Chapter 2036: Found You, Seal!
Lady Li was, of course, quite confident in herself, but the situation before her was somewhat different from what she had imagined.
This Little Monster Sikong’s ability to hide himself was simply beyond her imagination.
So Lady Li could only use the Emperor Bloodline Detection Tool again, to ruthlessly dig Sikong Jing out.
"You can suppress it for a while, but I don’t believe you can suppress it forever."
Lady Li’s voice was laced with a lingering chill, and the power of the Emperor Vein testing tool instantly shrouded the entire small mountain forest...
Yet one breath, two breaths, three breaths passed... and still no Emperor Vein Power appeared.
This made Lady Li’s once-confident expression turn ugly, her heart pounding as she secretly thought, "Could it be that Mr. and Mrs. Sikong gave their little brats some method to hide their Emperor Veins? But if that’s the case, why was it possible to draw it out just now?"
She would never have imagined that the Sikong siblings had only gotten the method to hide it a moment ago.
"No, since it could be drawn out, that proves he doesn’t have a hiding method. He’s using something else to suppress it."
"Or, he’s already used some other method and left the range of this small mountain forest?"
As she spoke, Lady Li slowly moved the Emperor Vein testing tool upward, clearly intending to test a larger area.
At the same time, Sikong Jing, hidden at the edge of the small mountain forest, naturally also saw this scene.
He twitched the corner of his mouth, gritted his teeth madly, and growled, "Come out, hurry up and come out!"
Sikong Jing wasn’t unwilling to ignite the Emperor Veins in his body to let Lady Li find him; he just couldn’t draw them out yet.
The Bloodline of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts was suppressing them far too hard.
Even the many beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sky Prison didn’t know how to handle this; they weren’t human, after all.
Buzz...
Just then, the strange power of the Emperor Bloodline Detection Tool had already begun to spread outward.
Sikong Jing’s expression instantly turned resolute and crazed; he absolutely could not allow that detection power to once again cover Ling’er.
...
At the same time, Mieqing Venerable and Sikong Ling were darting rapidly through the nighttime alleys of Overlord City.
Suddenly, Mieqing Venerable seemed to sense something and murmured in a low voice, "Wen Ge, something is about to catch up, but I don’t know what kind of power it is—formless, yet as if it faintly exists."
Because the distance was very close and he was paying attention at every moment, this time Mieqing Venerable could faintly sense a bit of the detection power.
Hearing this, Sikong Ling gulped with a loud "glug," swallowing hard...
She naturally knew this was the very thing that had just ignited the Emperor Veins in her body. She frantically used the hiding method her parents had left behind again, trying to conceal them... and just then, she felt that strange power once more invade her body in an instant.
And once again, she almost couldn’t hide it; she still wasn’t familiar enough with how to conceal it.
"No, I must hide it."
Sikong Ling’s face was filled with extreme madness. She knew very well what the outcome would be if she failed: she would be captured by those terrifying figures who had hunted her parents, and then it would be miserable, utterly miserable.
And it would of course draw her brother out as well, dragging him down with her.
Even if they managed to escape in the end, the result would be that the enemy learned Mr. and Mrs. Sikong had a pair of children, that there were two beings possessing their parents’ Emperor Veins; that would obviously be even more disadvantageous to them.
At the same time, it would implicate Mieqing Venerable and the others...
Sister-in-law Su Yuexi would no longer be able to remain hidden in the Wunian Saint Sect either.
"Hide, hide, behave yourselves and stay down."
Sikong Ling silently growled at the Double Emperor Veins within her body, and at that critical moment, she suddenly felt the strange invading power finally withdraw.
In the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace.
She no longer needed to deliberately hide then, allowing Sikong Ling to finally breathe out a sigh of relief.
However, why had that detection power suddenly retreated?
Once Sikong Ling thought of this question, her whole body began to tremble violently. Her gaze snapped toward the direction of the small mountain forest as she muttered, "Brother..."
At that moment, she sensed from the direction of the small mountain forest an aura of the same root and same origin as hers.
"Brother has ignited his Double Dark Veins..."
Sikong Ling murmured to herself, her eyes instantly turning bloodshot. It had to be that her brother had drawn them out as bait to save her.
Which meant that from here on, her brother would definitely be in great danger.
But Sikong Ling clenched her teeth hard again, her voice trembling as she said, "Mieqing Venerable, keep taking me away, as far as possible."
She absolutely could not act rashly. She had to trust that her brother could handle it and not drag him down.
...
Boom...
Just as Sikong Ling had sensed, under Sikong Jing’s frenzied urging...
He used Lady Li’s Emperor Bloodline Detection Tool to sense that surging Double Dark Veins power that wanted to burst out, and finally, under the suppression of the Bloodline of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, he managed to draw it out—squeezing out just a little.
In that instant, Sikong Jing’s entire bearing changed.
Just like his younger sister Sikong Ling earlier, he became domineering, crazed, and laced with an icy, heartless Demon Intent.
It was precisely the attributes of two kinds of Emperor Veins...
The difference was that Sikong Jing’s aura didn’t feel as intense and pure as Sikong Ling’s; it was even somewhat faint and indistinct, as if he were forcibly suppressing it yet failing to fully hold it down.
But in truth, it was being restrained by the Bloodline of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts...
At that moment, Sikong Jing finally saw Lady Li in the sky withdrawing the power of the Emperor Bloodline Detection Tool.
He slowly exhaled a long breath; at least his sister was safe on her side.
"You finally couldn’t suppress it, huh? Hahaha, I’ve found you."
A sinister, chilling female voice rang out as Lady Li locked firmly onto Sikong Jing’s position—the location where his Emperor Veins had erupted. She naturally assumed it was Sikong Jing failing to suppress his Emperor Veins.
The next instant...
With a swish, Lady Li vanished from the sky and lunged down toward Sikong Jing.
At the same time, Sikong Jing immediately withdrew his ignition of the Emperor Veins.
For him, pulling back was of course extremely simple: just letting go would cause them to be suppressed back down by the Bloodline of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
At the same time, his body crackled noisily, his frame seemingly bulking up in an instant, and then, with the aura of a Little Demon Beast, he plunged fiercely into the ground, leaving only a retreating back for the onrushing Lady Li.
He still did not wish, for the time being, to expose the fact that he was Mr. and Mrs. Sikong’s son.
Thus Sikong Jing had to first alter his physique a bit, in order to mislead Lady Li’s judgment. As long as he didn’t let her see his face, he could maintain a degree of concealment and misdirection...
In other words, Sikong Jing did not want to admit that he possessed Emperor Veins.
He intended to make the Chasers believe that Sikong Jing and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sikong they were hunting were two different people.
Swish...
Just as Sikong Jing burrowed into the ground, Lady Li appeared as well. She sneered repeatedly and said, "Impressive, to immediately suppress the Emperor Veins in your body again. But it doesn’t look like you actually have a way to hide them."
Lady Li still believed Sikong Jing had no method to hide his Emperor Veins.
If he could truly hide them, it would’ve been impossible for them to erupt.
"Forget it. No matter how you did it, you’re not getting away now... Seal for me!"
As her words fell, Lady Li’s power poured straight into the underground, sealing every direction—up, down, all around—forming a Barrier that enveloped the underground and the surroundings entirely...