
"That's a lot," Xiaobai said as he observed people running from one tree trunk to another.
One group in a blue dongker uniform caught Xiaobai's attention because their speed almost matched the magic gondola Mu Lian and herself were riding.
"Lian jie what are you doing?" xiaobai said curiously. Xiaobai knew that Mu Lian could have preceded the group but Mu Lian seemed to insist on matching their speed.
"Ah, no. I was just curious about the embroidery on those people's clothes. Beautiful but a little awkward," Mu Lian shook her head trying to refocus on operating the magical gondola.
Mu Lian sped up the pace of the magical gondola, easily leaving the beautifully dressed group far behind.
Mu Lian sensed the chi around her, she deliberately avoided the branches with suspicious energy and sparse springs because it was certain that spirit beasts inhabited the area.
Xiaobai stared at the large enough water balls attached to the small branches. The water is very clear even some of them are seen fish swimming freely.
The water twinkled because of the very small creatures that Mu Lian believed resembled plankton, food for the fish that inhabit the water balls.
"really? Meaning the bottom food chain is that very small creature yes," Xiaobai said after hearing Mu Lian's explanation.
Xiaobai's thinking power grew even more brilliant after coming out and observing the events outside. Sometimes Mu Lian and Mu Haocun gave explanations of a thing or two before Xiaobai could access all the knowledge passed down from his mother.
"really. Xiaobai, sorry. I have to find the location of XIaohan using the spiritual senses. Indeed from earlier it seems like we managed to avoid the area inhabited by spirit beasts but I was afraid of meeting with the spirit beast mutants.
I've also been worried about Xiaohan, so we should continue later on huh, after this," Mu Lian said then immediately focused her spiritual senses in one direction.
In the direction that is being directed. Mu Lian then spread a little around him, roughly up to a radius of 400 meters. This is done to avoid clashes with spirit beasts or other groups.
When Mu Lian did the multitasking while still operating the gondola, the gondola faltered slightly. Fortunately the gondola kept operating as usual.
Mu Lian had already calculated how she could multitask as she did now. This is mastered when practicing for 3 days with children and others.
Perhaps Xiaohan was already so far ahead that Mu Lian had only found a clue after walking for 15 minutes.
"Jeez.." murmured Mu Lian.
"Seeing Lian jie's reaction, that means Xiaohan has met, right?" Xiaobai. Mu Lian could only nod.
"Ready-prepared. Up ahead there is a spirit beast.er, 10 people from other groups, oh and there is Zhi ge as well," Mu Lian said.
"...explain the situation to me" Xiaobai said.
"Six people to our location, what can be done, when we track them must be our location also found out.
Xiaohan.I can't confirm it anymore because she's already out of my reach. Soon the six men arrived!" said Mu Lian.
"All right, Lian jie..." Xiaobai explained the most appropriate strategy Mu Lian could use back then. Just as Xiaobai finished explaining, there appeared a person with quite a strong aura towards Mu Lian and Xiaobai.
Mu Lian who had already retracted her spiritual senses, freely exerted all of her spiritual energy towards the person.
Xiaobai explained, the person who first appeared must be the person with the most powerful spiritual energy. That person would charge right towards Mu Lian because he already knew the location of the two of them.
However his confidence was too high, that person had no idea how powerful Mu Lian's spiritual energy was. That caused him to let his guard down so that Mu Lian's spiritual energy freely and accurately attacked the person's spiritual energy.
"GIRLRRRGHH!" The person is free-falling, his body is tightly curled and looks convulsing.
Successful with the surprise attack, Mu Lian launched an attack on the second person who appeared.
Mu Lian took out her fan then took out a full-fledged stance with her chi. Because Mu Lian suddenly stopped flowing chi to the magic gondola, the gondola was free-falling.
"KEEUUK!"
Mu Lian did not have time to ascertain whether the second person was successfully subverted or not because Mu Lian had now airs far below.
Mu Lian could almost see a wisp of green smoke a few kilos below. Along with Mu Lian's maneuver, Xiaobai managed to make them invisible again. Mu Lian immediately took a thousand steps from there.
Before long, Mu Lian heard the sound of the fight growing clearer. Meng Zhi seemed to be able to control the situation so Mu Lian immediately left from there.
Not to forget Mu Lian told Meng Zhi that he would go catch up with Xiaohan through the communication tool that was in the magic gondola.
The longer Mu Lian procrastinated, the more unpleasant she felt. Sure enough, when Mu Lian got closer to Xiaohan's location, Mu Lian could already see the giant tree before her this shape alone was different from the others.
In addition, many purplish-colored sticky liquids are stuck everywhere. And Mu Lian was sure that in the liquid there were living things moving.
The shape is like a maggot with a size large enough, the size of a lizard. Their fat bodies wriggling makes purplish liquid rippling.
"This creature, I have never seen this creature, its characteristics are not the same as any spirit beast," said Mu Lian glancing towards Xiaobai. Xiaobai stared back at him.
"The mutant beast spirit!" mu Lian and Xiaobai said simultaneously.
