Vesa, listening to her idea, turned speechless.
[Queen, you seem changed now.
Before, you would never have thought of an idea like this; this is more like something a king would say.]
"Really?
Maybe you are right, but my ideas should not be bad," Ming Yue said as she walked out of the cave.
She could have taken out some camp gear from Alex''s world, but Ming Yue preferred to do things safely.
She only took out items that would leave no evidence at all.
A camp would still leave marks on the ground since it needed stakes to ensure its stability.
[Well, if the king hears it, I am sure he will say something like ''capitalism at its finest'' and then laugh with pride.]
Ming Yue chuckled, "You are right; well, I will discuss it more with him later."
Her face then turned serious, "How far is it, Vesa?"
[Not far, Queen.
Did you forget you can just see from the map?]
"I know, I just want someone to talk to.
Feng Xue is still sleeping."
[Didn''t you use to walk alone in the past, Queen?]
"I did that not because I wanted to, Vesa.
It''s better to have someone to talk to.
But you should know from my memory, with how cutthroat the competition is, walking with sect members will just make me unable to sleep."
There were many cases like this where fellow sect members attacked each other for resources, just like what Lin Hua had done to her in the past.
The only time they behaved was if an Elder joined them.
[Queen, there are groups of people coming after you.]
Ming Yue stopped in her tracks.
She now wore a hood to make sure no one could see her face.
However, that didn''t stop some ruffians and thugs from targeting her.
After all, they could still see her feminine figure.
A group of seven thugs came out, surrounding Ming Yue.
"What is a young girl like you doing alone in the forest?
Do you need some company?" one of the men asked.
But Ming Yue didn''t listen to what the man said; she didn''t care.
There was no value in listening to the yapping of a dead person.
Ming Yue sighed in her mind; this was not the first time she had been ambushed.
The reason this kept happening was that Ming Yue had made Vesa hide her Qi completely.
This made people think she was just a commoner.
''What a waste of time. Well, it''s better than a cultivator tracking my location,'' she thought.
If a cultivator passed by and saw another lone cultivator walking toward an uncharted area, they would start wondering what treasure existed there.
Most of the time, cultivators would only move if there was something of value; otherwise, they would just spend time training.
Only useless cultivators or immortals spent their time lazing around.
The man kept yapping, but seeing no response from Ming Yue made him frown.
He started feeling weird; this was not the first time he had ambushed someone in the forest.
Usually, women would already scream and ask to be spared.
Some even offered their bodies directly as long as they didn''t get killed.
But the woman in front of him now didn''t even move, even after being surrounded.
And that was the man''s last thought before the world suddenly spun in his eyes.
He didn''t even register what had happened; the next thing he knew, he saw the world become taller, and then everything turned dark.
With one move, Ming Yue slashed their heads off, and blood spurted out from their necks, but before even a drop of it fell to the ground, the rest of the thugs faced the same fate.
Their bodies then disappeared, turning into life energy that got absorbed into her body.
[322 Lifeforce absorbed.]
Ming Yue sighed; with the amount she had absorbed, she knew it would still be a while before she unlocked the pendant, which was now hanging around her neck.
She would also prioritize her own cultivation; every time it was stable enough, she would quickly raise her cultivation level.
She knew she was very close now to reaching the next major realm, the Nascent Soul stage.
Ming Yue wanted to break through and, if possible, reach the late stage before returning to her sect.
At that time, she wouldn''t need to worry about their retaliation.
She then continued on her path; it didn''t take long for her to reach her destination.
From the outside, it just looked like a normal cave, with its entrance covered by many veins.
''No wonder no one found out about this place; I cannot even detect any Qi at all.''
Ming Yue then walked closer to the vein, covered her body with Qi, and tried to slip through the gap in the vein.
She did this because she didn''t want to leave any marks for someone entering the cavern.
Inside the cavern, it was dark and damp; she could also hear running water dripping from inside.
But for Ming Yue, this darkness was just as bright as daylight.
Just like Alex, darkness didn''t impede her view.
''Vesa, show me the map.''
Then, a map of the surrounding area, with the tunnel and the living beings inside, appeared in her eyes.
It wasn''t really detailed like the one in the secret realm, but it was enough for Ming Yue to navigate the place.
Walking deeper inside toward the Qi Crystal Mine area, she could hear the sound of running water even closer.
On her way, to her surprise, there were no monsters, not even a bat, only many small insects chirping around the cave.
It didn''t take long for her to reach an opening; inside, she found a lake with a luminous crystal on top of it.
It was different from Qi crystal; looking at it, Ming Yue was sure there should be some other function to use it. sea??h thё N?velFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
But she was not an alchemist or blacksmith, so she didn''t know what it could be used for.
Looking at the calm surface of the lake, Ming Yue smiled.
A cold aura started coming out from her body.