mtl008 Chapter 351 Chasing
Chapter 351 Chasing
Chapter 351 The Chase
Tu Xiaoxiao knew, of course, that she was worried about him.
More than being angry at her, he was angry that Feng Yu didn't stop her.
But Feng Yu was also worried about him.
He was no longer angry; he was just worried about the trouble the mermaid would cause.
He frowned, looking towards the sea, remaining silent no matter how his finger was tugged and shaken.
When waving her hands and acting cute didn't work, Shen Yao had to try another tactic.
She waved to distract Tu Xiaoxiao, and took the opportunity to pinch his fox ears: "Second brother, let me tell you a joke."
Tu Xiaoxiao lowered her gaze and saw her ingratiating expression, suddenly realizing that this was the first time she had ever coaxed him.
Her phoenix eyes curved into crescents with laughter, her lips turned up, and her forced smile was more like that of a fox spirit than a fox demon. Her fingers hooked onto his fingers again.
No wonder Feng Yu gets angry so easily; it turns out he craves her coaxing.
If you coax him like this, he'll get angry more often in the future.
She placed her slender white hand on his chest, her fingertips gently poking his chest: "Second brother, do you want to hear a joke? My joke is really funny."
Tu Xiaoxiao was secretly thrilled, but pretended to be indifferent on the surface.
He turned his gaze away with a stern face, looked into the distance, and uttered two words in a low voice: "Speak."
With the city defenses breached, Shen Yao told a lame joke with great interest: "Young Master Tu, do you know why peerless masters always die in the Scripture Pavilion?"
What does this have to do with jokes? Tu Xiaoxiao didn't understand.
He lowered his head and asked in confusion, "Why?"
Shen Yao: "Because they have a phobia of secret manuals."
Tu Xiaoxiao didn't understand at all. What was this "fear of secret manuals"? Why would a master be afraid of secret manuals?
He asked uncertainly, "Is this a joke?"
Shen Yao then realized that they didn't understand puns or trypophobia.
She lowered her head in disappointment.
Sigh, I miss my dad.
The sky is vast and the earth is boundless; only her father and she share a common language.
The fairy who had been so eager to coax him just moments before suddenly lost her spirit, her face showing indescribable disappointment, and her figure exuding a sense of loneliness.
Tu Xiaoxiao stepped down the stairs at the right moment and hooked her arm back around hers: "I'm not angry anymore."
He pulled Shen Yao closer and said to her seriously, "If we encounter danger again, I'll let you leave. Once you leave, you're not allowed to come back. Can you do that?"
Unfortunately, the rebellious boy didn't fall in love with the obedient girl.
The girl he fell in love with was also a traitor.
"I can't do it." Shen Yao said decisively, "If I hadn't been worried about Shi Bao and Xian Yu last night, I wouldn't have left."
She placed her hands on his waist, looked up at him, and said with a firm gaze, "Tu Xiaoxiao, I am the Immortal Ancestor. I don't need to be hidden away and protected. I should fight alongside you."
"And as you know, I have a special move that can instantly kill any living thing below the god level."
Tu Xiaoxiao knew her abilities, but she was too worried to gamble.
He clasped his hands around her waist and pulled her arm tighter: "Let it go this time, next time we'll fight side by side."
……
The flower raft had attracted attention in the Demon City. After spending the New Year on the flower raft, they settled in a small town.
Shortly after they entered the town, several mermaids followed them in.
Tu Xiaoxiao released her spiritual sense and stared at the entrance of the inn: "Sure enough, there's a tail."
After disguising themselves at the inn, everyone quietly slipped out of the windows and left the town in batches.
Salty Fish, Ameng, and Luo set off first aboard the Thousand Snail Spirit Treasure.
Feng Yu, carrying Shi Bao, followed behind on a flying sword.
After flying them far away, Shen Yao took out a flying magical artifact that she hadn't used for many years.
She tossed the large tree branch into the air, leaped up, and invited Tu Xiaoxiao to come up: "How about it, isn't my spirit treasure low-key enough?"
