Chapter 463 Yan Sijing Disappears
Yuan Ming put away the jade bottle and the Sun and Moon Flame Furnace, dispersed the silver barrier, and left the room.
At this moment, a hurried sound of footsteps came from the front. It was Miao Xian running over, his face full of panic.
"My Lord, something bad has happened. The master of the temple has suddenly disappeared. The eldest lady asked me to ask you to come over to discuss it." Miao Xian saw Yuan Ming and said hurriedly as if he had found his backbone.
"Okay, I know." Yuan Ming replied.
"Yan Sijing is missing? We just came back not long ago. Where can she go in such a short time?" Yuan Ming frowned. Miao Xian had just turned around when he flashed back into the house and opened the silver barrier again.
He entered the space of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron, sat cross-legged on the white jade lotus platform, and used the anchor point to activate his spiritual sense to cover it. He quickly searched Fusang City again, but found no trace of Yan Sijing.
Yuan Ming expanded his spiritual sense to the limit, spreading it to more than ten miles outside Fusang City, but still failed to find Yan Sijing.
He looked thoughtful and left the Stealing Heaven Cauldron space. After the silver barrier was dissipated, a black aura flashed on his body and the whole person disappeared in an instant.
Over the past year or so, he has mastered the ghost shadow escape method more and more skillfully, and is not much worse than Dugu Feng back then.
The next moment, Yuan Ming appeared in Yan Siyun's room, Xiying and Bishuirou were there.
"What happened?" Yuan Ming asked in a deep voice.
"Just now when we returned to our residence, Sijing suddenly received an alchemy commission. Someone wanted to ask her to refine an obscure elixir and needed to meet in person. Sijing didn't doubt it and rushed over immediately. I didn't think much about it. Who knew that she was kidnapped just after she went out for a while and lost contact." Yan Siyun blamed herself.
"Yan Sijing only went out for a while, how can you be sure that she was kidnapped?" Yuan Ming asked.
"My sister and I each have a blood marrow jade pendant, which is a magical instrument that can sense each other through the power of blood. It can sense each other's position and breath, which is much more sensitive than ordinary sensing magical instruments. But just now, Sijing's breath suddenly disappeared, and the blood marrow jade pendant could not sense the position. Something must have happened." Yan Siyun took out a dark red jade pendant and said.
"So that's it, Xiying, Yan Sijing just disappeared, she should not have gone far, you are proficient in various secret arts, can you track down her whereabouts?" Yuan Ming looked at Xiying.
"I have tried, but nothing was found. Yan Sijing may have been put into some kind of space magical instrument, or covered by a very sophisticated ban." Xiying shook his head and said.
Yuan Ming frowned. He had not practiced any special tracking secrets. Although the "Ancient Shadow Soul Searching Technique" of the Six Desires Venerable fell into his hands, he had too many things to do during this period and had not had time to practice.
"Have you searched through the Stealing Heaven Cauldron?" Xiying's voice sounded in Yuan Ming's sea of consciousness.
"Well, no one found it. It seems that Yan Sijing has been taken away from Fusang City. The ability of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron has just been used. It's a bit troublesome." Yuan Ming replied in a voice transmission.
"In such a short time, Yan Sijing should not be taken too far unless a teleportation array is used." Xiying said in a voice transmission.
"For now, we can only use a stupid way to find her. You will take Miao Xianfei out of the city later and fly around the island. I will use him as a wish anchor to search for Yan Sijing's whereabouts." Yuan Ming said in a voice transmission.
"Okay." Xiying agreed.
The two immediately proposed to Yan Siyun to go out to search.
"Do you want to ask Daoist Bishui for help, or ask the people from Fusang Island to help investigate?" Yan Siyun asked.
"No, wait for our news. If Fusang Island needs help, I will notify you." Yuan Ming's mind flashed the figure of Jia Sifang and shook his head.
After saying this, the two said goodbye and left.
"Why not ask the people from Fusang Island for help?" Xiying asked outside the house.
"Your identities and mine are both shady. We'd better solve Yan Sijing's disappearance by ourselves and try not to attract other people's attention." Yuan Ming said.
"Why be so cautious?" Xiying disagreed.
"Better safe than sorry." Yuan Ming said.
Xiying sneaked out of the city with Miao Xian. The Immortal Fruit Festival was approaching, and monks from various islands gathered. In order to facilitate entry and exit, the protective formation around Fusang City had been removed, leaving only one or two layers of ordinary sensing restrictions.
Xiying and Miao Xian quickly left the city and flew along the edge of the island.
Yuan Ming turned back and entered the space of the Heaven Stealing Cauldron, using his spiritual sense to explore along the way.
Xiying's escape speed was amazing. He quickly ran nearly half of Fusang Island and still found nothing.
"Yan Sijing had never been to the East China Sea before, and it was her first time to come to Fusang City. It is impossible for her to have enemies here. Who would want to capture her? Could it be Jia Sifang? He had already found out that Xiying was here, and captured Yan Sijing to deal with Xiying?" Yuan Ming considered various possibilities in his mind and quickly denied this guess.
According to the previous conversation between Jia Sifang and Wu Yuezhi, the things they planned would not be implemented until the Immortal Fruit Meeting began. It was unwise to capture Yan Sijing at this moment.
But apart from Jia Sifang, who else had the courage to capture people in Fusang City?
Yan Sijing was just a Jindan stage cultivator. What was there on her that was worth others' plotting against?
