Streaking through the dense jungle, a white creature wrapped its fluffy tail around Qin Mo, who only vaguely comprehended his surroundings. When the wind whistling in his ears fell to silence, he found that they reached a familiar place. They were outside the hall where he received the prayer mat's inheritance.
The little fox flicked its tail, setting Qin Mo on the ground. Stepping away, it shrunk back to its original size.
After entering Huangtian's secret territory, it took Qin Mo all the way to the safe place. It glanced at the huge teleportation array, the look in its eyes s.h.i.+fting. It leaped, landing beside the strangely familiar teleportation array. After a moment, the fox started to examine it.
"Qin Mo, do you dare to leave here with the fox lord?" Standing beside a stone tablet with a blank expression as he heard the fox's call, Qin Mo turned his head. Although his face still carried the usual icy appearance, it was unexpectedly lifeless.
"This fox lord is asking you. . ." The fox's eyes shone as it pointed its paw in his direction, "Do you want to leave this boundary under the blue sky?"
"Leave here?" His fingers brushed against the stone tablet before him. His lips parting, his eyebrows furrowed. Leave, just like that? Although he was always indifferent, this incident made his heart unwilling. He was not a saint, able to requite evil with good.
The fox's eyes narrowed and fixed on him. After a long silence, it laughed and said, "You are planning to take revenge on those people?"
Seeing his glittering eyes, it knew that it was true. The mockery in its gaze deepened. "What can you do in merely 50 years? In this low-level boundary with a deficiency in spirit energy, I'm afraid you won't even reach Core Formation. When the time comes, how will you deal with all of the cultivators under this boundary? Do you want to hide from them forever?"
Qin Mo's expression remained unchanged, but his finger stiffened against the stone tablet. He had to admit that what the little fox said was true.
"I will show you a way!" Its paw moved and slapped against the teleportation array. "This teleportation array is extraordinary. It was made to teleport a cultivator from a lower boundary to a higher boundary. It hasn't lost its effectiveness, it's easy to teleport one or two people by inputting spirit power. When you reach a higher boundary, it will be filled with thick spirit energies. With your apt.i.tude, to improve your cultivation base would be a very easy matter. It's not too late to consider revenge."
"Lower boundary?" Doubts flashed across his eyes, puzzled by the strange words.
"Ah! You don't think there the boundary under the blue sky is the only place in this Cultivation World? How is that possible!" Mockery flashed through its eyes, showing its obvious disdainful toward the boundary under the blue sky. It patiently explained, "The Cultivation World contains many independent small boundaries, each boundary is one independent world. These boundaries are divided into three, six, and nine ranks, this boundary being the lowest one."
After finis.h.i.+ng, it quietly watched Qin Mo and waited for his decision.
The breeze blew through and swept up his pure white clothes. He looked like an immortal, above the common populace.
"Alright." He responded, his narrow eyes squinting further, "I'm curious what your motives with me are."
The little fox knew so many secrets, its ident.i.ty must not be simple. It helped him, it had to have a reason, not known by anyone. Maybe he didn't think much about it before, but after the Demonic cultivator incident, he wanted to know. He understood the cruelty of this Cultivation World. Even Lin Zizheng betrayed him without the slightest hesitation. What else could he believe?
The fox's eyes flashed, its body stiffening. He snorted coldly, as if nothing happened, then said, "This fox lord is different from those people. I value your talent. You should be content with being appreciated by this fox lord. Stop chatting astray like a woman!"
It flicked its tail and jumped into his spirit animal bag before continuing, "This fox lord is going to rest. You only need to input your spirit energy into the center of teleportation array to activate it."
"Really?" His voice whispered to the air with a cold tone as he walked into the center of the array.
The little fox frowned. It forgot to tell Qin Mo that the teleportation array allowed one-way travel in a random destination. It waved its paws, thinking Qin Mo wouldn't encounter any significant issues.
It was severely injured and hadn't recovered yet. Rescuing Qin Mo consumed a lot of the fox's stored energies, and it needed time to recuperate it. Closing its eyes, it stopped thinking about anything.
Qin Mo felt the spirit energy around him grow dense. Before he could do anything, he faintly heard the sound of sobbing.
