I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life

Chapter 433 - 282: Guagua’s Whereabouts

Qianji City!

Ignoring Cang Huang, who was both fiercely battling and complaining that Liu Hongling was stealing her kills, Li Jizhou looked towards the direction of Qianji City, a hint of anticipation flashing in his eyes.

Half a month later, they encountered several more waves of interception and assassination attempts.

Without exception, they were all dragged into the Blood Evil Realm and slaughtered.

This made Cang Huang extremely excited, as her opportunity to break through to Tier Five was rapidly approaching.

However, after half a month, the situation changed, and the assassins had already improved to the power of Divinity Transformation.

Five hundred thousand middle-grade spirit stones were very enticing for Nascent Soul cultivators, but not enough for Divinity Transformation Dao Lords, especially those in the swamp who all had certain status and rarely took on tasks for such a bounty.

Clearly, the person who posted the bounty decisively increased the reward after half a month yielded no results.

This was confirmed from the first Divinity Transformation Dao Lord who came to assassinate Li Jizhou.

Even though the Divinity Transformation Dao Lords could not be drawn into the realm, as long as Li Jizhou himself entered the realm, they were helpless. Additionally, with the massively increased power of Cang Huang, along with the cooperation of Cyan Dome, Hong Luan, and Sable, ordinary Divinity Transformation Dao Lords were no match.

Fighting fiercely all the way, covered in blood, Cang Huang nourished herself almost every few days with the blood of the Divinity Transformation Dao Lords, her small body visibly transforming, her skin becoming smoother, curves more defined, the blood fiend aura more restrained, but evidently, the power from her small form became even more astounding!

After half a month, the group, constantly moving and stopping along the way, finally arrived at the renowned Qianji City.

Looking around, nearly 80% of the cultivators accompanied by puppets.

And those puppets were of all shapes and forms, with diverse appearances.

Most were at least at Tier Three or higher, with the majority being Tier Four puppets, and Tier Five occasionally visible.

Li Jizhou did not rush into the city but instead walked around the outskirts of Qianji City.

The swift puppet from his previous life had disappeared after being transmitted ten thousand miles by a demon beast with teleportation divine abilities.

At that time, he judged based on the scene observed before completely losing the divine soul connection with the swift puppet that it was likely near Qianji City.

"It seems to be here!" When Li Jizhou maneuvered the Golden Chariot three thousand miles east of Qianji City, he saw a scene similar to what the swift puppet last relayed in his past life.

Here lay a dense array of withered branches and weeds, with black water eroding beneath them, gradually devouring everything that fell into the swamp bit by bit.

Although the swift puppet was just Tier Three Advanced Level, offering him almost no aid now, it still held sentimental value.

"Hong Luan, can your divine sense penetrate the black water?" Li Jizhou asked Hong Luan to give it a try.

"No!" Hong Luan shook her head.

Blackwater Swamp shields the divine soul, even obscuring divination and other divine secret skills, always leaving Li Jizhou puzzled. He had researched the black water in the Blackwater Swamp in his past life, discovering it only toxic below the Foundation Establishment Stage, with no other peculiar qualities.

It is probably due to the initial Earth Spirit Master forcibly drawing the spirit vein and recreating the Spirit Vein Ancestral Source that caused this!

"Xiaohuang, go down and see if there’s a puppet." Li Jizhou asked Cang Huang again.

Anything could be possible beneath Blackwater Swamp, and due to the nature of the black water, even a Divinity Transformation Dao Lord with bad luck could lose their life encountering a Tier Six Great Demon.

"Ah? No no no... young master, pity me, please, I am naturally afraid of water!" The most ferocious in battle this past month, Cang Huang, shook her head in horror, repeatedly retreating.

Li Jizhou furrowed his brow slightly, then looked at Cyan Dome again.

Cyan Dome remained indifferent but still spoke, "I do not like water!"

The implication was that she too feared water, though she put it more delicately.

