Chapter 243: Chapter 106: Mysterious Force, Prince Qing Returns Home
Great Yin Northern Lands, Yunzhou.
Li Xuan weighed the gold brick, deep in thought.
Where there’s mystery, there’s always a story.
Especially with so many ox carts loaded with gold.
Li Xuan’s gaze swept over the ox carts and the drivers.
There were nine ox carts in total, and if they were all loaded with gold, it would be no less than over a hundred thousand taels. What were they planning to do with so much gold?
As for the drivers, Li Xuan immediately saw that secret martial artists were among them. One who can transport such wealth near Great Yin’s military would likely be either with the court or the Wang family. Why would the Wang family do this?
Li Xuan thought for a long time but couldn’t come up with an answer.
However, he didn’t have the energy to continuously follow these ox carts to see the outcome, so he bent down to pick up twelve small stones and gently rubbed them in his palm.
As he explored them, the twelve small stones suddenly became extraordinary. Li Xuan split several strands of incense and candle path, which he sent into the nine chests and three carriages.
After his spirit attribute reached 190, he could plant "mental seeds." Once an object was planted with a "mental seed," it could transform into his eyes and ears.
After completing this, Li Xuan recalled the ice crystal ore map he secretly spied on at Empress Dowager Wang’s place in the royal city, determined the location, and quickly arrived at a nearby forest.
In his shimmering four-unit blood gauge, "rotting Buddha corpse rat" and "mutant monkey" were basically standard as he used the two demon techniques, "incense fire divine realm" and "illusion skill dummy," every day. These two demon techniques were basically regularly placed in units three and four.
The remaining two units were adjusted as needed, and the first unit was not lightly placed with magical blood because once the magical blood of the same attribute was put down, it might cause a qualitative change.
At this moment, he directly injected the magical blood of the "mist-hiding uncanny leopard" into his body, placing it in the second unit.
Nowadays, Li Xuan’s body shape doesn’t change much because the agility points increased by the "mist-hiding uncanny leopard" are only 10 points, which are relatively limited compared to his own.
However, although the points are few, the {exhale smoke} demon technique upgrades as Li Xuan’s spirit attribute improves.
Initially, mist only formed in winter and was useless in summer.
As the spirit attribute increased, the mist range expanded, eventually extending to areas as large as a county.
Later, after his spirit attribute exceeded 90, Li Xuan seriously tested it again, and this time he discovered a key change even though the {exhale smoke} range didn’t continue expanding. He could now ignore weather conditions; even in a sunny summer, a single exhale would produce mist that wouldn’t easily dissipate.
Now, his regular spirit attribute reached 280, and combined with the permanently equipped "mutant monkey" magical blood, the spirit attribute was 294, which evidently caused his {exhale smoke} demon technique to evolve again.
Through several tests, Li Xuan’s preliminary conclusion was that he could continuously alter the local weather, making it more prone to fog.
Currently, he looked at the military town in the distance, seeing the clear autumn sky, and wasn’t in a hurry to act. He simply sat aside, waiting patiently.
The ice crystal ore was in the center of this military town.
It was an underground mine, similar to a coal mine.
If it weren’t for Li Xuan’s incense burning having already reached the royal city, where he secretly heard many core confidential conversations, he wouldn’t have imagined the "ice crystal mine" was actually an underground mine.
To enter the ice crystal mine, he needed to infiltrate the military town ahead.
Though this military town in Yunzhou seemed insignificant, its interior housed many elite troops and numerous mechanisms.
Li Xuan didn’t plan to burn incense; a white rainbow through the sky, like that, others would instantly know that Buddha had arrived.
Buddha focused on collecting incense; he wouldn’t do such things.
Thus, he planned to create fog first and then infiltrate.
However, he didn’t intend to create fog now.
A moment ago, when the autumn was clear and crisp, suddenly creating fog would be suspicious.
If waiting could save a lot of trouble, Li Xuan was always happy to wait.
Thus, he patiently waited until evening.
As it grew late, although there wasn’t a hint of fog, nightfall mist was much better than during the day.
Li Xuan stood up, took a deep breath, and exhaled a pale mist sphere.
This mist condensed to the extreme, forming a dense ice orb!
The ice orb scattered with the wind, as if tossing a super-dense dry ice into water, then rushed its roots into the surrounding land, swiftly attaching to nearby trees.
Li Xuan continued to exhale mist spheres...
Between heaven and earth, white mist ascended, making visions increasingly blurred.
This blurring was continuous, happening frequently. Even if this military town’s air was incredibly dry, it was feared that it would often fog in the coming days.
Suddenly, a flurry of sounds came from the military town.
"Is it foggy?"
"Why is the fog forming?"
"This fog is so thick."
"Everyone, stay alert!"
"Second squad, come out and reinforce the defenses!"
"People in the ice mine, come out first. Enter the mine after the fog clears, and guard the mine entrance."
...
After a while.
The miners digging the mine fled from the thick fog, returning to the camp to rest, waiting for the mist to disperse.
As soldiers guarded the mine in front of the fog so thick they couldn’t see their fingers, one couldn’t help yawning. As night grew quieter, suddenly, this soldier felt a breeze brush past him but didn’t sense anyone. He instinctively looked left and right, then stopped caring.
