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Translator: Tamon
The southern Chu Kingdom’s forest was under a heavy downpour, customary of its rainy season.
Last year, Xu Hei hid away in the overflowing river, living off fish. As he was alone, he had to be doubly careful, for there was no one else to rely on than himself.
Not like now was much different, except for an extra dog by his side.
The only upside was that the dog had a sharp nose for danger.
These last two months used up most of the pills and the demon meat. Hei Huang realized just how much he underestimated Xu Hei’s appetite.
The supplied he reckoned to last half a year would hold up for one more week at the most.
Xu Hei made good use of these months to grow by leaps and bounds.
His cultivation was stagnant, but he was confident of defeating Zhao Yiduo again with Attraction alone.
“I’ve mastered Attraction, reaching 50 meters, just like Chen Daoling.
“Fireball is also mastered, the low magical art no longer suitable. At least I can learn Fire Serpent to replace it.
“As for Earthen Motion, I can travel a thousand miles.
“Then there’s Windblade and Thunderbolt, stronger than Fire Serpent.”
Xu Hei pondered on the high-level magical arts that should be trainable at the late Qi Refining Stage. For some reason, he could start early, and not in their weak form either.
Strengthening his body had Xu Hei solidify his foundation, improving the quality of his True Qi to that of a late Qi Refining cultivator.
Xu Hei’s greatest mastery was still in Earthen Motion. Maybe his earth spirit root was the highest?
“Xu Hei, I finally got to finish the puppets I promised you.” Hei Huang threw a pile of beast puppets on the ground.
Yu Qiang’s storage bag came with a hundred small lizards, ten average ones, two large frogs, and various birds.
Xu Hei was absorbed by the large snake in the pile.
It had golden eyes, black and layered scales, and dark golden scales on its tail. It was like looking at himself.
This was the pupped Xu Hei wanted. Xu Hei drew closer and gave it a long look, beaming.
“How do I control it?” Xu Hei asked.
Hei Huang threw a jade slip. “This is Sky Effigy Sect’s unique cultivation method, Mechanical Puppet Art, but only at the first stage. Try it on.”
Xu Hei scanned the jade slip and took in the art’s first stage, the human puppet.
The Mechanical Puppet Art had five stages, human puppet, earth puppet, sky puppet, devil puppet, and god puppet.
The human puppet reffered to a puppet in the Qi Refining Stage.
They say Sky Effigy Sect had mastered the first three stages.
Xu Hei tried it on.
“The Mechanical Puppet Art uses Divine Sense for control, the stronger it is, the finer the control, and can wield more puppets at a time. It has a high talent requirement due to the need to split your attention.
“Just grasping the art can only control a puppet three layers lower than the user.
“As mastery improves, for every ten puppets one can control, the user can go up a layer.”
Xiao Hei started out with a small lizard three layers lower than him.
Flexing his mind, the little thing crawled with impressive speed and smoothness like it was alive.
Xu Hei didn’t take long to try controlling two of them.
He closed his eyes and focused his Divine Sense on the lizard, seeing what it saw.
As he trained, he added more and more lizards, going as far as twenty.
Xu Hei had a shocking talent in Divine Sense.
It reached a hundred meters two months ago, now even further, to a hundred and fifty meters, akin to a peak Qi Refining cultivator.
Xiao Hei breezed through the puppet art, controlling thirty lizards at the end of a single day.
The lizards moved about the mountain, each with smooth movements. Xiao Hei saw each of their vision. The incredible outlook left him in awe.
A white snake burst out of a bush and lunged for a lizard.
Xu Hei had it twist out of the snake’s mouth, vanishing from sight.
[I wonder what the white snake is doing.] Xiao Hei thought.
He was reminded of the white snake that followed him from the Valley of Serpents.
As two months passed, the downpour arrived and should’ve put out the fires.
Xu Hei longed to return, unable to sit still.
“Strange, why am I feeling like this?” Xu Hei pondered.
The two snakes were strangers brought together by circumstances. Why then did he feel as if his turf was invaded?
A demon had sharp intuition. Xiao Hei collected the lizards.
Hei Huang came over. “Your two demon pals are in trouble.”
“Eh?” Xu Hei stared at him.
“The Halo Spell I placed on them activates in extreme danger, but it only lasts two hours. They’re on now. I just thought you should know.”
Hei Huang said as he gave the position of the Halo Spells.
Xu Hei vanished into the ground, moving at an insane speed.
The earth rumbled and boomed as he swam through it, sending the wildlife into a panic.
Hei Huang followed, only to realize he couldn’t keep up.
“Heavens, how’s he so fast?”
Hei Huang widened, using Wind Motion to drive the sail and try to catch up, only to watch as Xu Hei kept distancing himself.
Ironic how flying was slower than digging.
“Might he have a top earth spirit root?” Hei Huang considered.
Xu Hei was in a desperate rush, using Earthen Motion at the fastest he’d ever tried, having reached perfection in the art. Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator was hard-pressed to follow.
He had low cultivation but with an incredible foundation.
Xu Hei could enter the late level anytime he wanted and even jump in layers. But he didn’t.
Xu Hei didn’t know the cause of his restlessness, but he trusted his gut.
Boom!
The soil rose as he rocketed through the ground, getting closer to his target.
His dark golden scales actually grew in the process.
…
In a deep hole three hundred kilometers away, the white snake was smashed in by a sledgehammer, the blows incessant.
She was hurt badly and couldn’t move, alive by the grace of that thin golden shield. But as time went, the glow dimmed.
“With so many secrets revolving around this snake, it might just be that rumored old demon snake.” Xue Hu was thrilled.
“The wolf has the same shield.”
Zhu Ze wielded the chain and sickle to lash at the wolf king’s shield to pin him down.
The cultivators were spurred on by the dimming shields.
“In two hours, the shield will vanish and we’ll earn ourselves some good credit with the sect.” Xue Hu laughed.
Zhu Ze squinted, a bad feeling nagging at him, that the shield was a delay tactic.
Zhu Ze was a cruel man, killing dozens of demons and torturing many more, but he was also vigilant, keeping an eye out.
“Do we have a Senior Uncle nearby?” Zhu Ze asked.
“Senior Uncle Ye’s camp is fifty kilometers away. Why?” Xue Hu replied.
“Senior Uncle Ye is enough.”
Zhu Ze nodded, throwing a sending jade into the air after writing something on it.
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