Chapter 106: Digging Pits and Tunnels
Chapter 106: Digging Pits and Tunnels
That gaze was a bit scary, very fierce, yet carried a hint of strangeness. An ordinary person would easily be frightened.
Ling Yi just found it bizarre.
“What are you staring at?”
“You’re finished!” The young man with the cold eyes glared fiercely at Luo Xue, veins bulging on his forehead. It looked like he was going to strike any second.
Yet he did not.
After the verbal attack, he remained seated, still staring at Luo Xue.
“Are you sick?” Ling Yi frowned, looking at this young man with the cold expression.
“When the Young Master arrives, none of you will live today!” The young man gave Ling Yi a cold glance and spoke chillingly.
Winter had arrived. The Capital of Great Chu, with its oceanic climate, was quite cold, but it was not as cold as this young man.
“Young Master?”
Ling Yi looked at the bulging veins on the young man’s forehead. “You’re not that Young Master? Then what are you showing off for? Did you eat fake chili sauce?”
The young man glared at Ling Yi angrily. “Just wait for your doom!”
Luo Xue said to Ling Yi, “This guy is sick. Let’s go.”
Ling Yi nodded, feeling this person was indeed sick, and quite seriously so.
The two walked quite far away. That car was still parked there, and the young man was still watching them with a creepy gaze colder than the weather, as if he could kill someone with his eyes.
Was he all talk?
Not only Ling Yi, even Luo Xue couldn’t figure it out.
It was rather baffling.
Most likely he was a disciple from that Sect, but he seemed even more cowardly than Little Fox.
He followed them all the way just to drop a couple of tough lines?
When Ling Yi and Luo Xue disappeared from sight, the young man in the car closed the window properly, let out a long sigh, and said to someone sitting in the back, “I was so scared he was going to hit me just now!”
The person sitting in the back: “…”
The young man’s expression did a complete one-eighty. He chuckled and said, “Now when they meet people from the Qingshan Sect, they’ll definitely have an even more intense conflict, right?”
“Are you bored? What does this have to do with you?”
Sitting in the back was a young man around twenty-eight or twenty-nine, looking somewhat helplessly at the young man in the driver’s seat.
“Everyone from the Qingshan Sect deserves to die. Since I can’t beat them, naturally I need to find someone who can to help me!” The young man said as if it were obvious. “Before this, I learned about this Ling Yi. Don’t listen to how fiercely everyone portrays him, as if he’s some terrifying brute. He’s actually a reasonable person.”
As he spoke, he chuckled. “You saw the result. Reasonable people are easier to deal with. As long as I didn’t strike, didn’t completely provoke him, he wouldn’t easily attack me. Hmm, we added some fuel to the fire, made a little contribution. Anyway, his relationship with the Qingshan Sect isn’t good to begin with.”
“You’ve gone far enough. With that mouth of yours, you’ll suffer for it one day!” The person in the back was somewhat exasperated.
“Not enough yet. I still need to find a couple of Qingshan Sect people to taunt, though I need to be careful with that. They are very unreasonable! And many know me, so I need to find someone who doesn’t know me to provoke…”
…
After Ling Yi and Luo Xue entered the mall, they wandered around for a bit, bought some things, and then under the Enchantress’s guidance, came to the underground parking garage at the very bottom.
Luo Xue was still puzzled, thinking to herself that they had parked the car in the above-ground parking lot earlier, so why come to this place now?
Ling Yi walked, stopped, walked again, and finally brought Luo Xue to a corner.
No one was around. Apart from the security cameras, almost no one could see the two of them.
If this person weren’t Ling Yi, Luo Xue might have even considered hitting him.
Were they just wandering around for fun?
Then, Ling Yi took Luo Xue and left the area.
Luo Xue: “…”
The two went to the restaurant on the top floor of the mall. While eating, Luo Xue finally couldn’t contain her curiosity and asked Ling Yi, “What exactly are you doing?”
She genuinely didn’t understand.
Ling Yi smiled. “Scouting the terrain.”
