Chapter 498 - Acacia Tree Grows (1/2)

The air is filled with the smell of scorched land which makes people feel panic.

Oxygen is thin while pollution and radiation are serious. If people walk outside of the Earth’s settlements, they have to be protected against radiation by wearing gas masks and carrying compressed oxygen equipment. In short, it is not a simple thing if you want to make money by hunting mutant monsters.

Only a cultivator like Lin Luoran can expose herself to radiation and polluted air and walk freely on today’s earth.

Lin Luoran lived in the center of Chuan province Rong City for the first half of her life. From birth to cultivation, this city mostly brought happiness and joy for her. After she returned from Mount Penglai, everything changed.

Including her feeling for Rong City.

She is distressing and she also wants to escape. If Baojia might not have returned here, she would never want to come back now!

Lin Luoran directly finds the place where Qingcheng Taoist Temple was in the past and she realizes that it has been cleared out.

A small illusion circle conceals the cave under Qingcheng Taoist Temple. Maybe because of a lack of spirit stone or Lin Luoran’s broad vision, she can easily find the circle core of the illusion circle.

“This illusion circle can only prevent mutant monsters from running around.”

White Fairy floats out like smoke. She glances twice and points out the way for Lin Luoran.

Baojia is not there but there is another living person in the cave. Lin Luoran follows the instructions of the White Fairy. She walks in slowly without destroying the illusion circle. The chaotic stone at the entrance has been emptied and the faint green cave is exposed. Lin Luoran walks down the stairs, remembering that Commander Qin was so nervous when she asked him to be here. Liu Zheng and the crazy Taoist were also here. The four of them put Baojia in the hollowed-out tree cave of soul wood themselves and she had been sleeping here for many years.

The upheaval of the earth has also affected Baojia. At this moment, it’s more accurate to say that her new independent personality has formed after waking up than that she has totally forgotten her history. Even though Lin Luoran has already been a Gathering Vitality cultivator, she still doesn’t know how to face Baojia whose personality has totally changed.

Without any lamps in the cave, there are a few glowing crystals on the hillside. The light is soft and refres.h.i.+ng. Going to the bottom, Lin Luoran sees a frightened young man wary of the outside world. She feels complicated.

It’s Duke Chiao. To be precise, the former Duke Chiao.

The bottom of the cave has been cleaned up and it is covered with mutant wolf skins as a mattress. The former Duke Chiao, Frank Hidal is not mentally deranged anymore. Her eyes look innocent and Lin Luoran feels very strange about it. White Fairy glances at him a few times and says, “He is now a child in terms of intelligence.”

Lin Luoran frowns. When she made her decision, she doesn’t expect that Baojia will value Frank so much. Baojia even took him when she left the Nami Star. Before White Fairy took action, she asks Lin Luoran’s opinion. Frank was attacked by “Soul-Search Spell” and the illusion spell which White Fairy is good at. He only becomes a moron and this is a very good scenario.

This is why White Fairy stopped Lin Luoran from using “Soul-Search Spell” to commit sins at Dongting Lake. After all, they were just two innocent ordinary people, not her “enemies”.

Lin Luoran feels so complicated. Although she is not guilty, what should she say when she finds Baojia?

The matter of Frank has already happened. Lin Luoran tries to understand Baojia’s feelings—she also can’t pretend that nothing has happened if Baojia does something to one of the siblings of the Ma family like this… Just when she wants to leave quietly, the illusion circle is triggered.

Baojia is back!

Holding a skinned mutant rabbit in her hand, Baojia is standing on the top of the high stairs. She looks at her coldly from above.

“What are you doing here?”

Baojia’s att.i.tude towards Lin Luoran is not very friendly, but she is cold and disgusted towards the White Fairy on the side. Lin Luoran nods at White Fairy. She gets the signal and returns to s.p.a.ce.

“I am here to thank you for helping me in Dongting that day.”

Baojia’s face softens a little, “Even if I was not there, you would not lose… Don’t get me wrong. I just hate people showing off.”

Lin Luoran is able neither to cry nor to laugh. Baojia is really mean after her newborn.

Easing relations can’t be done in a hasty. Lin Luoran’s goal has achieved when she confirms that Baojia is actually in Mount Qingcheng. Lin Luoran says goodbye by a salute. When she pa.s.ses by Baojia on the stairs, she can obviously feel that Frank’s tight body is relaxed.

The former Duke Chiao, whose IQ has degraded to a child, pulls Baojia’s sleeve and says something in a low voice. Baojia is very patient to comfort him. There is a strong family atmosphere between the two.

Lin Luoran comes out of the illusion circle and she is about to leave. The illusion circle water ripples and Baojia chases after her.

“Wait.”

Lin Luoran is stunned and she is so uneasy, wondering whether Baojia is going to ask her not to come here again—

After a long time, Baojia hesitates and takes out two Jade Maps.

“This one has been with me since my waking up. It records an unknown technique and some magic circle knowledge.”

Baojia holds up another Jade Map, “This one was found at the bottom of the cave after I returned to the earth. It records the art of flying sword and Spells of the Five Elements. It even includes magic figures spells, common spirit herbs, elixirs, and various common sense of the world of cultivation. The people who left the Jade Map for me said that I would find the second Jade Map only when I return to the earth again. ”