Chapter 9

The distance from the carved gate to the background wall was neither long nor short, and a demon would definitely not fail to see him, but her puzzled look did not seem fake, so—

Yu Tu's gaze fell on the surging white mist under the short bridge.

He suspected that this familiar-looking white mist was the thing that suddenly appeared between him and the male protagonist that day. He didn't know what the specific function of the white mist was, but it must have the effect of blocking vision.

As for the rest... Yu Tu gritted his teeth and tried to use the extra connection that had emerged in his mind after the Emperor's Syrup was absorbed by this space to have an emergency communication with Bai Wu.

The unbridled white mist under the short bridge seemed to freeze for a moment, and then surged more happily. At this time, the human-like snake demon took the first step towards the short bridge.

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Bai Shuang came to the surface world from the inner world in search of the Emperor's Laxity. Although she was not directly compressed back to her original form by the barrier between the inner and outer worlds, the spiritual power suppressed in her meridians was only enough for her to maintain her human form and perform a few simple spiritual arts.

When a rainstorm hit, she could have cast a spell to avoid the rain, but every drop of spiritual power she could mobilize was extremely precious, so Bai Shuang thought about it and simply let the rain soak her entire body.

She had successfully obtained a not-small piece of Emperor's Plasma through friendly "communication" and was ready to return to the inner world. The nearby door to the inner world was in this town. Because detection-type spiritual arts consumed too much spiritual power and needed to be thrown every few miles, she did not have the ability to be so extravagant, so she could only search through the streets one by one. When she found the locust tree forest, she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance.

This kind of fragrance is not the gluttonous smell that comes out when you are hungry, but a kind of emotion that comes from the depths of your heart and soul.

It smells so good.

Only the magical medicine of heaven and earth that is of great benefit to cultivation can have such an alluring fragrance.

Bai Shuang braved the torrential rain and followed the fragrance that suddenly burst out and then became almost imperceptible, and finally found a mansion.

For safety reasons, she did not hold back this time and cast a probing spiritual spell towards the house in front of her. The spiritual power flowing through the meridians instantly decreased by half.

The feedback from her soul-detecting technique was that there was no fluctuation in her spiritual power.

Bai Shuang was overjoyed.

There are often powerful men guarding the spiritual objects of heaven and earth, and when they mature, they will attract competition from all parties. Unexpectedly, her luck on this trip was so good that not only did she get the Emperor's Blood that she wanted, but she also picked up a precious spiritual object of heaven and earth for free.

Out of courtesy, Bai Shuang knocked on the door.

She heard a voice saying "Come in".

The voice sounded very nice, but when Bai Shuang tried to distinguish whether it was old or young, she felt that the voice seemed chaotic and she could not make out any details at all.

She was startled, but then she felt relieved when she thought that the result of the spiritual feedback could not be false.

When she entered this ordinary-looking mansion, the heavy rain outside suddenly turned into a drizzle, and she exclaimed in surprise.

There are only two possibilities for this situation. One is that the existence of spiritual creatures in heaven and earth has affected the state of the weather nearby. The other is that someone has set up a formation here in advance and disturbed the qi here.

Even though she had already obtained the result through spiritual arts, and she was very confident that it was the former, when she entered the mansion, Bai Shuang still reacted weakly, and deliberately asked the owner in a soft voice - even though there was no fluctuation of spiritual power, the word "please come in" proved that there was someone inside.

The strange thing was that Bai Shuang asked several times in such a weak manner, but she didn't hear any sound, as if the sound she heard at the door just now was her illusion.

After entering the mansion, the fragrance had completely disappeared. Frost was all around, with a door on one side and walls on the other. There was only a bridge in front of me. The bridge was filled with white mist and I couldn't see anything clearly, but it was the only way.

Bai Shuang stepped on it carefully with bare feet.

cold.

Very cold.

The cold air seemed to flow along her toes and freeze her entire body.

Bai Shuang heard the sound of her teeth chattering. With just one step, she felt as if her whole body was paralyzed and frozen.

Is this the power of a spiritual creature? Just being close to it caused her such a severe burden, but this also indirectly shows that this spiritual creature is really powerful.

Bai Shuang gritted her teeth and tried hard to suppress the trembling that was getting faster and faster. She took another step forward. The cold became even colder. She regretted throwing away her shoes because they were soaked by the rain and made it heavy to walk.

She didn't know how she took the third step, but she had a determination in her heart that she must walk to the other side of the bridge to take a look.

Bai Shuang didn't know how long she had been walking, maybe an hour, maybe two hours. Her sense of time had become blurred, and she only remembered the coldness that made her mind stiff and stagnant.

Finally, her feet touched the ground under the bridge, the extreme cold subsided, and the white frost fell to the ground with a thud.

“It’s a bit slow.”

She heard a voice above her head.

