168: try to find

This time, heading to the West Faction to find Mao Qiu, Qingyang brought along all the forces he could mobilize.

Five Eleventh-Order Order Keeper Captains, fifty Order Keepers.

Because Qingyang and the others now had formal official identities, whenever this formidable group of dozens of powerhouses arrived somewhere, the controllers of the Flowing Land there would show respect and choose to let them pass.

After a long journey spanning a full three months, the moment everyone finally left the Flowing Land belonging to the North Faction and arrived at the West Faction's Flowing Land, Qingyang and the others were immediately stopped.

In three months, Qingyang's strength had now reached the peak of the Eleventh-Order, so facing the obstruction from the Order Keeper in the West Faction's Flowing Land, Qingyang offered no resistance and immediately followed the opponent to meet the Gatekeeper who managed the Flowing Land there.

The structure of the West Faction was exactly the same as the North Faction, both having a total of Thirty-Six Cities.

When the Enforcer of this city named Xi Ze City met Qingyang and the others and learned of their intentions, the opponent was very generous and directly issued an announcement in Xi Ze City.

The content of the announcement was very simple, containing only one sentence.

"Mao Qiu, Qing Yang is here to pick you up. Just find the Enforcer and wait for us."

The price Qingyang and the others paid to get the Enforcer, who were a level higher than the three hundred and sixty Gatekeepers, to come forward was imaginable.

Regarding Qingyang's actions, Hong Zong and the others expressed their lack of understanding, but Qingyang only told everyone one sentence: at all costs.

After leaving one Order Keeper Captain here, Qingyang and the others continued to the next giant city.

...

...

In the Depths of the Flowing Land of West Jing City, covered in dense gray forests.

"Yo~"

A mournful cry of a Bone Rat pierced the sky.

As a Divine Beast that had descended from the Fourteenth-Order, Mao Qiu itself carried the memories of Blue Star and a complete bone body.

Therefore, in just two months after awakening, Mao Qiu was promoted to the mid-stage of the Sixth-Order at an incredible speed.

However, because Mao Qiu possessed memories, it did not, like the other wave-like creatures, heed the call of the drums and go to fight beneath the giant city. Instead, it lay dormant, accumulating strength.

But the problem was that Mao Qiu simply didn't understand the rules of the Inner Realm, so while it absorbed a large number of Bone Beasts in a short period, it finally attracted the attention of the West Jing City Order Keeper team.

"After so many years, my spring has finally arrived. Little rat, your combat power is so strong, your strength on Blue Star must have already broken through the Fourteenth-Order, right?"

Facing the inquiry from the Tenth-Order mid-stage Flowing Land Order Keeper not far away, Mao Qiu's small body, with its snow-white soul fire flickering, remained silent.

"Oh? Quite arrogant. Little fellow, no matter how strong you were on Blue Star, or if you were a Beast King of some faction, when you arrive in the Inner Realm, if you're a dragon, you'll coil for me; if you're a tiger, you'll lie down for me."

"I'll ask you again, contract my soul slave mark and become my battle pet from now on, or die. Choose one of the two."

In the distance, the soul fire within Mao Qiu's entire bone body flickered on and off, clearly having suffered significant damage.

At this moment, Mao Qiu was already in despair.

"Qing Yang, I heard you are also in the Inner Realm. Did you encounter this situation back then? What should I do?" Mao Qiu's desperate bone body pulsed with energy as it muttered to itself.

Just then, Mao Qiu noticed that the Tenth-Order mid-stage powerhouse in the distance suddenly took out an identity token from his In arms.

Subsequently, a light projection formed by energy quickly appeared.

In the light projection, a Thirteenth-Order Gatekeeper was giving orders with a condescending attitude.

"Within the Flowing Land, anyone who discovers a rat-like Bone Beast named Mao Qiu, immediately protect it and bring it into the city. Upon completion, the reward is three hundred jin of flesh and blood, ten Thirteenth-Order Bone Beast energies, and two hundred thousand zhen crystal."

Suddenly noticing the projection of the Thirteenth-Order powerhouse in the light projection, the soul fire around Mao Qiu's body pulsed rapidly.

"Qing Yang, is Qing Yang coming to find me?"

In the distance, after the Tenth-Order late-stage powerhouse finished watching the light projection, his face changed drastically, and then he looked at Mao Qiu with a look of surprise and uncertainty and said.

"Who exactly is the Qing Yang you keep talking about? Why does he have connections with our West Jing City Gatekeeper?"

In contrast, Mao Qiu at this moment had already confirmed something but did not explain further.

Not far away, the Order Keeper's face grew increasingly gloomy, and finally, a ferocious expression completely appeared on his face.

"I've already made an enemy of you. Blame your Qing Yang. Die for me."

"Boom~"

As the attack from the Tenth-Order mid-stage powerhouse blasted towards Mao Qiu, Mao Qiu, who was only at the Sixth-Order at this moment, was completely powerless to resist.

But strangely, facing this attack, Mao Qiu did not dodge, allowing the opponent to blast it.

A large cloud of smoke and dust rose, and Mao Qiu's aura rapidly dissipated.

As for this Order Keeper, he immediately came to Mao Qiu's snow-white bone body, grabbed it, and sneered.

"As expected, it really is a Fourteenth-Order Fierce Beast bone body. Although I can't have such a powerful battle pet as you, this bone body of yours should be able to sell for a good price."

As he spoke, this Order Keeper had already taken Mao Qiu's bone body and was quickly flying towards another giant city.

According to this Order Keeper's guess, since the Qing Yang that this Bone Rat spoke of knew the Gatekeeper in West Jing City, taking the opponent to the neighboring giant city to sell should not be discovered.

What this Order Keeper didn't know was that Qingyang's plan was to post announcements searching for Mao Qiu throughout all Thirty-Six Cities of the West Faction.

Two days later, when this Order Keeper arrived at West Yun City and was preparing to enter the city to sell Mao Qiu's bone body, coincidentally, Hong Zong, under Qingyang's arrangement, was just outside the city, watching the boundless creatures fighting.

In other words, Mao Qiu and Hong Zong essentially passed each other by.

In the gray tattered bag, Mao Qiu's soul fire around its body seemed to have completely disappeared at this moment.

But if a powerhouse above the Thirteenth-Order were to sense carefully, they would actually find a soul fire, shrunken like fluorescent powder, within the bone structure of this Bone Rat's tail.

This soul fire was tens of times smaller than the initial soul fire, making it very difficult to detect.

On the other side of West Yun City, while Jin Hua was discussing issuing an announcement with the Enforcer of this West Qing City, Qingyang seemed to sense something and suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of West Yun City, which they had just passed a few days ago.

Noticing Qingyang's abnormality, Qingtian, who had been silent all along, suddenly said, "By your side, you have the Time Eating Beast and Bai Rou Rou, this lucky beast."

"If you have any subconscious thoughts, just act on them. Trust your intuition; it's just a waste of a few days at most."

Hearing Qingtian's words, Qingyang nodded heavily and immediately said to his companions, "Jin Sheng, you continue to the other cities to issue the announcements."

"We will return to West Yun City to take a look."