Chapter 187: This is like hitting someone who is already down! (1/2)
Chapter 187: This is like hitting someone who is already down!
Translator: G.o.dBrandy Editor: Kurisu
Branch Leader Jing Mo was dumbfounded. Moreover, he was super dumbfounded.
”Did I open the door the wrong way?” Jing Mo muttered to himself. After opening the door that led to the courtyard, I stepped inside. However, why did I end up in this big desert?
Does it mean that I inadvertently activated the formation protecting the courtyard?
He quickly turned his head and looked at the main door behind him. As expected… it wasn’t there anymore.
Tsk. They’re really careful. They unexpectedly set up the defensive formation like that. Luckily, I only used the magical wooden figurine to come inside, and my main body is still safe, Branch Leader Jing Mo thought.
But at this time, Branch Leader Jing Mo’s main body, which was riding the flying sword, suddenly froze—he had lost contact with the wooden figurine and couldn’t share his five senses with it anymore.
Unexpectedly, that desert could cut off any and every connection with the external world.
d.a.m.n it. They just have too many tricks up their sleeve.
But the wooden figurine wasn’t merely a magical puppet that could be operated from long distance. If you wanted to use it, you would have to pour your true qi and mental energy inside it.
Therefore, even if it had lost contact with the main body, the wooden figurine could still move. Also, it could see, hear, and record all that data. Once the connection with the main body was reestablished, it would pa.s.s down every information it had recorded.
However, it wasn’t devoid of dangers. If the cultivator was controlling the wooden figurine from long distance, he could make it hide and avoid getting caught up in trouble. But if the wooden figurine was acting on its own, it could rely only on its instinct.
Moreover, it would even faithfully record negative things like ‘pain’ and ‘mental attacks’ and transmit them to the owner when the connection was reestablished.
For example, if the wooden figurine were to be stabbed with a sword, once the connection was reestablished, the owner would feel as if they were stabbed with a sword.
How to put it, there is only a handful of things in the world that don’t have any weakness.
The wooden figurine was a low-level magical treasure of the ‘body cloning’ type. The fact that it could share its five senses with the owner was already quite good.
As a matter of fact, the only reason the wooden figurine was so cheap was because of this flaw. That’s why even cultivators of the Fourth Stage could afford it.
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The wooden figurine, which had now a.s.sumed Branch Leader Jing Mo’s appearance, was roaming around in the desert. At this time, a young man in green clothes approached it while pulling along his white horse.
”Little White, where did you run off to, I thought you lost your way.” The young man cheerfully ran toward the figurine while repeating the same sentence as usual.
Then, he threw a hammer toward it and, all excited, he said, ”Come, let’s practice hammer techniques!”
The wooden figurine didn’t even have the time to move when the young man in green clothes pounded it with the hammer… the precious wooden figurine was flattened to the ground!
But the young man didn’t stop. He kept hitting the wooden figurine’s body with his hammer, producing a ”bang bang” sound time and again.
After hitting it for an hour...
The young man said with a bright smile, ”Aye aye, Little White, today’s training concludes here. I’ll look for you tomorrow and we can play together again!”
Thereafter, he mounted his horse and disappeared on the horizon with a ting-a-ling sound which kept echoing from the horse’s bell.
What he left behind was the poor wooden figurine, now lying on the ground, twitching and severely damaged. Afterward, everything became silent.
Only the parts of the core that contained the information were still emitting a weak light.
Once the connection with the main body was reestablished, it would transmit everything it had experienced just now to its owner, completing its mission...
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11 PM.
The holograms near Venerable White started to disappear.
Even the vast desert started to slowly retract.
Venerable White was about to stop cultivating.
Doudou, who was lying on his stomach in the middle of the desert, rolled his eyes, ”It’s finally over.”
Luckily, there was a powerful formation outside Medicine Master’s house. This stopped the ‘illusory reality’ created by Venerable White from overflowing in the surrounding area. Otherwise, the entire Jiangnan College Town would have been engulfed by the desert… and who knows what might have happened at that point.
Maybe rivers of blood would flow, and the next day many of the citizens would be found dead.
That would be quite scary!
Doudou made up his mind. Tomorrow, he would strengthen the defensive barrier around Medicine Master’s house. Actually, it may be better to add ten more layers for extra safety. Who knew what Venerable White might do?
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11:23 PM
Venerable White opened his eyes. He had a smile plastered all over his face as he stretched himself, ”It sure feels good!”
When he opened his eyes, the desert and the young man with the white horse had both disappeared.
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At the same time, Song Shuhang felt the world become dark. He had returned to the real world.
The moon and the stars were s.h.i.+ning brightly in the sky. It was already late evening.
He was still standing in front of the entrance, and the evening wind was blowing on his face; it was quite refres.h.i.+ng.
”I’m back?” Song Shuhang muttered.
He dragged along his exhausted body and decided to go on the third floor to look for Doudou and find out what had just happened.