LWGP - Chapter 188

Chapter 188: Butterfly Valley

"Chongqing's Nine Palaces, Yunnan's Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Guizhou's Sky Eye, the capital's Cai Market."

Many famous territories bore strong regional or local identifiers. This wasn't a deliberate characteristic, but rather a result of their foundation. They were built by large, powerful groups, and when many people were involved, individual subjectivity diminished. Everyone pooled their efforts, and the territory was ultimately named after a collective feature. Casually named territories, like Wang Jiu's, were typically private.

"Cai Market is coming too? The capital isn't far from Chengdu."

Wang Jiu was a little surprised. Wang Shu smirked. "Maybe that Xie Jiang is coming to find you, Master?"

Wang Jiu: "Xie Jiang isn't the leader of Cai Market."

Wang Shu: "Then maybe it's their Boss Cai who wants to find you?"

This unworthy disciple was getting bolder and bolder, gossiping daily about his master's romantic affairs.

Wang Jiu: "Is that so? If I'm that popular, then you're finished."

Wang Shu was surprised, "What do you mean?"

As her disciple, shouldn't he be the target of their flattery?

Wang Jiu looked at the dense jungle ahead, seemingly lost in thought, but a sentence drifted from her lips: "I don't mind telling people I've slept with you."

Truly someone capable of great things, saying it so matter-of-factly.

Wang Shu was shocked, almost stuttering, "I-I-I, I'm fat! They won't believe it!"

Wang Jiu gave him a meaningful look, "A bit of meat on the bones is also quite nice."

Wang Shu, his face the color of dirt, was so scared the steering wheel slipped in his hands.

Bai Bai was also dumbfounded: Indeed, my Grandma Ancestor's demonic aura is leaking out.

Fortunately, many vines and shrubs blocked the road ahead, and the car came to a hasty stop.

"Master, we're done for. The whole road is blocked. The car can't get through."

Wang Shu looked ahead at the dense, thick vines and saw some sort of vine-flowers on them. They looked quite pretty, but the car couldn't pass… But why were they moving?

"That's not right. I clearly hit the brakes, so why is the car still moving?" As Wang Shu muttered, the car suddenly vanished. Plop. Wang Shu fell and landed on his butt, but he was impaled on a thorny vine that had crept up and wrapped around the wheels at some point. The thorns made him scream in pain and jump up, but more vines shot up from below.

"What is this stuff!" Wang Shu waved his hand, took out his staff, and pointed it down. Arcane fire shot down like a fiery vine, wrapping around the other vines and incinerating them.

Overflowing with dominance, majestic and awe-inspiring.

As soon as he landed, before Wang Shu could even admire his own handsome and heroic posture, he saw that the vines blocking the road ahead had been completely incinerated by a Black Flame Swamp.

Bai Bai, who had blasted several deep craters with a swipe of its paw that unleashed black light, glanced at him, its little eyes full of expression.

Wang Shu: "…"

Fine. Around you guys, I'm just the driver, the cook, and the corpse looter.

"Master, is this a plant race mutation?"

The car belonged to Wang Jiu, as hers was much more advanced than Wang Shu's. She was the one who had just put it away. But now that the ground was cleared, she didn't take the car out again. Instead, she walked towards the jungle at the side.

Oh, no wonder Master had a teleportation scroll that went directly to Chengdu but insisted on arriving in Mianyang City.

Could it be…

"Master, are you looking for the Undead Race?"

Wang Shu had a flash of insight and guessed Wang Jiu's thoughts. "And the Undead Race kills any living creature it sees. The fact that there are plant races here means the undead army hasn't arrived yet. So we can just wait here?"

"Wait?" Wang Jiu glanced back at him. Wang Shu froze for a moment, then understood.

Wait and kill at the same time!

No wonder Master wasn't in a hurry to get to Chengdu. If she arrived early, it would probably just be socializing and meetings, or perhaps scheming and backstabbing. She couldn't be bothered with that.

Sichuan has always been a place of dense mountains and forests, with countless plant races. Now that the apocalypse has arrived, many plants have mutated freely. There was nothing in the forest that didn't eat people, but some creatures also thrived among them.

"Strange, why are there butterflies all along this path?"

All sorts of poisonous butterflies, all sorts of colorful butterflies larger than gyrfalcons.

"This place is the famous Butterfly Valley, so of course there are many butterflies. Later, when we're fighting them, remember to gather some medicinal herbs from their habitat. Does our territory have anyone who makes potions?"

Only then did Wang Shu realize this was Butterfly Valley. No wonder the scenery was so beautiful, he thought. "Alchemists? I think we have some, but their levels are very low and their skills aren't great. I did contact a few people and ask if they wanted to join us. After all, alchemy is really important and will be a component of a territory's combat power in the future. Unfortunately, great alchemists are too hard to find."

Wang Jiu thought of people like Wei Yuan, but she wasn't too concerned. "No, I just want to invest a little. It doesn't matter if they're not in our territory. As for potions, as long as you have money, there's no shortage of channels to get them."

Even without Wei Yuan, once those people returned, what couldn't be bought?

The prerequisite, of course, was to survive them.

Wang Jiu didn't believe these returning powerhouses would be good-tempered.

Just as she was certain that if she and Wei Yuan could meet in reality, he would not hesitate to take her life and seize her resources.

Wang Shu's strength was insufficient. He hadn't made the rankings last time and currently had no flying pet. So, facing these flying butterflies, he had a huge headache. His attacks were repeatedly ineffective, so he could only rack his brains to deal with the ground plants or resort to using firearms.

