Chapter 318: Soul Cutting, Fighting For Justice (1/2)
Chapter 318: Soul Cutting, Fighting For Justice
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”Suggestion? What kind of suggestion?” Zhou Bao was a little surprised while glancing at Wang She. There was a sense of distrust in his eyes. Subconsciously, he felt that Wang She would probably offer him a lousy idea which might damage his interest, so he had better be cautious.
”Stop looking at me like that. You're very strong. It's okay if you cause some trouble. Besides, you're intelligent and thoughtful. You can kill two birds with one stone.”
”What do you want me to do?” Zhou Bao raised his eyebrows and looked at Wang She. He still did not trust him.
”Your strength is quite powerful, but the result of this battle will never be circulated. And if not, then people will think that your cultivation is at Level Seven and your combat capability is at the peak of Level Eight. And with this kind of power at your age, it will make a sensation in the entire world. It qualifies you to marry the emperor's favorite daughter, but that's all, and you can't even be sure about that. What's more, you've humiliated Jin Emperor Yan Yuntian. Given his personality, he won't agree with you marrying his daughter unless you give him some pressure,” Wang She said confidently.
”Well, tell me, who provoked you?” Zhou Bao asked while laughing.
Wang She's face flushed with awkwardness. He said, ”It can't be considered a provocation. It's just that we don't see eye to eye. Mingyi School will be the best target for you to cause trouble.”
Zhou Bao asked, ”You seem to have many grievances against the school, but why do you want to destroy it?”
”Fighting against the school isn't only my problem, but also yours, because both Mingyi School and Yan Yuntian are one group who represent the orthodox power. As far as I know, the school has expended many efforts to destroy the bloodline of the Fiery Eyes in the past!”
Zhou Bao reacted very seriously. His eyes narrowed as he said, ”What do you mean? Am I the one who must cause trouble for the school?”
”Haha. That depends, but I think something must be prepared. Doing it earlier can weaken their strength, and you'll benefit from it. You already possess the combat capability of the Mysterious Realm at the age of 17, but you should know that cultivation and combat capability are different and cannot be compared. However, you're destined to become an immortal in the future. At that time, do you think you can conceal your Fiery Eyes? Once they know that you possess the Fiery Eyes and have become an immortal at such a young age, they won't let you go. Now, you should make plans and be well-prepared in order to save yourself some room to escape instead of fighting against them later. Otherwise, you will only have two choices by then. One is to be killed by them and the other is to stand on the same side as the Immortal Palace. I believe that you won't want either of these two choices!”
”Become an immortal? What do you mean?” Zhou Bao heard those words for the first time and was somewhat curious.
Wang She said, ”When your cultivation breaks through Level Nine and enters the Mysterious Realm, you can achieve the Individual Immortal Karma Rank and become an immortal!” He added, ”That phase is my lifelong pursuit!”
”The Individual Immortal Karma Rank!”
Zhou Bao had heard about it from Green Spirit. However, he knew nothing about becoming an immortal.
”That's interesting! Can obtaining the Individual Immortal Karma Rank make a person become an immortal? We must get the Genuine Immortal Karma Rank at that time, or else we can't be listed.”
”Cannot be listed as an immortal?” Zhou Bao's expression slightly changed. However, since Wang She was right in front of him, it was inconvenient for him to communicate with Green Spirit. Thus, he forced himself to smile and said, ”Breaking through to the Mysterious Realm is a thing for the future. We'd better talk about what I should do right now!”
”Then do me a favor!” Wang She smiled and relaxed when he saw Zhou Bao's expression had softened. ”I want to do something, but Mingyi School will definitely stop me by using many people. Besides, I can't get any assistance from Tian Long Taoism. Originally, I intended to get Wu Shuang and Lei to help me in private. However, since you're so powerful, I don't need to bother them anymore!”
”Be specific!”
”I'll go and get a corpse there in 10 days. I need you to challenge the experts on that day and distract their attention from me!”
”Why do you want to get a corpse there?” Zhou Bao blinked as he looked at Wang She. He added, ”It won't take long!”
