Chapter 88.2

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“It’s fine. This is a mink cub.”

Wei Xun didn’t expect the snow leopard’s perception to be so sharp. He had just sent the remnant soul of the young fox to the crystal tower because he was coveting those white crystal stones. After the big earthquake, the nine-story crystal tower, the Dragon God Waterway, and even the huge cave that the Insects of Evil had formed after eating the rocks for thousands of years might all collapse and be destroyed, and it was unlikely that he would come back here again.

Besides, what if the strange iron tree could only grow on the crystal stones? Some “soil” must be dug.

Without the fox fairy possessing him, Wei Xun’s real physical strength was revealed, and only then did he change from running to a brisk walk. He was now still panting slightly.

Just now, when the remnant soul of the young fox returned, it couldn’t bear the temptation of Yang Energy, so it took a second glance at the snow leopard, but it didn’t expect to be discovered by the snow leopard. The snow leopard was relentless and threw itself on Wei Xun’s body, like a policeman vigilantly searching for the strange sensation it felt just now. Wei Xun simply took the mink cub out of his pocket and waved it in front of the snow leopard.

“Squeak.”

As its master’s “food provider,” the mink cub would naturally give its master face and act in a friendly manner to the snow leopard.

Choo!

The snow leopard sneezed unceremoniously, and did not reciprocate the mink cub’s goodwill at all. It opened its mouth wide at the mink cub, and while it was approaching the mink cub, it glanced at Wei Xun’s face. That kind of deliberately willful, slightly mean-spirited, yet knowing one’s boundaries behavior caused Wei Xun to smile unwittingly.

“It’s not food.”

He stroked the mink cub’s head soothingly as it bared its teeth and put it back in his pocket. When he turned his head, he saw the snow leopard walking forward like a normal leopard with an immensely proud attitude, with its tail curled up and the tip of its tail raised. It looked both happy and complacent. Sure enough, it was just trying to scare the mink cub.

“Why don’t I call you Xuefeng,” Wei Xun said cheerfully.

It was also slightly ill-intentioned of him when he named the snow leopard. This was because he thought of An Xuefeng, the captain of the Homeward Tour Party who signed a contract with him.

Although the strength of the tourists in these two tours was not bad, none of them could keep up with Wei Xun’s pace. After all, the difficulty was too low. Wei Xun wanted to meet some higher level tourists, or see what those bigwig tourists at the top looked like.

[Demonic Insect Dominator] was just a dark blue title. How powerful was a higher level dark purple title, or an orange title that he only heard about in the legends? And how strong would the title given to the strongest tourist, The Returner During Dusk, be?

An Xuefeng, the strongest tourist in legends, how powerful could he be?

Wei Xun felt that he wanted to understand how powerful An Xuefeng was.

“Xuefeng, haha.”

Wei Xun was amused by his own words. Smiling, he tugged at the tip of the snow leopard’s tail. “I like Xuefeng the most, don’t I?”

Being caught by its tail, the snow leopard walking in front turned its ears to the side, and its thick, fluffy tail brushed against Wei Xun’s wrist. The aftershocks of the earthquake could still be felt, and clods of gravel and soil fell from time to time. It was clear that Wei Xun was in a situation where his life or death would be determined, but he didn’t feel the slightest bit nervous.

Even at this moment, after he ran and walked briskly in this passageway for an hour, and even when the front swarm had reached the exit, he deliberately slowed down his pace.

Soon, he would be broadcasted by the livestream camera again. Hence, Wei Xun put away all the things that he could never show the audience.

The three mantis brothers and Xiaojin were also kept in the demonic insect ball by him, and only Xiaocui sat on his shoulder to direct the swarm.

Seeing that Wei Xun had slowed down, the snow leopard who was walking in front immediately turned back in worry, sniffing around him, as if wanting to find out if Wei Xun was injured. Wei Xun hugged the snow leopard’s head and suddenly thought of something.

“Xuefeng, look at this.”

Taking advantage of the darkness, Wei Xun took out the wolf king’s head from the crystal tower, which was said to contain the remnant soul of the wolf king, and put it in front of the snow leopard expectantly.