"Master, you can't fly either. How is your ranged attack's reach so far and so high?"

Butterflies weren't high-altitude creatures, but their flight height was enough to trouble Wang Shu. It had little effect on Wang Jiu, however. Of course, the ore she had obtained from the sewers was limited, so she couldn't waste energy flying all the time.

Wang Jiu explained the enhancement from the Order Book and the Heavenly Channeling Art. Only then did Wang Shu understand, but he despaired after learning it was a top-tier skill. He had seen the prices for top-tier skills at the goblin merchant's shop; they were as extortionate as an old lady trying to scam you for a traffic accident before you'd even put the car in reverse.

"First burst damage, now Order… forget it. I might as well just hope I get a flying pet."

For some reason, as soon as he said this, Wang Jiu glanced at him. Her expression was a bit strange, but she didn't say anything.

The two of them, plus Bai Bai, ventured deeper and deeper into Butterfly Valley. They killed and plundered resources along the way, running into two waves of wild monsters and bosses, but they were all easily flattened. Wang Jiu was already level 45, and leveling up was slow for her, but Wang Shu's level was rising quickly.

Bai Bai: "This counts as power-leveling a noob."

Wang Shu, who was routinely mocked by the little fox, was delighted. As long as he got the benefits, losing a little face was nothing. Besides, his master's monster-grinding skills were truly incredible.

Suddenly, Wang Jiu stopped. Wang Shu saw this and immediately guessed—was there movement up ahead?

Of course there was movement up ahead.

A group of people was also in these mountains. But unlike Wang Jiu's group, which charged ahead recklessly, this group was much more cautious. It was an elite team of twenty, with average attributes of over two thousand. These people seemed to have no intention of causing a major disturbance in the mountains, yet they had come with a purpose.

"They're either placing surveillance eyes or related formation items."

Wang Jiu, who had dragged Wang Shu up a tree, stood on a high branch, looking down at the group of people moving slowly along the stream in the valley below. Wang Shu felt that these people were being sneaky, and their target was probably also the Undead Race.

Sure enough, they soon saw the group setting up surveillance eye devices along the path and fiddling with something in the depths of the valley.

Wang Shu: "How long are they going to take? Master, should we just attack them?"

"How long can it take to install a device? And with their strength, they wouldn't dare to wait here for too long. If the Undead Race comes, they won't be able to handle it. Even in these mountains, there are plenty of things that can kill them, such as…"

Wang Jiu glanced towards the dense forest to the southeast, her eyes deep and profound.

After a while, the group finished setting up their device. However, it was obscured by the surrounding trees and leaves, so Wang Jiu and the others couldn't see it clearly. They only knew it was a device for determining direction.

After they finished their work, the group prepared to withdraw. Suddenly, the person in the lead stopped and looked ahead.

"What's that?"

"It's a dark cloud, right? Looks like it's going to rain."

"No, it's not a dark cloud. Can't you see all the birds and beasts over there are fleeing?"

"Holy shit, I think the lord looked into Butterfly Valley. I heard there's a Purple Gold BOSS stationed here, but it's just a legend. Haven't people from the Sichuan side come here to grind monsters without ever running into it?"

"Let's go, quick!"

"Send a message to the lord!"

This group, which had been so cautious on arrival, now fled in a chaotic panic, scrambling away like the other monsters and race players.

Watching them flee into the distance, Wang Shu looked at Wang Jiu. "Master, what now?"

Wang Jiu glanced at him and kicked him in the butt. After Wang Shu fell and landed, he looked up just in time to see Wang Jiu step onto her flying device and shoot away as a stream of light.

If there was a Purple Gold BOSS over there, it would be useless for Wang Shu to go anyway. So he knew Wang Jiu had kicked him down to let him check what kind of device that group had installed.

"Why didn't you go?" Wang Shu was a bit curious when he saw Bai Bai hadn't left. Bai Bai rolled its eyes. "There's a pack of level 45 snakes coming from the front. The Golden BOSS inside has average attributes of 5000. If I leave, do you think you can survive?"

"Ah, thank you, Bai Bai. I didn't know you cared about me."

"I don't. You're too fat. There's no room for you in my heart."

"…"

Wang Shu was abashed, cursing inwardly that all the bosses in this world were indeed enemies.

When would he be able to solo a Purple Gold BOSS like his master?

Stepping on her flying device, Wang Jiu charged into the massive, dense swarm of giant butterflies. She had activated a barrier in advance, as the butterflies were releasing a toxic powder, which was blocked outside the barrier.

The Spirit Tentacles pierced through the surrounding butterflies, weaving into a deadly vortex that frantically shredded them.

However, after killing for a while, Wang Jiu scanned the butterflies and raised an eyebrow slightly.

There were only three Golden BOSSes, and the Purple Gold BOSS was nowhere to be seen. Yet they were making such a huge commotion, as if to deliberately drive away the surrounding creatures. That must be why they released the toxic powder in advance.

If any creature makes a huge commotion as a warning before unleashing its attack, there can only be one objective—that Purple Gold BOSS doesn't want any living creatures nearby.

Wang Jiu's gaze expanded outward, and she discovered that the butterfly swarm was radiating out from a central circle. Inward, there were now no living creatures or powerful plant races left.

Lost in thought, Wang Jiu suddenly abandoned the butterfly swarm and flew directly towards the depths of the forest at the center of the circle.

After all, she was the one who had just gone on a killing spree. The butterflies knew how terrifying she was. Seeing her fly inward, they grew anxious. They stopped flying outward to drive away other creatures and instead turned inward to chase after Wang Jiu.

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