by Fang Xiang
Sky … … Sky … …
Ma Fan tightly closed his eyes and seemed to understand something.
A vast and greatly vicious presence gathered from all directions. Ma Fan seemed like a leaf boat floating precariously in the storm and rain, to be destroyed at the next moment!
This was … …
Xie Shan instantly understood. Ma Fan was cultivating [Clear Sky Sword Scripture]! He instantly furrowed his brows and had a worried expression. Looking at the crimson tinged sky, the uncertainty in his heart increased.
The sky here … … it wasn’t a good place to cultivate [Clear Sky Sword Scripture]!
The crimson red sky became even more terrifying. Black clouds rapidly formed.
At the center of the storm, the environment Ma Fan faced was even worse. When he realized that there was a problem, he already had no avenue of retreat. The sky here was filled with black fiendish energy. They originated from the ferocious battle of ten thousand years ago, and after thousands of years, they could easily corrode one’s mind.
The sky here had too many elements that did not belong to the sky!
The fiendish mist that had been trying to avoid him just now suddenly roiled fiercely. Dozens of tentacles made from the fiendish mist leapt at Ma Fan and seal him off in all directions. These fiendish mist tentacles were quick like arrows that pierced towards Ma Fan. Just as Ma Fan was going to be entangled and taken away, pia pia pia, the fiendish mist tentacles that approached Ma Fan exploded.
These tentacles were destroyed by the sword essence around Ma Fan.
But this was just the beginning!
Countless red-black fiendish mist tentacles rose from the fiendish mist and leapt at Ma Fan.
Explosions continued. There was too much fiendish mist that had exploded. A while later, they formed a thick fiendish mist. The sound of explosions did not stop among the fiendish mist. A red-black egg-shaped fiendish mist ball hung high in the sky.
Everyone couldn’t help but have worried expressions, but they could only look. They could not help at all.
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Vast Water Clear Skies.
Nan Yue looked at Elder who had collapsed onto the ground. Her eyes were filled with respect. She had worked very hard in the yao art houses, but when she saw how Elder cultivated, she instantly felt her hard work was nothing in front of Elder.
“I will come back after some time.”
Elder threw out these words and disappeared.
Nan Yue was not too puzzled. At this time, she was filled with motivation. Elder had used his actions to explain to her how to cultivate. She wasn’t in such a hurry to get [South Sky Arrow Art] now. The things she learned today were enough for her to cultivate for a long time.
She left Vast Water Clear Skies. She needed to digest what she had learned today.
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Zuo Mo felt very good, very very good.
He only took ten hours to go thirty li, two hours shorter than Pu Yao’s demand. If he subtracted the time that he had spent explaining little yao arts to Nan Yue, he only took nine hours. When Zuo Mo caught the shock and surprise in Pu Yao’s eye, he felt very good.
In reality, his spiritual power had almost been exhausted. After nine hours of high speed deconstruction, his response this time was much stronger than the first time around.
Unable to slowly savor his pleasure, he hurried into meditation to recover his spiritual power.
After a whole day, Zuo Mo finally woke up from his meditation. His spiritual power had only half recovered. It was a pity there were no stars in the sky here so he could not absorb the power of the skies. His consciousness had exploded in growth from last time. The number of stars in the void above his sea of consciousness had not grown, but each star became even brighter and sparkled in the void.
Zuo Mo’s sea of consciousness had completely changed.
The ice sword river from the past had almost completely disappeared. This made Zuo Mo sweat. Those enchanting black flames had no longer rampaged like they had in the past. The black flames had almost disappeared in the area around the gravestone, and shown the black steel-like ground. The black energy that shrouded the gravestone seemed thicker than before.
According to Pu Yao, the path he walked was star spiritual cultivation. The star spiritual sand in his consciousness contained star power.
Zuo Mo didn’t feel anything like star power. However, the ten stars had grown, and his spiritual power recovery rate was stronger than before. Each star spread its light, and the sea of consciousness was bathed in star light.
