noffsinger Chapter 43 How did you find out about me?
Chapter 43 How did you find out about me?
The next day.
Ye Xiaobai had recovered to his peak condition after a night of meditation. Last night, when he checked the storage bags of the two Yellow Dragon Sect cultivators, he found the clothing and identity tokens of the Azure Cloud Sect, which confirmed to Ye Xiaobai that they were not from the Yellow Dragon Sect, but from the Azure Cloud Sect.
Impersonating Huanglongmen was also a way to frame someone else and incite a conflict between Huanglongmen and Baihu Sect.
After this incident, Ye Xiaobai could only be more cautious and prudent in the future.
However, even after entering the secret realm for several days, Ye Xiaobai still hadn't found the materials to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, only some common spiritual herbs.
Ye Xiaobai couldn't help but feel anxious.
The torrential rain lasted for three days and finally ended. After the weather cleared up, the sky was cloudless, and Ye Xiaobai was in a good mood. He could go out to look for spiritual herbs.
After exiting the cave, Ye Xiaobai chose a direction and set off.
Along the way, they encountered some first-tier demonic beasts, which Ye Xiaobai easily killed. He also found some spiritual herbs, but they were all low-grade ones, and he still couldn't find any rare spiritual herbs.
Before he knew it, Ye Xiaobai had left the forest and could see a small lake in the distance. Even before he got close to the lake, Ye Xiaobai could feel the chill in the air.
There should be ice-attribute monsters living in the lake, which causes the entire lake area to be filled with cold air. There may also be ice-attribute spiritual herbs.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaobai quickened his pace, worried that someone else might get there first.
Just as Ye Xiaobai was about to completely leave the forest, he smelled the scents of other cultivators, and there was more than one. Now, Ye Xiaobai dared not go directly to search for spiritual herbs; he could only find a secluded spot to observe the situation from a distance.
Upon closer inspection, Ye Xiaobai discovered a cultivator from the Qingyun Sect searching for spiritual herbs on the shore of the lake. He quickly found a fifty-year-old Ice Bean Grass, a rare spiritual herb that could enhance the cultivation of cultivators with ice-attribute spiritual roots. Even for Foundation Establishment cultivators, it was quite valuable.
The cultivator was also cautious. After discovering the spiritual herb, he did not collect it immediately. Instead, he first checked whether there were any traps nearby and then confirmed whether there were any other cultivators around.
When they looked in Ye Xiaobai's direction, Ye Xiaobai held his breath and didn't dare to make a sound. Perhaps because of the distance, he didn't notice Ye Xiaobai.
After confirming that there were no other cultivators around, the Qingyun Sect cultivator began to carefully collect the Ice Bean Grass.
Suddenly, with a "whoosh!" sound, a white-headed demonic eagle, half the height of a person, flew out from the shadows. With a flash of its wings, a gust of wind-attribute spiritual energy instantly killed the Qingyun Sect cultivator.
Ye Xiaobai was also dumbfounded after seeing it, secretly glad that he hadn't gone to collect the spirit herbs directly.
This white-headed demonic eagle has already reached the second tier, and even with his Qi Refining level 10 strength, it would be difficult to kill it. Moreover, the white-headed demonic eagle's flight speed is faster than that of an average Foundation Establishment cultivator, and he only has a leaf-shaped flying magic artifact, which is definitely no match for it.
After the Qingyun Sect cultivator died, two female cultivators from the Vermilion Bird Sect quickly emerged from the nearby bushes, one at the ninth level of Qi Refining and the other at the eighth level.
“Senior Sister Lu, with your second-tier white-headed demon eagle, there’s no need to ambush us, is there?” one of the female cultivators said.
"Junior Sister Sun, this secret realm is fraught with danger, we should be careful." After saying that, the female cultivator carefully collected the ice bean grass.
"Let's go! We've finished gathering the spiritual herbs, Junior Sister Sun!"
"Wait a minute, Senior Sister Lu, there are other people around here!"
