Stolen goods

  Xiong Yao Jia Dan and Lie Yao Bei Da Fu accompanied Huo Shan Jun to the cave entrance, hearing his question, Bei Da Fu rubbed his hands together, with a very complex expression, said:

  "If we were to say who in Huo Mountain is suspected of doing this, it would be too much. However, I think this matter was done by that Huo Mountain Spirit whom we have not met yet. To break the seal of a Qi Practitioner so neatly is not something an ordinary person can do. In this mountain, there are not many demons who can achieve this. If the whole thing was done by the hand of that Huo Mountain Spirit, it would be completely reasonable."

  Upon hearing this, a pair of tiger eyes appeared on Huo Shan's face, filled with intense killing intent. He spoke in an icy tone:

  "Hmph, you guessed it just like someone else did. Lin Xu, how dare you deceive me? Bei Daifu, calculate the auspicious time for us to attack the Mountain God Temple."

  Upon hearing the sound, Bei Dafu did not dare to be slow and first ordered someone to fetch water to wash his hands. Afterwards, he spread out a piece of white deer skin on the ground, lit a censer with sandalwood incense, took out the milfoil and tortoise shells, and concentrated on divining.

  After a while, the divination result came out. Dr. Bei leaned close to Lord Huo's side and said in a low voice:

  "Mountain Lord, the divination results of both the tortoise shell and the milfoil are inauspicious!"

  At this time, Huo Shanjun remained silent and unresponsive, after a long while he raised his head to gaze at the sky, furrowing his brow as if muttering to himself:

  "Is heaven not willing to help me succeed? Never mind, I'll take matters into my own hands then!"

  In a pine forest less than five miles away from the Tianzhu Peak Mountain Temple, Lin Xuan descended with the mountain wind, and his first thing was to grab Xiao Yu Jing and say unceremoniously:

  "Hey, this place is safe now, those monsters won't be able to catch up for a while, hand over those things!"

  At the sound, Xiaoyu's eyes widened with a pair of big, watery eyes, looking pitifully at Lin Xu, trying to move someone with her innocent gaze. Unfortunately, Lin Xu really didn't have much sympathy left, and instead continued to urge:

  "What? Are you still not convinced?"

  Things have come to this, Yu Jing also knew that he couldn't keep these treasures that had accompanied him for hundreds of years, so he could only reluctantly take out a few magical artifacts from his body and hand them over to Lin Xu, weakly saying:

  "Alright! I've given you everything."

  That ancient qigong practitioner, who had already ascended to the Thirty-Two Heavens and was known as "Lingxuzi", before his ascension, sealed four of his most prized treasures, which he had spent his life cultivating, within Yujing's belly.

  The original intention of "Ling Xuzi" was to rely on the ability of Yu Jing to gather the primordial energy of heaven and earth to nourish these magical instruments, so as to avoid them becoming a pile of rubbish due to the loss of spiritual energy. Although these few magical instruments are not top-notch treasures that can shake the heavens, they were still collected by "Ling Xuzi" with great effort and refined over many years through sacrifices. He naturally hoped to leave some objects in this world, so that later generations would know that there was once a person named "Ling Xuzi".

  Shuǐ Yuè Jìng, Jīn Wū Shí, Wú Míng Hǔ Fú and Qī Xīng Jiàn, these four treasures were now in Lin Xu's hands. They were the proud creations of Líng Xū Zǐ, a hermit who lived on Huò Mountain to cultivate his inner energy. Now, they all belonged to the Lin family.

  Normally, taking care of these treasures was an extra burden for the Jade Spirit. Handing over the treasures that didn't originally belong to her was a relief. Apart from feeling a little reluctant to part with them, the Little Jade Spirit felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. Taking a deep breath, a series of explosions erupted all over her body. In an instant, she transformed from a 6 or 7-year-old child into a 12 or 13-year-old girl.

  "No way! It's actually a woman, no, I should say it's a loli."

  Blinking his eyes, the old hen turned into a duck. Unable to help himself, Lin Xu rubbed his own eyes and let out a string of meaningless exclamations - he really hadn't expected that after Yu Jing's body changed, she would actually turn into a woman.

  As the other party of the event, Xiaoyu Jing expressed herself more maturely and immediately retorted:

  "After our tribe's transformation, we became like this. You're a big guy, aren't you the mountain god? How can you not even understand this? And another thing, I'm not called Loli, my name is Yuqi."

  After that, the jade spirit, who looked like a human girl of about ten years old, squatted down and picked up a pine branch to write her name on the soft sandy ground. Later, after communication and explanation between the two parties, Lin Xu learned that the name "Yuqi" also had its origins. Yu's original meaning is beautiful stone, Qi refers to beautiful jade, and the name of the jade spirit was given by the master of the cave, Ling Xuzi. In other words, when the jade spirit introduced herself earlier, Lin Xu had misheard it. Apart from this, her youthful appearance, without obvious gender characteristics, and her childlike voice also fully participated in misleading someone's judgment.

  "Are you just not growing up, or were you always like this?"

  Lin Xiu curiously asked Xiao Yu Jing about the reason for her magnificent transformation this time, and the other party was extremely shocked by his extreme ignorance. Xiao Yu Jing looked at Lin Xiu with an incredulous expression and said:

  "You don't even know that a fairy needs to cultivate to the point of transformation to fully become human? Now even idiots can become mountain gods?"

