Chapter 197 - Celestial Beast Tanuki Village (1/2)

“There’s no need. It’s better if Little Wingsy doesn’t change to your original body too casually.” Ye Chen shook his head. Previously, he only let Little Winsy change to his original body because there was no other choice. Letting a three hundred meter Winged Serpent fly above Emerald Cloud Mountain? That would be too shocking.

How would there only be the Emerald Cloud Sect in the Emerald Cloud Mountain? There might be some mysterious hermits living here, so they would be in trouble if they had unnecessarily attracted strong enemies.

Ye Chen was cautious. He did not have a thorough understanding of this world yet. He did not know how many masters there were in the world and where those masters were.

“Oh.” Little Wingsy nodded. He was still very obedient to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen used his Astral Body to search while opening Sikou Fengyan’s Heaven-Earth Pouch. There were only some ordinary items like Chi-amassing Pills and Chi Deposition Pills, two Earth Quintessence Pills, and three Gold Arcanite Pills. In the past, Ye Chen would have been excited to death by these medicinal pills, but now that he had already seen the Purple-gold Divine Pill, these medicinal pills were not attractive to Ye Chen at all.

After rummaging through all the Heaven-Earth Pouches, Ye Chen found a strange item in one of them.

“What is this?” Ye Chen took out an item that looked like a stone. It was azure in color and around the size of a washbasin. When he took it out of the Heaven-Earth Pouch, he could feel his body sink. This small stone weighed at least several hundred kilograms.

Little Tanuki and Little Wingsy looked curiously at the large stone that Ye Chen was holding. The large stone was oval and there was a faint luster glowing in it.

“It looks like an ore!” Ye Chen probed it with his Astral Body. The texture of the rock was quite fine, so its metal composition should not be low.

Ye Chen put the large stone on a raised rock and fished out a Tier One spirit artifact longsword from the Heaven-Earth Pouch and swung it down with Celestial Chi. A “ding” sounded out but Ye Chen saw that it was the longsword that had broken. There were no scratches on the large stone at all. It was just an ore but it was even tougher than a Spirit Artifact Rank weapon. It was an extremely rare item!

Ye Chen only dared to test the ore’s toughness with a less valuable Tier One spirit artifact and did not dare to use the Hell Rupture Sword. If the Hell Rupture Sword broke, he would cry himself to death. Perhaps only Ye Chen had pockets deep enough to be able to take out a Tier One Spirit Artifact Rank sword just to test the toughness of an ore. If the Three Major Sects or Li Xu and the others knew that a Tier One Spirit Artifact Rank longsword was destroyed just like this, they would feel sorry to the point of tears.

Little Tanuki and Little Wingsy watched the ore with bright eyes.

“Brother Ye Chen, let me try!” Little Wingsy was eager to try and pulled up the sleeve of his right arm, revealing a chubby arm.

“Okay.” Ye Chen nodded and took a few steps back with Little Tanuki.

Little Wingsy shook his fist and punched the large ore with one blow. The sound of an explosion rang out and the rock under the ore was shattered. However, there were no dents on the surface of the ore itself.

Ye Chen knew how powerful Little Wingsy’s fist was.

“It’s really tough!” Little Wingsy’s hand was slightly swollen.

Even a Daemon King Rank’s physical strength could not compete against this ore? Ye Chen raised his eyebrows and said, “This is such a large piece of ore, so it might be able to be crafted into two or three weapons. The question is if there are any such talented craftsmen in this world?”

Ye Chen kept the ore. If there was a chance, he would have to find a good craftsman. He could make a weapon for himself as well as a shortsword for Little Wingsy. As for Little Tanuki, she should be unable to use weapons until she has transformed. However, it was a problem for the future.

Ye Chen was quite excited at having gotten such a mysterious ore.

Ye Chen, Little Tanuki, and Little Wingsy continued to move forward, walking through the valley. Ye Chen continuously scouted ahead with his Astral Body. Suddenly, he discovered a white shadow flashing several miles away. It was a three-tailed tanuki!

“Little Tanuki, I found another tanuki but its presence is different from the one from before. Should we follow it?” Ye Chen asked Little Tanuki.

Little Tanuki felt somewhat complicated.

“Anyway, let’s just take a look. It’s fine if they’re not your clansmen, but maybe they know what happened to your clansmen. Perhaps some others survived.” Ye Chen thought for a moment.

Hearing Ye Chen’s words, Little Tanuki’s eyes suddenly flashed with vigor and nodded its head.

“Little Wingsy, keep up,” Ye Chen said and followed after the three-tailed tanuki.

Little Wingsy stuck closely behind Ye Chen.

The sky gradually darkened but with the Astral Body’s night vision, this darkness was nothing to Ye Chen.

Following behind the three-tailed tanuki, they had passed through several valleys. In the valleys deep in the distance, there were even farmhouses and plowing fields, and some lights could be seen flickering faintly.

“There are houses here?” Ye Chen thought excitedly. He wondered if they could stay here for a night.

Ye Chen’s Astral Body extended toward the mountain village and immediately felt concentrated Psyches. There were at least several thousand of them. Three Psyches were stronger than the others being Mystique Adept Rank, and there were seven to eight Heavenly Adept Rank. There were also quite a number of Earthly Adept Rank and Tenth Level ones.

It was a village of celestial beast tanuki!

Ye Chen was quite apprehensive. Suddenly finding so many celestial beasts had caused Ye Chen’s heart considerable shock.

“Little Tanuki, there’s a village belonging to a tanuki clan ahead. Shall we go and have a look?” Ye Chen asked Little Tanuki by his side.