Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book - Chapter 939 - 654: Indirect and Circuitous Moves
Chapter 939: Chapter 654: Indirect and Circuitous Moves
In the Long Abyss Sea Domain, the endless seawater surged into terrifying massive waves.
The ceaseless roars also roused numerous demon beasts, heading towards the Yin Shark Abyss.
At this moment, a Spirit Shuttle, almost blending with the color of the sea, traversed beneath the ocean.
This Spirit Shuttle was crafted from the skin of a Blue Tiger Whale.
Ordinarily, its color merged with the sea, making it undetectable without using Divine Sense.
Moreover, all those great demons and demon beasts were commanded by the Demon Emperor.
Even if they noticed the Spirit Shuttle at this moment, they wouldn’t dive into the sea to seek trouble.
Compared to the Human Race, these demon beasts clearly had simpler minds, fearing that being slow would result in trouble from the Demon King later on.
Inside this Spirit Shuttle were Ye Xuefu and Ye Haige.
Though they had escaped into the Long Abyss Sea Domain, both their brows were tightly furrowed.
“Ninth Uncle, we have returned, what about Second Uncle?” Ye Haige couldn’t help but feel worried.
The other day, through Ye Jingcheng’s White-Browed Cyan Wolf and the needle awn confrontation between the Bai Family and Qing Family, they successfully obtained one of the curved roots of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng, even with some ginseng root, and then fled on the spot.
In the process of their escape, they discovered that the wind circle ability of the White-Browed Cyan Wolf could actually control the sea waves, increasing their speed.
Along with the Three Elements Blood Escape Secret Technique, it allowed them to successfully escape.
Surprisingly, neither the Bai Family nor the Qing Family pursued them.
Of course, they also understood that although the original ginseng of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng has nine curved roots, like nine seeds, with some probability to grow into a true Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng,
in fact, even under perfect conditions, it’s possible that at most only three or four could mature into complete Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng.
More often than not, the cultivation fails.
This point has been verified by countless sects.
So, when they took it, they specially chose one close to the main root’s root whisker, thus having a greater chance of growing into a complete Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng.
At the same time, the Bai Family and Qing Family wouldn’t pursue them for these uncertain curved roots.
Because the most important part of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng is the ginseng itself, a bit less root indeed affects the medicinal effect, but it’s not particularly significant.
“Your Second Uncle naturally has a guardian spirit; besides, he took an ancient treasure this time, along with a transformation, using a Spirit Treasure to protect his Divine Soul, and with the array we set up before, the possibility of a problem is not high!” Ye Xuefu replied after a moment of silence.
Though he spoke as such, in fact, he very well knew that Ye Xuecang was indeed with those at the Golden Core and now a Nascent Soul aura had appeared.
Clearly, the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the Qing Family and Bai Family were following in secret.
The difficulty of Ye Xuecang’s escape was much greater than theirs.
The gap between Golden Core and Nascent Soul is even larger than the gap between Golden Core and Qi Cultivation.
Ye Xuecang still had to escape from two Nascent Souls.
The danger in this was clear just by thinking about it.
Ye Haige, upon hearing this, also nodded. Although he could joke ordinarily, he wasn’t particularly adept at consolation, and at such a juncture, other than praying in his heart, what else could be done?
Moreover, they were not truly safe either, after all, they were in the Long Abyss Sea Domain and hadn’t reached the Luoyun Islands Sea Domain yet.
This sea domain belonged to a narrow and long sea domain, with not even an island in sight.
The two of them, one a Wind Attribute Body Cultivator, the other a Fire Attribute Pill Cultivator, were not proficient in fighting in the sea.
Ye Haige spoke a few more words, then calmly took out a Blood Leech Disc and began studying it.
These Blood Leeches were naturally refined into the Blood Leech Disc by Ye Xuefan in combination with Ye Haifei’s Blood Leeches, which could use the half-mother body of the Blood Leech to monitor the breath of nearby Blood Leeches.
In this operation of the Ye Family, it played a significant role.
“Someone’s coming?” Ye Haige suddenly spoke.
These words made Ye Xuefu’s heart skip a beat.
The person showing up now would either be of the Purple Mansion, Golden Core, or even possibly Nascent Soul.
