Chapter 16 - Either I Succeed or I Die, Wisps are Really Pitiful (2/2)

”I can't be sure since I don't have too much examples, but I can tell you that I took a whole week to finish my own, and I used this exact island and lake foundation.”

”So, make sure to seclude yourself somewhere well hidden if possible, if the process is stopped in the middle, you will fail and your core will be destroyed as well.”

Krune understood it, but he wasn't very concerned, his spiritual vein can be considered very safe already, with the lizards taking care of the place and Lakin to take care of the lizards, he should find no problems in the long term. A situation like that cultivator group that came to take Dragon Blood is something very rare to start with, he would need to be truly unlucky to get bothered twice in a roll, he also had one more idea of how to guarantee his safety.

”Anything else?”

The snake just shook it's head, it couldn't thing about anything else to say, that wisp asked all the important questions, even though it didn't want to answer, it had to.

”Very well, time to get my payment for the trouble you caused me then.”

Sweat started to fall down from it's back again, it suddenly saw Krune taking out another blood contract, it thought about one thing and it's expression became nasty.

”Even if I have to die, I will not become your slave, if you think you can force me to sign a slave blood contract, you might as well kill me first.”

Krune looked back at the snake and was a little surprised, it's pride runs trough it's blood, but that's okay, Krune didn't want to have a slave to start with, nor could he force the issue, for the blood contract to work, the one signing it must really agree with it in body and soul, threats are useless in this case.

”You are overthinking it, I don't want you to sign a slave contract, I want you to be my protector until I finish my Foundation Establishment breakthrough, you will have your own free will and our contract will be finished once I succeed or fail. you will come with me to the borders of the inner part or the Forest and stay guard until the process is done.”

”Don't think I'm forcing the issue, I might as well tell you this, wisps don't have a body, their life is attached with their core from the moment they are born, so if I fail, I will die since my core will be destroyed, you could think about it as a way of getting revenge against me too.”

The Two Headed Demon Snake was very conflicted, then it thought about something

”Then what if you decide to never breakthrough? Doesn't it mean that I will have to protect you forever?”

Krune just laughed out laud, it puzzled the snake.

”Did you forget from which race I'm from? I'm a wisp! Or could it be that you don't know that wisps can live at most ten years if they don't breakthrough into the Foundation Establishment realm?”

The demon snake was stunned, that's right, wisps have an extremely low life span! It's just that this wisp was so strong that the snake forgot about this issue.

”Very well, I accept those conditions.”

Krune was very pleased, beasts are really a straight forward bunch, once they decide one thing they are very direct about that.

Krune started to write on the contract under the inspection of the demon snake, it is stated that the demon snake shall protect Krune and it's underlings until he succeed or failed in his breakthrough, doesn't matter the result, once he is done with that, the demon snake is free to go.

It also stated that if he fails, the demon snake can not harm his underlings, it is to prevent the demon snake from taking revenge on his disciple or the Lizard Dragons, the demon snake also agreed with that.

After signing with its blood, the blood contract burnt and a new restriction was put on the demon snake's soul.

”Good, the we should go back now, there is rarely any Foundation Establishment beasts or cultivators around there and even if some appear, they will not try to find problem with a poison type Foundation Establishment beast like yourself, so you will basically spend your time in leisure until the end of our contract.”

But before they left, Krune turned to the spiritual vein and took all the spiritual stones in it, the demon snake didn't think much about it, once they are gone, some other beast is bound to take this spiritual vein for itself, so those spirit stone would change owner anyway, the wisp might as well bring it with him.

Krune was a little surprised to find that this spiritual vein wasn't too bad, the spirit stones close to the center of the spiritual vein lake are Rank Two low quality ones, those are the best spirit stones he found so far.

On their way back the demon snake used it's Divine Sense to ask how Krune became so strong even though he is a wisp.

”Hard work and luck, that was pretty much it”

Even though the snake didn't like the answer, Krune wasn't lying, It was luck that brought him together with Feifei and old Feng from which he got the Myriad Energies technique, and it was through hard work and even more luck that he found about how the real Myriad Energies technique really worked.

Of course, Krune wouldn't tell the snake about his improved version of the Myriad Energies technique, that is his secret, something that might bring calamity upon oneself, the lesser the number of people who knows about it, the safer he would be. He was only imparting his cultivation technique to Lakin because he trusted him and he was his disciple too.

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Krune was gone for two days only, when he came back the Lizard Dragons and Lakin were given a fright, Lakin even thought that Krune might have been made as hostage and forced to show the way back to their lair.

”Alright everyone, there is no need to be afraid, I made a deal with our friend here and he won't attack anyone, let me introduce him.”

”His name is, his name is... Err...”

Krune looked back at the Two Headed Demon Snake, if he had his human form already, his face would definitely be as red as a tomato.

”Cough, cough, now that I think about it, I haven't asked your name yet.”

The demon snake was feeling gloomy, it looks like this wisp had never put much thought about it. The demon snake used it's Divine Sense to convene it's thoughts.

”I'm called Ruik, for the time being I'll be in charge of protecting you all until my contract with Krune is over, do not call me over unless it's something important.”

After that it simply found a corner to lay down and went to sleep, other than Krune, it didn't care about any of the others.

Krune didn't mind it either, he knows how prideful Ruik is.

”Alright everyone, you can go back to whatever you were doing, Lakin, you come with me, there is a few things I need to explain to you too.”