Due to a nightmare, Luo Xiu couldn't get back to sleep. He went for a walk in the Hundred Herbs Garden to look at the spiritual herbs and flowers he had planted with his own hands.
i Ji suddenly appeared before him.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life."
Luo Xiu shook his head and smiled. "I'm not any 'Your Majesty' right now."
"In this one's heart, the Azure Emperor will always be the Azure Emperor."
i Ji gave a winso smile and touched her lower abdon. She wore a crop top that bared her midriff, revealing a smooth, white stomach and a glittering belly button stud.
Luo Xiu glanced at her, suddenly struck by her beauty. She had exquisite features and a cool gaze. It wasn't the ethereal aura of a fairy, but rather the captivating charm of a worldly woman.
Luo Xiu asked, "Is your stomach bothering you?"
i Ji smiled again. "I'm grateful for what Your Majesty transferred into this one's body."
Hearing this, Luo Xiu's expression turned awkward. He felt she was being deliberately suggestive, but he had no proof.
"Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't transfer anything into your body."
i Ji said, "I heard that long ago, the won of the Three Thousand Worlds all dread of getting close to Your Majesty to obtain your Fortune-Forming Power. This one must have been blessed in three lifetis to receive Your Majesty's grace today."
"It was a small matter. I was only trying to save your life at the ti."
Luo Xiu waved his hand dismissively and changed the subject. "With your skills, you could have easily crushed that old man. You lost today because of that War Sword Shard, didn't you?"
i Ji nodded. "I was suddenly hit by a backlash and caught completely off guard. It was fortunate that Your Majesty saved in ti. I always thought the Gluttonous Divine Art could devour anything, but only today did I learn that there are always higher powers."
...
The next morning, Luo Xiu and his group left the Land of Lawlessness.
The area where the Soul Devouring Beast Skeleton lay was known as The Black Mound. The soil here was much darker than in the surrounding regions, hence the na. Luo Xiu figured this was because the Soul Devouring Beast had died and fallen here. Its decaying corpse must have contaminated the land, causing the soil to darken over ti.
Hovering above The Black Mound, Luo Xiu could still see several wide, long ravines that had been carved out by Sword Qi thousands of years ago. That ancient Soul Devouring Beast had been struck down by a single sword strike right here, with a War Sword Shard left embedded in its corpse.
Now, The Black Mound was pockmarked with countless holes. From above, it looked like an earthen honeycomb. This was because most of the Corpse Nests had already been excavated.
Luo Xiu quickly found the pit from which the Soul Devouring Beast Skeleton had erged. He jumped in, hoping to find so trace of Dou Dou. Deep inside the pit, within a massive cavern, Luo Xiu found marks left by the Acne-Removing Divine Hoe.
At that mont, he was completely certain. The "little girl" the middle-aged man had ntioned yesterday was the very sa Dou Dou he had co to the Boundless Heavens to find.
But the Boundless Heavens was a vast place. Luo Xiu had no way of knowing where Dou Dou was now, or what she might have encountered.
Seeing his worried expression, i Ji suddenly spoke. "This one has an item that may help Your Majesty find the young lady."
Luo Xiu's head snapped toward her.
i Ji opened her jade-like hand, and a bizarrely shaped, square copper mirror appeared in her palm.
Master Ping recognized it at once and exclaid, "Holy crap, is that the Flowing Light Mirror?!"
i Ji nodded. "The very sa. Years ago, in the Ancient God Ruins, I found this item after breaking through the Gluttonous Sword Array and obtaining the Taotie's legacy."
Lin Shanshan asked curiously, "So what can this mirror do?"
Master Ping chuckled and patted Lin Shanshan's head. "Girl, let tell you, the Flowing Light Mirror is incredibly powerful! To put it simply, this mirror can perform ti retrospection!"
Lin Shanshan and the Snow Kirin's eyes widened.
"It's that miraculous?"
Master Ping said, "The stronger the Divine Sense, the further back in ti it can see! If we used your deadbeat dad's Divine Sense to power it, it could probably go back several thousand years."
Lin Shanshan sighed. "I guess the end of science really is theology."
Master Ping said disdainfully, "The level of your so-called New Era on Earth is completely insignificant."
i Ji added, "However, with my Divine Sense, I can only go back two or three months at most."
Luo Xiu looked at i Ji, his heart filled with gratitude. For her to reveal such a supre treasure ant that she truly considered him one of her own.
"Sect Leader i, I'll have to trouble you."
i Ji cald herself, connecting her Divine Sense to the Flowing Light Mirror to activate it. Instantly, the mirror erupted in a dazzling white light. She held it up, shining it around the cavern. Wherever the light fell, images of the past materialized. However, the people in the images were all cultivators who had co seeking treasure; Dou Dou was not among them.
Luo Xiu said, "Set the retrospection point to just before the Soul Devouring Beast erged yesterday, then shine the light on the area dug by the Acne-Removing Divine Hoe."
"Alright."
A mont later, Luo Xiu finally saw her in the white light.
In the image, Dou Dou's small face was smudged with dirt. She was gripping the Acne-Removing Divine Hoe with both hands, earnestly and strenuously digging at a Corpse Nest. The girl was quite the chatterbox, muttering to herself as she dug, seemingly energized by her own monologue.
"Mm, this Corpse Nest is the biggest. I'll definitely find an amazing treasure in here."