Since this remnant soul had hid itself in this head inside the crystal tower for thousands of years, and it could trigger the prompt of [A Wild Beast’s Psyche], it must be an item with a mythical function.

Wei Xun didn’t intend to use it himself to transform into a snow wolf, but he put it in front of the snow leopard for it to take a look. The snow leopard had stepped on the dried corpses so that they would stop moving, and this action turned them back into ordinary dried corpses. Wei Xun didn’t toss this ability of the snow leopard back to his mind so quickly. He deliberated that the snow leopard, arctic wolf, and white antelope might be the holy beasts of the snowy mountain.

There was a reason why he placed the head of the arctic wolf king in front of the snow leopard. This was because he currently wanted to see if it would cause the snow leopard to resonate with it, or perhaps even cause the snow leopard to mutate.

As long as the snow leopard wasn’t a “real” wild animal, he would definitely find a way to bring the snow leopard back!

“How is it going? Can you mutate?”

It was a pity that the snow leopard couldn’t hear Wei Xun’s expectant tone. It glanced at the wolf king’s head with a look of contempt and disdain. Seeing that Wei Xun held the head and pushed it in front of it, the snow leopard discourteously smacked on the head with its paw. Noticing that Wei Xun still didn’t let go, Xuefeng let out an urging sound from its throat.

Wei Xun could roughly understand what it meant. It roughly wanted to convey to Wei Xun that it was the time to run for their lives now, so he should stop playing around.

It perceived the wolf king’s head as a plaything Wei Xun got from somewhere.

Indeed, there were many lively wild snow leopards. They were timid and playful, and they could play with a singular bug for half a day. Bones and similar items were their favorite toys. Felines were inherently playful, and some snow leopards retained this trait as adults.

“Hey, you truly don’t feel anything from it?”

Wei Xun also felt that he was imagining things. He put away the head of the wolf king and continued to move forward with the snow leopard, but he was still the one holding the snow leopard back, deliberately slowing down. Seeing that Wei Xun had become unwilling to escape quickly, the snow leopard tried various methods.

It was the instinct of wild animals to escape danger as soon as possible, and snow leopards were creatures who never escaped by themselves. It seemed very restless and persistent, flapping its tail, headbutting Wei Xun, grabbing Wei Xun’s clothes and tugging him, and even urging him to sit on its back, but Wei Xun just wouldn’t listen.

In the end, the snow leopard got angry and threatened to bite Wei Xun. Then, it even bit Wei Xun’s hand hard to scare him, as if it meant to punish him. Seeing that Wei Xun was still unmoved, the snow leopard howled in rage, slapping its tail on Wei Xun’s leg like a whip as if asking him why he didn’t run away with it quickly.

Of course, Wei Xun had tried to persuade the snow leopard to run ahead first so that it could escape, but the snow leopard was very relentless. After urging Wei Xun, it came closer again, sniffing inch by inch. It was very focused, as if it was trying to confirm whether Wei Xun was walking slowly because he was injured somewhere that it did not discover just now. The snow leopard’s huge body was stuck to Wei Xun’s legs, like a living stumbling block.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, I’m really fine.”

Wei Xun smiled helplessly, covered his nose, and stepped back. The snow leopard was too close, and it had wounds on its body. This time, Wei Xun could feel the attraction of the leopard’s blood without the mink cub urging him. The young fox had possessed him throughout the previous events—and regardless of it being fighting or expanding its belly capacity, it had consumed a lot of Yang energy.

Humans would instinctively desire what they were lacking in their bodies. Thanks to Wei Xun’s strong self-control, he could still hold back when he was rubbed against by the snow leopard who didn’t know what it was doing. Suddenly, the tips of Wei Xun’s ears moved slightly, and he looked to the left. The snow leopard was only a second slower than him in reacting. It stood in front of Wei Xun and lowered its body, on guard, and its sharp eyes locked onto the taupe stone wall vigilantly.

