Chapter 70 The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng

Now that the plan had been made and Sigiriya was ready, Tarona said no more and the two of them acted separately.

Watching Sigiriya and the five tools who had become her puppets step into the portal and head towards the big ship they left on the sea, the Great Witch waved her hand and released the simple field.

Before leaving, she did not forget to send a letter via flying arrow to the frightened Old Madam Xue, telling her that "the evil spirit has been eliminated". As for how things would develop afterwards, that was not her concern.

Tarona teleported to the sea area where the Baiyun City caravan was attacked by a giant sea beast. The residual breath she had extracted before could only track a limited range. Now she was going to use the companion creature sealed in the music box as bait, so the extracted residual breath would only be used for proofreading.

Worried that one companion creature was not enough, she also found an energy crystal from the space. Adding the two together, it became a state banquet.

The Great Witch cleared a space and hid herself perfectly. She stared at the sea area from top to bottom, inside and outside, not missing any movement.

The door of the music box was open, and the ballet cat was lying quietly in a corner of the music box. The terrifying aura was completely restrained, and only the aura of the companion organisms and energy crystals floated out layer by layer with the waves.

The hunter spreads his net to cover every angle, patiently waiting for the prey to come to him.

This wait lasted the entire afternoon.

Until the sun set and the last bit of sunlight was about to disappear above the sea level, an almost inaudible buzzing sound was heard from the distant sky.

A bit like a bee.

Tarona narrowed her eyes slightly and looked in the direction where the sound came from. The remaining breath hovering in her palm began to stir.

The one coming is the same one that attacked the Baiyun City caravan before.

Sure enough, her guess was correct; the companion creature was an amphibian.

It was bigger than the one she caught. If the one she caught looked like a C-type octopus, then the one in the sky looked like a vicious crab in the Wild Contest.

Not only does it have short and sharp spines all over its body, it also has a pair of large scarlet eyes. On its dark black shell, there abruptly stands a pair of wings that look like a bee's. These wings flap at a frequency of several hundred times per second, moving its huge body quickly through the sky.

In terms of appearance alone, it does look much more normal than the previous one.

But let's talk about something else...

Tarona felt that this companion creature might have a higher level of self-awareness than she had previously expected.

——It evolved slowly into this appearance.

There are still several places on its body that are wriggling and taking shape, and the constantly changing shapes of the flesh are its way of adapting to the world. What it will eventually look like depends on what it thinks is more suitable for its environment.

This is wisdom.

It has a high level of self-awareness.

Tarona reaffirmed his idea that this companion creature could not be kept because it was evolving very quickly.

The prey stepped into the hunting net without noticing. The rich and overflowing energy attracted it. Driven by the instinct to evolve and become stronger, it opened its big mouth like a cutting machine towards the dark hole, and the corrosive mucus was about to fall out.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden light fell from the sky and penetrated straight through its hard shell.

Whoosh.

Golden flames ignited in the sea, burning away all evil spirits and comforting the frightened souls.

In a flash, Tarona completed a soul search. This was her first time to search the soul of a companion creature. This companion creature was simply too different from others.

It was actually endowed by its creator with the ability to evolve intelligence, something that many companion creatures that are born with self-awareness do not possess.

It is special.

She obtained a memory from the companion creature's storage brain area - the memory of Gongsun Lan creating it.

This memory is sporadic and has no beginning or end, but Tarona is very good at piecing it together.

This companion creature did not exist originally. Gong Jiu only sent Gong Sunlan a huge deep-sea octopus, which was the original body of the companion creature that attacked Ye Gucheng.

Gong Sunlan found a living large crab inside the deep-sea octopus. It was a king crab.

She had other ideas.

While she was creating the giant octopus, she was also creating her backup plan bit by bit, and her eyes were filled with hatred and determination as she stared at the slowly mutating king crab.

Gongsun Lan didn't dare to use too much strength as she was worried that she would be discovered by Gong Jiu, so she decided to start from other aspects.

She endowed the companion with intelligence.

The carriage-sized companion creature woke up before the giant companion creature next to it. It rubbed the creator's wrist with its crab claws covered with broken thorns, then sank silently into the sea, swimming farther and farther away.

Its creator gave it only one order: "Destroy the creator's location and kill all living things there!"

This is to prevent Gong Jiu from crossing the river and then destroying the bridge.

Gongsun Lan could not resist Gong Jiu, but she could still die together with him.

