studiobondurri Chapter 211: Wisteria change
Chapter 211: Wisteria change
Chapter 211: Wisteria change
A few days later, deep in the mountains, a dense forest.
A fierce beast with a body covered in money patterns was running wildly in the forest, its face full of fear and anger, roaring from time to time.
The beast was two to ten meters long, with a sleek body and a powerful aura. Wherever it passed, birds and insects were scared away. It was a second-level fierce beast.
The beast had no wounds on its body, but blood was constantly flowing from its mouth.
No matter how the beast ran, the blood from its mouth continued to flow, its speed rapidly decreasing until it finally fell to the ground, motionless.
Two hundred meters away, a green figure slowly emerged from the grass, it was Yuan Ming.
He was wearing the gray cloak given to him by Xiying, which was now a deep green color, blending in with the surroundings.
Yuan Ming quickly approached the body of the fierce beast.
The beast, named Golden Patterned Leopard, was a second-level lower-tier fierce beast, with strength comparable to an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, Yuan Ming had just controlled the Black Needle artifact from a distance, attacking the beast’s abdomen and piercing its body, causing the beast’s heart, liver, and lungs to be riddled with holes.
The Golden Patterned Leopard couldn’t even find its enemy and fell here in confusion.
Yuan Ming raised his hand, and the Black Needle artifact flew out of the leopard’s mouth and into his hand.
Looking at the delicate high-grade artifact in his hand, he nodded in satisfaction and put it away.
After spending a few days refining the artifact to better suit himself, he was pleased to see that it had met his expectations.
Yuan Ming took out the Cold Star Sword and carefully peeled off the leopard’s skin.
The leopard’s skin contained abundant gold attribute spiritual power, strong and yet thin and soft, suitable for refining armor-type artifacts, and was quite valuable.
As for the rest of the leopard’s body, it was not very valuable.
Yuan Ming put away the leopard skin and patted another spirit beast bag.
The Black Toad Spirit Beast leaped out and, sensing the abundant blood energy of the Golden Patterned Leopard, immediately shot out several dark purple demon vines, quickly draining the leopard’s body.
The demon energy contained in the leopard’s skin and flesh was different from that of the Black Toad, and the Black Toad’s aura did not increase much. It lazily ran back to Yuan Ming’s side.
Yuan Ming frowned slightly. The Black Toad Spirit Beast had always been full of energy and had never been so lazy before.
He tried to communicate with it through the beast-controlling runes engraved in its sea of consciousness, but found nothing, so he ignored it and put it back in the spirit beast bag.
Yuan Ming then summoned the Azure Cloud Crane and flew out of the Ten Thousand Mountains, not continuing to hunt for beasts here.
Two days later, Yuan Ming arrived outside the Snake King Valley.
After experiencing the battle of the Bi Luo Cave and facing powerful cultivators and hordes of beasts, he keenly felt his own insignificance, but it also broadened his horizons.
Now, he was even more eager to improve his cultivation. He had made all the necessary preparations, and if he could break through the bottleneck in one go, his cultivation would take a qualitative leap.
When he returned to Da Jin, he would have to settle the score with certain people.
Breaking through the Foundation Establishment stage would take some time, so he needed to find a safe and secluded place. After much thought, he decided that the underground passage in the Snake King Valley was the most secluded and safe place among the places he had visited, and it was a good place for seclusion.
Although the valley was full of dense miasma, the underground was thin, and with the effect of the Barrier-Avoiding Pearl, it would not affect his cultivation.
Yuan Ming released three Soul Crows to thoroughly investigate the Snake King Valley. After confirming that no one had been there, he entered the valley and quickly arrived at the underground passage below the Snake King’s Cave, summoning the Black Toad.
Just like before, the demonic vines within the Black Toad spread out again, covering a larger area than before, nearly submerging the entire chamber. The purple-black vine flowers were also larger and more numerous, with a strange fragrance wafting through the air.
The originally dim ancient tomb chamber now seemed like a lush garden.
Yuan Ming admired the strange beauty before him and was about to step forward when several vine bodies, like venomous snakes, leaped up and took an attacking stance against him.
Yuan Ming’s expression darkened as he grabbed a vine with lightning speed and activated his beast taming technique.
Thick black qi rolled out, flowing along the vine into its body, pulling at the beast taming runes.
The demonic vines throughout the chamber writhed in pain and quickly retracted.
In a few breaths, aside from the one in Yuan Ming’s hand, all the demonic vines in the chamber had disappeared, revealing the Black Toad’s figure, which had undergone a drastic change.
The Black Toad’s originally plump body had become extremely shriveled, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as skin and bones. Protrusions covered its body, which at first glance looked like meridians, but Yuan Ming could clearly sense that these were the purple-black demonic vines.
The purple-black demonic vines, which had originally coexisted with the Black Toad, were now beginning to plunder its vitality!
"Could it be because of the absorption of the black qi?" Yuan Ming recalled the vines’ daring attack on him and felt increasingly uneasy.
A spirit beast imprinted with beast taming runes was not infallible and could lose control. There had been many precedents in the history of the Bi Luo Sect where spirit beasts turned on their masters.
Yuan Ming had originally thought that with his powerful soul and beast taming technique, he could control the demonic vines, but now it seemed he had underestimated them!
However, as a major beast taming sect, the Bi Luo Sect naturally had methods to deal with out-of-control spirit beasts.
Yuan Ming held the vine in one hand and continued to drive the beast taming technique, while his other hand sliced open the skin on his fingertip and formed a seal in the air.
A stream of fresh blood shot out, moving through the air with his seal, quickly forming a blood-colored rune-like pattern.
"Zha!"
Yuan Ming shouted loudly, and the blood-colored rune shone brightly, turning into a beam of blood light that entered the demonic vine’s body, striking its beast soul consciousness.
This rune, known as the Blood Spirit Rune, not only strengthened the power of the beast taming technique but also severely damaged the spirit beast’s soul, preventing it from acting rashly.
The consciousness of the purple-black demonic vine was severely damaged and became listless. The vine in Yuan Ming’s hand hung down like a dead snake.
The Black Toad also let out a pained cry, flipped over, and fell, motionless.
Yuan Ming quickly crouched down to check on the Black Toad. Its consciousness had also become very weak, and it was now in a deep slumber.
He was not very proficient in beast taming, and in the current situation, he did not know what to do. He could only temporarily place the Black Toad into a spirit beast bag and observe the situation later.
Several days later, in the afternoon.
At a tavern near the main street of Black Rock City, a somewhat delicate-looking young man and a burly man sat opposite each other, drinking.
"Brother Wu Lu, it’s quite a coincidence! You said you would be coming to Black Rock City in a few days, and it turns out that just as I set foot in the city, I ran into you," the delicate young man said with a smile.
"This is what they call a destined meeting across a thousand miles! I also encountered some matters on the road, which delayed me a bit. Come, let’s toast to our fate!" Wu Lu laughed heartily, clinking his cup with Yuan Ming’s and downing it in one gulp.
Yuan Ming was naturally skeptical of Wu Lu’s words, but since his own retreat was a secret and his arrival in Black Rock City was a spur-of-the-moment decision, unless the other party could read his mind, it was impossible for them to know his itinerary.
"Perhaps it really is a coincidence?" Yuan Ming thought to himself and emptied his cup in one gulp.