After a small "episode", Lao Jiang and his party set off again.
He, Ruyue, Gu Miao, and Heerya sat on Ruyue's crane kite.
The fastest wolf demon was sent to join Su and his team as the vanguard.
The little fat boy and Shi Rui are on the butterfly wooden kite at the back.
The two were discussing the third prince's suit of armor heatedly. It seemed that after seeing its power with his own eyes, the fat guy also became interested and wanted to get a set for himself.
Old Jiang doesn't care about these.
He was getting new information from Helya.
"What? Those evil cultivators are catching monsters?"
When Boss Jiang heard the news, he was stunned.
"Yeah, I saw it with my own eyes."
The baroness was sitting cross-legged in front of the boss, her top taken off, wearing only black underwear. Ruyue was treating her injuries. The evil practitioners' skills were strange, causing the wound on Helya's right arm to bleed profusely.
The evil spirit must be washed away with spiritual power before medicine can be used to heal the wound.
At this moment, Helya's face was a little pale, not only because of the battle, but also because of excessive blood loss. However, she was in high spirits, probably because her companions came over, so she was no longer afraid.
He then told Jiang Xia exactly what he had seen.
Finally, he showed Jiang Xia the misty monster that had been lying on his shoulder.
"Huh? I think I've seen you before."
When Jiang Xia saw the injured, thin misty monster, he blinked. He looked at the inactive little guy and said:
"When we were passing through the Great Jungle before, did you follow that black panther and cause trouble in our convoy?"
"Huh?"
After hearing Lao Jiang's question, the weak little elf also let out a series of exclamations.
It tried hard to conjure up a bird's head and looked up and down at Lao Jiang's face. After a long while, it said uncertainly:
"It seems like I have seen it before. You also gave me a pill. It was delicious and fragrant. Do you have any more? I am in great pain and very hungry now."
"It's only been a few days, and you don't recognize me? Are you all freeloaders? Do you turn your back on me?"
Jiang Xia curled his lips, took out a bottle of top-grade Spirit Gathering Pill from the storage ring and placed it in front of the monster. The latter pounced on it with a roar and pecked at the pill with its conjured bird head.
Hearing Lao Jiang's complaints, the goblin raised his head and retorted noisily:
"No, in the eyes of us monsters, you humans all look the same, with one face, two eyes, and one mouth. With so many humans, who can remember them all?"
"The pomegranate and its brothers remember."
Jiang Xia rolled his eyes and said:
"How could you not remember?"
"Ah, bad pomegranate!"
The little goblin screamed and said:
"The mountain monsters were conceived by spirit stones, so they have physical bodies when they are born, and they are naturally very smart. But we little monsters are very pitiful and have to practice on our own.
That bad pomegranate relied on his strength to tease and bully us often in the past few years.
If it weren't for Big Brother Black Cloud protecting us, all of us spirit mist monsters would have been bullied by it and moved away."
This little thing is amazing.
But Jiang Xia knew the whole story. What it called "bullying" was actually just a fight between monsters, which was the same as a group fight among elementary school students.
Not very harmful, but insulting...
I've said it was just like a fight between elementary school students, a bunch of noobs fighting each other.
Such confrontations, regardless of whether one wins or loses, are extremely insulting. Even Shi Liu always has an expression of "the past is too painful to recall" every time he talks about these things.
"Black Cloud, is that the leopard?"
Jiang Xia asked:
"Indeed, it looks like the leader of you little guys, calmer, and has reached the Qi training stage, which is pretty good among the little monsters.
What about it?
You were captured by the evil cultivators, and it didn't show up, did it?"
"Brother Heiyun is very loyal."
The little elf shouted unconvinced:
"Those bad guys came to the spiritual spring where we live many days ago. They first secretly captured some of them who went out to play. When Big Brother Heiyun saw that they didn't come back, he went to look for them.
As a result, there was no news from him after he left.
The reason we were caught tonight was because we had the courage to unite and go together to look for Big Brother Heiyun. However, as soon as we got out of the valley and left the formation set up by Lady Yunshui, we ran into that group of bad guys!
Brother Heiyun must have been captured by them as well.
Human cultivator, you look very powerful, and that little girl is also very powerful, why don't you help us? Take us to the Star Valley.
Rescue Brother Heiyun and his companions."
"Um?"
Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes.
Seeing the boss's expression, Ruyue immediately covered her eyes. These silly little mist elves actually took the initiative to ask for help from the boss.
Harmful.
Silly guys are about to be tricked by the boss, why don't you ask for help from someone else...
"Alas, you monsters are so simple-minded that you don't know the rules of our human race."
Old Jiang put on a kind auntie smile, and he reached out to give the little mist spirit a few more spirit gathering pills, and said slowly:
"If we humans help each other, we have to pay each other. The more powerful the person, the more reward you will get. I am willing to help you. After all, we have met once.
But you see, rules are rules, little one.
You asked me for help, what are you going to give me as a reward?"
“Ah, this…”
The little mist elf looked confused. It tilted its head and thought for a long time before saying:
“We have a spiritual spring there. Some humans went there to ask for it before. It is said that drinking it will bring benefits to humans, but we little mist elves were all born from the spiritual spring’s water vapor.
Although I cannot give you the spiritual spring, I can still share some with you."
"I don't want that."
Jiang Xia shook his head and said to the little mist spirit:
"The place where you live is very close to the southern wilderness border, right?"
"Um."
