Chapter 1308: Treasure Girl

The cold, eerie Boundary River Treasure Domain grew noisy as forces from all sides poured in and began pushing deeper, with violent, astonishing surges of energy rampaging out from time to time, accompanied by shrill, inhuman shrieks.

That was because some teams had already begun breaking into the outermost Ghost Domains, clearing out the aberrations within while searching for the Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures hidden inside.

Li Luo's group also set out, and besides the four of them, the team was followed by over a dozen Da Tian Xiang Jing members from the Dragon Fang Guard.

In today's Boundary River Treasure Domain, Da Tian Xiang Jing was undeniably the bottom of the barrel, and since they didn't have Li Luo's foundation and methods, they could only tag along behind the big brothers, doing odd jobs and scraping by on the bare minimum as a form of training.

"Small Ghost Domains generally won't contain True Demon aberrations above Third Rank. Medium Ghost Domains are far more dangerous — there might be Fifth Rank True Demons inside, sometimes more than one. A single team alone may not be able to handle a Ghost Domain of that level."

"Large Ghost Domains are rare on the outer perimeter. Even if we really did run into one, we probably wouldn't have the strength to crack it, because there would inevitably be True Demon aberrations above Sixth Rank inside."

As the team advanced, Li Fuluo, as the most experienced among them, was sharing his expertise with the "rookies" like Li Luo, Jiang Jiang Qinge, and Li Hongyou, who were entering the Boundary River Treasure Domain for the first time.

Li Luo and the others all listened attentively. After all, when it came to aberrations, these things were far too bizarre — even those stronger than them could capsize in a ditch with a single careless moment, and such a capsizing would very likely cost them their lives. So they could not afford to be careless.

At the same time, Li Luo was gazing into the distance. The light inside the Boundary River Treasure Domain was rather dim, and space was constantly in a state of distortion. He understood that was because of the Ghost Domains' existence.

These Ghost Domains had carved out their own spaces. Sometimes the path ahead looked wide open, but by the time one's foot landed, one had already walked right into a Ghost Domain.

Fortunately, the "Domain-Detecting Mirror" could offer them some guidance.

The figures of the group swept forward at high speed. After a while, Li Fuluo's footsteps came to a halt. He looked ahead — to the naked eye, it was an open, unobstructed plain, but upon closer observation, one would notice the space showed a faint distortion, an illusory quality.

A cold, sinister ripple emanated faintly from within.

"This is a small Ghost Domain," Li Fuluo said, pointing at the area ahead.

"Let's head straight in. Small Ghost Domains most likely only contain some low-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, but a mosquito's leg is still meat — accumulate enough, and it's no small haul. Besides, since this is your first time in the Treasure Domain, use these small Ghost Domains to get your hands wet. Once you enter a medium Ghost Domain later, you'll have some experience and preparation."

Li Hongyou's beautiful eyes gazed at the small Ghost Domain before them. Suddenly, her pert little nose twitched. After a moment's hesitation, she said, "Inside here, there might just be a mid-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure."

"?!"

Li Fuluo and Li Luo both paled with shock upon hearing this, then turned to Li Hongyou in disbelief: "How do you know that?"

"I smelled it," Li Hongyou blinked and replied. "Didn't you smell a very faint, unusual fragrance?"

Li Luo took a deep breath, but instead sucked in a mouthful of thick, cold air tainted with malice, which instantly stirred up countless agitated emotions in his heart. He hurriedly circulated his phase force to purge the malice-tainted air.

"How could anyone possibly smell that?!" Li Luo exclaimed in shock.

Li Fuluo tried it too, but shook his head, indicating he hadn't caught even a trace of the so-called unusual fragrance Li Hongyou mentioned.

"It should be because Hongyou is blessed with the 'Cinnabar Heart Fruit Phase.' The special affinity of such a heaven-and-earth treasure naturally grants a keen perception toward other heaven-and-earth treasures, and naturally born Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures should fall into that category as well," Jiang Jiang Qinge, standing to the side, murmured thoughtfully and analyzed.

At her words, Li Fuluo's eyes immediately lit up, his gaze burning as he stared at Li Hongyou. If Li Hongyou truly possessed this treasure-hunting ability, then her value was about to skyrocket by another huge margin.

After all, one had to know that these Ghost Domains were labyrinthine inside, and conquering them was extremely time- and effort-consuming. Small Ghost Domains were manageable, but those medium Ghost Domains could sometimes trap even him. Being trapped in one would be one thing, but the worst part was that after putting in so much effort and fighting, one might not even find a Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure of the desired grade.

Most of the time, one would just be brushed off with some low-value, low-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures.

That was truly sickening.

But now, Li Hongyou could sense the possible grade of the Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures inside before even entering the Ghost Domain. This would undoubtedly save them immeasurable energy and time.

This was a true treasure girl!

At this point, Li Fuluo was even feeling a little grateful — thank goodness he had swallowed his pride earlier and taken the initiative to join Li Luo's squad, otherwise he really would have missed out big time.

"Don't get your hopes up too soon either. I'm only guessing — we'll still have to verify the results." Seeing Li Fuluo's burning gaze, Li Hongyou quickly threw some cold water on him, lest her perception turned out to be wrong and the higher their expectations, the greater the disappointment.

"Right, right, let's verify it first!" Li Fuluo nodded hurriedly at her words, then was itching to immediately enter the small Ghost Domain ahead.

But just as they were about to move, they suddenly detected numerous wind-breaking sounds from behind. They immediately raised their guard, and surges of phase force rose up one after another.

Li Luo frowned slightly. There were no rules in the Boundary River Treasure Domain — to snatch Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, even loose cultivators would dare bare their fangs at squads from Li Li Tianwang's lineage.

After all, this place was utterly chaotic, and someone dying was perfectly normal.

He just didn't know which force was heading their way.

While Li Luo was turning the matter over in his mind, over a dozen figures had already swept through the air from far to near, then landed not far behind them.

"Hey, Li Luo, we meet again." As those figures landed, a clear, bright laugh was the first to reach Li Luo's ears.

Li Luo looked closely and saw a graceful young woman in an apricot-yellow dress, smiling as she stared at him.

"Lü Shuanglu?" Li Luo let out a small sigh of relief. The newcomer was actually Lü Shuanglu from Golden Dragon Mountain. Back when they were snatching the "King Pearl," she had even helped him out, so he held a measure of goodwill toward her.

And since Lü Shuanglu was here, the people before them must be the squad from the Golden Dragon Treasure House.

But what were they doing running over here?

While thoughts spun in Li Luo's mind, a tall, upright man from the Golden Dragon Treasure House squad had already stepped out — and was heading straight for Li Luo.

Seeing this, Li Luo's eyes narrowed slightly.

Because this person was none other than Zhang Cuicheng, the top genius of Golden Dragon Mountain.

So it turned out they were here for him?