"Ice Core Yin Fire!" A sharp light flashed in Yuan Ming's eyes, and he immediately stopped Xiying.
"Why, did you find Yan Sijing's trace?" Xiying asked.
"I haven't found it yet, but I remembered something that may be related to Yan Sijing's disappearance..." Yuan Ming told him about meeting Master Bai Lin of the Thousand Snake Clan at the auction today, and how this person was collecting true fire, and that when he entered Fusang Island before, Master Bai Lin had used his spiritual sense to detect the group of people.
"When I entered Fusang Island, I also sensed the spiritual consciousness of Master Bai Lin. According to what you said, this person is indeed a big suspect." Xiying said after a moment of hesitation.
"I just used my spiritual consciousness to explore the settlement of the snake people, and there was no trace of Yan Sijing. Do you know where the snake people have a base near Fusang Island?" Yuan Ming asked.
In the past few days, Xiying has been sorting out the information of the participating islands with Bishuirou Yan Siyun in addition to practicing. She must know more about the snake people than him.
"I know where Yan Sijing is." Xiying suddenly said, and turned into a beam of light to shoot to the other side of the island.
Yuan Ming's spiritual consciousness followed closely and soon arrived at the other side of Fusang Island.
Three huge ships of different shapes were anchored at the edge of the island. They seemed to be the ships of the snake people, mermaids, and water apes, and there were many people on board.
"Although the snake people, mermaids, and water apes have been thriving in the East China Sea for a long time, the concept of humans and demons being on different paths is deeply rooted, so only a few people from the three tribes have entered Fusang City, and most of them have stayed outside the island." Xiying stopped in the distance and said softly.
Yuan Ming nodded slowly, used his spiritual sense to explore, and soon found Yan Sijing's whereabouts. The bottom of the snake people's boat was covered by a layer of flickering blue restrictions.
Yan Sijing was unconscious at the moment, her clothes were messy, and there was blood on her chest. She seemed to have fallen into a coma due to serious injuries.
A trace of murderous aura flashed across Yuan Ming's eyes. He carefully explored Yan Sijing's situation and felt relieved.
Although Yan Sijing was seriously injured, her life was not in danger. The ice core Yin fire in her body was still there and had not been drawn out.
In another room of the boat, Master Bai Lin was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. In front of him was a green alchemy furnace about ten feet high, with two reliefs of a dragon and a tiger perched on it, looking vivid.
There are six fire spirit arrays running in the dragon and tiger pill furnace. It turned out to be a six-orifice pill furnace, and three of the six fire spirit arrays already contain true fire.
Master Bai Lin was pinching his fingers to activate the fourth array, absorbing and refining the apricot wood green fire he had just photographed.
"No wonder this person is collecting true fire and capturing Yan Sijing. It turns out that there is a six-orifice pill furnace." Yuan Ming thought to himself.
At this moment, the door was pushed open and the mermaid Queen Mingkong walked in. Master Bai Lin seemed to be unconcerned and was still breathing a ball of green flames. Queen Mingkong walked to a corner of the room and watched the former cast a spell quietly.
Not long after, Master Bai Lin swallowed the green fire and slowly opened his eyes.
"With these four kinds of true fire, the effect of this dragon and tiger green furnace can be restored to a large extent, but it is probably still a little short of the fire for refining Shengying Pills." Seeing this, Queen Mingkong said.
"It's really not enough to collect only four kinds of true fire, but the fifth kind of true fire has already been figured out and will be available soon." Master Bai Lin smiled.
"Are you talking about the little girl at the bottom of the boat?" Queen Mingkong said with her bright eyes moving.
Master Bai Lin's smile froze: "Daoyou Mingkong has supernatural powers. I have asked people to act as carefully as possible. I didn't expect you to know it."
"As long as there is water, I can know anything I want to know." Queen Mingkong raised her jade hand, and a blue water mirror appeared in front of her, clearly showing the situation of Yan Sijing at the bottom of the boat.
"It seems that Daoyou Mingkong's water mirror viewing technique is close to perfection. Congratulations." Master Bai Lin's eyes twitched and smiled.
"It's just a means of exploration. It's not worth mentioning. How can it be compared with Daoyou Bai Lin's thundering means? But some people are not easy to catch. Be careful not to attract tough guys." Queen Mingkong said something with a hint of meaning, then pushed the door open and shot out, turning into a blue light.
Yuan Ming narrowed his eyes when he heard this. What did Queen Mingkong mean by this? Has she discovered that Xiying is looking for someone?
When Xiying flew around the island before, she did not cast a spell to hide her tracks, so there is indeed a possibility of being discovered.
Master Bailin looked in the direction where Queen Mingkong disappeared, and then called Qingtong thoughtfully, and ordered to strengthen the guard of the ship and Yan Sijing.
"Yan Sijing has been found, at the bottom of the snake people's ship." Yuan Ming informed Xiying through voice transmission, and repeated the conversation between Queen Mingkong and Master Bailin.
"Sure enough, it's here, the water mirror viewing technique? The mermaids seem to have this magical power. When cultivated to a high level, they can communicate with water vapor and observe the movements of the enemy. No wonder I felt like I was being spied on just now." Xiying nodded slowly, but her expression was very relaxed.
"Since you said so, Queen Mingkong is likely to have known your existence, and there is no guarantee that she has not secretly communicated with Master Bailin." Yuan Ming reminded with some concern.