When Zuo Mo saw the enormous fiendish mist ball in the air, he was astounded. He hurriedly grabbed Xie Shan to ask. When he was informed that Ma Fan was cultivating [Clear Sky Sword Scripture], he couldn’t help but worry. However, he did not have a solution. Of everything he cultivated, his sword scriptures were the weakest at this moment.
Right now, the strongest was his Great Day mo physique. The next was his yao arts. He couldn’t help but grimace. As one that originated as a xiuzhe, there wasn’t really much to be proud off. Ma Fan’s matter wouldn’t end anytime soon so Zuo Mo did not go to observe.
He turned around his face and found to his shock that A Gui was looking at him. Usually, A Gui was always steps away from him.
“Are you better?” Zuo Mo probed.
A Gui did not respond. Zuo Mo shook his head. He really was fantasizing. He grabbed A Gui’s hand and his consciousness went into her body to make a close inspection.
His brow quickly furrowed together.
A Gui’s body was a mess, so withered there was no life. From this point, it didn’t seem any different than usual, but Zuo Mo found there was an extremely small patch of purple on A Gui’s heart which had not been there before. Zuo Mo would examine A Gui every two or three days, and was very familiar with the condition of A Gui’s body.
There was no purple mark in his last inspection. It was possible to see that the purple mark had formed in the last few days.
Zuo Mo’s body suddenly dropped down. This meant that new changes had happened in the last few days to A Gui’s body. He couldn’t help but become worried. If it was a good change, then that naturally was very fortunate. But if it was a bad change, he did not have a measure to deal with it.
Zuo Mo suddenly felt a strong sense of urgency.
He had to find Water Cloud Embryo as soon as possible! But he also knew if he rashly went into the depths of the fiendish mist, his bones wouldn’t even remain. Everyone was working hard at this moment, and this was not the best time to enter the fiendish mist.
Zuo Mo’s heart suddenly became restless. He walked out of the campsite.
The campsite was at the border of the fiendish mist. It was possible to see threads of thin fiendish mist float by. His eyes turned to the deeper parts of the fiendish mist. What would it be like in there?
“You can fish!” Pu Yao suddenly said.
“Fish?” Zuo Mo asked with shock.
“Oh, you can take an intelligent talisman, and it will naturally attract many fiend souls,” Pu yao explained. “You can practice your little yao arts, and also,”
“Also what?”
“Do you remember the soul base essence you swallowed? If you want to strengthen your consciousness in the short them, this isn’t a bad method.” Then Pu Yao sighed. “You have pretty good luck!”
Zuo Mo instantly became alert. In his view, fiend souls were food. The main reason that he wanted to learn Archaic Desolate Sacrificial Art was to get fiend souls to strengthen his consciousness. With his present strength, entering the deeper parts of the fiend mist was too dangerous.
As expected, Pu Yao was cunning!
Zuo Mo thought and took out a talisman. This was the only sixth-grade talisman that he had, the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk. He didn’t dare to use Lil’ Paogda as the bait. The trouble last time was too much. There was a thread of intelligence on the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk. Even though it wasn’t as intelligent as Lil’ p
agoda, it was perfect as bait.
The Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk that could make many jealous was thrown onto the ground. Zuo Mo stood nearby and widened his eyes.
A short while later, a red light suddenly charged out of the fiendish mist and headed straight for the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk on the ground.
Zuo Mo snickered. The little yao art that had already been prepped on his hand was thrown out.
Hiss-crack!
The little yao art was not powerful, but yao arts could subdue fiend souls to start with. This fiend soul didn’t even get the time to shriek before it was destroyed. Zuo Mo casually opened his mouth and sucked it in. That thin strand of base source entered his mouth.
Fiend souls continued to come over.
Zuo Mo quickly found that little yao arts were perfect for dealing with fiend souls. Right now, he was very familiar with little yao arts, and didn’t even need to think before he could successfully cast.
What he actually needed to be careful of was that the soul base sources did not slip away. He felt it even more clearly this time. The soul base sources absorbed into his body all entered the stars in the void of his sea of consciousness.
