bookrebus Chapter 6 Catching Monsters
Chapter 6 Catching Monsters
Liu Jun may not have much else, but he has plenty of spirit stones and treasures.
After all, it's capital that Liu Jun has accumulated over thousands of years; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he could buy one of the eight major sects.
A mere hundred mid-grade spirit stones? Fine, I'll give them away. Anyway, I still have tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones on hand. At worst, I can just sell a few more bottles of pills to make money.
Anything that can be solved with spirit stones is not a problem.
Liu Xingxing casually found a restaurant to stay at, but for the same five days, she was charged five mid-grade spirit stones. Although Liu Xingxing wasn't stingy with the money, she still felt the difference in prices.
Sunset City was indeed several times larger than Deer Mountain City. Liu Xingxing went out to wander around as soon as she settled down.
After spending half a day jumping around, Liu Xingxing, who suffers from ADHD, discovered that most of the people in the city were cultivators, unlike in Lushan City where one would often see ordinary people without cultivation strolling through the market.
After walking for half a day, Liu Xingxing discovered several Nascent Soul cultivators and even saw a Deity Transformation cultivator passing by, but they all concealed their auras.
One has to admire how many hidden talents this city truly has.
After wandering around for a while without finding anything interesting, Liu Xingxing returned to the restaurant out of boredom. However, as soon as she entered, she saw several young people dressed in matching blue and white clothes discussing and lingering around. The people in the restaurant had all disappeared.
Judging from their upright demeanor and the fact that they each carry swords of different colors, they must be members of the Twilight Cang Sect.
The group noticed Liu Jun as soon as he entered. After all, someone in such a place was wearing an extremely expensive robe, and his demeanor was extraordinary. They figured that it must be another alchemist who had come here for training.
Sunset City is a great place for training, so it's no wonder they think that way. Besides, poor sword cultivators wouldn't wear such fine robes; they spend most of their money on their own natal swords. In their minds, only alchemists wear such robes.
Xu Dan, the leader, came over, bowed, and asked, "May I ask if this fellow immortal lives here?"
Liu Xingxing raised an eyebrow nonchalantly: "Yes, and you're blocking my way up."
He then pointed to the group of people blocking the stairwell.
A hint of embarrassment crossed Xu Dan's face: "I'm really sorry, but not long ago a demon transformed into human form and hid in this area, so we had no choice but to come and check. This area has been enchanted, and we've only just reached this point. Please forgive us, fellow immortal, and wait a moment."
monster?
It must be some demon cultivator. These people can't handle checking every little demon one by one.
Liu Xingxing immediately voiced her confusion: "It's just a mere monster, haven't they caught it yet?"
Xu Dan vaguely sensed that the person in front of him seemed to be hiding his strength, which should not be the Golden Core cultivation level he had shown. He said, "This demon is very cunning and knows how to hide its aura. We have been searching for half a day without success. I am afraid that innocent people will be harmed. But there is nothing we can do now but investigate one by one."
Having failed to capture him despite setting up a trapping formation, Liu Xingxing investigated the area and found that the formation's range wasn't very large. Presumably, the only places and people missing were the restaurants and shops near the inn. Liu Xingxing was too lazy to bother with further action.
"Then what are you all doing here discussing instead of going to catch the demon?"
Xu Dan was embarrassed again: "Actually, the monster has been found, but it's upstairs here."
No wonder everyone in this restaurant has disappeared.
"Then what are we waiting for? To catch the demon?"
Xu Dan said awkwardly, "We... are only at the Foundation Establishment stage... we can't beat that monster upstairs."
Liu Xingxing suddenly fell silent, gazing at the sky for a long time.
"If you can't beat them, what are you all doing standing here? Waiting to be fed to the demons?"
Xu Dan suddenly declared with righteous indignation, "We are all disciples of the Twilight Cang Sect. How can we allow demons to go out and harm people? We must stay here and guard them!"
Liu Xingxing's eyes twitched, indicating that she didn't quite understand their logic.
The monster upstairs didn't make a sound at all, and we couldn't sense its presence at all. I really wonder if they've guarded the wrong place.
"So you couldn't beat them, so you didn't call for help? The Twilight Sect doesn't seem to be that far from here."
Xu Dan truthfully replied, "We have already given the signal and are waiting for our senior brother and the others who are on a mission nearby to arrive, but we don't know why they haven't come yet."
"How long?"
"One stick of incense."
Liu Xingxing felt there was no need to ask any further questions; it was best to say as little as possible to these people with their peculiar ways of thinking.
"I'll go up and have a look."
"No!"
Several people spoke at the same time.
