The Seventh Elder
< Ding! >
< System has detected a cultivation technique! >
< Analysing Cultivation Technique... >
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< Analysis complete! >
Lin Shuang checked his stats. There was a new section called cultivation techniques.
< Skills & Techniques >
< Cultivation technique - @123%"^&Q"^%£@8q >
[ Unable to analyse technique! ]
< Note: host cultivation level is too low! >
Lin Shuang wasn't surprised. He knew the manual had an incomprehensible background. The person who created it must have been someone like God in his previous life.
For some reason he felt all his senses heightened. It was a marvellous feeling. Weakening, the grand formation began slowing down and the amount of spiritual energy began condensing together – Lin Shuang who was inside the viscous essence was also being absorbed.
Lin Shuang felt a sense of crisis however he noticed something. He realised the closer he was to the point of condensing viscous essence, the faster the rate of his physique gaining experience.
<Body physique – Blood Devil King Divine Constitution>
[ Level 1 (99.786/100 exp) ]
The xp was going up by 0.001 per second. He reckoned it would only take a few more minutes.
However he could sense the breath of someone terrifying. He supposed it was the person who had set up this grand formation. Therefore he felt troubled. If he chose to stay he could level up his physique but take the risk of being caught by that terrifying person or leave straight away.
Lin Shuang decided to not take the risk. He forced his body out of the viscous essence and quietly left, tip-toeing his way out.
After entering the wrong rooms and wrong place multiple time, Lin Shuang found the exit. As he was about to leave, a soft footstep echoed down the corridor. Lin Shuang felt something glaring at him.
Lin Shuang felt his spine shivered and decided to make the run for it. He controlled all the essence force in his body to rush to his feet as well as his body force. With a flash, Lin Shuang speed exploded as he travelled at a speed faster than a cheetah as full speed.
Huang Mao who caught sight of the intruder was shocked and chased after the man.
'Shit! At this rate he will catch up to me...'
Lin Shuang looked back and saw the gap was closing between him and the young man.
All of a sudden Lin Shuang yelled,
"The patriarch has died! This master has killed him!"
Huang Mao who was on Lin Shuang's heels, suddenly stopped due to shock before realising the scheme.
Seeing this had work, Lin Shuang had managed to further the gap. Unfortunately as he left the building he bumped into a barrier as he fell on his bottom.
'what the hell? Why is there a barrier here!"
Seeing the silhouette in the distance becoming more clearer for every second passing, Lin Shuang began panicking.
He realised that his shout earlier was futile and any means would of not done much. He felt he had been played all along, like a man riding a pig using a carrot stick to lure it. Although the pressure he felt from this young man was less than the other person, it was still something he felt he could not handle at the moment.
Lin Shuang knew something had to be done if he didn't want to forfeit his life. He sat down and began reciting the lines from the cultivation technique. Surges of spiritual essence gathered into his body.
He concentrated all the spiritual energy he had gathered into one point. Right when the figure of Huang Mao was visible to Lin Shuang, he quickly used 'blood thirst'.
< Failed to use 'Blood Thirst' >
< 2 uses left! >
'what the hell? Could it be...'
< Target lifeforce is over 10x host's lifeforce. Success rate reduce greatly! >
'Damn it!'
In a state of urgency, Lin Shuang forcibly used 'blood thirst' again.
< Failed to use 'Blood Thirst' >
< 1 uses left! >
Seeing the figure becoming clearer, Lin Shuang ,who was in a state of frenzy, urged the skill 'blood thirst' once again betting everything this time. Failure meant death.
< Target lifeforce has been reduced by 412 >
[ note: effect has been weakened by 10x ]
'No Way... doesn't this means he has over 10,000 lifeforce...'
Soaking in the viscous essence for hours, Lin Shuang lifeforce has more than doubled, however the 412 lifeforce he had just stolen was around half the life force he had currently.
<< Host's Stats>>
< Life force – 885(+412) >
< HP – 1297/1297 - >
<Essence force (G) – 46>
<Body force (KG)– 321)>
(A mortal human average stat is 55 – excluding essence force!)
Huang Mao who felt a large wisp of vitality disappearing from his body looked at Lin Shuang in a new light. One with greed and slight fear.
"Interesting..." he muttered quietly.
"But this is your last resort isn't it?"
Huang Mao who had a playful smiled walked to Lin Shuang.
Fearlessly but also without a choice, Lin Shuang rushed to Huang Mao and urged all his spiritual essence into his leg.
Then he dashed to the side and jumped at Huang Mao concentrating all his power into his arms.
"Its futile you know. Today i will show you the difference between a cultivator and a mortal!"
Huang Mao punched towards Lin Shuang which manifested a translucent aqua fist the size of a torso.
A terrifying power erupted as Lin Shuang despaired.
Boom!
Rocks and dust flew everywhere in which was followed by a silhouette shot out of the smoke.
Poof!
A heavy groan sounded. Lin Shuang spat out a mouthful of blood. His body was riddled bruises and blood.
< -1097 hp >
'Shit! That one punch almost killed me. Great... i cant even move, basically crippled.'
'Well, well, well is this how I would die?'
