Chapter 56: Meeting Love at the Corner!
Under the night sky.
On the Green Bamboo Peak within the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
A terrifying, loud sound suddenly rang out, and countless bamboo leaves flew up from the bamboo peak.
Seeing that Qin An's aura had completely dissipated, Lin Xuan, who was inside the spatial crevice, raised his hand and waved, summoning the Demon Suppression Tower back into his Sea of Consciousness.
Recalling the Demon Suppression Tower was easy, but summoning it out was extremely draining.
At this moment.
The moment the Demon Suppression Tower moved, the last wisp of Qin An's demonic energy, hidden beneath the earth, activated a sacrificial forbidden technique and directly fled into a spacetime crevice.
The reason the old fellow from the Heavenly Demon Palace sent Qin An here to investigate was precisely because of this.
Even if Qin An's physical body was destroyed, through the sacrificial forbidden technique, he could still preserve a wisp of demonic energy. With this wisp of demonic energy, he had a chance to be resurrected.
Through the sacrificial forbidden technique, he opened a spatial crevice, allowing him to escape safely.
As long as his opponent was not a Tribulation Transcendence Realm expert, a wisp of demonic energy as faint as his would be impossible to detect once it entered a spatial crevice.
This wisp of demonic energy, containing Qin An's remnant soul, preserved his consciousness.
"This Lin Xuan absolutely cannot be allowed to live. Once he masters this Demon Suppression Tower, and with that Bei Ming Divine Art, he will be a huge obstacle for their demon race in ruling the human race of the Eastern Continent!"
Qin An, within the demonic energy, thought with apprehension.
At the same time, a crevice suddenly opened in the space beside him, and he silently slipped into it.
"Finally safe!"
After Qin An fled into the spatial crevice, he let out a long sigh of relief.
But just as Qin An was controlling this wisp of demonic energy and was about to leave, a black shadow suddenly flashed before his eyes.
What he saw was a youth clad in a Golden Sun Dharma Robe, holding a swirling black hole in his right hand.
"This familiar power!"
When Qin An felt the familiar, oppressive aura emanating from Lin Xuan, his eyes widened in shock.
"You are Lin Xuan, the newly promoted Saint Son of the Nine Heavens Holy Land!"
Looking at the faint wisp of demonic energy before him, from which Qin An's horrified roar emerged, Lin Xuan's eyes were filled with chilling killing intent as he said: "Correct!"
As soon as the words fell, an extremely strong pulling force came from the black hole vortex in the palm of Lin Xuan's right hand. Qin An's last remaining wisp of demonic energy was instantly sucked into the black hole.
Qin An could never have imagined how Lin Xuan was able to enter the spatial crevice.
After dealing with Qin An.
Only then did Lin Xuan walk out from the spatial crevice.
At the same time, the Little Tree Guardian walked out from the Purple Bamboo Forest. Its small eyes, looking at Lin Xuan, were full of curiosity.
The giant tower Lin Xuan had summoned earlier had killed the Spirit Void Realm demon scout with just a single strike. Although it didn't sense a very strong power, it seemed to be extremely suppressive against the demon scout.
"Was that demon scout taken care of?" the Little Tree Guardian asked, glancing at the circular deep pit smashed into the ground.
"Yes, taken care of. Only one person came, and he wasn't even at the Unity Realm!" Lin Xuan said calmly.
"Now you can return to Elder Fang's side!" Lin Xuan said to the Little Tree Guardian.
"No way! I finally got a chance to get some fresh air. I'm not going back to that old woman's place!" Hearing that Lin Xuan was going to send her away, she refused indignantly.
"Old woman, that's a brave thing to call her. Aren't you afraid Elder Fang will chop you into a pile of splinters!" Hearing the Little Tree Guardian call Fang Qing 'old woman', Lin Xuan's mouth twitched.
He could even imagine Fang Qing's angry expression in his mind. She was a Unity Realm, Ninth Heaven expert. He estimated she could punch through Green Bamboo Peak with a single blow.
