Chapter 2854 — Still No Way Out
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"Oh? Is that so?" Feng Shipan was overjoyed. "Ge Xian, you truly live up to your reputation for being well-informed—you even discovered this pattern?"
For an ordinary cultivator in such a tense situation, it would be very hard to discover the patterns of the spirit beast rampages—even the Xuandan Sect did not know of them! Because no one could predict the patterns of behavior after a spirit beast rampage!
Before the rampage, the movements of these spirit beasts could be said to have no pattern at all—they cultivated when they wanted to cultivate, rested when they wanted to rest, and attacked others when they wanted to attack! But now it was different. Every day they rampaged together in search of cultivators, yet it was impossible for them to be on the move twenty-four hours a day; they must have times for rest and cultivation—and that was the window between two and four in the morning that Ge Xian had discovered.
"I'm ashamed to say I only confirmed it last night—after all, I didn't dare be certain of my guess before." Ge Xian spread his hands. "At our traveling speed, two hours of hard running is enough to reach the teleportation array. This place isn't far from the array anymore, so we don't need to leave three days early—two days will do. That gives us one more day to wait."
"Very well, then we'll wait three more days!" Zhao Qilei nodded. "It'll be a good chance to verify the spirit beast rampage pattern."
Beneath the cliffs and precipices of the Five Evils Mountains, Wei Zhao had fished and grilled fish for Yang Qiqi every day these past days. He had already given up searching for a way out, and Yang Qiqi too had grown somewhat quiet—especially as the end of the trial drew nearer. Yang Qiqi grew more and more sullen.
"Wei Zhao, today is the fifteenth day of the trial. Tell me—do you think we'll never get out?" Yang Qiqi took the grilled fish Wei Zhao handed her and mechanically stuffed it into her mouth. She asked.
"If we can't get out, living here isn't so bad, is it?" Wei Zhao smiled and tried to comfort her. In truth, Wei Zhao was anxious too, but when there was no solution, being anxious did no good.
"Heh. Don't try to comfort me. If we stay here more than twenty days, the Five Evils Qi will invade our bodies, and by then we'll both die here..." Yang Qiqi smiled bitterly. She said to Wei Zhao, "I may not have much experience of the world and I may be foolish, but I know the rules of the trial are real..."
Hearing Yang Qiqi's words, Wei Zhao's heart grew heavy as well. The Five Evils Qi was no problem for Wei Zhao. But for Yang Qiqi it would not do. At his wit's end, Wei Zhao could only enter the jade pendant space.
"Hey, I say, Old Ghost Senior—do you have any good ideas to get me out of here?" Wei Zhao asked the ghost thing, coming straight to the point.
"..." The ghost thing stayed in the corner and did not answer Wei Zhao.
"Hey, I know you're not asleep yet. Answer me now, or once I die here, you can forget about cultivating! This jade pendant space is bound to me; if I die, the jade pendant space might vanish too." Wei Zhao threatened.
"You won't die. The Five Evils Qi here is harmless to you—in fact, it's useful. Although the Five Evils Qi isn't as pure as the heaven-and-earth spiritual qi in the jade pendant space, you can still cultivate with it." The ghost thing finally spoke. "Can't you just leave me alone? It's very hard for me to enter a dormant state!"
"That's not certain. What if the Five Evils Qi invades my body? There are accidents in everything, and besides, even without an accident, living here alone would be meaningless—I might even kill myself!" Wei Zhao tried to scare the ghost thing.
"Oh, if you truly don't want to live anymore, there's nothing I can do. I'll just leave the jade pendant space, then. I said before, the Five Evils Qi here isn't as pure as in your jade pendant space, but I can still cultivate with it!" The ghost thing said unhurriedly. "Think it over before you die."