Chapter 100 Approaching Perfection of the Qi-Gathering (1/2)
”Could this be… what it feels like to be in love?” Zhou Donghuang found that whenever he shut his eyes, the image of Luo Qinghan would float into his brain unconsciously, as if it was deeply rooted within him.
”Tianxuan planet? I will find you there.” Zhou Donghuang knew that in his current state, he was too far from Luo Qinghan. Perhaps Luo Qinghan did not think that there was a chance that they would even meet again. After all, Luo Qinghan was already a Primal Core stage adept at just twenty years old. On the other hand, he was almost eighteen but had not even attained the connate stage.
”But after this intercourse where our Yin-Yang energy mixed, because she is a Primal Core stage adept, and her first time, I gained a lot.” Zhou Donghuang was practicing when Luo Qinghan awoke because he had gotten some of the Primal Core energy from her and wanted to make use of it before it dissipated.
After one afternoon, he had managed to fully make use of the Primal Core energy and had achieved Petty Consummation of the Qi-Gathering after entirely skipping level nine. In fact, he was not far from Great Consummation of the Qi-Gathering.
Level-nine of the Qi-Gathering was nowhere near Petty Consummation. The latter could produce the strength of nine bulls and a tiger, while the qi of level-nine adepts was only equivalent to nine bulls. A bull's strength was around 400kg, while a tiger's strength was around 1000kg! Because of the huge difference between level-nine adepts and those who had achieved Petty Consummation, there was an even larger jump than from level-seven to level-nine.
”Hm?” Suddenly, as if noticing something, Zhou Donghuang stared at the shield surrounding the area he was at. The shield was produced using Luo Qinghan's yuan energy, and after she left, the shield naturally started degrading as time passed.
Boom!
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With an earth-shattering sound, the shield surrounding the lake dissipated along with the fog, as if it had never been there.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two shadows flew across the sky and circled above the lake. These two shadows were the masters of the Lost Forest, the two golden-crowned eagles with Petty Consummation of the Qi-Gathering.
Now, they circled above the lake, staring suspiciously at the topless young man who was sitting cross-legged at its shore.
”Brother, where is the scary lady? Why is she missing?”
”I've been with you the whole time; how would I know?”
”Brother, I think this was the man who entered the shield just now!”
”He's not wearing a shirt… was he taking a bath in the lake? Doesn't that mean we'll have to drink his bathwater from now on?”
”Brother, shall we kill him?”
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The two golden-crowned eagles were conversing in demon tongue as if there was nobody else around.
”I did not bathe there.” Zhou Donghuang picked up the white shirt beside him and put it on. As he stood up, he tightened the waist-strap and glanced up at the two eagles above. He replied to the eagles in a language foreign to humans—demon tongue.
In his past life, he had come across all the different languages in the universe, but he was most fluent in the most common languages used in the universe. Demon tongue was one of those languages.
”You… you… can understand us?” The two eagles were so shocked to hear Zhou Donghuang talk in demon tongue that they slowed down and stared at him incredulously.
”Only Petty Consummation but you've already attained intelligence… looks like there was a miracle for the both of you,” continued Zhou Donghuang.
Usually, even if it was a demon with talent, it had to reach the connate stage before it could attain intelligence. But these two golden-crowned eagles, which were just demons with Petty Consummation of the Qi-Gathering, had somehow attained intelligence. There must have been some kind of miracle for them to achieve this so early.
”Brother, this is incredible… a human understands us.”
”Second Brother, it looks like this is no simple young man.”
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The two golden-crowned eagles whispered excitedly to each other after Zhou Donghuang used demon tongue once again. After they had attained intelligence, they had only been able to speak to each other because all the other demons in the forest had yet to attain intelligence. Yet now, there was a human who could communicate with them. As surprised as they were, they could not help but feel excited.
”Young man, how did you breach the lady's shield?” the elder brother of the two eagles asked Zhou Donghuang.
”Such a simple shield, how difficult would it be to enter it?” replied Zhou Donghuang.