A Girl Dies Every Day in Her Dream Life 201

Chapter 201: Li Guijiao Wants to Run 

Rows of display cases were neatly arranged on the floor, and various items hung haphazardly on the pale walls. The surrounding environment was enveloped in a heavy, oppressive atmosphere.

Further away, countless complex formation runes flickered, dazzling the eye.

Beside the runes sat a tall, pale woman, her natural beauty stunning even without makeup.

She sat cross-legged on the ground, facing the runes, deep in thought.

“The core of the formation…”

Li Guijiao looked up, staring at the runes.

The core of the formation system that covered almost the entire barbarian lands was here. The external formation eyes were just a diversion.

Li Guijiao had placed the core within her cave for a reason. Only in this way could she truly control the entire formation.

When danger approached…

She could be the first to escape.

However, this formation was Li Guijiao’s painstaking work of hundreds of years. She couldn’t just abandon it.

To protect herself, Li Guijiao had been constantly optimizing the formation, trying to buy herself enough time to escape when a true threat arrived.

Li Guijiao’s principle was simple: everything was in preparation for escape.

Of course, besides this basic principle, Li Guijiao had another secret she had never told anyone, not even the White Tiger spirit.

—She wanted to go home.

For Li Guijiao, the Great Thousand Worlds, where she had lived for over a thousand years, wasn’t home, just a place she had stumbled into.

From the very beginning, she had been searching for a way to return to the nine provinces and four domains.

Whether it was uniting the demonic beast tribes of the barbarian lands, or maintaining this massive formation system, her primary goal was to find a way home.

Unfortunately, this hope seemed impossible now. Li Guijiao couldn’t find any trace of the nine provinces and four domains in the Great Thousand Worlds.

Even the ancient sects related to the nine provinces and four domains had been destroyed in the ancient era.

Because this history was related to the demonic beast tribes, and the tribes had been constantly at war, there were few records of this in the barbarian lands.

Li Guijiao had also tried using puppets to search outside, but the problem was… outside the barbarian lands, she had no influence.

A mere Nascent Soul cultivator could still cause some trouble in smaller places, but in a place like the Imperial Capital, she could only keep a low profile.

Every Imperial Guard in the Imperial Capital was at least at the Soul Transformation Realm. Even Spirit Transformation cultivators didn’t dare to act rashly there, let alone a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Therefore, Li Guijiao, despite having been in the Great Thousand Worlds for over a thousand years, knew less about its secrets, the nine provinces and four domains, and the ancient era than Luo Xue, who had arrived much later.

“White Tiger is currently taking ‘Luo Xue Unit’ to the Shura Tribe… A pig demon tribe with such a domineering name, but their fangs are indeed quite fierce.”

Li Guijiao scratched her head. “It seems the formation runes at the Fox Tribe were damaged. Strange… why was it the water-gathering formation that was damaged?”

Besides her daily cultivation, Li Guijiao’s job was maintaining this formation system and using it to monitor the southern barbarian tribes.

After so many iterations, Li Guijiao was very confident in her formations.

If any expert above the Sea Crossing Realm appeared in the southern barbarian lands, this formation system would immediately detect them, and then she could pack up and run.

Just then, Li Guijiao suddenly saw an anomaly report from the core of the formation system.

She quickly checked. A few formation runes seemed to be contaminated by some kind of power, changing in an unknown way.

“What’s going on?”

Li Guijiao frowned slightly, isolated these runes, and skillfully repaired them.

She closed her eyes, using her Divine Sense to carefully examine these “mutated” runes. After sensing for a moment, she abruptly opened her eyes, her spiritual power vibrating, shattering the runes.

“Damn… after all my calculations, I didn’t expect this kind of danger!” Li Guijiao took a deep breath. “No, I need to create another formation for checking these runes… A slight misstep could lead to a disaster!”

Just now, while examining the runes with her Divine Sense, Li Guijiao was almost contaminated by the power within them.

Although she didn’t know what this power was, it was definitely dangerous, domineering, and invasive.

“These formation runes… hmm, found them. They seem to be in this location…”

Li Guijiao opened a map and quickly determined the location monitored by these “mutated” runes.

Then, she glanced to the side and gasped.

“The Nangong ancestral land, why is it this place again…”

The Nangong ancestral land was quite troublesome. A while ago, some terrifying being suppressed there was about to break free, and Li Guijiao had even started packing.

But later, she heard from the White Tiger spirit that it was just the remains of a sealed demonic being, and even if it escaped, she could still handle it, with the help of a few demonic beast tribes.

—Only Great-Grandmother knew about the demonic remains, but the White Tiger spirit, being resurrected… also knew about it.

Of course, the Nangong clan had already sent people to deal with this matter, so there was no need for Li Guijiao to intervene.

“Since it’s the Nangong ancestral land, I can probably guess what this power is…” Li Guijiao shuddered. “The will of immortality, one of the ultimate laws, how terrifying. I have to build a formation immediately, just in case I’m caught off guard again. I can’t let this capsize my boat!”

Besides the will of immortality, no other power had such a terrifyingly invasive nature.

Not even the will of withering, the other ultimate law, because once truly infected by the will of withering, one would simply die, there was no “invasion.”

“Really, the Nangong clan is so careless, how can they let such a dangerous power roam free…”

Li Guijiao muttered as she designed the formation.

She thought for a moment, then decided to send a puppet to investigate. What if it wasn’t the will of immortality?

What if it was the revival of the demonic remains?

What if it was the return of the former Demonic Great Emperor?

No matter what, she had to be prepared to escape…

The ever-cautious Li Guijiao.

“Anyway… I can’t just let this troublesome power roam free.”

