SWDnovel Chapter 13 An Amazing Discovery
Chapter 13 An Amazing Discovery
As Su Mixin's voice rang out, the atmosphere around them instantly became heavy, with a hint of impending conflict.
After a full seven or eight breaths, a figure finally broke through the clouds and slowly appeared in mid-air behind the gray cloud.
The person was surrounded by a layer of hazy blue-red mist, and a wide black cloak covered his entire body. His figure was faintly visible in the mist, and his face was completely obscured, making it impossible to see clearly at all.
A slightly hoarse voice came from under the hood of the cloak: "I was just passing through this place when I was caught in the crossfire of that man's puppet attack and had to take cover. I have no intention of being your enemy."
Su Mixin smiled faintly and said, "I know the reason, which is why I have kept you here to observe from the shadows until now."
"However, Fellow Daoist's concealment and refusal to reveal yourself makes me suspect that you may have ulterior motives."
Having said that, he slightly raised his hand in a bow, his tone calm: "My name is Su Mixin. I wonder if you would be so kind as to show yourself so we can get acquainted?"
Another heavy silence fell over the room.
A moment later, Han Li, who was still floating in mid-air, removed the green fire barrier, lifted the hood of his cloak, and revealed a slightly dark-skinned and unremarkable young man's face.
Han Li also bowed respectfully and greeted, "I am Li Feiyu, greetings to Fellow Daoist Su."
Su Mixin's smile widened slightly. "Fellow Daoist Li, you must have come south after leaving the Tianxing Sect's market. I wonder if you have any connection with Huangfeng Valley?"
Although Huangfeng Valley and Tianxing Sect belong to two different countries, they are the closest to each other. Disciples of the two sects often go to the market across the street to buy and trade, so it is reasonable and normal to make this guess.
At this point, Han Li had already become meticulous and shrewd, taking a significant step towards becoming the "Old Devil Han" in the future.
His expression was calm and sincere, revealing no flaw: "Fellow Daoist, you are overthinking it. I am just a rootless rogue cultivator from the Yue Kingdom."
Su Mixin stared intently at Han Li for several seconds with a look that said, "Do you believe me or not?" Her eyes held a half-smile.
Then he continued, "Although that cultivator surnamed Lin is a disciple of Huangfeng Valley, his original identity was the former young master of Qianzhu Sect. He joined Huangfeng Valley under an assumed name with ill intentions."
"I have a grudge against these people. I killed these two people this time. I hope Fellow Daoist Li will not spread this news."
Given Han Li's cautious nature, having secretly witnessed a major event today, he might investigate it discreetly upon returning to Huangfeng Valley, and might even become interested in the Dayan Technique, the central event in the incident.
Han Li clearly understood that Su Mixin didn't believe he was a rogue cultivator, but he didn't point it out. He could only cup his hands again and say, "I know. I will keep today's matter a secret and will not reveal a single word to anyone."
In his mind, it's better to avoid trouble and to be cautious in everything.
Su Mixin nodded and said, "In that case, I shall take my leave. I hope to meet Fellow Daoist Li again in the future."
After saying that, he took out a disc-shaped magical artifact, controlled it, and soared into the sky, flying towards the Tianxing Sect's market.
Han Li watched Su Mixin's departing figure silently, standing in mid-air for a long time before taking out the Divine Wind Boat, stepping onto it, and using the boat to break through the air, speeding away towards his cave.
More than an hour later, in a small courtyard room in the Tianxing Sect market, Su Mixin was happily counting her spoils of war.
The first thing to be affected was naturally the jade slip in "Uncle Lin's" storage bag that contained the first four levels of the "Great Evolution Technique" and the "True Explanation of the Puppet Technique".
After Su Mixin took it out, she carefully read through its contents.
"This 'Great Evolution Technique' is truly profound and mysterious."
Unfortunately, they will all be idle for the time being.
During his demon-hunting expedition in Panlong River, he obtained no demon soul pills. He planned to first improve his cultivation level with pills and demon essence liquid, and then go to the outer sea of Chaotic Star to hunt demons and obtain a certain number of demon soul pills before cultivating the "Great Evolution Technique" to enhance his divine sense.
This way, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
As for the True Explanation of Puppetry, it records that the creation of puppets requires the use of souls.
Unlike the original Han Laomo, who hunted demons and made use of waste to collect a large number of demon souls, he did not.
The Demon Refining Pot guarantees that it will refine the demon soul without wasting a single bit of it.
Therefore, let's leave the true explanation of the puppet to Feng Hou for now, so she can study, deduce, and research it.
Su Mi happily put the jade slip into her world ring.
Next, they continued to take inventory. As expected of puppeteers, Lin Zheng and Huang Long knew how expensive this art was; they didn't have many spirit stones in their storage bags combined.
Some elixirs, talismans, and other miscellaneous items are not worth mentioning.
All the magical artifacts in the collection consisted of a bunch of junk that Su Mixin didn't even want and one top-tier ordinary magical artifact.