If they encountered them, the likelihood of an incident was high!
After all, just for one of the curved roots, there was plenty of reason.
“No, not at Tier Four!” At this moment, the two’s Divine Sense couldn’t yet detect it, but the Blood Leeches could.
Ye Haige observed for a while, then took out some Cyan Lantern Fish from the Spirit Beast Bag.
These Cyan Lantern Fish, due to being too slow, had naturally been left behind by the Spirit Shuttle, but through the Communication Beast, he could sense that these Cyan Lantern Fish had been covered by Divine Sense.
“He has been monitoring the sea domain of our Spiritual Ship’s actions, so we can’t sense his Divine Sense, and evidently, the other party’s Divine Sense is stronger than ours, perfectly controlling the distance, preventing us from sensing, yet able to sense us!”
Ye Haige calculated the distance again.
He found the opponent’s cultivation must be at least with Divine Sense of the Late Stage of Purple Mansion.
Otherwise, even a Divine Sense of the Middle Stage of Purple Mansion couldn’t perfectly monitor them like this.
“It’s probably Huang Yuan’an of the Huiyu Sect, or Zi Qingming from the Zi Family in the Red Cloud Sea Domain.” Ye Haige speculated.
These two, the former is Middle Stage of Purple Mansion, but has the Late Stage of Purple Mansion’s Divine Sense, considered a Tier Three Upper-Grade Artifact Refiner, whose Divine Sense is higher than cultivation.
The latter is purely a difference in cultivation level, completely able to use the Divine Sense gap to track them.
“They haven’t seen us now; the Cyan Lantern Fish I just deployed seemed to have been attracted as if by the Demon Emperor!”
“And here is the Long Abyss Sea Domain, easy to be blocked; they won’t make a move here!” Ye Haige proposed.
The two looked at each other and nodded, then waited for a while until they felt that the person behind hadn’t noticed the peculiarity of the Cyan Lantern Fish.
They took out two puppets to sit inside the Spirit Shuttle, then infused a lot of True Essence, letting the Spirit Shuttle automatically navigate towards the front of the sea domain.
The speed did not decrease in the slightest.
However, in an instant, the two of them leaped out of the Spirit Shuttle, used Water Escape, concealing themselves, heading towards above the sea domain.
Upon reaching above the sea domain, they chose a direction again.
“Haige, head towards the Celestial Cloud Sea Domain, then turn towards the Luoyun Sea Domain, create a time difference, and just fall behind them!” Ye Xuefu proposed once more.
The Long Abyss Sea Domain leads to three island sea domains: Celestial Cloud Sea Domain, Luoyun Sea Domain, and Red Cloud Sea Domain.
Their initial plan was to use the Luoyun Islands as their escape route.
If they switched to the Chiyun Islands, the dangers would still be considerable, and they were far less familiar with the route.
Turning towards the Celestial Cloud Sea Domain, they might encounter Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators from the Qinghe Sect.
If everything went smoothly, the Profound River Infinite Sword Array and Beast Soul from the Qinghe Sect would be nearly completed by now.
Of course, this was predicated on the cultivators of the Qinghe Sect being lucky enough.
If not, it’s possible they’ve just served up enough food for those demon beasts.
So no matter which way it goes, they wouldn’t head to the Celestial Cloud Islands nor rendezvous with Ye Jingyu.
The best option is to first head in the direction of the Celestial Cloud Islands, wait until the right time, then slip behind the pursuing cultivators, enter the Luoyun Islands Sea Domain, and find the planned caravan to return to the Celestial Horse Sea Domain.
Once there, they can safely return to the Eastern Domain.
Although it would take some time, the increased safety is worth it.
“If it’s Huang Yuan’an, Ninth Uncle, I think we can try. He also has a Curved Root!” Ye Haige continued to speak.
One Curved Root is not reliable; Huang Yuan’an also took one.
With their two at Early Stage of Purple Mansion, plus the Middle Stage of Purple Mansion Star-Eyed Iron Ape and Middle Stage of Purple Mansion White-Browed Cyan Wolf and Barbaric Fire Cyan Ox, they might be able to kill Huang Yuan’an.
Even with one or two more Purple Mansion cultivators from Huiyu Sect, they could defeat the other side.
