How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!

The Lord suddenly turned around, his eyes in the secret chamber, ghost-like and extremely eerie.

"Gu she entered the secret chamber, I wanted to enter to convey the Lord's orders, but unexpectedly, Gu she wasn't in the chamber at all, he's left the mountain!"

The Lord said, "Head to his ancestral home in Xi He province, observe in secret, but don't expose yourself. If anything unusual happens, kill him!"

"Yes!"

The emissary disappeared into thin air.

After the emissary left with orders, the chief strategist slowly emerged from the darkness: "Lord, I have a bad feeling."

"You're worried this was all orchestrated by Lin Xiaosu?"

"Yes! This person is best at catching subtle clues, if he's hiding in Gu she's ancestral home too, he might really find this place by following the trail." The chief strategist said, "I should have made the decision earlier, if I had executed Gu she immediately, his sinister plan would have been cut off."

The Lord gently shook his head: "It's uncuttable!"

"Uncuttable?"

"You can slay Gu she, but you can't slay Qing Yan!" The Lord said, "If he can trace me using the clues from Gu she, he can naturally have the same idea regarding Qing Yan. Qing Yan is currently in Kun Cang, you can't enter Kun Cang, but he can easily, he will find his way here sooner or later. The hard part has never been finding me, but realizing that I exist!"

The chief strategist's heart skipped a beat...

The difficulty has never been finding the Lord, but realizing the Lord's existence!

Others might not understand this, but he did.

In most people's dictionaries, the Venerable Hydra Snake Lord is John Chaispur.

The series of Hydra Snake biographies should have ended on Kney Island.

If that were true, the real Lord would drift beyond the focus of everyone.

However, indications show that Lin Xiaosu was not fooled by this camouflage.

He's already reached this understanding.

Reaching this understanding is the hardest part.

Once he has this recognition, he has an opportunity.

It can be seen from this Qianlong release that he has already made a move.

Currently facing Gu she.

Gu she was caught off guard.

Even if the Lord cuts off Gu she's trail, there's still a fallback, which is Qing Yan.

Moreover, Qing Yan is an anomaly, she cooperated with Lin Xiaosu across space...

She doesn't give the Lord a chance to cut her off, she's entered Kun Cang!

And Kun Cang, where the Lord once had infiltration opportunities, now has none.

The entrance to Kun Cang is controlled by Qianlong.

You can't get messages to people inside Kun Cang at all!

This situation in Kun Cang was actually orchestrated by Lin Xiaosu.

The grand scheme he laid out is gradually squeezing the Lord's operational space...

This chief strategist suddenly realized that, unknowingly, he was being completely overpowered by this uninvited strategist Lin Xiaosu.

The Lord chuckled lightly: "It doesn't matter! How can a tiny ant overturn the heavens?"

This light chuckle dissipated the boundless darkness before the chief strategist...

On Wushen Mountain, Lin Xiaosu crossed the boundary between the Inner and Outer Villages, facing the vast mountains.

The tea garden was quiet in this season, no birds sang, no insects chirped, and in the bleak autumn wind, a few tender leaves on the tea trees swayed in the chilling wind.

The mountain was unusually clear.

There was much less fog, making the mountains seem particularly distant.

Following the mountain road, the Miao Family members encountered along the way donned thick jackets.

After walking ten miles, there was a cliff ahead.

This was the Miao Family's Wangfu Cliff.

Today, perhaps it's Lin Xiaose's Wangqi Cliff.

Standing before the cliff, looking south is Tai Chong City beneath Wushen Mountain.

Looking north is the thousand-year-old Miao Village.

What is Yixiang doing at this moment?

This little girl went on a business trip, got a position, earns over ten thousand a month, lying flat, I come to make your idle life worthless!

With mischief bubbling, Lin Xiaosu's blood heated up, striding through the mountain road to the thousand-year-old Miao Village.

The small courtyard gate opened gently, and the unique aura belonging to the Miaojiang Witch God rushed over, what kind of aura?

A garden full of subtle fragrance.

Under this fragrance, insects and mice do not invade.

"Ah!" Suddenly, a soft exclamation came from the bamboo house above.

Thud thud thud...

A beautiful woman rushed out from the bamboo house, eager to jump straight down, but she turned direction, descended lightly from the ladder, and when she reached Lin Xiaosu, her face was already red: "Brother!"

Lin Xiaosu extended his hand, embraced her waist, and pressed his warm lips to hers.

"Ah, no!" Yixiang quickly turned her hand, pressing his lips: "Mother is coming back soon."

"Your mother just turned a corner, she will see me in a minute, we have time for a kiss..."

"Then keep track of time, hmm..."

This kiss lasted forty-five seconds, as Yixiang separated from him, she walked softly, unable to move, her alluring eyes like silk: "Bad brother, you're being naughty..."

Footsteps were heard outside the courtyard.

The two reached the courtyard gate and opened it.

The mother with a small basket on her back looked up and saw her daughter's face like a peach blossom and Lin Xiaosu's smiling face.

In the old lady's heart, flowers bloomed like wild chrysanthemums, layering upon layering in an instant.

"Auntie!"

"Little Su, when did you arrive?"

"Just now!"

"Yixiang, make tea for your brother..." Mother said, "I'll cook for you, just caught some small river fish, come take a look..."

In her basket, there were indeed small river fish and some plants Lin Xiaosu didn't recognize, which didn't seem like medicinal herbs.

Lin Xiaosu said, "This time of year, the water is cold. Auntie, you still go in the water?"

