I'm farming treasure chests in the female-oriented world.

Chapter 88 Breaking Through the Barrier

A paper crane flew happily around Xia Xue, while several paper figures close to her jumped anxiously around her.

Xia Xue quickly looked down at the paper figures and said, "You each have your own strengths and weaknesses. The advantage of the paper cranes is their wide field of vision, fewer obstacles, and high speed. Your advantage lies in your concealment and fine detail, allowing you to reach any corner you want to scout."

After comforting the paper figure, Xia Xue smiled and shook her head.

"After the sacrifice to the spirits of heaven and earth, they have developed rudimentary intelligence, and it's really hard to use them."

Xia Xue made a hand seal with her left hand, and the paper figures instantly stopped moving and entered standby mode. With a wave of her right hand, she put all the paper figures into the dimensional space.

"With my current spiritual awareness, I can still control more than eighty paper figures. Let's replenish them first. Oh, and leave a few for the origami cranes, just in case."

After arranging everything, Xia Xue looked towards the dimensional space, a hint of anticipation flashing in her eyes.

"Unexpectedly, there was a pleasant surprise this time."

Xia Xue "looked" at the crystal ball in the dimensional space, recalling the information she had traced back to.

"This is actually a magical artifact left behind by a Western witch skilled in divination a hundred years ago."

The paper craftsman obtained it by chance.

Because he was not good at divination, he deliberately left it behind in case of emergency.

"I'm good at deduction."

Xia Xue flipped her right hand and took out the crystal ball.

"This time, it should be about tracing the source, right?"

The system's notification arrived as scheduled.

"An item highly compatible with the Mystic Art of Tracing Origins has been detected. Treasure chest is being generated..."

really.

Xia Xue smiled.

The technique of tracing origins is the esoteric art that Xia Xue uses most frequently.

Its optimization and upgrades have a significant impact on Xia Xue's strength.

"Especially now, at this juncture of hunting down the remnants of the Netherfire forces."

Tracing the source has recently shown signs of strain.

Several times I couldn't find the result I wanted by tracing the source.

For example, when a paper craftsman uses paper puppetry to escape, the source cannot distinguish the true form.

"The enemy is cunning; they must still have such tactics. If tracing the source proves ineffective every time..."

Then tracing the source has to take a backseat.

"Open the treasure chest, Special Feature: Barrier Breaker"

"Breakthrough: Consumes a large amount of true essence to remove obstacles in the tracing process."

Seeing this feature, Xia Xue smiled with satisfaction.

"This is exactly what I wanted!"

……

It was 3 p.m. in a farmhouse on the edge of a village in the suburbs of Yuncheng.

Xia Xue's figure appeared instantly.

"They really did escape!"

Xia Xue glanced around and, without even tracing the source, could tell that the Gu Master had been on the run for more than ten hours.

"Tracing the source!"

This was exactly what she had expected.

Xia Xue calmly began tracing the origins.

"As expected, they were prepared."

In an instant, Xia Xue traced the source to hundreds of constantly moving targets.

"It should be a secret technique similar to the paper puppet technique, in which one's own essence and aura are evenly distributed to the object to interfere with the deduction results."

However, compared to paper puppets which only have a few interfering factors, the interfering factors of Gu magic suddenly increase to several hundred.

"The Gu Master is really ruthless to himself."

How much vital essence must that have consumed?

"Break through the barrier!"

Fortunately, the system was upgraded before the source was traced.

"Huh? What's this?"

Xia Xue frowned when she saw the results of the source tracing.

"Dead?"

Xia Xue shook her head, her figure flashed and disappeared from the spot. When she reappeared, she was already in a mountain valley more than ten miles away.

Xia Xue stood suspended in mid-air, looking at the corpse in the mountain hollow, which had no bones or blood left, only a blood-red skeleton.

"This is indeed a Gu Master."

Xia Xue traced the source again and confirmed that this person was indeed a Gu Master.

"Died from a backlash from the Gu worms?"

Thinking about the hundreds of results that had just been traced back to contain the essence of Gu Masters, Xia Xue had a vague answer in her mind.

"But I always felt that Gu Masters were not people who would fall easily."

Xia Xue had a premonition that this matter was not so simple, but since it involved Gu magic, which she knew nothing about, she could only give up for the time being.

"Even if the Gu Master is still alive, his condition is probably very bad right now. No rush, I'll take a look after I find a way to break the Gu technique."

Xia Xue's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

From the blood-red skull, an insect flew out, circled the skeleton a few times, and disappeared into the forest.

……

Lin City, Hess's Private Zoo.

Xia Xue's figure appeared in the garden in an instant.

"Just like the previous investigation, the park is closed for renovations, and there are no tourists in the park."

Xia Xue glanced at the few remaining animals in the garden, shook her head, and said, "These are just ordinary wild beasts used to deceive people. The truly tamed beasts raised by the beast masters have all disappeared."

Xia Xue waved her right hand, opening their cages.

"The mountains and forests are just outside; you are free now."

Xia Xue looked up at the sky.

"Based on the tracing results, the Beastmaster escaped by riding a flying beast."

Xia Xue soared into the air and flew swiftly along the route of tracing the source, heading in a certain direction.

Halfway through the flight, Xia Xue suddenly stopped.

"No, my intuition tells me there's danger ahead!"

Xia Xue traced the origins once again.

"That dangerous place almost overlaps with the Beastmaster's location. It seems that this is how the Beastmaster deals with my pursuit."

Since the Beastmaster had no distractions or defensive deduction methods, he chose this method.

"They used themselves as bait to lure me into their trap."

Double tracing of origins.

Xia Xue saw the source of the danger.

"A giant python?"

It actually allowed her to sense danger.

It's likely that this giant python has already reached the peak of the Xuan Master realm, or even surpassed it, reaching the legendary Xuan Zong realm.

"I don't believe you can stay there forever."

The gentleman does not stand under the wall.

Xia Xue chose to wait for the right opportunity.

"Two in a row and we still haven't found anyone, what bad luck!"

Xia Xue's figure disappeared again.

"I hope, Master of the Underworld, you won't disappoint me!"

……

In Ancheng, in the mountains and forests on the outskirts of the city, in a secret underground base.

Xia Xue's figure appeared instantly.

"They really did run away."

Xia Xue had already gotten used to it.

"Tracing the source!"

Huh, it's so erratic?

Xia Xue immediately became interested.

"Is this a secret technique for defensive deduction? Or a treasure?"

Choosing to defend indicates that the Underworld Master still has room for maneuver and has not reached the point of fighting to the death. Unlike the Beast Master, who would use himself as bait to set up a trap, the Underworld Master would not do such a thing.

The fact that the defense was effective indicates that the Netherworld Master is in good condition and will not suffer a backlash like the Gu Master, whose mystical arts went out of control.

"As expected of the founder of Netherfire, despite having the deepest bond with the Crimson Lotus Space and suffering the greatest backlash from forcibly breaking the bond, he is in the best condition among the four."

I hope you won't let me down!

"Break through the barrier!"

A scene of an ancient underground tomb appeared before Xia Xue's "eyes".

"Found you!"

Xia Xue's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

"The Master of the Underworld!"