Chapter 357: Chapter 74: Fire Element True Qi, Whistling Through
“Why did they ambush us?” Long Hu asked.
“There aren’t always clear reasons,” Long Long replied while holding the fox’s soft and warm hand. “Greedy for riches, lustful desires, or maybe they wanted to capture us to use as bait to scout the road ahead…”
“As long as you can be sure that they bear hostility towards us, killing them is justified.”
“Oh,” the little fox nodded. “Then how do we determine if someone is hostile towards us? Like, if they attack us?”
“It’s a matter of instinct,” Long Long answered.
“Huh?” Long Hu was a bit puzzled.
“First, a cultivator’s life or death often hinges on a moment,” Long Long explained. “There’s not much time to react.”
“Thus, if you feel someone is hostile towards you, even without any proof, you should immediately be on guard.”
“Otherwise, by the time the other person attacks and you’re belatedly preparing to retaliate, it’s already far too dangerous.”
“Oh, Oh, Oh,” Long Hu nodded repeatedly, as though she had come to a realization.
The two navigated through the sprawling minotaur corpses, Long Long nonchalantly grabbing their storage bags to check their contents.
This junk is worthless, discard it.
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“We’re not taking those items?” Long Hu asked curiously once again.
“They’re all trash.” Long Long picked up the storage bags again, dumping out their contents and reviewing each item for the little fox:
“The most basic Revitalizing Pills, used for treating external injuries, utterly useless for cultivators as injury in battle often equates to death.”
“Bull horns… materials for crafting, too low-ranked, at best they can only make some armor, not very useful.”
“Some random low-grade minerals, all low-rank materials for crafting, trash.”
“Spirit Grass… I suspect they weren’t for alchemy, but rather for snacking!”
With a look of disdain, he tossed the storage bag on the ground and, once again taking the little fox’s hand, said:
“Let’s go.”
“Alright,” Long Hu was somewhat reluctant, as her own storage bag was virtually empty save for the remaining Moon Crystal Stones.
But if Long Long said they were all trash, then never mind.
One day, I will fill my storage bag with magical treasures! The little fox was determined.
Leading Long Hu deeper into the area, Long Long asked:
“Ah Jing, bring up a map.”
“Let’s get one thing straight,” Kunlun Mirror cautioned. “The labyrinth here changes! If the map suddenly alters like it did the last time in the Lianshan Treasury, you can’t blame me!”
“Of course, I won’t blame you!” exclaimed Long Long in shock. “Ah Jing, do you think I’m the kind of scumbag who’d kick someone aside after their usefulness is over?”
“Aren’t you?” replied Kunlun Mirror in shock.
“Absolutely not!” Long Long frowned sternly, reminding her. “Heaven-Mending Stone, undercover adventures, saving the world… Say it again, am I a scumbag or not?”
“Cough, cough,” Kunlun Mirror coughed a few times to hide the awkwardness, “Who called you a scumbag? I was just asking backward, a rhetorical question! It expresses the absurdity I felt when I first heard your question because how could you possibly be a scumbag?”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk,” Qing Ping Sword sighed on the sideline, didn’t expect this thing to be contagious.
But anyway, it doesn’t affect me.
The two continued moving forward. Now, with the support of Kunlun Mirror’s map, Long Long could clearly see the road ahead and plan accordingly.
The Fire Element Cave in the Eastern Emperor Realm was still astonishingly large, stretching down for miles without any sign of an end, and the tunnel walls were mostly narrow and difficult to navigate… After all, it was reconstructed after being repeatedly melted by the Fire Element True Qi, and it certainly wasn’t designed with the convenience of cultivators in mind.
Beyond the maze-like structure, the Kunlun Mirror also thoughtfully marked out several key points: all were places with significant spiritual power, suspiciously so.
Alright, let’s head to the closest one.
After about an hour of pulling Long Hu along, we finally arrived at the first spiritual power point.
This place was a long and narrow dead end, and Long Hu could see the cave wall ahead from a distance, saying:
“Long Long, we can’t get through ahead, shall we go back?”
“Wait a second.” Long Long pulled her forward, and at the end, they indeed saw a skeleton.
Next to the skeleton were a few scattered stones and a feathered fan.
Long Long: ???
Long Hu: ???
Hold on, isn’t that the so-called Golden Crow True Fire Fan?
Long Long picked up the fan and examined it carefully for a moment.
Eighteen feathers, and there were three Immortal Seal Scripts on the handle, indeed matching the description of a Golden Crow Cultivator.
As for the several stones, based on Long Long’s knowledge, they should be the Nine Phoenix Scorching Sun Stone.
This item often appeared near the territories of the Golden Crow clan, said to be a by-product of their bloodline cultivation to an extremely high realm.
Containing a large amount of violent and pure fire system spiritual power, it could be used to refine some magical treasures and Flying Swords, and to attach powerful Forbidden Techniques to fire system swords during sword casting.
Long Long then suddenly remembered that Luo Yan, during the last trip to the Gui Xu Secret Realm, had acquired a pompously named “Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle”, the first seal of which could be unlocked with this exact item.
So he collected the stones and began to inspect the Golden Crow True Fire Fan.
From the traces at the scene, these items were likely originally stored in the skeleton’s Storage Bag, but due to the eruption of the Fire Element True Qi, the Storage Bag was burnt up, and that’s why the items had burst forth.
Ordinary elixirs and magical treasures would not be able to withstand the corrosion of the Fire Element True Qi, but the Nine Phoenix Scorching Sun Stone and Golden Crow True Fire Fan could.
As for the skeleton… it must have belonged to a high rank cultivator of the Golden Crow clan, which is why the bones withstood the surging tides of the Fire Element True Qi.
It’s strange, considering the cultivation level of this individual in life, why would they have resorted to becoming a thief?
The more Long Long thought about it, the more things seemed off. The Golden Crow clan had provided too little information, clearly showing no sincerity whatsoever.
If he rashly returned now, even if he returned the Golden Crow True Fire Fan, there was no telling what treatment would follow. It wasn’t beyond the realm of possibility that they might even kill him to silence him…
No, I need to see if there’s another exit beneath this Fire Element Cave. The danger of returning the same way is just too great!
No sooner had Long Long made up his mind, than Long Hu suddenly shouted:
“Long Long, look ahead!”
He looked intently forward and saw a bright crimson light suddenly flare up.
The light was fierce and intense, if it wasn’t the Fire Element True Qi they had seen in the Fire Element Cave at Shushan last time, then what else could it be?
The sea of light surged like a tide, roaring and erupting forth, instantly flooding across dozens of yards, trapping them at the end of the corridor, and the distance between them was rapidly closing!
Long Hu hid fearfully behind him, while Long Long held his breath and concentrated, his hands swiftly forming spells, emitting Five-colored Divine Light.
The Postnatal Five Elements Great Extermination Divine Light, which overcomes everything out of the five elements, even the fierce Fire Element True Qi was no exception!