Chapter 227: Emerald Heart
The woman in red fell to the ground, trembling a little. She didn't even dare to raise her head.
She didn't know why, but when she faced the two men before her, she felt a surge of fear. They were just ordinary mortals, yet she felt a sense of dominance emanating from her very bones. It was a bloodline suppression that left her completely powerless to resist.
Now she doesn't even have the courage to escape.
Zhong Nianyao looked at the silent vixen and spoke, "Judging from your appearance, you must have transformed into a human form not long ago. What's your name? Why are you causing trouble in this mine?"
"I... my name is Hu Xiaoman." The woman in red lowered her head, not daring to look at Zhong Nianyao and Lu Yichen. She answered in a low voice, "I didn't kill anyone. I just... I just wanted to drive them away and stop them from staying here."
"This is someone else's jade mine. Why don't you let them mine it?" Zhong Nianyao felt a little speechless. Then, as if she had thought of something, she suddenly asked, "Is there some treasure here that you can't take away, so you want to drive everyone away?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Hu Xiaoman froze completely, but she quickly returned to normal. However, she didn't dare to look at Zhong Nian Yao, let alone answer her questions.
Seeing this, Zhong Nianyao knew that she had guessed correctly, "What kind of treasure is it?"
There was a hint of severity in that tone.
Hu Xiaoman still lowered her head and didn't answer. She knew in her heart that she didn't even have the courage to lie in front of the two people in front of her. So now she could only respond with silence.
"Hurry up and tell me." Zhong Nianyao frowned. "If it weren't for the fact that you haven't killed anyone, I would have stopped talking to you nicely and taken you in directly."
"If you don't want to talk about it, then you don't need to speak up anymore." Lu Yichen took a step forward and said in a calm voice, "I don't have a good temper."
There was no ups and downs in his tone, as if he was simply expressing his own meaning. However, it made people feel that he was not just talking, but really would do what he said.
"I'm telling you, isn't that enough?" Hu Xiaoman was also frightened and quickly said, "In the deepest part of this vein, there is an emerald heart. This emerald heart can help me cultivate, so I have been trying to stop you from mining."
Then she told him the whole story.
Hu Xiaoman originally lived in this mountain range. She was originally just an ordinary little fox, but it was thanks to the Emerald Heart within the mountains that she was able to begin her cultivation. It was only in the last hundred years that she was able to cultivate into a human form.
Not all jade mines yield an Emerald Heart; even among hundreds of mines, there might not be a single Emerald Heart. The Emerald Heart embodies the essence of heaven and earth, imbued with a vast amount of spiritual energy. Naturally, it's also a favorite tool for cultivation among these mountain spirits and monsters. Relying on the spiritual energy of the Emerald Heart for cultivation, cultivation is truly twice the result with half the effort.
After transforming into a human form, Hu Xiaoman continued to practice here with the help of the Emerald Heart.
She didn't know why, but she couldn't take the Emerald Heart with her. She could only absorb its spiritual energy nearby to cultivate. However, this wasn't a big deal for her, as she hadn't thought about leaving the mountain.
However, someone later came and started mining this jade vein. She was worried that they might dig up the Emerald Heart, so she tried to make them have a small accident in an attempt to stop them from mining.
However, she had not expected to run into Zhong Nianyao and Lu Yichen, her nemesis, today, which immediately exposed her whereabouts.
After listening to Hu Xiaoman's narration, Zhong Nianyao just found it funny. "This Emerald Heart is indeed precious, but this vein originally belongs to someone else. Why are you stopping them from mining it?"
Hu Xiaoman lowered her head and didn't dare to answer.
When facing Zhong Nianyao, she always felt a sense of oppression. Even if she didn't say anything harsh, she could still feel a huge pressure. It didn't seem like she was being deliberately pressured, but more like a suppression of her bloodline.
However, she saw clearly that the person in front of her, even though he could use magic, was still a real mortal.
Zhong Nianyao turned her head, looked at Lu Yichen, and said directly, "Then what are you going to do? The things that happened in your mine were all caused by this little vixen."
"Since there's no threat to life, I won't pursue the matter further." Lu Yichen looked at Hu Xiaoman and said calmly, "But I'm going to take this Emerald Heart with me."
"How can this be possible?" Hu Xiaoman was so excited that she ignored her fear and spoke directly, "I still need it to practice!"
"You've been using it for so long that you think it's yours, don't you?" Zhong Nianyao said with a sarcastic smile, "You have to understand, this Emerald Heart never belonged to you. The fact that you were able to cultivate with it for so many years, and even transformed it into a human form, is already a blessing."
"Being too greedy won't end well."
"But..." Hu Xiaoman was still very unconvinced, "I've been practicing here all along. They came later."
"Hu Xiaoman, we're not discussing this with you, we're informing you." Zhong Nianyao looked at Hu Xiaoman with a half-smile. "After all these years, if the Emerald Heart really belonged to you, you would have taken it away long ago. It's because you couldn't take it away that you resorted to all these tricks, isn't it?"
These words left Hu Xiaoman speechless with no words to refute.
"Take us to find the Emerald Heart." Lu Yichen stepped forward, his tone light but commanding.
Hu Xiaoman was dissatisfied and naturally didn't want to take them to find the Emerald Heart.
However, when she heard the commanding tone, she felt a surge of fear in her heart, and she didn't even dare to struggle. She simply took Lu Yichen and Zhong Nian Yao and continued walking towards the deepest part of the mine.
The two followed Hu Xiaoman all the way forward and found that the mines that had not yet been mined had already been dug up by Hu Xiaoman. They walked smoothly all the way.
After walking for a while, Hu Xiaoman stopped and began to recite a few spells silently.
As the spell fell, the space they were in seemed to distort.
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