The two of them had a total of about three hundred puppets, most of which were level two puppet beasts and humanoid puppets.
However, Huanglong's giant tiger puppet mount, along with Lin Zheng's storage bag containing two giant ape puppet beasts and one humanoid puppet, are all level three puppets capable of defeating Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Su Mi was satisfied and put all the puppets into his world ring. He handed these puppets over to Feng Hou, who would not only help him manage the small world, but also become an extension of Feng Hou's kin.
They continued counting without stopping.
The storage bags of the three Foundation Establishment cultivators killed by Huanglong actually contained more than two thousand low-grade spirit stones.
There are also several extremely ordinary top-tier magic artifacts, which is the minimum wealth an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would possess.
These few thieves, lacking any discernment, were clearly not skilled enough and belonged to the poorer category.
However, there was one black flying sword, a true top-tier magical artifact, which some unlucky soul kept hidden away.
Su Mixin refined the black flying sword, intending to use it as a backup.
Other miscellaneous items such as pills and talismans were sorted out one by one.
Most of these spoils were of little use to Su Mixin, and he planned to sell them off at a low price in the market.
Over the next two days, he disguised himself and changed several identities to dispose of all the smuggled goods, and surprisingly made over a thousand low-grade spirit stones.
"As expected, murder and arson still bring wealth and power!"
Su Mixin sighed with emotion.
Time flies, and another six months have passed.
For the past six months, Su Mixin has remained rooted in the Panlong River basin, hunting demons and gaining experience.
During this period, they reaped considerable rewards, having hunted down a total of eight demonic beasts equivalent to Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, including one level four demonic beast.
The demon essence liquid currently stored in the Demon Refining Pot is enough for Su Mixin to raise her cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage in one fell swoop, and she still needs to steadily improve by nearly half within this small realm.
He is preparing to stop soon and return to the Thousand Illusions Sect to cultivate in seclusion and focus all his efforts on improving his cultivation.
On this day, the sky was clear and cloudless, the warm sun shone down, and the river water was crystal clear.
Su Mixin planned to hunt one or two more demonic beasts before returning to her sect, thus bringing this training to a perfect close.
Unexpectedly, he was quite lucky today and actually encountered a level 4 "big fish".
This is a Frost-Freezing Tortoise, which is not only proficient in the art of freezing water into ice, but also has an indestructible shell with terrifying defensive capabilities, making it a truly tough opponent.
When it was discovered, it was lying on a shallow beach in the Panlong River, its limbs outstretched, basking in the warm sun with its heavy shell, looking lazy and content, completely unaware that danger was quietly approaching.
Based on the coordinates Feng Hou had given her, Su Mixin charged forward without hesitation for even a second.
However, this hunt, which should have been a sure thing, soon taught him a lesson.
The moment it was attacked, the Frost-Condensing Black Tortoise did not hesitate at all. Its lazy posture suddenly disappeared, and it showed no intention of continuing the fight. It retracted its limbs, flicked its tail, and plunged into the river with a "plop," fleeing rapidly towards the center of the river.
Its seemingly bulky tortoise shell became its most solid shield at this moment, and with its rather agile movements, it managed to withstand the fierce slashes of the Nine Mystic Sword Shuttle.
One demon and one human, one fleeing and one chasing, the Nine Mystic Sword Shuttle transformed into nine sword shadows, weaving around the Xuan Turtle Demon Beast like silver snakes, but failed to inflict any effective damage on it.
Soon after, the Frost-Condensing Black Tortoise had escaped to the depths of the river.
It simply stopped fleeing, retracting its head, tail, and limbs into its shell, adopting a stance that suggested it was ready to be attacked at will.
What's even more amazing is that the water vapor around it suddenly surged, and the cold air spread, condensing into a thick layer of ice armor in just a few breaths, completely covering the tortoise shell, as if it were wearing a heavy armor of ice crystals.
Moreover, for every layer of ice armor that breaks, the Xuan Turtle Beast replenishes it with another layer.
Su Mixin frowned deeply. After struggling for a long time, the Nine Mysterious Sword Shuttle cut through layer after layer of ice armor, but could only leave shallow marks on the tortoise shell.
He sighed inwardly, realizing that he still lacked a powerful and heavy-hitting magical weapon that could be effective in this situation.
Alternatively, it could bypass the tortoise shell and directly attack the poisonous artifact inside.
Seeing that there was no good way to deal with the Frost Condensing Black Tortoise, Su Mixin was quite discouraged and prepared to give up.
Then, when he turned around and began to retreat, he discovered that the Xuan Turtle Beast, which had been curled up in a ball, suddenly moved!
The tortoise shell trembled slightly, its icy armor shattered and fell off, and its limbs stretched out, chasing directly after Su Mixin.
What infuriated Su Mixin even more was that when he increased his flight speed, trying to get rid of the tortoise...
The Xuan Turtle Beast, which seemed rather slow in Su Mi's eyes when it first fled to the center of the river, was actually able to use water escape techniques.
