16 Ch 16 The Earth trembles (1/2)

Su Ming and her sisters soon received the news that the Ming clan had fought the huge battle in vain; the weapon that they had received was a mere Mid mortal in quality. The girls behaved life they were in shock but in their minds, they were laughing. No one in the world would expect that a top earth weapon was in the possession of a cute hamster. Jiang Long was already suspecting Lan Long of some major trickery; when he received the new about Ming clans shame. He immediately realized that Lan Long was in the possession of the weapon. Jiang Long simply smiled, as he continued with his cultivation and saber arts.

Lan Long on the other hand was trying to teach Little Kong about the staff arts, he had transmitted the information to Little Long mind via soul sense and watch as the cute hamster fumbled around with the staff the size of a tooth pick. After many hours of fruitless teaching, Lang Long retrieved another staff and demonstrated the staff art for the hamster. This too was rather useless, there staff arts were designed for humans. Although these could be cultivated by monkeys and apes, due to the similarity of the bodies, hamsters were entirely different story. It was a fact that a monster would gain complete sentience and self-awareness after it reached core cultivation level, this was only true for common monsters. Some beasts would gain sentience as soon as they reach Ki gathering realm, while some were completely limited to their instincts regardless of their cultivation. Gaining sentience would mean that the monster could begin to accurately train in varied martial arts and movement techniques. The only other way to train a beast was to allow it to fight and sharpen its instincts to the point where its movements resembled martial arts.

Lan Long was theorizing and picturing the heavy Ki from the Heavy staff manual in his mind and he didn't need to put actual effort in his cultivation, he decided that this was the best time to train Little Kong. He grabbed the hamster and stuffed it into his sleeve as he left for the forest to find some bandits or beast as Little Kong training partners. With a single step, Lan Long exited the city and spread out his soul sense to blanket an area roughly equal to a billion kilometers. Although this was actually far from his actual limit, Lan Long imagined this area to have quite a lot of bandits and beasts. Although, the quality of the beast was rather disappointing, some bandits he found were actually at Late Ki sea realm. Satisfied, with his find, he took another step as he appeared in front of an unsuspecting snake, this particular snake was at Mid Ki gathering level.

”Little Kong time to train. Use Low Ki gathering strength to fight off this snake with your stick. Remember to only use your stick.” Lan Long said to Little Kong. The little hamster grew to the size of 2 meters and took out his staff. He soon began to hit the snake which about 20 meters long with the stick and destroyed the snake within a few breaths of time. Lan Long had underestimated the strength of the staff.

”Okay, next time use this staff”. Lan Long said as he threw a low mortal staff at Little Kong. The hamster caught the staff and twirled it around for a while. After getting used to the new staff, Lan Long took the hamster to his next opponent and each time he told Little Kong to use strength of two levels lower than his opponents. The next opponent was a Water jaguar. This beast was known for its cunning and frightening reflexes. As Little Kong grew accustomed to the jaguars moves, Lan Long immediately moved to the next opponent. Throughout the day, Little Kong was forced to suppress his strength to multiple levels lower than his opponent and was deprived of defeating any of them. This frustrated the little guy to an extent that he was trying to defeat him opponent before Lan Long could move to a different location. Subconsciously, Little Kong was growing more and more flexible and nimble with his staff. By the end of the day, Lan Long had to move the fight to next opponent within a minute. For Little Kong's last battle of the day, Lan Long had chosen a lone bandit who was at Ki was at early Ki sea realm and was harassing a couple of Ki Condensing cultivators.

”Now, take of all your clothes and hand over all your valuables immediately. You lady, remove your clothes slowly.” The cultivator looked at the lady and smiled as he said the last part.

Whoosh. . .

”Okay, listen up mister. If you can defeat this beast, I will let you go or your fate will to dis as his hand.” Lan Long immediately said as he nodded at Little Kong.

”What the fu. . .” The bandit didn't get to finish his sentence as he was attack mid-way by Little Kong's staff. Without any choice, the bandit pulled out a sword and defended against Little Kong's staff.

Twang. . .

The staff vibrated with at a tremendous frequency as it was abruptly stopped against the sword. The hamster pulled back the staff and flipped it in his hand, aiming to attack the bandit's feet. The bandit was an experienced cultivator, he was accustomed to launching these type of swift attacks; he defended the next attack with ease as well. The bandit quickly stabbed at Little Kong's neck but was stopped by the other end of the staff. The force sent Little Kong sliding backwards, the bandit then took a few steps back and look at Lan Long.

”Why are you sending this weak beast to attack? If you have the balls, fight me yourself.” The cultivator roared as he pointed his sword at Lan Long. Whoosh. With a single move, Lan Long closed the distance between him and the bandit and lightly grasped his neck. Bandit grew alarmed, he had never expected the masked man to be such an expert. The after image he left behind had not even faded away but Lan Long had closed the distance and caught his neck.