Chapter 303: Towards the Southeast (3) (Updated today)
"Like Huzhe, I have lost many memories. But one thing I remember clearly is Huzhe's fanatical love for gold and stone."
The skinny dog turned around and glared at the caller, feeling disappointed. "Yao Yong lured him away with a box of gold and stone, and he wouldn't show me a single piece. Now go shake the caller's sleeves, and I guarantee you'll shake out gold!"
Looking at the clothes on the caller, which were so dirty that they were unrecognizable, and then glancing at the tattered cuffs, Luo Xuanyi expressed doubt. But there was no harm in giving it a try.
She wrapped the silently weeping caller with her deathly aura, and then hung him upside down in the sky, shaking him. A series of "bang bang" sounds rang out, and hundreds of golden lights fell, causing the caller to scream.
"My gold!"
He struggled desperately to break free from the deathly aura, and fell from mid-air with a "thump", covering all the gold and stone on the ground with his body, arching his back vigilantly and staring at Luo Xuanyi.
But his skinny body and tattered clothes couldn't completely hide the gold and stone scattered all over the floor. Luo Xuanyi sighed, "I didn't expect he could hide so much. Normally, you can't even see it. Where did he hide it?"
The question was trivial, and knowing Luo Xuanyi was just asking it casually, the skinny dog automatically ignored it. It continued writing on the flat ground, "It seems like a long time ago, you helped him make his body or something out of gold. So gold can be considered half of this guy's life."
"Besides, he already has a half-dead soul and is unable to resist the illusion. These two factors combined make it extremely difficult to get him out of the illusion."
Luo Xuanyi, sensing Skinny Dog's irritability, wasn't in a rush. She calmly grasped the information about the caller in this sentence: "You said the caller's soul was half-dead? How long ago?"
Skinny Dog was unprepared for Luo Xuanyi and nodded. "From what I remember, it was because his soul was damaged that he gradually became this crazy. It was probably ten thousand years ago, but I can't remember why it was damaged."
A person from ten thousand years ago, appearing from the ruins, a powerful yet remnant soul, a passion for gold, Bo Huixiao and Yu Lu. Luo Xuanyi silently gathered all this information together and turned the topic back to freeing the caller from the illusion.
"As far as I know, illusions can be dispelled with elixirs. A single dose of the seventh-grade elixir, Dawn Breaking Soup, can dispel all illusions that only involve the mind; the ninth-grade Daylight Elixir can even pull the physical body out of an illusion."
Skinny Dog looked at him with hope, and Luo Xuanyi could only helplessly spread her hands. "Let me make it clear first, I can't refine a ninth-grade pill. That's something only top-tier alchemists can refine. I can mass-produce pills below the sixth grade, and I can barely reach the threshold of the seventh-grade pill, but I have almost no ingredients for the Dawn Soup. There's no way I can refine it."
This wasn't Luo Xuanyi's excuse; it was the truth. After all, Luo Xuanyi hadn't spent her entire career honing her skills as an alchemist. While mid-grade and lower-grade elixirs could be mastered through exceptional talent, high-grade elixirs reached the realm of the Dao. A practical person like Luo Xuanyi, who didn't delve into the process regularly, would have to spend twice as much time understanding the process as others.
The main ingredient for the Dawn Soup was six petals of the seventh-grade Millennium Plum Blossom. Luo Xuanyi, after robbing so many trading houses, only had three, totaling nine petals. Besides the main ingredient, Luo Xuanyi also lacked the lotus beads from the sixth-grade Eye Lotus and the other ten fifth-grade auxiliary herbs.
Although these elixirs can be collected in the Zhongqu Mountains, it is time-consuming and laborious. Seeing that the location of Dongye Mountain mentioned by Yu Du is just 200 miles to the southeast, Luo Xuanyi is absolutely unwilling to do so.
"There's another method that's more feasible than alchemy," Luo Xuanyi said deliberately, "Find something that the summoner cares about more than gold, and force him to wake up from his greed."
"Do you know what the caller fears most? Showing him what he fears most might help dispel the illusion."
Luo Xuanyi would never forget that she was not Bo Huixiao. She was always on guard, fearing that Huzhe would suddenly wake up and kill her again.
Rather, it was an accident that the Caller fell into the golden illusion, which was neither good nor bad for her. At least Luo Xuanyi knew that the Caller's weakness was mental.
She concealed her thoughts in her caring words, but the skinny dog apparently didn't notice. He tried to think back, even flapping his ears with his front paws, until he finally came up with an answer.
"Heavenly thunder, he is afraid of it."
Nonsense, who isn't afraid of thunder? If you attract thunder, who knows who will be struck? Luo Xuanyi rejected this answer on the spot.
“Other than that, there seems to be nothing else.”
After tossing and turning without being able to come up with an accurate answer, the skinny dog hung his head in frustration, and a whining sound came from his throat.
Seeing how pitiful it looked, Luo Xuanyi squatted down and gently touched its ears, finally reminding it of the final plan.
"Except for the two methods above, the only option left is brute force."
Making a splitting gesture with her hands, Luo Xuanyi pointed at the caller and said, "Take the caller with you and go back to kill the white worm. Once the owner of the illusion dies, the illusion will naturally disappear."
The two drooping dog ears suddenly stood up after hearing this, and the skinny dog wagged its tail, but then it thought of something and the wagging of its tail gradually slowed down.
It wrote on the ground: "What about you?"
Skinny Dog was more worried about losing Luo Xuanyi again than the potential chaos in the rear. However, with its strength, ending the illusion wouldn't take too long.
Luo Xuanyi comforted him softly, "I'm fine. I'll take Longyue and continue to Dongye Mountain. If you can catch up, we'll meet up there."
"If I have found the direction of Yuqiong Mountain by then, you and Huzhe can ask Fengque and then head to Yuqiong Mountain to meet up."
Her arrangements were very well-planned, and it didn't look like she was trying to get rid of the caller and the skinny dog. Judging from the skinny dog's attitude towards the caller's illusion, Luo Xuanyi's conspiracy was likely to succeed.
Sure enough, the skinny dog lowered his head and thought for a while, then his expression became brighter. He resolutely raised his front paw and wrote on the ground:
"Forget it, what's the use of Guanhuzhe, that idiot? Let's go to Dongye Mountain."
Um?
The skinny dog, looking completely resigned, ran to the caller lying on the golden stone and laughed at him loudly. The caller was now thinking only of the gold, and faced with the skinny dog's ridicule, his face was blank and he could only be scolded.
Luo Xuanyi stood up a little late. She hadn't expected that Bo Huixiao's whereabouts were more important to Shou Gou than Huzhe's brain. Perhaps because Huzhe was already crazy, it didn't matter if he went even crazier?
Or, Skinny Dog was consciously controlling Luo Xuanyi's whereabouts.
Luo Xuanyi thought back to the Water Seal, which hadn't reacted to her. If they'd believed it belonged to Bo Huixiao, then Luo Xuanyi's failure to activate it should have made them suspicious. But the man and the dog were acting quite normal.
Unless Luo Xuanyi is really Bo Huixiao, but Shui Guoxi has no way to explain it.
Aimless speculation would only lead to scattered thoughts. Luo Xuanyi chose not to dwell on it. Having already decided to take the skinny dog and the caller and continue southeast, Luo Xuanyi walked towards the man and the dog.
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Sorry (。﹏。*), I had something to do today so I can only update once in the car. I feel a bit carsick... I will still update twice tomorrow, and I will make up for the one I owe you on Monday next week!
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