”Mingyi School is one of the Three Great Sects in the Great Jin and has numerous experts. Moreover, guarded by several senior and sophisticated experts, the corpse is placed in an important place. If you don't display your true strength to draw them out, I'll be really inconvenienced!”
”Could it be that you're going to dig up the ancestral graves of that school?”
”The school has no ancestral graves. It only has mausoleums of the sages of every generation.”
”But digging up their ancestral graves is still equal to it!” Zhou Bao exclaimed.
Wang She was helpless. He said, ”Well, sort of!”
”The school will have a lot of animosity toward me if I help you!”
”The animosity between you and the school can't be solved if you still have your eyes. Your action to cause it trouble is the preparation for the future. What's more, you have a justified reason to cause trouble to it!”
”And what's the reason?”
”Obviously, it's about your marriage. You need to put some pressure on Yan Yuntian. More importantly, there must be people from the school among the 10 who besieged you. I'll investigate their identities for you. Then you will have enough reason to attack.”
”How will you investigate?”
”I have my ways. You only need to do me that favor!”
”If there are people from the school who really are involved in that case, I won't mind making trouble for it!”
”Within three days or, at most, five days, I'll get the evidence into your hands,” said the overjoyed Wang She.
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Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh!
Wheeze, Wheeze, Wheeze!
Zhou Bao sat with legs crossed on the bed. He put his hands on his knees as some light smoke surrounded him.
The room was small. There was nothing strange inside except the bed that he sat on. Nevertheless, if you were to put a flat iron griddle in the black fog, you would be surprised to find that it would melt like a candle.
Inside the black smoke was a sinister and horrible monster. It wandered around in the fog. Suddenly, Zhou Bao turned his hands over and five strands of scarlet Qi shot out from the five fingers of his left hand. The Qi hovered around the black fog and they fused together instantly, transforming into a Nine-headed Bird!
After the Nine-headed Bird had taken shape, Zhou Bao suddenly opened his eyes and shot two red rays inside its head. Then, some changes began to take place in the newly-formed monster. Scarlet Qi was surging and flashes of red and flickering lightning were faintly visible in the Qi. Finally, all the Qi unified and transformed into an abstruse Chinese character that had many strokes. It gave people a sense of desolation and simplicity but it looked kind of strange. If it was observed carefully, it could be found that it was surrounded by an obscure black flow, which was very unpleasant to the eye.
”Whir!”
Zhou Bao felt deeply relieved when the character came into being. He waved his hands, only to see that the character collapsed suddenly. It turned into a red vortex and entered the place between his eyebrows.
”That's good! Pretty good! I didn't expect that you could practice the turtledove's Divine Sense named Soul Cutting so quickly. However, I'm not that surprised. You have the Heavenly Magic Eyes. You're destined to infuse your special eyes into the turtledove's claw, one of the Nine Changes of Heavenly Birds, and practice Soul Cutting successfully. Haha!”
Green Spirit showed up and laughed loudly when he saw that the black vortex had entered Zhou Bao's eyebrows.
”The Soul Cutting Skill is weird. Although I haven't used it to fight against my opponents, I can feel its place of horror. If a Level Eight or Level Nine expert is hit by it, his spirit will be greatly damaged. Moreover, he'll lose combat capability and his spirit can even be destroyed, leaving him an empty corpse. It's so horrifying!” Zhou Bao inhaled the black fog around him into his body and his countenance became solemn. ”This Divine Sense is very sinister. If I use it too often, something bad might happen.”
”Hey, kid. Don't worry. It indeed is insidious, but it's not easy for you to practice it to perfection. It's especially practiced to harm the primordial spirit. Ordinary people, especially those below the Mysterious Realm, can only comprehend the divine thoughts. The spirit and body are closely connected. Under the obstruction of the body, the power of the Soul Cutting Skill will be weakened greatly. At least it can injure others' spirits and let them lose combat capability temporarily. It won't kill them. You can display its true power only if you have become an immortal. Its real effect can be manifested only when everyone attacks each other with Dharma power. Therefore, you don't need to be anxious!”
”Is that true?”
