the footprints, "You can just be happy that it's not at home!"

The reason why Qin Feng still had the mind to make fun of others was largely because the Qing-Swallowing Beast was not at home.

Bao Jinku wanted to say something, but Fei Yangxu glanced at him and he had to stop.

A few people walked around the nest, but apart from discovering this monster with a huge appetite and huge size, they didn't gain anything else.

Wei Xi had a question in his mind: judging from the number of broken bones on the ground, the Qing-Swallowing Beast usually eats a lot, but no fresh animal corpses were found nearby.

It's impossible that this monster has such great skills in speaking and lip skills that it can eat a bone and then spit out the whole bone without leaving any meat.

A bold guess emerged in Wei Xi's mind: I'm afraid the Qing-Swallowing Beast has not been here for a long time.

This confirms the speculation that the Swallowing Beast was injured: the Beast King will only hide and recover his strength when he is injured.

After all, who would touch the Zhenhai Sect's trial field if it was alright? Except for the Qing-Swallowing Beast that had been imprisoned for thousands of years.

However, the founder of the Zhenghai Sect was no pushover. If the Qing-Swallowing Beast pulled off a series of audacious moves, escaping the constraints of the Trial Field and thus violating the restrictions set by the Zhenhai Sect's founder, it would undoubtedly be seriously injured and its strength significantly reduced.

Wei Xi found it hard not to smile when he thought of the once majestic and troubling monster hiding in a corner, secretly carrying out a series of operations.

Unfortunately, the happiness was short-lived. Wei Xi pursed his lips and thought: If the Qing-Swallowing Beast really abandoned this place for some reason and hid in the mountains, then wouldn't they be unable to catch this cunning beast?

Wei Xi had to carefully check the messy beast's nest again, trying to find relevant clues.

Don't think that the prison at Tunqing Beast Pass is very hard. This guy found himself a good place: the surrounding trees are lush and green, and there is only a rocky beach here. The river meanders through the rocky beach, stirring up waves.

In addition, this place is rarely visited by people, and the scenery is truly beautiful. I think that when the Swallowing Sky Beast was not injured, it also looked at the scenery here and survived for thousands of years.

Wei Xi had no time for lamentation; she was busy searching the enormous nest inch by inch. While the others wanted to help, they were always less capable than Wei Xi, so they were thankful they didn't cause more trouble.

I don’t know if there is strength in numbers, but the area of the beast tide is indeed quite large. Wei Xi and his companions worked for more than an hour before they finished searching the beast tide carefully.

Several people in the group also changed their working philosophy. Wei Xi suggested that instead of treating this as a hunt, they should open their minds and start a house-raiding operation, with the goal of leaving no trace and not letting go of any clues.

Sometimes, changing your mindset can effectively improve work efficiency. This proposal was immediately met with enthusiastic response from the monks. The results were remarkable, significantly increasing search efficiency.

Qin Feng and Wang Xin were quite careful. They used cloth to cover the people on the cart, otherwise the sun would have burned these five people to death.

Qin Feng wanted to ask the two mermaids to spray some water mist, but the two mermaids said that they were unable to take care of themselves. If they did not recover their spiritual power, they would probably be dried into dried fish.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, according to the rules of the trial, as long as you didn't start it, life or death has nothing to do with you!" Kui Di was a little annoyed and no longer pretended to be polite. She just wanted to leave the trial field and show the metal parts to the elders. She didn't want to waste her time on a dead person.

After hearing this, the eloquent Qin Feng couldn't help but feel short of breath. He wanted to retort a few words reflexively, but then he remembered Wei Xi's instructions, and the words got stuck in his throat.

It was Wei Xi who interrupted and freed Qin Feng from the awkward situation.

Wei Xi knew that Qin Feng had always been a man of soft heart despite his sharp tongue, but in this situation, Qin Feng had made great efforts to ensure that these five people were still alive.

Just take the red-clothed female cultivator as an example. She was stabbed with several holes by the pillars of the altar and is still hanging on to her last breath. In addition to her physique as a cultivator, she also needs Qin Feng's distracted care.

Even the other monks in the team agreed to bring a few people with them, with the idea of stringing them together to lure the monsters out. They didn't care whether the bait was dead or alive.

These people are the best talents from each sect. How can they succeed without being ruthless? Moreover, in the fiercely competitive world of immortal cultivation, murderers and treasure-stealers are everywhere. Which of the kind-hearted elders of each sect has not taken lives?

Wei Xi knew that Qin Feng just couldn't bear it, so he pulled her away and took her to continue searching for clues.

The raiding team turned the beast's nest upside down. Besides bones, they also found some rare minerals, but they were all raw ores, so whoever found them collected them. There were also some materials from the monsters, but due to improper storage, they turned into fine powder at the touch.

Finally, Qu Xun dug out a stone slab and showed it to everyone.

"This slate painting has rough brushstrokes," commented Qin Feng, who had been trained in the art of hooking and rubbing. "It doesn't look like it was painted. It looks more like... it was scratched with claws..."

"That makes sense, but I don't know what this monster is doing..." Yu Jin scratched his chin, "It can't be its lover, right?"

This was a completely unfounded claim, and no one paid any attention. Several people looked at it for a long time, but all they could think of was a bunch of lines, like something a Sky-Swallowing Beast had drawn out of sheer boredom.

Wei Xi took the stone slab and kept adjusting its direction. Finally, he turned it over and could barely make out its shape.

"This is a mountain, and this is a town?" Wei Xi pointed his finger at a mess of lines. "...Is this the map it drew?"

A word of advice woke the dreamer up. The part of the stone slab that Wei Xi identified was exactly the road they took from Taotie Town.
"What is this?" Fei Yangxu's eyes swept over the area that was pointed out as a mountain. "Why is there a piece missing?"

"When we left town, we saw this mountain from afar. I remember it wasn't Broken Head Mountain!"

"I also remember what Senior Brother Wang said," Qin Feng confirmed. "I remember that this mountain is not only not a broken-headed mountain, but also has a very regular shape... It looks like... a mountain."

Qin Feng's words sounded strange, but Wei Xi knew what she meant after thinking about it carefully.

The shape of this mountain is really too regular, and it fits people's imagination of a mountain.

However, since they had no clue what was going on at the moment, everyone stopped investigating and focused on discussing the content of the stone painting.

Wei Xi and Fei Yangxu each held their own opinions. The former thought that a demon beast like the Swallowing Sky Beast could draw something with its claws, and that the stone tablet must be a map. The latter believed that this was the stone tablet, and suggested that Wei Xi was young and overly nervous, so it was possible that his thoughts were off the track.

Each side has its supporters, and they are afraid of the missing Qing-Swallowing Beast, so it is difficult to separate them.

Finally, Wang Xin, who was of a senior enough generation and had a strong background, came out to smooth things over and said that everyone could wait here for a while, and perhaps other people would arrive soon, and then they would see what everyone thought.

This plan was agreed upon by both parties. After all, if they could wait a little longer to get more meat shields, why not do it?

Only two mermaids had gloomy faces and went to find the camp without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)