"Once I find a great treasure, no one will be able to bully Dou Dou anymore."
"Hmph. Those girls all ignore Dou Dou, so Dou Dou doesn't want to hang out with them anyway."
"It's so much better being free and alone! And once I dig up an unrivaled treasure, they won't dare look down on Dou Dou anymore."
...
"Diggy dig dig, diggy dig dig, digging in the big ol' Corpse Nest, diggy diggy dig..."
"Sigh, if only Chen Shuisheng and Yaya were still here. They were Dou Dou's best friends. They were always willing to play with ."
...
Watching Dou Dou in the ti-reversal image and listening to her talk to herself, Luo Xiu felt his nose begin to sting.
Lin Shanshan glanced at her father and said softly, "Dad, after I went to the Stunning Phoenix Swan State, Aunt Xiao Yi and the others told so things about Dou Dou."
"What did they say?" Luo Xiu asked.
Lin Shanshan sighed. "Basically, they said she doesn't fit in very well. She spends her days running around by herself, a real loner, because she always feels like nobody wants to talk to her and that they all look down on her."
"But that's not actually the case. Mom and the others just all have their own things to attend to."
"Besides, after the great calamity in the Land of Lawlessness... because of what happened to you... so many years have passed, but they still haven't recovered from the pain."
"Plus, Dou Dou still has the mindset of a seven or eight-year-old girl. Her world is very simple. The things she thinks about are different from everyone else's."
Luo Xiu nodded in understanding, his heart feeling as if it were being pricked by needles. He had always thought of Dou Dou as his closest, dearest little sister. To see her wandering alone in this chaotic Three Thousand Worlds, a sour feeling churned in his stomach.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a loud explosion echoed from the image. Dou Dou had broken into the Soul Devouring Beast's Corpse Nest.
Green fire flared in the eye sockets of the massive skeleton as it began to move. But Dou Dou didn't flee. Instead, she darted into the deepest part of the Corpse Nest, found a Storage Ring on a desiccated corpse wearing Battle Armor, and only then made her escape.
"Follow her!" Luo Xiu ordered.
i Ji imdiately flew into the air, using the Flowing Light Mirror to track the direction Dou Dou had fled.
Soon, the image showed Dou Dou reaching a safe location and starting to take stock of the treasures in the Storage Ring. Biting her tongue in concentration, she excitedly transferred all the Magical Treasures into her own Storage Magical Treasure. Suddenly, she found a small wooden box and pulled out a golden Elixir.
Even in the ti-reversal image, Luo Xiu could tell it was a Heavenly Grade Elixir.
Just then, a group of people descended from the sky, surrounding her.
Dou Dou's face beca guarded. "What do you want? If you're trying to snatch my treasure, Dou Dou won't let you!"
The middle-aged man in the lead blurred forward, kicking her to the ground. He grabbed the back of her collar and hauled her to her feet.
Dou Dou struggled fiercely, cursing loudly. "Don't touch ! Don't you dare touch !"
Finally, unable to break free, she gave up her resistance. "Sigh, alright then. Congratulations on capturing a wild Dou Dou."
The middle-aged man's expression was indifferent. "I heard you excavated the Soul Devouring Beast's Corpse Nest, which ans you must have found the body of the Thunder God General. Hand over the Mysterious Ancient Calamity Pill from his Storage Ring, and I'll spare your life."
"No way! Absolutely not!"
"Dou Dou dug this treasure up! If you want treasures, why don't you dig for them yourselves? Besides, Dou Dou doesn't know anything about a Mysterious Ancient Calamity Pill."
"You're not human, bullying a little girl!"
Dou Dou clutched the Elixir in her hand, her expression one of defiance, ready to die before submitting.
Watching the scene unfold, Luo Xiu was frantic. His palms were slick with sweat as he desperately hoped she would just hand over the Elixir to save herself.
But his hope was dashed. Dou Dou didn't give it up. She had always been stubborn.
And the middle-aged man showed no rcy; he struck without restraint.
A mont later, Luo Xiu's fists were clenched so tightly they trembled. His eyes were bloodshot as he watched the image of Dou Dou, now covered in blood, her bones broken.
Dou Dou burst into aggrieved tears, but there was no one to help her.
Even so, she refused to yield. In a sudden movent, she raised her hand and popped the Mysterious Ancient Calamity Pill into her mouth, swallowing it with a single gulp.
"You can beat Dou Dou to death, but Dou Dou will never give the treasure to you!"
Enraged that she had swallowed the Elixir, the middle-aged man stomped on her head.
"Spit it out!"
"I won't! Not spitting it out! I won't give it to you even if it turns into poop!"
"Spit it out now!" the middle-aged man roared, pressing his foot down on her head with imnse force.
SOB, SOB, SOB...
Dou Dou suddenly began to wail. "If Chen Shui were still here... if he knew you were bullying Dou Dou, he would definitely get revenge for !"
The middle-aged man trembled with rage. "You won't spit it out, is that it? Fine. As long as the pill's dicinal power is still in your body, I can just refine you later. It's all the sa."
"n, take her away!"
...
Luo Xiu gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and turned sharply to i Ji. "Sect Leader i, follow their trail... find them. Kill them."
As he spoke, he suddenly froze. He had just noticed that i Ji's face was pale, with blood trickling from her nostrils and veins bulging on her forehead.
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