”Of course it's true. Do you think that the human body is so vulnerable that our spirit can be attacked casually?” Green Spirit laughed. ”For you, the Soul-cutting Skill is quite powerful. Almost every Level Eight and Level Nine expert can feel the divine thoughts. However, their divine thoughts are too weak to protect themselves. If you use the Soul Cutting Skill to attack them, although it may not dissipate their spirit, it can severely injure their spirit and suppress their newly-born divine thoughts. This is the best application of the Soul-cutting Skill!”
”Sounds good!” Zhou Bao was excited after he heard its magical effects from Green Spirit. He added, ”That's right. I forgot to ask you about one thing earlier. What is Divine Sense? It seems to be different from special techniques and secret skills!”
”Yeah, they're different. Unlike Divine Sense, special techniques and secret skills are the application methods of the essence of the world and one's own pneuma. You may notice that Divine Sense doesn't rely on the essence of the world or one's Real Essence Internal Qi. It refers to the enlightenment of the Dharma in the world. You can directly use the Law of Heaven and Earth to get the effect you want if you have comprehended it thoroughly. The big talisman you saw just now is the application of the Law of Heaven and Earth. You can condense a big talisman when you comprehend a kind of Dharma in the world to a certain degree. At that time, you can do things that are beyond the imagination of ordinary people!” Green Spirit then drifted toward Zhou Bao. ”Your Great Fusion Technique is the same. I believe you have noticed that a talisman is concealed in your Gang Qi when you are using it.”
”That's right. I discovered that I trigger the power of this talisman every time I use the Great Fusion Technique. But I have no enlightenment of Dharma, so how am I able to use it?”
”Application and enlightenment are two concepts that are totally different. You can apply a skill without comprehending it. Take the Celestial Device for example; most people don't know how to create it, but they know how to use it. The reasons are the same.” Green Spirit continued, ”You just need to know how to use Divine Sense. As for comprehending it, you can give it a try when your cultivation reaches the phase of Human Immortal.”
”Human Immortal?” Zhou Bao blinked his eyes and laughed awkwardly. It was too soon to think about that.
”The Nine Changes of Heavenly Birds can evolve into nine Divine Senses. I've just practiced one of them. There are eight left. Perhaps...”
”Don't even think about it! You can practice the Soul Cutting Skill successfully just because of your Heavenly Magic Eyes. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to succeed in 30 or even 50 years!”
”Then why do you let me do it?”
”Compared to the trouble that your strange fist intent brought, 30 or 50 years is nothing!” Green Spirit said.
Zhou Bao also got a headache when he thought about the Universe Fist Intent that he practiced.
Now, his cultivation had reached a state that was beyond his imagination and his fist intent became much more powerful as well. The power his fists could display now was way stronger than his two Big Iron Hammers. However, at the same time, he could not control the enormous fist intent easily anymore. He understood that it was because his cultivation had increased too fast compared to his perception and comprehension of the punching skill. The only thing he could do was practice his dull punching skill again and again. In this way, he hoped that he could strengthen his perception of the punching skill and control his fist intent.
Moreover, even if he had the perception of the punching skill and could control his fist intent, it would not last long because his fist intent expanded without limitation. Though it was a simulation of the universe, it still was a universe. The universe was infinite, and so was his fist intent. He had to comprehend and practice it over and over. Only in this way could he get his punching skill to keep pace with the expansion speed of his fist intent and truly control his punching skill.
”I've truly found big trouble for myself!” Zhou Bao narrowed his eyebrows as he thought of it.
”Doing some closed-door training is necessary, but your knowledge and future achievements will be limited if you practice it at home all your life!” Green Spirit continued, ”Your cultivation and strength are quite powerful, but the cultivation of your mind can't keep pace with your strength. It's the same as your punching skill not being able to control your fist intent. What you need to do is temper yourself in the secular world immediately rather than stay at home!”
”I got it. Indeed, I have to go out to do something. But it will depend on Wang She's efficiency. It's already the third day. He said that he can find evidence for me so I can cause trouble for Mingyi School. I wonder if he's found any yet.”
