Chapter 561: Acting Separately

The five-colored auspicious cloud of the Junior Shimei flies a bit slower, but its advantage is that it is much more stable.

However, her sword art and movement techniques are both superior to Lin Jue's, and by cultivating the Five Elements Spiritual Method, her physique is also stronger than Lin Jue's. She does not need a spiritual cloud to assist in combat; for her, it is merely a tool for travel. Plus, women like beautiful things, so this five-colored auspicious cloud is quite suitable for her.

No matter how slow, it is still a spiritual cloud, carrying an immortal, so traveling two thousand li in a day is still no problem.

Unknowingly, the two have already ridden the cloud to the overseas region.

After leaving the land, the view became incomparably vast. The sky is vast, and the sea is vast; neither can be seen to an end. Sea and sky are one color, a boundless expanse.

After moving far away from the land, even the sea disappeared from sight.

"I remember Third Shixiong saying that the place where he found Long Bo was between the East Sea and the South Sea, eight thousand li from land." The Junior Shimei stood on the cloud, looking blankly at the surroundings below, "In such a vast place, how can we find Third Shixiong and the Long Bo Kingdom?"

Too much time had passed; the claw marks that the fox had pressed onto Third Shixiong's jade horse and Princess Hua's palace box back then had also been worn away by wind and frost.

"No rush."

Lin Jue thought for a moment and called out:

"Chen Niu, Chen Niu."

In silence, the little ghost in brown clothes appeared out of thin air.

However, as soon as it appeared, it twisted its head in all directions and looked up and down. Looking at this complete semi-circular sky floating with a bit of cloud gauze, and the semi-circular sea surface below only rippling with a few splashes, a look of bewilderment appeared on the little ghost's face, and it looked at Lin Jue.

Where had it been brought to this time?

"Can't find the way..."

Chen Niu said in a dull, bewildered manner.

"Do you know of the Long Bo Kingdom?"

"Can't find the way..."

"You can't find it either?" Lin Jue said, "Then go and ask for directions."

"Going to ask for directions..."

In silence, the little ghost disappeared again.

Lin Jue reached out and summoned a huge thundercloud above this azure, boundless sea and sky:

"Let's split up to search. If Shimei finds it first, burn a Chen Niu talisman; if the fox finds it first, come find me first; if I find it first, I will wait for you all on the spot, or call Chen Niu to bring me to find you."

The fox had a serious expression. After thinking for a while, it suddenly shook its head, shaking out several fox heads at once, all staring at Lin Jue:

"Is this how we split up?"

"Boom—"

Lin Jue directly transformed into four Lin Jues, all flying onto the thundercloud.

The thundercloud thus split into three more.

The main body in the middle stood on the largest one, and the three clones each stood on one.

Seeing this, the fox stopped playing around. Several fox heads walked out from its body, but it wasn't that the heads fell off; rather, they brought along new, complete bodies, walking out from the original body.

In Xiao Hua's surprised gaze, six foxes soon appeared on the five-colored auspicious cloud, plus the original one, totaling seven.

One fox had just walked out and found its fur a bit messy, so it hurriedly lowered its head to lick it; one fox was lazy, walking a few steps before bending over to yawn and stretch; two foxes started playing with each other as soon as they got down, like a lion dance; one fox turned its head to look at Lin Jue, one fox walked to the edge of the cloud to look down curiously, and another fox turned its head to look at Xiao Hua.

It left Xiao Hua stunned.

"Time to go."

The fox in the middle shouted.

The fox knew the urgency of the situation. In an instant, the licking fox, the stretching fox, the playing foxes, and the foxes looking around everywhere all stopped their actions, then followed the middle fox and lightly jumped from the five-colored auspicious cloud onto the thunderclouds beside them.

"Boom—"

The thundercloud naturally split into seven, each carrying a fox.

"There's still a little bit of the fox's claw print left; it should be nearby, not far away. The foxes will go find it first," the middle fox said. "I'm leaving first."

Then came the voices of the many foxes:

"We are leaving first too."

Xiao Hua's mouth was slightly agape, her eyes wide, her head shaking slightly to look in different directions, watching these seven thunderclouds carrying seven Fuyaos quickly move away.

"We are leaving too," one Lin Jue said.

"You all focus on going north," one Lin Jue said.

"The other three directions are left to us," another Lin Jue said.

"..."

Cai Li couldn't help but look up at the Junior Shimei.

The Junior Shimei reached out and scratched her head.

"Shixiong..."

"What is it?"

The last Lin Jue asked.

The Junior Shimei scratched her head and said bluntly: "You might have gone a bit crazy from being with Fuyao."

"Farewell!"

All the Lin Jues said in unison and drove their clouds away at the same time.

He and Fuyao had a tacit understanding. Seeing that Fuyao was mainly going east and south, he went west. Fuyao also knew he would make such a choice, so it would only search in the east and south directions.

The Junior Shimei continued to lower her head and look at Cai Li.

"Let's split up too."

"? Are we splitting up like that too?"

"I don't have that ability."

"Neither do I!"

In silence, the colorful cloud split into two.

"If you encounter wind and waves, remember to go around them. If you encounter Yaoguai on the sea, don't fight with them; fly back to find me."

"You too!"

The two colorful clouds went left and right, both heading north.

The overseas region is still uncivilized, with many strange creatures similar to those in the ancient times on land, as well as various wonderful kingdoms.

There are also many Yaoguai entrenched here.

