Two large cauldrons were floating, with two little heads lying inside the cauldrons, looking at Dahei.

"Twenty thousand, it's over, it's over, from now on Dahei will be the only one to enjoy the master's favor."

In front of Sanqian's body that looked like a giant salamander, two small hands grew out, which were clinging to the edge of the big cauldron, looking at Dahei with some envy.

"Yes, yes." Erwan nodded repeatedly.

"We're going to fall from grace."

…

On the sand table that stretched for more than 20 miles, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches intersected to form a grid, and at some of the intersections of the lines, a shadow stone was suspended.

“Ah…”

Dahei walked back and forth on the sand table, outlining a route according to different grid points.

“Ahhh…”

"Master, it's all done. The first piece of stone that captured the trace appeared in the Sanmao Mountain, 600,000 miles deep in the wilderness. This scene is not the main battlefield, and only captured the scene of Canghuang's escape."

"Afterwards, my people discovered it in Xiaoshe Mountain, Guying Mountain, Kaoshan Lake, and other places one after another. The last place it appeared was the State of Chu..."

"There are a total of thirteen image stones and one hundred and seventy ant nests of black-horned ants that saw Yuan Xi's traces."

Floating above the sand table, Shen Lian's spiritual sense fell on the photo-taking stone below, and he indeed captured a vague fighting scene. Yuan Xi was being chased by two demon cultivators, and after being defeated, he looked back to the north in panic.

“Master, we didn’t capture the scene of Yuan Xi being beaten into a Nascent Soul. The first time we discovered the scene of him becoming a Nascent Soul was when we found him three hundred thousand miles deep in the wilderness, right here on the lake near the mountains.

Since the photo stone has no time scale, it is impossible to tell how much time has passed. I suggest that the owner install an hourglass on the photo stone next time."

"Also, these are the fragments of memory stripped from my little ones."

As Dahei spoke, he presented a jade slip to Shen Lian.

After practicing to the third level, Dahei became more and more adept at controlling ordinary ants with the power of his bloodline, and because they were of the same bloodline, it was also very convenient to use.

It also discovered that all of its bloodline descendants were easier to control than other ants of the same species in the wilderness.

Therefore, Dahei specifically requested Shen Lian to refine a batch of Happy Ant Pills for him, plus some elixirs that could increase the reproduction of offspring. He personally trained several direct descendants and kept them in the warehouse cave as breeding ants.

Of course, as a third-level demon king, all of its direct bloodlines have become demons. These demonized offspring would be too conspicuous if released, so the breeding ants are allowed to reproduce from generation to generation. After more than ten generations, when they have returned to silence, they will be released as breeding ants to build nests.

These ants have not become monsters, they only have a vague consciousness, and memories are like pictures to them. As the ancestor, Dahei can use the power of his blood to peel off their memory fragments.

"Master, I also captured the figures of those eerie guys, which I also included in these memory fragments."

“Well done.”

Shen Lian knocked on Dahei's head, and a crisp sound like the collision of metal and stone was heard.

"Ahhh... I will do anything to serve my master."

Looking at Dahei's raised tail, Shen Lian knocked on his head again.

"There are still some tribesmen whose memories have not been extracted. I will extract them all. Maybe I can even find the traces of those sinister guys."

The warehouse cave was filled with sleepy common black-horned ants.

In order to find Yuan Xi's trace, Shen Lian and Fenhun took action separately, splitting into two routes and collecting a lot of black-horned ants in different areas from the east and west sides of the wasteland.

Although Dahei has determined Yuan Xi's escape route through the image-retaining stone and the black-horned ants, there are still many black-horned ants left in the cave.

…

At this moment, outside the cave, the Merit Clone, with the Storehouse Cave, was already standing in the area where the Photo Beads where Yuan Xi appeared were first discovered.

Following the route marked by Dahei on the grid of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, one can find the place where Yuanxi's body was blown up. As long as there is a body, there will be residual fluctuations of magic power, and it is possible to find Yuanxi's location.

Although various forces have gathered together, it can be found that Yuan Xi is not only a point of entry for Tianyuan Sect to intervene, but Shen Lian also likes the Three Treasures of Tianluo.

With this thing, you can elevate your energy and spirit to the peak before advancing to the God Transformation stage, and face the God Transformation tribulation with the best attitude.

Although it is okay not to use this thing, and you can spend time to polish it to perfection bit by bit, but it would be a shame not to look for it now that you have the clue.

After all, it may take thirty years, three to five hundred years, or even one to two thousand years, or even death by sitting in meditation to improve your spirit.

There are many cultivators who have reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul but lack energy and spirit and dare not trigger the heavenly tribulation of the Divine Transformation. This shows the value of the Three Treasures of Tianluo.

…

Among the mountains, a group of Yin energy stretched for more than ten miles. There were thousands of Yin corpses walking through the mountains and forests stepping on the Yin energy. After the group of Yin corpses walked away, a green light emerged from a thick birch tree, and the incarnation of merit walked out of it.

"Sure enough, I'm late. I wonder how many people got there first."

