Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 979 - 839: Picking Up the Leftovers

Hearing this, Ling Di immediately perked up, "No! We absolutely can’t let them die; quickly tell me their exact location!"

The two Demon Cultivators that escaped—one of them, for some reason, had a death wish and offended Bai Yunqi. The master is furious and wants them dead; the other is a genius in Cultivation of Space Technique. If we can take advantage of their weakness and bring them into the courtyard, hehehe...

Last night’s banquet was a jubilant affair for everyone. I missed the last Flood Dragon Banquet, but I know that eating too many good things can make cultivators with lower Realms easily get Drunken Spiritual Energy, so I had prepared beforehand.

By now, the sky was already bright. The doors to each room in the treasure ship and house were tightly shut, and the courtyard was extremely quiet, clearly indicating that they were still asleep.

Ling Di couldn’t sense the master’s presence and wondered what he was busy with again. So he had to trot over to find Yan Xuan.

"Who exactly are we supposed to capture, necessitating such a big spectacle?" Yan Xuan was quite shocked; it required deploying two Tribulation Crossing Realm experts!

Wouldn’t it be safest to call the master as well?

"No, no, no, let’s catch them and give the master a surprise," Old Dog sneakily chuckled, "Firstly, we need to catch them alive, and both of us going together will give us more certainty; secondly, the Demon Cultivators chasing them are quite formidable, with two or three Mahayana Realm experts carrying Divine Artifacts. Woof! Aren’t I just ensuring the odds?"

Yan Xuan’s eyes grew even brighter, with Mahayana Realm experts moving out and using Divine Artifacts; it clearly showed how valuable the hunted target was.

This kind of snatching operation, he liked!

Bringing something back to please the master, he liked even more!

Meanwhile, in an unknown, remote small world. Jiu Mu and Jiu Qing, both scarred and gasping for breath, were hiding in a treasure gourd as transparent as crystal, gazing at the two terrifyingly strong pursuers, their hearts in their throats.

"Face the wind!" A sharp, white bony head poked out from the whirlwind, mocking, "With one Integration Realm and one mere Demon Spirit Realm Demon Cultivator, did you really think your little tricks were enough to escape my pursuit?"

He spoke lightly, but in fact, his ability to hunt them again relied entirely on running back to ask the Great Lord for help, obtaining a Divine Artifact to forcibly lock onto them and drag them from spatial turbulence.

The price paid for this was that this Divine Artifact could not be activated for a year.

Thanks to good luck all around—the two of them weren’t torn to pieces by the turbulence but floated to the edge where space could be torn, allowing them to be locked and forcibly dragged out. Otherwise, even a Divine Artifact would be helpless against mysterious spatial turbulence; as for himself, his timely decision to seek help prevented their escape.

However, to search for the whereabouts of three Divine Artifacts and almost sacrifice one, Lord Ji Feng had to get useful clues this time!

"Really? Lord Ji Feng, so confident?" Jiu Mu trembled inside, but unwilling to lose face, coldly laughed, "Then why not come catch us, huh?

Ha, don’t think I don’t know, that ’Flying Claw’ you’re using is a Divine Artifact refined by the Lord Demon King. I was there when it was successfully refined, and I’m very familiar with it. Forcibly using it to drag people from spatial turbulence makes it unusable for a long time, right?"

Jiu Qing silently operated his Cultivation Technique, gathering strength with all his might, unsure of how long this treasure gourd could hold. Before it gets broken, even a slight recovery would allow them to tear open space to escape again.

Isn’t it just jumping into spatial turbulence, jumping back and forth has made it numb already.

He seriously contemplated that once the space was torn open, he’d jump in, at least to save some energy. But if the barrier upheld by the treasure gourd was broken before they recovered...

"Did I hit the mark?" Jiu Mu, hearing the muffled sounds of impact, went all out and sneered, "What a coincidence; this beautiful treasure gourd is also personally refined by the Lord Demon King. Do you guess who will break it first, or will we recover strength to escape first?"

The other Mahayana Realm helper was a Demon Giant, looking honest and simple, a new face that even Jiu Mu hadn’t seen before. He was diligently smashing the three-meter-tall, glowing treasure gourd, with such tremendous force that his fists were slightly bleeding.

Despite this, he didn’t stop for a moment, seemingly wanting to test the defense of a Top Quality Magical Treasure refined by the Lord Demon King with his sturdy body honed through arduous cultivation.

"Bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The punches and wind blades relentlessly poured onto the barrier, making the two’s hearts also pound in their chests.

"How long do you think they could be trapped in the Pagoda if we stash them both inside?"

"It’s just a damaged Divine Artifact, and you haven’t truly refined it. Even a self-exploding White Snake Demon could cause severe damage; these two Mahayana Realm experts together—it would be a miracle if they can be held, let alone if the Pagoda just gets wasted."

"I hope your treasure gourd can hold a bit longer. Once I recover some strength, we’ll run! The Pagoda can withstand spatial turbulence a couple of times, there’s still a chance."

"Yeah, if we’re lucky enough to rip space open and escape, we can use the treasure gourd to mask the Pagoda’s aura and completely vanish without a trace..."

"Crack!"

The two were trying to find the best solution with the least loss amid the crisis.

Then, a faint cracking sound interrupted their whispering and the rising hope in their hearts—the treasure gourd had developed a crack under the intense attack!

Jiu Qing looked at the crack and bitterly smiled, "Looks like our good luck ran out for today; let’s get ready to fight for our lives."

After a pause, he murmured in an extremely low voice, "If we can’t, we’ll self-destruct; we mustn’t fall into their hands."

Exhausted beyond measure, Jiu Mu truly had no combat ability left. She supported the other to stand up, softly saying, "Can you still run? If you can’t, before the barrier breaks, bring out the Pagoda and take all three of us inside. Once in the Pagoda, I’ll randomly choose one to self-destruct, at least to delay them."