197: Chapter 197 Taking Life from Afar

If the captain and the other employees had only felt surprise and shock upon seeing Gu Xiao, then upon seeing Li Xiuyuan, the fear in their hearts was instantly swept away.

The appearance of that white Dragon meant that everyone could survive.

Li Xiuyuan merely moved his Spiritual Sense to control the ancient coin, and he solved all the Ocean Monsters surrounding the reef.

Even if any slipped through the net, Gu Xiao would deliver a finishing kick; a kick from him was enough to kill them.

Gu Xiao stood steady on the sea surface, the phantom image of the ape behind him slowly receding, turning into a wisp of smoke that dissipated in the twilight.

He stepped on a reef protruding from the water and greeted the stunned captain on the reef with a relaxed tone: "Liang You, long time no see."

Liang You was stunned for a long while before coming back to his senses. He looked Gu Xiao up and down: "Weren't you lying in the sanatorium? The superiors said you might be bedridden for several years."

"I've rested enough, just came out to stretch my muscles."

Gu Xiao waved his hand, his gaze sweeping over the corpses of the Yao Beasts slowly sinking into the water. "Isn't it because I heard you were in trouble here, so I came over with Li Xiuyuan."

Liang You looked up and saw that the sky above the reef had been completely obscured by Li Xiuyuan.

The silver-white giant Dragon was hovering at a low altitude, its massive body like a floating silver hill, completely blocking the last rays of the setting sun and casting a shadow that enveloped the entire reef.

Those golden vertical pupils were looking down from above.

The team members on the reef all quieted down, some instinctively taking a step or two back; although they knew it was here to help, the pressure from deep within the Bloodline still made people instinctively want to keep their distance.

Liang You was quite polite and thanked Li Xiuyuan, but Li Xiuyuan didn't care and didn't give any response.

"Those two artifacts are in the shipwreck wreckage about twenty zhang directly below the reef. We had already sent two batches of people down to explore and confirmed the location, but just as we were preparing to salvage them, those Yao Beasts appeared."

Gu Xiao nodded: "Those Yao Beasts should have been attracted by the artifacts, right?"

Liang You shook his head, his expression becoming solemn: "I don't think so. Those Yao Beasts weren't going for the artifacts at first. When they appeared, their target was very clear; they were going for us. And their coordination didn't look like something Rising Beings would have."

At this point, Liang You's expression became a bit strange. He paused and continued: "You might not believe it, but those Ocean Monsters even understood flanking tactics, advancing when we retreated, harassing us when we were tired..."

Gu Xiao's brows furrowed slightly, and he turned his head to look at the largest shark corpse: "Could it have been driven by that shark? After all, it has the cultivation of the Fifth Realm."

Before Liang You could respond, a voice came from above, low and deep, like rolling thunder falling from high altitude.

Gu Xiao and Liang You looked up simultaneously.

"I found some traces of techniques on that Ocean Monster, and those traces also exist in the bodies of the other Yao Beasts. It was driven by someone," Li Xiuyuan said.

While Liang You and Gu Xiao were chatting, Li Xiuyuan had already spread his Spiritual Sense and searched the bodies of those Ocean Monsters.

"Are there others also eyeing these two artifacts?" Liang You and Gu Xiao said simultaneously.

Li Xiuyuan did not respond to this; he wasn't quite sure either.

"By the way, can you use backtracking methods to find the root of those controlling techniques?" Gu Xiao asked.

Actually, before Gu Xiao could ask, Li Xiuyuan had already started doing so.

Although that trace of the technique dissipated rapidly with the death of those Ocean Monsters, Li Xiuyuan still managed to catch a tail end of it.

He mixed his Spiritual Sense into it and tracked it rapidly, quickly locking onto a location further away.

"Found it," Li Xiuyuan said.

Gu Xiao said in surprise: "Whoa! So fast? Where is it?"

"A slightly distant land, considered the territory of another country, I suppose?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

When Li Xiuyuan informed Gu Xiao of the tracked location through Spiritual Sense, Gu Xiao clicked his tongue: "Tsk, that's not easy to handle. This bastard is hiding in another country's territory; it's not easy to go and grab him directly."

"Then kill him?" Li Xiuyuan asked casually.

Gu Xiao stroked his chin and said: "That seems to be the only way, but..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Li Xiuyuan closed his eyes, his Spiritual Sense moved slightly, and soon, a gust of wind appeared out of thin air on the sea, carrying wind blades, and at an extremely fast speed, it reached the land and executed the human cultivator hiding in a house.

"Done," Li Xiuyuan said.

"But killing him directly won't work either, it's best to find a way to lure him out, wait, what's done?" Gu Xiao looked up, staring at Li Xiuyuan in astonishment.

The latter said: "It's already been taken care of."

"Taken... taken care of?!" Gu Xiao looked at Li Xiuyuan in astonishment. Of course, he wouldn't think Li Xiuyuan was teasing him; in such matters, there was no need for that.

Moreover, Li Xiuyuan had the strength to easily eliminate a human cultivator from afar.

"Ah?" "Captain, is this right?" "This..." Liang You and the Jiantian Bureau colleagues behind him also looked at each other.

"Right about what? I just had tinnitus, I didn't hear anything. Did you guys hear anything?" Liang You intentionally played dumb, and the other team members immediately caught on, knowing they shouldn't interfere in such matters, and all began to feign ignorance.

As for Gu Xiao, he had nothing to say. After all, the purpose of him and Li Xiuyuan coming here was for the two artifacts in the shipwreck, and Li Xiuyuan wouldn't waste time on that irrelevant cultivator.

"That works too. Anyway, I don't know anything about this," Gu Xiao said.

Playing dumb was the most correct choice at this moment. Anyway, the person who died had nothing to do with them, and it was better for everyone to be kept in the dark. When writing the report later, they could completely omit this matter.

"Little Liang, let your people rest on the reef first. As for the things underwater, let Li Xiuyuan take a look." Gu Xiao found an excuse, intending to send Liang You away.

Although Liang You's seniority was not as high as Gu Xiao's, he wasn't so easily fooled. If it were just Gu Xiao running over, he might have assumed Gu Xiao had no other motives. But now that even Li Xiuyuan had appeared, it wasn't just a matter of coming to help them solve trouble.

"Old Gu, those two artifacts are wanted by the Bureau." Liang You looked troubled.

He had just been saved by Li Xiuyuan, but with his duty, he couldn't just watch Li Xiuyuan take those two artifacts away.

"Write the report for this part however you need to. If something really happens, you won't be held responsible." Gu Xiao was still quite righteous; he knew that taking the artifacts away like this would cause trouble for Liang You, so he didn't come up with any bad ideas.

This could also be considered giving Liang You a way out. Afterwards, he could report to his superiors that because he and his team members were injured, they couldn't stop Gu Xiao and Li Xiuyuan, which was why they didn't bring the two artifacts back successfully.