Looking at the withered, black, flat tree branches in the air, Tu Xiaoxiao found it hard to comment. How could there be such an ugly flying magical treasure in the world?
The ends of the branches looked as if they had been violently severed by lightning energy; they were crudely made.
Shen Yao manipulated a large tree branch to fly onto his head: "Come on up!"
Tu Xiaoxiao saw the words at the bottom of the tree branch and read them aloud: "Dead wood?"
He flew to a tree branch and sat down next to Shen Yao: "Was this magical artifact of yours also made by Feng Yu?"
The large tree branch flew north, and Shen Yao replied, "No, this is a keepsake left to me by my master, and I like it very much."
Tu Xiaoxiao was too embarrassed to complain about how ugly the tree branches were.
He pointed to two green buds on one of the branches, which were about to fall off: "This spirit treasure is quite interesting. It's so withered, yet it still has two buds. There are even two words carved on the bottom: dead wood."
Upon hearing "dead wood," Shen Yao looked at Tu Xiaoxiao in shock: "What dead wood?"
Tu Xiaoxiao patted the tree trunk: "Didn't you know that the bottom of Lingbao is carved with dead wood?"
The large tree branch stopped abruptly in mid-air, and Shen Yao flew down to its base. Sure enough, on the dark back of the branch, two even darker characters were carved: Dead Wood.
With a blank expression, she flew back to the tree trunk, letting the large branch continue flying forward.
Tu Xiaoxiao asked several times what was wrong, but she stared at the two tender buds at the tip of the branch and didn't hear her at all.
Dead wood, a forked branch, two tender buds, dead wood sprouting buds...
Ten thousand years of dead wood sprouts new buds...
She sat down and stroked the tree trunk: "Xiaoxiao, can you tell the age of the big branches?"
Tu Xiaoxiao closed her eyes, placed her hand on the tree trunk, and released her spiritual sense and wood spirit power to jointly perceive the tree's age.
After a long while, he opened his eyes and withdrew his spiritual sense and wood spirit power: "It has a long history, more than 120,000 years."
Upon confirming that it was indeed a budding tree from a dead tree that had existed for 100,000 years, Shen Yao smiled, and then her smile grew wider and wider.
Tu Xiaoxiao was confused, and Shen Yao didn't explain. She hugged Tu Xiaoxiao and gave him a big kiss on the cheek: "Little white fox, you've done a great job."
She has cultivated the divine resurrection technique to the late intermediate stage.
The spirit tree that she thought didn't exist, which had sprouted again after being dead for 100,000 years, was actually already in her pocket.
Once she has mastered the divine-level resurrection technique, as long as she doesn't die, her companions will all have an extra life.
Cool!
To avoid detection, they planned to fly separately for a day and meet at the north gate of Caishi Town in the evening.
Feng Yu was very fast and had long since overtaken Xianyu. When they met on the road, they tacitly avoided each other and did not greet each other.
Shen Yao also caught up with Xianyu. She saw Xianyu's snails in the distance, so she slowed down and gave them some space to go first.
Ten feet away from the tree branch, a flock of strange birds flew overhead. These birds had round heads and white tails and were seabirds that lived on the coast of the Demon Shark City.
Upon seeing the flock of seabirds, Shen Yao and Tu Xiaoxiao realized that they had been exposed.
Longquan Cliff is near the sea, and so is Yaojiao City.
They flew directly from the Demon Shark City along the coast to Dragon Spring Cliff, which was the closest point.
But the sirens have a peculiar way of communicating; waves, sea breezes, seabirds, seashells... can all be used to transmit messages to them.
So they abandoned the shortest route and flew inland, away from the coast.
I thought I could hide perfectly, but I didn't expect to be caught up by the mermaid.
The sea breeze also rushed inland, making the air even saltier and more humid.
Both Shen Yao and Tu Xiaoxiao sensed the danger drawing ever closer.
"Second brother, if this matter isn't resolved, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape it."
Shen Yao stopped the tree branch in mid-air, waiting for the mermaid to come over: "I want to try negotiating with them."
Tu Xiaoxiao's fox-like eyes gradually reddened as she entered a state of readiness: "I will listen to my wife."