Chapter 127: The Bead
The Big Yellow Dog finally revealed its true nature.
It lowered its head and sniffed Song Jiulai’s aura.
After confirming the aura hadn’t changed, it wagged its tail at Song Jiulai.
“Good boy!”
This was still the Cave Demon Valley’s trading post, with many cultivators coming and going.
Her leading a Big Yellow Dog was too conspicuous, and the Big Yellow Dog was too ordinary; this place was too dangerous.
Song Jiulai planned to take the dog back to the Sect first for the Players to raise.
She had entered at Mid Qi Condensation Stage and emerged at Late Stage peak.
Song Jiulai’s strength had increased greatly again. Once she reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, she could walk sideways in Wang’an County.
Who could stop her then if she unified Wang’an County!
Then she also saw that the key in her hand had broken.
Song Jiulai was shocked: “How did the key break? Is it a disposable item?”
The System let out a “Hmm”: “The key breaking means the Secret Realm has truly collapsed and will never appear again. Could someone have taken the core treasure?”
It was somewhat suspicious: “Could it really be this Big Yellow Dog?”
However, another explanation was that disciples from other Sects had taken the core treasure elsewhere.
But it didn’t make sense for all the energy sources to converge in this one place in the end.
The System didn’t believe it, so it decided to scan the Big Yellow Dog again.
This scan was no small matter; the System finally discovered a faint energy source converging on the bead at the front of the Big Yellow Dog’s neck.
“Impressive,” the System suddenly remembered something and said, “No wonder. The Secret Realm was accessible to Qi Condensation cultivators, but the Secret Realm’s owner was far beyond Qi Condensation. I must have been confused inside.”
Song Jiulai: “What do you mean?”
The System: “The energy source barrier is quite thick for such a high level. It was all the Secret Realm owner’s power inside, which I couldn’t scan at the time. You really need to return to the Sect; the bead on its neck is no simple thing.”
Hearing the System’s words, Song Jiulai immediately looked at the Big Yellow Dog’s neck.
As if sensing her gaze, the Big Yellow Dog became noticeably more proactive after coming out. Now, seeing Song Jiulai look at it, it raised its neck high.
This made the bead even more prominent.
The Big Yellow Dog hadn’t made such an obvious movement in the Secret Realm.
Song Jiulai’s eyes lit up: “Good doggy.”
She didn’t intend to examine the bead here and, leading the Big Yellow Dog, prepared to leave.
With her current Strength, as long as she didn’t encounter someone at Mid Foundation Establishment Stage, she could escape from someone at Early Foundation Establishment Stage.
Thus, Song Jiulai left the Cave Demon Valley trading post.
As she left, leading a conspicuous Big Yellow Dog, she indeed attracted the attention of many cultivators.
Fortunately, cultivators nowadays didn’t like to meddle in others’ affairs; eccentric cultivators were everywhere.
Song Jiulai was immensely grateful for such a culture.
Song Jiulai planned to start making arrangements on her way back.
She wanted to refine artifacts.
She really didn’t have time to study the alchemy furnace, and with Chen Miaomiao, a talented disciple of the Sect, she wouldn’t compete with others for business.
Artifact refining was a must.
The most common cultivators on the Yunzhou Continent were those skilled in artifact refining.
Basically, every cultivator wanted to possess their own Magic Treasure.
Unless they had absolutely no talent.
Of course, not many could refine well.
A Flying Magic Treasure had to be arranged.
If she had a Flying Magic Treasure, she wouldn’t always be chased and harassed during fights.
How unsightly that would be!
On the way back, leading the Big Yellow Dog, considering she had to travel, she simply picked up the Big Yellow Dog and flew back.
While doing so, she thought: “When will I finally own a Cosmic Bag?”
A Cosmic Bag could hold living creatures, allowing her to bring pets when going out to fight.
Unfortunately, Cosmic Bags were sold by High-grade Spirit Stones, and even though she had just gotten rich, she wasn’t so extravagant as to afford that.
She carried the Big Yellow Dog all the way home.
As they neared the Sect, Song Jiulai put the Big Yellow Dog down. This Big Yellow Dog was somewhat peculiar; even as an ordinary dog, it showed no discomfort facing rapid movement through Spiritual Energy.
Along the way, Song Jiulai fed it meat, which the Sect’s Players had prepared. The Big Yellow Dog ate with great joy.
It was clear it liked it.
There were very few Players left in the Longevity Sect’s main area now, as even Life Players were running around Wang’an County below the mountain.
However, she still encountered a Player.
Su Daqiang, with his blue skin, couldn’t believe it when he saw Song Jiulai return: “Sect Master?”
“Ah? Ah, oh, Daqiang.”
Song Jiulai smiled at Su Daqiang, trying her best to appear as a gentle and intellectual Sect Master: “Has your skin not recovered yet?”
Su Daqiang, with tears streaming down his face: “No, but the good news is it’s become much fainter recently!”
Heaven knows, even Chen Miaomiao couldn’t figure out what had contaminated him.
His skin had only just begun to fade slightly.
He couldn’t even go down the mountain.
Heaven knew how far his heart had flown.
But seeing the Sect Master was a very lucky event, as Song Jiulai was rarely seen, seldom in the Sect.
Any matters were conveyed through the System, and the Players had basically never communicated with Song Jiulai directly.
Su Daqiang felt this was his luck arriving. Seeing the Big Yellow Dog beside Song Jiulai, he was somewhat surprised: “Sect Master, why did you bring back a dog?”
“It’s the dog of a deceased friend of mine,” Song Jiulai said with a smile and a hint of faint melancholy. “So I brought it back. When I go out, I’ll have to trouble you to take care of this dog.”
“No trouble, no trouble!”
Su Daqiang immediately understood that this was probably a dog left behind by a deceased friend of the Sect Master. Without any doubt, flattered, he immediately guaranteed: “Don’t worry, Sect Master, I’ll take good care of it. We already have Players raising Little Flower Beasts and pigs in the Sect, and we’ve even raised Spirit Stealing Rats. I guarantee I’ll take good care of it!”
Su Daqiang had nothing else to do here, and besides looking after Spirit Herbs, he already had experience feeding Spirit Beasts.
He occasionally helped take care of Fan Guozhou’s Little Flower Beast.
Song Jiulai nodded: “I’ll go back first. I’ll notify you when I’m leaving.”
Su Daqiang nodded so vigorously his head looked like it would break: “Okay, okay!”
Seeing Song Jiulai fly away, he sighed with emotion: “Our Mom is a true immortal.”
Every time he saw her, she seemed even more radiant!
The System tutted: “Your image has been shaped quite successfully.”
Song Jiulai: “This is called image design, what do you know?”
Back in her own bedroom, Song Jiulai finally felt at ease.
She crouched down and looked at the bead on the Big Yellow Dog’s neck. “Is this bead really problematic? But I can’t feel any Spiritual Energy from it at all.”
The System: “Nonsense, you’re only at Late Qi Condensation. We don’t even know what Realm the Secret Realm’s owner was. Even I couldn’t scan it at the time. When she created this Secret Realm, her cultivation was at least Nascent Soul Stage.”
Hearing this, Song Jiulai became even more excited.
After looking for a long time, inputting Spiritual Energy yielded no reaction.
Unable to figure it out, Song Jiulai, adhering to the principle of trying every method, immediately cut her finger and dripped blood onto it.
In an instant, the bead erupted with a brilliant light, as if it had been sucked into some Otherworld, and the world spun again.
