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Chapter 727
Chapter 727
?Chapter 727: Chapter 322: Li Mingwu Reappears Chapter 727: Chapter 322: Li Mingwu Reappears Over a verdant sea surface, a black figure flew past.
As the black figure flew by, its speed was not very fast, and it didn’t even cause the slightest ripple.
Given its behavior, it seemed to be intentional.
Possibly to conceal something, or perhaps to avoid disturbing something.
Quickly,
the black figure stopped.
It turned out to be an elderly man clad in a black robe.
Now hovering in the air, the black-robed elder gazed down at the sea with furrowed brows.
“It’s really strange, recently, the Jade Soul Algae seems to be decreasing,” he muttered softly to himself as he eyed the sea below with a frown.
“It’s already the third time, and I haven’t encountered even one Jade Soul Algae; they seem to have all gone into hiding.”
“Could it be that the Soul Tomb is about to appear?”
After speaking, the black-robed elder stroked his chin and waited with knitted brows for a long while.
Only after a long time did the black-robed elder speak again:
“Forget it, let’s try one more time…”
“If I still can’t find any, then I’ll go back.”After saying this, the black-robed elder left once more.
This black-robed elder was, in fact, the Shopkeeper from the Drunken Soul Tavern we met before.
His purpose here was once again to capture Jade Soul Algae.
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After the black-robed elder left, he selected another spot.
Then, he took out an Ice Crystal Coffin and laid down inside.
After lying down, as usual, the black-robed elder paid no more mind and let the Ice Crystal Coffin free fall and sink to the sea bottom.
This time,
five days passed before the calm sea surface rippled again.
The black-robed elder, dragging the coffin, surfaced.
After emerging from the sea, the black-robed elder’s face was almost as dark as his robe.
Upon coming out, the black-robed elder promptly stored the Ice Crystal Coffin inside his Space Ring and leaped into midair.
He circulated his spiritual power to evaporate the moisture from his body.
The black-robed elder, gazing at the verdant sea surface, murmured:
“It’s truly bizarre.”
“In the past year, the Jade Soul Algae here seems to have become less and less for some reason.”
“Especially this time, I didn’t bump into a single one.
Have all the Jade Soul Algae here been captured, or”
“Or is it because the Soul Tomb is about to descend, and they’ve all gone into hiding?”
“I’ve been here for hundreds of years, and I’ve never encountered this situation before.”
“Something’s not right…”
The black-robed elder muttered to himself while looking down at the now calm sea surface once more.
After observing for a while, the black-robed elder sighed and softly said:
“Alas…”
“Perhaps the Soul Tomb is indeed about to emerge, making this place unsafe.”
“I’d better go back this time.”
After speaking, the black-robed elder took one long, penetrating look at the sea surface.
As if trying to see through the waters themselves.
After that glance, the black-robed elder promptly departed.
Long after the black-robed elder had left, without any sign, another figure emerged where he had been.
After appearing, this figure looked in the direction the black-robed elder had left and shook his head:
“Maybe the Soul Tomb is really about to emerge.”
“This time, I only managed to capture seven Jade Soul Algae.”
“It’s really…
far too few…”
The figure that appeared afterward was none other than Lin Jing.
After speaking, Lin Jing cast a deep look in the direction the black-robed cultivator departed, then turned and left in a different direction.
The black-robed elder left outward, because he couldn’t capture any Jade Soul Algae, so he had to leave.
Whereas Lin Jing left inward.
Because Lin Jing still had to capture more Jade Soul Algae.
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Two years had passed since Lin Jing parted ways with the Yan Family patriarch.
During these two years, the Yan Family patriarch had been relentlessly searching for Bai Yi’s whereabouts, returning only a few times.
Bai Yi had gone into hiding after deceiving the Yan Family patriarch and had not reappeared since.
The Yan Family patriarch was keen to find him but could not come up with any method to do so.
While the Yan Family patriarch kept searching for Bai Yi, Lin Jing continued to capture Jade Soul Algae while awaiting the emergence of the Soul Tomb.
It must be said, in capturing Jade Soul Algae, Lin Jing had a much higher success rate with the help of System Space than the black-robed elder did.
In just two years, Lin Jing had already captured over a hundred pieces of Jade Soul Algae.
Whether Lin Jing had exhausted the local supply of Jade Soul Algae remained uncertain.
Initially, each time Lin Jing emerged, he could find at least a dozen or twenty pieces,
but as the number of his outings increased, the number of Jade Soul Algae he could capture became fewer and fewer.
Especially this time.
Having been out for nearly two months now, Lin Jing had only managed to capture seven pieces of Jade Soul Algae.
Seven pieces, to Lin Jing, were not many.
With the aid of System Space, Lin Jing did not need to wait idly like the black-robed elder to capture Jade Soul Algae.
Lin Jing could use Observation Mode to monitor a vast area of sea containing Jade Soul Algae.
As soon as he detected any trace of Jade Soul Algae in Observation Mode, Lin Jing could immediately use Fixed Point Teleportation to transport himself next to the Jade Soul Algae and, upon capturing them, bring them into System Space.
This method of capture was efficient and fast,
and it even had a high success rate.
Thus,
it did not take long for Lin Jing to capture a significant amount of Jade Soul Algae.
As Lin Jing continued his relentless capture, the amount of Jade Soul Algae here dwindled and became increasingly difficult to capture.
The decline in Jade Soul Algae most greatly affected that black-robed elder.
In the beginning, the black-robed elder occasionally managed to capture a few, but as time went on, the number of Jade Soul Algae he captured became less and less.