Chapter Eighteen: Pursuing the Soul of Tai Sui

  The monster that was just sealed by Xia Yan's finger flicking the Ice Seal on its Dark Pattern was suspended motionless in mid-air, causing Xia Yan to suddenly realize, "It turns out this monster can't attack, it can only seal."

  "Did you just seal it?"

  Xia Yan also looked puzzled, "I'm not sure, but at least it's safer than attacking. Just now, we clearly entered that guy's 'mouth', but we can't see that wild girl, so we can't rashly venture deeper into the maze. It's better to understand what this monster is first."

  Luo Xi crouched down and boldly stroked the soft, spongy ground. A thrilling memory suddenly flashed through his mind, but he didn't say it out loud. His hands gently flipped open a piece of "fatty meat" that was stuck together, intending to delve deeper into its secrets. However, the monster's temper was extremely violent, and after being touched, small monsters resembling fatty meat suddenly emerged from the ground and rapidly grew larger!

  A small monster of various shapes, except for its size, had no threat at all, but in a short while, one of the monsters seemed to grow into an individual, gradually swelling, but there were no dark patterns on their bodies, so Xia Yan didn't dare to act rashly either.

  The two of them, who could only watch as things unfolded, slowly began to feel their bodies weakening. Seeing Lakiro's pale face, Xiayuan suddenly realized the key point: "It turns out that they are absorbing our spiritual energy to grow bigger, but they can't attack and don't have any patterns... I also can't seal them..."

  The monster's growth characteristics made Luo Xi zero in doubt, and he blurted out: "Could this be the Taosui?"

  "Ta Sui? Could it be that this is the extremely rare Soul-chasing Ta Sui?" Xia Yan's eyebrows furrowed even more, knowing the answer but unsure whether to be shocked or delighted. "The legendary Soul-chasing Ta Sui is an immortal creature that cannot be eliminated, only forever sealed in its actions. It is neither plant nor animal, without spiritual energy or demonic energy, yet its power is astonishingly great. The Soul-chasing Ta Sui generally does not attack on its own initiative, but once startled, it will chase after the opponent relentlessly, going wherever they go, until it devours them completely. If we wait for these Soul-chasing Ta Sui to grow up before seeing their patterns, our energy will probably have been sucked dry already."

  "On Earth, the slime mold that exists between protozoa and fungi, lives in soil, has extremely strong vitality, and is a very rare large-scale slime mold complex in nature. It belongs to 'super-large rare multi-species complex', having both characteristics of protozoa and fungi, it's a living organism, rarely seen in the world." Luo Xi Ling expressed her understanding of ordinary slime molds.

  "How did you know so much? Are you a bookworm usually? But no matter how I look at it, I think you're a bad boy!" Xia Yan's evaluation really made people laugh and cry.

  "I wasn't a good student and often skipped class. Once, I skipped class to go to the back mountain of my school, where I encountered a toad. It sucked onto my foot, and I was very scared because I didn't know much about it at the time. I managed to shake it off with force, and it fell to the ground without chasing me. Later, after reading some information about toads, I found out that their growth is at a fork in the road of life evolution - if they turn left, they will develop into plants; if they turn right, they will evolve towards animals; and if they stay still, they will become fungi like mushrooms."

  "So we'll move its roots to the left, can that make this thing a plant?" Xia Yan understood Luo Xi Ling's meaning, and after the boy nodded, she ran to find the roots of Zhui Hun Tai Sui.

  Zhuihun Taosui wasn't a fool, and immediately launched an attack to stop Xiaoyan, making her stumble on the soft, spongy, and floating ground. Luoxi Ling saw this and once again used his magic chain to distract Zhuihun Taosui's attention.

  Xia Yan was not in a hurry, carefully observing the floating of the Pursuing Soul Taosai, and found that a group of small Pursuing Soul Taosai were floating in a regular pattern. The route that pulled them to move was actually a deeper part of the mushroom maze. Xia Yan found the clue, took a risk and used her fingers to pop the ice seal on the mushrooms in front of her, then jumped onto one of the mushroom heads. From high above, she saw that one of the mushrooms was not sealed in ice and was not floating, so the girl confirmed that the root of the group of small Pursuing Soul Taosai was there, and quickly headed towards her destination.

  Coming to this mushroom, Xia Yan used Finger Flicking Frost again, but it had no effect on it. She stretched out her hand to touch the mushroom, only to find that there was no tactile sensation, as if it were air!

  It turned out that this was just a protective illusion of the Pursuing Soul Taisui, which meant that the root was under the ground! Xia Yan stepped into the "mushroom" position, her hands deeply inserted into the soil, and immediately felt a thick tree root. With a forceful move to the left, the floating ground surface calmed down instantly. This illusory "mushroom" also disappeared, and a piece of white fat turned into a jade-like hard and shiny substance. The roots were now clearly visible.

  "Xiaoyan!" After discovering that Chuihun Taosui had stopped moving, Luoxi Ling anxiously searched for Xiaoyan.

  "I'm here." The mushroom maze still hasn't disappeared, so Luo Xi Ling has to rely on sound to find Xia Yan.

  When Luoxi Zero found the base of the Pursuing Soul Years, an idea emerged in his mind, "The main root of this root has been moved by you, but there are still a few fine roots. Following the base to find it, will we find Taotaozi and the exit?"

  Xia Yan also agrees with this statement, "Just now I was sucked in by the Pursuing Soul Years after being absorbed, I suspect that Tiantian has been sucked into a deeper position. If I was sucked in at the entrance, then Tiantian should have slid all the way down to the stomach."

  Below the esophagus is the cardia, followed by the stomach. So the two returned to the location where Xiaoyan was swallowed by the largest Pursuing Soul Taosuo earlier and walked in from that root.

  The structure of the soul years is indeed like an animal, and after passing through the mushroom maze, it is a very narrow path. Both of them thought that this was the esophagus, and they both hastily squeezed into the esophagus, but this narrow path could not accommodate two people. Xiaoyan sidestepped and stopped advancing, planning to let Luoxi zero go first, but when Luoxi zero walked in front of Xiaoyan, he also got stuck in this narrow passage.

  Lu Xi Ling's height should be over 1.85 meters, and Xia Yan's face was just in front of his sturdy chest. The boy's excited heartbeat seemed to rub against Xia Yan's face, making the flustered girl even more embarrassed, not daring to move lightly.

  Scorching breaths kept blowing in front of Luoxi Zero's chest, the boy's entire nervous system was petrified, but this wasn't the time to flirt with girls. Taotaozi was still inside, her life or death unknown, so Luoxi Zero had no choice but to calm down and suggest: "You're smaller in stature, you go in first..."

  Xia Yan nodded and made a great effort to wipe from Lu Xi Ling's chest, through the esophagus and cardia, and indeed found Taotaozi fainting on the ground inside her stomach!

  Fortunately, Taotaozi still had a breath, but his body was still very weak and couldn't even stand up. Luoxi zero picked him up and walked back to the main root of Zhuihun Taosui, then exited from its "mouth".

  Tao Taozi was exhausted and had no way to resist Xia Yan, so she secretly lay on Luo Xi's sexy chest and fell into a deep sleep.