Chapter 1195: Isolated Jade Island’s Situation!
Chapter 1195: Chapter 1195: Isolated Jade Island’s Situation!
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Tang Li Xue regained her consciousness and slowly opened her topaz blue eyes.
She found that she was currently being swept away by the current in the fast-flowing river.
"This is... Am I already on the Isolated Jade Island?" Tang Li Xue muttered softly while rubbing her forehead.
Tang Li Xue shook her head and kicked the water with her leg.
She easily jumped out of the fast-flowing river.
Tang Li Xue unleashed a few sparks of her deep blue Flame of Pride and dried her wet white clothes, along with her wet, silky smooth silver hair and tails, in only a few breaths.
Tang Li Xue planned to quickly contact Little Loki and the others in worry, but before she could do it, she sensed that some people were coming toward her direction.
Her current stunningly beautiful look, along with her silver fox tails and ears, was too dazzling.
It would certainly cause a lot of trouble if anyone saw her charming appearance.
Tang Li Xue hastily activated her [Myriad Manifestation Fox Mask]’s equipment skill, [Thousand Myriad Faces], to disguise herself.
Tang Li Xue changed her appearance into an old granny filled with wrinkles, and her white hair tied in a bun.
She thought her current, old granny appearance should not attract any attention.
Who knew the group of people that came, actually wearing ragged, dirty clothes that looked much more miserable and uglier than hers!
Their ages also looked varied. Some looked like middle-aged men, while the rest looked like grandpas.
But there was no doubt that all of them looked emaciated, dirty, and haggard.
Tang Li Xue smiled at them with her wrinkled face and tried to greet them politely: "Hello."
But the group of miserable-looking people stared suspiciously at Tang Li Xue instead.
"You... You do not look like you are from around here. Where do you come from, ma’am?" The oldest among them asked Tang Li Xue suspiciously.
"Uh, I also do not know it clearly. I got lost a few days ago. Can you please tell me where this is?" Tang Li Xue asked them back instead.
While talking to them, Tang Li Xue tried to see the strength of these people with her intermediate [All Knowing Eyes], but she saw something interesting from their information instead.
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[Song San]
[Description: A cultivator from the Song Family who currently works as a mine slave on the Isolated Jade Island.]
[Combat Power: 5th Rank of Core Formation Stage (But after long-term forced work and lack of nourishment, his current strength has regressed to Low-Rank Foundation Establishment Stage.)]
[Weakness: He is already so weak that you can easily kill him with a single slap.]
[HP: 97,821/521,000 (Low health, in weakened state)]
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The other people’s information was also pretty much the same.
Their cultivation level might vary from each other, but all of them were in a greatly weakened state.
The weakest ones among them only had the strength equal to the Body Tempering Stage.
Despite their strength and cultivation level difference, their status was actually the same... All of them were the mine slaves of the Isolated Jade Island.
’Mine slaves, huh... it seems this Isolated Jade Island is not a good place.’ Tang Li Xue concluded in her mind.
Tang Li Xue did not even take Nascent Soul Stage cultivators seriously anymore, so these people clearly did not pose any threat to her.
Tang Li Xue was really worried about Little Loki, Yaya, Lucia, and Xi’er, so she did not want to waste much of her time communicating with these people.
These people were clearly very wary of her, so if she wanted to get information from them, she had to do it the hard way.
Of course, Tang Li Xue was not a rude fox, so she would definitely not suddenly beat and threaten them just like that.
Tang Li Xue secretly activated her [Mystic Whisper] and interrogated them with the power of [Mystic Whisper] instead.
Not to mention that [Divine Will] amplified the effect of her Spirit stat by five times, which made the effect of her [Mystic Whisper] even more powerful.
Under the effect of the [Mystic Whisper], that group of people told Tang Li Xue everything they knew about the Isolated Jade Island.
At first, Tang Li Xue thought this group of people was the indigenous cultivators of the Isolated Jade Island, but she was actually wrong.
These people were actually the cultivators seized by the Merchant Alliance and forced to become the miner slaves in this Isolated Jade Island!
The rare precious jade mines in this Isolated Jade Island were not the ordinary jades after all, so ordinary people did not have enough strength to mine them.
Even strong cultivators like these people were forced into this miserable state after they had been mining the rare precious jades for a long time.
