Chapter 236 Little Grass Emerges from Seclusion
Chapter 237 Peeping
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"Ah~~!" Dika cried out in pain, collapsing to the ground, curling up and trembling uncontrollably.
"Ugh! You disturbed my seclusion, I'll destroy you, you worm!" Little Grass's tone was somewhat angry. Lin Yao noticed the changes in his body. The love worm in his heart was wrapped by Little Grass's tentacles and was twisting its body desperately in a death struggle.
"Wait, Little Grass, wait a minute!" Lin Yao quickly used his mind to notify Little Grass. He noticed Dika's situation. Although he didn't understand why the worm's accident would affect Dika, this was not the time to test him. It would be bad if Dika got seriously injured. Looking at Dika's trembling body, it didn't seem fake. Something special must have happened.
"What's wrong, Yaoyao?" Xiaocao asked疑惑地, loosening her grip on the love bug. "How did you get poisoned? Who did it? Why won't you let me kill it?"
"Little Grass, this is a long story. Don't kill the bugs yet. Let's figure out what's going on first," Lin Yao hurriedly explained. "In short, I've been kidnapped and I'm waiting for you to come out of seclusion so we can escape together."
"Ah! You've been kidnapped?!" Little Grass exclaimed in disbelief. "How unlucky! I was in seclusion and you got kidnapped, and then this stinky bug disturbed me before I even came out, making me miss my best opportunity to improve. Stinky bug! Stinky bug!"
Seeing that Xiaocao was about to angrily kill the love bug again, Lin Yao could only continue to comfort her, "Don't worry about this bug for now. The person who released it won't pose a threat to me for the time being. Quickly think about how to escape. Were you seriously disturbed? Are you alright?"
"Okay, let's not kill this stinky bug for now." The little grass was still a bit resentful. This hard-won opportunity had been interrupted, which was really frustrating. "I'm fine. It's just that I wasted some time. It looks like the growth of the second leaf will be delayed for a while. I'll grow slowly."
"It's all that bug's fault! It's all Yi Fei's fault! Why didn't he protect you? It shouldn't be like this. Didn't that old man Yi say that there are very few Heaven-level experts in the world? People below the Heaven-level can't beat Yi Fei. Did a lot of Earth-level peak people come?" Xiao Cao shouted indignantly. She was still very angry and directly blamed Yi Fei.
“Well…” Lin Yao paused for a moment, “we can’t blame Yi Fei entirely.”
“You were in seclusion, Yi Fei was summoned to Beijing by the leader you used to protect, and at the same time, all the experts from the Yi family were visiting other powerful families, so we couldn’t contact them at all. So when so many coincidences happened, I was kidnapped.” Lin Yao’s tone was somewhat helpless. “I’ve analyzed it, and apart from the fact that your seclusion happened temporarily and no one else knew about it, everything else is very suspicious.”
"Perhaps the Yi family's visit was originally part of the normal plan, but it cannot be ruled out that there was something behind the scenes that made them send all their experts to visit several aristocratic families at once. It seems that they have reached a critical moment in something, and they can only gain the greatest benefit by acting together and rushing to achieve the expected results. I had these suspicions a few days ago."
"Then Yi Fei's matter is easier to explain. Perhaps someone in Zhongnanhai who has access to the leader secretly reminded him, making the leader suddenly miss Yi Fei. Then, through persuasion or other means, the leader made a decision to see Yi Fei immediately, so the order was issued, and it just so happened that all the experts of the Yi family were mobilized."
Lin Yao calmly analyzed the previous situation. By now, he had figured it out: behind every coincidence, there must be an inevitability. Even if nothing happened this time, something would definitely happen next time. He just hadn't expected to run into Xiao Cao in seclusion. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been completely helpless and forced to let them kidnap him.
“I’m currently being held captive in a Miao tribe in western Hunan. The location is in a primeval forest, but I don’t know the specifics.” Lin Yao saw that Xiao Cao was not making a sound, knowing that she was listening attentively. “The tribal chief here said that the old man who ordered my kidnapping said that someone had warned them beforehand and arranged for someone to stay in Chengdu for more than half a month. After they received another notification from the mastermind, they immediately kidnapped me, on the second day after you went into seclusion.”
"Analyzing all these things together, I think the biggest enemy is the force behind the Miao people. If those guys aren't brought to justice, there will never be peace in the future," Lin Yao concluded. "It's good that you're awake now. Let's go out first, and you can go into seclusion again after a while. Next time, I want Yi Dao to accompany me directly."
"You're useless. You don't even know how to improve your abilities." Little Grass spat out a curse, her tone full of apology. "Don't be angry, okay? I was just kidding. Yao Yao has cultivated to such a level in just a few months. He's already a genius among geniuses, and no one can compare to him. It's just that the time is too short, so of course he can't compare to those old monsters who have cultivated for decades. It's normal for him to suffer some losses. Don't be discouraged."
"Oh, okay, I won't be discouraged." Lin Yao was both amused and exasperated; this little grass was getting more and more unpredictable.