Mu Lian passed through the region very carefully. He did not want to fly too close to the purplish liquid, there was no guarantee that the maggot-like creature would not jump if Mu Lian got too close to him.
An extremely deafening voice greeted Mu Lian, not far from her the giant maggot whose half body was inside the purplish fluid-filled ball managed to trap Xiaohan's magical gondola.
Du Luhan had already given up on operating the nearly crumbling gondola, now he was focused on surviving the purplish jets of liquid spouted by the giant maggots.
"Err, we don't have to beat him, do we, Lian jie?" xiaobai said with a disgusted expression.
"En, we just need to take Xiaohan and Senior Du away from here. It seemed like the creature could not go anywhere with its body that was mostly inside that purple sphere," Mu Lian said instantly agreeing with Xiaobai.
Mu Lian then deployed the chi she had split into a hair-thin direction towards the location she had identified.
What surprised Mu Lian was that suddenly the purple-colored ball broke so that the purple-colored liquid beneath it spilled everywhere.
The fat maggots were free-falling, smashing those extremely thick branches easily and continuing downward.
Du Luhan deftly carried Xiaohan away from the gondola and floated for a long time astray in the air before finally starting freefall.
Du Luhan's face was deathly pale, he had already exhausted most of his chi. His last move took Xiaohan away so as not to fall along with the maggots had used up the rest of his energy.
"YYYYYYY...Senior Du!!" jeremy Xiaohan.
Agilely Mu Lian positioned her gondola under Xiaohan and Du Luhan so that the two fell right on the gondola.
"Eh?! Lian jie ?!" xiaohan said in disbelief.
"Thank God I'll catch up with you soon," Mu Lian said shook her head. Du Luhan was already sprawled with his body position used as a cushion for Xiaohan to land.
Du Luhan murmured thanks to Mu Lian then closed his eyes just like that. Only once in his life did Du Luhan experience the unluckiest thing in his life. He needs a moment of calm.
"..." - ".(Mu Lian and Xiaobai)
Along the way, Mu Lian communicated with the others and picked up one by one that Mu Lian could pick up.
Other than Xiaohan, the others did not encounter any obstacles and managed to outwit the enemy. Perhaps Xiaoqiu was experiencing a slight obstacle.
Of the six children participating in this covert operation, only Xiaoqiu was restrained and had to hide with the Xu brothers' comrades for several days.
Xiaoleng, Junior Qi, Xiaohua and Du Luhan's comrades were picked up by Mu Lian while the others managed to meet Mu Lian at the place they had agreed to.
At that time they managed to escape from spies and pursue the enemy. Everyone rested for a moment while listening to Mu Haocun's explanation regarding the new location that the Magic Wagon would use.
Mu Haocun took advantage of the opportunity that had been given to him and managed to obtain the location for a very short time.
Because it was still in mimicry mode, the safety of the cart could be ensured so that Master Yi, Ling Zizhou and Meimei also picked up Mu Lian, the children and others.
"Thank you for the hard work. Please, grandfather hand out these chi pills to all of you. At least after taking this pill, you can be ready to fight at any time," Mu Lian said.
Du Luhan received the bottle handed to him with wide eyes. Xu Tian could only look at the bottle he had in his grasp in silence.
However, soon awakened and holding Mu Lian's hand that was about to hand over the chi pill to Xu Jing, Xu Ke did so.
"We are so grateful. But, Ah Jing could not take this pill, sorry," Xu Ke said with a sad look.
Mu Lian was able to relate Xu Ke's remark to the abnormal condition on Xu Jing's dantian so just nodded without saying anything.
But Mu Lian still forcefully handed Xu Jing's ration chi pills to Xu Ke. Who knows if one of them in the future is in need.
All who received the chi pill immediately took the pill and meditated for a few minutes. In the process, tired expressions disappeared from their faces, the hue of life returning to their faces.
Mu Lian was relieved to see Du Luhan and Xu Tian's condition returning to prime. The others are like that too. Except for Xu Jing, who had to rely on herself to recover her chi.
Xu Jing was still in a perfect meditation stance and closed both of her eyes. But instead of looking increasingly better, Xu Jing's face turned even more pale.
Xu Jing looked to be in pain, sweat pouring down her face. Mu Lian asked Xu Ke while still staring at Xu Jing,
"Senior Xu, is your sister okay?"
"Oh, just calm down. His condition has been inborn since birth. Every meditation must be like that" Xu Ke said.
Xu Ke did not say that Xu Jing was fine but said that the scene was commonplace and explained that her condition was congenital from birth. Mu Lian became increasingly aware that Xu Jing's abnormal condition was more severe than she had expected.
"What about Senior Meng? Is Senior Meng able to come before the 10 minutes are over? Because this magic tool that we use is not strong to last long," Xu Tian said turning the conversation aside.
As long as Mu Lian and the others rested, not a single enemy had managed to catch up to them because the magic tool Xu Tian intended to function had people lost their way.
The closer to the target that the magic tool protects, people will get lost and the result is just circling in the same place.