Chapter 449

"Alright, stop this nonsense. Help me find that Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng first. Then we can exterminate that kid, and you will have a physical body." Xuan Gu interrupted coldly.

"No problem! With our two 'Spirit-Searching Techniques,' finding a spirit ginseng is just a matter of reaching out and grabbing it." The man said disdainfully.

"Then do it!" After saying this, Xuan Gu's face sank, and he shook his sleeves toward the ground.

Two thin, long wisps of black energy shot out from his cuffs and disappeared in a flash. As soon as they touched the ground, they burrowed into the earth without stopping and vanished without a trace.

At the same time, beneath Xuan Gu's feet, a streak of incomparably faint green light also flashed and disappeared rapidly.

Xuan Gu himself floated at a low altitude, lowering his eyebrows and closing his eyes, his figure motionless.

On the other side, in an open space near the stone mountain, Han Li was playing with a yellow array flag in his hand. His expression was normal, but his gaze flickered incessantly, as if he were pondering some problem, with hesitation faintly visible between his eyebrows.

Suddenly, he flicked his hand, and a yellow light flew out; the small flag in his hand was firmly inserted into the ground.

"Although I can't see anything wrong with this array flag, do you really think I would have no precautions at all?" Han Li muttered to himself, a cold smile on his lips.

Afterward, he reached into his storage pouch and felt around, and actually took out more than a dozen very similar yellow small flags, which emitted thick earth spiritual energy.

Looking at these glittering small flags, a strange look flashed across Han Li's face.

Not long after, Xuan Gu on the other side moved his expression and suddenly opened his eyes.

Two wisps of black energy and a streak of green light darted out from the ground simultaneously and flew into Xuan Gu's body.

"Found it, that Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng really knows how to hide. It actually placed its main body in a groove of a giant rock; if one didn't check carefully, it wouldn't be easy to discover." The deep-voiced man said somewhat triumphantly in Xuan Gu's mind.

"Good, as long as it's found! I'll see if that kid has set up the array flags and fallen into the trap. You be careful, don't show yourself easily, don't let the other party discover you." Xuan Gu instructed solemnly.

"Rest assured. Unless it's the spiritual sense of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, it's absolutely impossible to discover the transformation technique I use. But in a while, in case you fail to control the other party, don't expect me to help you! His golden thunder bamboo is the nemesis of my formless fierce soul. I don't want to be struck by the Divine Evil-Repelling Thunder and have my form and soul destroyed." The man said as if to get the ugly words out of the way first.

"Hmph! To deal with a junior in the early Core Formation stage, I don't need your help. To deal with this person, I naturally have full confidence before taking action. And you don't need to fear any Divine Evil-Repelling Thunder. Because when he was fighting me a few days ago, those few golden thunder bamboo flying swords had just been released not long before. Even if there was some residual divine thunder in the magic treasure, I estimate it should have been exhausted when passing through the ghost mist. His golden thunder bamboo flying swords are not to be feared now. However, the golden-silver colored insect swarm he released when he fought me that day made me somewhat wary. With my experience, I actually don't know the background of these insects. That's a bit strange. Although I don't know what kind of spirit insects they are, I estimate they should be a bit more powerful than ordinary ones!" Xuan Gu said indifferently.

"Oh! Without the Divine Evil-Repelling Thunder, this person is no threat. I will decide whether to take action depending on the situation." The man said with a relaxed tone.

Xuan Gu listened to this, curled his lips slightly, and said nothing more.

Although he held a wisp of the other party's natal essence soul, he knew in his heart that this was not enough to completely control the other party.

The other party had been immersed in the Ghost Path for many years, and his methods regarding soul control were one or two points more brilliant than his own; it was hard to say, but at most, they would end up with a heavy loss of vitality, and the other party could break free from his control.

He was unwilling to force the other party too much.

Xuan Gu looked around, transformed into a mass of yin cloud, and flew toward the direction where Han Li was.

A moment later, he found Han Li and descended.

Although this place was considered flat, wild grass was scattered everywhere, and a small forest composed of dozens of sparse, large trees stood behind.

"Is it set up?" Xuan Gu asked calmly as soon as he revealed his figure in front of Han Li.

"Of course it's ready! It's right over there!" Han Li leaned against a large tree and pointed lazily behind him.

Xuan Gu looked intently and indeed saw large fluctuations of earth spiritual energy appearing in the forest behind Han Li.

Xuan Gu felt secretly happy in his heart.

But afterward, he felt around in his storage pouch and took out a jade box, then opened the lid in front of Han Li.

"What is this?"

