Chapter 20 - Yin Yang Double Gateway
There was a ma.s.sive lake in the center of Demon Beast Forest. The water was clear and the lakeside was silent and peaceful. Here, there were no tall dense trees so there weren"t any shades from the trees, only short bushes and shrubbery that surrounded the lake.
If one looked closely at these bushes, they would see tiny dust particles resting on the low leaves. Even though this dust was small it wasn"t light at all, it seemed to cause all the leaves to bend closer to the ground.
Lin Haoxue used her fingers to touch some of this dust and took a good look at it. After a while, she still couldn"t figure out what it was so she was a little disappointed. Therefore, she showed her fingers to Shen Molian,
"Do you know what this is?"
"It is probably the leftover residue from the burning of something. As for what was burned, there is no way to know for now. Shen Molian shook her head helplessly as she wanted to know what had happened too.
"It seems like for the time being, we won"t know what happened here, so we can only drop it." Hearing this, Lin Haoxue was pretty disappointed. She looked around their surroundings but didn"t see any traces of demon beasts; instead, this place was oddly quiet and peaceful, it didn"t resemble the Demon Beast Forest at all.
"Are we really inside the Demon Beast Forest?" Lin Haoxue asked.
"This really is the Demon Beast Forest. It"s just that we are at the deepest part of the forest. This is the place where only the most powerful beasts roam so normal beasts would never dare come here. Normally very powerful high-level spirit beasts control their own areas here." Shen Molian saw Lin Haoxue"s confused expression so she explained.
"Then we"re pretty lucky. We"re here in the territory of those high-level spirit beasts and we"re still standing here safely." Lin Haoxue laughed while speaking to Shen Molian.
"Maybe it isn"t luck." Shen Molian didn"t laugh nor respond anymore. Since she first came to this place, she wasn"t lucky at all, but as she looked at Lin Haoxue, she seemed to understand something. "As for the reason why it"s so silent here, I think it has something to do with what just happened to you."
"It"s highly possible," Lin Haoxue nodded her head. Even though she didn"t know what exactly had happened, recalling that black dragon in her dantian and the huge red dragon which occupied the entire sky, she naturally thought that there must be some connection. If talking about powerful auras and rank was there anything stronger than that red dragon in this forest?
Perhaps this was the peace caused by such a fearsome presence.
"So what happened to the rest of Violent Snow?" Lin Haoxue still remembered the young lord Moxuan. Even though he didn"t get to save her, but just the fact that he had tried left Lin Haoxue deeply shocked, and she would remember this kindness.
"After you left, that red dragon disappeared and so did those spirit beasts which caused the beast horde to disperse. Even though I don"t know Violent Snow is now, I"m sure they are safe," Shen Molian said. "Oh and here"s some good news. I stumbled upon the place where those spirit birds have gathered while I was looking for you."
"The place where spirit birds are? So spirit birds are spirit beasts that live in groups?" Lin Haoxue smiled wryly, "What kind of good news is that."
"Yah, not just spirit birds but even those sun birds live in groups too. They all reside in the same area." Shen Molian stared at her and said, "Now that the Yin Yang Double Gateway is very close, don"t tell me that you"re scared?"
"Of course not," Lin Haoxue shook her head and said. "I"m just a little annoyed, I want to find a place to rest some. Do you think there"s a Yin Yang Double Gateway at the place where those spirit birds and sun birds have appeared?"
"I"m not sure yet. Only if we get close will we know for sure, but it"s highly possible. Let"s go."
"Alright." The two left the innermost area of the forest and headed in the opposite direction Shen Molian had come from.
"Wait," after they walked for a while, Lin Haoxue suddenly stopped and said seriously.
"What"s wrong?" Shen Molian stopped too while she sensed her surroundings. She didn"t notice anything out of place so she asked back.
"Ahead towards the left, there is a flock of demon beasts in the sky." Lin Haoxue said while she withdrew her willforce upon discovering them.
"That direction should be a little farther than where I last saw those spirit birds. Could it be that they"ve moved? Are you positive?"
"I"m sure," Lin Haoxue was confident in her willforce, so there shouldn"t be any problems with her estimates.
"Then let"s carefully sneak closer."
"Ok, let"s move a little to the right, there shouldn"t be any problems."
Lin Haoxue didn"t dare relax. She used her willforce to probe their surroundings, "Oh, there are a lot of people present!"
"What realm are they?"
"They are mostly Profound Grand Masters and Profound Ancestor realm cultivators."
"What are they doing?"
"I"m not sure yet, but it seems like they are looking for something. Don"t tell me that they have the same target as us!"
Suddenly, Lin Haoxue came up with a bright idea, "Let"s get closer so we can clearly see what is happening."
"Alright, let"s go check it out!" Shen Molian immediately responded.
The two of them were just like kids up to no good.
"Oh my G.o.d, they are at the same place!" She found out that this was not only the place where those spirit birds and sun birds were, but a lot of people had gathered here as well. The strength of everyone present was not weak at all.
Even though because of an accident her strength had increased to the Late-stage Profound Grand Master realm, but compared to all these cultivators who were at least at the Profound Spirit realm, her cultivation wasn"t enough to even be a threat.
"Do you see this? There are so many cultivators here and every single one of them is strong."
"Are you saying that there"s no opportunity for us?"
"Wrong. It"s precisely because there are so many cultivators gathered here that we have a big chance," Lin Haoxue said in a low voice to Shen Molian.
"You"re saying we"re going to be the fisherman." Shen Molian immediately understood what Lin Haoxue meant.
"Yep, when the sandpiper and clam fight each other, it"s the fisherman who benefits."
"But you have to realize that we won"t be the only ones here trying to be the fisherman."
"Of course I know that. We"ll see who is faster and can seize this chance."
"You"re so sure of yourself?" Shen Molian asked full of doubt.
"We have to be," Lin Haoxue smiled charmingly. Now the way they got along had changed quite a bit.
First of all, in front of them, were two kinds of spirit beasts. In the center of their body, there was spirit power flowing outwards. Having these diametrically opposed elemental spirit birds opposite one another caused the surrounding temperature to turned very hot sometimes and other times become ice-cold.