Chapter 288 - I Have A Deal with The Monster Vine (1/2)

Calm down, calm down. No one knows that Lin Luoran has two pieces of soul wood. She bets all on it so she can’t use it to exchange for information about the interstellar transmission circle.

“Soul wood is sacred. You don’t think you can exchange it with only a piece of information, do you?” It’s reckless to bargain with a monster, but Yang Lisha might think Lin Luoran is weak if she didn’t do it. The monster vine could rob the soul wood and leave nothing but regret to her.

Yang Lisha is somewhat surprised, “I heard you are going to use the soul wood to save your best friend, and you want to use it in exchange of just a piece of information? Human’s friends.h.i.+p is so cheap. You really are a heartless creature.” Yang Lisha doesn’t even want to pretend a smile. Her contempt is pretty clear in her tone.

Lin Luoran doesn’t refute. She doesn’t want to tell this monster vine that the soul wood with accelerated growth rate was already used on Qin Baojia long time ago. It’s a huge circle that even the crazy Taoist can’t break.

“You don’t need to do anything else. I’ll find you a piece of soul wood. Except soul wood, can I use other things in exchange of the interstellar transmission circle?”

“There is no second piece of soul wood in the Dragon Palace. You seem to have a lot of secrets that others don’t know.” Yang Lisha’s tone doesn’t match her innocent face. Her slim fingers suddenly turn into vines and come to entangle Lin Luoran’s neck while she talks. Lin Luoran saw every step of how the vines come to her as if they were in slow motion. It is so strange that she still can’t prevent herself from being caught.

Yang Lisha won’t kill her immediatly. Lin Luoran feels pretty discontented, “Kill me and no one in this world could find you another piece of soul wood. You’ll have to watch your Acacia tree run out of Reiki and die in front of you.”

Yang Lisha tightens the vine, “d.a.m.n Jiang Shang for telling you this.”

Of course, the crazy Taoist didn’t tell her anything. Lin Luoran just brought the branch of the Acacia tree to fire phoenix. This arrogant bird didn’t even say a word to her until she saw Lin Luoran was tied up by Yang Lisha. Fire phoenix thought it was too humiliating, so she told Lin Luoran about the Acacia tree and soul wood. Lin Luoran just repeated what she said.

“Grandmaster didn’t say anything. I’m afraid you have to tell me where you got the news of the Dragon Palace first. Otherwise, I don’t think you are sincere enough to cooperate with me.”

Lin Luoran touches slightly on the vines around her neck. She hid Strange Fire at her fingertips. “Ouch,” Yang Lisha says in a low voice and shrinks the vines. Lin Luoran smiles with satisfaction after she sees the huge blister on Yang Lisha’s palm between her thumb and index finger.

Yang Lisha is not someone that can be bullied. She attacks back immediately, but Lin Luoran thinks they can only be even after she gives her a blister.

Yang Lisha is furious, “I don’t care if you can find another piece of soul wood. I can’t find enough Reiki materials to breed another one in a short time. So, you have to give me the soul wood you prepared for your friend. Your mother or your best friend? Make a choice.”

Lin Luoran’s heart trembles. She stands up and asks, “What do you mean?”

Yang Lisha breaks the blister on her palm and says without looking at her, “I met many Taoists on my way here and helped cure the wound on a girl’s hand. Her father, an old Taoist, told me a lot of interesting things. Human beings are so troublesome. Only people with the Taoist root can do cultivation, if you know what I mean.”

Hui Zhu, who she met was the old Taoist Hui Zhu. She treated Xin Yuanping’s hand, so she knows about the Dragon Palace and Mount Penglai in Chronicle of the Nine Provinces. She also knows that Lin Luoran is annoyed because her mother doesn’t have a Taoist root.

d.a.m.n, every word Yang Lisha said becomes a knife stabbing on Lin Luoran’s heart. She let Hui Zhu go and he sent the monster vine back to make trouble for her, but she also gets clues of Mount Penglai. She doesn’t know if this is a bad or good thing.

It must be the latter one, right? Family is the most important thing for Lin Luoran. If her families could be together, she doesn’t care to be troubled by this monster.

Yang Lisha puts her head on her hands with a smile that can barely be seen, “We monsters of wood have an ancient book lost in the interstellar transmission circle. Mount Penglai is real. Sacrificing your mother or best friend, it’s up to you.”

Sacrifice…Why does she have to sacrifice one of them? She has the second piece of soul wood!

“How many years does the Acacia tree still have?”

Yang Lisha raises two slim fingers.