Surrounded by a layer of water, it hurtled toward Su Mixin like an arrow released from a bow.
Not only that, "whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Several ice spikes shot out from the mouth of the Xuan Turtle, carrying a bone-chilling cold, and shot towards Su Mixin.
Su Mi was startled and quickly summoned the Blue Nether Shield to block in front of her. With a few crisp clangs, the ice spikes were all blocked by the Blue Nether Shield and shattered into ice shards.
Although he was not seriously injured, Su Mixin felt extremely insulted at the moment—he had actually been tricked by a turtle known for its simple-mindedness.
This Frost-Freezing Black Tortoise was clearly very intelligent, strictly adhering to and implementing the sixteen-character strategy of luring the enemy deep into our territory, defending against their attacks, pursuing them when they flee, and striking when they are exhausted.
Strategically, it actually utterly defeated Su Mixin, a demon beast successfully outmaneuvering human cultivators.
"This is an utter disgrace!" Su Mixin gritted her teeth.
Without further hesitation, he decisively summoned the replica of the Miro Illusion Mirror and took out the Blood Sword Talisman.
They were prepared to spare no expense in dealing a severe blow to this detestable Xuan Turtle demon beast.
"You beast, you brought this on yourself! You deserve to die today!" Su Mixin's angry voice rang out.
The next moment, a radiating, cone-shaped, misty white mirror light descended upon the Frost-Condensing Black Tortoise.
Because the mirror light covered a wide area, the black tortoise was unable to escape. At this moment, its head, tail, and limbs were still exposed outside its shell, and its eyes had become glazed.
"Now!"
A fierce glint flashed in Su Mixin's eyes, and she activated the Blood Sword Talisman in her right hand with a roar!
A crimson sword light slashed down from in front of Su Mixin, instantly heading towards the head of the Xuan Turtle.
The crimson sword light was as fast as lightning, and it looked like it was about to split the Xuan Turtle's head in two, but then a sudden change occurred!
Fortunately, the Frost-Condensing Black Tortoise remained in its water escape state, blending seamlessly with the surrounding river currents.
At the critical moment, a wave several meters high surged onto the river, and the impact caused the black tortoise to shift several feet to one side.
"Sizzle!"
The crimson sword light grazed the back of the black tortoise's head, and although it did not hit a vital spot, it struck hard at the junction of its right foreleg and shell.
Under the sword's light, the right front half of the tortoise shell shattered and flew apart instantly, revealing a deep wound that exposed bone.
Its right foreleg was almost severed, but a layer of skin and tendons prevented the Xuan Turtle Beast from completely losing its fourth leg.
The crimson demon blood gushed out like a spring, staining a large area of the river red.
"roar!"
The Frost-Freezing Tortoise let out a deep, painful roar. Its dazed eyes were instantly awakened by the excruciating pain, replaced by extreme fear.
It never expected that the human cultivator before it would possess such a domineering killing move. If it weren't for Jiang Shui's timely and timely protection, it would have already been decapitated.
The excruciating pain prevented it from lingering even for a moment. Its injured right foreleg curled up slightly, and it could no longer afford to fight back. Water vapor surged wildly around its body, and the Water Escape Technique was pushed to its limit!
Dragging its bleeding body, it plunged into the river like an arrow released from a bow, leaving a long trail of demonic blood behind it that mingled with the river water and gradually spread.
"Trying to escape?"
Su Mixin snorted coldly in her heart. How could she let go of the demon essence liquid refined from the corpse of the fourth-level demon beast so easily?
He took out a water-repelling pill and quickly swallowed it.
Without a second thought, he plunged into the river and chased after the Frost-Condensing Black Tortoise in the direction it had fled.
"not good!"
Lu Xin and Li Chongyue, who were far away, sensed this scene with their divine senses and were both greatly shocked.
They have been keeping a close eye on this place, ready to make a move at any moment.
Unexpectedly, Su Mixin became reckless and chased after him underwater, unwilling to give up.
It is important to know that there are strong currents and rapid flows beneath the surface of the river.
Moreover, it is unknown whether other demonic beasts are lurking nearby, making Su Mixin highly vulnerable to ambushes and danger.
The two dared not delay, and transformed into two streaks of light, flying rapidly towards the place where Su Mixin had plunged into the river.
Lu and Li had just arrived at this place and were preparing to go into the water to search for him.
Suddenly, Su Mixin's head surfaced above the river.
The two hurried to meet them.
When Su Mixin flew to Lu Xin and Li Chongyue's side, Lu Xin hurriedly asked with concern, "Young Master, are you alright?"
Li Chongyue stood by, looking concerned.
"It's alright, we lost it. That turtle was too fast at water escape. The water below the surface of the river was turbulent and muddy, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye."
"Let's go back to our cave first," Su Mixin said, looking annoyed.
Lu Xin and Li Chongyue, without suspecting anything, hurried back to their temporary cave dwelling.
However, what the two didn't notice was that behind them, Su Mixin had a fascinating look on his face; he had just made an amazing discovery!