Many cracks appeared on the stone wall, appearing to tremble slightly as if it was due to the influence of the earthquake, but soon the cracks on the wall grew. It was obviously not just because of the earthquake. Instead, it was as if something was digging a tunnel behind them. Finally, under the watchful eyes of one person and one leopard, dense cobweb-like gaps were broken open around the crack, and then the entire crack became a fist-sized hole.

A bunch of Insects of Evil flowed out, appearing like black sesame filling that flowed out after a glutinous rice ball was pierced. They diligently gnawed around the gap to make it bigger until the gap was as large as the size of two average adult heads. Only then did the insects drill into the hole.

A little bit of bright light slowly shone in due to the object they pushed out of the hole. It was an extremely luxurious crown that glittered in the light.

The Garuda crown that fell into the crack was successfully retrieved by the swarm.

Wei Xun said to Xiaocui, ‘Thank you for your hard work.’

‘I am honored to be able to share this responsibility with Master.’

Xiaocui smiled gracefully, and the little green-haired elf boy playfully placed its hand on its chest and saluted Wei Xun. The hues of green then dissipated, and the female Insect of Evil returned to the demonic insect ball. Without the command of the female Insect of Evil, the swarm of Insects of Evil suddenly became a mess, at a loss. However, the threat coming from Wei Xun caused the insects to retreat in fear. They fled back underground with a clatter, and the scene was cleared up immediately.

Wei Xun intended to hide the title of [Demonic Insect Dominator] as one of the skills for his tour guide identity. The Insects of Evil could devour rocks and mud and travel underground, which greatly facilitated him in achieving whatever he wanted to.

[Beep! Your esteemed self has obtained the Garuda Crown. Your esteemed self now possesses two items related to the survivors of Xiangxiong Kingdom, and the collection progress is now 25%.]

When Wei Xun picked up the Garuda crown, a prompt from the Travel Services sounded in his mind. This time, it clearly pointed out that the items were related to the survivors of the Xiangxiong Kingdom.

This range of items that fell under the category of being related to the survivors of Xiangxiong Kingdom was actually very hard to determine. Wei Xun had gotten the gusin’s thangka, the gold-plated silver-inlaid skull, the devil’s thangka, and even the nine-eyed dzi bracelet given by Amala, but none of them were included in this range.

Only the Garuda coat of arms that he scoured from the Tibetans and the crown could be considered as props that could increase the collection progress. From this point of view, the Garuda scepter made from the Garuda’s left wing that was taken away by the Tibetans and the bone flute made from the Garuda’s right wing that was lost in the ruins were likely to be included in the collection.

However, Wei Xun’s swarm had searched the Qianzong Mountain ruins entirely, but they did not find the bone flute. Wei Xun suspected that the devil’s claims about the crown and bone flute being in its hands were not true, but the bone flute was probably in the hands of its physical body.

Its body was suppressed in the lake. Although it was said in the legend that Buddha suppressed Rakshas Tal’s body in Tangra Yumco, Wei Xun believed that its body was not suppressed there.

First, it was because when he headed to Tangra Yumco, there was no special prompt that he received a task for a special title. Second, it was because even though the devil’s shadow was trapped in Qianzong Mountain because of the resentment of the human skin, Qianzong Mountain was connected to it underground. If the devil’s body was really suppressed there, the distance between the two organisms were too close, and he was afraid that the devil would have been unsealed and merged with its shadow a long time ago.

On the contrary, the third attraction of the northern Tibet tour was Siling Lake, also known as the Devil’s Lake. Didn’t the tour introduce, ‘Is the original Yungdrung Bon Scripture written with blood from an eagle’s mouth really lost in the ghostly lake?’ If the devil was sealed in Siling Lake, it was also possible that the Yungdrung Bon scriptures written by Buddha had originally been used to suppress it.

Wei Xun deliberately walked slowly just now to wait for the Insects of Evil to finish searching the ruins of Qianzong Mountain. Now that he had obtained the crown, he immediately sped up his pace and started running with the snow leopard. After turning from the corner, the exit was right in front of him. The snow leopard rushed out first, followed by Wei Xun. He squinted his eyes after not seeing the sun for a long time, and felt a sense of joy when he saw the sun again.