After some deliberation, Li Guijiao made up her mind.

After quickly setting up the formation, she closed her eyes, her consciousness projecting onto a puppet placed near the Nangong ancestral land.

Li Guijiao had placed a total of 3860 puppets throughout the barbarian lands.

The strongest of these puppets were at the Soul Transformation Realm, and the weakest were at Core Formation, allowing her to quickly arrive at the scene, assess the situation, and… escape.

Because the Nangong ancestral land was suppressing the demonic remains, it was Li Guijiao’s top priority for surveillance.

A moment later, a coffin near the Nangong ancestral land suddenly emerged from the ground, and a small, frail girl, her ethereal form resembling a ghost, stepped out. It was Li Guijiao’s signature disguise.

“It seems to be nearby…”

Li Guijiao moved her body slightly. This puppet was only at Core Formation, one she had placed here long ago and hadn’t used in hundreds of years.

She exhaled and walked towards the location where the formation system had detected the anomaly.

…

The southern barbarian lands, according to both the Nangong clan and the imperial family’s records, were a remote and barren wasteland.

Although resources weren’t extremely scarce, the environment was harsh, filled with ferocious beasts since the ancient era.

And after the demonic beast tribes settled here, it became even worse.

From the descriptions in various records, Luo Xue always imagined the demonic beast tribes to be like primitive tribes…

So, in Luo Xue’s mind, this place was a savage land of poverty and danger.

However…

When Luo Xue arrived at the location of the demonic beast tribe she had sensed, she saw a city, seemingly no different from a human city.

The only difference was that the city walls were made of the hardest rock in the southern barbarian lands, a material that even a Nascent Soul cultivator would struggle to leave a mark on.

This city was considered remote even within the southern barbarian lands. There was only a single, dozing guard at the gate.

Besides him, there was no one else around, no demonic beasts entering or leaving the city.

If not for the distinct aura of demonic beasts within, Luo Xue would have thought it was a ghost town.

But thinking about it carefully, this was deep within the barbarian lands, next to the Nangong ancestral land. It was normal for it to be deserted.

Luo Xue approached and noticed that the city walls were quite new, probably only a few hundred years old.

However, even after she got this close, the dozing guard still didn’t notice anything.

“Fortunately, it’s just an eagle demon…”

Luo Xue looked at the sleeping eagle demon and twitched her lips.

“Brother Eagle Demon, I want to enter the city.”

Worried that he couldn’t hear her, Luo Xue transmitted her voice.

“Zzz…”

The eagle demon guard was still sound asleep.

Luo Xue called out a few more times and even used a minor technique, trying to wake him up.

But it was useless.

Luo Xue could only give up on entering the city normally and resort to her unique method.

She looked at the city gate and floated straight towards it, not stopping even as she reached it.

The next moment, her figure merged with the gate and passed through.

…She was essentially a special kind of soul now, although she looked solid, it was just a visual effect.

She had all the characteristics of a soul, intangible… Luo Xue couldn’t even touch anything, or be touched.

The eagle demon guard continued sleeping. After a while, a small figure appeared in the distance.

She approached the eagle demon and plucked a feather from its tail.

“Aaargh!!!”

The eagle demon was instantly awakened and screamed, its face contorted in rage.

“Who, who dares to pluck your grandpa eagle’s feathers!”

He looked at the small figure, extending his claws, intending to kill her.

But the next moment, his claws stopped before the girl, not moving an inch further.

Because he didn’t dare.

The small girl’s expression was calm as she raised a token. A snowflake was carved on the token, and its tassel was a strand of white hair.

“Th-, this is… Miss’s decree…”

The eagle demon’s wings trembled, and he quickly retreated, stammering,

“Envoy, it was this subordinate’s fault, I have failed to recognize you, I was wrong…”

This was Miss’s decree, seeing the decree was like seeing Miss herself, and only envoys personally sent by Miss possessed this decree!

For hundreds of years, Miss had secretly established an intelligence network throughout the barbarian lands, and her envoys could appear at any moment.

Every appearance meant that Miss had issued an order… every demonic beast that committed a crime feared the appearance of the envoy, which meant that they had been noticed by Miss.

Although Miss’s envoys usually weren’t very strong, no one dared to kill them—because those who did were already dead.

The eagle demon thought he still had thousands of years left to live and didn’t want to die prematurely.

“Wake up.”

Li Guijiao put away the decree, muttering inwardly that this guy had been sleeping when she arrived hundreds of years ago, and he was still sleeping now.

“Envoy, did this subordinate do something wrong?” The eagle demon said with a mournful face. “I was just taking a short nap, just thirty years, you can’t kill me just because of this, right…”

“Who said I was going to kill you?”

Li Guijiao looked at him, puzzled.

“Huh?” The eagle demon was stunned. “Then why are you here…”

“Open the gate,” Li Guijiao pointed at the closed city gate. “Do you expect me to walk through it? I’m not a ghost.”

The flight-restricting formation she had set up was something even she couldn’t break through, unless she forcibly dismantled it.

Therefore, the only way to enter the city was through the gate.

And the formation at the gate had a verification process. Li Guijiao hadn’t granted access to every single puppet, so she could only wake up the guard.

“Yes, yes…”

The eagle demon nodded repeatedly, thinking inwardly that she did look a bit like a ghost.

He quickly went to the city gate and activated the formation, opening the gate.

“Has anyone entered the city recently?” Li Guijiao asked.

“No? The gate hasn’t been opened for over thirty years. You know which demonic beasts live in this city… they don’t go out.”

The eagle demon scratched his plucked backside. “If anyone entered, there would be a record. Let’s see… eh, how come there’s one person?”