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Chapter 1049: The World Is Like A Speck Of Dust

Chapter 1049: The World Is Like A Speck Of Dust

Wherever Ye Qing traveled, clay statues crumbled or shattered at the briefest contact. It was like they were made of rot, not clay.

There were two reasons. One, Ye Qing was powerful. Two, these clay statues were more fragile than he thought.

Although these clay statues boasted the cultivation level and power of a Great Trueman, they were still made of clay. They were even more fragile than an ordinary Spirit Master, no, a Spirit Purifier. He, a strong Great Grandmaster, was the perfect counter to them.

On top of that, his Profound Yellow Mother Qi was blocking most of the attacks, and the few that reached him could not even harm his skin. Therefore, these clay statues were no different from ants to him. Specks of dust.

“Great Grandmaster?!”

Mister Taozhu looked shocked. She did not expect the young man to be a Great Grandmaster.

Her cultivation art was called the “Empress Nüwa’s Art of Creating Life”. In ancient times, Empress Nüwa was the mother goddess who created countless lives from soil. The “Empress Nüwa’s Art of Creating Life” was an imitation of that art. Of course, it wasn’t nearly as potent as Empress Nüwa’s ability to create flesh-and-blood beings out of soil or imbue them with varying degrees of sentience, but it was close enough. Not only could the practitioner create imperfect life out of soil, the earthen statues were extremely lifelike and could imitate another person’s abilities.

Alas, imperfect life ultimately wasn’t true life. This art was almost a perfect imitation of Empress Nüwa’s ability except one component: the part where earth transforms into flesh and blood. As a result, the creations of this art were all stuck with an earthen body, meaning that they were naturally countered by physically strong warriors.

Of course, it wasn’t that big of a counter. For starters, numbers could make up for the frailty of their bodies. In fact, body-tempering warriors generally had weaker spirits, so they had even less of a chance of seeing through A Water and locating her compared to a Trueman. Worse came to worst, the average body-tempering warrior still could not harm a hair on her person, which was why they were never a concern for Mister Taozhu.

The young man before her was different though. Not only was he monstrously strong and resilient, his spirit was almost as powerful. After all, he had pierced through A Water’s obfuscation and successfully discovered her. Just what kind of monster was this guy?

She finally understood the source of her unease.@@@@

Seeing that her clay statues were breaking at the briefest contact and unable to put even a dent on Ye Qing’s person, she stopped hesitating and tried to retreat.

Her clay statues were her everything. If even her clay statues could not effectively limit her enemy, then there was no way she could do better. That was why she decided to make a break for it.

A spring wind blew, and ripples appeared on the pond. As the surface of the pond began glittering, both the pond and its immediate surroundings slowly slid into the void.

It might look like she was right in front of them, but if they did not do something soon, Mister Taozhu was going to escape.

“Young master! She’s escaping!”

Wan Dusheng hurriedly cried out in warning when he saw this. It was unnecessary as Ye Qing noticed Mister Taozhu’s intentions even sooner than he did. He took a step forward and threw out a punch.

His footsteps shook the earth, and his arm punched through the heavens.

“I’m fine.”

Ye Qing shook his head and pressed a finger on Mister Taozhu’s forehead.

A few breaths later, Mister Taozhu slowly awakened. At first, she looked a little dazed. Then, she looked at Ye Qing and became respectful and pious like she had just come face to face with her god.

“I greet you, honored master.”

Mister Taozhu rose to her feet and bowed to him.

“Rise. From now on, you may address me as young master.”

Ye Qing could not help but feel a chill when he saw Mister Taozhu’s reverent expression.

This was hardly the first time he used the Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent Magia, but it never failed to leave an eerie impression on him.

This was a Great Trueman he just converted, a named warrior on the Earth Champions Ranking no less. Despite this, she still could not resist the effects of the Magia and changed from his sworn enemy to his most faithful worshiper. How was it possible for anything to distort and alter one’s consciousness so thoroughly and without leaving any trace behind? It was both anomalous and terrifying.

No wonder the “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra” was resisted by the world. No wonder it did not have a way to sagehood. If it was already this powerful at the Trueman stage, how much stronger would it become at the Sage stage?

Ye Qing was wary as a matter of course. In fact, it felt like a bomb that might explode on his face at some point. The Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent Magia was just too anomalous and scary. If outsiders found out that he practiced it, the consequences would be unimaginable. He would become public enemy number one at the least.

It was understandable. Who wouldn’t fear such a terrifying and anomalous Magia? And what better way to dispel that fear than to kill him?

He would die if his secret ever came to light.

Ye Qing could not help but feel a wave of fear and trepidation when he thought until this point.

He wasn’t going to quit the Magia as a matter of course, but he was going to practice it with the highest level of caution. He must never succumb to the impulse of using it without restraint, or it would surely come back to bite him in the future.

“As you command, young master!” Mister Taozhu replied respectfully. “Catch some rest. I have a couple of questions for you when you’re ready,” Ye Qing said after taking note of Mister Taozhu’s pale complexion.

“Thank you, young master!” Mister Taozhu did not hesitate. She threw a pill into her mouth, closed her eyes and began meditating.

Ye Qing sat next to her and entered meditation as well.