Xuanxia

Chapter 514: Pursuit
On the hillside, Hua Xiaolan, dressed in linen and carrying a medicine basket, squatted in the knee-high grass. She reached out to pick a black herb and put it into the basket.

At first glance, she looked like an ordinary girl picking herbs.

"Xiao Lan! Are you here to pick herbs again?"

A few villagers from the fishing island passed by on the hillside. They were carrying firewood and walking down the mountain, waving and calling out.

Hua Xiaolan showed a flawless, innocent and pure smile and waved back at them.

As soon as they walked away, her smile immediately disappeared.

After making sure that there would be no one else around for a while, she stretched out her right hand and spread her palm flat. A thumb-sized wasp emerged from her sleeve and landed on her palm.

"The Black Mountain Islands are indeed rich in spiritual energy. Even the bees and insects are bigger than outside."

Hua Xiaolan raised her lips and said, "Go ahead and tell me where he is."

The wasp flapped its wings and slowly flew up. After turning twice in the air, it suddenly identified a direction and flew over very quickly.

Hua Xiaolan did not follow, but continued to squat among the grass and pick herbs.

In the blink of an eye, the wasp flew away, but at the same time, a bright light appeared between Hua Xiaolan's pupils.

She could already see vaguely what the wasp saw.

In fact, if this bee insect had been tamed in her hands for a longer time and nurtured by her spiritual energy for a longer time, perhaps she would have been able to see it clearly.

Previously, the shaman Onan on the grassland, who was at the seventh level of spiritual awareness, could control the feathered spirits and see what the feathered spirits saw. Now that Hua Xiaolan was at the sixth level of spiritual awareness, she could naturally also connect with the spirit insects she controlled.

The so-called witchcraft techniques, although one is in the northern Xinjiang and the other in the southern Xinjiang, have similar effects in some places.

"It's still quite far..."

Hua Xiaolan murmured as she looked at the blurry scenery.

The wasp was very fast. In a short while, it had crossed several small islands and flew low over the lake. Finally, it slowed down after approaching several rugged islands in the south.

"here?"

Hua Xiaolan frowned slightly.

She had been in the Montenegrin Islands for several months, but had never been there.

In order to "collect herbs", she once took Yuan Huai's boat and traveled around the surrounding islands. She also once took a small boat with Hua Wuying to travel back and forth between the waterways of the archipelago in order to "help the Yuan family father and son fish".

But why has she never seen these islands?

Could there be a maze?

But I have never sensed any fluctuations in spiritual magic... Is it because my realm is not high enough?

Fortunately, Hua Xiaolan understood it after not much thought.

Ultimately, it’s a water problem.

I am not like those disciples of Lingjing Sect who can control water easily... When you are sailing on the lake by boat, even if it looks calm on the surface, the undercurrents in some places are still turbulent. If you can't get through some places, you really can't get through.

This is not the outside world, and the Yuan family father and son do not dare to force their way into the Ghost Gate waterway. If they encounter a diversion point of the lake, they will grit their teeth and force their way through. Naturally, there are some places that they cannot reach.

As for wasps, they fly, so there is naturally no such problem.

Thinking of this, Hua Xiaolan felt worried again.

If the thousand-year-old nine-section bell grass is really there, how can I get there?

While thinking, the wasp had already flown a long distance and began to shuttle between the towering and steep stone peaks.

Then, its flying altitude suddenly rose sharply, and it flew to the top of a stone peak over a hundred feet high, looking down.

Hua Xiaolan's pupils suddenly shrank!
Looking down from above, the stone peak was actually... hollow?!
The stone peak looked ordinary from the outside, but in the center was a deep pit! The vegetation around the pit was extremely lush, and any leaf was half the size of a person. The most common weeds and flowers were all magnified dozens of times here, and it felt like a forest.

Looking down from the pit mouth, one could see extremely thick vines and huge flowers and plants crawling on the cave wall, but further down, it was completely dark and nothing could be seen clearly.

The great gentleman whom they had met not long ago was now sitting cross-legged on the ground with his back to the pit entrance.

Hua Xiaolan's eyes lit up.

The vegetation here is extremely lush, which must be due to the extremely rich spiritual energy. Then, the things in this deep pit are most likely the nine-section bell grass that I am looking for!
Thinking of this, Hua Xiaolan did not hesitate at all. With a thought, the wasp swooped down quietly and drilled into the deep pit!
There were also many snakes, insects, rats and ants here, as well as many bees and insects hovering here. The great master did not notice anything and let the wasp drill into the deep pit.

After entering the pit and going down for less than a few feet, the sunlight no longer reaches this place. The light becomes less and less, and the darkness becomes thicker and thicker.

Hua Xiaolan frowned...

After all, it wasn't her who approached, but she was controlling the wasp... If it was just a firefly, maybe she could create some light, but there was really no way to deal with the wasp.

But it is very difficult to get to this place, and there is a great master guarding the gate. If Hua Wuying and I really go through so much trouble to get there, and finally find that there is no Nine-section Bell Grass inside, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?

After thinking for a moment, Hua Xiaolan decided to let Huang Feng continue to dive.

It's just a wasp anyway. Even if there is danger inside, it doesn't matter... At most, the wasp will die, causing a slight backlash of spiritual power, causing you to spit out some blood.

Then the wasp quickly sank into darkness.

Down, down, down...

During the process, it would occasionally bump into some huge leaves or be blocked by flower buds that were larger than humans, but as long as it circled a few times, it would be able to find the way to continue downwards.

But as they went deeper and deeper, the flowers and plants gradually blocked the tunnel, and it was difficult to find the way in the dark, so the wasp could not go down any further.

"Ugh……"

Hua Xiaolan sighed softly.

She knew that there was no point in going deeper... The pit was too dark, and even if she went down to the deepest part, she would not be able to confirm what was at the bottom of the pit.

Even if the wasp landed on the so-called nine-section bell grass, she could not tell the difference between the bell grass and the surrounding flowers and plants, and could not tell whether it was what she was looking for.

Now it is enough to know that there is such a place and there is an 80% to 90% probability that the nine-section bell grass is here.

So she let out a light breath, and with a slight thought in her mind, she decided to let the wasp return the same way it came.

But at this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew from under the wasp!

The wind came so fast and so hard that it disturbed the air, causing the wasp's flying wings to be disturbed and its body to be disrupted.

Not only that, the wind even blew away the thick petals and leaves of the surrounding grass, allowing the sparse sunlight outside the pit to shine in a little.

Under the sunlight, Hua Xiaolan realized that she had just controlled the wasp to circle for a long time, but only went down more than twenty feet, which was not very deep at all.

more importantly……

She was horrified to find that the thing that stirred up the strong wind was actually a hand?!
No...that's not a human hand.

Although it looks like a human hand, with all five fingers, clear palm lines, and even fingernails, it is clearly made up of vines and plants. The palm lines are also wood grains, and the fingernails are also growths of wood!

This wooden limb was as big as a small building, and its five fingers were spread out, but when it got close to the wasp, it suddenly bent and grabbed it!
Hua Xiaolan's mind was completely on the wooden hand, and it came so fast that she didn't have time to control the wasp to fly away.

In just a moment, the wood suddenly grasped, and her connection with the wasp... was severed.

"puff!"

On the hillside, Hua Xiaolan's face turned pale and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

But a smile appeared on her face.

(End of this chapter)