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The human skin possessed by the devil that had brought the country to ruin and caused her to go into war thousands of years ago had been purified, but the lurking shadow in Siling Lake caused the hue of the lake to turn darker and darker. The desolate and mournful eagle flute sounded day and night by the banks of Siling Lake, causing many yaks and sheep to throw themselves into the lake, drowning to their deaths. The nearby shepherds searched for the lost cattle and sheep, but they never returned and disappeared by Siling Lake.

Did the eagle flute attract the souls of the dead, or was the devil playing the eagle flute? Legend had it that this was the place where Buddha Tonpa Shenrab passed away. Xiaolin Temple, which had the longest history and the most complete collection of Bon religion classics, and was the holy place in the hearts of all Bon believers, finally opened its gate after closing the temple for a hundred years. The secret that had been sealed in Northern Tibet was finally going to be unveiled when the sun shone on it.

Was it just a legend? It might not just be a legend.

[Your esteemed self has triggered the branch attraction: The Dusty Xiaolin Temple. The total progress of accomplishing the branch attraction task is 80%]

[Please deliver the purified devil’s thangka and devil’s remnant corpse to Xiaolin Temple.]

The purified devil’s thangka referred to the leftovers of the devil thangka that Wei Xun had devoured. The devil’s remnant corpse referred to the wet corpse with a golden eagle head that was blackened into charcoal. They were both useless, and it would be nice to be able to reuse the garbage and hand them over to complete the branch attraction task.

However, Wei Xun had gotten a whole lot of good stuff from the crystal tower, as well as the gold-plated silver-inlaid skull, yet the Travel Services didn’t send any prompts. This meant that when the tourists completed their branch attraction task, they could keep this good stuff for themselves.

Of course, one required great strength to obtain such things,

After a while, Wei Xun’s eyes adjusted to the light outside, and he found that they were in an inconspicuous cave on the mountainside, surrounded by cliffs, with the blue lake of Tangra Yumco at their feet. Without the ability to climb a cliff like a snow leopard or blue sheep, as if one was walking on flat ground, it would be really difficult for ordinary people to leave this place.

However, it didn’t bother Wei Xun. He and the snow leopard stepped on the rock crevices and protrusions that were nearly invisible to the naked eye and found a safe and open place. They did not return to the base until the aftershocks subsided.

“It’s Leader Wei! Leader Wei returned!”

“Big Brother Wei!”

“Senior, are you okay!”

Wei Xun’s return caused cheers to resound from the tour group members. The earthquake had collapsed the rock wall behind the area where they pitched their tents, and a nearby tent was buried under the rubble. Fortunately, everyone had been outside during the earthquake, so there were no casualties, and the damage was not too heavy.

Currently, the tents had been moved to a more open wasteland. Although there was no rock wall to block the wind, it was a safer location to stay at in the event that aftershocks would occur again.

Wei Xun was surrounded by Fei Lezhi, Jiang Hongguang, and the others as they headed to the temporary camp. Everyone cooked all the stewed beef they bought from Wenbunan Village, and two packs of instant noodles were broken into small pieces and placed into the cooking pot. They added seasoning later, and a strong aroma spread out after a while.

This pot of stewed beef noodles was specially cooked for Wei Xun to eat, but Wei Xun only filled a small bowl for himself. He added a few pieces of beef and asked Fei Lezhi to split the rest with the others.

Wei Xun didn’t even take more than a few bites of the bowl of noodles he scooped from the pot. In a rare bout of generosity, he waved towards the snow leopard, wanting it to come to him. Seeing that the snow leopard didn’t like to come to crowded places, Wei Xun simply walked over, rinsed the beef in the bowl with clear water, and fed it to the snow leopard.

After a simple meal, Wei Xun beckoned it over and set up another tent on the edge of the camp. Fei Lezhi and the others who were idle went to help out. After the tent was set up, Wei Xun said he wanted to rest and went into the tent. The snow leopard was guarding the outside of the tent, its blood-colored eyes staring at Fei Lezhi menacingly until all of them retreated to a safe distance. Afterwards, it flicked its tail and entered the tent.

“Ah, why did this snow leopard enter the tent?”