At this rate, these mine slaves might only last for one or two more years at best before they kick the bucket.
But cultivators who worked as mine slaves were nothing more than disposable tools for the Merchant Alliance.
The Merchant Alliance would bring another batch of forcefully caught cultivators every year to replenish the dead mine slaves.
"Merchant Alliance... It seems we can only board the Merchant Alliance’s ships if we want to cross the Western Tropic Ocean." Tang Li Xue murmured softly.
Tang Li Xue tried to ask about the Merchant Alliance’s ships, but these people clearly did not have any clue about it since they were only mere mine slaves.
If she wanted to find out something about the Merchant Alliance’s ships, then she had to interrogate the cultivators from the Merchant Alliance.
Tang Li Xue already tried to contact Little Loki, Yaya, Lucia, and Xi’er, but she actually failed.
According to the mine slaves, it should be impossible for anyone in the Isolated Jade Island to contact anyone, unless they used a specially made communication device that could only be used inside the Isolated Jade Island.
That actually made sense since this was an isolated place.
That was also the reason why it was called Isolated Jade Island.
"Damn it! This is really troublesome! What a huge mistake! I should just let all of them stay in the [Nine Elementals Immortal Pagoda] before!" Tang Li Xue grumbled unhappily.
She was really worried about Little Loki, Yaya, Lucia, and Xi’er, but there was no way for her to contact any of them right now.
Tang Li Xue interrogated them again and asked about the communication matter.
It seemed even the cultivators from the Merchant Alliance also could not easily communicate with each other inside this Isolated Jade Island.
They could only contact each other using the Jade Communication Towers that spread all over the island, which connected with the formations that covered the entire Isolated Jade Island.
After interrogating everything that the mine slaves know, Tang Li Xue immediately used [Mystic Whisper] to make them completely forget about her.
In fact, these mine slaves did not know that much about the Isolated Jade Island, but at least, their knowledge was very useful for Tang Li Xue, who knew nothing at all.
"Sigh... It seems my first objective is to find Little Loki and the others first before we can move on and find the way to get on the ship that will travel to the Western Tropic Ocean ." Tang Li Xue muttered as she activated her [Ethereal Form] and [Void Barrier] to make her completely invisible and undetectable.
The mine slaves woke up from their daze after Tang Li Xue left.
They were a bit confused about what they had done before, but they immediately forgot about it and headed to the river to drink and clean themselves.
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"Hey, boy! Wake up!" The fainted Lu Xingchen faintly heard a voice calling him.
Lu Xingchen’s body jolted as he suddenly woke up and sat.
"Uh, this is... Where am I?" Lu Xingchen muttered while looking around in confusion.
He realized that he was currently in a dilapidated hut.
"You are really lucky, boy! If the guards found you first before me, they would definitely punish you heavily!" The dirty and haggard middle-aged man said to Lu Xingchen.
"Guards? Well then, thank you very much." Lu Xingchen was still confused, but he could sense that the haggard middle-aged man was not a bad person, so he just thanked him.
"Your clothes are still too tidy and clean. Are you new here?" The haggard middle-aged man asked Lu Xingchen.
"Yes, I just arrived on this island very recently." Lu Xingchen answered honestly.
"Then you’d better keep your clean clothes hidden if you do not want to attract the attention of other mine slaves or guards. Many of those people are not good people. They will rob you cleanly if you dare to show it to them." The haggard middle-aged man warned Lu Xingchen in a stern tone.
"Wait, what? Mine slaves?" Lu Xingchen frowned deeply and felt even more confused.
"Oh, right. I almost forgot... You’d also better keep your kitten carefully and never show it to anyone, or they would turn your kitten into a barbecue. Meat is like a treasure in this harsh place." The haggard middle-aged man warned Lu Xingchen again.
"What kitten?" Lu Xingchen asked back in puzzlement.
"That black kitten is not yours?" The haggard middle-aged man pointed to the tiny black kitten that sat leisurely on the straw bed.
Lu Xingchen and Little Loki stared at each other silently for a few moments.
"Uh, hello... It seems we are together again." Lu Xingchen tried to greet Little Loki nicely.
But Little Loki clicked its tongue and glared disdainfully at Lu Xingchen instead.
Lu Xingchen: "....."