God Of Immortals

Chapter 68: Adventurers Or Death-Seekers? [II]

But Lin Cheung and Lin DaXia had no intention of bringing any senior anyway. They had already planned it out.

He checked his items again before departing his room. He arrived at the gate to find the siblings were already there, waiting. Did they even sleep at all?

"Hello, DaXia, Cheung."

"Hello, Feng."

"You came earlier than me. I hope I didn't keep you waiting for long. Where's Yingjie?"

Ju Feng looking around for the lightning disciple. He had told the twins about Fu Yingjie joining their adventure group and they had accepted, reluctantly. 

"Your friend's yet to arrive."

"Well, we still have ample time for him to be here."

"You see why we came early? So we don't keep you all waiting."

Few minutes after that, Yingjie rushed over to them using the flashsteps.

"Hello Feng, Daxia, Cheung. Sorry for the delay. Got caught up in some things. All good now."

He looked at them apologetically.

"Don't worry, we are still on time."

They quickly arranged themselves and headed towards the gates. They came to the gates and Cheung showed the acolytes the level three token showing he was a senior disciple. The token he had bought from one of his sources. They were ushered through the sect identity array that confirmed they were true disciples of the sect before they were allowed to go outside.

Once outside, Lin Cheung brought out the map, checked it again and pointed to his far right.

"That direction will take us to JinJin village according to the map."

"This is it. Everybody be watchful and be careful."

"You need to stay closer to us and move swiftly. We can find the ways."

"True. We don't know what's out there."

"Okay, let's go."

Fairly equipped, the four young cultivators embarked on a journey to find the Forsaken Palace. The dimensional palace of the ancient Jade emperor Wan Bao. All the four of them had entered the gates of the Zhuji stage, but only one had become a full premier. 

Their journey at the beginning was easily planned. They would move rapidly with flashsteps, slowedown for few minutes and take off again. And they were doing like that for few hours before coming to a clearing where they found another group of kids around their age. Three of them were struggling with some things in the clearing while the fourth one, a girl, was crouching at the side looking worried. They stopped when they saw the kids and heard the voice of the girl in a low tone.

"Stop. Don't come any closer. We don't want you scuppering our efforts."

The four of them cautiously approached the other kids. DaXia lowered her voice too.

"We need to pass through the clearing." 

The other kids looked at them before one of them asked.

"And why's that?"

"We're going to JinJin village."

The kids shook their heads and started laughing quietly.

"JinJin? And why do you want to pass through here to JinJin?"

"And why not?"

Lin Da Xia asked in anger.

The girl among the other kids shook her head staring at them.

"After this clearing, is the shivering river of Eleros, which you don't want to enter. The river will take you to the Akeros wolf creek where you will find the Akeros wolves which you don't want to do. Why do you want to do that when you can take the normal road?" 

"What normal road?" 

"You don't even know the normal road to the village, yet you want to go? Isn't that foolishness?"

"Foolishness your head. We can take any way we want."

"Satisfy yourselves."

"Calm down DaXia."

Chenric said to his sister before addressing the other kids.

"Can you show us the way?"

"Of course. But you need to help us first, then we'll show you the way. We'll even take you half-way."

"How can we help you?"

"We are trapping the Eddaros hare. Help us to catch it."

"Why should we do that?"

Lin Da Xia asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You don't know about the Eddaros hare?"

The other girl asked them in disbelief.

"No, we don't. What's with the hare anyway?"

Ju Feng threw in his questions. But before he could get an answer, Lin Da Xia was already moving towards the clearing. 

"Sorry, we're not interested. Thanks for the offer, but we'll like to be on our way."

"Okay, wait."

One of the boys gestured for them to stop.

"Eddaros hares have nine golden crystals inside them." 

"Nine mythic crystals."

One of the other kids added, receiving intense stares from Lin Da Xia and Lin Cheung.

"How do you know there's a magical hare with nine golden crystals?"

"Yes, how do you know and the others don't know?"

"One day, we over-heard some hunters talking about it. Then, we started tracking the hare ourselves. For four months we were doing that with little sleep. We tracked its movement. How it appears and when it appears. We saw it appeared two times. Do you know when? Half solar alignment at a place filled with a particular lucent spirit grass and the honey bud seeds. We spent one month gathering the items and we planted them here early this morning. Going by the past events, the hare should be appearing very soon."

"Wow, you did all that?" 

"Yes."

"That's insane."

"But how do you intend to catch it?"

"Xuan Tu here, has a space lock talisman that needed seven people, not including the shooter. That's why we're struggling to make a way. We're thinking of taking a risk when the hare appears. Before he activate it, six of us with these empty spirit tablets need to be at the six points we already marked. When he activate the talisman, we need to infuse the stones with Chi just enough to hold the hare in place for Shi Xiang to shoot her arrow. And that's it."

"Hmm. Give us a minute."

The four of them put heads together and delibrated on the matter. After a time, they all agreed to help the other kids as long as they get something from it. Although Lin DaXia prefered them to be on their way.

"Apart from showing us the road to JinJin village, what else do we get from it if we help you?"