Ch204 - Blue Cloud Bead

The next day, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu jumped into the lake to find the spiritual treasure. The lakeside was very big, and the two swam halfway when they encountered a water snake at the bottom of the water.

The snake’s thick body was one meter in diameter and ten meters long. Its back scales were adorned with black and white patterns, and it looked very beautiful. Its pair of green vertical pupils stared at Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu, these two intruders who had suddenly broken in. The big snake hissed and spat out blood-red letters. Seemed to be observing its enemies.

Seeing that this snake was a demon beast of the nine stars in the Spiritual King Realm, Liu Mufeng guessed that what he was looking for must be something protected by the big snake.

“Hei!” Jiang Xu pulled out his sword and charged towards the big snake first.

Seeing his lover make a move, Liu Mufeng also immediately struck, releasing a vine that was as flexible as a spiritual snake and attacked the big snake. Mixed in a pile of green spiritual vines, the Wisteria Vine’s purple vines also flew out, entwining with the green vines towards the big snake.

“Sssss..”The snake hissed out sounds as it moved flexibly to dodge Jiang Xu’s SwordQi. It used its tail to flick away the Wisteria Vines. From time to time, it also spit out a few ice picks to attack Jiang Xu.

Seeing that this big snake had hard scales and could spit out ice picks, his lover had not been able to hurt it after attacking several times, Liu Mufeng couldn’t help narrowing his eyes. He directly took out five fourth-level magic weapons, and transmitted sound to his lover and the Wisteria Vine at the same time.

Seeing Jiang Xu and the Wisteria Vine retreating, Liu Mufeng threw the five fourth-level magical weapons directly.

“Bang bang bang…”The five fourth-level magical weapons exploded together, and the entire lake bottom was shaken by the explosion.

“Hissss…” The blood-covered snake roared in rage, and rammed directly in the direction of Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu.

Swinging his sword, Jiang Xu immediately slashed towards the giant snake. The golden sword lights scattered like sunlight, one after another, and smashed towards the giant snake.

Raising his hand, Liu Mufeng also released the Wisteria Vine, and then threw out an ugly level-4 seal, which smashed viciously over the snake’s head.

After the big snake was injured, it was already at the end of its strength. In addition, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu joined forces to attack, and the big snake was defeated, and soon died in the hands of the two.

Liu Mufeng waved his hand to take away the corpse of the big snake and immediately led Jiang Xu to swim towards the bottom of the lake. Following the Treasure Compass, Liu Mufeng came to a reef and joined Jiang Xu to push the reef away. A blue bead the size of a baby’s head appeared in front of the two of them.

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“En, it looks good. Put it away quickly!” Feeling the rich spiritual energy from the bead, Jiang Xu immediately asked Liu Mufeng to put it away.

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Seeing that the Stealth Cat was self-sufficient and knew how to store food for itself, Liu Mufeng also equipped Xiaoyuan and the several Princes with their own storage ring, and let them hunt the excess prey and put it in the storage ring. The vomited instruments could also be placed in the storage rings.

After leaving the lake, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu followed the instructions of the Stealth Cat to find the so-called key. The husband and wife had been searching for half a year, and they had found aged spiritual flowers, spiritual plants, spiritual fruits and hunted demon beasts, but the key was still nowhere to be found.

———-

On this day, the two came to a stone forest. The Stealth Cat rushed ahead and stopped before a boulder.

Seeing that his contracted beast was standing on a boulder that was as tall as one person, Jiang Xu looked at the boulder and twitched the corners of his mouth. “No way? This one? It’s so big?” Such a big key that was bigger than that black box,ah? Wasn’t it too exaggerated?

“It’s not this one, it’s down there.” Looking at Jiang Xu, the Stealth Cat said in a depressed manner, utterly frustrated at it’s stupid Master.

“Oh.” Nodding, Jiang Xu looked at his man. “Xiaoyue said it’s under this rock, shall we blast it open?”

Liu Mufeng shook his head. “No, let’s move it away. We don’t want to blow up the key.”

Hearing what his lover said, Jiang Xu thought about it. “Alright.”

Originally, Jiang Xu wanted to push the boulder away by himself, but after trying for a long time he couldn’t even move it an inch. After trying for a while, Liu Mufeng helped his lover to push the boulder together, but the difference between them was that the boulder remained motionless.

“How is that possible? What kind of stone is this? Why is it so heavy?” Jiang Xu said suspiciously, staring at the stone in front of him.

Hearing this, the Stealth Cat looked contemptuous. “Do you think the key is so easy to get? If it was so easy to get, this opportunity would have already been used up, would you have found it?”