The companion organism that entered the sea was like entering a buffet. It devoured all the marine life it saw without stopping, extracting the purest life force from them to accelerate its evolution.

An urgent sense of mission urged it to evolve quickly and become stronger quickly.

At first, it couldn't understand what this sense of mission was and where it came from. It wasn't until it ate several sailors from the Baiyun City caravan that it finally knocked on the door of wisdom.

——The creator needs it.

——It must be hidden.

So it let go of the fragile humans under its claws and dived deeper into the sea. Then, in the darkest hour of the night, it flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

Its creators had not yet created a species that could fly, so the sky was its domain—it evolved wings.

It stays hidden in the sky, only diving into the seabed at night to devour.

Tarona burned the last ashes of the companion creature, and the magic music box obediently returned to space on its own. The pure white energy crystals rolled into the mountain of gold, glowing quietly.

It turned out that the caravan from Baiyun City happened to run into this companion creature foraging for food due to bad luck, and she even inferred several conspiracy theories for the other party. This time it was a battle of wits and courage with the air.

This kind of thing is inevitable. Before knowing the whole picture, the officers will always have to fight wits and courage with the air. It is better to think more than less.

Just like Batman's plans, from A to Z, no matter how unpredictable the situation is, he can always find a solution in time.

It's better to be prepared.

Sensing that the companion creature sealed in the music box began to swim around restlessly, trying to find a breakthrough in the endless darkness to force its way out of the prison, the Great Witch raised her lips slightly.

——Sigisiya found Gongsunlan.

Hmm, the time is so short, is Gong Jiu not here?

Forget it, let’s ignore him for now.

Tarona looked up at the starry night sky, then she flapped her wings and flew out of the sea. The rustling sea water automatically separated to both sides without wetting the angel at all.

The dazzling golden light flew towards Feixian Island.

…

Gong Jiu was indeed not on the nameless island. It was a coincidence that he cooperated with the king. He received Ye Gucheng's reply earlier than King Nan.

High-rise buildings rising up, is it just a dream?

Gong Jiu sneered, and his pink eyes, which were exactly the same as Hua Manlou's, were filled with cold murderous intent and a secret, almost unbearable desire.

The beauty standing beside him brought him a cup of hot tea, but he didn't even look at it, waved it away, stood up and strode away.

Gong Jiu's strength now is far beyond what it used to be. A casual swing of his hand is as powerful as if others were using their full strength.

The beautiful woman who served tea fell to the ground, and the hot tea in the cup spilled all over her dress, and the back of her white jade-like hand was burned red.

The maids in the room lowered their heads, not looking, not speaking, with completely empty eyes, like empty shells without souls.

The beauty's name is Shaman. She was brought back by Gong Jiu himself. Everyone on the island knows that she is the most beloved lover of the Nineth Master, so her status is very high. Even if Niu Niu Tang dislikes her, he will not do anything to her against Gong Jiu's wishes.

But Shaman, who was so spoiled, was extremely afraid of Gong Jiu. She once told Lu Xiaofeng in the future that Gong Jiu was probably made up of the nine most terrifying things in the world.

Which nine?

The liquid of a poisonous snake, the heart of a fox, the ice and snow in the North Sea, the rocks on the Tianshan Mountains, the bravery of a lion, the cruelty of a jackal, the patience of a camel, the wisdom of a human, and a ghost from the eighteenth level of hell.

From this we can see how terrible and frightening Gong Jiu is.

Even Lu Xiaofeng, the son of luck who was somewhat favored by heaven, almost died in his hands.

Originally, Shaman was not as afraid of Gong Jiu as she is now. In the past, she was afraid of Gong Jiu and hated him. There was always a hint of condescension in her eyes when she looked at him. It was a kind of contempt.

Gong Jiu didn't care about these. His feelings towards Shaman were not just normal and simple. She was very good at whip dancing.

However, just over half a year ago, there was only fear in Shaman's eyes when he looked at Gong Jiu.

There wasn't much normal humanity in this man to begin with, and after he came back from the Central Plains, his humanity became even weaker.

In the past, he looked at people like animals, not caring much about them, only distinguishing between useful and useless.

Now, he looks at people like flowers and plants on the roadside, not caring much about them, but no longer distinguishing between useful and useless.

Because all the people on the island are no longer human.

Shaman suddenly choked up. She had a pair of beautiful and lively cat eyes, but now she was numb and panicked by the endless terror around her. She didn't even dare to sleep too deeply.

She was afraid that she would become like these people who were no longer human.

