Weak Blue Silver Emperor, Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone

Xiao Xian pushed a log downstream along the river.

Though it was only a guess, he was certain of the waterfall's location. After all, the area around Sacred Soul Village was not very large.

So he had made a wide detour early on, climbed over many mountains, and reached the upper reaches of the waterway.

Now, he only needed to follow the river downstream for nearly a hundred kilometers to reach the place soon enough.

The log drifted with the current as Xiao Xian adjusted his position from time to time, even using the Blowing Fire Palm to accelerate.

It did not take long. The sun had merely dipped a little lower.

A series of rumbling roars gradually reached Xiao Xian's ears, growing louder and louder.

From afar, he saw an opening ahead that seemed to be a valley.

A while later.

Xiao Xian jumped straight off the log, lightly tapping his feet as he landed on a rock by the shore.

The log followed the current and crashed straight down.

"This is the place."

Xiao Xian lightly stepped from one rock to another.

Standing beside the waterfall, he looked down. The pool below was a full two hundred meters beneath his current position.

The plunging waterfall was like a jade ribbon, falling two hundred meters before smashing heavily into the gemlike pool. Water sprayed high into the air, raising thick mist.

As sunlight flowed through it, the mist immediately turned into a rainbow of colors.

Mountains, beautiful scenery.

Everything was wonderful.

But Xiao Xian had no mood to appreciate it.

His gaze remained fixed on a point nearly halfway down the waterfall. After silently making his judgment, he began taking out iron chains from his Soul Tool.

There were trees at the waterfall's edge. Xiao Xian firmly tied the iron chain around one, secured it around his waist, then secretly activated the Mysterious Jade Body and jumped into the water.

Swept downward by the current, Xiao Xian was washed into the raging waterfall in an instant. He frantically circulated the Suction Palm and Blowing Fire Palm, using the iron chain to barely cling to the smooth rock wall.

He searched downward inch by inch.

A full half hour later, Xiao Xian finally pushed aside a perfectly fitted rock less than a hundred meters down the waterfall.

Then he immediately climbed inside.

"I finally found it."

"Since I wasn't slapped to death, that means Tang Hao really isn't here."

"Uncle Tang, though we've never met, I'm sorry, but I'm taking your wife."

Xiao Xian muttered silently to himself. After releasing the iron chain around his waist, he decisively headed deeper inside.

The cave behind the waterfall had clearly been excavated by human hands. It was three meters tall and two meters wide.

It was also quite deep. Further inside, it had already become somewhat dark.

Xiao Xian put on gloves, took out a Night Pearl, put his mask back on, and used the Purple Demon Eye. With the aid of that faint light, he advanced inward and quickly reached the end.

This was a stone chamber of a full ten square meters. Even without the Night Pearl, faint light seeped into it.

On closer inspection, there was a hole in the stone wall at the very top.

Xiao Xian silently stared at it for a moment and memorized its position before lowering his head to look at a small mound of earth in the chamber.

A slender Blue Silver Grass swayed gently atop the mound. Fine golden patterns ran across its blades, and the light from the stone hole shone directly upon it.

The instant Xiao Xian appeared, this Blue Silver Grass even gave off a faint spiritual fluctuation.

Without hesitation.

Xiao Xian immediately took a shovel from his Soul Tool and dug up the Blue Silver Grass together with the soil. Then he took out an iron box with a capacity of half a cubic meter and placed both the soil and the Blue Silver Grass inside.

He closed the iron box and even sealed it with resin.

Xiao Xian decisively stored it in his Soul Tool.

Soul Tools could not hold living creatures only because their internal space could not connect with the outside world. There was no air inside, so living creatures would die, or even burst apart. But plants could survive even in a vacuum.

Xiao Xian had tested it before. Even ordinary Blue Silver Grass could be stored this way, so there was no reason the immortal Blue Silver Emperor could not.

If possible, he would have wanted to leave this Blue Silver Emperor for Tang Hao.

But he could not, especially after Xiao Xian sensed that spiritual fluctuation.

Xiao Xian turned his gaze back to the stone walls of the chamber and searched inch by inch. Finally, he pushed aside a stone.

He found a black box, one foot wide and a full meter and a half long, made entirely of lead.

Xiao Xian suppressed his excitement and gently opened it.

He only opened the tiniest crack.

Xiao Xian immediately sensed a vast yet gentle aura!

Without hesitation, he immediately closed the box!

Feeling around at his waist with his right hand, Xiao Xian took out another black box, one size smaller and less than a meter long.

It too was made of lead.

His Soul Tool had twenty-four cubic meters of space, divided into twenty-four separate compartments, each one meter by one meter. The box in the stone chamber simply would not fit inside his Soul Tool.

Xiao Xian opened the box he had prepared, quickly opened the original Lead Box, and saw it.

At its center lay a shrunken Right Leg Bone, an exceptionally complete right leg bone. It was dark bluish-green throughout, and it was the source of that vast yet gentle power.

Xiao Xian transferred it into his own lead box, sealed it, stored it in his Soul Tool, and immediately retreated!

"..."

Following the iron chain downward, Xiao Xian dropped straight into the pool. After dealing with the log not far from the pool, he headed back up and climbed to the top of the waterfall again.

After making sure all traces had been removed, he finally found the stone hole above the chamber in a corner.

Around that stone hole, he arranged some signs that a Spirit Master team had been active there, especially leaving behind some excrement, before drifting away.

"..."

Before the sky darkened, Xiao Xian made a wide detour from the waterfall and only then ran to a place where people were active.

Although Nuoding City was nearby, he had no plans to go there. He did not even want to show himself there.

Along the way, he disposed of the clothes he was wearing. He even crushed the Lead Box and sank it in a river. After reinforcing the contents of his Soul Tool again and confirming that there would be no problems, he continued on his journey.

After identifying the direction, Xiao Xian traveled through the night, running several hundred kilometers. Only when the sun began to rise did he find a small town and ask for a bowl of tea to rest.

"By my reckoning, Xiao San and the others should have only arrived in Suotuo City yesterday. After resting for another day, they'll go to the academy tomorrow."

"If I hurry, I might even find him before he joins the academy? With Xiao Jue's pace, traveling a thousand li a day is nothing. Even if li are converted to kilometers, it would still be fine."

"Either way, as long as I have the item, that's enough. It isn't suitable to use it for the time being. Who knows how long Tang Hao will linger around Suotuo City, or whether he might sense it..."

"For now, I'll endure..." Xiao Xian lifted a bowl of tea and drank slowly.

"..."

Early the next morning.

After traveling continuously for so long, Xiao Xian finally saw Suotuo City in the distance.

During the day yesterday and half the night, he had run to the vicinity of the Star Dou Great Forest and shown himself, making it look as if he had just emerged from within. Then he ran through the night, circling from the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest to Suotuo City.

"I'm finally here."

Xiao Xian let out a breath.