46: Chapter 46 It Turns Out to Be Him 46: Chapter 46 It Turns Out to Be Him Zhang Xiaoman wrapped the Purple Cloud Divine Sword back in the yellow cloth and stood up, saying:
“I have some matters to deal with, so I’ll be leaving now.
Goose, I’m worried you might get tired of eating the same old thing, so I’ll bring you some every other day, how about that?”
Pei Laoliu, upon hearing this, hurriedly waved his hands: “No, no, no, I’ll be heading to Binglong Province next week, you better deliver them all this week.
Master Liu can’t wait to come back and eat again.”
What are you going there for?”
Zhang Xiaoman was puzzled.
Sixth Grandpa usually wasn’t one for traveling far, only occasionally wandering around Qionghua City.
So, why suddenly decide to go to another province?
Pei Laoliu explained: “There’s going to be a Cultivation Exchange Convention there soon, and a couple of old friends wanted to bring me along for the excitement.”
“Master Liu, didn’t you retire from all that?
Why would you go to such places?”
Pei Laoliu laughed and said:
I retired because I didn’t want to deal with those dirty things anymore, but the convention isn’t a big deal.
Plus, I’ve heard that the hosts have hoodwinked a rich sponsor this time, and every cultivator who attends gets a nice sum of travel expenses.”
As he spoke, he even rubbed his fingers together, displaying a sleazy smile on his face.
Zhang Xiaoman understood, but he wasn’t interested in these things; right now, he just wanted to find a place to kill monsters and accumulate points quickly.
“Alright then, I’ll deliver them all to you in the next few days, but don’t blame me if you can’t finish eating them.”
As Zhang Xiaoman spoke, he was already heading towards the door, with Pei Laoliu warmly seeing him out and repeatedly assuring that, when it came to geese, he never refused, no matter how many.
After leaving Sixth Master’s house, Zhang Xiaoman now had an additional “Purple Cloud Divine Sword” on him.
He donned his cloak and strapped the Divine Sword to his back, then opened his chat history with Su Fu to check the location information sent to him.
Just last night, Zhang Xiaoman had already acquired the approximate location of where Su Fu’s son had encountered trouble.
He planned to go there to try his luck and see if he might encounter something like a Space Node.
Flagging down an oncoming taxi, Zhang Xiaoman directly gave the driver the address from his phone, only to find that the driver started laughing after looking at the location.
“What a coincidence, I’ve just come from the edge of that locust grove.
The last passenger I had, just like you, was heading there.
Heh, driving a taxi, and I’ve somehow ended up getting the feeling of being a bus driver.”
Zhang Xiaoman was momentarily taken aback.
Someone else had been to that place?
That shouldn’t be the case; it was such an out-of-the-way grove, who would go there for no reason?
Could they, like himself, be after Extraordinary Power?
With this thought, he couldn’t help but ask, “Driver, was the place you went before exactly the same as mine?
How many people went?
Do you remember what he looked like?”
The driver didn’t expect him to ask so many questions all at once and curiously asked:
Do you know each other?
The place is indeed just like the one you showed me, probably only a slight deviation.
As for the number of people, it was just one young man, who seemed well-mannered, kind of like a college student.”
Zhang Xiaoman quickly forced a smile and said, “No problem, no problem.
I actually arranged to have a picnic there with a few friends today, and I just wanted to make sure it was him.”
While he casually brushed off the driver’s questions, his mind was actively calculating.
He had initially thought he was just going to see if he could find something left behind, but now there was an unexpected development.
Now the question was whether the person who went before had the same goal as him, to kill monsters and Upgrade?
If that was the case, then Zhang Xiaoman had been harboring a question that now seemed likely to be answered.
Apart from myself, are there other Transcendents in this world?
If there are, what is their attitude towards their own kind?
Is it to coexist harmoniously, or to murder and seize treasures?
It seems that no matter what, I must be on high alert when I go there this time.
While Zhang Xiaoman was agonizing over the situation, the taxi driver had already expertly brought the vehicle to the destination.
After paying more than twenty yuan in fare, Zhang Xiaoman cautiously made his way towards the place marked on the mobile navigation.
Because he had intensified his vigilance along the way, Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t help but slow down his pace.
However, to his disappointment, even when he reached the end of his journey, he still couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary.
This place appeared to be just an ordinary locust grove, situated on a small hillside in the northern suburbs of Qionghua City.
It wasn’t very large, probably only around a hundred or so acres when estimated from the map.
It was now noon, and although the shade from the trees helped shield him from the sun, Zhang Xiaoman still found himself covered in sweat.
Not to mention that in order to prevent exposure as much as possible, he was wearing a mask.
Just the effort of searching for a short while made him feel like his mask was almost soaked through.
“Ah, still too fragile.
Although I’ve obtained quite a few skills recently, my constitution remains the same.
It looks like I need to find some time to work out.”
July is when locust trees bloom, and his view was filled with the same scenery everywhere he looked.
Zhang Xiaoman wiped his sweat and felt somewhat helpless, thinking about giving up; he had already been searching for over an hour in the locust grove filled with white blossoms.
“Walking around here, it’s all the same scene; the scenery isn’t bad, but it doesn’t look like the desolate graves they told me about…
Could it be that I’m here at the wrong time?
Should I have come at night instead?”
Zhang Xiaoman feared that this trip might turn out to be pointless.
Just as he was thinking about searching a bit longer before using the Swift Stone to return home, he suddenly heard a heart-wrenching scream not too far away, which seemed to be moving toward him.
Zhang Xiaoman quickly put away his phone and found a relatively large locust tree to hide behind.
After he hid himself, it wasn’t long before intense running sounds could be heard ahead, and a somewhat familiar figure, screaming in agony, ran into his field of view.
What is he doing here?”
The man was one of the doctors Zhang Xiaoman had seen yesterday at the Su family.
Without rushing out, Zhang Xiaoman kept himself well hidden and continued to observe, while his other hand was constantly poised on the Swift Stone in his pocket, ready to retreat immediately if anything went awry.
As the doctor drew nearer, Zhang Xiaoman squinted his eyes slightly; he saw two semi-transparent ghastly apparitions pursuing him.
These two ghostly figures had the basic shape of a human body but were much more elongated, like an ordinary person around 1.7 meters tall being stretched to over two meters in a ghastly manner.
The moment Zhang Xiaoman saw them, a speculation flashed through his mind.
Although they looked slightly different from the one he had absorbed from Su Changqing at the Su Mansion last time, given the context, he could pretty much guess that these were indeed what a Parasitic Spirit looked like before taking a host.
Watching Xiao Shun approaching closer and closer, Zhang Xiaoman found himself in a dilemma.
Although his Soul Absorption Technique could dispatch one Parasitic Spirit in a second, the current situation was that there were two of them!
And his skill came with a 30-minute cooling time; he couldn’t face two monsters at once!
Zhang Xiaoman found himself tangled in indecision.