Chapter 129
Lying on the ground in the cave, Michelle stared at the fire. Even though she was a good few meters away from it, she still felt the warmth from it, and it made her uncomfortable. She glanced around and saw that Snow was also keeping her distance from the flames. In that, she and Michelle were the same. They had cold bodies, so they avoided warm things and places.
"Michelle..." Kieran broke the silence in the cave. Everyone was already preparing to go to sleep, but he had a question on his mind. "You said you would come only after about a week at the earliest, so how come you are here so early?" he asked curiously.
Michelle glanced at Kieran and remembered the Soul Seeking Pendants in her spatial ring. "I still need to take care of something, but to do that, I need to go to the lower realm first. But while there, I can’t break through into the Spirit rank."
"Why can’t you break through?" Kieran was confused.
"The Soul Seeking pendants can suck in the souls of those who are above the Spirit rank. They should be full, so I shouldn’t be in danger, but I have no way of knowing if there isn’t a pendant that isn’t completely full. If there is one like that and I touch it after breaking through into the Spirit rank, then I’m as good as dead."
"Oh..." Kieran lifted a brow. He remembered that Michelle had once told him that the Sloan family had created an army of soulless cultivators using the Soul Seeking Pendants, but he didn’t know that Michelle had yet to break them. He thought she had already done so. "Why do you need to go to the lower realm to free the souls?" he asked as he sat down by the cave wall. Everyone else was already half-asleep, but they were still listening, curious about Michelle’s plans.
"Well, they are all cultivators from the lower realm. If I freed them in the Land of Exile, they would be shocked and confused. And twelve thousand confused and maybe even enraged cultivators could cause quite some turmoil in a place where barely anyone can cultivate." After finishing her explanation, Michelle yawned lazily and lay on her side, wanting to sleep.
Knowing that she had to be exhausted, no one asked her anything more, and everyone went to sleep. The next day, they were planning to go to the lower realm, so they needed to be well rested. In the end, in the jungle behind the barrier awaited more powerful monsters and beasts, ready to tear them apart.
The next day, Michelle woke up last. Kieran, Ivona, and Anastasia were already prepared to depart at any time.