Chapter 784: After Binding the Child-Bearing System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 785: Fantasy World Passerby A (5)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Water pool?

Something inside the water pool? Could it be that this Secret Realm truly hides treasures?

It could also be something bad.

Pinching her chin and pondering for a moment, Shen Yao decided to wait until she had rested well before going over to take a look; if possible, she would pocket it — after all, from the moment she entered the Secret Realm until now she still had not gained anything, she could not really have come in empty-handed and go back empty-handed.

The Xiao Huo beside her had long since fallen fast asleep; the Flaming Lion's whole body was covered in fur, and leaning against its pelt for just a moment made Shen Yao drowsy again. By the time the System finished watching the excitement and returned, it discovered its own Host sleeping quite soundly.

System: ……

If it hadn't made a mistake, they were inside a Secret Realm fraught with danger at every turn, so how could they be so lacking in vigilance.

'Is anyone targeting me?' They all went after the Secret Realm treasures and Lu Yan; Shen Yao was just walking along the road and no one was willing to spare even a glance her way.

Shen Yao, who had a very clear self-awareness, acknowledged that in the Secret Realm she was a mere background extra; the reason Tang He had come running over earlier without attacking her certainly had something to do with the Flaming Lion being by her side, but more because she posed no great threat.

As long as Lu Yan was dealt with, whether Shen Yao grabbed hold a second faster or a second slower would not affect the overall situation.

Mm

One can only say these people's thinking was very optimistic; in reality they completely failed to understand Shen Yao's strength.

Perhaps they could guess that Shen Yao's identity was Lu Yan's companion creature, but these people did not understand companion creatures well, and Shen Yao would never choose to self-detonate; by a fluke, this brought about her current leisure.

'Host, don't be careless,' in case someone suddenly has an extreme idea, hoping to catch Shen Yao to threaten Lu Yan — that possibility is not non-existent.

'If they really have that intention, it can only be said they like to court their own death,' the operation of rushing to deliver their heads — Shen Yao admired their courage.

Raising an eyebrow and smiling, Shen Yao lowered her eyes to look at the base of the tree; the mist before her had already completely dissipated, revealing the true appearance that had been concealed.

Patting the well-fed Flaming Lion, Shen Yao jumped down from the tree first, then brought Xiao Huo along and hurried toward the water pool up ahead.

The System Map had already marked it out; the destination was not all that far from them.

On the way, the System also mentioned the rather miserable Lu Yan, who was being surrounded and intercepted by the Tang Family and the Liu Family, with the Wei Family occasionally adding fuel to the fire; although they did not explicitly stand on the Liu and Tang Families' side to kill Lu Yan, as soon as Lu Yan showed any sign of weakness they would sneakily pull tricks.

Lu Yan suffered quite a few hidden losses because of this; fortunately, with Shen Yao's advance warning, the Tang and Liu Families did not gain too much advantage, and the Wei Family was mostly hesitant and indecisive, giving Lu Yan a chance to catch her breath and call for help.

'The Fan Family? Not necessarily that they would jump out now; they might also be assessing Lu Yan's value,' if the value Lu Yan displayed was not high, the Fan Family might pretend not to see, wait for the Lu Family of the Floating City to demand accountability and then push the Liu and Tang Families out to kill two birds with one stone; if the value Lu Yan displayed was high enough, the Fan Family would directly move to deal with the Tang and Liu Families, and conveniently package those two families as compensation to Lu Yan.

These are all basic operational methods of aristocratic clans — profit comes first, so it is thus; Shen Yao had encountered such arrangements in other Mission Worlds before.

At that time Shen Yao was still the decision-maker, high above and hidden behind the scenes.

Who would have thought the wheel of fortune turns — 'Right now we don't even have the qualifications to sit at the table,' compared to the treatment before, it is truly worlds apart.

Xiao Huo suddenly let out a low roar, its four limbs stepping on the ground restlessly pawing at it.

Shen Yao expressionlessly watched the woods ahead; there was not a single sound, not even the cries of mosquitoes, insects, birds, or beasts.

"Roar"

"Be careful"

Shen Yao tacitly retreated behind the Flaming Lion, and then saw flames suddenly ignite all over the Flaming Lion's body, charging forward like a fire snake.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh——

From the depths of the dense forest came the sound of air being torn apart; strand after strand of green vines and branches flew out, reaching out nimbly trying to bind the Flaming Lion.

Unfortunately, the Flaming Lion's whole body was burning fiercely; the moment these vines made contact they turned to flying ash, forcing them to think of another way.

What way could there be?

Fire overcomes wood; no matter how strong these vines' abilities, they could do nothing to the Flaming Lion.

In just the blink of an eye, the vines rapidly retreated back into the dense forest, leaving a mess behind, while the Flaming Lion returned to Shen Yao's side and let out a low roar indicating they could go.

