Jueyu Pool Saves Shuobing

Now that he had thought of the root of laws, as well as the difference between a Nascent Soul and a physical body, Xiao Hua's thoughts opened wide. Unfortunately, no matter how capable he was of thinking, he was now like a tiger stranded on the plains or a dragon trapped in shallow waters. Only when fate arrived could he break free from the golden locks and soar as a dragon! As for these so-called golden locks, they truly lay beyond Xiao Hua's expectations—they were actually cultivation techniques again.

Back on Xiaoyu Continent, Xiao Hua had been unable to cultivate for so long because he could not find a cultivation technique. Later, on Yilin Continent, he had seen the Daoist sect's endless and bizarre variety of techniques. As for the Immortal Realm, Xiao Hua had never imagined that cultivation techniques might be lacking. Setting aside the Thunderous Might Xu Zhi had given him, even from Star Moon Fairy's veiled descriptions, immortals in the Immortal Realm only ever failed to find the best techniques; they were never short of techniques.

Xiao Hua had never dreamed that, as a supreme expert of the mortal world, he would arrive in the Immortal Realm only to lack a cultivation technique!

Knowing that his opportunity had not yet arrived, Xiao Hua placed his hopes on the Immortal Market one cycle later. Over the next dozen or so days, Xiao Hua expanded the scope of his search, looking within a thousand miles for strange Immortal Grass and Immortal Fruit, as well as stones and other items that felt promising.

It was already deep into the night. White Gazing Moon hung in the sky like a jade plate. Xiao Hua had just snatched a vermilion Immortal Grass from the jaws of a strange immortal beast, and in high spirits, he urged his body back toward the cave. Suddenly, a dim silver flash flickered and vanished in the distant night, falling in the direction of Jueyu Pool.

"Eh?" Xiao Hua frowned and said curiously, "Why does this silver light seem somewhat familiar? It looks like that female immortal called Shuobing from that day!"

Xiao Hua had an excellent impression of Shuobing. After giving it a little thought, he turned and flew toward Jueyu Pool. Jueyu Pool was even more beautiful in the dead of night. Misty water vapor rose several dozen feet high, and within the mist, countless rudimentary water spirits without intelligence danced. Moonlight shone upon the deep blue pool, white light and thin mist complementing one another. It was truly a dreamlike Minor World.

When Xiao Hua arrived, an area several dozen feet across at the center of the pool was devoid of mist. Strands of vapor rose from the rippling water, while many fish around that spot, still shaken out of their wits, were desperately fleeing. Clearly, something unusual had just happened there.

"Could she have encountered some danger?" Xiao Hua stood before Jueyu Pool and watched for a while, an ominous feeling rising in his heart. Then he looked toward the direction from which the silver light had come and thought, If that is truly the case, people will surely be pursuing her from behind. Even if she used some secret technique, she could hardly avoid being discovered!

Thinking this, Xiao Hua looked at the unfathomable pool water and quietly released his spiritual sense. His spiritual sense could not see what lay within the water, but he could sense the movement of the current. Following where the water flowed down, Xiao Hua "touched" a cold jade block only several dozen feet in size at the bottom of the pool. Around the jade block, more than ten green fish swam over in pairs from all directions. "Yin Yang Green Fish?" Xiao Hua smiled faintly. "Could this be Xiao's unexpected harvest?"

As he spoke, Xiao Hua swept with his spiritual sense and sent both the jade block and the dozen or so green fish into his space. Just as he had collected the jade block, before he could inspect it, sharp Emanated Thought surged toward him like a tide. Xiao Hua had no time to flee far away and hurriedly activated the Mitian Ring to hide by the pool's edge.

The Emanated Thought swept into Jueyu Pool, thinning the mist above its waters. Even those incomplete water spirits were frightened into shrinking back into the pool. After the Emanated Thought swept past, it rushed directly elsewhere. Yet after several breaths, it suddenly turned back, locking down the entirety of Jueyu Pool and several miles around its banks. Xiao Hua was right within that area.

Xiao Hua could tell that these were two streams of Emanated Thought no weaker than Yuanzi's. His heart pounded as he wondered whether the Mitian Ring could block their probing.

After about the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, a silver light tore through the air. It was like a hundred pure white jasmine blossoms emerging from the night sky, then gathering into a silver outline in the shape of a female immortal. When the silver outline appeared, Xiao Hua clearly saw gray runes rapidly pouring from the area of her right arm. She seemed to be injured. Behind the female immortal, the air rang out as red, yellow, and blue Sword Light streaked across the sky. Wherever the Sword Light passed, moonlight was cut apart and the air wrinkled. When the Sword Light halted high in the air, three identical men revealed themselves, each a hundred feet tall.

"How is it?" the three men spoke at the same time, their voices overlapping.

"Her aura suddenly disappeared when it reached this place. Unless she used a secret technique to escape elsewhere, she is hiding nearby!" The female immortal's voice was pleasant, like a nightingale singing through the night.

"Did they discover anything?"

"Not yet..." the female immortal replied. "I had them investigate the vicinity and the area ahead. If anything unusual appears, I will know."

"This is... Jueyu Pool, isn't it?"

"Yes. Yin Yang Green Fish are produced in this pool. Since its water corrodes our Immortal Bodies, Yin Yang Green Fish are extremely valuable at the Immortal Market."