Shaman and Beef Soup originally disliked each other, but now when she looked at Beef Soup looking at him coldly towards her, she felt a sour joy in her heart.

At least...Beef Soup is still a human being.

Gradually, the beautiful woman's soft sobbing could be heard from the room, her cry full of despair.

She was so scared.

Gong Jiu hasn't let her use the whip for a long time. How long can she survive like this without any effect?

She doesn’t want to…

She doesn't want to be like them...

…She doesn’t want to die either.

Shaman just fell to the ground and cried quietly, as if she wanted to cry out all the depression in her heart during this period. She cried for a long time, until her throat was dry, and it hurt like a needle every time she blinked her eyes.

She finally stopped crying, slowly stood up from the ground, and dragged her sore legs out of this courtyard, which was no less important to her than the Yanluo Palace.

It was almost dusk now. The island was so quiet that it made one's back numb. Everywhere one looked, people were like clockwork puppets, numbly repeating the events of the previous day. Not a single person could be heard talking on the huge island.

The sea breeze blew in from the corridor, and Shaman shivered violently, with fine sweat oozing from her forehead. She quickened her pace, wanting to return to her room as soon as possible and shut out all these horrors.

"Hey, Sandman!"

A voice called her from behind.

——It’s beef soup.

Shaman's long eyelashes trembled. She slowly turned around and squinted her eyes to look in the direction where the sound came from. A familiar and vivid person walked towards her with undisguised disgust between his eyebrows.

"I'm calling you, are you dumb?"

As soon as Beef Soup opened his mouth, he still said such unpleasant words.

Shaman didn't care. She looked at the beef soup almost greedily. Even these unpleasant words seemed like heavenly music, making her trembling heart resume its normal beating.

——The person standing in front of her and talking to her was a normal, living person.

This made her feel like she was still alive.

Niu Rou Tang didn't want to communicate with her any more, so he just asked, "Shaman, where is my ninth brother?"

Shaman shuddered for a moment, and after a long while he spoke, "I don't know... He's gone."

Her voice was hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for several days.

It was not the first time that Niuroutang had seen her like this. The first time, he was a little interested and asked about it, but after seeing it so many times, he stopped asking. He only thought that she was being pretentious and artificial, and didn't take her ninth brother's favor seriously. She was really an ungrateful person.

"Where did Brother Nine go?"

As she said this, she sighed and said, "Why do you always look so half-dead? Don't act like a dead person when I ask you a question!"

Shaman opened her mouth. She had a lot to say and ask, but she remembered the identity of the person in front of her - this was Gong Jiu's sister.

So she shut her mouth again and just shook her head, indicating that she didn't know where Gong Jiu had gone.

Gong Jiu would never tell her these things before, and even less so now.

“…What bad luck!”

Beef Soup cursed and turned away.

Shaman moved her hand hanging by her thigh, as if she wanted to instinctively keep this person, but the beef soup went too fast and disappeared from her sight almost in the blink of an eye.

The deadly terror surrounded her once again, and the cold and sticky tentacles were about to follow the shadow on the ground and strangle her throat.

Shaman walked towards her room trembling, her face couldn't be paler.

The beef soup walked out of Shaman's sight and went straight to Gong Jiu's courtyard. It was very quiet inside. She stood outside the gate, her nostrils moving slightly, as if she was sniffing something.

In the blink of an eye, the round pupils changed into a spider web shape, and in another blink, they returned to their normal appearance*.

There is no fresh scent of Gong Jiu on this island. The most recent scent was left two hours ago.

He is definitely no longer on the island.

What to do now?

"Beef Soup" tilted his head and thought for a while, then walked towards the dungeon in his memory.

It's not quite accurate to call it a dungeon. It's actually a small hill that has been hollowed out, reaching all the way to the bottom of the island.

There was only one person inside.

Tick, tick, tick.

The visitor deliberately made a noise.

The person kneeling in the darkness raised his head. His eyes, whose pupils had transformed into the shape of a fox, did not need any light and could see through the darkness very clearly.

Compared to Shaman's hoarse voice, this person's voice is much more pleasant. Just hearing the voice can make people imagine a fascinating picture of a beauty in their minds.

"My Lord, how dare you come to see me alone?"

She laughed in a low voice, choosing her prey to devour, her heart filled with hatred and anger that almost set her on fire.

The only person on this island who can make her jealous is Gong Jiu...

Let her think about it, how should she tear Gong Jiu's most beloved sister into pieces?