  Transforming into a human form is undoubtedly one of the major ordeals that the demon clan's cultivation faces. Only after passing this level can they obtain a human-like body, suitable for further deepening their cultivation. Before this, no matter how hard the demons try, it is all in vain. They either maintain a half-human, half-beast appearance that frightens people, or they appear with the looks of an infant or toddler. In ancient legends, ginseng and he shou wu from the deep mountains would transform into infants when they became powerful enough to venture out and roam. This is absolute common sense for demons, and even for cultivators, this is considered basic knowledge.

  Once again, someone mentioned basic knowledge, Lin Xu couldn't help but laugh and cry. His mind was filled with this kind of thing, but every time he reviewed it, he couldn't avoid getting a headache. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, he would rather do nothing than suffer from the pain of a splitting headache.

  Although that's the case, Lin Xu's hidden little thoughts couldn't be spoken out loud, and he could only stammer and make excuses for himself:

  "Ah! I knew that, of course. I just didn't remember for a moment! Right, you should know the purpose of these few treasures, shouldn't you?"

  With a lifespan of thousands of years, she was sealed away for most of her life and became a prisoner. Yu Jing's experiences were too few, and she didn't have many thoughts in her mind. When asked by Lin Xu, she honestly pointed to the several magic treasures arranged on the ground in a row, introducing them one by one:

  "This is the Water Moon Mirror, a very interesting magical treasure that can see very far away..."

  After listening patiently to Yu Jing's introduction, Lin Xu was overjoyed and felt that this adventure was not in vain.

  Although these four treasures don't have any earth-shattering power, as the culmination of a fairly skilled Qi Practitioner's efforts, they can still be said to be uniquely useful tools.

  For example, the Water Moon Mirror, which looks like an ancient bronze mirror on the outside, has a basic function of illuminating thousands of miles, equivalent to a spy satellite. The Golden Crow Stone is an unfinished magic artifact, and its raw material is said to be from one of the golden crows shot down by the great god Hou Yi in ancient times. Perhaps due to its unfinished state, the current effect of the Golden Crow Stone is limited to emitting light and heat. The only commendable thing about it is its self-contained ability to dispel evil, as long as enough energy is infused into the Golden Crow Stone, the intense light it emits can rival that of the sun, making it a powerful tool for dealing with ghostly entities, undoubtedly a top-notch striking method.

  The nameless tiger tally is an antique from the pre-Qin era, which was later transformed by the Qi practitioner Ling Xuzi into a vessel for storing yin souls.

  Just imagine, alone and surrounded by the enemy's heavy siege, still expressionless, like a mountain standing still, then slightly smile, take out the tiger tally and swing it in the wind. In an instant, thousands of troops emerged from the ground, that scene was so cool to the point of perfection!

  Among the four treasures obtained by chance this time, Lin Xu appreciated the last one the most, the Seven Star Sword.

  This bronze long sword with a length of about 1.2 meters belongs to the standard Qin sword shape, not as short and exquisite as the flying sword used by the Sword Immortal, but rather meets the requirements of ordinary human combat blades. As the saying goes, "Nan Dou Zhuan Sheng, Bei Dou Zhuan Si". Since it is named after the North Dipper Seven Stars, the lethality of this sword is naturally not small. Lin Xu tested its performance and it did not disappoint his expectations. Not to mention cutting hair or splitting jade, those are just trivial matters.

  This top-grade treasure was exactly what Lin Xu needed to replace the Qing Long Yan Yue sword on his body, which had been condensed from divine power and only served as a decoration.

  With a joyful heart, Lin Xu took stock of the gains from this trip and suddenly thought of another thing. He turned to Xiaoyu Jingxi and said:

  "Hey there, kiddo. I went to great lengths to break the seal on that stone pedestal to help you escape, and it seems like we've stirred up quite a bit of trouble. How do you think we should settle this?"

  At the sound, Xiao Loli Mochi's face was like June weather, from being bewildered at first, to being wronged and red-eyed, her big watery eyes seemed to be on the verge of tears, choking with sobs, she said:

  "Waaah, you're a bad person, bullying me."

  At the sound, Lin Xu's forehead instantly appeared with a few black lines. Faced with Yu Jingyu's Lolita tearful attack, he looked around, but could only be at a loss, rubbing his hands, and in the end, Lin Xu also helplessly admitted defeat, waving his hand and saying:

  "Alright! You watch the gate for me for a few years and we'll call it quits, how's that?"

  Upon hearing this, Xiaoyu suddenly regained her spirit. She jumped up and down in front of Lin Xu, stretched out her right little finger and said:

  "Gotcha! The little dog doesn't count."

  After hearing this, Lin Xu was so angry that he gritted his teeth and covered his forehead with one hand, while holding onto Yu Jing's arm with the other. Looking at Lin Xu's awkward appearance, it seemed as though he feared being seen by outsiders in such a humiliating state, and who knows, maybe he would even resort to murder to silence them.

  After this simple and easy convention ceremony, Lin Xu hurriedly shook off Yu Jing and urged:

  "Alright, come on and follow me quickly!"

  Even without the agreement just now, Yu Jingyu, who had been trapped in the stone pedestal for nearly a thousand years by "Ling Xuzi", didn't know where to go, so she could only obediently stretch out her hand and let a certain strange uncle pull her along, and together they dissipated into the autumn-colored mountains like clear wind.