Following the route Yuan Xi took when he fled, the aura here is the strongest. The body of a Nascent Soul cultivator collapsed, and even after twenty or thirty years, some remnants of energy still remained.

The traces of the battle are still obvious here, and the collapsed mountains stretch for hundreds of miles.

There were also black-horned ants and image stones in this area, but the power of the fight between the Nascent Souls was so devastating that the insignificant black-horned ants were killed and the image stones were shattered.

Hidden among the earth and rocks, it gathered the remaining breath and placed it in a small copper lamp.

The auras of the two evil spirits are also different, one tends to be bloody and the other tends to be evil.

The aura in the three bronze lamps was not strong. Firstly, the fighting here had already lasted for quite some time. Secondly, there were other people who had gathered their spiritual power first and wanted to use it as a lead for tracking.

The sub-soul of merit quickly began to follow the route that had been explored in advance, heading northward, constantly collecting the remaining breath along the way. There were still some remaining breaths in the mountains and fields for hundreds of thousands of miles, and they were all collected inside the bronze lamp.

Chu State, the southern border town of Ruyang.

This is a newly built city in recent decades, mainly due to the changes in the wilderness. The markets outside the country were wiped out with blood, and many cultivators moved north to the Ten Thousand Star Sea.

After some changes, a new city was formed.

When Shen Lian entered the city, he sensed the auras of five Jindan cultivators in the city. It seemed that something big had happened in the State of Chu.

After entering the territory of Chu State, there were no black-horned ants available, and Yuan Xi also disappeared within the territory of Chu State.

The current rumor is that the person is hiding in the waters south of the Wilderness and Wanxing Sea.

However, Shen Lian was also thinking about a question as he chased along the way. It was fine if others couldn't find Yuan Xi, but why couldn't the Tianyuan Sect find her either?

Even if he was beaten into the Nascent Soul stage, it is impossible that even the communication talisman for contacting the sect was destroyed.

In addition, the Tianyuan Sect has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. Even if there is no communication talisman, there should be other means of contact, not to mention that Yuan Xi has the precious Tianluo Three Treasures in his hands.

Could it be that Yuan Xi was really beaten into a coma, and his breath was completely lost to the point where even the monks in the sect couldn't find him?

This is such a coincidence.

The flickering flame in the tracking lamp deviated towards the northeast direction of Chu State.

One month later.

The Bishuixian City of Chu State.

Watching the flame in the copper lamp go out little by little, according to the guidance of the tracking lamp, Yuan Xi should be hiding within the territory of Chu State, but the secret tracking method was affected by external forces and the specific location could not be determined.

This is normal. If it were so easy to catch up with him, other sects would have caught up with him long ago.

Although the specific location was known, it covered most of the Chu State. Unfortunately, Shen Lian did not know the art of deduction and could not locate it specifically.

Moreover, the places he can find can also be found by other cultivators. For example, in this fairy city, there are two Nascent Soul auras hidden.

"Master, something's happening!"

Just as Shen Lian was preparing to hide in Bishuixian City and prepare to cross the river by following the lead of other Nascent Soul cultivators, Dahei sent news from the warehouse cave.

"Master, look at this."

Dahei released a jade slip from the cave in the warehouse, which contained the fragments that he had peeled off from the remaining black-horned ant's memory.

"These memory fragments were extracted from the memories of the tribe members in another direction."

"What the hell is the Tianyuan Sect doing!"

After sensing the memory scenes in the jade slip, Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.

The route that Yuan Xi took to escape to the north that was previously traced out was in the eastern part of the wasteland. And now, from the memory of the black-horned ant, a vague figure of a Nascent Soul appeared in the western part of the wasteland.

The next moment, after Shen Lian left the Bishuixian City, he re-entered the warehouse cave and asked his merit clone to close the cave.

"Master, I discovered that Yuan Xi's Nascent Soul's people came from here. I named it Yangjiao Mountain."

Dahei floated above the sand table and pointed to the direction where Yuan Xi's shadow was found again.

This place is almost ten thousand miles away from Yuan Xi's escape route to the north.

…

Desolate area.

In a cave, spiritual light flickered and restrictions were as big as stars.

A purple-blue compass was suspended in the cave, with a fair and tender Nascent Soul figure sitting cross-legged in the middle. It was undoubtedly Yuan Xi.

As the compass slowly turned, it scattered starlight in all directions, blending with the spiritual restrictions around it, causing the surrounding void to fall into a state of distortion without cracking or breaking.

At a certain moment, the light on the compass suddenly flickered, a soft ringing sound continued, and a phantom that looked like a middle-aged monk emerged.

The figure was covered in purple-green color, and it expanded and contracted with the light around it.

"Uncle Xingxiu, is there anyone using the deduction technique again?"

Yuan Xi on the compass woke up.

The purple-green spirit smiled faintly, "The mere inferior and minor deduction technique cannot break the secret hidden by my Xingxiu Cangtian Plate.

Don't worry, with me here, no one in the entire Tiannan Continent will be able to find our trace."

(End of this chapter)