Lingdu Mountain enthusiastically sized up Wang ng. "Haha, if you don’t mind, I’ll call you Younger Brother Wang. You seem to be a Saint Cultivator, Younger Brother Wang, so how did you end up with..."
In the past, everyone gave Yanm Yuyue a wide berth. But today was just her lucky day—first she was hunted down, and then she had to be saved by soone else. It was more humiliation than she had suffered in over a decade.
Wang ng glanced at the astonished Yanm Yuyue. "Elder Ling, may I have a word in private?"
Although Yanm Yuyue wanted to listen, Lingdu Mountain had just saved her life, so she couldn’t very well say anything.
"Younger Brother Wang, you and that elder..."
Wang ng smiled. "You an that old man? He wants to take as his disciple, but I’m not interested, so he pesters whenever he’s bored."
Lingdu Mountain felt the urge to bang his head against a wall. ’This is the greatest blessing in heaven and earth, yet soone is actually turning it down? What in the world is going on?’
"Ah, Younger Brother... could you... uh... perhaps introduce ?"
Lingdu Mountain rembered the Sect Leader’s command, and his heart burned with fervent hope.
"Elder..."
"No, no, please don’t call that! I’d be honored if you just called Big Brother."
’If Wang ng becos that elder’s disciple, his status in the hierarchy would shoot way past my own.’
"Ahem, Big Brother, that old man has a very odd temper, and his whereabouts are unpredictable. How about this: next ti he cos looking for , I’ll pass along your request."
"Younger Brother Wang, words can’t express my gratitude! If there’s anything you need, just say the word. Ah, wait a mont—where is my head? This is our Evil Spirit Sect’s Evil Fighting Order. Take it. With this, any disciple from the Evil Spirit Hall will be at your command."
Wang ng didn’t stand on ceremony. He really did need sothing for protection right now. Things were quite perilous without his Godhood.
"Big Brother, keep this from Yanm Yuyue. You know, she also wants to..."
Lingdu Mountain was instantly delighted. ’Wang ng is a true ally! Heaven-Dominating Hall must also want to persuade the elder to erge from his seclusion. They even arranged for Yanm Yuyue to use a honey trap—how despicable! Could it be that Huangfu Qi was also just part of the act?’
A good-for-nothing like Huangfu Qi, who would call anyone who feeds him "mother," had no loyalty to speak of.
"Rest assured, rest assured, I understand. Do you need to get rid of her for you?" Lingdu Mountain quickly offered to return the favor.
"It’s fine, I can handle her. Big Brother, when you have ti, co visit at Thunderlight Hall. I’ll buy you a drink."
"Haha, I’ll definitely be there."
Lingdu Mountain chuckled and glanced at Yanm Yuyue. ’Right place, right ti!’
He could finally return to the Evil Spirit Hall. The last ti, the Sect Leader had chewed him out and kicked him out. He’d been wandering around here for so long, but it seed heaven really did reward the persistent. He had actually managed to wait until the right mont, and he’d even found the key person. With Wang ng as a lead, there was no way the trail would go cold.
But now, in addition to the damned Thunderfire Hall, they had a powerful competitor in Heaven-Dominating Hall. He had to let the Sect Leader know.
If Heaven-Dominating Hall managed to recruit the elder, the Evil Spirit Hall would never have a chance to rise again. And worse, Jiny Tiannan was resorting to a honey trap!
Shaless, utterly shaless!
Because of Lingdu Mountain’s power, Yanm Yuyue didn’t dare eavesdrop. "You actually didn’t leave."
"Senior Sister Yanm, you can’t put it like that. I have a clear conscience, so why should I run? Besides, I just saved your life. I’ve heard that Evil Cultivators are clear about repaying kindness and avenging wrongs. Or is that all just for show?" Wang ng shrugged.
Yanm Yuyue stared daggers at Wang ng. He suddenly took a step back, feigning fear and clutching his chest. "Senior Sister Yanm, are you planning to silence by killing ?"
