Reincarnated As a Fox With System

Chapter 991 Sudden Bad News!

”Eh, what? Bad news? For me?!” Tang Li Xue asked Lightning Guardian in a shocked tone while pointing her slender finger at herself.

Lightning Guardian rolled its eyes and replied: ”Of course, the bad news is for you! Those people outside must have followed your traces until they could get here.”

”Those people followed my traces?” Tang Li Xue muttered and frowned deeply.

Lightning Guardian waved its paw impatiently to drive away Tang Li Xue and her team as it said: ”Anyway, you better not retrieve this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda], or you would get ambushed by those people outside. Just go to the Wind Floor and ask Wind Guardian about them first. Something like spying on the enemies is its expertise.”

Tang Li Xue nodded her head at Lightning Guardian and bid her farewell before she led her team to the third floor of [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda], Wind Floor.

”Hey yoyoyo~! Congratulations on becoming our new master, but if you cannot solve this trouble, then you might not be our master for long, hehehe.” Wind Guardian landed on the top of Tang Li Xueʼs head and spoke to her in a gloating manner.

Tang Li Xueʼs pink lips twitched slightly in annoyance at Wind Guardianʼs words, then she snorted back: ”Oh, then you better pray that I can become your master for long because your shabby [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] still needs new nine highest-grade Formation Cores.”

Wind Guardian instantly became speechless by Tang Li Xueʼs reply, but it quickly shifted the topic back to the main problem.

The surrounding scenery on the Wind Floor changed to the scenery outside the [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda].

”This is the scene I record when those people enter the secret cave.” Wind Guardian told Tang Li Xue.

When Tang Li Xue and her team saw more than a dozen people in black robes enter the secret cave, they immediately recognized these peopleʼs identity from the patterns on their black robes.

ʼThese peopleʼs outfit... They should be from Yama Palace! But how could they track us here?!” Tang Li Xue exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

Then Tang Li Xue realized that one of those people from Yama Palace was holding a burned incense stick in his hands, and they followed the incense stickʼs smoke, which led to this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda].

”They actually track us using that incense?” Tang Li Xue muttered in surprise.

”That is ʼKarma Incenseʼ. It seems you have killed someone close to them recently, so they used that ʼKarma Incenseʼ to track you down based on the karma you forged after you killed their people.” Wind Guardian explained to Tang Li Xue.

Tang Li Xue frowned deeply as she replied in an unconvinced tone: ”Oh, wait a minute... But I have [Heaven Covering Necklace]. The effect of [Heaven Covering Protection] should be able to shield me from any divination, mind-reading, or investigation abilities, so how could they still use that ʼKarma Incenseʼ to find me?!”

”Wow, you actually have such a great protective treasure~!” Wind Guardian exclaimed in awe.

However, Wind Guardian stated again: ”You are right. Those people should not be able to track you down if you wear that great protective treasure. Then the problem should be somewhere between these two. Either your great protective treasure has already expired, or their tracking target is actually not you, but someone close to you instead.”

Tang Li Xue: ”?!”

Tang Li Xue slapped her forehead after she was enlightened by the Wind Guardianʼs statement.

Yes, Tang Li Xue did not even touch anyone from Yama Palace before!

The ones who killed the people from Yama Palace were actually Xiʼer and the others!

The people from Yama Palace should be tracking Xiʼer and the others, not Tang Li Xue herself!

Unfortunately, Tang Li Xueʼs [Heaven Covering Protection] could only protect herself from any divination, mind-reading, or investigation abilities, not her entire team.

”Does it mean the others can still use something like divination or investigation abilities on Xiʼer and the others to track me down? This is really troublesome!” Tang Li Xue groaned in frustration.

Just when Tang Li Xue had a great headache and felt frustrated by that problem, the people from Yama Palace who were shown by the scenes recorded on the Wind Floor finally reached the [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda].

When they read the stone monument written by Grandmaster Nie Jun in front of the [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda], they immediately became very excited.

”Grandmaster Nie Junʼs Immortal Treasure, [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda]?! Hahahahaha~! We did it! We finally found it!” The people from Yama Palace shouted and laughed cheerfully.

