[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky":3,"chapter-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-110":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Must Immediately Strike It Lucky",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2293882,4487,"Chapter 110: Being Watched (Second Update)","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-110",110,"\u003Cp>At the moment he heard the warning, Feng Xue’s previously relaxed nerves snapped taut; his hand in his pocket instantly reached for the [Substitute Charm] jade talisman, and as the [Summoning Charm] activated, several jade talismans bearing different seals leapt out from the Hu Tian pouch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The over-the-shoulder perspective now rose, viewing the surroundings from nearly four meters above ground, scanning for suspicious figures, when Liu Yunxi’s voice sounded again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Probably to the west.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue frowned but tucked his ringed hand back into his pocket—after all, in a world without mobile phones, raising a hand to the ear might pass for scratching one’s head if brief, but prolonged motion would draw attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for transforming Liu Yunxi, let alone the smoke alone would attract the watchers’ notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Feng Xue had already anticipated this scenario; he lightly tapped the ghost-character jade talisman, and as the spirit pact activated, his mind instantly connected with Mo Ying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though her ghostly body’s prior injury had made Mo Ying even more reclusive, upon learning the task required her to stay within the scroll, she no longer resisted; Liu Yunxi merely needed to whisper softly into her pocket, and Mo Ying, attached to the scroll in her arms, could capture her words and transmit them directly to Feng Xue via the spirit pact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completing these subtle actions, Feng Xue had already scanned the area with the over-the-shoulder view, yet found no suspicious individuals in the direction Liu Yunxi indicated—or anywhere else—and saw no special spiritual auras like those of ghostly entities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief internal calculation, he simply found a roadside tea stall, ordered a few snacks as if intending to have a casual breakfast tea, and through Mo Ying’s voice-link asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly is the situation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not entirely sure. Didn’t I already tell you? After the mouth-seal, besides gaining human senses, I retained my original ones—this is something like smell, but not through the nose; it arises with every breath.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After you left the guesthouse, I caught that strange odor a few times, but back then there were many mixed scents around, and occasionally one stronger one wasn’t unusual, so I ignored it. But here at the Bird Market, the odor is faint—then suddenly one becomes intensely strong, unmistakable, and its details match exactly the one before. So I think it may have followed you all the way from the guesthouse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Humans can’t smell it, and I can’t easily describe what it is—only that to a snake, it’s not pleasant but not repulsive either, even stirring a faint urge to seek it out. There aren’t many similar scents nearby now, and that distinct one is still there—roughly six or seven zhang to the west.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Liu Yunxi’s words, relayed by Mo Ying, came out jumbled, Feng Xue grasped her meaning: a special sensory perception, akin to a snake’s infrared detection, had picked up a particular odor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Liu Yunxi’s direction, Feng Xue used the over-the-shoulder view to gaze westward—but beyond ten meters lay a row of storefronts across the street. Though morning pedestrians weren’t numerous, they weren’t scarce either; aside from shopkeepers and the like, few figures stood motionless in one spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So many people around, yet Liu Yunxi senses only one target—does that mean it might not be human?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought, Feng Xue shifted his focus: the activation condition for [Observing Lifespan] changed from “lifespans of humans nearby” to “lifespans of non-human animals nearby.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the numbers above passersby vanished; only the occasional flying insects—each with one or two-digit lifespans—remained visible on the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue looked west again—and finally, a three-digit number appeared before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh!” Feng Xue reached out, picked up a snack from the table, took a casual bite, and tried to pull the over-the-shoulder view closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his field of view could extend no more than two meters from his brow, and his vision matched reality; though he saw a dark lump on the ground beside a wall bearing the number “374,” the constant flow of pedestrians and obstacles obscured his view—he couldn’t tell what the lump actually was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this some spell controlling a small animal to surveil me? Master Li? No—if Master Li meant me harm, he’d have had countless opportunities to strike already… no need to wait until now to spy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Feng Xue felt this way, the slight wariness he’d previously held toward Master Li now doubled; he ate his snacks slowly and deliberately, finishing them entirely before declining the stall owner’s offer of a free meal, paying, and rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It hasn’t moved in this long—ordinary small animals wouldn’t have this much patience, and it still has over a year of lifespan—far from natural death for a wild creature. It must be a surveillant.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lingering number visible through the over-the-shoulder view confirmed it in Feng Xue’s mind; he stood, feigning the casual demeanor of a tourist, glancing idly at roadside stalls as he slowly approached the alley entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance was only ten or twenty meters; once he cleared the obstructions, the object’s true form came into view—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gray rat, crouched in the corner, even draped with a few leaves on its back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, well! A rat! You like the smell of this thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought flashed through Feng Xue’s mind; Mo Ying immediately relayed it to Liu Yunxi, who responded with frantic trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do you pass on everything I say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Ying ignored Feng Xue’s reproach entirely, even echoing Liu Yunxi’s complaint back to him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t say I like it—I said it’s not repulsive to snakes! I stopped eating after infancy thanks to the Emperor’s Dew—I don’t eat rats!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then why would a snake think eating rats is bad?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue internally grumbled, yet understood this was likely common knowledge implanted by human spiritual insight; he suppressed the urge to retort further and kept walking steadily toward the guesthouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rats in a guesthouse were unavoidable in this era—but to be surveilled by one? That was intriguing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t forgotten: in this small county, there was still a Hu Xian-descended Chu Ma Xian!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why would Miss Deng target me? Because the demonic cultivator using my old house drew suspicion? Or is Miss Deng unorthodox, eyeing my wealth? Isn’t Hu Xian known for attracting fortune? Can’t all of them just ‘ask’ for it like this? Come to think of it, Chu Ma Xian are indeed ‘heterodox paths,’ just not quite ‘demonic’—sigh, clearly Miss Lan’s innocent stupidity left too strong an impression on me; Pingan County really is dangerous!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue’s mind raced with many thoughts, yet he didn’t fixate entirely on Miss Deng; after all, rats were the most common small animals in the city, and using them for surveillance was routine—even now, through Mo Ying’s ghost possession, he could temporarily seize a rat for short-term monitoring. He didn’t believe something he could do was beyond other Daoist cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After mentally reviewing the Daoist cultivators of Lu City, Feng Xue decisively abandoned trying to identify who was spying on him—for he realized he didn’t need to think so much at all—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was about time he fled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though eliminating the malevolent spirits had raised his reputation, he knew well he was unworthy of such acclaim; the higher he was lifted, the harder the backlash would fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, at this moment of being watched, fleeing wasn’t wise—it risked ambush and might draw attention from others beyond the surveillant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I need to pick a time when everyone’s busy. Oh, and I should check the train station situation—don’t want to try running and find no luck to catch, that’d be truly ridiculous!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1277,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","fe646fadc0819d760f917885776cb347f246999c9e8c00d3d9ce5704b04bd16f","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-111","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-109",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]