Immortal Path to Heaven c1-725

by Heaven's White Crane

  Given the little bird’s red light, which was released when it self-ignited, could trigger the Military Fire, it meant that the bird’s power and the fire could echo each other at a distance. If that was the case, it would not be difficult for it to respond to the smithing of equipment too.

  Ou Yangming moved his wrist again to release a red light. As the Military Fire flickered, he continued to melt another bizarre stone.

  Nonetheless, it was then when the little bird flapped its wings and flew to the front of Ou Yangming, then it entered the red Military Fire recklessly.

  The young fellow’s face changed. He was well aware of the Military Fire’s power, which could easily melt peculiar stones, let alone one’s body. In actuality, if it was not because Multi-armed King Kong was too humongous, he was confident that he could defeat it with his Military Fire.

  Seeing as the little bird entered the Military Fire without warning, his heart was almost at his throat.

  Although he knew the little bird’s power and his Military Fire could echo each other from afar, it did not mean that the bird could resist the fire with its body.

  With a flash of thought, Ou Yangming curbed his Military Fire without any hesitation, but he was ready to save the little bird at any time.

  Who knew, he soon realized that he was worried for nothing.

  The little bird was standing on his wrist and was unharmed. In fact, the parts of his body that were burned by the Military Fire just now were not burnt at all. It seemed like that fire, which could melt the peculiar stones, could not hurt it at all.

  Afterward, the little bird turned to look at Ou Yangming in confusion as if it was asked him why he suddenly stopped.

  Ou Yangming was stunned for a while. He could not help but shake his head with a bitter smile.

  ‘I was blindly worrying indeed. Since this little fella can self-ignite through a method similar to the Military Fire, it won’t be afraid of the fire at all.’

  Just as he shook his head and wanted to release his Military Fire again, the little bird flapped its wings out of the blue. Following that, a red light emerged from its body and quickly spread out to envelope the rare stone.

  Ou Yangming’s eyelids twitched, and he felt some heat on his hand. Even so, the heat did not hurt him at all, and it felt rather comfortable instead.

  This was just his feeling but what shocked him most was the queer stone that was being wrapped up by the red light.

  The stone was being softened at the speed of light, but it did not melt. It was being kneaded like plasticine into an arm guard.

  Ou Yangming’s eyelids twitched violently this time. He was not the one controlling the light, but he could sense the changes in it. Furthermore, the arm guard was being formed faster than the one he smithed.

  It was worth noting that he smithed using a bizarre stone, which was a treasure that could be used to smith magic tools.

  Even though the Military Fire could restrain the stone by easily melting it, the process required a certain time and energy.

  Nevertheless, Ou Yangming felt like he would willingly admit his defeat after he witnessed the little bird release its red light. The little bird carried out the process effortlessly as if it was eating or drinking like a normal person.

  The effect was simply dumbfounding and unbelievable.

  Ou Yangming did not know he was looking at the little bird as how other people looked at him when he smithed magic tools.

  “Y-you can smith pieces of equipment too?” He looked oddly at the little bird and mumbled, “That’s strange. Were you transformed from a human?”

  In his mind, only humans knew smithing art. After all, even the formidable Multi-armed King Kong and the goshawk knew nothing about the technique. Needless to say, their remarkable abilities were enough to make up for the gap of having pieces of equipment. Even if Wu Yuanwei was fully armed, Ou Yangming did not think the goshawk and the king kong would be at a disadvantage.

  The fact that the little bird grasped the smithing technique almost overturned Ou Yangming’s perception.

  On the other hand, the little bird was slightly startled, and it glared at the young fellow furiously.

  Ou Yangming blinked and wondered, then he slapped his thigh and said, “I know—your master must’ve taught you!”

  The little bird was infuriated this time. It slapped its wings and flew up, then it landed nimbly on Ou Yangming’s head. The bird held back its anger as it twitched its beak, but it kept flapping its wings and hopping continuously.