Hearing this, Jiang Xu couldn’t help frowning.

“What did Xiaoyue say?” Seeing that his lover’s face was not very good, Liu Mufeng asked.

“Xiaoyue said that the key is not so easy to get, otherwise it would not be our turn to find it.” Jiang Xu relayed the words of the Stealth Cat, feeling a little lost.

Liu Mufeng nodded. Surrounding the one-person-high stone, he carefully surveyed it again. The stone was about 1.7 meter to 1.8 meter, about the height of a grown man. The surface color of the stone was reddish brown, and there are many tiny lines on the stone. The shape of the whole stone was very similar to a statue of a woman with a snake tail. It was just that the face of this statue was very blurred. The forest outline at the tail was also very blurred.

Staring at this stone statue, Liu Mufeng carefully checked it for half an hour, but couldn’t find anything wrong. After walking around behind the stone statue, Liu Mufeng surveyed it carefully again. This time he found the problem. He found that the back of the stone statue was missing a piece of the tail part.

After discovering this, Liu Mufeng began to search in the stone forest looking for the missing part of the statue. However, even after searching the stone forest three times with Jiang Xu, he couldn’t find the missing piece.

Bowing his head, Liu Mufeng thought about it in his mind. The woman with the tail of a snake should be depicting the Great Goddess of ancient times – the Goddess Nuwa. There were two stories about the Goddess Nuwa that were widely spread by the descendants, one was Nuwa mending the sky, and the other was Nuwa creating humans.

“XiaoXu, let’s not look for the missing part of the tail of the stone statue. Let’s see if there are other stone statues, just the ones that look very human-shaped.” Liu Mufeng said as he looked at his partner.

“Okay.” Nodding, Jiang Xu didn’t understand why Mufeng was looking for other stone statues, but he knew that his husband always had a reason for doing things like this.

The two continued to search, and Liu Mufeng quickly found the first statue, which was a statue of a man from a primitive tribe. Although the face was still blurred, Liu Mufeng recognized that it was a human-shaped statue. After a detailed look from front to back, Liu Mufeng noticed an ancient text written behind the statue of the man.

“Gan.” Seeing that word, Liu Mufeng found that there was a slight difference.

“Mufeng, I found a stone statue, doesn’t this look like a woman?”

Hearing his lover’s call, Liu Mufeng flew to Jiang Xu’s side. Sure enough, in front of them was a statue of a woman that was as tall as a person. Moreover, the woman was also wearing a small animal skin skirt, with flowers and leaves wrapped around her chest to symbolise a bra. This was obviously also a statue carved after a woman from an ancient tribe. When he came to the back of the statue, Liu Mufeng saw another word.

“Kun.” Upon seeing this word, Liu Mufeng was immediately stunned. One wasGan, the other wasKun, was it the Eight Trigrams?

“XiaoXu, let’s look again, there should be six more statues.” Saying this, Liu Mufeng waved and put the woman’s statue into his storage ring.

“Oh, Okay.” Nodding, Jiang Xu immediately went to look elsewhere.

Liu Mufeng returned to the place where he found the male statue before, and he also put the statue into the storage ring.

Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu searched for three days in the stone forest, and finally found another six statues. Liu Mufeng took Jiang Xu and cleared the rubble around the statue of the Goddess Nuwa to one side. Then, Liu Mufeng placed the eight statues around Nuwa according to the direction of the Eight Trigrams

Looking at the nine statues that were placed together without the slightest change, Jiang Xu blinked, he did not understand what Mufeng was doing. However, he believed that his husband was the smartest person in the world, and he would definitely find a way to get the key.

Staring at the nine statues, Liu Mufeng felt that it was not only that simple. There was something missing, but what was it? After staring blankly at the nine statues for a long time, Liu Mufeng was struck with an epiphany. The postures of these nine statues were all the same. They were holding wine glasses in their hands, and they were all maintaining a toasting posture.

“Toasting?” Touching his chin, Liu Mufeng had an idea. He flew up, cut his fingertips, and dripped his blood into nine stone cups in turn.

When Liu Mufeng’s bloodstain fell into the nine stone cups. The nine stone statues with flat faces and no features suddenly had their own features. Following this, the base of the statue of the Goddess Nuwa slowly moved to the side. A one-meter-square hole appeared in front of Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu.

“Mufeng, it’s open.” Jiang Xu was ecstatic when he saw the exposed pit.

“En, let’s go down and have a look. Be careful!” Holding his lover’s hand, Liu Mufeng led him to the entrance of the cave.

“En.” Nodding, Jiang Xu was the first to fly down, and Liu Mufeng followed.