books44 Chapter 315 Sinister Intentions
Chapter 315 Sinister Intentions
Chapter 315 Sinister Intentions
"The tree was blown up because of the soul power I attached to the arrow. Since soul power can capture objects from a distance, it can also attack physical objects just like spiritual power. I gathered soul power in the arrow and then detonated it when it entered the tree."
My current soul power detection range is fifty zhang, and my precise control range is thirty zhang. Therefore, within a thirty-zhang range, I can precisely control the soul power attached to the arrow. In other words, as long as I'm within thirty zhang, with this meteorite iron spirit arrow, I can control the arrow to hit the target even without a bow; it's just that without the bow's assistance, the speed and power will be somewhat reduced. When shooting with a bow, I can extend this distance to fifty zhang. Beyond fifty zhang, the soul power attached to the arrow becomes uncontrollable.
"Any other features besides these?"
Mo Yuming's Soul Sword can also be controlled by Soul Power to fly freely, but it cannot store Soul Power in the sword to attack enemies like Pu Yazhu can, and its speed is not as fast as the Spirit Arrow. In this respect, the Soul Sword is somewhat inferior to the Meteorite Spirit Arrow.
“I think it is much sharper than the Xuan Tie arrow. If the arrow from before were made with Xuan Tie, it would only be able to penetrate the oak tree by two or three inches at most. But this meteorite iron spirit arrow not only pierced through the tree trunk, but also penetrated more than a foot deep into the soil behind it.”
In addition, I can fire meteorite spirit arrows without needing to retrieve them. The arrows move at my command, and I only need to draw my bow to shoot. The shooting speed is several times faster than using black iron arrows. Once I am fully proficient in recalling the spirit arrows, the nine spirit arrows can be fired in an infinite loop. At that time, as long as my soul power has not been exhausted, I will have the strength to fight.
I estimate that once my soul power is higher, I might even be able to control more than two arrows to fire simultaneously. This is all I can comprehend for now; perhaps I'll discover other abilities in the future.
"The power of this meteorite iron spirit arrow is indeed much stronger than that of the black iron arrow. Judging from your current strength, as long as you can fire three arrows in succession, it is estimated that you can make an opponent with the peak strength of the Earth Rank unable to resist. You only need to keep a distance of ten feet from the enemy at all times to be invincible. Your biggest weakness right now is that your close combat ability is too low."
Mo Yuming said affirmatively.
"Fighting might be our weakness, but we won't necessarily lose in close combat. If it's a one-on-one situation, the opponent had better not get too close to me. If they want to engage in close-quarters combat, they are definitely doomed! I dare say that any level four or five Earth Rank Xuan Gong expert who gets within five feet of me is doomed!"
Park Ah-joo said with a smile.
"Oh? When did you become so skilled?"
"Not long ago, I broke through to the tenth soul ring, which is equivalent to the early stage of the Earth Rank in Xuan Gong cultivation. Now my pure soul power attack range has reached two zhang. Within two zhang, I can use soul power to attack people with lower cultivation than me. In other words, within two zhang, I can destroy the sea of consciousness of Xuan Gong cultivators with strength below the Earth Rank at any time and turn them into idiots."
Within a ten-foot radius, I can easily defeat cultivators of Earth Rank Level 1 to 2 in a one-on-one situation. Within a five-foot radius, barring interference, I can launch a fatal soul power attack against anyone below Earth Rank Level 5. Although my current soul power attack only weighs about twenty jin (approximately 10 kg), that force might not even injure an ordinary person physically. But if it struck their mind, how many people do you think could withstand it?
Mo Yuming was speechless. She hadn't expected that the seemingly weak and frail Pu Yazhu was not as vulnerable as she appeared. Soul power attacks are invisible and intangible; someone might think they were just glanced at by her unintentionally, yet they wouldn't even know how they died, and others might think they were possessed.
Mo Yuming now realized that the Witch Clan was not weak at all; they were far more terrifying than he had imagined. He had initially worried about how Pu Yazhu would cope with the treacherous world teeming with powerful figures after she left. Now, it seemed those worries were completely unnecessary. Once a member of the Witch Clan advanced to the Earth Rank, their combat strength far surpassed that of cultivators of the same level of profound arts. Although their physical and spiritual energy were weak, it did not mean their combat power was low.
Mo Yuming had cultivated the Soul Wheel Guide, so he naturally knew the power of the Witch Clan's soul force. Due to that accident, he had inadvertently condensed his Sea of Consciousness, so his soul force was no less than Pu Yazhu's. His soul force could now detect objects within a range of one hundred zhang, and the precise detection range exceeded fifty zhang. However, his ability to use his soul force to extract objects was limited to a distance of less than five zhang. This was somewhat different from the genuine Witch Clan.
