Chapter 18 A Fleeting Ray of Purple Light

"Could he have an even bigger plan, wanting to help some more important cult leaders escape?" Ye Chu Xiao couldn't help but speculate about this possibility.

But the gray-skinned rat quickly stopped somewhere on the fourth level underground, and then hid in a dark corner, motionless, as if it had suddenly crashed.

Time flowed by bit by bit. The gray-skinned rat continued to lie in the corner without moving. It was extremely patient.

Ye Chu Xiao, however, had already taken advantage of this opportunity to wander around a small circle.

After experimenting, Ye Chu Xiao confirmed that he could not leave the area within a hundred meters of the gray-skinned rat. Once he exceeded this range, he would be teleported back in an instant.

Currently, Ye Chu Xiao was unable to confirm the principle, but it was very likely that the opening of the golden clock was related to the aura transmitted from the gray-skinned rat's shed skin.

Ye Chu Xiao chose to stand behind the gray-skinned rat, right next to it.

Suddenly, a dazzling purple light, like a jump through space-time, appeared directly above the gray-skinned rat with an extremely mysterious rhythm.

A look of surprise appeared in the gray-skinned rat's eyes.

It suddenly jumped up, trying to touch the light.

But what it didn't expect was that there was a person standing behind it.

A person who shouldn't exist in this time and space.

Compared to the height the gray-skinned rat jumped, the purple light fell more directly on Ye Chu Xiao, unexpectedly ignoring the deviation of time and space and merging into Ye Chu Xiao's body.

It seemed that this purple light only had spatial constraints, but no temporal constraints.

The moment the purple light merged into his body.

Ye Chu Xiao seemed to see the long river of Dao stretching across the vast and boundless earth, crisscrossing the worlds.

Compared with the rich and powerful river of Dao, the wisp of purple light that Ye Chu Xiao obtained at this moment was not even a drop in the bucket.

Even so, he still felt as if an invisible lock had been opened in his originally chaotic and ignorant brain.

Many originally boundless brainstorms were being transformed into real and feasible inspirations.

From fantasy to theory, he was already crossing the bridge called talent.

More precisely, Ye Chu Xiao at this moment already possessed a kind of talent that seemed to be innate.

This talent was so surging and澎湃 that it seemed that as long as he studied some theoretical knowledge more seriously, and worked a little harder to think and exercise, he could cash them in and turn them into real and unadulterated strength.

"Talent: Nimble Hands. The flexibility of both hands is greatly improved. Any hand-held weapons or martial arts performed with hands can be quickly mastered." Ye Chu Xiao made a temporary and brief summary of this talent.

However, this talent was not all of that little bit of purple light. It was only the outwardly manifested part of the benefits brought by the purple light.

"Its purpose is for this suddenly appearing purple light?"

"How does it know that such a magical purple light will descend here on the fourth level of the Ministry of Justice's dungeon?"

"Could this also be some kind of talent?" Ye Chu Xiao thought.

The gray-skinned rat, watching the purple light appear and then disappear out of thin air, widened its bean-sized eyes and let out an angry 'squeak'.

For this little bit of Dao rhythm purple light, it danced on the tip of a knife and paid a high price.

But the purple light disappeared like this, disappearing without a trace.

As if it had never appeared at all.

It couldn't accept this result. After turning around twice in place, it crawled out of a rough formation, and then began to emit strange Qi sounds.

The seal originally belonging to Ye Chu Xiao was floating above the gray-skinned rat's head, helping it to cover up the pressure from the Prison Suppressing Divine Artifact.

However, the seal of a third-class jailer has a limit to the power it can exert.

When this limit is exceeded, the seal will shatter.

Accompanied by the invisible air vibrations in the air, the seal that originally belonged to Ye Chu Xiao suddenly shattered into slag, scattered all over the ground.

Looking at the slag all over the ground, Ye Chu Xiao's face was even more unsightly than the gray-skinned rat's.