Compared to last time, there was a much less number of fiend souls. Zuo Mo was very unburdened.
“Shixiong, what are you doing?” At some unknown time, Gongsun Cha had come over and asked curiously.
Zuo Mo’s hand shook. Several strands of soul base source drifted towards Gongsun Cha.
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Translator Ramblings: Day three of roadtrip. I might have secure internet but it doesn’t matter. Zuo Mo is a terrible xiuzhe, dishonour! Dishonour on you! Dishonour on your sect!
Chapter 341: Shidi’s Spell
The threads of soul base source was very faint as though they would dissipate in the air at any moment.
“What is this?” Gongsun Cha had a curious expression. He opened his hand and the threads of soul base source flew towards his palm.
The soul base source flew into his palm. Before he could study it, they entered his skin.
Three shocked exclamations sounded out. The curiosity on Gongsun Cha’s face turned to surprise. Zuo Mo was also very surprised, and the last sound of shock came from Pu Yao inside Zuo Mo’s sea of consciousness.
Gongsun Cha closed his eyes and savored it for a while. After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and said joyfully, “Shixiong, what is this? This is really good!”
Of course it was really good … …
Zuo Mo muttered inside but he was also happy. He could see that the soul base source of the fiend souls were of great benefit to Gongsun Cha!
His mind suddenly moved and he asked, “Shidi, what spell are you cultivating right now?”
Gongsun Cha’s face blushed shyly. He said embarrassedly, “I … …. I just randomly made a way to cultivate. I don’t know if it is useful. I was just thinking of asking Shixiong to help.”
Zuo Mo looked with shock at the shy Gongsun Shidi like he was seeing a ghost.
Seeing Zuo Mo’s expression, Gongsun Cha’s pale face became even redder like a mature peach. “I … … I heard that battle generals have specialized cultivation spells. Since I didn’t have any, I thought about making something close to it.”
His words became smoother as he spoke, and his eyes flashed with excitement. “I found later that there are many battle generals in the war chess games. Even though they are yaomo battle generals, but I could use them as references. So I got some stuff. Shixiong, help me take a look.”
He ignored Zuo Mo’s strange expression and spoke of his idea.
At the beginning, Zuo Mo was unconcerned. If it wasn’t Gongsun Shidi, and it was any other zhuji xiuzhe that ran to him and said they were going to create their own cultivation spell, Zuo Mo would definitely put his feet on their face.
Zuo Mo’s expression slowly became grave.
It was very clear that Gongsun Shidi’s idea was much more developed than he had predicted. When he finished listening, the first thought he had was
–– it was too crazy!
He looked dazedly at Gongsun Cha.
Gongsun Cha finished speaking in one go and finally noticed the strangeness in Zuo Mo’s gaze. He instantly felt uncomfortable. Had his thinking been incorrect somewhere?
This shy and bashful shidi in front of him had created such an insane and extreme cultivation spell. The contrast was too big!
Zuo Mo felt it was very strange.
Gongsun Cha’s idea was very simple. First, he concluded what was most important to a battle general was the consciousness because the consciousness was of the greatest help to controlling the battle situation. This was also why yao battle generals were the most outstanding of all battle generals.
Of course, ling power was necessary. Xiuzhe battle generals had their own unique qualities.
Where did spiritual power and ling power come form?
The core of the spell Gongsun Cha had created was one word, steal!
When Zuo Mo understood this point, he had to sigh. As expected of a battle general’s cultivation spell. It completely fit with the thinking of a battle general! He was even suspicious. Had the frequent raids in Little Mountain Jie left aftereffects on Gongsun Shidi?
What surprised Zuo Mo even more was that while this technique was very rudimentary and not complete, there were no fatal mistakes.
He now understood why those threads of soul base source would enter Gongsun Cha’s skin.
Base source substances like the soul base source were great nutrients for Gongsun Shidi.