"No worries, I'm still in good shape!" Auntie laughed happily as she headed to the kitchen, turning back at the kitchen door: "Little Su, go sit upstairs in Yixiang's bamboo house, have a cup of tea. Down here is a mess, I haven't tidied up."

Yixiang was thrilled.

Allowing Lin Xiaosu to enter her bamboo house.

This was a request from Mother herself.

What does entering a bamboo house in the Miao Family mean?

It means entering a girl's bedroom.

Previously, even when she was clearly playing nonsense with her own brother in the guest room — sheets wet every day, her brother never set foot in her bamboo house under Mother's watchful eyes.

Now, it was justified.

"Brother, hold it, go up yourself!" Yixiang handed a teacup to Lin Xiaosu.

Lin Xiaosu handed the gift bag at his feet to Yixiang, then went up the bamboo house with the teacup.

This bamboo house was very unique.

Entirely made of bamboo, transparent from all sides.

In summer, it was naturally cool.

But in winter, it was quite cold.

However, the wisdom of ordinary people is everywhere, and the curtains on all four sides of the bamboo house are a testament to that wisdom.

The curtains are woven from three layers of hemp, coated with some kind of oil that wards off wind and rain. When lowered on winter nights, the transparent bamboo house turns into a warm little cabin.

At this moment, the sun had not completely set, and its warm light shone on the bamboo house. Lin Xiaosu sat by the tea table and saw a book.

This book was what Yixiang had been reading just now.

He arrived while Yixiang was reading this book.

The book was old, bound with thread.

Quite thick.

On the cover, two archaic characters: "Witchcraft".

He opened to the first page and felt a slight flutter in his heart...

"The way of Witchcraft, integrating the essence of ancient witchcraft, compiling the seventeen forms of Gu Technique, drawing on the wisdom of thirty-seven generations of ancestors, thus forming this book..."

The original text was in Chinese characters!

But below it was a Miao language translation.

This was her family heirloom, Lin Xiaosu just read a page and then stopped.

At the entrance of the bamboo house, Yixiang came upstairs, holding Little Hu, her cheeks flushed: "Little Hu said he wanted to come see Brother... isn't that right, Little Hu?"

She placed the little white cat, Little Hu, on the ground.

"Come! Little Hu!" Lin Xiaosu clapped his hands, making a gesture of embracing.

Little Hu turned around, showing its butt to Lin Xiaosu, even wiggling.

Yixiang was both crying and laughing.

Lin Xiaosu reached out directly, picking up Little Hu: "Why are you being so difficult? Come, let me see if you've gotten fatter!"

After rubbing its body, Little Hu rolled his eyes, too lazy to care about him.

After rubbing its head, Lin Xiaosu was a bit surprised: "How did you get a bump on your head?"

"I don't know how it happened!" Yixiang said, "A few days ago, this bump just suddenly appeared."

Not gone after several days?

Lin Xiaosu carefully touched it, and suddenly his heartbeat quickened…

This wasn't a bump!

There was a bone structure inside!

This was a horn!

Yixiang might not sense it, but he could; he felt that this horn about to break through the skin contained terrifying power, the kind of energy from the Otherworld he was very sensitive to.

Little Hu was about to evolve!

What does this mean?

It means its disguise as a little cat couldn't hide anymore, it was about to transform into the first Divine Beast "Huang Ji" from the Desolate Ancient Realm in this world.

But, this was quite illogical.

The evolution of an Exotic Beast isn't a simple process, nor is it something that can happen in a short period. The Huang Ji's lifespan usually spanned thousands of years, and its evolutionary ladder should be measured in decades or even centuries.

Why did it suddenly evolve?

Could it be that there had been disturbances on the side of Peacock Valley?

Had the energies of the Otherworld once again seeped through, providing the little creature with the environment needed for evolution?

"A few days ago? Did it go to Peacock Valley?"

"Yeah, that day I took it on a trip to Peacock Valley, it kept bumping into the stone wall where you engraved those inscriptions. It probably got the bump from hitting that wall." Yixiang lovingly petted its little head: "Learned a lesson, didn't you? Although you're brave, your head is made of flesh; if you crash it against stone, who else but you will end up with a bump?"

She scolded and lectured Little Hu.

Little Hu lowered his head, obediently accepting the lesson, not crying or making a fuss, being very well behaved.

Yixiang raised her gaze, looking at the book on the table: "Brother, want to read this book?"

"Is it okay? This is your family heirloom."

Halfway leaning out of the bamboo house, her mother busy in the kitchen, Yixiang's eyes turned to Lin Xiaosu: "Am I not a family heirloom too? Doesn't Brother handle and mess with me every day? I've already given myself to you, why be stingy with a book?"

"Sweetheart, you're too clear-headed, I'm head over heels for you!" Lin Xiaosu picked her up, placing her on his knee.

Yixiang giggled in his arms, dodging his ubiquitous playful hands, yet their reluctance turned into an inviting playfulness, until sensitive spots were teased, she feared she couldn't let go, forcing herself to escape and sit opposite him.

Lin Xiaosu chuckled lightly: "How's the retirement life treating you?"

"Retirement?" Yixiang giggled: "You know, it really does feel like retirement, reading books every day in the bamboo house, digging herbs on the mountain, with the Changsheng Group wiring me a salary on the 12th of every month, more than ten thousand a month. My sisters are dying of envy."

"Who wouldn't envy you? Everyone under the sun would be envious."

"Actually, I do have tasks! Really!"