Chapter 15 - Preparations for Breakthrough (2/2)

'Is that a wisp?'

That Divine Sense earlier put it on guard, but all it could see is the wisp right in front of it, could it be that it was dreaming?

Krune didn't know what the demon snake was thinking, nor did he cares, he just came to make a few questions, as long as that snake knows its place there will be no need for violence.

”Hello there, my name is Krune, I came here looking for a Foundation Establishment beast who could answer a few question. You see, I'm at the peak of the 9th stage of Qi Condensation and would like to vie for the Foundation Establishment too, but I don't know what I should do to make the Breakthrough, would you mind to give me some pointers?”

The snake looked at Krune with a weird face, it could have expected for anything else, but definitely not a wisp barging into its territory to make question, is this wisp even thinking straight? It ignored it's internal struggle and jumped at Krune.

9th stage Qi Condensation wisp! Such a wisp is bound to give the demon snake a huge boost in its cultivation, probably helping it to even breakthrough into the 2nd stage of the Foundation Establishment, the demon snake was ecstatic!

Just as the demon sneak was about to eat the wisp, Krune suddenly disappeared, or to be more specific, he moved so fast that the demon snake almost couldn't see its movement.

”Sigh, and here I was thinking that Foundation Establishment beasts were smarter than the Qi Condensation ones, seems like I was hopping for too much after all.”

The demon snake war alarmed, a foreboding sentiment washed over it, but it quickly calmed down. 'So what if the wisp is fast? It can't do anything to me to start with, I just need a good chance and I can take him down.'

It decided to let out its poison fog, it would first poison the wisp so that it would lose it's speed and then it would be done for... Or so it thought, unfortunately, just as it was about to attack Krune again, its Divine Sense noticed something coming from above.

Fast! All it could think is that it was too fast!

When Krune dodged earlier, he had also prepared one blazing wind blade to be shot, he could have killed the demon snake straight away, but he hold himself back on purpose to show the difference in strength.

The demon snake was a Foundation Establishment snake after all, using all the power of its body, it dodged the blazing wind blade in the last instant, it looked back to where the fiery blade hit and it could see that it went through the ground, it's Divine Sense lost track of the blade a moment later. Powerful! That was what the demon snake thought at that instant, it looked back at Krune and it's disdain and greediness were gone this time, it's enemy is definitely not weak at all.

'Although that attack was really strong it should take a lot of time to prepare and as long as I pay attention I should be able to dodge, not to mention that it should consume an astonishing amount of spiritual energy, let's see just how many times you can still shoot that fire blade.'

That was what it thought... for a second, right after that when it looked above Krune, it's heart went cold, sweat started to appear all over it's body, Krune was very pleased with the look on it's face.

”As expected of a Foundation Establishment beast, even though I hold myself back just now, you still avoided my Skill Merge Blazing Wind Blade. Well, let's see if you can avoid thirty blazing wind blades at the same time, try to not disappoint me.”

The demon snake wanted to cry, it thought that death was close, there is no way it can dodge all thirty blades at once, but for it's surprise, Krune didn't really shoot all thirty blazing wind blades at one, he released one by one, he was totally playing with the Two Headed Demon Snake, he wanted to show this snake that every time he shot a blade, a new one would be formed in the place of the one that had released.

At first the Demon Snake still had some hope, it was waiting for it's poison fog to make effect, but as the time went by, the gloomier it felt, that wisp didn't seem like to be weakening at all! Just when it was about to run out of spiritual energy, it screamed back through it's Divine Sense. This Two Headed Demon Snake is quite a rare demon beast, so it could only take the human form at the late stages of the Foundation Establishment or maybe only after the breaking through the Core Formation realm, so it couldn't use it's mouth to speak.

”Stop! I surrender, I will answer all your questions.”

Kune was very happy with that answer, but the demon snake couldn't help but ask first.

”Why is it that my poison doesn't work on you?”

Krune heard that question and thought that this demon snake isn't very smart after all.

”Isn't that obvious? I'm a wisp, I don't have a flesh and blood body, unless your poison works on the soul, it's no different than air for me.

What Krune couldn't expect was the snake answer for that, the snake looked pitifully at him.

”But... my poison works on the soul too.”

Krune was taken aback this time, it's poison works on the soul too? Krune immediately examined himself but didn't find anything strange. Could it be that the snake is lying? He couldn't sense anything at all!

”Are you sure it works on the soul too?”

The sneak nodded it's head, the Two Headed Demon Snake is quite a rare demon beast after all, it's poison is much more complicated than normal ones.

Krune pondered a bit and could only think about one thing

'My Spiritual Energy Meridians! It can only be it, they have the power to almost instantly convert the spiritual energy of all types into the same type of spiritual energy as mine, so it means that they can even filter away poison too!'

Suddenly, Krune had an idea.

'Wait! What will happen if I try to absorb other types of elements infused with spiritual energy?'

Krune immediately absorbed a little bit of the poisonous fog, that fog has the ability to affect the soul so it's bound to have some spiritual energy infused in it. Sure enough, his Spiritual Energy Meridians purified the poison and added the spiritual energy in his core. But Krune wasn't that happy with it.

'It does indeed helps with my cultivation, but the speed of conversion is several times slower than the energy of Demon Cores, Spirit Stones or the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, it seems like I can only use it in case I have no other font of spiritual energy available.'

Even so it was great news for Krune, but anyway, he can make further tests another time, he had to finish his business with the demon snake first.

”Alright, let's forget about it, tell me what you know about the Foundation Establishment breakthrough.”