Chapter 84: The Life Sucking Beast (2/2)
Yan Qianyin’s eyes glimmered with appreciation, “Junior apprentice Mo, you didn’t disappoint me. I’ll lead the way, so let’s go now.”
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An hour later, Yan Qianyin stopped at the perimeter of a gorge.
“Is this the place?” wondered Mo Wuji as he looked towards her while carrying a large pill furnace on his back. This gorge was filled with lush greenery in every corner. Every spiritual herbs here was much more valuable than anything that he had used in the past, even the density of spiritual energy was high,
Nodding her head, Yan Qianyin agreed, “Yes, this is it. Once we enter this gorge and head forward for 60 meters, you will be able to see the living habitat of the Life Sucking beast.”
“But there’s still so much life energy around here....”
Yan Qianyin cut Mo Wuji off in the middle of his sentence, “Did you think that the area where the Life Sucking Beast lived at would be devoid of all life? Even a rabbit does not eat the grass around its home, what more of the Life Sucking Beast. The beast usually chooses a location richest in life and spiritual energy to settle down at. And from a certain perspective, a Life Sucking Beast can also be considered the king of that area.”
Upon ending her speech, and with a pat to her waist, a blade appeared out of nowhere into the hands of Yan Qianyin. She gave Mo Wuji a signal through her eyes, and cautiously entered the gorge.
“Senior apprentice Yan, is it because the Life Sucking Beast can find areas with the densest life and spiritual energy that there’s so many people that want to capture the Life Sucking Beast?” Mo Wuji asked softly as he followed behind Yan Qianyin.
She answered Mo Wuji while trekking forward, focusing as hard as she could to do so, “It’s only one of the minor reasons. There is a better way to use the Life Sucking Beast, as its body is full of life energy. This sort of life energy encompasses many of the principles of cultivation, hence allowing one to easily breakthrough to the next stage. For example, I am at the Full Completion of Transcending Mortality Stage, so as long as I can get my hands on the Life Sucking Beast, I will 100% be able to breakthrough to the Yuan Dan Stage to become an Earth Realm cultivator.”
“I wish you the best of luck in catching the Life Sucking Beast, breaking through to the Yuan Dan Stage, and becoming an Earth Realm expert. Oh ya, Senior Apprentice Yan, what’s that little pouch on your waist? It can make a long sword appear with just a pat?” As long as Mo Wiji could obtain a skill, he would be satisfied. Something like the Life Sucking Beast was useless to him anyway.
But he had been curious for the longest time about the small pouch on Yan Qianyin’s waist. “It’s a storage bag, which can store items of much larger sizes. The one that I have was a gift from my master.” Yan Qianyin answered, while speeding through the dense foliage, brushing plants and branches to the side.
Storage bag? Mo Wuji was instantly enthralled by it, and wanted to get one badly. Otherwise, it would be very inconvenient for him to travel around. He couldn’t just lug tens of kilos of pill refining equipment around.
“We’re almost there…” Yan Qianyin’s words interrupted Mo Wuji’s chain of thought. He looked up to find a cave hidden behind countless green vines.
“The Life Sucking Beast must be asleep. Start refining the pills now. Once you begin, the beast will be alerted of our presence. I’ll shield you from the life draining, and the rest is up to you…”
Before she could finish her sentence, a terrifying suction power acted on the both of them. Soon after, Mo Wuji felt his body feeling weaker by the second, as though life and soul were being sucked out of him.