32 A meeting to melt the cold. (1/2)
”Ah. It's raining again. Are there periods where it rains a lot? Or is it just a coincidence?”
Li Yang was crawling along the ground when he suddenly heard the rumbling of thunder above him again. These last few days, it had started raining much more, often raining once or twice every day. The reason he was crawling along the ground was that he was getting much closer to the emerald volcanoes, so the strength of the Demonic beasts in this area was terrifying.
Just like he originally assumed, the Demonic beasts that inhabited this area all had strength that was above a person with nine runes. Because of this, Li Yang had completely abandoned the idea of hunting for meat to eat. He now sustained himself by eating herbs and grass that he found as he crawled, but since he was a cultivator, the amount of food he needed to eat was less than a normal person.
”It doesn't matter, the more it rains, the better it is for me. Jinwu, hide within my robe.”
When the sound of rain hitting earth rang out from outside the forest, Li Yang stopped crawling and stood up, placing Jinwu within his jacket. After making sure that Jinwu was safely packed away, Li Yang stepped out of the forest and into the rain.
The forests were protected by arrays, so it was impossible for the rain or the lightning to enter them. But outside of the forests, the rain and lightning were free to cause as much havoc as they wished. Not even the Demonic beasts that lived in this area dared to get hit by the purple rain, lest they quickly dissolve.
But Li Yang was not scared of the rain, in fact, he welcomed it with open arms. The purple rain that would normally dissolve anything it touched felt like a pleasant shower to him, rolling down his skin without causing any damage.
Since the Demonic beasts in the area all went into hiding whenever the rain appeared, Li Yang would take these chances to increase his speed and quickly move towards the emerald volcanoes. Of course, he would quickly enter the forest and hide again if he ever suspected that the rain might stop.
”You know, Jinwu, walking in the rain like this really makes me nostalgic. This poison resistance of mine is one of the reasons I managed to get close to Ying'er.”
This poison resistance was something Li Yang gained in his last life. It was not a poison resistance gained from a bloodline or anything like that. Even in his last life, his talent had only been average, and he also didn't have a bloodline. It wasn't as bad as his talent in this life, but it could only be considered average.
His poison resistance was something he gained when he first acquired insight into the laws of destruction and carved his first destruction rune. His town had just been attacked and destroyed. His acquaintances, his friends, his family, all had been slain. It was then that he first touched upon the laws of destruction and automatically carved his first rune.
When the rune appeared, the same phenomenon that appeared when he carved it in this life appeared. A small black hole appeared in the middle of the city, the laws of destruction running rampant. An entire city vanished without a trace, even countless years after, people still did not know how the town vanished.
To call what he gained poison resistance was not completely right. With the laws of destruction now coursing through his body at all times, any harmful or unknown substances that entered his body would be automatically destroyed.
While Li Yang ran through the rain, his mind slowly moved back in time, to the first time he actually talked with Fang Ying. Zhao Feng had introduced Fang Ying to Li Yang, but that was only Zhao Feng pointing at her from the distance, it could not be called a proper meeting.
When Zhao Feng pointed out Fang Ying, Li Yang felt that she looked lonely. Her face carried a smile and she chatted with a lot of people, but no one got close to her, giving her plenty of space.
A few days after that, in the middle of the night, Li Yang wandered around the grounds of the clan. He was technically a guest, so there were many places he was not allowed to go. But thanks to his technique that let him completely erase all traces of himself, he could wander around freely.