ninety thousand miles

Chapter 502 Moving
It's a soul-eater.

So many soul-eaters!

It was the first time that Li Chuan saw so many spirit-eating creatures. Even though he knew they had no parasitic abilities and it would be difficult for them to assimilate him with the presence of Taoist priests Wen and Yao, he still got goose bumps all over his body.

He looked outside the bubble.

In the darkness, the soul devourers were crowded together to form large overlapping gray shadows. Li Chuan looked into them, and in his field of vision, these shadows gradually began to decompose, revealing their most essential structure.

When he was in the capital, he had carefully studied the structure of the Soul Devourer, and apart from realizing that it was of the same origin as the White Walkers, he had not gained anything else. When he looked at it again this time, he noticed something different - the structure of the Soul Devourer had not changed, but after they gathered together, they seemed to be connected into a network, and...

Li Chuan became more and more focused.

Wen Guying noticed the change in Li Chuan, and said to Yao Shuang: "Senior Sister Yao, stop for a moment, Brother Li may have discovered something."

Yao Shuang nodded, and the bubbles stopped.

Li Chuan was completely immersed in it.

The net was very large, and he could see as far as his eyes could reach, but he still couldn't reach the end of the net. If he rubbed the Tianyin pot, maybe he could follow the sound of the pot and see farther. But he didn't plan to do that for the time being. He planned to fix a small piece first and find out how the souls were connected.

As he thought this, his eyes focused on the small piece of web near the edge of the bubble.

Each Soul Eater is a node on the Internet.

Why connect to a network?

Wait a minute... Li Chuan suddenly discovered that the Devouring Soul on that small piece of the web had changed. It wasn't that the Devouring Soul had changed, but that another Devouring Soul had replaced it...

Nodes will change.

Moreover, this movement was not a sudden disappearance and reappearance. The change in the Soul Devourer's position was not through movement, but rather it just swapped positions without reason.

Thinking of this, Li Chuan took out the Tianyin pot and rubbed it.

The sound of the kettle spread in the shadows.

Sure enough, he seemed to be able to see farther, but Li Chuan was still focused on that small piece. He carefully controlled the sound of the kettle, keeping that small piece of net within the ups and downs of the kettle sound, and then he slowly waited, waiting for the Soul Devourer to disappear and appear again, he wanted to capture that moment.

Changed again.

……

Wen Guying saw Li Chuan put down the Tianyin pot with a look of disbelief on his face.

Wen Gu should ask: "What's wrong? What did you see?"

"I, I..." Li Chuan calmed himself down, came out of his mysterious state, looked at Wen Guying, and said, "Master Wen, do you remember what I told you about the jelly-like bugs in the strange rocks in the secret realm of Xuanshui Mountain?"

"I remember." Wen Guying said.

"Did you see him the last time you went there?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Guying said: "No."

"I saw that the soul-devouring creatures here are connected into a network. I tried to find the secret of their connection. This way, I might be able to completely break through this darkness, but..." Li Chuan organized his words and said, "I feel that there is a consciousness in that network. It may not be considered consciousness, and it does not have thoughts, but it has some reactions..."

"Can you catch it?" Wen Guying asked. "No, and those soul-eating creatures are constantly changing positions. I don't know why, and whether it has anything to do with the consciousness, but..." Li Chuan tried his best to describe it accurately, "They change positions point to point, teleporting. Just like... the jelly worms in Xuanshui Mountain, there is no automatic track."

"You mean, jelly worms are also White Walkers?" Wen Guying asked.

"I didn't know. I hadn't experienced what happened in Lower Lam Tsuen at that time and I didn't understand anything," said Li Chuan.

"After we get out, let's go to Xuanshui Mountain together." Wen Guying said. He asked, "Besides these, have you found anything else?"

Li Chuan shook his head and said, "I think this place must be destroyed."

"Let's go to the ferry first," Wen Guying said, motioning Yao Shuang to continue forward. He said, "After we deal with the ferry, we can return here... Besides this place, there is also Jiang Lei, who can't be let go."

He looked up and said to Yao Shuang, "Senior Sister Yao, let's go."

The bubble moved again, and soon passed through the darkness. Then it began to shrink, becoming smaller and smaller. Before they knew it, Yao Shuang was standing not far in front of them.

The bubble is no longer transparent, and its boundaries become dark and blurred.

When Li Chuan was about to ask, Wen Guying started to explain: "We are going up. There are many traps on this road. Senior Sister Yao is trying her best to dig them out."

"It would be great if I could do this as well." Jiang Bai was very envious, "I wouldn't be trapped here for so long."

Wen Guying said: "After your cultivation level increases, you will have more choices in the magic you can use. If you had even one tenth of your brother's cultivation level, you wouldn't be trapped here."

Jiang Bai said, "Brother Wen, are you willing to accept me as the Four Gods Palace? I can be an outer disciple."

"What are you going to do?" Wen Guying asked.

Jiang Bai said: "If there is a sect that is willing to accept me, I will definitely practice hard."

Wen Guying said: "Who dares to want you?"

"That's the problem," said Jiang Bai.

"Can't you be a casual cultivator?" Li Chuan asked after listening to their conversation, "If you don't want to practice Qingzong's techniques, then why don't you just be a casual cultivator?"

"No." Jiang Bai shook his head and said, "It's not a problem of lack of skills, but in order to practice the Qing Sect's secrets, my body was transformed by the Qing Sect's secrets before I was born. After I was born, for about thirty years, I have been preparing to receive the inheritance. Therefore, if I want to change to another skill, I need a great master to completely destroy the foundation of my previous cultivation, and then use elixirs to reshape my body. And it has to be a sect like the Four Heavenly Mysteries, otherwise, the Qing Sect will definitely cause trouble."

"This. That..." Li Chuan advised: "As long as the martial arts moves are useful, it's fine. As for whether they look good or not..."

"It's not that problem. It's just too disgusting. It's really too disgusting." Jiang Bai shook his head and said, "I'd better be an ordinary person and have some peace and quiet."

Seeing that Jiang Bai didn't want to talk about this anymore, Li Chuan changed the subject and asked, "How long do we have left? Do you know where we are?"

Jiang Bai looked outside the bubble and said, "We're almost there."

As soon as Jiang Bai finished speaking, Li Chuan felt the bubble bump again. The black shovel rotated along the bubble and returned to Yao Shuang's hand.

Then Li Chuan felt that they were rising rapidly. Soon, the boundary of the bubble became transparent again and the light in front of his eyes began to brighten.

"We're here." Wen Guying said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)