Chapter 34

After seeing the dagger "lying" on the ground, Zhuge Tianxin showed little interest, but upon hearing it was a key, he immediately walked forward and picked up the dagger—or rather, the key.

"And then? I have the key, do you know where the lock is?" Zhuge Tianxin asked.

"Don't 'you' this and 'you' that, I have a name," the mysterious little beast said with dissatisfaction.

"Ah... you have a name?" Zhuge Tianxin said, acting very surprised.

"That goes without saying. Did you think I was like those low-rank Precious Beasts, Mystic Beasts, or Spirit Beasts?" When the mysterious little beast spoke of her identity, she always appeared very arrogant, and she also showed great disdain for Precious Beasts, Mystic Beasts, and even Spirit Beasts.

"Uh... what is your name?" Zhuge Tianxin said calmly, seeing the mysterious little beast's arrogant demeanor.

"Zhuge Tianxin, I'm going to kill you! This is the second time, this is the second time, I must kill you!" The mysterious little beast said, flying directly toward Zhuge Tianxin, then opening her mouth to bite him.

"Ah... ah... ah..." Zhuge Tianxin's screams echoed through the air.

The mysterious little beast was truly angry this time. It was the second time; this was the second time! He must have done it on purpose. If the first time was just his personality, then what about the second time? The second time was intentional. No, he must have done it both times on purpose, intentionally teasing her. Bite him to death, she must bite him to death! This was the voice in the mysterious little beast's heart, and she truly put it into action.

"Ah... it hurts... it hurts... it hurts! People are right, women are the most difficult animals to understand, even a five or six-year-old little girl is the same." Zhuge Tianxin said, covering his face full of tooth marks. There were more than ten tooth marks of various sizes on his face, the most conspicuous being a bright red palm print on his left cheek, which had been slapped by the mysterious little beast. After biting Zhuge Tianxin more than ten times, the mysterious little beast was still not satisfied, so she transformed into a five or six-year-old girl and slapped Zhuge Tianxin on his left cheek. Originally, with Zhuge Tianxin's strength, he should not have been slapped by the little girl the mysterious little beast had transformed into, but Zhuge Tianxin had been stunned when he saw her transform, so he was slapped.

"Remember my name, I am Qing Xuan'er," the mysterious little beast said arrogantly.

"Then, beautiful Xuan'er, I have the key. Where is the door, and how do I open it?" Zhuge Tianxin learned his lesson this time and asked Qing Xuan'er like a well-behaved child. After all, he needed to quickly find the object that would allow him to understand this space and then return to rendezvous with the others.

"Isn't that it?" Qing Xuan reached out and pointed to a corner behind Zhuge Tianxin.

Zhuge Tianxin turned around and looked in the direction Qing Xuan'er was pointing, but there was nothing there. "Are you playing with me? There's nothing there," Zhuge Tianxin said angrily.

"It's your own eyes that are bad, don't blame me. I really don't know how you awakened! Isn't there a piece of cloth there? That is the thing you want," Qing Xuan'er said with contempt.

"What? This piece of rag is the object you mentioned? You aren't mistaken, are you? You aren't confused, are you, taking an old woman's foot-binding cloth as a treasure?" Zhuge Tianxin followed the direction Qing Xuan'er pointed and found a piece of rag. There was nothing on this rag, and it looked unsightly. If it didn't smell, it really would be like an old woman's foot-binding cloth, which was why Zhuge Tianxin had thought it was just a rag when he first saw it, to the point that he had thought there was nothing here.

"I say your IQ is a problem and you don't believe me. Look at what you are holding in your left hand," Qing Xuan'er said with contempt again.

"Isn't it just a broken dagger? It matches this rag quite well; they are both broken. Eh... do you like broken things? When I met you, it was in a broken thatched hut, and there was nothing in the room except for a broken chair. Now you've brought me here to find this broken dagger and rag. Do you like these broken things?" Zhuge Tianxin was very depressed. Ever since he met Qing Xuan'er, all sorts of broken things had happened. First, he was constantly mocked by her during the human-beast chase, then she hid in that mysterious space, eating and doing nothing every day. Now that she had finally come out and said she had found some treasure, he had spent so much effort only to find these two broken things.

"I say you are ignorant and you are still proud. I already told you that sword... dagger is a key. Do you know what a key is? It's for opening locks. That Hunter Scroll has been locked, which is why it became like this. This is ignorance plus stupidity—no, plus narcissism," Zhuge Tianxin was looked down upon again.

"Hehehe, my good Xuan'er, then how do I open this lock?" Zhuge Tianxin's thick-skinned nature was not something an ordinary person could compare to. Hearing what Qing Xuan'er said, he immediately asked with a fawning smile.

"Just use that dagger to cut the rag to pieces," Qing Xuan'er said helplessly.

"It's that simple? You aren't lying to me?" "Believe it or not, I have plenty of time, but I don't know if your delicate Linglong girl will worry about you." "Ah, how long have we been here?" "If you don't hurry, they will definitely think you've gone missing." "Didn't you say the time was very short? That we could definitely make it back?" "I said finding this object and going back, not including the time you spend dawdling like this." "Damn it, I'll trust you once."

After speaking, Zhuge Tianxin threw the rag onto the ground, switched the dagger from his left hand to his right, and stabbed it directly toward the rag, wanting to poke a hole in it and then cut it to pieces.

Boom! But Zhuge Tianxin was sent flying against the wall on the other side, then fell to the ground, landing face-first in the dirt.

"Hahaha..." Seeing Zhuge Tianxin land face-first, Qing Xuan'er laughed loudly.

"You're playing with me again! Didn't you say I just had to cut it to pieces?" Zhuge Tianxin was very angry now. If it weren't for the fact that Qing Xuan'er was currently a five or six-year-old girl, he would have been furious and wanted to kill someone.

"Don't you even know what a Formation Engraving is?" Qing Xuan'er asked, very surprised.

"What is a Formation Engraving? You're saying that thing that sent me flying is called a Formation Engraving?" Zhuge Tianxin was truly innocent. He had lived in Tianxin Town since he was a child and had never come into contact with Formation Engravings; he hadn't even heard of them, so how could he know what they were?

"Forget it, it seems you really don't know anything. You take your Mind... forget it, you probably don't even know what Mind is. Just concentrate all your attention on that dagger, and then stab the dagger into the rag with force," Qing Xuan'er had already given up on treating Zhuge Tianxin's knowledge gap and directly taught him what to do.

Zhuge Tianxin did not hesitate. After all, a lot of time had already passed, and he had to rush back. Besides, he had discovered that Qing Xuan'er knew much more than he did, so he would listen to her for now and solve the rag issue before thinking about other things.

"Ping!" The sound of glass breaking. When Zhuge Tianxin stabbed at the rag again, he discovered that a transparent energy shield had appeared around the rag, blocking the dagger he had stabbed down with, but shortly after, it was pierced by the broken dagger, emitting the sound of glass breaking. And when that transparent energy shield shattered, the rag that had been lying quietly on the ground emitted a faint light, then slowly floated up, emitting an increasingly bright light, and stopped at a distance of about two meters above Zhuge Tianxin's head. As the light became brighter, the rag also changed greatly, turning into a silk product, and finally slowly landed in Zhuge Tianxin's hand, and the light on it also disappeared.

Only then did Zhuge Tianxin see the appearance of the rag after its transformation.

"Hunter Scroll." Zhuge Tianxin softly read out these four words.