Chapter 453
Chapter 453: Ai Hui’s Own Path
Translator: Irene Editor: TYZ, KLKL
Whether it was openly or discreetly, many were paying attention to Ai Hui’s recuperation . No one noticed, however, that the sand puppet beside him was gone .
Even Gong Peiyao, who adored Lou Lan, was focused on the news of Great Elder’s death and had no mood for playing with Lou Lan .
A rustling sound could be heard coming from the underbrush in an empty corner of Clearwater City .
Shortly after, a faint and cheerful voice sounded from the bushes .
"No one on the left . "
"No one on the right . "
A moment later, a finger-sized Lou Lan made his way out of the bushes .
"Keep watch from the rooftop, Lou Lan!"
"Keep watch from the alley mouth!"
"Watch the left side, Lou Lan . "
"Watch the right side, Lou Lan . "
A few mini Lou Lans called out to each other, one after another, before turning around and running off . One jumped to the rooftop and hid within a crack between the tiles . Two ran to the junction of two walls by the alley mouth and stood watch, one for the right and the other for the left side .
"Lou Lan’s here!"
"Lou Lan’s here!"
. . .
Cheerful shouts sounded incessantly as, one after another, Lou Lans started threading their way out from the bushes . They dashed toward one another joyfully and their mini bodies joined together and expanded to eventually become one big Lou Lan .
Having recovered his appearance, Lou Lan’s glowing red eyes flickered non-stop . He was processing every mini Lou Lan’s feedback . After a short while he muttered to himself, "There’s nothing in this region . To the next, Lou Lans, let’s go!"
Lou Lan did not use any clever method . What he used was actually silly .
He’d separated the whole city into different sections and upon reaching each region, he would scatter into many mini Lou Lans and scour the region like sand . Mini Lou Lans would remember the conversations they eavesdropped on and the people’s faces . Finally, the information the mini Lou Lans gathered would be summarized .
Such a huge amount of information would cause ordinary sand puppets to overheat . But Lou Lan’s sand core, Midnight, could sort out all this information effortlessly .
If there was any suspicious target, Lou Lan would arrange a mini Lou Lan to stand guard . No one would pay attention to a tiny pile of yellow sand hiding on the ceiling beams, under the bed, within the cracks between bricks or in a dark corner of their rooms .
There’d never been such a sand puppet .
What people generally knew about sand puppets was that they were all about the same size and had about the same abilities . The bigger the body the stronger in battle they usually were . An example would be a Sand Sentinel, because the bigger its size the more the sand core could do .
Sand puppets weren’t suitable spies since they weren’t quick or smart enough . They weren’t good at disguising themselves too . When sand puppets were first invented, people were easily deceived . Now, an extra pool of sand would alert everyone .
No one used sand puppets to spy nowadays, unless the earth elementalist really had no team-mates to rely on .
Lou Lan’s method depended solely on Midnight’s capability, so while it wasn’t clever it was extremely effective .
It worked also because Clearwater City did not cover a big area . If Lou Lan were to use this method on a big area like Silver City, he would need at least ten to fifteen days to investigate .
Lou Lan, who had arrived at the newest area, repeated the steps .
He found something this time .
… . .
The mayor had paid an enormous sum to build the underground meditation room . Not only was it soundproof, it had been reinforced by an earth elemental master . No matter how violent things went on inside, the meditation room was indestructible .
Only slamming sounds could be heard from the meditation room .
Ai Hui’s whole body was red as his blood surged and his head steamed . It was as if he’d just been taken out from the oven .
He held onto Wintry Jade Blade and walked around the room barefoot, waving his sword from time to time . Sword rays flew out from its tip and struck the fortified walls, causing impacted spots to light up .
The elemental energy within his body was like boiling lava . It was losing control .
To Ai Hui, using [Red Dust] had simply been too forced . Han Li’s judgment wasn’t wrong . No one under the level of Master would be able to break his [Yin Yang Fish Sword Formation] .
And [Red Dust] was actually a Master-level move . It was his first time using it since conceptualizing it .
Ai Hui’s judgment was very accurate as well . When he saw Han Li’s [Yin Yang Fish Sword Formation] he knew that ordinary moves weren’t going to be effective and the only usable move was [Red Dust] .
But how could there not be a price to pay for using a Master-level move when he wasn’t a Master yet?
The surging and disorderly elemental energy within his body was the consequence of forcefully using [Red Dust] . If he was unable to tame the elemental energy, his five residences and eight palaces would be damaged . If it was serious, his base level would drop .
But how was he going to calm the elemental energy down?
Ai Hui tried operating Circulatory Cycle Revolution but to no avail .
He then tried exhausting all his elemental energy but still to no avail . The newly born elemental energy continued to be in a chaotic state, unable to be suppressed .
What could he do?
Ai Hui panted heavily while his brain spun rapidly .
He suddenly recalled the contents from some notes he’d read . The notes were left by a senior from the Hall of Ancient Records . In his attempt to search for Senior Xiao’s notes, Ai Hui’d practically flipped through every single book in that hall . He’d been helpless at that time, but because of that he’d gained many strange insights and all sorts of preposterous sounding ideas . Also, he got to read more about rare treasures and all kinds of weird situations .
Ai Hui read them as he read storybooks, just like how he’d done for swordplay manuals left from the Cultivation Era .
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