For any Yaoguai cultivating here, the disadvantage is the lack of civilization and culture, no cultivation system, and a lack of social channels; most just follow their instincts to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon, and they are also very lonely. The advantage is that almost no one disturbs them, and no immortals or Daoist priests come to find trouble.

Therefore, those with good talent, after cultivating for a long time, can also become significant.

At this moment, a great Yaoguai encountered something strange while sleeping.

The Jiao dragon lying on the seabed, the mysterious turtle floating in the water, the giant crab occupying a small island, the shark king controlling thousands of giant sharks...

They shouldn't have been dreaming, but they happened to dream.

The dream was also very strange—

A little person wearing brown clothes and a small brown spherical hat appeared out of thin air and asked them:

"Where is this?"

Some Yaoguai could understand its words.

Some Yaoguai couldn't understand the words, but they could still understand its meaning.

But when asked "Where is the Long Bo Kingdom?", some Yaoguai were startled awake, while others were muddled and answered a direction, only to be confused after waking up.

After all, such a dream was too absurd.

Who would dream of a little person coming to ask for directions?

They just assumed it was their own wild imagination.

Lin Jue also knew the method of asking for directions.

Although the several Lin Jues were in different directions and at least tens of li apart, they all drove their clouds close to the sea surface.

Huge black and white orcas poked their heads out to look at him; old turtles of great age floated on the sea surface with some seaweed, looking up and squinting at him; there were also octopuses and dolphins surfacing.

Some Lin Jues asked directly:

"Does your excellency know of the Long Bo Kingdom? The island where very large giants live?"

Some Lin Jues waved their sleeves, using illusion techniques to construct an illusion of the Long Bo giant in the air, asking them where the road was.

Although the method of gathering beasts and controlling birds might not necessarily be useful for these aquatic creatures, Lin Jue had already attained the Dao, and naturally had an affinity with all things in heaven and earth. By asking patiently, there was always a way to make them understand.

The orca pointed a direction for him.

The old turtle didn't answer and sank into the water.

The octopus was silent for a long time, then suddenly sprayed ink, but didn't leave, seemingly telling him in this way that there was danger in that direction.

The dolphins were also timid and left quickly.

At the same time, on an island, a Daoist priest who looked to be in his thirties or forties was walking in a simple "palace" built of stone and wood, holding a small sword even smaller than an ordinary dagger.

The palace was built roughly, but it was very tall; the passage alone was over ten zhang high.

Sea Yaoguai often traveled back and forth through the middle.

Fearing that the things on his body would shake, Third Shixiong tied his wine gourd tightly, and the jade horse and the soul-nourishing pearl containing Princess Hua were all stuffed into his bosom.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Fragmented and intense footsteps came from ahead.

Third Shixiong hurriedly turned sideways and shrank into a crack in the stone.

It was a group of giant crabs nearly one zhang tall walking in an orderly fashion.

Suddenly, a giant crab stopped. Although it didn't move its body, its protruding eyes turned slightly to the side, looking into the stone crack, as if it had sensed something unusual.

However, it looked carefully and didn't see anything.

Amidst the booming footsteps, the other giant crabs gradually walked away, and it retracted its gaze and followed quickly.

Third Shixiong's figure emerged from the stone and walked back into the stone crack.

Junior Shidi's Earth Escape technique was still useful.

A faint female voice sounded from his chest:

"It's too dangerous here. These sea soldiers can probably match Celestial Soldiers, which means the owner here might be an overseas Yaoguai King who has attained the Dao. Without the suppression and clearing of the Nine Heavens, I don't know how many years it has been cultivating. You had better come back after you have attained the Dao."

"Since I'm already here..."

Third Shixiong replied in a low voice.

This didn't mean that since he was already here, if he didn't continue, it would be a wasted trip.

Rather, since he was already here, he had already seen the Long Bo, and even found the remnant soul obsessions of the Long Bo, knowing how they were harmed by this Yaoguai King, and there were already Long Bo remnant soul obsessions willing to follow him. If he left easily at this time, he would not only be sorry to himself, but also to those remnant soul obsessions.

How can you make people follow you just by relying on your mouth?

If people follow you and you don't avenge them, how can you be at ease in your heart?

This was the principle he taught Junior Shidi when he taught him to carve beans into soldiers; how could he not understand it himself?

The reason Third Shixiong was suitable for carving beans into soldiers, and why remnant soul obsessions were willing to follow him wherever he went, was because of this.

Of course, a Yaoguai King who has attained the Dao, no matter how unskilled in spells, even if he has a way to escape, even if he finds an opportunity and a method of restraint, is not something he can easily kill.

But at the very least, he had to burn this place down!

"Are you feeling stuffy in my chest?"

"Not stuffy, it's quite warm."

"Hmm..."

Just as Third Shixiong was speaking, the passage suddenly trembled.

I don't know how many giant crabs, giant shrimp, sea beasts, fish Yaoguai, and Long Bo poured out of the passage, and then stood side by side to check and guard everywhere in the passage, as if they had discovered him or were stimulated by something.

An ugly fish Yaoguai, over one zhang tall and holding a steel fork, walked over. On top of its head grew a tentacle curved like a fishing rod, with a fluorescent light at the tip, as if it were hanging a lantern. If it weren't for the fact that the place he was in was not safe, he would definitely have called Princess Hua out to see this rarity together.

However, just as that ugly fish Yaoguai walked past the stone crack where Third Shixiong was hiding, the lantern hanging on its head suddenly shone brightly. ===== CHAPTER 562 =====