"Let's take a look first..." As the male immortal spoke, he simultaneously raised a hand and pointed at his own eyes. With a swish, red, yellow, and blue radiance respectively emerged from the six eyes of the three male immortals and fell upon Jueyu Pool.

A moment later, the male immortal withdrew his divine ability. The female immortal asked tentatively, "How was it?"

"No good!" The three male immortals still spoke together. "This pool water is strange. My Shadow Duplication Technique cannot pass through it."

"Then I'll do it..." The female immortal had only spoken three words when the male immortal shook his head. "You are injured. Let me do it!"

Hearing this, the female immortal said with a trace of embarrassed fury, "Damn Shuobing, she actually had another trick up her sleeve..."

"Shh..." the male immortal hurriedly stopped her. "Do not mention her name!"

"Hmph..." The female immortal snorted coldly and said indignantly, "Doesn't she just have a master with an extraordinary background? What is so impressive about that?"

The male immortal said gently, "Precisely because we know she has a master with an extraordinary background, we cannot strike directly..."

"Unfortunately, she escaped from certain death. Not only did we fail to capture her, we were even injured by her. I wonder whether she saw through any flaw..."

"Don't worry, don't worry!" the male immortal continued gently. "You and I used Illusion Gold. There is no way she could see through our flaw. Perhaps it may even trigger..."

Before he could finish, yellow silhouettes flew over like the wind from afar. They were two humanoid figures similar to the female immortal.

"How was it?" the male immortal could not help asking.

"We found no trace of her. The Xuan Kong Incense we secretly left on her also disappeared here," one of the figures answered without emotion.

"Mm, I understand. You have worked hard!" The male immortal nodded. Then the three figures suddenly flew in three different directions. Once they took their positions, the male immortal raised his hand and slapped the crown of his head. With three loud booms, three pillars of light shot into the sky from the crowns of the three male immortals, each a different color.

Immediately afterward, howling wind arose, and enormous vortices condensed at the tops of the pillars. The Immortal Spiritual Energy around Yunmeng Marsh, condensed into clouds and mist, poured into those vortices! Three-colored radiance gradually emerged over the bodies of the three male immortals. Next, all three simultaneously performed the same Immortal Arts. Amid rumbling thunder, several hundred crystalline threads plunged into Jueyu Pool.

"Rise..." the three male immortals roared together, raising both arms. Amid a shaking as though heaven and earth were overturning, Jueyu Pool, hundreds of miles wide, was forcibly lifted by the three male immortals...

The waters of Jueyu Pool slowly rose beneath the pure white moonlight, revealing everything within down to the tiniest detail! Xiao Hua, hidden not far away, was dumbstruck. Only now did he truly understand what the word "immortal" actually meant!

However, after the emerald pool water had risen only a little over a hundred feet, less than forty percent of its depth, a low hum sounded. The male immortal surrounded by blue light suddenly swayed, and the pillar of light above his head collapsed with a thunderous boom. The waters of Jueyu Pool immediately crashed back down.

"You..." The female immortal hurriedly flew over and asked anxiously, "Why are you injured too?"

"It is nothing!" The male immortal waved a hand and said somewhat breathlessly, "I was merely careless."

As he spoke, the male immortal shook his body, and red and yellow light flared from his surface. The two male immortals a hundred miles away immediately broke through the barriers of space and appeared beside him. As the lights touched, the three male immortals merged into one.

"Let me do it!" The female immortal thought for a moment and said, "I just looked. There should be no foreign object in the pool water, but we cannot rule out the possibility that she used an Azure Jade Gate secret technique to hide!"

"Can you manage?"

"I have to, even if I cannot!" The female immortal gritted her teeth. "Her life or death is crucial to us!"

"Or perhaps this is her feint?" the male immortal reminded her. "She may have used a secret technique to lure us here, then turned back herself?"

The female immortal ignored him and flew straight into the air above Jueyu Pool. The two women from before followed her to guard both sides. As the female immortal formed Immortal Arts, the silver light around her body churned like boiling water. Countless fist-sized runes rolled out and fell into her Immortal Arts.

With a rumble, the female immortal elegantly spread her arms, and the Immortal Arts fell upon her body. A massive jasmine-shaped phantom emerged from within her and turned into light that fell high into the sky.

The jasmine was about to bloom. Under the moonlight, it was crystal-clear and breathtakingly beautiful, and tenderness rose in the male immortal's eyes as he watched.

Swish... The jasmine then bloomed, opening strand by strand, petal by petal. The moment it opened, countless blood-colored phantoms within a thousand miles seemed to be drawn by innumerable indescribable threads of light, slowly flying out!

"Ah??" Xiao Hua, hiding within the Mitian Ring, was greatly shocked. He could see clearly that two blood-colored phantoms over a foot long rose from two spots beside him. Were they not the phantoms of earthworms? Looking again at Jueyu Pool, countless outlines of fish, crabs, and other aquatic creatures emerged. This female immortal had actually used a divine ability to project the phantoms of every living thing with bloodlines within a thousand miles!!!

"Whew!" Xiao Hua let out a long breath, feeling fortunate that he had put Shuobing into his space, and even more fortunate that he possessed a Nascent Soul Body.

Though Xiao Hua rejoiced, the male immortal did not dare slacken. Light rose in his eyes again as he scanned those blood-colored phantoms.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the jasmine had fully blossomed. One of the women guarding the area asked coldly, "How was it?"

The male immortal shook his head slightly, looking somewhat disappointed!

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