But the group leader of the Yama Palace looked even more solemn instead as he warned the others in a stern tone: ”Donʼt be too happy yet. Since we have not seen the person who has robbed our treasure mapʼs fragment, it means that person has already entered the [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] first.”

The group leaderʼs words quickly awakened the Yama Palaceʼs people from their excitement.

”This... Then what should we do? The monument said that there is only one person who can enter the pagoda, so we cannot enter the pagoda until that person is kicked out.” One of the people from Yama Palace asked in a worried tone.

The group leader smiled at them and explained his plan: ”Donʼt worry. No matter whether that person succeeds or not in obtaining this pagoda, we just need to ambush him the moment he comes out of the pagoda.”

The other people from Yama Palace nodded with a joyous expression as they replied: ”That is right! This [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] is fated to belong to us, Yama Palace!”

The group leader chuckled as he instructed everyone: ”We do not know yet if the person inside has any hidden tricks to get away from us later, so it would be better if we prepare to face him earlier. Letʼs set trapping and killing formations around this cave to make sure that person will never leave this place alive.”

”Understood, leader Long~!” The people from Yama Palace yelled as they took the formation flags and materials from their spatial rings, then began to set various formations in the cave.

Tang Li Xue, who had seen everything from inside the Wind Floor, cursed them unhappily: ”Those Yama Palaceʼs people are so damn shameless! There are already so many of them, and they still want to set formations and traps for us!”

Xiʼer, Lucia, Little Loki, and Yaya nodded in agreement with unhappy expressions.

”The cultivation of those people from Yama Palace is very strong. All of them should be at the Nascent Soul Stage. Especially their leader, he should be at the Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Stage. He might not even be weaker than the last guy we faced in Yin Burial Ground before.” Xiʼer expressed her estimation of the strength of their opponents to Tang Li Xue.

Xiʼer actually wanted to say that they might not have a high chance of winning if they tried to fight head-on against those Yama Palaceʼs people, not to mention that those people had already prepared so many traps and formations to face them now.

Previously in Yin Burial Ground, they were almost beaten by Chief Head Chi alone in a situation of 4 versus 1. (Little Loki was still sleeping deeply to digest everything it had eaten at that time, so it was only Tang Li Xue, Xiʼer, Yaya, and Lucia who fought against Chief Head Chi.)

If not for Tang Li Xueʼs [Soul Slaying Sword] that played an extremely crucial role in turning the tables, they all might have already been defeated by Chief Head Chi at that time.

Of course, there were also many stone puppet soldiers in the hall that made them busy during that time, but the combat power of those stone puppet soldiers clearly could not be compared to these Yama Palaceʼs Nascent Soul Masters.

Tang Li Xue understood it very well, so she did not dare to make any rash moves.

”Can we just drive this entire [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] to get out of this cave and escape from those people?” Tang Li Xue tried to ask Wind Guardian.

Wind Guardian nodded its head, then it shook its head, which made Tang Li Xue and the others confused.

Then it explained: ”We can do it before, but we cannot do it anymore now. Water Guardian should have already explained it to you, right? The spiritual energy of this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] is already almost depleted.”

”It can barely maintain basic operation for now, so it should be impossible for you to drive it around like a flying treasure.” Wind Guardian stated to Tang Li Xue in embarrassment.

Tang Li Xue frowned deeply and asked unhappily: ”Then how the heck can I take this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] from this place?!”

Wind Guardian replied: ”You can shrink this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] and store it in your Dantian or sea of consciousness. It can even help you protect your Dantian or sea of consciousness after you store it.”

Tang Li Xue nodded in admiration as she thought: ʼThis [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] has so many functions! Its true treasure rank before it was broken might not be lower than my [Sun Dragon Kingʼs Pearl].ʼ

Then Tang Li Xue recalled that she actually still had one [Restoration Elixir] that was stored in her Systemʼs storage!

ʼWait a minute, if I use [Restoration Elixir] to restore this [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda], I wonder if it can actually solve the spiritual energy depletion problem?!ʼ Tang Li Xue pondered as her topaz blue eyes were shining in excitement like a pair of blue stars.