si-mexico Chapter 624 The Journey to the Oasis
Chapter 624 The Journey to the Oasis
Babel seemed stunned by Lilupar's words, "Give up your true name."
Xu Ning, holding the gourd of wine, watched as Babel slowly turned to face him, and then watched as her thoughts slowly surfaced.
"There's still a chance, there's still a chance..."
Babel bowed again respectfully, "Please accept my humble request, Lord Xu Ning..."
Xu Ning raised his hand to stop her from continuing, "Perhaps Matriarch Babel hasn't forgotten that my visit to the Tanit tribe was actually to fulfill Jade's wish. Although I wouldn't mind seeking some benefits for her tribe along the way, that would only be on the premise that we are friends. The attack I suffered in the canyon today makes me doubt that."
Babel bowed again. "I will testify to Tanit's friendship to you. Now, young men, please keep the master company at the banquet for me. I will arrange for the falcons to hunt down that traitor Adelfi for you."
After saying this, Babel left his seat.
Xu Ning turned to look at the unusually quiet Jade, "Are you still angry? Should I call Belial out to join in the fun?"
Jade's face immediately lit up with a smile, and she nodded repeatedly.
Xu Ning teased, "Looking at you now, I really don't know how you managed all that time you were alone..."
Upon hearing this, Jade's expression suddenly changed, and she exclaimed, "Oh no, I forgot about Benben..."
Xu Ning realized what was happening when he saw Jiede suddenly run out.
It seems that Benben is still being repaired by Jade at Adelphi's place. Now that Adelphi is gone, although it is unknown whether he has defected, neither outcome will be beneficial to Benben.
Fortunately, Jade returned a moment later. Benben was still in Adelfi's tent, but he seemed to have no strength left to move.
Seeing Jade's dejected expression, Xu Ning comforted her, "Perhaps it's a good thing that Adelphi ran away. If he really had malicious intentions, it might even be detrimental to Benben."
After a pause, Xu Ning said, "As for Benben's problem, well, if you're comfortable with that, leave him to the immortal master in my grotto-heaven. She also has unique skills in mechanical arts..."
Jade's eyes lit up. "Are you talking about Aunt Xianyun, who always calls herself a celestial master?"
Xianyun... Auntie?
Two question marks appeared above Xu Ning's head. "True Lord Liuyun Borrowing Wind, is this what you call yourself? Are you trying to tell others that you're a wild crane? Is this self-deprecation?"
"Uh, I think so."
Jade immediately grabbed Xu Ning's hand and said, "Then let's hurry up and send Benben inside. I also need to take care of Benben the whole time, so I'll stay in the cave for now. Don't call me before we leave tomorrow."
Xu Ning's face darkened. "You're taking care of Benben?"
You left Benben with that traitor Adelfi for so long, and now they're inseparable? I don't even bother to call you out on it.
However, to be honest, Tanit's banquet was nothing special. Xu Ning simply ended the banquet early and returned to her tent with Jade, sending Benben, who had just moved in, into the cave.
"Aunt Xianyun, how is Benben?" Jiede asked with some concern, looking at the serious expression on Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun's face.
"Call me Immortal Master! This mechanism is simply unable to self-circulate due to a lack of energy. Once it is fully charged with energy, it will naturally resume its function. Can you use elemental power?"
Jade shook her head blankly.
"That's a bit troublesome. We'll have to make another charging device. But luckily, I prepared over a hundred power cores for my doll toys a few days ago, so it should be usable after some modifications..."
As Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun muttered to himself as he went to retrieve the "energy core," Xu Ning keenly sensed something amiss.
"True Lord, what kind of puppet toy did you make? Why does the toy need an energy core? What can this toy do?"
Xu Ning still didn't get to see Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun's toys.
They were ordered not to peer into the secrets of the True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng's room, which was about ten meters away from the room.
However, Xu Ning speculated that this True Lord sister might have reverted to her old ways and filled the room with all sorts of messy things, probably to avoid being seen by him!
At least from the sounds of rummaging through the items inside, it was clear that the items were not arranged in an orderly manner.
However, it didn't take long for True Lord Liuyun to take out a diamond-shaped box.
“When you were fighting those elemental mechanisms, the lightning element seemed to be able to easily disrupt their state. It's likely that they also used similar energy as the lightning element. Now, use the lightning element to fill this box, then give it to the little girl and stick it on that mechanism.”
Xu Ning summoned a lightning element clone, which filled the box almost instantly.
Jade carefully placed the box on Benben's body. Seeing that Benben seemed to gradually emit light and could even "beep" and talk, she happily went to report the good news to Belial.
"Are those... spoils collected by the adults?"
Xu Ning was thinking about how he and Jiede had spent the night in the tent, and whether they would be rumored to be spreading rumors about him the next morning. Just as he was thinking about going out to move the gourd to another place, he suddenly heard Lilupal speak up beside him.
Xu Ning circled around twice before realizing that Lilupal was referring to the cores of the elemental energy mechanisms he had piled up in a corner of the cave.
"Not spoils of war. They were left behind by mechanisms inside the Crimson King's Tomb. Each of those mechanisms seemed to possess some rudimentary intelligence, and I wanted to see what was inside their cores..."
"What else could it be? Just some broken ghosts, probably forcibly sealed inside using some kind of ghost-controlling technique, like this bottle of remnant souls floating next to you."
Upon hearing their question, True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng immediately resolved the problem that had been troubling Xu Ning for so long.
"Remaining soul?"
Xu Ning sensed the silence around Lilupal and recalled Lilupal's words, "My soul is shattered."
But which powerful being made such a punitive measure against the remnants of souls within these mechanisms?
"The remnant soul inside, it's not yours, is it?"
Xu Ning pointed to a pile of elemental energy cores stacked on the ground, forming a small pointed castle, and asked Lilupal, "Are the remnants of souls here yours?"
Lilupal slowly shook the bottle. "No, but they are of the same lineage as me, or to put it more simply, these are all my children."