"I'm not afraid. When the time comes, I'll just say you taught it to me. I'm still a child and don't understand what 'old woman' means. If you send me away, I'll say just that!" The Little Tree Guardian lowered its head with an innocent look, fiddling with its jade-like, slender fingers and speaking with a hint of grievance.
"You..."
Lin Xuan was so angry he couldn't speak, but he also felt a bit like laughing, to think he would be threatened by such a little tree demon.
At the same time, Lin Xuan finally recalled what had been wrong before.
Back then, after Fang Qing stuffed this Little Tree Guardian on him, she had just pulled Zhao Ling'er and left without looking back. Ostensibly, it was to find a guard for Lin Xuan, but now, Lin Xuan felt like he had been tricked onto a pirate ship!
"Of course, you can follow me for now, but being by my side won't be as easy as being by Elder Fang's side!" Lin Xuan said.
This Little Tree Guardian's cultivation had reached the Spirit Void Realm Second Heaven, so she could be considered a qualified helper. Keeping her by his side would be useful as an assistant.
"That old woman just stays on a mountain all day, it's suffocating. Of course, something more interesting would be better!" the Little Tree Guardian said, her large, crystal-like eyes wide open.
"Very well, I can agree to your request, but I also have a request. I will place a talisman seal on you. This talisman seal will not have any effect on you, only a positioning and tracking function, to prevent you from running away from Green Bamboo Peak midway!" Lin Xuan said.
"Mm... okay!" The Little Tree Guardian thought for a moment and, finding nothing wrong with it, agreed.
Lin Xuan laughed inwardly.
Immediately, Lin Xuan took a drop of his own essence blood and, using the blood as ink, drew a mysterious, blood-red talisman in the air.
Finally, the talisman took shape. It was the size of a fist and rotated spiritually in Lin Xuan's palm.
Lin Xuan lowered his head, looked at the talisman in his palm, and opened his system's inspection function.
Nickname: Blood Spirit Talisman (Incomplete)
Grade: Sixth Grade, Lower Tier
Effect: Can control living beings branded with the spirit talisman, with many abilities such as sealing, imprisonment, and controlling spiritual bodies. However, because the Blood Spirit Talisman itself is incomplete, its abilities are limited to sealing, imprisonment, positioning, and tracking.
A hint of disappointment flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes. Although he knew that to perfect it, he would need not only extremely high skill but also to draw the corresponding talisman refinement techniques.
Forcibly perfecting it himself would leave it incomplete.
But it was still of some use!
Immediately, Lin Xuan branded the Blood Spirit Talisman from his palm onto the Little Tree Guardian's arm, which was like a white lotus root.
"I always feel this thing is a bit weird!" the Little Tree Guardian said in her soft, squirming voice.
After speaking, she even reached out with her other small hand to touch the bright red mark. This strangely-looking talisman didn't seem to have only the positioning and tracking function Lin Xuan had described, but considering he had just drawn it casually, it probably wouldn't have any powerful effects.
"Cough, cough. By the way, do you have a name? How does Elder Fang usually address you?" Lin Xuan coughed twice, changing the Little Tree Guardian's attention and asking her.
Previously, he had used the system's inspection function on the Little Tree Guardian, but in the nickname column, it had shown "none."
"A name? I don't have one. But that old woman often calls me little unlucky one. You can give me one, as long as I think it sounds nice!" the Little Tree Guardian said with an innocent look.
"Then I'll call you Xiao Yu, Yu as in jade ware. That sounds a bit more like a girl's name!" Lin Xuan said.
"Okay!" Xiao Yu thought for a moment, then nodded to show that she was fine with this name.
"Since you promised not to send me back to that old woman's place, I'm going to go look around now!" Xiao Yu's little eyes spun, and she turned with a smile on her face, about to run off.
"Freeze!"
Just as Xiao Yu had not taken a few steps, Lin Xuan's mind moved, and he activated the Blood Spirit Talisman branded on her arm.
The talisman light flashed, and Xiao Yu's body froze in place as if turned to stone, unable to move an inch.
"You big liar!" Xiao Yu felt her limbs become as heavy as lead, her small body unable to move in the slightest, and she cursed at Lin Xuan in her heart.
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