Lin Yao, who was chatting and reminiscing with Xiao Cao, was interrupted when a timid salesman tugged at his trouser leg, bringing him back to reality.
It's Dika, that poor little girl.
At this moment, Dika was prostrate at Lin Yao's feet, facing the direction of the temple. It was already the most courageous thing this little girl had to do to be able to distract Lin Yao during the sacrificial ceremony. Asking her to remind him again would be too much to ask.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yao was about to ask when he suddenly noticed another person crawling beside him. Upon closer inspection of the profile, he realized it was Ruoka, Dika's mother.
What is this...? Lin Yao didn't understand the reason. He thought that the Golden Card Clan Chief was going to punish the mother and daughter. He was about to raise his head to express his opinion when the scene in front of him made his eyes widen and his breath suddenly stop.
The entire square was filled with people, including those with gold cards, who were all prostrate on the ground, facing the direction of the temple in silence.
They began the ritual!
There were about six hundred people worshipping in the square, but Lin Yao, a living person, was standing there, looking particularly out of place.
Lin Yao felt a little embarrassed. In this situation, it seemed as if everyone was worshipping him, because he was originally standing very close to the front, with a dark mass of raised buttocks behind him, which looked like a large group of stone pillars of different colors, arranged in a staggered manner from a distance.
He had no choice but to accept it, even if it was embarrassing. Could he really just follow along and worship? That wouldn't do; Lin Yao hadn't even considered worshipping Chi You yet. But leaving now was also impossible; there were people everywhere, it was already crowded. Now, instead of standing, they were crawling, greatly increasing the area each person occupied. The ground was practically covered in buttocks—no, stone blocks—there wasn't even room to put their feet down. Leaving now meant passing over many people, and one wrong stepping on someone's hand.
Or, stepping on someone's butt.
This isn't good! Lin Yao simply continued standing and watching the spectacle. Everyone was devout at this moment, and no one would notice his unusual behavior. Even if they did, the great god Chi You would punish Lin Yao; it was none of the Miao people's business.
A faint sound, barely audible, rang out. Lin Yao examined it closely and discovered that it was Jin Ka, the charlatan, chanting. Jin Ka was still prostrate, and the sound coming from his mouth was directed towards the ground, making it very unclear.
As Jinka chanted the sutras, all the Miao people joined in the chanting. Voices of various characteristics rose in unison at a low frequency, creating waves in the square, as if forming a huge force field. The force field, constructed by voices and beliefs, felt very solemn and vast.
"Yaoyao, something's up!" Xiaocao suddenly interrupted Lin Yao's thoughts. "This ritual is strange. I feel a huge amount of energy underground ahead."
Lin Yao was startled. After Xiao Cao merged with Mother Earth, her perception of anything related to the earth was extremely acute. If she said something was wrong, then something was definitely wrong. He quickly calmed his mind and carefully released his senses to investigate.
“That withered old man in front, the energy is drawn from him.” Little Grass said as she continued operating. “Let’s explore together, so your senses don’t not reach far enough. Now my tentacles can reach 100 meters in all directions and 500 meters in one direction.”
Lin Yao did not show off. Upon hearing this, he immediately attached his senses to the roots of the grass and moved along the tendrils of the grass from his chest.
A faint energy emanated from Jin Ka's body, directed towards the statue of the great god Chi You in the temple. Nearby, the grass had already sprouted numerous tendrils, making it easier for Lin Yao to observe him.
The energy emanated from the very center of Jinka's chest. Based on this alone, it can be known that Jinka's cultivation method also belongs to the middle dantian cultivation method. It seems that they mainly cultivate the body, and the middle dantian is just right.
Many very faint energies connected to Jinka's chest from all directions. These weak and thin energy lines, as fine as hair, must have been emitted by the believers who were prostrate in the square. They were only practicing body tempering, so they did not have enough mysterious energy. Even when combined, their energy was not as concentrated as Jinka's.
The tendrils of the grass rejoined here, stretching along the energy beam of the golden card towards the temple, turning straight down from the position of Chi You's fifth leg, and rushing into the ground.
As the distance grew older and farther, the senses attached to the grass tendrils endured increasing pressure, and the mysterious power that had been felt from Kouka became more and more intense, its majesty and pressure exceeding Kouka's by tens of millions of times.
Lin Yao finally confirmed that the mysterious power he detected on Kou Ka was witch power. He already knew that Jin Ka was a Miao witch, and the strongest energy he released from his chest far exceeded the amount from the more than 600 Dai Ka people. This could only be explained by witch power.
The grass's progress became increasingly slow. There was a passage underground, filled with the aura and pressure of witchcraft, which hindered the grass's tendrils, as if they were probing into something extremely viscous, requiring a great deal of strength for each step forward.
Lin Yao was lazy and simply attached himself to the tendrils of the grass. He didn't need to expend much power, and even if he wanted to, he couldn't, because the distance had already exceeded the fifteen-meter range that he could control.