Yanm Yuyue gritted her teeth in anger. She knew he was teasing her. As an Evil Cultivator, and the successor to their progenitor, one could only imagine how high her self-confidence was.
She bit her lip. "Wang ng... I will not let him get away with this. As for you, you saved this ti, so na your price. As long as it’s within my power, I’ll do it. But rember this: after this, we’re even. The next ti we et, it’s every man for himself!"
The rule of Heaven-Dominating Hall was to be clear on debts and grudges. If she didn’t repay this favor, Yanm Yuyue’s pride wouldn’t allow her to act against him. But for the sake of the progenitor, she couldn’t just leave Wang ng alone, and might even have to resort to so unconventional ans.
Wang ng sized up Yanm Yuyue. "Actually, it’s nothing much. Everyone says Senior Sister Yanm is a peerless beauty. I’d like to see your true face."
’She was the one regret of his past self, who had been single-mindedly devoted to the Celestial Dao. To be honest, Wang ng was incredibly curious.’
Yanm Yuyue was silent for a long mont. Wang ng smiled. "Don’t tell , is even this tiny little request..."
Before Wang ng could finish his sentence, Yanm Yuyue resolutely removed her mask. A gentle breeze swept by, and Wang ng turned to stone.
By the ti Wang ng ca to his senses, the beauty was gone, leaving only her lingering fragrance in the air.
Wang ng looked around, wiped the drool from his mouth, and then looked up at the sky. He actually had one more request... ’Senior Sister, can you give a ride???’
Wang ng began the miserable task of finding his way back to the Holy Hall. ’Damn it,’ he thought. ’As a Sword Cultivator, not being able to use Sword Flight is a total pain.’
Still, getting to see Yanm Yuyue’s true face seed worth it... ’Huh? Haven’t I been to this spot before?’
A certain soone’s mournful wail echoed through the dense forest...
In the end, Wang ng failed to find his way out of the naless forest. However, he did make an unexpected discovery: the forest was rich in Earth and Wood Primordial Qi.
After cultivating the Five Elents Technique, although the Five Elents Mutual Inhibition gave Wang ng a major headache, there was a benefit: his senses had beco much more acute to the Five Elents Power.
Humans were divided by the Five Elents, but the world contained more than just those five. For example, the Thunder Pool contained a strong Thunder Attribute, which had a certain influence on the adjacent Thunderlight Hall. However, while humans were blessed with wisdom by the heavens and the earth, they were also limited by their own Five Elents Attributes and couldn’t absorb other elents like Spirit Beasts. Otherwise, the disciples of Thunderlight Hall would surely be incredibly powerful.
Wang ng found a spot with exceptionally dense Wood Elental Power and built a simple shelter. The Wood Spring Technique and the Earth Kun Technique were his current weak points. Frankly, with his understanding of Cultivation Techniques, practicing such low-level Five Elents Magic should have been a simple matter. Unfortunately, due to the mutual inhibition of the Five Elents, any progress he made was imdiately canceled out. It seed like he had only added two attributes, but the difficulty of cultivation had increased exponentially. The small hurdle of the Fifteenth Layer of Elental Power had stumped Wang ng for a long ti.
Wang ng was good at making the best of his situation. This place had decent Elental Power and no one to disturb him, making it a perfect spot to train. His Nourishing Essence Technique and Blast-Inducing Technique had also hit a bottleneck; there was no point in practicing them further without breaking through the Fifteenth Layer. When he was about to puke from practicing the Five Elents Skill, he would look through the Saint Cultivation Talismans he carried with him.
There was a large pile of all sorts of Talismans, enough to keep Wang ng occupied for a good while. He could tell that the Secret Skills from the Holy Hall Pavilion’s collection were of a higher standard, but they still didn’t touch upon the core of Saint Cultivation. It was just like the five Cultivation Techniques he had painstakingly selected; finding them had been hard enough, but they would probably only be useful up to the Twentieth Layer. To progress further, he would need better Five Elents Skills, and those could likely only be found by entering the Main Hall.
