Cold Clouds

Ye Yuxie, who sensed a strange aura, returned to the place where everyone had held the meeting. Fang Luohai had found a mysterious little box and was working on cracking it. No one else came... No, Song Hanyun was here, although he was just a talisman paper man.

Ye Yuxie recognized Song Hanyun's talisman paper figure because there was a very conspicuous red spot on the top of the head. This was the mark that Lin Xiaoxiao had drawn on Song Hanyun's talisman paper figure before. After that, Song Hanyun made the talisman paper figure with red spots based on the modified version by Lin Xiaoxiao.

The talisman paper man turned around and looked at Ye Yuxie. For some reason, Ye Yuxie saw a trace of loss on the talisman paper man's face.

After all, the aura just now was very similar to Lin Xiaoxiao. Ye Yuxie shrugged and turned away. After all, the aura was hidden now, and it was impossible to find it or confirm it, so it was better to go find the treasure first.

Song Hanyun angrily cut off the connection with the talisman paper man, and the talisman paper man gradually dissolved. He sighed and dealt with the remains of the monster floating in the water. He put them away, as they should be useful in the future.

He thought he had found Lin Xiaoxiao, but he was disappointed again. Song Hanyun looked helpless as he followed Mu Qing and the others towards a place with rich water-attributed spiritual energy.

Fang Luohai finally cracked the mysterious little box, but there was only a note inside, which made him a little disappointed. But who knows, maybe the note contained something important? If so, it would not be bad.

The note read, "Haha, you like opening boxes, are you stupid? There's nothing here, I don't want to bother with you, hehe."

Psycho. Fang Luohai's mouth twitched, and he threw the box aside, somewhat speechless. He had spent a lot of effort to open the box, but there was no feedback at all. He was annoyed instead. It was really...

This kind of forbidden box usually contains important things, so the owner will usually come to find it after the box is opened. As a result, after opening this box, not only is there nothing in the box, but the owner of the box also seems to be very indifferent to it, which makes him feel no sense of accomplishment.

I'm so annoying.

"What are you doing?" Ye Yuxie saw Fang Luohai throwing boxes when he came back, and looked a little confused.

Didn't you just open it? Why did you throw it away?

"Ah, there's nothing in that box. I wasted my time and energy..." Fang Luohai sighed helplessly, "I'd better go find the Wangyang Crystal as soon as possible."

"I told you to ignore the box and come with me to check the source of the noise..." Ye Yuxie rolled his eyes, "In the end, you got nothing, and I didn't catch anyone either."

Fang Luohai was still a little unhappy, but he still had to try to get the Ocean Crystal. After all, it was a good thing. Taking it back would also be a huge benefit to the water-attributed cultivators, which was very good.

After mumbling a few words to the owner of the box in his heart, Fang Luohai closed his mouth and began to speed up. Ye Yuxie was a little speechless about this old kid. Ye Yuxie couldn't help but roll his eyes again and followed Fang Luohai.

……

On the other side, Lin Xiaoxiao was no longer looking for Wang Yang Crystal. She was leading a large group of people to search for the ghost-faced man in black and start hunting him.

She actually wasn't very interested in the ocean crystal. After all, she mainly relied on the Phoenix Fire Spirit Root. With the bonus of the Water Spirit Pearl, the Fire Condensed Water shouldn't be a big problem without the crystal.

The most important thing now is... Lin Xiaoxiao swung a white-faced man in black against the stone wall and yawned. These guys in white masks were not enough for her to play with.

A guy with a green mask just arrived. He is in the late stage of fusion. It’s a bit troublesome, but it’s fun to fight him.

After fighting all the way, Lin Xiaoxiao almost figured out the plan of that guy named Li Chuhuan. Simply put, he wanted to resurrect the sea snake sleeping in the seabed crust.

Although this sea snake has the word "god" in its name, it is not really a divine beast. Although it protects some people, it is also quite murderous. Every year, each tribe must offer ten beautiful women to it. After they have done what it wants, it will keep them in captivity for a few years and then eat them.

Finally, they were sealed under the earth's crust by various races, and their power was regularly extracted to form ocean crystals.

It has been beaten for nearly two thousand years, so it must be full of resentment, but it will be fine as long as we can't prevent it from coming out.

The preparations for releasing the Sea Serpent were extremely complicated. Li Chuhuan himself sat in the center of the liberation formation, while these green-faced men in black began to do auxiliary work everywhere.

But these guys who knew the details were really tight-lipped. Unlike the marginal figures that Lin Xiaoxiao had caught before, these were "confidants" who were trusted by Li Chuhuan and worthy of this trust. When Lin Xiaoxiao asked about the details of the plan, they simply blew themselves up, although their souls were detained by Lin Xiaoxiao.

It's really scary, like a cult...

No, they seem to be a cult.

Lin Xiaoxiao sighed, but based on the information obtained from the minions, the strongest of those green-faced, black-clothed men was in the late Mahayana stage, which was still a bit scary.

Hmm~ What should I do? Lin Xiaoxiao hid back in Yaowang Valley. If there was really a middle-stage Mahayana master or above who came to catch her, she would really be unable to defeat him. If it was a late-stage Mahayana master, she might even have trouble running away.

Why haven't the late Mahayana masters come yet? Lin Xiaoxiao thought carefully, could it be that they think her threat is not big enough? Or are they too busy preparing to awaken the Sea God Snake to care about her?

That’s good, she can find them one by one slowly.

Or maybe he was waiting for her to fall into a trap? Hmm... a little scary, so what should I do next? She is in the middle stage of fusion now, and there is only so much she can do... Wait a minute.

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the ten trusted subordinates of Li Chuhuan in the soul-summoning banner and narrowed her eyes.

If she draws out all their cultivation and swallows it, she should be able to raise it to the peak of the fusion stage at the very least. Using elixirs to lock her cultivation should be able to maintain it for two days. Then, if she can temporarily let everyone in the Medicine King Valley transfer their power to her, she should be able to compete with the late Mahayana stage. At worst, she can use some secret techniques, sacrifice her heart or something in exchange for power and then grow it back. It makes sense, right?

Okay, it's decided happily. It's just that the guys in the soul-summoning flag will lose all their cultivation. What does it have to do with her? They are a bunch of murderers. Just treat this as a punishment for them~

Five minutes later, ten souls were floating half-dead in the soul-summoning banner. Lin Xiaoxiao stretched lazily. It was almost the same as she expected. They had reached the level of the early Mahayana stage. Now, if she could temporarily extract the power of everyone in the Medicine King Valley, she should be able to compete with the late Mahayana stage.

Okay... Lin Xiaoxiao twisted her wrists and shoulders to adapt, squinted her eyes and smiled, and disappeared on the spot.

……

Li Chuhuan stood in a cave, listening to the report of the green-faced man in black.

"Is that so..." Li Chuhuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the snake-shaped boulder in front of him, "Okay, I'll go there myself."

"Go meet that Wanyou Empress."