133 The strange slime. (1/2)
Zhao Feng finished the last of the tea that remained in his cup, putting it away and storing the entire house that they were resting in back into his interspatial ring, the three people and one wolf appearing in the somewhat sandy cave. Zhao Feng turned his head towards the west, tilting it slightly while pointing.
”That Tian Zheng was heading west, no? There's no telling what sort of strange things might happen here so I suggest we head out immediately to make sure we don't lose track of him.”
This Ocean God's Graveyard had only opened one other time ever since it had been brought to this planet, there was no telling what might be living here, or what had been born and evolved here in all those years. Li Yang gave a light wave of his hand to stop Zhao Feng from leaving the cave, crouching down and cupping his right palm, filling it with some of the sand and dust in the cave.
”Give me a few minutes before we leave, I'll prepare something neat for us.”
A deep crimson flame sprouted from Li Yang's palm and swallowed the sand, which then quickly started to liquify under the intense heat. While the sand was melting in his right hand, his left hand took out the furs of the invisible panthers they had fought earlier, placing them on the ground and lining them up so that they formed four carpets large enough to cover Li Yang and the rest.
The sand turned into liquid glass which Li Yang then formed into somewhat thin strings with some careful control. He used the glass to sew together the various furs, using a bit of ice on the fur to ensure that the heat from the liquid glass didn't incinerate them. He finished sewing them together after a few minutes, ending up with four large rugs of white fur. The work wasn't immaculate but it was good enough to hide them for now, he would have to leave the task of improving the rugs into actual clothing to Fang Ying in the future. Li Yang stood up after he finished the work, looking at the completed products.
”Alright, let's test if it works.”
Li Yang tossed one of the rugs onto Langshen, who was understandably caught off guard for a moment due to the sudden action. But he was sensible enough to quickly understand what Li Yang was getting at, letting out a somewhat grumpy growl while unleashing a little bit of his Qi. The rug that covered Langshen's body became completely invisible once his Qi entered it, Langshen turning invisible alongside it. Zhao Feng's eyes lit up with interest when he saw the scene but Li Yang was more preoccupied with testing how effective the invisibility was, rubbing his chin slightly after testing a few things.
”The effectiveness hasn't decreased, it blocks out your own Qi, and all light and Qi simply slide over the fur. Langshen, run around a bit without making any sound. Oy, Feng, can you sense his soul as he moves?”
The panthers from which they had gotten these furs were rather annoying to fight, the only way they could discover their locations was by tracking the effect they had on the world around them, such as the heat they produced when they stepped on the ground. Zhao Feng temporarily shook himself out of his interest, making a mental note to have them spill the beans on these furs later on. He then narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze starting to roam around the cave as he stretched out an arm, pointing around as he moved his gaze.
”Yeah, I can still sense the slight fluctuations of his soul, he should be moving in that direction right now.”
Langshen appeared right as Zhao Feng spoke up, he was indeed just where Zhao Feng had been pointing so it seemed like the fur was unable to hide the energy that their soul released. With that being the case they also guessed that it might also be unable to hide the faint energy that their flesh unleashed, meaning that someone cultivating the law of flesh might just be able to spot them. Li Yang tossed a rug to Fang Ying and one to Zhao Feng, keeping the last one for himself.
”It's good enough, the law of flesh and the law of soul are decently rare, probably even more so now that soul and body cultivation seem to have become rather common. And hey, even if we do end up getting discovered, we'll just have to figure out a way to deal with it then, it'll be just like in the good old days.”
Zhao Feng and Fang Ying rolled their eyes when they heard Li Yang's statement and saw his smirk, a nearly deafening silence their only response. Li Yang simply shrugged his shoulders to their unamused responses, draping the rug over his body and inserting his Qi into it to turn it invisible. He couldn't see through it when he first put it on, but once it became invisible he naturally became able to see through it. He could also see Fang Ying, Zhao Feng, and Langshen, so it seemed like the panthers had been able to see each other because of the specialty of their furs, not because of their eyes.
The four of them made sure that they could all see each other and then left the cave, heading westward to follow Tian Zheng to the two larger islands he was heading to. If their luck was good they might find more Divine Beasts there, and even if their luck was bad it was unlikely that they would end up finding nothing, this place was a bit too special for a place to really contain nothing.
They quickly picked up on Tian Zheng's tracks, he had already left the island in the short time that Li Yang and the others had been talking and making these rugs, he seemed to be in quite a hurry. Zhao Feng aided them in crossing the water that separated the various islands, using his law of motion to completely stop the movement of the water beneath their feet. Li Yang could create bridges of ice they could use, but these would be far more visible than if Zhao Feng simply aided them.