Shen Yao stroked the Flaming Lion's big head, and just like that passed through the dense forest before her eyes in a spirited manner.

Those severely injured vines hid themselves early on and resolutely refused to show their heads; if any other cultivators saw this, they would certainly be greatly shocked.

The Devil Forest was passed just that simply and easily? This is supposed to be one of the most difficult perilous places in the Lian Tang Secret Realm — how could it be so easy?

After passing through this stretch of dense forest where not even insect hums or bird calls could be heard, and crossing a mountain range neither large nor small, Shen Yao finally found that water pool specially marked by the System amid a field of grotesque rocks.

The water pool was not large in area; around it grew a patch of blue lotus flowers, the ice-blue energy on the lotus flowers was obvious, and when Shen Yao arrived they were overflowing outward.

'Host, it's here, it's here!'

The System was incomparably excited, dancing hand and foot inside Shen Yao's mind.

Shen Yao: ……

Feeling the enthusiasm in her mind, and that impossible-to-ignore position coordinate, Shen Yao glanced at the Flaming Lion which had already shrunk down and jumped into her arms, "I'm going into the water."

Flaming Lion: ……

The Flaming Lion, which had originally been lying comfortably in Shen Yao's arms, leapt out in a second, just like a feline's direct stress reaction; the Flaming Lion whined and howled to express that what it hated most was water, waving its little paws to tell Shen Yao to go herself — it would stay on the bank.

Shen Yao raised an eyebrow, "The bank isn't safe either; can a beast like you manage?"

The Flaming Lion let out a low roar, expressing that this person looked down on beasts; no matter what, it could handle the troubles around here.

Taking a step back, even if it really couldn't win, it could still run; contracted beast and contractor have mutual positioning function — the Flaming Lion could go find Lu Yan to save its life.

Only afraid that Lu Yan right now can barely protect herself; going over there would be no better than staying by the water pool waiting for her.

Mentally complaining that the Flaming Lion was still too young and inexperienced, Shen Yao waved her hand, and then took out a Water-avoiding Jiao Pearl from her ring (actually space).

Inside the transparent Jiao Pearl, a miniature Shark Person phantom could be faintly seen appearing and disappearing.

Simply sending it into her mouth and holding it there, Shen Yao leapt vertically and jumped straight into the water pool.

The calm water pool surface rippled with ring after ring of waves; as Shen Yao's figure disappeared, the ripples grew smaller, and finally returned to calm.

The Flaming Lion casually found a spot away from the water pool and lay down to rest again; this time it did not bury its head and sleep, but stared with a pair of round, rolling eyes observing the surroundings — fortunately, the water pool itself was extremely dangerous, and those ice-blue energies overflowing outward would affect the surrounding environment even more, causing no flying birds or walking beasts to station themselves on this side of the water pool.

There was no risk, but it didn't guarantee that no person or beast would break in; the Flaming Lion moved its not-very-smart little brain and felt that appropriate precautions were very important.

"It even has this kind of thought? Can't tell." Besides eating and sleeping like a fool, back at the Lu Mansion it was the one that liked slacking off the most.

Already inside the water pool and constantly swimming downward, Shen Yao still had the mood to pay attention to the outside; at this moment, because of the Water-avoiding Jiao Pearl, her body had an extra layer of transparent shield, and if one looked closely, faint figures of Shark People would appear on the shield.

The Water-avoiding Jiao Pearl is an item formed from Jiao Pearl tears; when she was in the Cultivation World, Shen Yao received quite a few gifts from her family.

This Water-avoiding Jiao Pearl was among them.

If not for running into the need to enter a water pool right now, Shen Yao would have forgotten about the Jiao Pearl entirely.

"Host, the Flaming Lion is one of the top heaven-gifted strange beasts in the Central State; back then, for Lu Yan to contract the Flaming Lion, the Secret Realm he entered was nine deaths one life."

"How is Lu Yan?" Already faintly seeing the bottom of the water pool, Shen Yao accelerated forward, both hands directly touching the thick mud.

"Pretty good, currently rushing over this way; if the Host's movements were slow, the two parties might even meet, saving the time of searching everywhere."

"The casualty situation of the Liu Family and Tang Family."

"Dead and wounded over half; the Wei Family was implicated, following behind waiting to pick up the pieces."

"The Wei Family has calculated well; just don't know when the Fan Family will make a move?"

"Should be soon; I saw Fan Family cultivators mixed in."

"……"

One person and one system chatted while walking, until Shen Yao suddenly interrupted the system's chatter, pointing at a deep, low cave entrance ahead and saying, "Right here."

Ice-blue energy overflowed outward like waves; the cave entrance surroundings were all covered in frozen traces.

There were no traces of life in the water pool; Shen Yao speculated it might be related to these ice-blue energies; although these energies couldn't directly take the lives of swimming fish and running beasts, under persistent erosion, the ordinary lives in the water pool would ultimately perish and disappear.