The smoke and dust rapidly vanished welcoming a bloody scenery with a young man in the middle of the miniscule pool of blood.
His hair was messy. His robe was tattered revealing his bruised or bloodied skin. His eyes were slightly filled with blood juxtaposing with his mouth which was constantly leaking blood.
Lin Shuang was barely able to get on one knee. Standing up was seemingly impossible for him. On the other hand , Huang Mao who was now in front of Lin Shuang sneered as not even a trace of battle is evident on his robes. It was as if a small battle had never taken place.
Lin Shuang felt even more disheartened seeing that his full-out attack was completely useless.
"No matter how strong an ant is, they are still an ant!"
Huang Mao gave a disdained look at Lin Shuang and reach his arm towards Lin Shuang neck.
In response, Lin Shuang gathered the remaining power in him and attempted to stand up. Gritting his teeth whilst struggling, he managed to stand up. However it was to no avail as a kick was directed to his stomach.
Lin Shuang who didn't even have time to react was flung away again despite the fact that there wasn't much force behind the kick.
< -128 hp >
"Stopp resisting and accept your fate and die!"
Lin Shuang who was laying on the floor, was half-conscious as his eyes was closed.
Huang Mao who with each step came closer to Lin Shuang arrived at his body in a few seconds. He raised his hand and a surged if spiritual energy gathered before plunging it towards Lin Shuang heart.
However, just before the spiritual energy reached Lin Shuang, a layer of a myriad of colours surrounded Lin Shuang ,with red appearing the most. With this layer of protection the spiritual energy dissipated leaving a Huang Mao to be surprised.
Simultaneously, just as this had occurred the refinement formation had completed and the concealment barrier disappeared moments after.
Huang Mao felt a sense of excitement boiling up inside of him. He decided to finish up Lin Shuang real quick and return to his father.
"Ape King Thousand Punches!"
Huang Mao bellowed as his arms glowed blue and began shooting back and forth an extremely fast pace. A vast force crashed repeatedly onto the barrier as it produced thunder-cracking sounds.
Dust and stones flew everywhere and a large wave of smoke filled the place.
"What a hard turtle shell you got there... however it isn't going to last forever!"
A dense amount of spiritual energy gathered into his fist causing the ground surrounding Huang Mao to rumble slightly.
"Dragon Devastation fist style: form one – 'a punch cracks the sky'!"
Huang Mao roared as his face turn red. A vast fist the size of an elephant with a shallow figure of a dragon raced towards Lin Shuang. It was so terrifying, everywhere it passed caused the ground to crack and the building to shatter and collapse.
Crack!
Boooom!
A deafening explosive sound rang. Vast amount of smoke and debris began rising. Huang Mao left the scene as he couldn't sense Lin Shuang breathe anymore. Plus, he had just realised how much attention he had just created. He needed to warn his father and escape as fast as possible.
Without looking back, he paced to his father. Huang Zhuangjian who was approaching the crimson pill paused. He gazed at the direction of an explosion. He raised an eyebrow in suspicion and decided to hurry up.
He felt as if he had been caught. Although he had never expected things to develop so fast, he still felt everything was still under control.
In the distance, he noticed a silhouette approaching him.
"Father, we need to hurry up. They might have gotten a hold of what is going on!"
Huang Mao quickly announced, as he crushed the formation plate. A thin dark red shield enveloped them.
"When I was about to finish off the intruder, a mysterious shield formed around that man. I suspect it's one of seventh's elder's items! I have a strong feeling that he is one of seventh elder's man to gather information about us."
Huang Zhuangjian, quickly took out a qi recovering pill and placed it into his mouth. His frowning and worn-out expression slowly dissipated.
"Father, have you gotten the pill yet?"
Huang Mao who was by his side asked.
"Yes, however its medicinal efficacy seems much weaker than it was supposed to be."
He took out the pill which was placed in a jade box. It had dark velvet colour and faint bronze line engraved onto it.
"It's a bronzed engraved tier 4 pill..."
Just the fragrance being released, made Huang Mao felt as if his cultivation speed was increasing.
"According to this antique scroll, we should have gotten a tier 5 pill."
Huang Zhuangjian stated as he had an intuition that something had occurred.
"Could it be that we missed some ingredients?"
Huang Zhuangjian questioned himself as he tried to remember if he had missed out anything.
Suddenly, a strong pressure descended onto the whole area. The rock pillars holding up the pavilion slowly cracked. A sense of urgency filled the father and son. Reacting rapidly, Huang Zhuangjian took out a formation plate and a superior spirit stone and activated the formation.
The space around the pair began to warp and in the next second they disappeared leaving only traces of spiritual energy. Following seconds after, was a young man who looked as if he was in his 20s. He wore a jet-black robe with white stripes and had a sword on his back. His long hair cascaded over the sword as his dark mahogany eyes glanced at the spot where the pair of father and son was at previously. A sense of fury and annoyance could be felt in the atmosphere.
"hmph! You won't escape the punishment of betrayal."
The man swayed his arm as he turned around with a trace of coldness on his pair of eyes and quickly vanished. The temperature in the building seemed to have plummeted by a few degrees during the man's presence.