Luo Xue: ???
After lunch, the two drove back to the Diplomatic Mission.
Returning to their large suite, they heard a noise. Little Fox came out, still sleepy and dazed. Seeing Ling Yi and Luo Xue, her eyes fell on the pile of shopping bags.
Suddenly, she wasn’t sleepy anymore.
“You went shopping?”
“Why didn’t you take me?”
“That’s so mean!”
Ling Yi glanced at Little Fox and said, “There’s something I need your help with.”
Little Fox pouted. “You didn’t take me shopping, and now you need me when something comes up?”
“So, will you help or not?”
“I’ll help!”
Luo Xue watched the lively little fox spirit with speechless amusement, seriously doubting in her heart: Is this really a Dao Enlightenment Master?
What kind of Dao Enlightenment is this cheap?
“I’ll give you an address. You go there later… The surveillance room is in the northeast corner of the third floor… Can you handle electronic gadgets?”
“You’re looking down on me!”
“If you can, that’s good. Then you go and…”
Watching their conversation, Luo Xue was even more confused.
She couldn’t figure out what Ling Yi was planning. Could it be… they were going to steal from that mall?
That’s too embarrassing, isn’t it?
True, there were many good things in that mall; almost everything sold was top-tier luxury goods. But the problem was, Ling Yi wasn’t short of money, was he?
Was it worth using such methods?
And at a time like this… doing this?
Little Fox, however, looked excited, listening carefully and occasionally offering a bit of her own “insight.”
“That seems a bit too obvious. How about this, Young Master, have you forgotten the Fox Clan’s seduction art?”
“Don’t use such methods on people lightly.”
“Wow, so happy! Is the Young Master jealous?”
“Idiot!”
In the afternoon.
Little Fox darted away, avoiding the surveillance of the Chu State on the area, and slipped out of the Diplomatic Mission’s lodgings.
For a Dao-Entry Grade being, unless someone of the same level was monitoring, no one could really detect her tracks.
Fighting wasn’t her strong suit, but for sneaky little tasks, she was completely skilled and familiar; it was her specialty.
Back when she went to fellow villagers’ homes to steal chickens, she was never caught!
By the time she reached the vicinity of the mall, Little Fox had transformed into a tall, fashionable beauty.
In fact, after Ling Yi left with Luo Xue, the places they had visited had already been carefully searched several times by people from Chu State!
Everyone thought Ling Yi’s behavior was very strange!
But unfortunately, no matter how hard they looked, they couldn’t find any clues at all.
They checked the surveillance footage over and over again, eventually reaching a conclusion: Ling Yi took Luo Xue to a deserted spot in the underground parking lot, probably to do something bad!
But then he likely found out there were cameras everywhere and had to give up.
This conclusion was a bit laughable, but humans’ weird behaviors and strange hobbies were always more diverse than one could imagine.
Ling Yi looked tall and handsome—maybe he was just into that kind of thing?
How else could it be explained?
Causing trouble?
What could there be to destroy in a luxury mall?
Hu Xiaoxian strolled around and reached the third floor of the mall, then swaggered into the surveillance room.
The whole process was completely open, but in reality, from the moment she left her hotel, no electronic camera could capture her figure.
She had long hidden herself using the magnetic field around her body.
For a Dao-Entry Grade master, this was a piece of cake.
When she pushed open the surveillance room door, the two drowsy people inside were startled awake. Suddenly seeing a stunningly beautiful office lady with a hot figure, they were first stunned, then their eyes lit up.
So beautiful!
A goddess!
Hu Xiaoxian gave them a faint smile. “Big brothers, sleeping?”
“Yes, yes!” they said in unison, almost fainting from the overwhelming surprise.
Happiness came too suddenly.
Then they fell asleep.
Hu Xiaoxian curled her lip, walked to the control panel, operated it for a bit, and turned to leave.
Too easy!
The task Young Master gave me really had no challenge at all!
The next task was the most crucial.
