Chapter 382 (1/2)

'”How is gramps in the fortress?'

Zhang Dong was a bit confused as he had not had much time to explain how the large creation worked. The GUI that it had was quite easy to read through as he had made it to mirror game graphical interfaces that he remembered from the old days.

Liena quickly explained how she managed to call the old man over. When he approached the same spot that she did before an icon started glowing. She just needed to push it to let Zhang Jin drop into the pilot section.

It seemed that Liena had studied up on the creations that he had built. He made sure to make everything streamlined and easy to understand. This fortress was also running on an old operating system that was made to make things easy.

Thus it was plausible for his wife to figure out a way to get Zhang Jin inside. Though the fortress was acting a bit strange after the pilot switch. It was somewhat zig zagging all over the place as if the old man was hitting random prompts while in the pilot seat.

'This isn't the time for questions my husband, I will hold this good-for-nothing animal off!'

Zhang Liena took off in a burst of emerald energy. The feathers from her soul beast kicked up a storm and flew at the dark purple dragon as if they were homing missiles. While her cultivation wasn't that high she had one more trump card left behind by her dear husband.

One of the rings on her finger started glowing and quickly encased her in pure green light. Wang Long was a bit surprised by the sudden counter attack so he decided to back off for a moment. His eyes were on his system as he tried to measure his new opponent's strength.

”Wait, isn't that?”

Wang Long's eyes went wide after the emerald light subsided. The woman was covered in a strange form-fitting armor. It looked as if it was made from some kind of green metal and had strange glowing runic patterns that were glowing.

The first thing he did was to look at the system indicator. His enemy didn't seem to have gotten stronger as it still only showed her as an early realm nascent soul cultivator. But for some reason, he felt that her strength had increased.

Liena noticed that her opponent was a bit stunned by her armored appearance. This item that she was wearing was a high heaven grade item that Zhang Dong had managed to finish before his disappearance.

He called it 'power armor' and it was a fitting name as it did enhance her spiritual levels and strength levels. It was as if she was wearing something akin to a weapon that changed her body into something fearsome.

She didn't skip a beat as she charged at Wang Long along with her soul beast. The two collided with each other and it turned into close-range combat. While her emerald phoenix was tussling with the dragon she was exchanging blows with the man that tried to capture her.

It was clear to her that he was not versed in combat tactics as his reaction time was somewhat sluggish. Even then, she couldn't really do much damage as a strange force field continued to bounce off any deep hitting attacks that she produced.

If she landed ten good hits, he returned one that caused her to retreat. With time the armor that she was wearing started to receive some dents from the man's kicks and punches and she was forced back without really causing much long lasting damage.

”Hah, you're quite feisty, can't wait to peel that thing off you, how about we make your whole sect watch as we have some fun?”

Liena scoffed at the man's words. It was clear to her that this person had a screw loose. The things that he said were truly vile and despicable. She wanted nothing more than to rip the vile thing from between this man's legs and beat him to death. But it seemed that she could only stall for time as this young master was not such a simple opponent.

Zhang Dong's first reaction was to jump in to save his wife but he needed to use this time to cultivate. If he didn't manage to break through soon, this whole battle could turn in their opponent's direction.

Above him, he could hear massive explosions. The ground he was sitting in was constantly shaking and blasts of condensed spiritual energy were constantly raining around the whole city. The elders from his sect were giving it their all but they were up against a large force from a mighty foe.

'I must join them…let's do this.'

He closed his eyes and concentrated on his three cores. They were all pulsating as if they would crack at any moment. This felt quite different from when he only had a singular core. That one had just gone through the motions as he cultivated and then was transformed into his nascent soul in a rather simple way.

Here on the other hand he was dealing with three separate cores. Was he supposed to fuse them into one large core or turn them into three nascent souls instead. When concentrating he noticed that the cores were moving away from each other while a strange power started to form in the middle.

'What is this… could a nascent soul be forming… no this is something else…'

At first, he thought that perhaps a nascent soul was starting to form but he was mistaken. It felt different and grander. He could feel that the Dao's that he had picked up throughout the years of his travels were being excluded from the three cores. They were all traveling into the center to form something, some kind of strange-looking seed.

He had to really concentrate to be able to feel it. The size of the core was far greater, it was as if he was comparing a moon to a tennis ball. But, the more he focused on this strange pure white seed, the more it continued to grow.