Wang She was effective. He threw a pile of portraits in front of Zhou Bao the next day.
”Take a look. Did any of them give you trouble on that day?”
Zhou Bao unfolded the portraits. His expression changed because there were two Level Eight experts who had besieged him among the eight portraits.
”Who are they?”
”They are the eight First Elders of Mingyi School!” Wang She smiled as he saw Zhou Bao's expression. He added, ”It has a total of eight First Elders. Six of them are Level Eight experts while the two are Level Nine experts. These are their portraits!”
”These portraits are quite vivid!” Zhou Bao's mouth twitched. He took out two of them and said, ”Are they truly Elders of Mingyi School? Don't lie to me!”
”Haha! Take the two portraits to Mingyi School and you'll know for sure!” Wang She laughed insidiously. He added, ”The school claims itself to be prestigious and upright. They will surely confess everything when they see these portraits. As long as they admit it, you'll have a reason to make trouble!”
”Humph, I'll surely kick up a fuss if they were the ones that besieged me!” A chilling light flashed through Zhou Bao's eyes. He continued, ”I'm not willing to swallow my grievances!”
He was furious. His anger rushed to his forehead from his Dantian as he thought of those experts who had besieged him.
No matter what purpose Wang She had, the two people in the portraits had besieged him. He had never seen them before and they had no enmity toward each other. However, they had tried to kill him in such a way. At last, he knew who they were. If he did not take revenge and regain his reputation, the anger in his heart would control him. And if the madness stayed for too long, his heart would be defective and his future practice would be impeded. Therefore, he had to take revenge personally.
”It seems that I must help you this time!”
”Haha. The only explanation is that I'm fortunate, but the school isn't.” Wang She smiled. A sharp Qi Power appeared deep in his eyes. He added, ”Junior Leopard, I'm ready to make Mingyi School suffer this time!”
”You can do whatever you like, that's your business. The thing that I want to do is simple. I just want to nab those two guys!”
”What will you do after that?”
”I'll kill them of course. Haven't you told me to weaken their strength? It's a good opportunity for that. And aside from them, I might kill other Mingyi School Elders.”
”It seems that you're quite confident.”
”Of course I'm confident!” Zhou Bao replied. He glanced at Wang She and added, ”I know that you have some cards up your sleeve. But Chief Wang, I can kill you if we fight each other. Believe it or not!”
”Really?” Wang She's pupils shrunk and a cold spirit emitted from his body. He stared at Zhou Bao and suddenly began to laugh.
”Hahaha. Fine, that's pretty good! It's good to have confidence. However, it's better to have the corresponding strength. Boy, I wholeheartedly hope that you can become an immortal quickly!”
Wang She left while laughing.
”Boy, you're provoking him purposely!”
”I'm just testing him!” Zhou Bao narrowed his eyes. ”He knows most of my secrets. Although he has no evil intention toward me, I'd better be careful and guard myself. Hence, I warned him that he'd better think twice if he intends to take advantage of me, lest I'll be harmed by him.”
”He should have no evil intention toward you!” Green Spirit said. ”You're destined to fight against his enemies because of your Fiery Eyes. The more powerful you are, the happier he is. I think that is the reason why he has spared every effort to help you. Some animosities are acquired but some are destined. Like you and his enemies, you're destined to fight each other because of your inborn Fiery Eyes. Therefore, he helps himself by helping you. It's beneficial for him to cultivate a strong enemy for his enemies.”
”Therefore, he will not hesitate to reveal my secrets when I reach a certain phase. He can sit and acquire the benefits by letting me and his enemies fight against each other!” Zhou Bao said coldly.
”That is his intention. But you don't need to let his purpose be achieved so easily!” Green Spirit said. ”Jin Emperor Yan Yuntian originally intended to make you his puppet. But you got out of his control before he could react. Wang She is the same as Yan Yuntian. As long as you enhance your strength quickly and control him before he begins to take advantage of you, maybe he can be your man by then.”
”Be my man?” Zhou Bao doubted and shook his head. ”I don't have that idea. My greatest wish is to practice and enhance my strength constantly rather than forming cliques and factions.”