Chapter 1707 A Sudden Trouble

Chapter 1707 A Sudden Trouble

"I'm assuming what sensed you are not beasts?" Alex asked.

The old man frowned, pulling up his medallion. "I don't want to risk spreading my spirit sense to see if they're beasts and humans," he said. "None of my formations returned warned me of any human or ships flying over us, so it couldn't be..."

He slowed down a bit, his face darkening even further. "Dammit!" he cried out all of a sudden.

"W-what?" Alex asked. He was slightly scared by the old man's outburst.

"Two of my warning formations are down on the other side," the old man said.

"You don't get notified when they're down?" Alex asked the old man.

"I'm supposed to, but I didn't receive any. It happens from time to time." The old man sighed and turned toward Alex. "What do we do now? Fight?"

"Are you sure they're coming this way?" Alex asked.Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.

The old man checked the medallion again.

"Yes, they're coming this way," he said. "In fact, they're close enough that they won't have to strain their spiritual sense too. And if we run away, they'll alert the others, I fear. We can't be chased."

Alex nodded. He thought for a bit, worried. "I need to do something about my face," he said softly. "They'll recognize me."

"But I have nothing for that," the old man said.

"The blue flower with the red dots I got a few days ago," Alex said quickly. "I called it the Redspot Tiger Daisy. Bring it out."

The old man nodded, bringing out the flower as said. Alex took the flower, and immediately chewed on it, eating it.

He felt a heat bubble up in his stomach once he swallowed it, a burning sensation from the toxins that were in the poison. It would soon show its effects.

"What did you eat?" the old man asked.

Since he so very rarely went out to cause trouble, his infamy hadn't spread just yet. However, he would've still assumed them to know about him, but they didn't. That meant that someone, most likely the Dragon Emperor, was suppressing his presence here.

The Emperor feared about what Zhou Linfan might end up revealing

This meant, against these 2 soldiers, he didn't immediately have to fight.

"Fellow Daoists, I am called Hao Fangling," the old man said. "I am an elder of the Desolate Mountain sect in the Northern Continent."

"An elder from the Northern Continent? What is an old man like you doing here?" the man demanded. The old man had managed to present himself as someone weaker than the two and thus made the two more arrogant here.

"That's exactly the thing, fellow Daoist," the old man said. "I am not old. I am merely 2 thousand years old."

"What?" the man asked.

"That's right," Zhou Linfan answered. "I'm only 2 thousand years old, but as you can see, my body has somehow aged many more times than it should have. So, I'm here to find a cure for my problem. An alchemist told me to find a flower called the Dawn Fade Camelia, which would help me get rid of this old age."

"Okay, but why are you here on this island?" the woman asked. "Did nobody tell you to get away from this place right now?"

"Leave this place? But I only just arrived," the old man said. "I used a teleportation talisman to try and make my way to the Eastern Continent, but it must have been weak. I arrived about 2 islands that way. I wanted to go to the Eastern Continent directly, but I instead found this wonderful island and am trying to find the plant here."

The two frowned and conversed with each other in secret. After a brief moment, they seemed to come to a decision. "The Eastern Continent is off-limit to any outsiders. We shall allow you to search for what you want on this island for a single day. By tomorrow, when we come to search here again, you must be gone. Understood?"

"The Eastern Continent is off-limit?" the old man asked. "Why is that—"

"You don't need to know," the woman snapped back. "Do as we tell you to or we'll capture you and take you there as a prisoner."

"No, no, I'll do as you say," the old man said. "I'll search this place right away and leave for the north."

"Good," the man said. "You better stick to your word. We'll come check tomorrow."

"Of course," the old man's aid quickly. "You don't have to worry."

The two soldiers nodded and flew away, leaving the old man alone on the island, wondering where Alex had disappeared to.