NOVEL NEXT Chapter 358: Terror Like This
At this moment, Shi Nian still hadn't realized that this was just the beginning!
On the road ahead, Qing Yi and Lin Lei started taking turns discovering things.
Sometimes it was Crystal Stones, sometimes it was Elixirs, and sometimes they even stumbled upon Magic Treasures ready for the taking.
Shi Nian's mouth gradually widened until, in the end, she couldn't close it at all.
Damn!
No!
Just because you're children of fortune, you can disregard all reason?
Who would scatter their things all over the place like this!
And for them to be picked up by you just like that!
Shi Nian couldn't help but ask Xiao Tong: "Xiao Tong, can you check how these things came to be here?"
They can't possibly be dropped here directly by the Heavenly Dao.
Xiao Tong collected some clues from the scene and quickly retraced the events.
After that, she said: "There was a couple fighting here earlier, and as they argued, they threw the gifts they had given each other. By the end, their Storage Bags were almost emptied."
Shi Nian: "..."
Is this even real?
No, tell me.
Is this actually scientific?
But after picking up these things, even the Heavenly Dao shouldn't be able to pull any strings, right?
Shi Nian continued to observe.
By the time they had picked everything up and flew away...
The couple had calmed down and hurried back to look for their stuff.
The result...
Naturally, there was nothing left.
The two couldn't help but start arguing again, leading to a full-blown fight.
Shi Nian, through Xiao Tong, watched the scene; all she could say was that the couples of the Lost Land really were different, huh!
Other couples quarrel at most by scratching each other.
Their fight involved arms and legs flying everywhere. The scene was so bloody it would need to be pixelated if it were broadcasted.
And the culprits of this tragedy, Qing Yi and Lin Lei, were completely oblivious to it as they continued forward.
At that moment.
They encountered a fork in the road.
Both paths could lead to Shi Nian's cave abode, and the distance was roughly the same.
Choosing either one wouldn't be a problem.
Shi Nian had Xiao Tong check out the situation on both paths in advance.
Xiao Tong quickly reported back.
"There's nothing on the left path. On the right path, after about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea while flying, you'll run into two groups of people fighting. It's a pretty fierce fight, and if you choose the right path, you might get involved."
Theoretically, the left path would be safer.
Then.
Shi Nian watched as Qing Yi and Lin Lei, almost without any hesitation, chose the right path together.
After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they arrived right at the scene of the fight.
What a coincidence.
The two groups fighting managed to wipe each other out just then.
The kids hurriedly scavenged and then continued on their way.
Shi Nian was getting a bit too much, she couldn't help but reveal herself.
"Sister!" Qing Yi was startled: "What's wrong? Did something dangerous happen?"
As she spoke, she looked around cautiously.
Shi Nian clenched her teeth: "You've picked up quite a few things along the way."
So that's what it was.
Qing Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's normal. This Lost Land is a treasure ground, you see. Every time I and Little Rock head out, we'll have some gains, more or less. It's just that I always feel the world is full of crises, so we don't go out much. Back then, even the nearby wild hills had a lot of good stuff, but after me and Little Rock collected a few times, there was almost nothing left around. I didn't expect that going a bit further, there would still be so many valuable treasures."
Qing Yi said this with glee.
Shi Nian really wanted to grab her and shake her.
Who told you that the Lost Land is some kind of treasure land.
Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about this place?
Yet Qing Yi and Lin Lei, cautious as they are, picking up treasures as soon as they step out of the door, would still never leave their abode unless absolutely necessary.
What's with this temperament!
I don't even know who they take after.
"Sister, I just picked these up, they're all for you." Qing Yi said sweetly as she handed over a stack of Storage Bags.
Shi Nian waved her hand weakly: "No need, keep them for yourself. I'm going back to the Void."
She planned to calm down by herself.
Isn't it?
Is the difference between us mere mortals and those favored by fate really that huge?
In the past, Yin Yu didn't find things to be this exaggerated!
It could only mean that the others are false children of fate.
But these two, they're the real deal!
Shi Nian couldn't help but murmur to herself: "Xiao Tong, why can't I find treasures when I walk out the door, it's heartbreaking."
Xiao Tong snorted: "Stinky host, aren't I enough for you?"
"Sometimes, I would like some other forms of affection too. Like, the doting of Heavenly Dao dad?" Shi Nian continued her resentful mumbling.
She's so well-behaved, so adorable.
Can't Heavenly Dao daddy pick her just once?
Despite her complaints, Shi Nian also had some small doubts in her heart.
Hadn't she discovered a terrifying presence that was invading Heavenly Dao in the minor worlds?
That terrifying existence's main body should be in the Immortal World, and it should have already invaded the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal World.
That minor world's Heavenly Dao, utilizing its own authority, forcibly created several false children of Heavenly Dao.
But the situations of Qing Yi and Lin Lei are clearly different from those in the minor world.
The extent of Heavenly Dao's favor towards them far surpasses the other objects.
How could that existence which seized Heavenly Dao tolerate the existence of true children of Heavenly Dao?
Or could it be.
That it had met with some mishap and was actually unable to fully control the functioning of Heavenly Dao?
Above the nine heavens.
The Void.
Three figures were still busily at work.
They had made exhaustive preparations to plot against Shi Nian.
But what happened? She had vanished without a trace!
Isn't that infuriating?
"We've searched the entire Immortal World and Demon Domain, and still haven't found her," Black Abyss said coldly.
"Then there's only one possibility left."
The gazes of the three beings simultaneously turned towards the Lost Land.
Lost Land.
It belongs neither to the Immortal World nor to the Demon Domain.
It's where the two realms meet, where the mingling energies create something akin to Chaos energy, naturally shielding all forms of detection. They are now only comparable to an Immortal Venerable, to detect the Lost Land they still fall short.
"Xuan Mie, how can you be so useless!" Black Abyss couldn't help but complain, "If you had fully controlled Heavenly Dao earlier, would we be in such trouble?"
Xuan Mie was also furious: "You two had it easy; when Qian Ji plotted against me, why didn't you come out to help? Now that the Heaven-locking Array is set, do I not need time to break free?"
He was about to succeed, but was foiled at the last moment and now he was trapped.
Although he was confident that he could break free, the thought of Qian Ji, that scum, lurking in some corner secretly watching him, it irritated him to no end.
He now only holds a small portion of Heavenly Dao's authority, and Heavenly Dao as a whole is still operating on its own. In the short term, he can't interfere.
"What's the use of talking about this now?" Li Ye said in a calm tone: "That Shi Nian is most likely in the Lost Land by now. She is a Heavenly Dao reincarnation, born with a Pure Body; it suits her best there."
"Lost Land..." Black Abyss and Xuan Mie both frowned.
Although they're now much stronger than Shi Nian, they really do not wish to confront her directly.
Heavenly Dao, indestructible and immortal.
For others, this might still be okay, but for them, it's a huge problem.
The few from the Divine Realm were beings carefully nurtured by Heavenly Dao; their connection with Heavenly Dao is much more intimate than that of others.
If they were to act against Shi Nian, they would certainly suffer retribution.
"Hadn't we already settled on a plan earlier? Although we can't detect the specifics, the plan can still be executed, can't it?" Xuan Mie suddenly said: "I'll directly throw the item into the Lost Land. No matter who picks up the object, with my energy attached to it, they're bound to encounter Shi Nian. This way, our plan will be successfully implemented."