“Somewhat interesting!” Pu Yao couldn’t resist praising. “In zhuji and knows to create this spell, his future is limitless.” He suddenly felt it was very absurd. Without noticing it, there was a great number of people with power and good talent that gathered beside Zuo Mo.
And all of these people without exception had been unknown and disregarded before.
Like Gongsun Cha. He only knew of a few rare battle generals that could comprehend spells on their own. This spell in his view was very rough and rudimentary, but as Gongsun Cha’s knowledge and strength increased, the spell could be gradually perfected. It was also the beginning stages of this spell that caused Pu Yao to see the rise of a peerless battle general!
Pu Yao was very emotional. Even he had never thought that Gongsun Cha would reach this step. Gongsun Cha’s speed of improvement made him feel shock. Was this guy born to be a battle general?
Such talent. There were only a few familiar names that he knew who could rival it.
He couldn’t help but glance at Zuo Mo. This boy had great luck!
Pu Yao suddenly felt anticipation. He already felt amazement at Zuo Mo’s talent. Now that he had the help of a battle general of limitless potential, what heights could they reach?
At this moment, he deeply felt that he really made a profit in taking this student!
The terrible accounts from the past, maybe there was the chance to get them back … …
Pu Yao rubbed his chin and smiled darkly.
Zuo Mo did not know Pu Yao’s schemes. After asking Pu Yao and being informed that there were no significant problems with the spell, he started to help Gongsun Shidi. Gongsun Shidi’s spell did not have any major problems, but the most difficult part was the first step. The core of this spell was to steal the consciousness and ling power of other entities for themselves. But at the beginning, he was like an infant and did not have the power to steal.
But right now, there was a great change. The soul base sources of these fiend souls had no impurities, were warm and nurturing. Gongsun Cha had no problems absorbing them.
After discussing with Gongsun Cha for a while, Gongsun Cha instantly wanted to try it out.
Battle generals were really not normal people!
Zuo Mo muttered inside. His actions were not slow as he continued his “fishing.” But this time, the soul base sources were given to Gongsun Shidi. Gongsun Cha did not refuse and absorbed as much as possible.<
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In a short while, two smears of red came onto Gongsun Cha’s face as though he was drunk. He instantly sat down cross-legged.
Zuo Mo stopped. Gongsun Shidi’s cultivation was still too shallow. It would take time to completely absorb all of this soul base source. So he started to swallow soul base source himself. These were great food to him too.
This patch of fiendish mist was endless, and it seemed there was no end to the fiend souls inside. They continuously leapt towards the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk. None of them were able to touch the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk before they were struck by little yao arts and were dissipated like steam to only leave behind a thin thread of soul base source.
After four hours, Gongsun Cha opened his eyes. With a joyful expression, he leapt up and said shamelessly, “Shixiong, let’s do it again!”
Zuo Mo nodded. He didn’t waste words, and continued to cast little yao arts.
He used each of the five hundred little yao arts multiple times, and included some of the low level yao arts that he had learned from Vast Water Clear Skies or he tried to combine different little yao arts together. The amount of spiritual power expended by little yao arts was very little. Zuo Mo was also very practiced. Adding on that he continuously absorbed soul base source, his consciousness continued to grow and he became even more at ease.
This time, Gongsun Cha absorbed two-tenths more soul base source than last time before he sat down again.
After twenty hours, Zuo Mo felt a bit tired and hurriedly put away the Nine Turn Sky Earth Disk. Having lost their target, the fiend souls instantly left. The surrounding became quiet.
Zuo Mo sat down with crossed legs. Each of the ten stars inside his body were bright, and the falling starlight seemed to turn as tangible as mist.
He could feel his spiritual power was full as though it was going to spill.
Was he going to level up?
Zuo Mo’s mind moved, and he started his scripture.
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Sword light flashed in Wei Sheng’s hands. The fiend souls that leapt forward were instantly destroyed. The few threads of soul base source flew into the flying sword in his hand. This long black sword in his hand was tall, standing up to his chest, and looked like a horse chopping saber. It was simple in design. The black sheath did not have many adornments. He had found this black sword the first day he had been transported here.