As soon as the jade box was opened, a stench of extreme foulness rushed to his nostrils. Han Li stood up straight, immediately held his breath, and took a few steps back with a look of alarm, looking suspiciously at Xuan Gu.

"Don't worry, this is the excrement of the Musk Orchid Beast. Don't look at how foul it is; it has a great temptation for that Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng. As long as it is placed in the array, the incarnation of the Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng will definitely come to search for it. Once we control this incarnation, we can calmly dig out the main body of the spirit ginseng without fear of it changing and escaping again." Xuan Gu glanced at Han Li sideways and said without changing his expression.

"Musk Orchid Beast excrement?"

Hearing this, Han Li looked at the jade box in Xuan Gu's hand.

At this moment, he had seen clearly that it was a block-shaped item the size of a thumb, light yellow in color. That intense aura was emitted from this.

Han Li couldn't help but be somewhat stunned!

He naturally knew the "Musk Orchid Beast." It was a strange spirit beast raised by cultivators; the fire-red strange horns on its head emitted a unique fragrance that had the miraculous effect of calming the spirit and stabilizing the soul, and it was very popular among cultivators.

But he didn't expect the excrement of this spirit beast to be so foul. And yet, a spirit object like the Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng actually liked this thing.

This left Han Li somewhat speechless.

However, Han Li looked at Xuan Gu's expressionless face and smiled, saying:

"Then please, Senior, place this thing into the array. I will go and check the array flags again to see if they are truly stable and proper. Then I will guard here to capture the incarnation. I will trouble Senior to dig out the main body of the Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng." After saying this, Han Li cupped his hands and walked into the forest behind him on his own. He didn't know what method he used, but a moment later, his figure disappeared.

Xuan Gu was startled!

He looked at the forest filled with earth spiritual energy and frowned secretly.

But after his lips twitched, he flicked his hand.

A strange snake transformed from black energy bit the jade box and flew straight into the center of the forest, placing the jade box firmly on the ground before flying back and shooting away.

After doing this, Han Li's figure was still nowhere to be seen. This made a fierce look flash across Xuan Gu's face.

But he immediately flew into the sky without a word.

"What? You're afraid of the tricks you played on the array flags yourself?" The deep-voiced man's mocking words suddenly rang in Xuan Gu's mind.

"Caution is never wrong! I'll test whether the array was truly set up with the flags I gave him first. Although the possibility of the other party coincidentally having earth-attribute array flags is extremely small, I don't want to take risks!" Xuan Gu said indifferently.

"If you had this caution from the beginning, you wouldn't have ended up in this state. It seems the great loss you suffered back then really wasn't in vain, Brother Xuan Gu!" The man made a clicking sound and said.

Xuan Gu didn't know if the other party was praising him or digging at him. This made him snort secretly in frustration and ignore the man.

Afterward, Xuan Gu floated in the air, his figure paused, and he opened his five fingers on his right hand, revealing another yellow array flag in his palm.

The appearance and shape of this flag were exactly the same as the four he handed to Han Li, except the length was much shorter, appearing small and exquisite.

Xuan Gu looked at the small flag solemnly and shook it lightly a few times.

Immediately, this flag emitted a faint yellow glow, spun around in Xuan Gu's hand, and pointed straight at the forest below.

Seeing this scene, Xuan Gu let out a long breath, a hint of an eerie smile appearing on his face.

Then he put away the small flag, glanced at the direction of the large array, and flew straight toward a certain spot on the small stone mountain.

At this moment, Han Li finally appeared in the forest.

Looking at Xuan Gu's receding figure, cold light flashed in his eyes a few times. But after his expression moved, his figure blurred, and he suddenly disappeared from the spot out of thin air, leaving only the wind and withered grass on the ground.

Time passed bit by bit, and the stench emitted by the jade box on the ground grew stronger and stronger. This made Han Li, who was lurking in a large tree nearby, frown deeply, and he had no choice but to keep his breathing closed.

But as time passed, Han Li's heart gradually rose.

The time left here was really not much. If that Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng didn't fall for it and appear, he would have no choice but to give up and go back first.

Just as Han Li was pondering, his expression moved; his spiritual sense detected that a small thing had broken into the forest. This made Han Li pleasantly surprised, and he immediately concealed his aura completely, staring at the location of the jade box without blinking.

Yellow light flashed, and a sneaky wild rabbit appeared on the grass outside the array. This rabbit was snow-white all over, a pair of blood-red eyeballs rolling around incessantly, and it occasionally looked left and right, appearing extremely timid.

But despite this, the rabbit's pink nose kept sniffing toward the direction of the jade box, and a look of human-like intoxication occasionally appeared on its face.

The intense aura that was truly foul to Han Li seemed to be something this little thing enjoyed to the extreme.