Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
Chapter 578 - 578 577 Quicksand Treasure Hunt 4

578: Chapter 577: Quicksand Treasure Hunt 4 578: Chapter 577: Quicksand Treasure Hunt 4 For every Qin Sect cultivator, the task was not to explore the entire Baili River; their duty was to cover their assigned segments—a two to three li wide, about sixty li long stretch of the river.

The Baili River was divided into dozens of parts like this, with each person responsible for their own section.

They were only allowed to leave their designated areas to pursue after confirming the movements of the Water Spirit Pearl.

This approach ensured that no suspicious area was overlooked, effectively a carpet-style search.

She needed to conduct a thorough search while watching for possible disruptions by the Water Clan, and she was bound to encounter one or two Yue Sect cultivators.

This was somewhat a matter of luck, and the odds weren’t great for each cultivator.

It depended on which lucky individual among the dozens would hit the jackpot.

Even so, everyone’s effort was meaningful; even if they didn’t find the Water Spirit Pearl, they could at least tie up the Yue Sect cultivators in their area.

Yin Qingsi slowly let herself sink to the bottom of the Flowing Sand River.

Due to the unique sand and wind environment of the Northwest, the riverbed had a thick layer of silt.

If something fell in here, finding it would really be no different from searching for a needle in the ocean.

But cultivators had their methods and wouldn’t painstakingly sift through inch by inch with a small rake.

Yin Qingsi performed the Mysterious Water Wave Skill, emanating from her center to the surroundings, within a range of ten zhang.

The skill rippled through like a stone cast into water, gently stirring the riverbed without lifting the silt, effectively detecting any response from spiritual objects related to the water attribute buried in the mud.

This was a method taught to her by the Nascent Transformation elder of the Qin Sect.

Mysterious Water was the essence of water.

While the Water Spirit Pearl might be indifferent to ordinary water techniques, it would definitely react to the impact of the Mysterious Water Wave; this was her trump card.

Cultivators of the Tongtian Realm, after all, had limited abilities regarding such divine and unique treasures; she was relatively well off, having this effective method.

Among the nearly hundred cultivators that entered, most still had to search in the conventional way, leading to the possibility of oversights.

Her section of the river was sixty li wide, and at her current pace, she could complete the search in about three days if nothing disturbed her.

However, that was practically impossible.

Every hour, she felt three very subtle water wave pressures transmitted to her position; she knew these couldn’t be from Yue Country cultivators from across the river, as they wouldn’t arrive so quickly, nor would there be three of them at once.

They were from the Water Clan of the Flowing Sand River.

She stopped using the Mysterious Water Wave and strived to remain quiet; before entering, the elders from her sect had instructed to avoid conflicts with the Water Clan as much as possible, not because they lacked strength, but because the Water Clan was inexhaustible.

Once tangled with them, there basically wouldn’t be another chance to search quietly, a very undesirable plan.

These were three little water demons, curiously circling around her,

The little shrimp whispered, “This human is so ugly…”

The little crab nodded, “Indeed, no claws, no whiskers, just muscle on the pectoral fins, no tail fin…”

The little turtle added, “I like the hairpin on her head.”

This section was a hundred zhang deep.

Humans generally avoided provoking the Water Clan of the Flowing Sand River, so they rarely came down here.

These little demons had little exposure to humans and found this human woman quite a novelty, critically sizing her up.

But one thing was clear to them, this human was formidable and not to be trifed with.

Yin Qingsi could understand what they were saying, having devoted effort to this area, especially in many details, so she slowly removed her hairpin and pushed it forward.

Not every monster is a bloodthirsty, man-eating fiend, when they awaken their spiritual wisdom and no longer view the world purely by instinct, the tyrannical ones are after all in the minority; but as their experiences increase, their horizons broaden, and their contact with humans grows, when they realize that their kind could possibly end up as a dish in human places like Wangjiang Tower, they would then resolutely oppose humans.

Now, these three fellows were still in a confused stage, full of curiosity towards those strange, shiny objects of humans, you just need to satisfy their desires.

Of course, the temperament of a cultivator is very important, those like Sword Cultivators, who outwardly express a murderous aura, are hard to be seen as approachable—they wouldn’t think the person is ugly, but rather that he is fierce, a bad man, and then turn around to report to Grandpa Demon, Ancestor Demon.

Yin Qingsi had made a great name for herself among the Tongtian Third Realm cultivators in the Northwest Region, and it wasn’t just because of her brute strength, it also included her caution, meticulousness, and mindset control.

After giving up a few small items, although they might not necessarily become friends, at least these little demons wouldn’t go back to report.

Their realms were simply too low, too low to understand what the Water Spirit Pearl really meant to Water Clan like them.

This brought her temporary safety, at least she wouldn’t be entangled endlessly with the Water Demons immediately; even if hundreds of cultivators entered the Flowing Sand River at the same time, dealing with them one by one would be difficult for the Water Clan’s numbers to handle.

She continued to chatter with these three little fellows, telling them the stories they loved to hear about the fascinating, multifaceted outside world, various small gossip, and occasionally pulling out some small items to attract their greedy hearts, all with the purpose of delaying them, keeping them following her, so no new wave of Water Demons would come to bother her.

Unable to kill, this method was the most effective—she successfully placed herself in a considerably advantageous position; in the first one or two days in the water, she encountered no other troubles.

This allowed her to focus all her mind on searching this stretch of water, she was completely certain that the area she passed through bore no trace of the Water Spirit Pearl’s presence, this was important, meaning she didn’t need to rework and go through it again, thus she could devote more energy and time to other areas.

Two days later, she had crossed about seventy percent of the river’s width and was beginning to approach the riverbank of Yue Country on the opposite side, that was when she encountered a competitor in this area, a Yue Sect cultivator who had been tormented miserably by the Water Demons.

The Water Demons lacked strength, so they wouldn’t come up and fight to death, but their endless tormenting could greatly diminish a cultivator’s perception underwater; this Yue Country cultivator was facing just such a situation, most of his attention was on how to avoid the nuisances of the Water Demons, who were drumming nearby, spouting water, waving flags and shouting, chasing each other in a game, turning the surrounding Five Elements environment into a mess, resulting in him having moved very little from where he had landed three days ago.

Like the Qin Sect cultivators, he also didn’t dare to strike at these little demons, otherwise he would face not harassment, but real deadly battle—he wasn’t afraid of fighting, but he was afraid of not completing his mission.

Then, he noticed a Qin Sect Cultivator swimming over, like him, followed by several not-so-dispensable little demons.

With a sigh in his heart, clearly, the cultivator opposite had chosen a different strategy under the harassment of the little demons; he believed that he was searching very slowly under these circumstances, and his opponent could not be much faster, so the result was,

his opponent’s search was sloppy and incomplete?