The little mist spirit nodded and said:
“We live nearby, but some of our brothers gather at Yandang Pond. There are spiritual springs connecting the two sides, so it’s convenient for us to go there, but it’s also convenient for those bad mountain monsters to come to us.
The bad pomegranate often sneaks over from the spiritual spring to scare us."
"Why do you keep talking about pomegranates?"
Jiang Xia rubbed his forehead. Talking to these simple guys was sometimes tiring, so he stopped beating around the bush and said to the little mist spirit directly:
“I don’t want your spiritual spring, but I plan to open up a piece of land on the border of the Southern Wilderness and give it to my employees to build a tribe. The place has not been chosen yet.
But if I help you rescue your boss Heiyun, the good land around your spiritual spring will belong to me. If my tribe lives there, we will also find someone to worship spirits.
Let me ask you, among your Mist Spirit Clan, what is the most powerful realm of cultivation?"
Upon hearing this question, the little mist elf immediately snorted with pride, and then answered excitedly:
“The most powerful fog spirit is, of course, Lady Yunshui.
There is a big temple for Goddess Yunshui at Yandang Pond, and all the big monsters are there. They are very powerful. However, after Goddess Yunshui had a fight with the mountain guardian woman, she has been sleeping all these years.
I only woke up once or twice in several years.
That’s why we are bullied by the bad mountain monsters, especially the bad pomegranate, which relies on the support of the mountain guardian lady to cause trouble everywhere.”
"Big monster...cultivating the divine realm?"
Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes, nodded, and felt slightly satisfied.
He snapped his fingers and said:
"Very good, I promise you, I will help you rescue your Black Cloud Boss, but after that, you have to help my tribe contact Lady Yunshui and ask her to protect and bless my tribe.
Deal?"
"Brother Heiyun is a relative of Lady Yunshui."
The silly little mist elf suddenly becomes smart.
It pecked at the Soul Gathering Pill and whispered:
"I can't guarantee this, but Big Brother Heiyun is very loyal, so if you help us, Big Brother Heiyun will definitely help you."
"Huh, who said you guys are stupid? I think you're pretty smart."
Lao Jiang snorted.
He took out the communication stone from the ring and injected spiritual power into it. After a few breaths, the sharp voice of Pomegranate came out from the communication stone.
"What are you doing? I'm busy. I'm playing a game duel with someone. If you have something to say, please say it quickly!"
"Hey! Bad pomegranate!"
When the little mist elf heard this familiar voice, he immediately became interested.
It quacked:
"Bad Pomegranate, hurry back! Big Brother Black Cloud has been captured by the bad guys! Hurry up and bring your brothers to help fight!"
"Hmm? Who's that voice?"
Pomegranate's tone suddenly changed, and it said suspiciously:
"Why do you sound like those annoying fog spirits? Is that Yun Xiaoliu? It's been several years since we last met, and you, a little bad guy who loves to stir up trouble, are still alive?
What happened to the black cloud? Who caught it? It's so fierce, I can't beat it, who can catch it?"
"Something happened to your best friend who you loved and hated so much."
Jiang Xia shook his head and said to the communication stone:
"The evil cultivators in Xinggu are capturing fog spirits on a large scale. I don't know what they want to do, but all the fog spirits in Lingquan have been captured. We are about to go to Xinggu to investigate.
If you're okay, come and join me.
I smell something big happening... If things get out of hand, you may need to contact Yandangchi officials."
"What? The evil cultivators of Xinggu dared to capture us spirits! Are they tired of living?"
The monster clan is indeed united.
Although the little fog elf said that the fog elves and mountain monsters usually disliked each other, when they heard that the fog elves were captured by the evil cultivator, Pomegranate's voice suddenly became sharp.
After Jiang Xia heard the noise of clanging over there, Shi Liu shouted:
"Jiang Xia, wait for me. I will go to Taofuyuan to request a long rest period. I will be there in two hours at most. I want to see what kind of courage these evil cultivators have!
How dare you act so wildly in our monster territory!
If they really did something evil, I will scatter their ashes this time!"
"Okay, I'll wait for you for a moment."
Jiang Xia put away the communication stone and looked at the edge of the rocky Star Valley in front of him under the night sky. He said:
"Let's go find Laoshan first, and after we meet up with him, we'll go to the forward base that Su and the others have built. I don't know if Lord Huai'an has found any traces of the Yinhun Cult."
"Boss, this may be a bit troublesome."
Ruyue glanced at the little mist fairy playing with Gu Miao, and whispered to Jiang Xia:
“The evil cultivators have never done anything so outrageous, but now they have started to attack the spirits. Either they have gone crazy, or they have someone supporting them.
That force is probably not afraid of Yandangchi's pursuit.
If we get involved directly, with our current strength…"
"No."
Jiang Xia shrugged, lit a cigarette, and said in a normal tone:
"If you provoke too many people, that's it. One more or one less won't make much difference."
As he spoke, he touched his ear.
Then he said to Kisaragi in a strange tone:
"Besides, don't we have a confused 'thug' in the God Cultivation Realm here? This is another follow-up matter of the evil cultivators of Fengming Country. At worst, we can use Elder Sanbao's personal relationship.
Please ask Immortal Chan Yi to come again.
But seriously.
I have a feeling that the recent changes in the Xinggu evil cultivators are probably related to what we did in Fengming Country. Our Kumu Realm looks ordinary and peaceful.
But in fact, I feel more and more that this world is very strange. The disturbing secrets born under the tranquility are no less than those in other places.
In short, let’s finish this step first, and then talk about other things.”