The Little Fox wandered down to the parking lot, reached the spot Ling Yi mentioned, glanced around, and noticed the cameras, immediately looking disdainful.
These things only worked on ordinary people.
If a cultivator didn’t want to appear on camera, which camera could catch them?
Looking at the hard ground, the Little Fox felt a bit annoyed. Sure enough, she was just a little maid. Luo Xue got to shop here, while she had to do digging work.
What a biased Young Master!
Muttering to herself, Hu Xiaoxian waved her hand, and the hard concrete ground was cut open, forming a hole over a meter in diameter.
A huge, heavy concrete cover slowly floated up and was placed aside.
Then… she kept digging.
The hole grew deeper and deeper.
In the blink of an eye, she had dug down two or three meters.
The dug-up soil was refined by her magic into a small ball, as she kept digging and refining.
Soon, she reached the underground pipes and various lines.
These things were no trouble for the Little Fox. She controlled precisely, carefully avoided them, and kept digging down.
She dug nearly a hundred meters deep in one breath… and finally stopped.
Seeing the huge vein suddenly appearing before her, Hu Xiaoxian was completely stunned!
A Spirit Stone Vein!
Oh my!
I actually dug up such a massive Spirit Stone Vein?
Was this why Young Master sent me here?
Hu Xiaoxian, covered in dust, was too shocked to speak.
She didn’t understand how such a huge Spirit Stone Vein could exist beneath a mall in the Capital of Great Chu.
And she didn’t understand how Young Master knew about it.
Even though she was used to Young Master’s miracles, this was just too incredible!
Resisting the urge to dig out two high-quality Spirit Stones, Hu Xiaoxian took a deep breath and muttered to herself, “See that, Hu Dali? What did the High Priest say back then?”
“Reviving the Fox Clan depends only on me, Hu Xiaoxian!”
“You didn’t believe it, and others didn’t believe it either. They all thought I was a failure!”
“Hmph, just wait. One day, I, Hu Xiaoxian, will grow into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox!”
“And I will definitely lead the entire Fox Clan to become one of the most powerful races in the universe!”
Humphing twice, Hu Xiaoxian shook her body hard—
Whoosh!
All the dust on her was shaken off.
The next moment, she turned into a shadow and disappeared from that place.
Carefully emerging from the hole in the corner of the underground parking lot, she put back the intact concrete cover.
Frowning, she looked at it and felt it wasn’t perfect.
If you looked closely, you could still see a thin cut line.
But Young Master had instructed not to use a Formation Array to hide it.
The people of Chu State weren’t fools; if they sensed Formation Array fluctuations, they would definitely become suspicious.
Thinking of the enormous Spirit Stone Vein below, Hu Xiaoxian couldn’t help but feel excited. No matter what, no one could discover anything unusual here.
After some thought, she walked toward the mall’s security room.
About ten minutes later, two security guards, chatting and laughing, moved a pile of clutter from one corner to this corner.
After setting it down, they happily went back.
They would probably never understand why they suddenly had such an idea on that warm, sunny winter afternoon.
When Hu Xiaoxian returned to her hotel, it was almost evening.
As soon as she got back, she rushed excitedly to report to Ling Yi.
“Young Master, Young Master, I succeeded! Guess what I found down there?”
“I won’t guess.” Ling Yi glanced at her, looking disgusted. “Didn’t you shower when you came back? Look how dirty you are, covered in dust… Go take a bath now.”
Hu Xiaoxian: “…”
Ugh!
During dinner, they heard from Gu Tong that Qin Hao met with Qi State’s deputy envoy today, and Qi Gaofeng met with Han State’s main envoy, but no substantial progress was made.
Although everyone had expected this, they still felt a bit disappointed.
Ling Yi comforted Gu Tong and Qin Hao, telling them not to worry and that things would turn around. The two only smiled bitterly.
In the middle of the night.
Ling Yi woke up Luo Xue and told her to come with him.
“Where are we going?”
Luo Xue had already been asleep and looked confused when awakened.
“To cultivate.” Ling Yi said.