Originally, Ye Chu Xiao planned to find out the gray-skinned rat's hiding place, and then return to real time. While sniping this gray-skinned rat, he would quietly retrieve the seal and erase the traces.

But now, the seal was blown up, and the slag was scattered all over the ground. As long as someone carefully investigated the traces, they might find some of the remaining slag that Ye Chu Xiao could not quickly collect.

Moreover, Ye Chu Xiao also needed a reason that he could explain for the seal being blown up.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to avoid association.

If there was a mistake in either of the two plans, even if the gray-skinned rat was recaptured and imprisoned, he would still be at risk of being convicted of colluding with heretical demons.

The gray-skinned rat's whole body stiffened when it discovered that the seal had been blown up, and the whole rat cried out in remorse and horror.

Losing the cover of the seal, it could no longer use any magic in this dungeon.

This was undoubtedly another bad news for the gray-skinned rat at this moment.

Watching the gray-skinned rat suffer the consequences of its own actions, and then fall into a trap because it couldn't use magic, Ye Chu Xiao also began to sort out his thoughts and organize how to operate later, so as to solve the trouble as much as possible and get himself out of this matter.

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Clang!

Accompanied by the sound of the golden clock in his mind.

Ye Chu Xiao's consciousness and thoughts returned to the 'present'.

Before his eyes was still the pale dead skin.

And Li Bantou was still behind him, with an obvious look of trepidation on his face.

Ye Chu Xiao pretended to squat down, and then began to touch some messy traces on the ground with his palm.

"There are traces of rats crawling here. Judging from the direction of the footprints, there must be something strange about it," Ye Chu Xiao said.

Li Bantou said sarcastically, "It's just rat footprints. There are plenty of them in the dungeon."

"There are indeed many rats in the dungeon, but few rats can leave the prison alive. Li Bantou, you haven't fed the prisoners, so you may not know that for many prisoners, rats are a rare delicacy. So, in general, there are only traces of rats entering the prison, but no traces of them coming out. But look at these footprints, they are clearly pointing outwards," Ye Chu Xiao said.

This reason was certainly not enough as truly rigorous evidence for inference, but Ye Chu Xiao, who already knew the result, didn't need real evidence. He only needed a reason.

So, he immediately changed the subject and said, "I remember that Zhang Daqing, who is following you, is a first-level Yujing talisman master. Let him come over and use these rat footprints as evidence to draw a tracking talisman."

Li Bantou still wanted to argue.

But he was met with Ye Chu Xiao's calm and confident face.

"What are you still dawdling for?"

"Hurry!"

Li Bantou may have been intimidated by Ye Chu Xiao's aura, or perhaps he was forced by Ye Chu Xiao's previous threats, but he still went.

Before long, he brought back another jailer.

The jailer squatted down, using the rat's footprints as a basis, holding his seal, and then drawing a talisman with a talisman brush.

When the talisman light dissipated, the rat's footprints on the ground became bright.

Following these footprints, the three of them chased all the way. Halfway, Ye Chu Xiao ignored Li Bantou's gaze and stopped him. He briefly explained the situation to the jailers in other areas, and explained that he had great confidence in catching the escaped prisoner, so that the chasing team continued to grow.

About half an hour later, a team of jailers of more than a dozen people found the unconscious gray-skinned rat in a formation trap.

Without the protection of the seal, even if the gray-skinned rat possessed some special talent, it could not avoid and dodge all the dangerous traps.

When the experienced old jailers confirmed through magical means that this gray-skinned rat was indeed transformed from a person by evil magic, almost everyone in the team of more than a dozen jailers had a warm smile on their faces.

For most of them, the escape of the prisoner was not their fault, but catching the prisoner was their credit.

Why wouldn't they like such an easy bargain?

Only Li Bantou, although he had also retrieved the 'missing' prisoner, still had merit but no reward. Even if he didn't have to bear any major risks, he would still have to eat a scolding.