Chapter 241 - Metamorphosis (2/2)
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At the same time as Zhong Yue left the city, Lang Qingyun also notified the Xiao Mang Celestial Race, telling them that Zhong Yue was the murderer of Xiao Chuqing. However , by the time he received the replies of the elders, Zhong Yue had already traveled more than a thousand miles away from the city.
By the time Lang Qingyun noticed that Zhong Yue has left the city, two days had already passed. This was because as soon as Zhong Yue got out of the city, he held his breath and ran at full speed while he used the Li Wood given to Qing He to replace his scent.
After two days, when Qing He kept the Li Wood into her Yuan Shen secret realm as ordered as Zhong Yue, Lang Qingyun had a huge shock when he suddenly lost track of Zhong Yue after he tried to pinpoint his location with the soul lantern!
By then, Zhong Yue was already a tens of thousands of miles away from Gu Xia Saint City!
Where did that brat go!
After pouring huge efforts into searching for Zhong Yue to no avail, Lang Qingyun had cold sweat running all over his forehead uncontrollably. The Xiao Mang Celestial Race's elders viewed this matter extremely heavily, and they have already sent out priests and strong individuals to kill Zhong Yue. Lang Qingyun gave his word to his clan that he could precisely locate Zhong Yue no matter where he went. Against all of his expectations, Zhong Yue had disappeared into thin air. Even the soul lantern could not locate him, which he had not encountered before!
How am I supposed to tell to high priest about this…
Lang Qingyun expression changed and suddenly, he grit his teeth as he flew out of Xian Kong Saint City. He then plunged forward and landed on his hands and knees as he sniffed around the ground like a dog as he smirked, Junior martial brother Long Yue, you might have underestimated me if you think that you can escape from my grasp just like that! We Xiao Mang Celestial Race may not be the very best in smelling power, but we are still one of the best!
Very soon, he discovered Zhong Yue's trail through his scent, and started after him.
Hmmm? There's another person's scent with Long Yue. Judging from the nice scent, that should be a woman…
Lang Qingyun's face changed when he detected some other people's scents after chasing after Zhong Yue for a few thousand miles. He quickly identified the owner of the scent, which was seemingly following behind Zhong Yue. He thought, Its fourth junior martial sister Lian Xin! She is after Long Yue as well!
Lang Qingyun then murmured to himself, "Why is she after Long Yue? With her presence, I will face difficulties in capturing Long Yue, and I might even have my cover exposed. It is not quite worth it if I expose my cover just for Xiao Chuqing…"
He then suddenly stood up and looked far away.
The direction Long Yue is heading in is Gu Xia City! A startled beast will return to its lair, as its lair is the safest place in the mind of the startled beast. This brat will definitely return to Gu Xia City because his territory is there and Gu Hongzi is his guardian, just like a startled beast! Therefore, I no longer have to chase after him, all I have to do is just wait for him in Gu Xia City!
Without a soul lantern, it would be almost impossible to look for someone in this vast East Barren. It was something almost impossible even for someone like Shi Buyi.
Therefore, although Lang Qingyun possessed the incredible sense of smell of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race, prolonged hours of tracking by scent would take a toll on his nose as well. The presence of Lian Xin also caused him great trouble, so he decided that he might as well wait for Zhong Yue in Gu Xia City and wait for Zhong Yue to enter his trap!
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Tens of thousands of miles away, Zhong Yue continued running without decreasing his speed. It would only be a day or two until he returned to Gu Xia City.
After arriving in the city, I will have to notify Gu Hongzi about the real identity of Lang Qingyun. After that, I will return to Swords Gate as fast as possible!
Zhong Yue continued to travel quickly. After advancing for another ten thousand miles and getting past a mountainous area, he saw a silk gauze a thousand miles long floating in the skies in a pattern just like a slithering snake.
This silk gauze…
Zhong Yue's face changed slightly as he murmured, "Chi Liannu! She's hiding here!"
After passing by the silk gauze, Zhong Yue then saw a huge fiery red snake hide wrapped around a huge mountain!
The snake hide was incredibly eerie, as when the sunlight shone on it, the scales reflected the sunlight and poisonous mist was spread all over the mountain.
Suddenly, a dragon roar could be heard faintly coming from the poison mist. Zhong Yue used his divine third eye to take a look at the situation in the poison mist, only to see a fiery red half-Jiao Dragon, half-snake creature trying to shed its snake body as it tried to evolve into a dragon!
That creature was Chi Liannu!
She was in the most crucial state of her metamorphosis of turning into a dragon from a snake!
Zhong Yue's heart thumped and he suddenly stopped moving as he looked towards Chi Liannu, who was going through a metamorphosis. He saw that her body kept reforming and restructuring as the dragon Qi surged through her body, and her totem carvings were frequently changing patterns and forms on her body.
Then, this female monster started changed her form in an irregular pattern, sometimes a Jiao Dragon, sometimes a Chilian Snake, sometimes a naked girl that was moaning in pain.
Metamorphosis, the process of larvae evolving into a butterfly….
Zhong Yue murmured as something in his mind resonated with this scene happening in front of him. He suddenly felt that a heavy door had opened for him, and his mind had never been as clear as it was right now!