STARTING MY CULTIVATION WITH TIME MANAGEMENT

Chapter 791: Chapter 28: The Beast

Luo Yan led Shi Liuli and fled several miles away under the cover of the forest before Shi Liuli managed to struggle free from the Dragon’s Might, gasping as she swallowed an elixir.

“They haven’t caught up?” Shi Liuli asked anxiously.

Although his wife was incredibly intelligent, she lacked experience in life-and-death struggles, and her psychological resilience sometimes couldn’t keep up.

Luo Yan gently stroked her back and nodded, saying,

“Mhm.”

“Why?” Shi Liuli frowned and asked.

It wasn’t that she hoped those Dragon Clan cultivators would catch up, but rather she worried there might be some conspiracy or trap involved.

“Because they think I’m very strong,” Luo Yan chuckled.

Shi Liuli fell silent for a moment before asking,

“The Peacock Clan?”

Well, that was a fail at pretending to be cool.

His wife was too clever, and sometimes that really wasn’t a good thing… Luo Yan could only nod in admission and said,

“Innate Five Elements Great Chaos Divine Light—if a Human Race cultivator were to master it, do you think anyone would believe it?”

“Indeed,” Shi Liuli sighed.

It was like how people would immediately assume someone was a Penglai Cultivator during a magical competition if they tossed out Talisman Scripts without worrying about the cost, due to the stereotyped impressions built up over the years.

“So what should we do now?” Shi Liuli continued to ask.

“Why not have the lady make a calculation?”

“In matters of life and death, it’s better to be cautious,” Shi Liuli shook her head in refusal. “What if the enemy perceives and follows our Qi signature to track us down?”

“Hmm…” Luo Yan thought she made sense and decided to perform a scan himself.

When he scanned the area, he realized that Shi Yao and the others were nowhere to be found within the vicinity.

They’ve run off so quickly?

Luo Yan looked around once more, only to be surprised to find that the two of them had already reached a valley.

It was surprising because throughout their journey, there were wildly growing trees and weeds everywhere, scarcely a comfortable place to settle down.

But in this valley, there was a clearing. The trees around the edge of the clearing didn’t encroach any further, as if some invisible barrier had stopped them.

Shi Liuli also noticed the anomaly here, and speculated thoughtfully,

“There may be a treasure hidden in this place.”

“Hmm…” Luo Yan thought, do I not already know that? Judging by the way those trees can’t enter, it’s obviously due to some treasure that restrains the growth of trees!

But no matter how I scan, why can’t I detect any trace of it? Not even spatial fluctuations—Ah Jing, can you do it?

“Dumb!” the Kunlun Mirror mocked him, “The trees avoid this place not because there is a treasure hidden here, but because some treasure once passed through this place, and the trees fear the aura it left behind.”

“So that’s how it is!” Startled into realization, Luo Yan then turned to look at Shi Liuli, who was still frowning over her calculations, and suggested, “My lady, is it possible that some treasure once left its aura here, causing the trees to grow around this particular area?”

“Oh, right.” Shi Liuli also understood, and after casting another prediction, she confirmed this idea.

“In that direction,” she pointed forward and said, “we should head that way.”

The two didn’t bother about those Dragon Clan cultivators and quickly proceeded in the direction indicated by the aura of the treasure.

A moment later, they came upon a similar clearing ahead, with trees only capable of growing around the edges of the clearing.

“Liuli,” Luo Yan pondered, then said, “You mentioned… if this treasure moves in a straight line, then the area without trees should form a straight line, running directly from the clearing we saw earlier to this one.”

“However, in reality, these are two separate clearings that are not connected.” Shi Liuli considered for a moment, then said, “So, could it be a kind of jumping movement?”

“Every time the magical treasure lands, it destroys the surrounding trees and vegetation, then ‘jumps’ up, flies through the air, and lands in another place, creating such a clearing without trees.”

“That being said, it might not necessarily be a magical treasure,” Luo Yan expressed his doubt, “Could it be some kind of mystical creature?”

He immediately rose on his sword, lifting himself above the canopy of trees.

He could see a series of similar circular clearings throughout the distant green sea of trees, but there were no signs of any jumping mystical creatures.

Shi Liuli crouched down to look at the ground beside her feet and said:

“The outside is all soil, but this clearing is filled with sand.”

“Is the sand produced by burning soil?” Luo Yan asked, surprised.

“Mhm.” Shi Liuli brought her two fingers together, and the Purple Extreme Han Yuan Sword plunged into the ground, swiftly shaking the sand aside.

“Husband, look, even several feet deep underground, it’s still this kind of dry sand…”

“The other party is not jumping through the air,” Luo Yan also quickly realized, “but moving underground.”

“Every time it emerges from the underground, it destroys the surrounding trees. This does make sense,” he acknowledged.

“If the other party is hiding underground, then it will be difficult to find,” Shi Liuli began to cast divination.

Luo Yan also scanned with his hand, indeed finding that the underground around them was all soil, only this spot on the ground was sandy, and it stretched downward, the quality of the soil starkly different from the surrounding area.

“I can’t figure it out,” Shi Liuli sighed, “Maybe I’ve done too much divination today.”

Luo Yan suddenly wondered: Is your Art Calculation powered by a battery, and can it run out of power after prolonged use?

As if she saw through her husband’s puzzled thoughts, Shi Liuli explained:

“To put it in simple terms, the fate of all things is arranged by the Heavenly Dao, and some people can guess the subsequent arrangements of the Heavenly Dao by peeking into it.”

“The so-called peeking is still just exploiting the loopholes in the Heavenly Dao. After peeking too much in a short time, the Heavenly Dao is bound to react, and trying to probe further can easily lead to accidents.”

“In that case, my wife need not worry about this for now, leave it to me,” Luo Yan immediately said.

He rubbed his hands together and conjured the Five-colored Divine Light, rapidly shooting it into the ground.

Before long, the sand underground was completely transformed by the Five-colored Divine Light, and it even solidified into metal around it, creating a tunnel that supported and prevented the earth from collapsing.

Looking down, Shi Liuli saw that Luo Yan had even thoughtfully made steps for her, which truly warmed her heart.

As the two descended the staircase, Shi Liuli suddenly asked:

“Husband, doesn’t the temperature around us seem a bit high?”

“Yes, the Fire System Spiritual Energy is a bit too active,” Luo Yan nodded and said, “It seems it’s either a Fire System magical treasure or a Fire System mystical creature.”

After descending for several hundred feet, the surrounding area suddenly began to tremble eerily.

“Be careful!” Luo Yan immediately activated his True Yuan, and the Five-colored Divine Light surged out, swirling in all directions.

Shi Liuli also formed a Daoist Formula, activating the cosmic Sand of Solar Brilliance to create a thick and solid barrier around them, ready to defend against potential attacks from all sides.

Just a moment later, the tunnel ahead suddenly collapsed.

From the breach in the wall, three sets of blood-red circular eyeballs appeared.

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