Bai Shuang, who was exhausted, looked up and found that he had come to a place completely different from the other end of the bridge.

The man who had just spoken was young and handsome, wearing a dark-colored gown. He was sitting at an old-fashioned table, holding a book, and slowly looking towards her.

He had a pair of very beautiful eyes, with the corners of his eyes looking down and the corners of his eyes curled up, half covered by his long eyelashes. Even though he wore a monocle on one eye, it still couldn't hide that kind of stern scrutiny.

Bai Shuang felt as if her true self was seen through by his gaze. She lowered her head and found that the stone ground she was supporting with her hands was completely dry!

She glanced at the sky with her peripheral vision. It was still raining heavily, but this place seemed to be separated from the other end and the outside of the mansion into two different worlds.

This is not a formation. Formations will cause fluctuations in spiritual power and cannot escape detection by spiritual techniques.

Bai Shuang suddenly recalled a rumor that her elders had mentioned briefly in their conversations when she was a child.

It is said that when one's strength reaches a certain level, even in the surface world, one can keep the snow from sticking to one's body, the rain from wetting one's clothes, and one's footsteps from leaving any traces. These things that are as difficult as ascending to heaven for other people are as easy and natural as breathing for these big guys.

But she had never heard of any big shot who could achieve the same effect as on the surface world in a large area around him without the help of formations!

Bai Shuang, who had felt cold all over after walking across the strange bridge, was now stimulated by the thoughts in his mind and felt hot all over, with a mixture of cold and hot, and sweat broke out on his back.

She wouldn't be so unlucky that she would run into a super boss just because she was a little greedy, right? !

The spiritual energy in the body had been almost used up when crossing the bridge, and the feeling of emptiness in the meridians made Bai Shuang feel particularly insecure.

She remembered what she had just heard.

“Too slow.”

It didn't seem like he was angry about her intrusion, but rather like an elder testing his younger brother at school.

Bai Shuang's heart was pounding. She no longer cared about maintaining that weak appearance, because that was her usual disguise. In the current situation, she had no mind to think about these things.

Bai Shuang bravely responded to the words just said: "Senior, it's too cold on the bridge. I really have tried my best."

"It's just a little bit cold." Bai Shuang heard the young and handsome man answer, "White Snake is getting worse and worse as he gets younger."

Bai Shuang almost jumped up from the ground because of the meaning of his words, but the next second, she felt a sense of fear from the bottom of her heart—

She maintained her human form, but her true identity was seen through at a glance, and even her race was accurately identified!

Bai Shuang's anger was gone, and she was left with only the fear for her life. Where did this senior who she had never met come from? What was even more terrifying was that he seemed very dissatisfied with her!

"Don't sit on the floor." Just as Bai Shuang was about to have countless random thoughts in her mind, she heard the senior's calm voice, "Go sit on a chair."

Bai Shuang's body reacted faster than her brain. She sat down on the chair obediently, with her knees clasped together and her hands on her knees. She no longer had the pretended weak posture in front of the carved door, and her every movement was as neat as that of a primary school student.

She glanced at the senior out of the corner of her eye and saw that the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, as if he was very satisfied with her performance. Then, she saw a streak of light pass across the chair where she was sitting, and her wet clothes were instantly dried.

Bai Shuang looked at the chair she was sitting on in surprise. The last bit of spiritual power remaining in her meridians was attached to her eyes. She saw a dense array of formations. With her shallow knowledge, she could only recognize... a few patterns.

For the sake of aesthetics, the lines of many formations have been changed so that they can connect with each other and form beautiful patterns.

But Bai Shuang dared to swear on her years of cultivation and vision that the formations she knew would still be effective even if they were modified, such as the water-removing technique she had!

But... who on earth would be so extravagant as to carve patterns all over an ordinary chair—no, a formation!

The core forbidden area of ​​their tribe is only protected by this many layers, and it’s not even this beautiful!!

Senior! This is just an ordinary chair!

This is just an ordinary chair, senior!!!

Perhaps the shock in her eyes was too obvious. Bai Shuang looked at the boss who had evolved from a big boss to an unfathomable big boss in her heart, with obvious doubt in her eyes: "Is there something wrong?"

Bai Shuang: “…”

She resisted the urge to steal a chair and replied respectfully, "I have never seen so many formations stacked on ordinary wood, and they are so beautiful."

“How many can you spot?”

Bai Shuang heard the senior ask again.

He could only recognize five of them. The sixth and seventh looked familiar, and he only glanced at the eighth with surprise. Bai Shuang was silent for a few seconds, and then he remembered the words of his predecessor that the younger generation of the snake tribe was too bad, and he said decisively: "Eight!"

"Draw it for me to see."

Bai Shuang: “???”

"...Ah?" She uttered a terrified monosyllable.

If she had known that her senior was going to check on her academic performance, she would not have lied! !

Help, she only knows five and a half! No more!!