“Haige, this matter is not allowable!” Ye Xuefu suddenly interrupted.
His gaze was extremely solemn, making Ye Haige feel a bit intimidated.
This wasn’t about cultivation disparity but the authority of an elder.
“Even if Huang Yuan’an is alone, it’s still a trap. He has seen our cultivation and knows about the White-Browed Cyan Wolf and Star-Eyed Iron Ape. The only one he hasn’t seen is my Barbaric Fire Cyan Ox. If he dares to chase alone, he surely has a trump card!” Ye Xuefu spoke directly.
“Haige, before we took action to steal, we couldn’t stand out before the chaos began; we’d be shot down!”
“We must follow them, lest the Bai Family gains both the Transformed Spirit Body and the original body of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng!”
“That would disrupt the balance!”
“But if we act now, aside from wrongly estimating strength and being counter-attacked, we might also draw the attention of the Bai and Qing Families.”
“Risking the original Curved Root for one more, even exposing the family, is not worth it!” Ye Xuefu finished a flurry of words, leaving Ye Haige somewhat red-faced.
He repeatedly apologized, knowing he had been greedy.
Especially after acquiring the White-Browed Cyan Wolf, he felt his strength had swelled.
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Toward the direction of the Luoyun Sea Domain, a wider spirit shuttle was also cutting through the sea.
On this spirit shuttle, there were unusually few people, just one person.
This person leisurely watched the spirit shuttle crossing in the distance while carefully observing with a mirror.
Through the mirror, he could even easily see the line of the sea opened by a spirit shuttle.
By observing the water-wave line, he could tell where the spirit shuttle was heading.
How many people were on it, what was the maximum speed.
He then took out the Spirit Diagram, and when it unfolded, his eyes fell on Celestial Ding Island at the far edge of the Luoyun Islands.
Celestial Ding Island belonged to the Luoyun Islands as one of the gateway islands, not well-known and lacked any spirit veins, but was indeed the landmark island ending the Long Abyss Sea Domain.
Furthermore, departing from here, the distance to the Chiyun Islands was not particularly far.
This was the best ambush site.
After dealing with the two Purple Mansion cultivators from the Yun Family, he could escape to the Chiyun Islands.
As for Jade Return Sect, Huang Yuan’an hesitated to return, for he had thoroughly offended the Qing and Bai Families this time.
Furthermore, Master Huangquan sent a transmission instructing him to head to Yansha Island on Chiyun Islands after securing the Ginseng Root.
On that island lived a reclusive Golden Core friend of Master Huangquan from the Cyan Cloud Sea Domain.
Master Yansha, with the protection of that master, Jade Return Sect could secure the Curved Root of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng.
With effort over decades or centuries, they might be able to ascend to a Nascent Soul power, becoming a Nascent Soul Sect.
“No!” But soon, he murmured again.
He suddenly realized that the speed of the Yun Family’s spirit shuttle ahead, fluctuating with the sea wind and waves, seemed to be slowing down, and the spiritual light dimmed.
This was clearly an automatically controlled spirit shuttle!
He quickly transmitted using a Jade Talisman and extended his Divine Sense forward.
Upon spotting the two puppets controlling the Tier Four Spiritual Ship with several Upper-grade Spirit Stones, he almost coughed up blood.
His hands instinctively sped up, catching the spirit shuttle, and fiercely slashed atop it.
The spirit shuttle instantly broke open, sea water rushing inside.
The sword continued inside, eliminating the two Tier Two puppets.
“How could it be!” Huang Yuan’an clenched his fist, his confused expression quickly turning to rage!
Then, four Purple Mansion cultivators suddenly emerged from the spiritual ship.
Aside from the three Purple Mansion cultivators of Jade Return Sect, there was also one from the Zi Family.
“They might have escaped to the Celestial Cloud Islands; the Yun Family is truly cunning!” Huang Yuan’an grumbled indignantly.
The remaining individuals witnessing this scene exchanged helpless glances.
“Let’s head straight to the Chiyun Islands; otherwise, if the Qing and Bai Families block us ahead, we’ll all perish!” The Purple Mansion cultivator from the Zi Family promptly proposed.
Though unwilling to admit or believe, Huang Yuan’an nodded given the circumstances.
The spirit shuttle promptly adjusted its course.
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