Wang ng basically maintained a good relationship with the monsters and Demon Beasts of this naless place. They didn’t bother each other. The constantly shifting Five Elents Power around him made the Demon Beasts keep a respectful distance.
Cultivation was inherently a struggle, a way of prying into the will of heaven. His past life’s experience couldn’t provide much guidance on Saint Cultivation Techniques, especially the formless ones. Wang ng could only try various thods, but the result was that the more he practiced, the more he regressed. These five Cultivation Techniques were ant to allow a Cultivator to initially tap into their own Five Elents Power. Practicing any one of them alone, Wang ng could master it quickly. But practicing all five together, they had at first resisted each other, and now they were actively counteracting one another. It was only because Wang ng’s control over Elental Power was so masterful that he hadn’t imploded; otherwise, he really would have had to use one of Zhou Feng’s Spirit Void Pills.
After struggling for many days, he could barely control the Golden Palace Technique, the Water Wave Technique, and the Fla Technique, while the Wood Spring Technique and the Earth Kun Technique had clearly regressed. This made his already unbalanced Five Elents Technique even more unstable. Relying solely on Elental Power to compensate was completely inefficient, yielding half the results for twice the effort.
Wang ng racked his brains. He finally understood what Xu Huang had once told him: cultivation truly depends on talent. Mindless, brute-force training didn’t always work.
Even though he couldn’t figure it out, he couldn’t stop practicing either. Wang ng continued his routine: cultivate, have it all get canceled out, then cultivate again. The process would have made any other person sick to their stomach, if not driven them to death by disgust. But Wang ng could take it. He had nerves of steel and was persistent enough to wait for a miracle.
If he couldn’t master these five thods and find the key to pacifying the Five Elents, his life might very well be over, stuck at this hurdle forever. In the Small Thousand World, one relied on their Life Mark Level to increase their lifespan. If he couldn’t solve the problem of his Five Elents Body, he might truly perish, his Godhood dissipating along with him.
For so reason, perhaps because his thoughts were in such turmoil, Wang ng would occasionally recall that soul-stirring face. Yanm Yuyue wasn’t actively trying to be alluring, but her beauty was truly sothing not ant for casual display. In terms of looks alone, Yanm Yuyue and Yang Ying were each beautiful in their own right, but Yanm Yuyue’s aura—that indescribable charm that pierced straight into a man’s soul—was the most terrifying thing of all.
Normally, Wang ng had strong self-control around won, his mind set on pursuing the Celestial Dao. Perhaps it was his frustration with the Five Elents Skill, or maybe he was on the verge of qi deviation, but he found it hard to concentrate.
In this state, Wang ng didn’t dare force his training. It was then that he unexpectedly sensed a strange fluctuation of Elental Power from deep within the forest. It felt chaotic. At first, he thought his mind was just playing tricks on him after all the training, but when he felt it again and again, he decided to investigate.
The place emitting the Earth Elent Power was a dark cave. After a mont of hesitation, Wang ng suddenly smiled. "Damn it all, when did I beco such a coward?"
The cave was very deep. Before long, he discovered a sizable cavern. All sorts of Secret Realms existed in the Small Thousand World. So had already been developed by Cultivators and turned into their own territories. Major sects like the Holy Hall sent out exploration parties every year.
If he hadn’t sensed the Five Elents Power, Wang ng never would have found this cave entrance. The opening wasn’t large; who would have thought it hid a whole other world inside?
Judging by the entrance and the path so far, no one had been here in a long ti. The adventurer in Wang ng began to stir, especially since his recent frustrations with his cultivation technique made him eager for a release.
In the darkness, he could see pairs of red eyes. They were Bat Demons. Judging by their level, they weren’t very strong. Bat Demons did indeed suck blood and were venomous, but that was only a threat to mortals. Cultivators had nothing to fear unless they encountered a particularly powerful Bat Demon.
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