"What, how am I supposed to rest if we don't resolve this soon? Just because you can't beat them doesn't mean I can't."
After all, there are people that Liu Jun can't beat, and who knows if they're still alive.
One of the beautiful women said, "Fellow immortal, the situation up there is unclear. You'd better not alert them."
Liu Xingxing's eye twitched again: "Wouldn't your actions have alerted the enemy already?"
The woman was also speechless and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Make way, don't disturb my rest. The sooner we finish dealing with the demons, the sooner we'll be done."
Liu Xingxing didn't bother with any more words. She tiptoed upstairs and released a wisp of her divine sense to investigate. She discovered a faint aura lurking in her room.
The aura was almost like that of a dead person; if you didn't investigate carefully, you really wouldn't be able to sense it. Even she almost thought there was no one there. So how did those people below know?
It seems that the kid in charge is not simple. Liu Xingxing clearly saw that the kid looked at her as if he had seen something.
Liu Xingxing pushed the door open and looked around, discovering the small snake curled up at the foot of the bed.
The snake was covered in wounds and coiled up in a circle. It seemed to sense someone approaching and hissed twice, but it posed no threat.
Liu Xingxing curled her lips, picked up the snake and walked out. Under the surprised gazes of the others, she walked down and casually handed the snake over.
"This is the monster you were talking about that you couldn't defeat?"
It's definitely its aura, but its listless appearance is nothing like the way it had beaten them all up when they first met.
Xu Dan remained calmer: "It's it."
Liu Xingxing said with a look of disgust, "Then you should take them away quickly. Honestly, they're bad luck."
Xu Dan took out his demon-capturing bag, chanted a spell, and put the snake demon into it. He then bowed to Liu Xingxing and said, "Thank you for your help today, fellow immortal. May I ask which school you belong to? I will visit you again another day to express my gratitude."
"No need."
She simply pulled a snake down and did nothing else; there was really nothing to thank her for.
Xu Dan thought that this person seemed to be deliberately ignoring his implied meaning, and didn't want to force it. Anyway, they should meet again at the joint sect competition a year later.
Xu Dan bowed again and then left with his fellow disciples.
The woman who had stopped people in the line earlier glanced at Liu Jun and then at Xu Dan, seemingly plotting something, but she was clearly unhappy, though she didn't say anything.
Having resolved a minor incident, Liu Xingxing looked forward to what fun things might happen next, but it would be best if they didn't happen in her own neighborhood.
Although she had no prejudice, she didn't particularly like the presence of demonic energy in her living area.
As night fell, Liu Xingxing sat cross-legged with her palms facing upwards, intending to cultivate for a while. However, after meditating for some time, her sea of consciousness remained calm and still, and she could not feel any fire spiritual power entering her body from her dantian. Her dantian was still full of spiritual power, not a bit more or less, as calm as a stagnant pool of water that had been there for ten thousand years.
As expected, his cultivation level had not improved even after a thousand years of seclusion. Liu Jun's body was now like that of an ordinary person, unable to sense the spiritual energy from the outside world, yet he was stronger than everyone else.
The lost spiritual energy is replenished without even needing to meditate to absorb it, as if I have an obsessive-compulsive automatic charger installed on my body, which must be fully charged even if it is slightly low in energy.
Another day of being amazed by top-tier NPCs.
Liu Jun isn't some special mutated spiritual root, nor is she any of Heaven's favorite sons or daughters. After all, the original male and female leads and the current female lead are all alive and well, so it's not her turn to be the chosen one.
Moreover, Liu Jun doesn't have any special destiny chart. He has had smooth sailing times as well as times of great ups and downs. Now he has become an ancestor, but he just can't ascend to immortality.
If others followed her path, they would probably have ascended to immortality by now and advanced several levels. But Liu Jun is stuck here, enduring for over five thousand years, for reasons unknown.
"Half-step immortal" is both an honorific title and a joke.
Is that why she was so unwilling to appear in front of everyone again? After all, that seclusion was more like a death retreat.
The young man a generation younger than her is only a little over two thousand years old and has already reached the Tribulation Transcending stage. In a few more years, he will probably ascend to immortality as well, while she is still enduring.
Liu Jun simply couldn't face these things, he just couldn't understand them, so he gave up.
In the end, it was Liu Xingxing, a useless modern woman, who benefited from all the hard work.
Liu Xingxing's mind was in turmoil. She felt that her mind was affected by Liu Jun's memories, and she lost the will to cultivate.
As she got up to go downstairs to get something to eat and calm down, Liu Xingxing suddenly sensed an unfamiliar presence in the room, and her alarm bells immediately went off.