  Ou Yangming reached out his hand helplessly and placed it on his head as he attempted to grab the troublemaker. Despite that, the little bird was nimble, and the young fellow did not intend to hurt it, hence he failed to catch it.

  The little bird seemed to have cooled down after moving around for some time, thus it flew back into the birdcage.

  Ou Yangming smiled bitterly and let go of the matter. He did not want to look into it anymore.

  That said, just as he picked up the arm guard to inspect it seriously, the little bird jumped onto his hand again and stared at him with its small round eyes.

  “You don’t want me to touch the equipment you smithed?” Ou Yangming furrowed his eyebrows as he was struck dumb.

  The little bird instantly shook its head and continued to stare eagerly at him.

  Ou Yangming racked his brain and asked again, “You want to look at the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune?”

  The little bird’s eyes lit up. It knew what he meant as soon as it heard the word “Thunderbolt-resistant”, so it jumped cheerfully and chirped.

  Ou Yangming was hesitant for a while. He knew the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was not trivial and seemed to be different from the Thunderbolt-resistant Secret Technique from the upper realm. Moreover, he had unexpectedly gained the rune when he forced one of the parasites. According to Multi-armed King Kong and the goshawk, it was simply priceless.

  How could he casually show such a rune to someone else?

  Just as Ou Yangming wanted to reject the little bird, he happened to look into its eyes.

  The bird’s eyes were clear and filled with desire.

  It stood on Ou Yangming’s wrist at the moment. While it did not release its red light, there was still a feeling that it was closely related to the Military FIre.

  Ou Yangming sighed and became soft-hearted. It was true that the Thunderbolt-resistant Technique was precious but since the little bird was related to his Military Fire, he figured that it was also closely connected to the hidden powerhouse that had been helping him.

  The Thunderbolt-resistant Secret Technique was mighty but it did not seem as important as the help he received from that powerhouse.

  He nodded and said, “Little fella, watch me closely.”

  The little bird stopped moving and lay quietly on Ou Yangming’s wrist. Its quietness was entirely different from how it acted earlier.

  Ou Yangming grinned. Before long, the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune floated in his sea of consciousness, and the rune paths drifted out as if they were being guided.

  His notable mental power boiled and surged, then it transformed into the Military Fire and gushed out.

  When the Military Fire burned, the little bird was wrapped up right away. Even so, the violent fire did not hurt the little bird at all.

  It looked unusually solemn as though it understood the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was unordinary, which was why it became surprisingly quiet.

  In actual fact, the little bird did not think so much when it was pursued by the thunderbolt to a dead-end and subconsciously approached Ou Yangming. It only paid a lot of attention to him after it awoke because it could not figure out how he managed to endure the forceful thunderbolt power.

  Since the secret was going to be revealed to it, it was obviously paying more attention.

  Ou Yangming did not hide his secret at all. He released the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune bit by bit and carved it on the arm guard.

  An exceptionally m
ysterious power was contained in the rune. It came from the omnipresent space and was an origin power. Nobody had used the power before this.

  The little bird immediately sensed that that power was extraordinary. Though it was not its Military Fire that was burning, it could easily sense through its bloodline inheritance the fire’s power and its origin.

  To the members of its race, even the greatest power could not attract their attention at all. However, they yearned for anything related to an origin. Besides, given that the origin had something to do with thunderbolt powers this time, the little bird became more alert and serious.

  Under the little bird’s watch, every change of the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was delivered through the Military Fire. The bird closed its eyes and carefully sensed the content inside, as well as the hidden energy change.

  It might seem quite childish, but Ou Yangming was far from it in certain aspects.

  In particular, Ou Yangming was unquestionably light years away from the little bird in terms of knowledge from a bloodline inheritance.

  Ou Yangming knew the hows but not the whys about the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune, whereas the little bird came to a sudden realization and was horrified after it studied the rune carefully. The latter thought, ‘It turns out that there’s such an unbelievable resistance method against the thunderbolts!

