Chapter 88: Jade Token Rain

Li Yuanling frowned, looking at Li Musheng in confusion, and asked:

"If we do not defeat them, then what other method is there to snatch the jade tokens?"

Hearing this, Li Musheng shrugged and said:

"Of course, we use this method."

As his words fell, the wooden boat where the two of them sat suddenly accelerated, sliding toward the center of the lake.

At the same time, over the surrounding dark underground lake, sharp sounds of tearing the air suddenly arose.

Then, Li Yuanling's eyes suddenly widened; she saw that countless faint afterimages were actually flying swiftly from the darkness on all sides.

After those afterimages arrived above the wooden boat where he and Li Musheng were, they seemed to suddenly lose their power of flight, collapsing directly from exhaustion and falling down.

They turned into a rain of jade tokens falling from the sky, clattering down onto the wooden boat and producing a series of crisp "clink, clink" sounds.

In an instant, Li Yuanling stood frozen in place; only when the jade tokens kept smashing onto her head did she suddenly snap out of it:

"This is sudden wealth from heaven!"

Immediately, she leaped straight up from the soft stool and hurriedly began bending down to pick up the jade tokens on the wooden boat.

Watching the jade tokens in her arms grow ever more numerous, Li Yuanling's beautiful face flushed with layers of excitement, looking exactly like a greedy little money-lover.

At the same time, on the wooden boats surrounding the underground lake with the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other were at the center, waves of shocked exclamations arose one after another.

"My jade token!"

"My jade token is gone..."

"What is happening? Why did my jade token suddenly fly away uncontrollably?"

The middle-aged man in the green robe, who had already driven his wooden boat away from Li Musheng's boat under the urging of his Young Master using martial arts true qi, finally felt completely relieved once he saw they had put some distance between them and the opponent.

Then, he cupped his hands toward the young Young Master in front of him and said:

"Young Master, please remain on the wooden boat and wait a moment; I will go continue to snatch the jade tokens."

Hearing this, Song Zimo nodded slightly, then frowned and ordered:

"From now on, use some sense; just snatch the jade tokens. Do not keep blowing out the candle flames on other people's wooden boats; I do not wish to be frightened and worried again."

The middle-aged man in the green robe's eyelids twitched slightly, but he immediately nodded and agreed.

Although it was clearly his own Young Master who had told him to blow out other people's candle flames, he naturally could not use this to refute the other party.

Just at this moment, the middle-aged man in the green robe's expression suddenly changed.

He saw that the three jade tokens he had originally put into his chest suddenly leaped out, and immediately afterward, they were about to fly into the darkness.

Seeing this, he acted with quick eyes and fast hands; martial arts true qi surged into his palm, and he hurriedly reached out a claw to grab the jade tokens.

However, the speed of the jade tokens was too astonishing; before he could even touch an afterimage, their traces were already gone, disappearing into the vast darkness.

On a wooden boat not far from Li Musheng, the middle-aged man with a sword at his waist and the martial arts giant struggled to drive away the people coming to snatch the jade tokens.

Next, the two of them continued to manipulate the wooden boat, preparing to move far away from Li Musheng and the other.

However, before they could take any action, the jade token belonging to their side in the middle-aged man's hand with the sword, and the jade tokens the martial arts giant had just snatched from the intruders, suddenly flew out of their palms.

With their martial arts cultivation, they actually did not react in time; they only felt an invisible true qi suddenly snatch the jade tokens from their hands.

That power was too strong, too fast; the jade tokens broke free from the control of their palms in the blink of an eye and disappeared into the pitch-black night.

"What happened?"

The middle-aged man with the sword and the martial arts giant looked at each other, faces full of confusion, until waves of shocked exclamations kept rising from the wooden boats around them.

Only then did they realize that this situation did not seem to be unique to them.

After a moment of silence between them, the middle-aged man with the sword suddenly shifted his gaze and, as if by ghostly guidance, looked toward the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other were.

He knew the other party was far from simple and wanted to see if the same situation had happened to them.

The result was that in the next moment, he suddenly froze, standing on the wooden boat and so shocked he could not speak.

What did he see?

He saw that on the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other were, the burning candle flames emitted a dim yellow light, but borrowing this candlelight, the middle-aged man with the sword saw with disbelief that a "rain of jade tokens" was actually falling on that wooden boat.

One by one, the jade tokens fell rustling under the candlelight's reflection, seemingly endless, as if all the jade tokens on the wooden boats of the entire underground lake had gathered above the wooden boat where the other party was.

"What is wrong with you? Why did you suddenly turn into this bird-like state?"

The martial arts giant, seeing the middle-aged man with the sword's expression at that moment, was very strange.

He looked in the direction of the other party's gaze in confusion, then immediately froze in place and instinctively exclaimed:

"This damn thing is too terrifying..."

At the same time, Li Yuanling, who had been full of excitement from picking up jade tokens, now held a handful of jade tokens and looked up, shouting:

"Stop falling, stop falling, I can't pick up any more!"

Seeing this, Li Musheng glanced at her and the pile of jade tokens accumulated on the wooden boat, and nodded slightly.

In the next moment, the sounds of tearing the air around the wooden boat suddenly vanished, and the jade tokens constantly falling above the wooden boat finally stopped.

At this time, Li Yuanling, holding a pile of jade tokens, sat directly on the soft stool; she looked down at the jade tokens in her arms, smiling so widely her mouth would not close.

As she laughed and laughed, the air suddenly fell silent.

Not long after, Li Yuanling slowly raised her head and looked at Li Musheng.

At this moment, the smile on her face was already gone; she simply gazed quietly at Li Musheng and said softly:

"I did not expect you to be so powerful."

As she spoke, she extended one hand holding jade tokens, wiped the corner of her eyes which had turned red at some unknown time, and forced out a smile:

"If Godmother knew you were so powerful, she would definitely be very happy."

Immediately, she lowered her head and stared blankly at the jade token in her hand.

Seeing this, Li Musheng said nothing.

After a while, he slowly shook his head and said:

"Sister, we've already collected so many jade tokens — this isn't the time to get sentimental. You've got to perk yourself up."

Hearing this, Li Yuanling pursed her lips, wiped the corners of her eyes a couple of times, and gradually a smile appeared on her face as she said:

"Fair point."

She gathered the jade tokens on the wooden boat into a pile, then nodded in satisfaction:

"If we aren't first with all this, then this Floating Sky City must be rigged."

Li Musheng nodded lightly and said bluntly:

"I really want that divine artifact — I hope Floating Sky City won't make this trip a waste."

"Huh? You just say a word and all the jade tokens come flying over — what kind of martial cultivation would it take to pull that off?"

Li Yuanling waved a hand toward the sky, mimicking jade tokens flying toward her, looking somewhat puzzled:

"You're already this powerful — do you still need a divine artifact to boost your martial cultivation?"

(End of chapter)