"Master, please don’t look at me, though I am made of water, our Fox Race has always kept a respectful distance from bodies of water." Hong Luan waved her hand nervously.

As for Sable, Li Jizhou didn’t even glance her way.

It seemed the inherent nature of demon beasts and even demon races was so deeply rooted as to be hard to alter.

Alas,

Li Jizhou sighed slightly, four Tier Four demonic beasts weren’t even as useful as a frog.

He couldn’t help but think of Guagua.

What could it be doing now?

A few years ago, news of his past killing of Shangguan Liuyun had spread, revealing the quasi-immortal artifact Guanghan Seal he had, drawing countless people from this realm to rush into the Eastern Desolate Southern Domain and even many from Central State.

An intense investigation into his past life identity ensued, inevitably uncovering the events on the Inverted Mountain and related individuals, including Guagua, the demon beast that always accompanied him.

Guagua had fled with Bai Yi and three quasi-fourth tier puppets back then, with a Qilin Immortality Pill in its Hundred Treasure Bag, along with a Six-winged Golden Cicada...

The three puppets became lifeless without the divine soul to inhabit them after Li Jizhou’s death, offering no aid. The only ones to help Guagua had been Bai Yi and the fat insect.

"With its nature, it’s unlikely it would seek revenge for me!"

"It surely fled the moment it could!"

"Where could it have fled to? Twenty years have passed."

"Could it have come to the swamp? After all, the Blackwater Swamp is the most suitable place for Guagua! Additionally, the swamp could shield against divination and pursuit." For a moment, Li Jizhou’s anticipation grew significantly, though the swamp spanned millions of miles, resulting in immense difficulty in locating anything easily.

"Little Cicada!" Left with no other choice, he finally released the half-awake Spring and Autumn Cicada.

Though it hadn’t acknowledged a master yet, it could still be coaxed into helping with the use of spirit stones.

After feeding it three middle-grade spirit stones, the Spring and Autumn Cicada plunged straight into the Blackwater Swamp.

Li Jizhou immediately shared its view to investigate.

This swamp was particularly deep, with complete darkness below, but thanks to the view-sharing with the Spring and Autumn Cicada, Li Jizhou could see everything clearly.

In thoroughly searching a radius of ten miles, he didn’t see the familiar silhouette of the puppet.

"Forget it, it’s likely been picked up by someone by accident!" Li Jizhou said without joy or sorrow. He had just come by to try his luck and felt no regret from not finding it.

"Eh? What’s this..." Just as Li Jizhou was about to give up, his eyes suddenly widened, fixing intently on a palm-sized piece of skin-like object ahead, looking like a piece of skin.

"Retrieve it!" Li Jizhou urgently instructed the Spring and Autumn Cicada.

The Spring and Autumn Cicada immediately bit into the exposed piece of skin, pulling it entirely from the muddy depths below.

Soon, a large patch of vivid and colorful skin came into view.

"Guagua’s molted skin!" Surprise flickered in Li Jizhou’s eyes; he was very familiar with this skin, it was Guagua’s.

When a demon beast advances from Tier Three to Tier Four, it undergoes true transformation, shedding mortal flesh, enduring a minor celestial tribulation, undergoing a blood baptism, claiming the title of Demon King, and awakening bloodline divine abilities.

"A lower-grade bloodline actually breaking through the Celestial Dao to advance to Tier Four! Perhaps the changes in this realm’s heavens impose talent restrictions only on the human race while leaving demon beasts unrestricted?" Li Jizhou was greatly astonished.

He’d expected Guagua’s potential to plateau at Tier Three, never imagining it would advance to Tier Four!

"That fellow truly isn’t foolish, knowing that the swamp could block divination and tracking, so it fled here and even helped me retrieve the swift puppet!"

"I wonder what it looks like after advancing to Tier Four?"

At that moment, a ripple surged in Li Jizhou’s heart.

"Find Guagua!"

Without further hesitation, he flew the Golden Chariot straight into Qianji City!