strictlysupreme Chapter 236 Bait
Chapter 236 Bait
Hmm, what kind of demon is this?
[The Blood Shadow Demoness often appears in the form of a beautiful woman. She is a demon born from the gathering of intense blood energy, skilled at controlling living souls with blood energy and learning all the skills of living souls. Weakness: Soul Vessels. Soul Vessels are the foundation of her existence, containing all the living souls she collects. Destroying a Soul Vessel releases the living souls, resulting in death.]
Found it. It seems to be the Blood Shadow Demoness who set up the Blood Qi Breaking Array. Mid-level, level six, quite powerful.
Nineteen human celestial masters fighting against nearly a hundred demons, with overwhelming level differences—wow, just thinking about it is exciting!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
In her drowsy state, Ning Xiaoxi heard the warning sound of the alarm talisman, followed by a period of confusion. Ning Xiaoxi turned over and went back to sleep.
The disturbance quickly subsided.
Ning Xiaoxi slept soundly through the night.
The morning sun shone on the tent, but it did nothing to affect the temperature inside; it remained cool.
Ning Xiaoxi opened her eyes. It was very quiet outside. After washing up, she walked out of the tent.
Jian Xingzhi sat alone by the sand pile, drawing talismans. A stack of finished talisman papers was already placed next to him.
Ning Xiaoxi glanced down and saw it was a warning talisman. In just one night, he had already figured out how to draw a talisman from a piece of paper, and he could draw it so skillfully. Jian Xingzhi was quite clever.
Ning Xiaoxi's approach blocked the not-so-hot morning light. Jian Xingzhi looked up, "Ah, Miss Ning, I, I..."
Ning Xiaoxi smiled, "Master Jian's technique is quite good, we can exchange ideas more often!"
Jian Xingzhi stood up, and although he was two heads taller than Ning Xiaoxi, it didn't mean he was imposing. "Miss Ning, I didn't mean to, it's just that this talisman is too useful, so I couldn't resist."
Ning Xiaoxi didn't like looking up at people, so she grabbed his arm and pulled him down to sit. "You can continue. Don't be shy. If you can learn it, it's because you're good at it. It has nothing to do with me." After saying that, she turned her head to look at the others. "Where are the others?"
"Brother Sun and his men found a small oasis in the south with a lake. Brother Jing and his men went to investigate, and we plan to set up a camp there. Brother Yun is taking some men to investigate the demons, to find out how many demons are still inside the barrier, so we can formulate our next strategy." Jian Xingzhi explained the decisions that Brother Yun and Brother Jing had discussed to Ning Xiaoxi. Everyone agreed to trust Ning Xiaoxi and not hide anything from her.
Ning Xiaoxi nodded. She had learned to proceed steadily and cautiously instead of attacking blindly, and had made great progress.
Jian Xingzhi had a delicate smile, and Ning Xiaoxi noticed that he had freshened up and changed into clean clothes.
“Ning Girl!” Jing Lei’s voice came, and he appeared as clean and refreshing as Jing Jinglei and Shi Tianyi. “The lakeside is fine. We can move there when Brother Xingyun comes back.”
Jian Xingzhi was delighted to hear this and got up to help Ning Xiaoxi pack up the tent. Ning Xiaoxi didn't let him help and moved the tent back into her spatial storage. Jian Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, then felt envious again. Having a spatial talisman meant she had the strongest backing among them all.
Ning Xiaoxi dared not give him a spatial talisman; without sufficient spiritual energy reserves, a single talisman could drain him dry.
Shi Tianyi erected a sand pillar, placed a signpost on top of it, and then gave everyone a simple and honest smile.
The group quickly migrated towards the oasis.
Bai Yizhi and two other celestial masters guarded the edge of the oasis, setting up several traps on the perimeter. When Jian Xingzhi arrived, he contributed a stack of warning talismans that he had just drawn, and the group quickly set them up again.
This oasis is not large, less than a hundred feet in circumference. It has a small lake, and the wetlands have small patches of grass and low shrubs, making it a perfect place to rest.
Two large tents have been erected on the edge of the sandy area near the grassland. The bases are made of sand and soil a foot high to prevent moisture.
Shi Tianyi deftly erected another sand base and gestured to Ning Xiaoxi.
Ning Xiaoxi didn't stand on ceremony. After adding two stabilizing talismans to the base, she directly set up her tent on it.
Ning Xiaoxi, who had just finished building her little nest, came out to boil some water when she heard a loud "bang!" from the west. Shi Tianyi quickly ran over. Then she saw sand flying everywhere, and soon Shi Tianyi returned, dragging a large lizard.
"Why did you drag it back? It's inedible and useless, throw it away." Bai Yizhi was a bit annoyed by the monitor lizard's strong bloody aura.
"No, give it to me." Ning Xiaoxi quickly stopped Shi Tianyi from dragging the giant lizard away, and with a wave of her hand, she put the giant lizard into her space.
Bai Yizhi asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why are you keeping this thing?"
“There is a demon trying to break the formation set up by the elder by luring flesh and blood. Fresh flesh and blood are good bait.”
In fact, Ning Xiaoxi admired the elder who set up the formation. She originally thought it was just a formation drawn under the sand, but after seeing the oasis, she realized that the entire oasis was also under a formation, and the lake was supported by the formation.
Thinking about the large oasis occupied by the tree demon, such a large oasis, whether moved to the formation or constructed beneath the deep lake of the oasis, would be a massive undertaking, not something easily accomplished. Therefore, this formation was likely already built at the beginning of the trial, and later generations have simply been using the legacy left by their predecessors.
"If you catch any more, just give them to me; we'll need them later."
The group nodded in agreement; none of them knew such a thing existed.
Over the next day, small and large desert animals would occasionally run into the warning talisman. The people guarding the oasis took turns going out to hunt them down, and brought back the carcasses to Ning Xiaoxi.
Jian Xingzhi spent a whole day drawing warning symbols.
As dusk fell, Jian Xingyun returned with his men. There were wounded, but no casualties, and everyone was very happy.
After dinner, the wounded went to rest in their tents, while the few who had been guarding the camp all day went out to keep watch.
The Jian brothers, Jian Xingyun and Jian Xingzhi, along with Jing Lei and Bai Yizhi, sat around the fire discussing their plans for the future.
“Miss Ning is right. The remaining demons are all concentrated in the oasis a hundred miles away. Today we searched the entire trial grounds, and apart from some remaining monsters, there are no more wandering demons.” Jian Xingyun added a piece of firewood to the fire, and with a “crackling” sound, the flames rose.
Bai Yizhi and Jing Lei exchanged a glance. "So, what are your plans, Brother Jian?"
“The outer perimeter is teeming with demons. We’ve seen a group of cat demons, a pack of wind wolves, and a nest of sand lizard demons in the cave. These are just the lesser demons on the outskirts; there should be even more powerful demons within the oasis. We still don’t know.” Jian Xingyun’s expression was grave. “We can use some methods to lure these out and set traps to eliminate them.”