Chapter 86: Chapter 77: Fish Guts Short Sword
After bringing Nie Yun here, Xiaohu hadn’t left, but was curled up deep within the woods. However, the beast was simply too large. Since Luo Yu was a Tracker, he was highly sensitive to his surroundings and spotted it at a glance.
’This is bad. They’re both at the Armor Realm and incredibly fast. If Xiaohu gets surrounded, he won’t be able to escape at all...’
At this thought, Nie Yun hastily activated his Beast Taming Dantian, commanding Xiaohu to flee imdiately.
A Beast Tar and their Demon Pet form a contract through the Beast Taming Dantian, so ssages had to be passed through it as well.
"ROAR!"
As Nie Yun’s Demon Pet, Xiaohu obeyed his command without question. Its massive limbs unfurled as it turned and fled deep into the mountain forest.
"Trying to escape? Hmph, you’re not getting away!" A smirk played on Luo Yu’s lips as he activated his Tracking Dantian. A wisp of gray mist imdiately rippled from his fingertip. He pointed at Xiaohu, and the mist transford into a lightning-fast ray of light that struck the beast’s body.
This mist had no Attack Power, but it clung to its target like a poison fused to bone, impossible to remove. Once marked, even if separated by tens of thousands of miles, a Tracker could easily follow.
"Let’s go!" After doing this, Luo Yu smiled faintly, and the two of them imdiately gave chase in the direction Xiaohu had disappeared.
’I have to go check. I can’t let Xiaohu get hurt!’
With a low mutter, Nie Yun pivoted on his heel and sped after the two in the direction they had disappeared.
’Nie Yun had no idea who these two were or where they ca from, but judging by the fact they had reached the Armor Realm at such a young age, their talent and family backgrounds were surely not to be underestimated.’
’That Luo Yu has five Dantians and a Marquis Clan Top-Grade Bloodline. The other one, Luo Cheng, has six and a Royal Family’s Low Grade bloodline. To think that youths with such talent would appear in a small place like this!’
Following closely behind, Nie Yun focused his senses ahead. He could see five vortexes of varying sizes spinning ceaselessly above the Tracker nad Luo Yu, furiously devouring the Spiritual Qi from the air. The other one, Luo Cheng, had six such vortexes.
When a Qi Sea Cultivator circulates their True Qi at full power, their Dantians draw Spiritual Qi from the air, forming vortexes above their head. This phenonon is called an Absorption Vortex, and it’s a way to gauge another’s Cultivation level from their appearance!
Of course, it was also possible they were intentionally suppressing a Dantian to prevent it from absorbing Spiritual Qi. However, such a situation was extrely rare. After all, they were out in the wilderness; there was no point for these two to hide the number of their Dantians.
’Talent like five or six Dantians would absolutely place them among the top tier in Luoshui City. I can’t believe I ran into two of them just by coming out to catch a Cyan Nightmare Centipede!’
"Luo Yu, let’s stop chasing. It’s just a Tiger-Headed Beast. We should hurry and get on with our real business!" After they had chased for so ti and Xiaohu had gotten farther and farther away, Luo Cheng seed to be losing his patience.
"Heh, what a coincidence. This Tiger-Headed Beast is heading in the exact sa direction as the thing we’re looking for. This way, we don’t have to choose!" Luo Yu chuckled.
"The exact sa direction? That is a coincidence!" Luo Cheng was taken aback, his eyes flashing with excitent.
Xiaohu scrambled ahead with the two in hot pursuit. After about an hour, having covered over sixty miles, they arrived at a long, narrow valley.
’Hm? This place is...’
Having followed them all this way, Nie Yun looked at the valley ahead and couldn’t help but frown.
’I was just here a while ago. This is where I found the Emperor Fla Spirit... It’s Xiaohu’s old den!’
’Hard-pressed by the chase, Xiaohu naturally fled to the place he knew best. But those two said they were heading in the sa direction... Could they have been coming here all along?’
As he was thinking this, the two n ahead slowly ca to a halt, apparently searching for sothing. Afraid of alerting them to his presence, Nie Yun flickered out of sight and hid behind a large rock.
After the long chase, Xiaohu, who had the best stamina, had long since disappeared from sight. However, as its master, Nie Yun knew his Demon Pet wasn’t in any danger, so he stopped worrying.
