Four Symbols Crystal
The room fell silent the moment he asked the question, and he watched as a chilling smile slowly spread across Chu Li's lips.
"Want to sleep together? Of course."
A slightly cold sensation landed on Nan Yi's brow, and his visual field suddenly shrank. He let out a "howl" and realized that he had been forcibly transformed back into his original form, and he couldn't even speak human language anymore, only making fox-like noises.
"I happened to be researching a new technique when I was busy recently, which can turn people into animals."
She looked Nan Yi up and down with satisfaction—she hadn't learned this technique before because it wasn't very useful and didn't fit her preferred aggressive style, but today it seemed to be working well.
She picked up the little fox from the ground with one hand, ignoring its howling, and placed it on the inside of the bed.
Then he said, "Save your energy. I haven't learned the language of foxes, so I don't understand what you're saying."
On this last night, Chu Li slept soundly, holding the fluffy creature in her arms, but Nan Yi was different; he was half happy and half sad.
Happiness came from finally being able to sleep openly in Chu Li's arms after they officially became a couple. As for sadness… what couple sleeps together in a different way?!
Before sunrise the next day, the two left while the fox clan was still in a state of quiet.
They greeted the fox guarding the entrance to the fox clan as usual, and then, in a flash, they returned to the forest they had been in before.
After taking a couple of steps and making sure no foxes were following, Nan Yi asked impatiently, "Senior Sister, what exactly was the method you mentioned before?"
Chu Li then slowly opened her palm, revealing a small, transparent crystal. If one did not look closely, one might mistake it for a speck of dust floating in the air.
"This is?"
"This is a Four Symbols Crystal, a special treasure specially crafted by our Myriad Symbols Sect. Its main function is to adhere to living beings. After adhering, it will form a subtle connection with other Four Symbols Crystals."
What she held in her hand was another Four Symbols Crystal, meaning she could use it to locate the clan leader.
"Where did you find this treasure? And with the clan leader's high cultivation level, wouldn't he notice?"
Speaking of this, Chu Li herself was also a little puzzled. She had actually discovered it once when she was browsing through her own space. She couldn't remember when she had acquired the Four Symbols Crystals. If they were of ordinary quality, it wouldn't be a problem, but the ones she had were without any impurities and were clearly from the top batch.
The so-called top-tier Four Symbols Crystal is so rare that even those at the Tribulation Transcending stage can hardly detect it, making it one of the most valuable treasures.
She remembered that these crystals were complicated to make, and the sect didn't make many. But then she thought about it and realized that they were probably a reward for completing a mission, but she just forgot about them.
After sensing something was wrong, she placed several crystals on the young fox, intending to see what he would do next, but then she discovered that the clan leader was even more suspicious—
At that time, she was also glad that she had put in a few more crystals, which gave her the opportunity to control one of them and make it float onto the clan leader.
As for now—she pinched the crystal with her fingertips, and soon several black spots appeared on the surface of the crystal. Chu Li examined it carefully, “It should be this one.”
Chu Li carefully picked out the black spot, held it in her palm, put the crystal away with her other hand, and smoothly made several hand gestures with her free hand.
Nan Yi stood to the side watching, feeling that the hand gestures were somewhat unfamiliar to her, but he was certain that they must be hand gestures from some other field.
Once Chu Li's expression softened, he immediately asked, "Have you found the location?"
Chu Li responded and casually summoned Qinglian: "We need to hurry. The clan leader seems to have arrived at the destination. His location hasn't changed at all."
As soon as she stepped onto the blue lotus, the surrounding scenery rushed past. Nan Yi couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sister, what was that hand seal you just used..."
"You guessed right, it's a field in itself. If you want to learn, I can teach you in the future."
"So, one must possess the ability to control a domain to use this Four Symbols Crystal?"
Chu Li nodded: "That's why I said this was specially developed by the Myriad Manifestations Sect. If you don't know the domain, even if you get your hands on this thing, you won't know how to use it at all."
Another place, about a thousand miles away from the fox clan.
The place was shrouded in yin energy, and any cultivator who entered it would feel a chilling aura, even those in the Tribulation Transcending stage. The fox clan chief looked at the simple straw house in front of him and fell silent for a moment.
After a long silence, he said, "You really have a lot of nerve, daring to live so close to the fox clan."
"So what if we're close? None of you foxes can find me yet. I thought you'd hide like a turtle this time and not come out."
Upon hearing this, the fox clan chief's eyes immediately turned cold: "Where did you hide those cubs?"
He tried to sense things as soon as he entered, but the person opposite him was now stronger than him, and his senses were like a stone thrown into the sea.
"You came all this way just for the cubs? Aren't you going to catch up with me, my dear brother?"
A figure slowly strolled out of the house, the pale moonlight illuminating his face, revealing a countenance almost identical to that of the fox clan chief.
