The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 297 - 180: Acquiring the Moonlight Cup
The stone cave was enshrouded in darkness; the Moonlight Cup, not touched by moonlight, naturally failed to produce any spiritual dew. She reached out and poked around, finding that the Barrier was still there.
It’s okay, there are still five days left, Granny can wait!
She had a sweet and sound sleep, and when she woke up, she felt refreshed. As she lazily stretched and walked down the mountain, she realized that Tu Jin had run off to who knows where. She waited for more than a whole two hours before seeing him come back up the Heavenly Ladder.
"Where did you go?" She rubbed her eyes and asked.
"From the time you went in with your items, twenty two hours have passed." He couldn’t help but add, "Did your method work?"
"I don’t know."
His expression looked somewhat frantic: "You don’t know?!"
She spread her hands and sincerely said: "I am a mortal, I can’t break the Barrier with brute force, of course I can only resort to grinding away at it. Whether I can break the Barrier or not, I would have to wait a few more days to find out."
Breaking a Barrier, it was Granny’s first time doing such a thing, and the opponent was an Immortal Sect great power who had passed away who knows how many years ago. That she could come up with a method at all was quite remarkable!
Tu Jin’s eyes shimmered, only after a long pause did he say: "It better work."
At this point, how could she not know that this person desperately needed her to break the Barrier, thinking of ambushing and robbing her of the Moonlight Cup later? Anyway, this person was not being honest; he initially claimed "If I wanted this cup, would I need to wait my turn for you?" In the end, he could not get it himself and was willing to do her this favor.
These past few days, she intended to fully regain her strength. Once the Barrier breaks, she would grab the cup and run, to see if he could catch up!
She rolled her eyes: "You still haven’t answered me, what were you just up to?"
A strange smile appeared on Tu Jin’s face: "I was buying you time."
Buying me time? What kind of answer is that?
Ning Xiaoxian walked slowly down the Heavenly Ladder and out of the Great Barrier, immediately she heard an earth-shattering uproar!
The forest below was no longer tranquil; she heard countless people’s angry shouts, cries, and the sound of trees breaking. Of course, the clearest and most powerful of all the sounds was the sharp roar of the giant beast from the North she had heard two days before!
Originally, it was very imposing even when heard from hundreds of miles away, but now this roar seemed to be coming right from under her feet. The beast’s roar resembled a loudspeaker, its long cry could travel very far. It seemed to be right below the cliff; as it roared, her ears buzzed.
She strained her eyesight and looked towards the forest, indeed, there was a giant creature moving rapidly through it, flattening trees and people alike as if a bulldozer had passed by.
"Is this... a Mammoth?" The big fellow was probably over fifteen meters tall, wrapped in thick mud, and appearing in the dark of night. If not for the characteristic long trunk and huge curved tusks, she wouldn’t have recognized what it was.
Any somewhat sensible person wouldn’t provoke a monster of this size and weight, right?!
Fortunately, the big fellow didn’t seem to think about climbing the cliff, so she was still safe for the moment. Tu Jin also came to her side to watch the excitement.
She glared at him: "The Mammoth, you lured it here, didn’t you?"
"Not lured here." He corrected, "I made it run a few more laps around the entire secret realm."
"Have you gone mad?!" Why does this sound so familiar?
"If not for this, how could I buy you time?" It was his turn to shrug, "If they find the fourth and fifth Treasures, the secret realm would close. You and I would have no time left to wait for that strategy to work."
This guy, in order to get his hands on the Moonlight Cup, did not hesitate to lead a giant elephant to trample over many lives! Recalling how he used to kill people with nonchalance as if slaughtering chickens, she heightened her vigilance even more.
Tu Jin seemed to know what she was thinking, and chuckled: "Don’t worry, I’m not competing with you for the cup." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
He brought her to search for treasures again, helped her collect things, and even spared no effort to get his hands bloody, all just out of pure altruism to voluntarily help? Why doesn’t she believe it?
Ignoring her skeptical gaze, Tu Jin furrowed his brows and drew his Longsword: "Someone’s coming."
Indeed, seven or eight people were sprinting towards the cliff. Anyone who could enter the secret realm to search for treasures was no fool; seeing the giant beast rampaging at the foot of the mountain, they naturally sought refuge up the mountain. The peak was narrow, and the giant elephant, large in size, might not be able to climb it, making it a safe haven.
Indeed, the Mammoth roared a few times toward this place and then turned to chase other unfortunate souls. The people breathed a sigh of relief and then saw a man and a woman sitting at the edge of the cliff. The man looked pale and thin, malnourished; the woman, although not pretty, had a good figure, curvaceous where it counted.
