16 Ch 16 The Earth trembles (2/2)

”The only chance you have at life now, is to defeat the hamster. Now fight.” Lan Long said in the bandit's ear before he returned to his previous spot, reoccupying his after image. The bandit looked at Lan Long with a terrified look as he made his mind to fight the hamster and defeat it. The cultivator at such high strength seldom lied. The bandit made his move and attacked relentlessly. Although, Little Kong suffered many injuries, none were lethal. His fur was as strong as a Mid earth armor, capable of completely ignoring the attacks by a late Ki condensing cultivator. The cultivator who were being robbed were looking at the scene with wide eyes. They were ambushed by a Ki sea realm cultivator who was ambushed by a higher realm cultivator and was now fighting a hamster wielding a staff. The whole situation unheard of and no one would ever believe them if they told anyone.

Lan Long looked at the cultivator and signaled them to leave. As they left, those cultivators saw the hamster whose fur was light brown was now covered with patched of blood. Little Kong although in pain, persevered looking for an opportunity to attack the bandit. He was so frustrated by the fact that Lan Long didn't allow him to defeat any of his opponents he had completely forgotten that this was training exercise. His only goal now was to defeat this human before Lan Long took him away. Inadvertently, Little Kong's skill with his staff was improving visibly. He was now blocking more hits from the cultivator and was even attempting to strike back. The bandit noticed this and as a result his attacks became even more berserk. The fight had now continued for almost two hours with the loss of any tempo; bandit was fighting for his life while Little Kong was fighting to defeat the bandit. These two hours were a major boost for Little Kong's staff arts. He had even tried to use the moves Lan Long had showed him earlier, although unsuccessful, it showed that Little Kong was slowly gaining the understanding to the staff arts. His attacks were more fluid and heavy, his movements were minimal and precise. Little Kong was now blocking almost every attack, he had even gotten a few attacks in on the bandit. The animal instincts and the experience gained over the course of hundreds of battles were now merging.

The bandit was didn't believe for a single second that a beast with a stick could defeat him, a cultivator with more than 50 years of experience. He was still optimistic and believed that he could still win. Little Kong finally pushed bandit's sword aside and swiftly pulled on the staff driving it straight into the man's chest. Bandit immediately did a low sweep with his sword but Little Kong jumped into the air with the support of the staff. The sword met the staff and swept it aside but Little Kong using the same momentum from the sword, rotated the staff on to the bandit's shoulder. Little Kong didn't stop for a moment as he rotated the staff in the other direction and hit the man on his chest. Bandit felt that he was about to be thrown back and he executed a quick upwards slash. The scene looked almost choreographed, as Little Kong met the sword with the very edge of staff and carried the momentum around his body and hit the man's chest again with the very moment from his sword. Bandit flew backwards and crashed into a tree, he tried to get up and coughed a few mouthfuls of blood finally passing out. Little Kong who had his very first victory squeaked out loud as he looked at Lan Long who was smile blissfully at him. The wounds and fatigue caught up with Little Kong as he passed out from exhaustion. Lan Long caught Little Kong and kept the staff away as he immediately began to heal Little Kong injuries.

”Little Hamster, you have done it.” Lan Long said as he gently wiped the blood and grime away from his little hamster's fur. After healing Little Kong, Lan Long kept him back in his sleeve and looked to the sky, a proud look flashed on his face. He was genuinely happy for Little Kong, to see his pet hamster learning a new martial art was like watching a child take his first step him. Unknowingly, he had already comprehended the process of converting his Ki into heavy Ki, he already had the designs for the formations. Now the only thing to do was a field test.

Soon, Lan Long relaxed his mind has drew up huge amounts of Ki from his dantian, almost about 20 percent and converted in entirely into the heavy Ki as described by the manual. The heavy Ki in of itself was completely weightless. The object or material that it was combined with would gain weight, Lan Long immediately picked up a pebble and infused it with the heavy Ki but to his surprise the pebble remained the same within his hands.

”The hell, don't tell me the can only be absorbed by staff and through the heavy staff arts.” He tossed he pebble in his hand but the pebble was identical to the state it was before. ”Dammit, what a waste of time.” Frustrated, Lan Long threw the pebble into the sky and went to the bandit. He was in a pretty bad state so Lan Long healed him to the point of consciousness and told him to scram. The bandit who was happy as the day he had cultivated for the first time fled without looking back.

”Now, back to the city. Maybe, I should visit the Cloud Inn again.” Lan Long mused out loud as he took a few steps and arrived back in the courtyard of Jiang Long. Jiang Long was wide awake and was practicing his saber arts in the courtyard, he was surprised to see Lan Long appear. Without any explanation, Lan Long sat on the steps leading to the courtyard and watched Jiang Long practice.

BOOM. . . rumble. . . rumble. . .

A huge explosion was heard, south of the forest where Little Kong was fighting. Then the earth began to rumble and shake, it was like a minor earth quake and even had residual tremors follow it. Lan Long immediately sent out his soul sense, he had imagined a fight between two major power houses or an appearance of another treasure. The soul sense immediately revealed crater and larger cracks extending from the center of the crater. The crater itself was about a few dozen meter large while each crack was about half a kilometer wide at its start and thinned out as they extended outwards. At the center of the crater was a small pebble which was still falling into the earth at a slow rate. It was slowed down by a huge chuck of crystal ore about 5 kilometers into the ground.

”Fuck, it's this heavy.” Lan Long mumbled as he controlled the bead to fly towards himself and immediately with drew the heavy Ki from the bead and stored in his dantian. Jiang Long watched from the side as he watched a small pebble land in Lan Long's hand.

”What is that?” He immediately asked. He was already suspicious of Lan Long's involvement in the explosion and the bead that immediately followed after was a huge give away.

”Just a pebble.” LanLong said as he threw the pebble at Jiang Long who caught it. He tossed it afew times in his hand before tossing it away. The slightly heavier pebble by nomeans was an extraordinary find.