"You’re saying it’s here? Uncle Luo Yan is here?" Standing in the valley, Luo Cheng looked around, his brow furrowed in disbelief.
"Didn’t the clan say he was dead? How could Uncle Luo Yan possibly be here! I tracked this location based on sothing on the hilt of the Fish Guts Short Sword. That ans the sword itself must be here!"
Luo Yu scanned the surroundings, carefully sensing with his Tracking Dantian.
"This place is completely desolate, not a soul in sight. You sure your senses aren’t mistaken?" Luo Cheng muttered.
"Relax. My Tracking Dantian is never wrong. Hm? It seems to be near that pool. Let’s go have a look!"
After sensing for a mont, Luo Yu’s eyes suddenly fell upon a pool in the middle of the valley.
Now that Nie Yun had absorbed the Emperor Fla Spirit, the pool’s water had completely regained its clarity, losing its forr pale-yellow hue. It shimred and sparkled under the light of the setting sun.
’The Fish Guts Short Sword? They can’t be looking for the one I disintegrated, can they?’ Hearing their conversation, Nie Yun froze.
’The short sword I’d disintegrated was incredibly sharp, practically a Divine Weapon. Could it be these two ca all this way just to find it?’
He froze. When he looked again, he saw the Tracker, Luo Yu, staring at the pool with an excited expression. "It’s right here, at the bottom of this pool! I’m going down to take a look!" he shouted.
With that, he leaped in.
"I’m going down too!"
Seeing him jump in, Luo Cheng seed afraid that Luo Yu would snatch the treasure for himself. Without a mont’s hesitation, he too dove straight into the Cold Pool.
’These two ca specifically for that short sword. They must be clansn of the corpse at the bottom of the pool. Perhaps that corpse is the Uncle Luo Yan they ntioned. I was originally planning to co back and bury the skeleton once I got stronger, but it seems there’s no need for that now.’
Nie Yun had taken the backpack from the skeleton, and thus had taken the man’s belongings. He had originally planned to find an opportunity to retrieve the skeleton and bury it, as a way to repay the deceased. Now that he saw these two were the man’s clansn, he abandoned the idea.
’They are most likely his nephews. They will surely take his remains back for a proper burial with his ancestors. That’s much better than being left in the wilderness.’
After waiting for a while, he heard a SPLASH as Luo Cheng and Luo Yu surfaced.
The two had indeed retrieved the skeleton from the bottom and slowly placed it on the bank. The mont they set it down, however, their expressions darkened.
"It seems Uncle Luo Yan was murdered here. But... why is only the hilt of the Fish Guts Short Sword left?"
Luo Yu held up the hilt of a short sword, his body trembling with rage.
’Seeing the hilt, Nie Yun felt a wave of awkwardness. He just then rembered that he had used the Naless Technique to turn the blade into dust and had casually tossed the hilt aside. He never expected that their Tracking Secret Technique would lead them all this way just to find... this!’
"The Fish Guts Short Sword is a supre treasure our ancestor obtained from so Ancient Ruins! It’s so sharp that it can shatter a Royal Family’s Weapon on contact! How could soone have possibly destroyed it like this?" Luo Cheng couldn’t help but roar.
The two of them had gone through untold hardships, traveling thousands of miles to get here, all to find the Fish Guts Short Sword and make a na for themselves back in the clan. To think they would only find a hilt!
"It must have been the person who killed Uncle Luo Yan! If we can find that person, we can find his backpack and get the information on the Seven Swords!" Luo Yu said after a mont.
"Although the Fish Guts Short Sword is precious, it pales in comparison to news of the Seven Swords. If we can find Uncle Luo Yan’s killer and get that backpack, we’ll still have perford a great service for the clan upon our return!"
Luo Cheng understood as well and nodded.
"It’s getting dark. Let’s find a place to dry our clothes, get sothing to eat, and recover our strength before we figure out our next move," Luo Yu said. The two of them then picked up the skeleton from the ground and slowly walked away.
’In any case, I’m not the one who killed him. If they want to find the murderer, that has nothing to do with . I should just head back. The Cyan Nightmare Centipede should be caught by now.’
Seeing that the two n were disappointed by their find and no longer chasing Xiaohu, Nie Yun breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to slip away, two furious roars suddenly echoed from within the valley.
’It’s Xiaohu’s parents! Damn it, they’ve run into those two!’
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