She took out a Spirit Fire Talisman from space again; simply activating it allowed it to be used as a light source, and this kind of Spirit Fire Talisman could automatically float beside Shen Yao and also had a certain protective function.

Bending her waist to enter this low, pressing cave entrance, Shen Yao walked forward slowly.

Shasha—

A light sound came from underfoot; Shen Yao raised her hand and snapped her fingers, the Spirit Fire Talisman floating beside her suddenly expanded, and along with it the Water-avoiding shield enveloping her whole body expanded outward.

Chi!

From the mud on the ground, a brown tentacle as thick as an arm drilled out, attempting to attack the expanded Spirit Fire Talisman.

Unexpectedly the tentacle caught fire on itself, instead forcing the other half of its body hidden in the mud to be driven out.

Shua shua shua

More talisman papers with different functions appeared; they were like automatic monster-fighting machines, and after being activated by Shen Yao they joined the battle before her eyes.

How could a single mutated water earthworm beat these talisman papers; in the end it suffered a hateful defeat, dying until only a handful of flying ash remained.

The many talisman papers that flew out disappeared one after another; a few still persisted, but judging by their energy consumption they wouldn't last much longer.

She took out a new Spirit Fire Talisman, activated it to use for guidance and illumination, and Shen Yao continued forward; by the way she occasionally played the part of a cold, ruthless worm-killing machine, beating to death all the mutated sand earthworms in the cave.

"Arrived!"

The narrow cave entrance suddenly became spacious; the view ahead began to rise.

Shen Yao's bent waist could finally straighten; she moved her neck, and along with it examined the high platform not far ahead.

It is a high platform, no mistake.

"This shape; where is the thing on top of the high platform?" She thought the culprit causing the ice-blue energy to continuously overflow was placed on top of the high platform, but the high platform was empty, nothing there.

Tsk

Letting the system activate its scanning function, examining this place front and back, left and right, Shen Yao herself walked slowly in circles around the high platform.

"Host, underneath the high platform!"

The system suddenly shouted, causing Shen Yao, who was about to continue stepping forward, to stop.

A pair of eyes quietly examined the high platform not far away; Shen Yao took out talisman papers from space, activated them all, and circled the high platform.

The talisman papers emitted five-colored light, matching the gloomy cave and making one's hair stand on end.

Just as the two sides were deadlocked with no one making a move to break the stalemate, the high platform went kacha with a sound; the originally protruding stone wall directly sank down, and a stone wall holding items rose up.

"It's this, it's this!"

The system screamed in surprise; regardless of how the Host reacted, it loudly praised the Host's luck as truly good: "This is a Mutated Water Spirit Pearl that has existed for a long time; not only can it enhance the water-element affinity of strange beasts and strange plants, it can also mutate out ice element, and even more purify bloodlines, increasing potential and talent."

In short, many benefits; it is a treasure used on strange beasts and strange plants.

The Mutated Water Spirit Pearl was merely a small pearl, emitting ice-blue light; even its surroundings had raindrops and snowflakes phenomena appearing; the talisman papers surrounding it just wanted to approach but were blocked back by the Mutated Water Spirit Pearl's light.

Right at this moment, Shen Yao suddenly moved; the Mutated Water Spirit Pearl hadn't reacted yet before it was received into her bag.

Space can isolate all energy; plus Shen Yao's current body can tank and hit; by the time the high platform's stone wall, having lost the Mutated Water Spirit Pearl, caused the entire cave to begin large-scale collapse.

Hong long long

Shen Yao released more talisman papers; as the talisman papers exploded toward all directions, Shen Yao chose a path that had been blasted open and directly swam upward to exit.

Lying prone on the shore vigilantly watching the surroundings, the Flaming Lion was startled by the tremor transmitted from the ground; striding on four limbs it rushed to the water pool side, only to discover the calm water pool surface was exploding, blue lotus flowers scattered all over the ground, and the energy that the Flaming Lion extremely disliked was gradually receding.

Recovering from a tiny thing to a cute large size, the Flaming Lion half-floated in midair, opening its mouth and spraying several mouthfuls of flame toward all directions.

Flames whistled away, then with a bang exploded toward all directions.

The Flaming Lion's four claws emitted flames, orange-red in color, twisting space and also twisting air.

When Shen Yao finally jumped out of the water pool, the surroundings had already been bombed for a round.

The originally quiet water pool became unrecognizable; the blue lotus flowers growing around the water pool shattered into slag; these lotus flowers were merely ordinary varieties, changed only because of the ice-blue energy's year-round erosion; now with the Mutated Water Spirit Pearl taken into space by Shen Yao, this water pool would also return to normal, ultimately forming a new biological system.

"Xiao Huo"

The Water-avoiding Jiao Pearl in her mouth was stowed away again; Shen Yao called the Flaming Lion to come down, then turned and sat on the Flaming Lion's back, leaving toward the direction they came from.