Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1394 – The Hope of Escaping

After pondering for a while, Lin Yi decided that he would think about it after You Xiaoke unlocked the door. He then continued to flip through the pages.

On the next page, he found information about the fire spirit fruit- how Zhang Liju brought it back for his friend. Initally, Lin Yi didn’t pay too much attention to the details as he was speed reading the notes but when his eyes landed on that one line, he was shocked to his core!

The fire spirit fruit that had been stored in a box had wilted and became some sort of dry herb. Nevertheless Zhang Liju was still optimistic and gambled on the effect of the dry herb, hoping that it would still be effective but it didn’t seem to have any effect at all. In the state of uncertainty, he decided to do more research on the fruit again and did some readings. At last, he found the reason behind the cause!

The fire spirit fruit was hard to conserve due to its nature- fire element. After leaving the branch of the tree, the effectivness of the fruit would start to fade away so it was best to consume on the spot otherwise there would be no point of consuming anymore! This whole journey took Zhang Liju more than six months. Obviously, by then, the fruit would have lost its effect!

Zhang Lifu smiled bitterly after learning the reason but he still had to treat his friend’s illness no matter what! He continued his research, reading more and more about the fruit until eventually, he finally found a way to preserve the fruit. The only way to preserve it was to store it in a box made of Wannianchun wood. However, this wood was so rare that it was nowhere to be found, even Zhang Liju himself hadn’t seen it before- it was especially impossible to locate it in such a short amount of time. Without any choices left, he could only bring his friend along on his journey as he headed north once again!

In the end, everything turned out well. After consuming the fruit, the fire was able to supress the coldness in the body, successfully eliminating it out of his system. However, consuming the fire spirt fruit brought side effects like a physically weak body, not being able to perform alchemy, etc…..

However, Lin Yi didn’t really care about these side effects, nothing was more important than saving Xiaoxiao’s life. Even if Xiaoxiao was physically weak, Lin Yi believed that he could find ways to adjust her body condition later. As long as she was alive, nothing was impossible!

The way to consume the fire spirit fruit was not complex- directly eating it would do the job. In the notes, nothing too serious was mentioned but it had said that after consuming the fruit, the person would be fall into a vulnerable state- the body would fluctuate from hot and cold without any warning and at that time, Zhang Liju had to use his body temperature to keep his friend warm….

And at that time… Lin Yi had also found out that this friend of Zhang Liju’s was actually a girl…..

A dirty thought came into Lin Yi’s mind….

Lin Yi had the snow mountain and the tree location pinpointed in his brain and started searching for It’s information.

After having some direction, finding information about the spirit beast was much easier. Although, Zhang Liju didn’t include how he found it but he did mention it and describe it in the notes!

After compiling all the information from different parts and sections of the notes. Lin Yi finally found the information he was looking for!

The name of the spirit was called Skybolt pig, it had an appearance of a piglet that would never grow up. It was sometimes called Skybolt pig or Treasure pig. The spirit itself was a low level spirit but it could level up after time, so although the spirit wouldn’t even be golden class when it was born after consuming rare herbs and treasures, it could speedily level up to Golden class or Mystic class or even higher!

Finding treasure was Skybolt pig’s main ability, he could locate a variety of super rare herbs and treasures from just one whole mountain. Zhang Liju was able to find rare herbs thanks to the spirit’s unnatural ultra sensitive discovery ability.

After reading the notes, Lin Yi found this little fellow interesting. If the spirit was really still in the tomb beside Zhang Liju’s grave, then he would really be lucky to own it.

Two days had passed until Lin Yi had finally finished reading the notes, and You Xiaoke and Old Hei seemed to have advanced in their progress too- both of them had finally completed the puzzles- restoring the orignal painting from scratch.

“Done, successfully accomplished!” You Xiaoke put the last piece of paper in the right spot as she let out a breath of relief.

Elder Yu opened his eyes and walked towards them. Meanwhile, Lin Yi closed the notes and stood up as well.

Lin Yi had more or less read the content he needed. Other than the information about the Nine Fu Xi Needles, he had learnt everything that he wanted.

“Have you found out which door is the life and death door?” Elder Yu asked impatiently- he had come down from the mountain for too long- even if he didn’t show his face in the common world, the noble house meeting was not a joke he could make out of. People would notice his dissapearance. He had to return to the hidden house Yu as soon as possible.

“Yes, we were able to identify which door to select,” You Xiaoke nodded, “Out of these two paintings, one represents a soul’s rebirth and the another one represents escaping to the sky.”

“What do you mean?” Elder Yu couldn’t understand the analogy.

“The meaning is simple, soul rebirth is for the dead, only the souls of the dead could be reborn- many tombs have similar paintings like this. On the other hand escaping to the sky probably represents life. It means that we can still escape from this tomb,” You Xiaoke explained.

“I see, let’s go through the escaping to the sky, isn’t that the life door? Which is the life door, how do we open it?” Elder Yu nodded and asked.

“The left one. Theoritically speaking, if we put the puzzles pieces in the right places and form the painting, we can deactivate the lock of the life door and escape this place safely,” You Xiaoke continued, “However, things are still uncertain, should we put the puzzles in the places first?”

“I think that the life door has no order to solving the puzzle but the death door does!” Old Hei commented his opinion this time.

“Oh? Why do you say so?” Elder Yu asked.

“As you can see, in the painting of the death door, everyone is queueing up in order, doing things accordingly,” Old Hei pointed at the completed puzzle on the ground, “On the other hand, in the other painting which is the escaping to the sky painting, everyone is escaping like a swarm of bees, without order and in a mess!”

“Yeah! As one can tell, the death door is already signalling us that we have to do things in a given order to unlock the lock and open the door but it is different for the life door, as long as we put the puzzles in the right places, the door will be opened!” Realization dawned upon You Xiaoke as she agreed on Old Hei’s point of view. She eyed Old Hei- this guy wasn’t a good for nothing after all, at this critical point in time, he could at least be of use.

If she was given more time to analyse, even You Xiaoke would have been able to differentiate the paintings but Old Hei was able to point it out on the spot, saving them some time.