Setting Out Overnight, Xun'er's Doubts

"You want to travel across the Northwestern Continent?" Mang Tianchi looked at Lei Qi with some surprise.

"Yes. I'll have to trouble Elder Mang to wait for me here for a while," Lei Qi said.

Mang Tianchi paused before finally nodding and reminding him, "All right. However, this old man may not necessarily be able to suppress the mutated Black Demon Lightning in your body, Lei Qi. Don't act recklessly."

"Don't worry. I know what I'm doing," Lei Qi replied.

Just as he was about to leave, Lei Qi looked at Su Qian again and said, "I heard that Elder Su Qian adopted a little girl who was a magical beast in human form?"

Su Qian nodded. "That's right. I encountered her when I entered the deep mountains back then. But even now, I still haven't figured out what her true form is."

"That's interesting. When I leave this time, let this little girl come with me," Lei Qi said.

"Young Master Lei Qi..." Su Qian looked as though he wanted to say something but held back.

"Is Elder Su Qian in a difficult position?"

Su Qian immediately shook his head and explained, "It's not that. It's just that this little girl is rather mischievous."

"That's fine. She's only a little girl. I can handle her," Lei Qi said with a smile.

Seeing that Lei Qi seemed interested in that "little girl," Mang Tianchi grew rather curious. What sort of little girl could make Lei Qi ask for her?

After Su Qian agreed, Lei Qi left.

Rather than staying in the Inner Academy, he headed straight for the Outer Academy.

Lei Qi was still somewhat curious whether Gu Xun'er and her group had come to Canaan Academy.

When he went to the Outer Academy, Su Qian naturally made arrangements for him.

Thus, upon arriving, they were received by the vice principal, Hu Gan.

It was also from Hu Gan that Lei Qi learned Gu Xun'er had indeed enrolled there and had already been studying for over a year.

In other words, Xiao Yan should have already left the Xiao Clan of the Jia Ma Empire.

That was not particularly good news for him.

After all, he had a system too. If he could not steal them first, wouldn't those beauties be wasted?

Therefore, Lei Qi did not even stop. He left the Outer Academy directly and hurried toward the Jia Ma Empire overnight.

On a secluded mountain peak, beside a cliff, a young girl dressed in a pale green gown stood elegantly. The gentle breeze blowing toward her stirred her three thousand strands of green hair, which fell all the way to her hips, making them drift softly. As the hem of her skirt fluttered, it faintly revealed the girl's perfect curves.

The girl gazed calmly at the distant eastern sky without a word, like a green lotus in the mortal world, untouched by dust.

After a long silence, the girl suddenly spoke. "Come out."

Her ethereal, pleasant voice gave one the strange feeling that their soul had been cleansed.

As her voice fell, a green figure suddenly and strangely separated from a large tree behind her. He looked respectfully at the girl with her back to him, then immediately dropped to one knee and said reverently, "Miss."

The girl slowly turned around, revealing an exquisitely beautiful jade-like profile as she looked at the figure before her. "What is it?"

"Miss, people from the Thunder Clan appeared at Canaan Academy, but they have just left," the green figure replied.

A trace of confusion appeared on the girl's exquisite, elegant face as she asked in puzzlement, "Why would people from the Thunder Clan come here?"

"This subordinate does not know. They have already left, but Mang Tianchi remains in the Inner Academy," the green figure added.

"Where did they go?" Xun'er asked.

"Judging by their direction, they seem to be heading toward the Jia Ma Empire."

"The Jia Ma Empire?"

Xun'er frowned deeply. "Could they be going after the Xiao Clan as well?"

The green figure shook her head. Naturally, she had no way to determine that. Earlier, she had merely sensed powerful auras and gone to investigate.

However, because of the strength of Mang Tianchi and the two people beside Lei Qi, she did not dare reveal herself.

Moreover, she had probably already been discovered when she went to observe them.

Still, Su Qian must have informed them of her background. Otherwise, she would not have had the chance to return and report.

"Tell Elder Ling that if he encounters people from the Thunder Clan, he is to inform me immediately," Gu Xun'er said again.

"Yes."

Xun'er's willow brows furrowed lightly. She did not want Xiao Yan to draw attention, especially from people of these Dou Di clans.

However, as forces belonging to fellow Dou Di clans, even she had no way to restrict them. After all, she was merely Gu Yuan's daughter, not Gu Yuan himself. Besides, even Gu Yuan could hardly restrict the other clans.

Half a month later

"Young Master, we have now arrived in the Beast Mountain Range near the Jia Ma Empire," Yang Ji reported.

"Golden Eagle, are you familiar with this Beast Mountain Range?" Lei Qi asked the Golden Eagle beneath him.

"Young Master, I am very familiar with this place. I spent several years here in the past," Golden Eagle replied.

"Then do you know Green Mountain Town nearby?" Lei Qi asked again.

"I do."

"Go there."

"Yes."

After Golden Eagle acknowledged the order, he swiftly flew toward Green Mountain Town.

Cao Ying looked at Lei Qi in confusion and asked, "Young Master, do you know this place?"

Lei Qi did not answer. Mainly because he did not know how to answer, so he could not be bothered to respond.

As for Yang Ji and Zhang Yi, the two were there to protect Lei Qi. Naturally, they would not talk too much. They only needed to ensure Lei Qi's safety.

Seeing that Lei Qi ignored her, Cao Ying leaned further into his embrace.

Looking at this restless little seductress, Lei Qi felt somewhat helpless. At last, he said, "Have you ever heard of the Woeful Poison Body?"

The moment Lei Qi said this, Cao Ying did not react much, but Yang Ji and Zhang Yi were both stunned!

This was an extremely terrifying constitution. Moreover, every person with a Woeful Poison Body represented slaughter. Once a Woeful Poison Body matured and erupted, it could poison to death living beings across hundreds of miles, or even farther.

Such an incident had naturally occurred in the Central Plains in the past. Under that terrifying poisonous gas, even experts of the same level could still perish.

"I haven't." Although Cao Ying was a genius, it did not mean she knew everything.

"I came here to find someone with the Woeful Poison Body. I plan to nurture her," Lei Qi said.

Although Yang Ji and Zhang Yi were both very curious about how Lei Qi knew of the Woeful Poison Body and had traveled such a great distance to this place, they wisely did not ask further.

"You've never been here, so how do you know these things?" Cao Ying asked again.

Slap!

Lei Qi smacked her on her already round and perky rear. "Why do you have so many questions?"

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Cao Ying had no choice but to close her little mouth, though an unconvinced expression appeared on her pretty face.