  ‘As compared using strength against strength in the upper realm, this unloading method seems to be superior.’

  The little bird opened its eyes after a long time and stared strangely at Ou Yangming as if it was wondering where exactly the young fellow learned the method from.

  It hesitated for a while before it shrieked, causing an intense red light to surface from its body.

  Ou Yangming’s eyebrows twitched, but he sat quietly on the ground and ignored the red light, which was spreading quickly.

  His eyes glowed when the red light fully enveloped him, and he almost could not believe his eyes when he looked around him in shock.

  It was a spiritual world. He had somehow entered a wonderful spiritual world through an unexplainable method.

  Instead of the little bird, a big multicolored bird stood in front of him.

  Chapter 481 - World Of Origin

  It was a spiritual world—one that came from within the flame.

  Ou Yangming experienced something similar in the past when he was inside the cottage in the Ni family’s secret realm. Nonetheless, the secret realm that was set up had many loopholes and would turn into an undefended world if a cultivator with great mental power entered. As such, it could then be accessed by anyone.

  The young fellow guessed that perhaps it had been such a long time, hence the formation map left behind by the Ni family’s seniors became less effective.

  As compared to the Ni family’s formation map, the spiritual world that Ou Yangming entered at the moment was entirely different.

  Even with remarkable mental power, Ou Yangming could not sense any weak points in the spiritual world at all as though he entered a real universe. It made him alert, and he vaguely realized that the little bird’s mental power was probably greater than his.

  He stared at the gigantic multicolored bird and asked curiously, “Little fella, is it… You?”

  Although he was almost certain that the little bird would grow up to be like that, there was too huge of a disparity between the two.

  Ou Yangming even felt like bowing down when he sensed the aura released by the big multicolored bird, but the Military Fire in his sea of consciousness boiled as though it was affected by the aura and underwent a change. The fire released a formidable aura as well, thus the young fellow completely calmed down.

  His eyelids twitched. ‘Could this Military Fire’s source be unusually noble, so much so that it’s superior to the big multicolored bird?’

  The big multicolored bird scoffed and responded unhappily, “You’re the little fella.”

  Ou Yangming could not help but laugh. The bird sounded displeased, but it helped him confirm its identity.

  He looked around to scan the nearly-perfect spiritual world and could not help but sigh. Even though it knew the Simulated Spiritual Fist, he could not create such a mighty spiritual world even if he gave his all.

  The big multicolored bird could tell that Ou Yangming was marveling at its spiritual world. It was the best form of respect as it meant more than a thousand words.

  “Hehe, what do you think? What do you think?” The big multicolored big blinked its large, bright eyes at Ou Yangming and asked.

  Seeing as it was waiting for his compliments, Ou Yangming could not help but laugh. “Lil’ Red, your spiritual world is incredibly powerful. I concede defeat.”

  Ou Yangming was not one to admit defeat easily, but he was sincerely in admiration after he saw the spiritual world. Suppressions in terms of strength were sometimes more effective than verbal explanations.

  The big multicolored bird was proud. “Hey, your rune is quite interesting, but I’ve never seen it in my bloodline memory. Where did you learn it from?”

  “I learned it from the Insects,” Ou Yangming answered with a faint smile.

  “The Insects? That’s impossible. How could the Insects have such a forceful ability?” The big multicolored bird remarked without any hesitation. It was shocked and in disbelief.

  After all, the Insects were the synonym of food to the Phoenixes. If the Insects were different in any way, they would only be different because of their sizes and tastiness.

  The Thunderbolt-resistant Rune shown by Ou Yangming had not even been studied by the powerhouses from the Phoenixes, let alone the tiny insects.

  “You’re lying to me. You came up with it yourself, right?” The big multicolored bird blinked and asked.