Blinking a few times, he saw the environment clear. He was currently inside a confined stone chamber with only a tightly locked iron door. A dark pearl-like object was embedded in the wall of the stone chamber, illuminated part of it.
There were ten other people in the stone chamber, eight women and two men. It was one of the eight women who was sobbing.
When Qin Mo appeared in the chamber, the ten people were shocked. They stopped moving and turned to him.
"Who are you?" Qin Mo didn't ask this question, he only frowned and observed his surroundings. He asked coldly, "Where is this?"
As soon as Qin Mo finished his question, a mocking voice responded, “Stop being arrogant. You're from the same lower boundary as us. You could only be caught and sold as a human cauldron!”
The sobbing girl was the one that spoke, her reddened lips and white teeth delicate. Her eyes were swollen with a vicious light s.h.i.+ning from them.
As soon as her words pa.s.sed her lips, the whole chamber quieted. The rest of the faces revealed solitude and despair, they buried their bodies in the darkness one by one and stilled.
Qin Mo had a bad feeling from her words. After all, a human cauldron didn't sound good. His eyes drooped, and he started to circulate the spirit energy around him. Surprise widening his eyes, he realized he couldn't absorb the spirit energy. More importantly, the spirit power in his body couldn't be used at all, as if locked by something.
The woman who spoke seemed to have guessed Qin Mo's thoughts. Her red lips moved, shouting hysterically, “It's useless. I don't know whether you got caught or were sent here, but as long as you are within the scope of the auction house, your spirit power can't be used at all…"
She seemed to have been imprisoned for a long time and was entirely crazy. The sense of resentment in her eyes was even stronger as she said, "Even if you can use spirit power, it's useless. My humble self is layer three of Foundation Building, I can even pinch you to death. . . Ah! What are you doing?"
Before she could finish, a spirit sword pointed straight at her neck. The flash of the sharp edge chilled her heart, and she looked at Qin Mo with trembling eyes. She didn't think he could care less about the environment. She said she would take action, but her spirit power was locked. She was left with no weapon in hand. She had no advantage.
Darkness in his eyes, Qin Mo said coldly, “Shut up!”
As the woman retracted, she snorted and whispered, “You'll still end with the same fate as us.”
He replaced his sword, and his gaze swept over the ten people present. He could feel their strength was almost the same as his own, all at Foundation Building base. The girl who just spoke reached the fifth floor of Foundation Building. These cultivators, who were already considered to be high-ranking cultivators under the boundary of the blue sky, all sat on the ground. They were depressed and jittery.
Qin Mo lips closed and he slowly walked over to the iron door. Reaching out, he touched it. His eyes sharpened, he raised his sword and slashed in its direction.
As soon as Thunderbolt made contact with the iron door, it flashed a blue light and blocked his every attack. The iron door remained motionless.
"Ha!" A giggling sneer came behind him, laughing at his incompetence. His grip on the longsword tightened, then a loud noise came from beyond the door.
He quickly replaced his longsword into his qiankun bag as he backed away and hid in the darkness with others.
"These human cauldrons will be sold in this next auction. Their quality is good! Several of them have yin physiques, and one of them is a woman with a pure yin body." A man's excited voice filtered inside.
Another man's voice with no lack of joy followed, "That's right, after this auction, we will be able to get a large number of spirit stone."
At the same time, a flash of green light took over the chamber, the iron door slowly opening. Two men, one tall and one short, walked in. They were wrapped in large black cloaks, their faces were covered.
"Huh? Why is there another person?" The short man's eyes fixed on Qin Mo.
The tall man casually glanced at Qin Mo and said impatiently, "Maybe they caught it afterward, whatever, one more is one more. We can earn even more spirit stone. Take them up quickly."
The short man nodded in agreement and said in a stern tone, "Come out quickly!"
The people trembled, terror on their faces. After a moment, they stood and walked out of the chamber.
Expressionless, Qin Mo followed them. He couldn't use his spirit power to feel the two men's cultivation base, it was better not to act rashly.
Translator(s): Teo
Editor(s): DarkSapphire, Empress
Teo:
Human Cauldrons are victims who are drained of their vital energies by a malicious person. explains it more in detail.