Mo Yuming felt he might need to train his abilities in this area more. He didn't know his exact soul power level, because he hadn't developed the soul rings that represented soul power levels like the Wu Clan members. He had only formed a tangible and substantial sea of consciousness in his mind, much like a spiritual sea or dantian. However, he believed his current soul power level was definitely higher than Pu Yazhu's. It was just that when he cultivated the Soul Wheel Guidance, he hadn't received any Wu Clan inheritance, nor had a soul ring formed outside his head. Perhaps this was related to the fact that he wasn't a pure Wu Clan member.
Time was of the essence, so Mo Yuming didn't have much time to talk with Pu Yazhu. After giving her a few brief instructions, he returned to the magic array to continue helping Tieqiao refine the meteorite iron spirit treasure.
The runes on the Zhenshan Mace have been completed, and now the Earth Spirit Orb is being added. After Tieqiao put the Zhenshan Mace back into the furnace to heat it up, he took the opportunity to throw an Earth Spirit Orb into the furnace. Then he used spirit fire to envelop the mace and the Earth Spirit Orb together, and injected a small amount of true fire into the fireball.
The Earth Spirit Orb within the fireball rapidly melted, transforming into a golden liquid that evenly adhered to the surface of the meteorite iron mace before slowly seeping into its body. An hour later, the Earth Spirit Orb was completely integrated into the mace, transforming the originally gray-black iron mace into a golden hue, its surface shimmering with golden light, resembling a giant mace crafted from pure gold.
After the Earth Spirit Pearl had fully absorbed the energy, the iron mace on the iron bridge was nurtured in the furnace for another half an hour before being taken out. The iron bridge wrapped the still-red-hot Mountain-Suppressing Mace in its spiritual power and swung it a few times on the open ground of the platform. Golden light shone brightly on the refining platform.
"Try activating it with your earth elemental power!" Seeing Mo Yuming looking at the Mountain-Suppressing Mace with curiosity, Tieqiao tossed the mace to Mo Yuming.
Mo Yuming quickly used earth elemental power to wrap the mace, and then channeled a stream of earth elemental power into it.
'Om! '
The Mountain-Suppressing Mace emitted a deafening roar and began to vibrate violently, so much so that Mo Yuming almost lost his grip on the handle. At that moment, a strange suction force emanated from the mace, rapidly drawing in Mo Yuming's abundant earth elemental energy. Within moments, most of Mo Yuming's peak ninth-level earth-rank spiritual energy was drained, startling him into hastily channeling his energy to resist, but he was unable to stop the mace's pull. The mace only stopped when Mo Yuming's spiritual energy was reduced to less than one-tenth of its original strength.
A moment later, the iron mace vibrated again with a 'hum', and immediately the mace body emitted a dazzling golden light. A beam of light, several feet in size, shot out from the mace body and soared into the sky.
With a loud 'bang,' the beam of light slammed into the dome of the magic array, causing it to tremble violently. Fortunately, the array's defenses were strong enough. After the beam of light shot into the sky, it was reflected back by the array's defensive light membrane and began to spread in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the entire array space within a radius of over a hundred feet was filled with golden light, so bright that everyone could not open their eyes.
The intense light lasted for over a quarter of an hour before gradually weakening, and then slowly dissipated after another quarter of an hour. The humming of the iron mace finally ceased, returning to normal. This time, the mace was no longer golden, but a grayish-yellow metallic color. Holding it in one's hand, one could clearly feel an extremely heavy pressure emanating from it, a feeling that ordinary black iron treasures could not possess. This iron mace was prepared for Dugu Xian; Mo Yuming dared not refine it with his blood, so he was unaware of its other characteristics.
"Such a strong energy fluctuation. If we hadn't set up a defensive array beforehand, that beam of light might have broken through the Thunder Barrier and appeared in the sky outside," Tieqiao murmured.
"The meteorite iron spirit treasure is indeed extraordinary. It can at least double the user's strength. This weapon, which has just been forged, already has such power. If it is properly nurtured in the future, it will be even more powerful. If it develops a weapon spirit, then it will be even more so."
However, during the forging process, I always felt I couldn't fully utilize the forging techniques like I could with Xuan Tie weapons. Therefore, I feel this meteorite iron spiritual treasure isn't perfect yet and has room for improvement. So, after completing these few pieces, I plan to begin repairing the Homo sapiens' heirloom spiritual treasure, hoping to gain inspiration from it and improve my techniques.”