"If not for the cubs, then for you? I truly wish I could—"
"What do you wish you hadn't strangled me when I was born?" A laugh devoid of any emotion rang out in the darkness. "You've said that so many times, I've memorized it."
"I've put those cubs somewhere else. Since you've come on time, you should talk to me first. Otherwise, if I get angry, all your cubs might disappear from the world."
The fox clan chief seemed to finally lose his temper. A look of weariness and sorrow appeared on his handsome face. He held his forehead with one hand and murmured, "If you have a problem, you can come at me. Why did you have to hurt the entire fox clan, hurt those cubs..."
"Of course it's because I hate them, and all the fox clans...."
"Senior sister, the place it indicated seems to be just ahead, but there's nothing there."
Chu Li stepped down from the lotus and reached out to collect the black object that was circling around. "There should be another space here. Let me try to see if I can open it."
Chu Li swept away the scattered leaves on the ground with her spiritual power, and sure enough, she saw traces of residual spiritual power on the ground.
Nan Yi also squatted down to look. "The spiritual energy here feels very familiar to me. It should be the clan leader's spiritual energy, which means he also entered from here. We haven't come to the wrong place."
“If the other party wants to lure him in, then the space transformation array here will definitely not be set up to be particularly complicated. We can try to restore the direction of the spiritual energy flow.”
It took the two of them quite a while to unravel the flow of spiritual energy in the first layer, and the array here was layered, with a total of three layers.
"No, we're too slow at this rate. We haven't even finished solving it yet, and the enemy might already be out. Junior brother, think carefully about whether there are any universal methods within the Fox Clan for breaking formations. Let's try them, especially the one the clan leader uses most often."
The chieftain's most frequently used...
Nan Yi closed his eyes and thought for a while, and he did remember one: "When I was young, the fox clan taught me a way to break the formation - it was drawn with fox blood."
The method itself isn't difficult; the difficulty lies in the fact that outsiders cannot possess fox blood. Therefore, it's often the only solution to many formations within the fox clan. If a fox accidentally falls into a formation, it can easily escape using fox blood, while others who intrude will be helpless.
This method didn't work outside the fox clan, so he almost forgot about this special solution. He quickly took a few drops of his blood and scattered them in all eight directions of the formation.
A soft sound suddenly rang out, and the entire space seemed to turn upside down. Nan Yi almost instinctively grabbed Chu Li's hand, and the next instant, the two of them landed on a flat ground.
"Hiss..." Nan Yi subconsciously wrapped his robe tighter. "Why is it so cold here?"
Chu Li patted his head: "This place is completely surrounded by the aura of evil cultivators, of course it's cold. If it's cold, use foxfire, clothes are useless."
Because evil cultivators follow a different path than orthodox cultivators, their cultivation methods are more yin and cold. Therefore, all normal cultivators who enter such places will feel a chill that almost seeps into their bones.
And where they are now... Chu Li can sense that this territory must belong to an extremely powerful evil cultivator, much stronger than the Nascent Soul stage evil cultivator she encountered before. For such a person, only something like Nan Yi's Heavenly Fire can barely suppress them.
Flames flickered on Nan Yi's tail. Having solved the problem of the cold, he finally had time to take a closer look at his surroundings.
“It’s nighttime here, probably because evil cultivators don’t like daytime,” Chu Li looked up at the faint moonlight hanging in the sky and sneered, “A false space, a false world.”
"Senior sister, there seems to be something ahead, shall we go take a look?"
As the two approached, they discovered it was a thatched hut. Chu Li sensed it for a moment and said, "There are many faint auras inside, but none of them are the aura of the clan leader."
"Could we have made a mistake?"
"Logically speaking, we shouldn't have made a mistake, but we probably found those fox cubs by accident."
Standing outside the thatched hut, Chu Li could clearly sense that there were many small foxes inside. She hadn't dared to use her divine sense to investigate before because she was worried that the clan leader and the person hiding in the shadows might also be there, but now it seemed that they weren't in this space at all.
Just then, the man in the other space suddenly looked up and asked, "You brought other people with you?"
The fox clan chief's heart skipped a beat at his words, and his mind raced, but he maintained a calm expression: "No, I came alone as you requested."
But he thought to himself, it's impossible for the other party to suddenly ask such a question. Could it be that other foxes have also found their way here?
The man nodded casually. He had only kidnapped the fox cub to force it to appear. After all, the entire fox clan was burdened with a curse, and no one could possibly break through the final barrier. Holding the fox cub in his hand was of no use to him.
Chu Li and Nan Yi were trying to decipher the array outside the house. Perhaps the person hiding in the shadows just wanted to trap these cubs, so they didn't use those powerful arrays, but simply kept all the cubs inside the house.
She remained highly vigilant. Judging from the commotion they had caused, the person who set up this space should already know that someone had broken in. However, she wondered why there had been no further activity. Could it be that the clan leader had stalled them for time?
She opened the door and saw a group of foxes sleeping sprawled out on their backs. She was unusually silent for a few seconds.
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