"What? There are others?" The female cultivator surnamed Lu immediately became alert.
"Come out!" The female cultivator surnamed Sun shouted loudly in Ye Xiaobai's direction.
This was definitely just a guess. Ye Xiaobai didn't believe that the female cultivator surnamed Sun could discover his location, so he didn't take any action.
"You're not coming out, huh? Then I won't be polite!" With that, he launched a fireball spell at Ye Xiaobai's location.
Now Ye Xiaobai had nowhere to hide and could only slip out.
"How did you find me?" Ye Xiaobai asked curiously.
"My sniffing mouse found it!" she said, laughing as she stroked the gray sniffing mouse on her shoulder a few times. The sniffing mouse squeaked happily.
"This is unacceptable. I've been cultivating the One Breath Smells a Thousand Miles Technique for so long, yet I've been defeated by a first-tier Smell Rat in a battle of olfaction!" Ye Xiaobai thought to himself.
Ye Xiaobai quickly perked up and said with a smile, "Ice Bean Grass, you've already got it. Can't we just keep to ourselves and go our separate ways?"
"Leave your storage bag, and you can leave!" the female cultivator surnamed Sun said jokingly.
"This secret realm is fraught with danger. Leaving behind the storage bag would be the death of me. So let's stop talking nonsense and start fighting!" Ye Xiaobai didn't want to fight two against one, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.
After Ye Xiaobai finished speaking, he first threw a bunch of low-level spirit talismans, such as fireball talismans, around the two of them.
Seeing Ye Xiaobai make his move, the two didn't hold back and flanked him from both directions, forming a pincer attack. The white-headed demon eagle easily blocked the talisman's attack with a simple flap of its wings. Then, it was the first to rush towards Ye Xiaobai and launch its attack.
While taking out a shield talisman, Ye Xiaobai controlled his flying sword to block the attack of the white-headed demon eagle, and at the same time, he also had to deal with the attacks of the two female cultivators.
Ye Xiaobai realized that he was definitely no match for them. The most powerful method he could use was a third-tier formation, but he didn't have time to deploy it right now.
Unable to win, Ye Xiaobai had no choice but to run. After making his decision, he fought his way back into the woods, where the white-headed demon eagle would surely have difficulty pursuing him.
Just then, a second-tier ice toad suddenly emerged from the calm lake surface. Perhaps sensing that the Ice Bean Grass had been stolen, it was now furious. As soon as it appeared on the water, it immediately launched an ice bullet spell at the female cultivator surnamed Lu.
The female cultivator surnamed Lu dared not be careless and had to abandon her attack on Ye Xiaobai, focusing instead on dodging the ice toad's attacks.
Ye Xiaobai felt a sudden relief from the pressure and considered whether to kill the female cultivator surnamed Sun first, but after careful thought, he realized that escaping was the priority.
A gentleman takes revenge even after ten years, while a cultivator takes revenge even after a hundred years.
Ye Xiaobai fought and retreated, while the female cultivator surnamed Sun, worried that her senior sister Lu was in too much danger dealing with the second-tier ice toad, had no choice but to give up chasing Ye Xiaobai and go to help her senior sister Lu instead.
Ye Xiaobai didn't care about anything else. He put away his flying sword, took out his flying magic weapon, and quickly fled the place.
An hour later, Ye Xiaobai had already run hundreds of miles away and quickly found a secluded place to recover.
Ye Xiaobai knew he didn't have the strength to get Ice Bean Grass. But the thought of being discovered by a first-tier Scented Rat filled him with frustration. It seemed his "One Breath, A Thousand Miles" technique was still lacking; he couldn't yet completely conceal his scent.
Through further research into the cultivation technique, Ye Xiaobai discovered that to completely conceal one's scent, one needs to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
Ye Xiaobai could only hope to enter the Foundation Establishment stage soon so that such a thing wouldn't happen again.
Today, however, was a day of no accomplishment.