Mo Yuming naturally had no objections. His strength was still far from being able to refine meteorite iron spiritual treasures. It would be good enough if he could learn some skills during the refining process. In particular, when he was helping Tieqiao, the refining process greatly improved his fire-type profound skills, which was the biggest gain.
While Mo Yuming and his group were enthusiastically refining meteorite iron spirit treasures, Shi Potian and his group in the distant Qin Kingdom were experiencing a fierce and desperate battle. If Dugu Xian had not arrived in time, at least several old men would have been in mortal danger.
The story begins with Shi Potian killing that Earth-level Blood Fiend on the arena.
After Shi Potian left the arena and was invited for tea by Steward Yu, the eighth floor of the Qiu family building erupted in excitement. A large crowd had gathered outside the arena to watch the match. Since no one had ever wagered on a mid-stage Heaven Rank expert in an arena before, many people placed bets. Because both fighters were of high cultivation levels, almost no one could discern their true strength. Most people assumed the burly man would win, and this was initially the case. The burly man's combat domain was incredibly flashy and imposing, while Shi Potian's combat domain was almost undetectable. Even when the burly man's combat domain was broken and he suffered a significant loss, no one noticed. Later, the burly man used a forbidden secret technique to quickly recover his strength and continued to suppress Shi Potian, leading everyone to believe that Shi Potian was destined to lose. Therefore, over 90% of the bets were placed on the burly man winning.
Even after the Great Man was killed by Shi Potian, these people still didn't understand how he lost. Some of them lost terribly, almost losing all their money, and some even borrowed money to gamble.
Since over 90% of people lose money, many will naturally be dissatisfied and become emotional. With so many people talking, their emotions will become increasingly agitated, and a few hot-tempered individuals will start causing trouble.
As soon as someone starts causing trouble, there will naturally be others fanning the flames. These people are mainly Da Han's accomplices. They then start attacking the people in charge of the Qiu family, saying that the Qiu family is cheating in order to make money, that Shi Potian is actually a thug hired by the Qiu family, and so on. They demand that the Qiu family hand over Shi Potian and give everyone an explanation.
The Qiu family naturally wouldn't let these people run wild, but no one had ever dared to cause trouble in the Qiu family's stronghold before, so they lacked experience in handling such matters. No one came out to explain or mediate; instead, they directly adopted a forceful suppression. As a result, the arena on the eighth floor became a battlefield where outsiders and Qiu family members fought each other. This melee quickly spread downwards, and then the auction house on the seventh floor, the treasure hall on the sixth floor, the gourmet hall on the fifth floor, and so on all became fighting arenas.
The chaotic battle finally ended when the Qiu family dispatched a large number of martial arts masters to subdue everyone present. At least several hundred people who participated in the riot were killed, and many members of the Qiu family also suffered casualties.
Although the Qiu family eventually quelled the riot, it caused them immense losses. Firstly, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth floors of the building were completely destroyed, especially the sixth-floor treasury, where many valuable treasures were damaged. This resulted in a huge direct financial loss for the Qiu family. The indirect losses were even more severe; many of those killed were wealthy and influential individuals, and their senseless killings would undoubtedly cause them resentment towards the Qiu family.
Although the riot at the Qiu family wasn't directly related to Shi Potian and his group, as they had already left the Qiu family, they were discussing how to shake off the Snow Wolf Hall's pursuit and return the treasure to Great Xia.
However, this upheaval had a huge impact, involving many forces. Various talismans flew everywhere, and even before Shi Potian and his group left the city, Tianxin City was already in a state of high tension and chaos. Many of the relatives and forces killed by the Qiu family were gathering in Tianxin City. The scene was extremely chaotic.
The Qiu family, which rose to prominence through martial arts, was not to be trifled with. They showed no sign of backing down or offering any explanation, but instead forcefully declared to the outside world that the Qiu family and the Blood Wolf Hall were irreconcilable enemies!
After the Qiu family controlled all those involved in the riot, they conducted a thorough investigation and finally found several ringleaders in the crowd. Upon further investigation, they discovered that they were all members of the Blood Wolf Hall. Steward Yu, who was stationed at the Qiu family headquarters, naturally realized the seriousness of the matter based on what Shi Potian had said. In addition, the several incidents of buyers being robbed at the auction venue in recent days were all the work of the Blood Wolf Hall.
The burly man killed by Shi Potian was also a low-level Blood Fiend sent by the Blood Wolf Hall. Low-level Blood Fiends hold a high position in the Blood Wolf Hall. Since the burly man was killed in the Qiu family mansion, the Blood Wolf Hall members who were lurking among the guests would naturally not let it go. The Blood Wolf Hall has a strict system, and it would be difficult for them to go back with such a loss of men. So these people took the opportunity to stir up trouble and make things bigger.