Chapter 138: Unfamiliar

"Jiang Yu, why not kill him?" Jiang Tu, fearing the heat, had its head exposed only briefly before the desert's scorching air blew it back into the spirit beast bag.

At that moment, away from the crowd, it flickered and swapped into the dragon pearl that Jiang Yu was holding.

"If my cultivation level and spiritual consciousness weren't now suppressed back to the fifth tier, I would have gone up to kill him, just to search his body for a Great Luo Celestial Realm map."

The place Jiang Tu thought it saw actually had no desert at all, and it didn't know where it had landed.

It couldn't even sense the aura of the Great Luo Celestial Realm.

Jiang Tu asked another question: "My spiritual consciousness was suppressed to three li; is yours also being suppressed?"

"The same as outside." Jiang Yu's spiritual consciousness was still five li; she noticed several people moving toward her, so she gave up fighting Young Master Hong, uncertain whether they were friend or foe, and thought leaving first was safer.

In this unfamiliar place, to avoid becoming a target, she abandoned sword-wielding and used the Seven-Star Step to sprint, then stayed for a quarter hour.

When no cultivators were visible in her spiritual consciousness, a large swarm of fourth- and fifth-tier fire ants crawled out ahead.

Jiang Yu decisively gave up charging forward, instead abruptly turned left, trying to avoid being surrounded by the hordes of demonic beasts.

Fourth- and fifth-tier fire ants are easy to handle a few at a time, but when faced with a massive swarm, one should dodge if possible.

Jiang Tu lay in the space chewing spirit fruit; even the real-time image of the dragon tablet could cover a radius of five li.

It was forcibly forced back: "You run when you see a person, you run when you see a demon; when will it end?"

"On the left, there are still demons appearing; why don't you come in and hide?"

"No need, it's just a single fire fox." Jiang Yu sprinted like an arrow, about to collide with the fire fox swooping toward her.

She whizzed sideways, leapt, and simultaneously threw a fire talisman, landing precisely on the fire fox.

Even though the fire fox was fire-aligned, it couldn't withstand the explosion of the mid-level fire talisman Jiang Yu drew.

Moreover, several parent-child throwing darts were released by Jiang Yu, aiming to achieve overwhelming victory in an instant with ten-thousandfold momentum.

Boom—followed by two sharp thuds, the fire talisman and darts hit simultaneously, and the fire fox collapsed as soon as it faced them.

Jiang Yu used a burst of spiritual energy to hurl the fire fox into the dragon pearl space; seeing no one around, she also slipped in.

Then she grabbed cool water and gulped two large cups, saying, "The desert is too hot in the daytime; we'll act at night."

"Not contacting your Senior Sister Wan, nor Lin Yuan and the others?" Jiang Tu, heated today, spoke without his usual gentleness.

Jiang Yu didn't mind, but said, "I was running while using the communication jade, and found I couldn't send any messages."

"You just opened the spirit beast bag, and still didn't contact Jiang Bai?"

Jiang Tu was lightly brushed by her, and, displeased, flicked his tail at her; after not hearing her speak for a long time, he turned and saw her finish cleaning the fire arc, then attached a binding spirit talisman to the blade of the spiritual sword.

"Why are you fixing it? It won't hurt us."

"When it arrives, what is lunging at you?" Jiang Yu had seen it then.

So, "You keep an eye on the spiritual sword; I'll go in to see Old Xuantang."

She no longer needed to use honorifics; while speaking, she already slipped into the spiritual sword space.

Looking at the three-tiered circular mounds, there was one that was even higher than before.

"Senior Xuantang, can you hear me? Do you want to come out and see? We're already in the Great Luo Celestial Realm."

"Lower your voice; I'm recuperating?"

"Oh? Who attacked Jiang Tu? Wasn't it your fragment soul?"

"Yes, I erased his mind, almost being backfired." Xuantang also felt relieved; the fragmented soul's remaining intellect in that golden register was completely burned away by Jiang Tu's fire.