  Ou Yangming could not help but laugh. “Lil’ Red, you really think quite highly of me!”

  “Hmph, you possess my race’s bloodline inheritance, so even the most shocking thing you do is considered normal. As for the tiny Insects, they’re definitely not that capable,” the big multicolored bird explained without any hesitation.

  “Lil’ Red, you underestimate the Insects.” Ou Yangming sighed and shook his head. “The Insects have powerhouses that have direct access to Heaven too. The other end of Hell’s Passage lies the Ghost-clawed Venerable One.”

  “The Ghost-clawed Venerable One?” The big multicolored bird was stunned. “What’s that? I don’t know.”

  Though a Venerable One was indeed the greatest being in the universe, the little bird did not attach much importance to it at all.

  Ou Yangming looked at it in bewilderment. “You actually don’t know?”

  He figured that the little bird was not a living being from this realm, but a powerhouse that descended from the upper realm like Multi-armed King Kong and the others. Given that a Ghost-clawed Venerable One was extremely strong, the little bird would have heard of it before.

  Who knew, the big multicolored big lifted its head and questioned, “Why should I know?”

  Ou Yangming was startled for some time, and he smiled bitterly as he thought, ‘Was I mistaken?’ Nevertheless, he did not know while the Ghost-claws Venerable One might be renowned among the Insects, it was just tougher food for the little red bird to chew. Once the little bird grew bigger, it could naturally devour the food, so it never paid attention to any Venerable One from the Insects.

  “Alright, let’s drop this.” Ou Yangming paused for a while before he asked, “Why did you make me enter your spiritual world?”

  The big multicolored bird’s eyes light up right away. “Your Thunderbolt-resistant Equipment is quite good, so let’s try it!”

  “Try it?” Ou Yangming found it strange. “Try what?”

  “Of course, its thunderbolt-resistant effect.” As soon as the big multicolored big looked up, the sky in the spiritual world was covered with dense, dark clouds, and a threatening aura was released.

  At the same time, fine electric lights the length of arms gathered amid
st the thunderbolts. They were faintly visible, and they slowly assembled at the center.

  Ou Yangming widened his eyes as he realized what was going on. He exclaimed, “You’re asking me to resist thunderbolts?”

  “Yes.” The big multicolored big nodded. “Don’t worry; you won’t die if I’m here.”

  “Why don’t you resist them then!” Ou Yangming glared at it and suggested after some time, “I’ll smith some pieces of equipment for you, so you can try them instead!”

  “I must use my bloodline memory to release the thunderbolts. If I can control them throughout the whole process, I’m afraid an accident might happen.” The big multicolored bird twitched its beak. It blinked and tempted the young fellow. “You resist the thunderbolts, okay? I’ll reward you.”

  Ou Yangming was just about to reject the bird, but he was moved. “How are you going to reward me?”

  “I’ll give you precious collections!” The big multicolored bird said, “They’re good items that can’t be found in this world.”

  ‘This bird is indeed from the upper realm.” Ou Yangming’s eyes glowed.

  He knew the little bird might not be acting reliably, but its true strength was profound and unpredictable. If they were to fight, not to mention himself, even Multi-armed King Kong might not defeat it.

  The items must be really good to be regarded as precious collections by the bird.

  If Ou Yangming missed this opportunity, he would not stumble upon another one.

  He asked after a moment of hesitation, “Your Heavenly Thunderbolts are exceptionally powerful. How am I going to resist them without any equipment?”

  The big multicolored bird was thrilled. “When you blocked the Heavenly Thunderbolt for me that day, did you utilize the power from your pieces of equipment?”

  “That’s right.”

  “Alright, alright.” The big multicolored bird jumped and said, “This is my spiritual world, where your mental conception can resonate with mine. You can imagine the pieces of equipment and smith them here, and I assure you that they’ll be as effective as they will be in the real world.”

  Ou Yangming looked at the bird dubiously, but his heart was filled with surging waves.