Now, he is just about to fully retrieve the mindless fragmented soul and blast it away from the mound.

Jiang Yu: "You'd better control yourself, so you won't be devoured by a fragment soul in the future."

"When do you plan to completely detach from the spiritual sword?"

Although there are two fragment souls, whoever absorbs the other will dominate.

"I don't know; you seriously get out of the desert first," Xuantang Xingjun said, then said no more.

Jiang Yu stared at the mound, almost wanting to smash a thousand fire talismans to break it open, to see what Old Xuantang was doing.

But upon hearing Jiang Tu call her, she instantly gathered her spirit, slipped out the spiritual sword, and said, "I need to set a formation; you called me..."

Before Jiang Yu could finish, she saw tens of thousands of fire ants surrounding a few cultivators, attacking.

Jiang Tu clearly pressed the dragon pearl into the ground and asked, "Rescue them?"

"I don't recognize them." She chose not to rescue; Jiang Yu knew that many of the outsiders could be cultivators from the Eastern Continent.

But when Jiang Tu moved the dragon pearl closer to the besieged side, she clearly saw that one of them was Wen Xin.

Then Jiang Yu was even less likely to intervene; she watched quietly as the cultivators, after a brief cooperation, faced the surging fire ants and suddenly each fled.

Wen Xin, seeing that more demonic beasts couldn't be killed, gritted his teeth, snapped the teleportation jade, and vanished from here, distance unknown.

Jiang Yu noticed those cultivators either flying, evading, or teleporting, and within a short time they were all gone.

But there was a faded storage bag, lying alone in the sand pit created by the spell.

Before the fire ants could climb up and bite, she swiftly flashed out of space and snatched the storage bag back.

"This color isn't theirs," Jiang Tu said confidently; under Jiang Yu's signal, he spat out spiritual fire to scorch the storage bag for disinfection.

Then he opened a hole and poured things down, saying, "Look, the spiritual consciousness marks above have all vanished."

Jiang Yu cleared a pile of items, found several maps and jade tablets, confirming this was a region of the Great Luo Celestial Realm.

But as Old Xuantang said, several drawings were blank, because he explained that any map drawn here would disappear from paper or hide within a quarter hour.

Trying to use a map to get out of the desert is a mistaken idea.

Fortunately, Old Xuantang had previously given the master some useful information.

The Great Luo Celestial Realm resembles the circular mounds; it consists of concentric circles, each layer closer to the center becoming higher.

The outer ring contains mountains, rivers, lakes, and other terrains; the middle ring is planted with various spirit herbs, but many people cannot even traverse the outer ring and meet their end here.

In the innermost circle are pavilions and buildings; the great gate inside can be opened by those who are able to push it open.

Jiang Yu scanned and saw the fire ants had no target and were leaving, with no intention of going out to be scorched by the sun.

So she lay down on the ground and said, "Jiang Tu, I've decided to be lazy."

The dizzy feeling from being sucked into the cavern heaven had not fully dissipated, and she swallowed a calming spirit pill to enter meditation.

Jiang Tu sorted the items on the ground and put them into a storage bag, "I wonder how Jiang Bai and Lin Yuan are doing?"

"Senior Brother Lin has a fortunate destiny; nothing will happen."

"Master Lin, perhaps already landed in the innermost circle and is exploring the Tai Ji Dian you saw before." Jiang Yu had not fully entered meditation; she was nurturing her spirit.

Lin Yuan was indeed fortunate; as soon as he fell in, he landed in front of a building in the innermost circle, but he became trapped in a corner of the garden and, despite trying every method, could not get out.

Meanwhile, Master Lin and Jiang Bai fell in the same place; the two of them teamed up to slay a demonic cultivator and rescued a Golden Core cultivator from the Xuan Du Sword Sect.

"Jiang Bai, it's really you! Uncle Xun said you might appear in the cavern heaven, and indeed you are right here." A disciple of the Sword Sect grabbed him and wouldn't let go.

Master Lin looked at them pensively and then quickly moved away.